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Santosh Thundiyil

Santosh Thundiyil is an Indian cinematographer. He is best known for films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Devadoothan (2000), Krrish (2006), Pinjar (2003), Rowdy Rathore (2012) and Jai Ho (2014).

Early life and education
Santosh grew up in the town of Changanacherry in Kerala.  He was a student of Sacred Heart English Medium School and graduated in chemistry from St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry. Santosh did his post graduate diploma in cinematography from the prestigious FTII, Pune in India in 1994. As a student, he was selected for representing Asia in the second European seminar for student directors of photography conducted in the National Film School, Hungary in Budapest, under Oscar-winning British Cinematographer billy williams (Gandhi) Dean Cundey.

Career
Santosh, who has assisted renowned directors of photography like Govind Nihlani, Venu and Binod Pradhan, also has a number of commercials and documentary films to his credit. He is trained under Oscar winning Billy Williams (Gandhi) and Dean Cundey (Jurassic Park) representing the country in the second European Seminar for Student Directors of Photography. Now as he continues his profession he is also a visiting Professor in National Institutes like Indian Institute of Technology, MUMBAI (IIT MUMBAI) and Film and Television Institute of India, Pune (FTII, Pune).

Filmography

Web series

Awards and nominations
Filmfare Award
 2012 - Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer -Rowdy Rathore Nomination
Asianet Film Awards
 2008 - Best Cinematographer Award -Aakasha Gopuram
 2006 - Best Cinematographer Award -Palunku
2005-  [ star screen award #best cinematography award for pinjar

References

External links
Official Site
 
Cinematics India

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Malayalam film cinematographers
Film and Television Institute of India alumni
People from Changanassery
21st-century Indian photographers
20th-century Indian photographers
Cinematographers from Kerala
Nikša Skelin

Nikša Skelin (born 25 March 1978, in Split) is a Croatian rower who has won two Olympic medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he won a silver medal in coxless pairs with his older brother Siniša.

References
Official Olympic reports

External links
 Official site of the Skelin brothers

1978 births
Living people
Croatian male rowers
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Croatia in rowing
Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia in rowing
Olympic rowers for Croatia
Rowers from Split, Croatia
Olympic medalists in rowing
World Rowing Championships medalists for Croatia
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Patrick Bowden

Patrick Bowden (born 4 August 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Football career

Western Bulldogs
In the 1999 National AFL Draft, Bowden was a fourth-round selection (no. 58 overall) to the Western Bulldogs. With limited opportunities at the Bulldogs, he was traded at the end of the 2005 AFL season to the Richmond Football Club in return for the 55th pick in the 2005 AFL Draft, which the Bulldogs used to select Brett Montgomery.

Richmond Football Club
In the 2006 AFL season, Bowden had his best season to date. He led Richmond's list for marks and was equal fourth for marks in the competition.

He was the fourth in his family to pull on the yellow-and-black (after father Michael and brothers Sean and Joel).

After a year full of injury and poor form, the Tigers delisted Bowden at the end of season 2007.

External links

1981 births
Living people
Richmond Football Club players
Western Bulldogs players
Australian rules footballers from the Northern Territory
Coburg Football Club players
People from Alice Springs
University of Colombo, Centre for Instrument Development

Centre for Instrument Development (aka CID) is a multidisciplinary research group / centre that is part of the department of physics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It offers technical courses in certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

History 
CID is founded by Professor T R Ariyaratne in 2000, with the financial support from the International Science Programs, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Prof. D U J Sonnadara, Dr. M K Jayananda, Dr. R Lelwala were the first members of the CID while Prof. T R Ariyaratne becomes the first and current director of the CID. 
The first major activity of the CID, "Microcontroller Training Course [MTC]" was initiated by Dr. R Lelwala [coordinater], Mr. Prasan Hettiarachchi and Mr. Navinda Kottege in 2004. Later, the course was renamed as "Training Course in Microcontroller Programming and its applications", and still uses the code name MTC followed by the year. The first research activity of the CID was started by Prof. Sonnadara and Dr. M K Jayananda with Mr. Wasantha [the first M.Phil. degree holder from the CID], on reconfigurable computing. 
In 2004, Mr. D I Amarasinghe [the second M.Phil. degree holder] started research work on Computational Physics with Prof. D U J Sonnadara, while Mr. Prasan Hettiarachchi and Mr. Nishshanka Jayawantha started research project on grain drying under low humid environment. In 2005, CID was moved to the second floor of the Physics Department Building [the current location]. Mr. Asanga Indunil, Mr. Nishantha Randunu and Mr. Hiran H E Jayaweera are holding the honor of being the first Research Assistants appointed under the CID in 2005 and they organized a national workshop called "Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Sri Lankan Perspectives" in 2005. It was extremely successful workshop and many scientist and researchers were contributed in the workshop. The guest invitees of the workshop were Professor Sune Svanberg and Professor Katerina Svanberg from the Lund University, Sweden.

Research
Major Research Areas
Postharvest technology
Electronic Instrumentation
Drying
Optical spectroscopy
Computational physics
Reconfigurable computing

Courses offered 
 M.Sc. in Applied Electronics
 Embedded System Laboratory
 Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems
 Certificate Course on Applied Electronics and Automation Technology
 Training Course on Microcontroller Programming and its Applications
 Workshop on Computer aided PCB designing
 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation
 Workshop on Scientific Writing Disciplines
 Workshop on using LMS

Personnel

Products
CID-SRM 1.0

External links
Official Site
Embedded System Laboratory - Students' pages

University of Colombo
Research institutes in Sri Lanka
Hakata–Ōshima Bridge

The  is a Japanese suspension bridge, part of the 59 kilometer Nishiseto Expressway connecting the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. Completed in 1988, it has a main span of 560 meters and connects Hakatajima with Ōshima. The expressway connects seven small islands and also includes several other long span bridges including the Tatara Bridge, the Innoshima Bridge, and the Kurushima-Kaikyō Bridge.

External links
 The bridge's page at the Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company
 

Suspension bridges in Japan
Bridges completed in 1988
Buildings and structures in Ehime Prefecture
Roads in Ehime Prefecture
University of Vechta

University of Vechta (Universität Vechta) is a small research university in northwestern Germany, in the town of Vechta in Lower Saxony. Its study programmes concentrate on teacher training, social sciences, social work, philosophy, and gerontology.

Background
The University has about 5,300 students (2016). It emerged from the former College of Education and belonged from 1973 to 1995 to Osnabrück University. From 1995 to 2010 it officially had the status of a "Scientific University of the State of Lower Saxony with university status". After a change of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act, since June 2010 it may now officially call itself a university. Vechta as a place of study has been in existence since August 2, 1830 with the establishment of a normal school for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. The emphasis has historically been in the areas of teacher training and Catholic theology.

In 1830, the normal school for the education of Catholic elementary school teachers in the state of Oldenburg was founded, which was expanded in 1861 as a teacher training college. 1928 was the opening of the educational course in Vechta. On April 1, 1941, the "Oldenburgische Lehrerbildungsanstalt Vechta i. O. ", for whose accommodation the Dominikanerkloster Füchtel was confiscated. After the end of the Nazi-period, it was re-established (on 19 March 1946) as a confessionally bound State Pedagogical Academy Vechta. After the incorporation of Oldenburg in the Land of Lower Saxony on November 1, 1946, the Pedagogical Academy was transferred by decree of December 31, 1947 in the University of Education Vechta (PH Vechta). In 1965, the Lower Saxony Concordat guaranteed the education of Catholic teachers in Vechta. In 1969, the eight educational colleges in Lower Saxony were united to form the Lower Saxony University of Education. In 1973, the PH Vechta department/location of the newly founded University of Osnabrück. In the meantime the existence was massively endangered; in 1987 it even came to the recommendation of the Science Council to close the college.

External links

University of Vechta
Student Governing Body
Vechta Town Council
uniVista (Campus magazine)

Universities and colleges in Lower Saxony
Universities in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1830
1830 establishments in Germany
University of Vechta
Leptospermum recurvum

Leptospermum recurvum is a species of shrub or tree that is native to Mount Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo and to Sulawesi. It has pale, flaky bark, broadly elliptical to almost round leaves, white flowers about  wide and fruit that tend to remain on the plant for a year or two.

Description
Leptospermum recurvum is sometimes a prostrate shrub, sometimes a tree to  or more in height. It has thin, pale, flaky bark and young stems that have a broad flange near the leaf bases. The leaves are broadly elliptical to egg-shaped or almost round with their edges strongly curved downwards, mostly  long and  wide, and lack a petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is mostly glossy and the lower surface usually silky-hairy at first. The flowers are white, about  wide and arranged singly on short side shoots. There are broad reddish brown bracts at the base of the flower buds that mostly remain at the base of the open flowers. The floral cup is  long, tapering to a short pedicel. The sepals are  long and almost hemispherical, the petals are about  long and the stamens about  long. Flowering probably occurs in most months. The fruit is a capsule  wide and that tends to remain on the plant for a few years.

Taxonomy and naming
Leptospermum recurvum was first formally described in 1852 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in William Jackson Hooker's book, Icones Plantarum. The type specimens were collected from "Kina Balu" where the species was recorded as being "abundant, from , whitening the top of the mountain".

Distribution and habitat
Leptospermum recurvum grows in crevices between rocks at high elevations on Mount Kinabalu.

References

recurvum
Flora of Sabah
Flora of Sulawesi
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Plants described in 1852
Flora of Mount Kinabalu
Alpine flora
Siniša Skelin

Siniša Skelin (born 14 July 1974, in Split) is a Croatian rower who has won two Olympic medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he won a silver medal in coxless pairs with his younger brother Nikša.

References
Official Olympic reports

External links
 Official site of the Skelin brothers

1974 births
Living people
Croatian male rowers
Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Croatia in rowing
Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia in rowing
Olympic rowers for Croatia
Rowers from Split, Croatia
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for Croatia
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Repudiation

Repudiation may refer to:

 Repudiation (marriage), the formal act by which a husband forcibly renounces his wife in certain cultures and religions
Disownment, the formal act by which a parent forcibly renounces his child
Anticipatory repudiation is a term in the law of contracts that describes a declaration by one party (the promising party) to a contract that they do not intend to live up to their obligations under the contract
Non-repudiation is the concept of ensuring that a party in a dispute cannot repudiate, or refute the validity of a statement or contract
Repudiation (religion), the act of refusing and no longer accepting a philosophical or religious doctrine
The Taste of Ink

"The Taste of Ink" is the debut single by American rock band the Used from their self-titled debut album The Used. It was released to radio September 2002 along with a music video for TV directed by the Malloys. A music video was filmed in August. A CD single was later released in March 2003 with contained a b-side, Christmas song, and music video.  A demo version can be found on the band's demo album Demos from the Basement which was a CD distributed by the band in 2001 which was then called Used.

Track listings

CD single

7-inch vinyl

Personnel 
 Craig Aaronson – A&R
 John Feldmann – engineer , mixed by , producer
 Freeze Artist Management – management
 Paul Gomez – management
 John Reese – management

Charts

References 

2002 debut singles
The Used songs
Reprise Records singles
Music videos directed by The Malloys
2002 songs
Song recordings produced by John Feldmann
Songs written by Quinn Allman
Songs written by Jeph Howard
Songs written by Bert McCracken
Songs written by Branden Steineckert
Jainism in India

Jainism is India's sixth-largest religion and is practiced throughout India. Per the 2011 census, there are 4,451,753 Jains in the 1.35 billion population of India, the majority living in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, however, the influence of Jainism has been far greater on the Indian population than these numbers suggest. Jains can be found in every states and union territories, varying from large societies to smaller. The state of Jharkhand, with a population of 16,301 Jains also contains the holy pilgrimage centre of Sammed Shikharji. Jains can be found throughout India and in many other countries throughout the world.

History

Jain doctrine teaches that Jainism has always existed and will always exist. Like most ancient Indian religions, Jainism has its roots from the Indus Valley civilization, reflecting native spirituality prior to the Indo-Aryan migration into India. Other scholars suggested the Shramana traditions were separate and contemporaneous with Indo-Aryan religious practices of the historical Vedic religion. In August 2005, the Supreme Court of India ruled that Jainism, Sikhism (and Buddhism) are distinct religions, but are inter-connected and inter-related to Hinduism, so these three are part of wider broader Hindu religion, based on the historic background on how the Constitution had come into existence after. However, in the 2006 verdict, Supreme Court of India found that the "Jain Religion is indisputably not a part of the Hindu Religion".

Status in India
On January 20, 2014, the Government of India awarded the minority status to the Jain community in India, as per Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act (NCM), 1992. This made the Jain community, which makes for 9.5 million or 0.72 percent of the population as per 2011 census, the sixth community to be designated this status as a "national minority", after Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Parsis. Though Jains already had minority status in 11 states of India including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, in 2005 a petition was filed with Supreme Court of India, by community representatives, which was also backed by the National Minorities Commission. In its judgement the court left the decision to the Central government.

Jainism by state
Jainism as a religion exists throughout India. Jainism also varies from state to state, but the core values are the same.
 Jainism in Assam
 Jainism in Bengal
 Jainism in Bihar
 Jainism in Bundelkhand
 Jainism in Delhi
 Jainism in Gujarat (Gujarati Jain)
 Jainism in Rajasthan (Marwari Jain)
 Jainism in Karnataka (Kannada Jain)
 Jainism in Kerala
 Jainism in Maharashtra (Marathi Jain)
 Jainism in Mumbai
 Jainism in Nagaland
 Jainism in North Karnataka
 Jainism in Tamil Nadu (Tamil Jain)
 Jainism in Tulu Nadu (Jain Bunt)
 Jainism in Uttar Pradesh

Census of India, 2011

See also

List of Jain temples

Notes

References
 
 
 Elst, K. (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. 

 
Jain communities
American Music Awards of 1995

The 22nd Annual American Music Awards were held on January 30, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from the year 1994.

Performances

Notes
  "Tutti Frutti"'s 40th anniversary celebration.
  Choreography and direction.
  Broadcast live from London.
  "We Are the World"'s 10th anniversary celebration.

Winners and nominees

References
 http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1995/amas.htm

1995
Satisfied (Squeeze song)

"Satisfied" is the second single released from Squeeze's ninth album, Play, in the UK, and the first in the United States. Although only a promotional radio single was released in the US, the song climbed to #3 on the Modern Rock charts there. In the band's homeland, a full commercial single release failed to chart at all.

Track listing

US Promo CD
 "Satisfied" (4:33)
 "Satisfied (album version)" (5:09)

7" vinyl and cassette
 "Satisfied" (4:33)
 "Happiness Is King" (4:01)

12" vinyl and 5" CD
 "Satisfied" (4:33)
 "Happiness Is King" (4:01)
 "Laughing in My Sleep" (4:07)

External links
Squeeze discography at Squeezenet

Squeeze (band) songs
1991 singles
Songs written by Glenn Tilbrook
Songs written by Chris Difford
1991 songs
Reprise Records singles
International Society for Mathematical Sciences

The International Society for Mathematical Sciences is a mathematics society, primarily based in Japan. It was formerly known as the Japanese Association of Mathematical Sciences, and was founded in 1948 by Tatsujiro Shimizu.

The ISMS publishes a bimonthly scientific journal, Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (), which was formed in 2001 from the merger of two journals previously published by the same society, Mathematica Japonica, founded in 1948, and Scientiae Mathematicae, which published nine issues over three volumes in 1998, 1999, and 2000. In addition the ISMS holds an annual meeting and publishes a Japanese language mathematics magazine, Kaiho, and a monthly newsletter, Notices from the ISMS.

References

External links
 International Society for Mathematical Sciences

Mathematical societies
Wynne Prakusya

Wynne Prakusya (born 26 April 1981) is a former tennis player from Indonesia.

Her first appearance in a professional tournament occurred in 1996, when she was 14 years old. She formally went professional in 1998. Over her career, she has won two WTA doubles titles, nine ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. As a junior, her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon junior quarterfinals.

Her first appearance at a WTA event took place in September 1997 at the Wismilak International in Surabaya. The first time she won a match in the WTA Tour was in the 1999 Wismilak International in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Prakusya began to attempt qualification for the main draws of major tournaments. She also began to appear primarily at WTA rather than ITF events. Her first win in the main draw of a major came in the 2001 Australian Open, in which she and partner Janet Lee reached round two in the women's doubles. Her first tournament win on the WTA Tour was in the doubles draw of the Stanford tournament in 2001, again with partner Janet Lee.

She and Lee also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles in 2002.

She represented Indonesia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, this time partnered by Angelique Widjaja. Prakusya successfully represented Indonesia at the 2002 Asian Games, the 2005 SEA Games and the 2007 SEA Games, winning seven medals in total.

She was part of the Indonesia Fed Cup team in every year from 1996 to 2005. She was part of the 2004 team which saw Indonesia return to the Fed Cup World Group: in that year, Prakusya won 11 of her 12 Fed Cup matches.

She has been inactive on the professional tennis circuit since 2007.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 15 (9 titles, 5 runner-ups, 1 NP)

Unplayed final

Doubles: 24 (17 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

ITF Junior Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups)

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Women's doubles

Doubles

See also
 Indonesian Chinese

External links
 
 
  Official site

1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Surakarta
Indonesian Christians
Indonesian sportspeople of Chinese descent
Indonesian female tennis players
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 2003 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games
Olympic tennis players for Indonesia
American Music Awards of 1996

The 23rd Annual American Music Awards were held on January 29, 1996, at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from the year 1995.

The ceremony was remembered by country singer-songwriter Garth Brooks refusing to accept the Favorite Artist of the Year Award.

Performances

Winners and nominees

References
 http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1996/amas.htm

1996
Café del Mar Aria

Café del Mar Aria is a CD compilation series that combines chill-out music with opera arias, thereby expanding the existing Café del Mar series. The Café del Mar concept originated from the "sunset bar" with the same name in Sant Antoni de Portmany on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. Café del Mar Aria is produced by Paul Schwartz.

Aria Volume 1, 1997 
 "Willow" (from Verdi's Otello)
 "Un Bel Di" (from Puccini's Madama Butterfly)
 "Secret Tear" (from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore)
 "Dido" (from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas)
 "Pace Pace" (from Verdi's La forza del destino)
 "Pamina Blue" (from Mozart's The Magic Flute)
 "Habanera" (from Bizet's Carmen)
 "Home" (from Verdi's Nabucco)

Aria Volume 2, 1999 – New Horizon 
 "Arianna" (from Monteverdi's L'Arianna)
 "Ebben" (from Catalani's La Wally)
 "Addio" (from Verdi's La traviata)
 "Horizon" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Barcarolle" (from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann)
 "Cantilena" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Sviraj (Lullabye)" (Clair Marlo, Paul Schwartz)
 "Interlude" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Pavane" (Fauré)
 "Ave Maria" (Caccini's "Ave Maria")
 "Leiermann" (from Schubert's Winterreise)
 "Lullabye (Sviraj)" (Clair Marlo, Paul Schwartz)

Aria Volume 3, 2005 – Metamorphosis 
 "Ombra mai fu" (from Handel's Serse)
 "Furioso" (Sarabande by Handel)
 "Sogno" (from Puccini's La rondine)
 "Metamorphosis 2 – Danae" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Ballo" (from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera)
 "Interlude" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Amami" (from Verdi's La traviata)
 "Lascia" (from Handel's Rinaldo)
 "Farewell" (from Puccini's Madama Butterfly)
 "Metamorphosis 3 – Cyane" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Ascension" (from Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea)
 "Metamorphosis 1 – Arachne" (Paul Schwartz)
 "Furioso (Instrumental Mix)" (Sarabande by Handel)
 "Ombra (Chilled Mix)" (from Handel's Serse)

References

External links 
Café del Mar official site

Ambient albums
Compilation album series branded by bars and cafés
1997 compilation albums
1999 compilation albums
2005 compilation albums
Astor Place (label) albums
Crying in My Sleep

"Crying in My Sleep" was the second single released from Squeeze's ninth album, Play, in the U.S. It was released only as a single-track, promotional CD, and reached number 14 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Track listing
 "Crying in My Sleep" (4:07)

External links
Squeeze discography at Squeezenet

Squeeze (band) songs
1991 singles
Songs written by Glenn Tilbrook
Songs written by Chris Difford
1991 songs
Reprise Records singles
Dacrydium gibbsiae

Dacrydium gibbsiae is a conifer species native to Borneo. It grows on Mount Kinabalu on ultramafic soil, and is notable for being able to tolerate the high levels of toxic metal compounds present in these soils.

References

gibbsiae
Endemic flora of Borneo
Trees of Borneo
Flora of Sabah
Least concern plants
Plants described in 1914
Flora of Mount Kinabalu
Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport

Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport  is a state-owned public-use airport located in Galena, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 7,784 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 7,447 enplanements in 2009, and 12,421 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year) based on enplanements in 2008; however, it qualifies as a primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2010.

History

As Galena Airport, it was used as a military transport base during World War II, facilitating the transit of lend-lease aircraft to the Soviet Union.

As Galena Air Force Station, it was used by the USAF during the Cold War as an interceptor base for aircraft patrolling the western areas of Alaska. It was downsized in 1993, but the military airfield is maintained by a private contractor as a weather/emergency diversion airfield since Regular Air Force fighter-interceptor alert operations ended. It is now known as Galena Forward Operating Location.

Facilities and aircraft
Edward G. Pitka Sr Airport covers an area of 1,250 acres (506 ha) at an elevation of 154 feet (47 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 8/26 is 6,000 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) with an asphalt and concrete surface; 6/24 is 2,600 by 50 feet (792 x 15 m) with a gravel ski strip surface.

The airport also sports a ski-jump takeoff ramp at one end and provisions for arresting gear (see picture, ski jump at 07 end) at the other, a leftover from the Cold War years as Galena Air Force Base, as tactical aircraft required more landing and takeoff space than was available on the runway.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2022, the airport had 19,000 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day: 68% general aviation, 16% scheduled commercial, 11% military, and 5% air taxi. At that time there was no aircraft based at the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

Top destinations

See also
 Northwest Staging Route
 List of airports in Alaska
 Alaska World War II Army Airfields
 Air Transport Command

References

External links
 Topographic map from USGS The National Map
 AIR FORCES'S ALASKA PILOTS AWAIT CALL TO INTERCEPT SOVIET CRAFT GALENA AIR FORCE STATION, Alaska
 Galena Air Force Station
 FORMER GALENA FORWARD OPERATING LOCATION
 
 

Airports in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Gentianella germanica

Gentianella germanica, common name German gentian, also known in the United Kingdom as the Chiltern gentian, is a flowering plant in the family Gentianaceae. It was chosen as the county flower of Buckinghamshire. Within the UK, it is only native to the Chiltern Hills of southern England, although its distribution in continental Europe is much wider, ranging from France to the Balkans.

References

germanica
Riverside Secondary School (Singapore)

Riverside Secondary School (RSS) is a co-educational government secondary school located in Woodlands, Singapore. Students of the school are referred to as "Riversidians".

History
Riverside Secondary School, established in 1987, at the site of Fuchun Secondary School with Principal Mrs Ngiam Geak Kim leading a team of nine teachers and two non-academic staff members. In December 1987, the school relocated to its present premises at 3 Woodlands Street 81 under the pioneer leadership of Principal Mr Oliver J. Balasingam. The school was officially inaugurated on July 14, 1990, by Mr Lee Yiok Seng, Member of Parliament for Bukit Panjang. Mr Balasingam played a pivotal role in crafting the school motto, designing the crest and uniform, raising funds through walkathons, and co-writing the school song, "My Best and More." Riverside Secondary School has consistently pursued academic excellence and holistic development throughout its history.

On 16 December 1996, Lu Kheng Lui became the second Principal and in April 1997, Hoon Tien Ghun, the first Vice-Principal. Lu wrote the school's first vision statement and led the school in piloting the home-grown Interdisciplinary Project Work and the IT Master Plan Phase 2A. In December 2000, Stella Tan-Wee Bee Lian became the school's principal.

In 2005, the school signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nan Huan Middle School in Suzhou and staff and students have undertaken school exchange programmes since then.

From end 2002 to end 2004, Riverside underwent upgrading works under the Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools. A new school crest and a new school uniform were designed.

In December 2005, Serene Pang became principal and oversaw a partnership with the polytechnics and an overseas school in Chennai.

In December 2006 the Head of English Department, Hilda Thong, was appointed Vice-Principal. In 2006 the school was awarded the Development Award in Character Development and Outstanding Development Award in National Education.

On 15 May 2007, Riverside welcomed its fifth Principal, Sng Siew Hong. In October 2007, the school was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew National Education Award.

On 16 December 2013, Riverside welcomed its sixth Principal, Tan Kong Yin Yee. In December 2015, Shanti Devi, became the seventh principal.

In December 2020, Tham Yoke Chun became the eighth principal.

Notable alumni 
 Bonnie Loo, singer and actress

References

External links 
 

Secondary schools in Singapore
Educational institutions established in 1987
Woodlands, Singapore
1987 establishments in Singapore
Dazi Bridge

The Dazi Bridge is a one-lane suspension bridge in Dagzê, Tibet. At the time of its completion in 1984, it was the longest spanning bridge in China with a main span of . The bridge crosses the Lhasa River  east of Lhasa.

Structure
The bridge is a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with deck trussing. It carries one lane of traffic measuring only  wide.

See also
List of longest suspension bridge spans

References

External links
  A picture of the bridge at Tibet Highway
 

Suspension bridges in Tibet
Bridges completed in 1984
Lord Lieutenant of Limerick

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Limerick.

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. The title Lord Lieutenant was always pronounced as 'Lord Lef-tenant'.

Governors

 William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell: 1689–1691 (died 1691)
 Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell: 1762– (died 1780)
 The Lord Muskerry: 1780–1818
 The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon: 1818–1831

Lord Lieutenants
 The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon (who later became, in 1851, 3rd Earl of Clare): 7 October 1831 – September 1848
 The 2nd Earl of Clare: 13 September 1848 – 13 August 1851
 The 3rd Earl of Clare: 1851 – 10 January 1864
 The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 20 February 1864 – 6 October 1871 
 The 1st Baron Emly: 8 December 1871 – 20 April 1894
 Thomas Enraght O'Brien: 29 November 1894 – 18 January 1896
 The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 5 March 1896 – 1922

References

Limerick
Kristina Poplavskaja

Kristina Poplavskaja (born 24 July 1972) is a Lithuanian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in the Double Sculls event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

References

1972 births
Living people
Lithuanian female rowers
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers for Lithuania
Olympic bronze medalists for Lithuania
Olympic medalists in rowing

Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick

This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of City of Limerick.

William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell: 1689–1691 (died 1691)
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly of Tervoe –1894
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl 1895–1922

References

Limerick County of City
Birutė Šakickienė

Birutė Šakickienė (born 26 November 1968) is a Lithuanian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in the Double Sculls event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

References

External links
 Link to International Olympic Committee Website – Search results for Birute Sakickiene. Retrieved 1 July 2010

1968 births
Living people
Lithuanian female rowers
Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers for Lithuania
Olympic bronze medalists for Lithuania
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Lithuanian Sports University alumni
The Beast Must Die

The Beast Must Die can refer to:

The Beast Must Die (novel), a 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake
The Beast Must Die (1952 film) () a 1952 Argentine film based on the Blake novel
Que la bête meure (AKA The Beast Must Die or This Man Must Die), a 1969 French film based on the Blake novel
 The Beast Must Die (TV series), a 2021 British mini-series on BritBox based on the Blake novel
The Beast Must Die (1974 film), a 1974 film based on a story by James Blish

See also 
 The Beast to Die, or 野獣死すべし, a 1980 Japanese film
American Music Awards of 1997

The 24th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 27, 1997, at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from the year 1996.

Performances

Winners and nominees

References
 http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1997/amas.htm

1997
Jogendra Singh

Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh KCSI (25 May 1877 – 3 December 1946) was a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in India. He served as Chairman of the Department of Health, Education and Lands. He was a figure in the Sikh community and one of several delegates chosen to represent the Sikh community before the Cripps' mission of 1942. He is also considered responsible for setting up a committee in 1946 that led to the formation of Indian Institutes of Technology.

He was knighted a second time with the KCSI in the 1946 Birthday Honours List.

Sir Jogendra Singh died of a paralytic stroke at Iqbal Nagar, district Montgomery, now in Pakistan, on 3 December 1946. He was succeeded by his second wife Winifred May Singh (née O'Donoghue) and his six children and twenty grandchildren some of whom still reside at the Aira Holme Estate, Shimla.

References

1877 births
1946 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
Indian Knights Bachelor
Indian knights
Indian Sikhs
20th-century Indian politicians
Members of the Council of the Governor General of India
Flash Gordon (disambiguation)

Flash Gordon is a science fiction hero.

Flash Gordon may also refer to:

A 1935 26-episode Flash Gordon radio serial
Flash Gordon (serial), a 1936 serial film
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, a 1982 animated television film
Flash Gordon (film), a 1980 science fiction film
Flash Gordon (soundtrack), an album by Queen, the soundtrack album of the 1980 film
Flash Gordon (1954 TV series), a science fiction television series based on the characters of the Alex Raymond-created comic strip of the same name
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, a 1979-1982 animated television series
Flash Gordon (1996 TV series), a 1996 animated television series
Flash Gordon (2007 TV series), a 2007 live action television series from the Sci Fi Channel
Flash Gordon (video game), a 1986 computer game
Flash Gordon (pinball), a pinball machine produced by Bally

People 
Joe Gordon (born 1915), nicknamed Flash, US baseball player
Tom Gordon (born 1967), nicknamed Flash, US baseball player
Gordon Watson (footballer, born 1971), nicknamed Flash, former English professional footballer
Donald "Flash" Gordon (1920–2010), World War II flying ace
Flash Gordon (physician), physician and author
Josh Gordon, nicknamed Flash, American wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks

Nicknames
One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword

is a 2004 anime fantasy action-adventure film directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi and written by Yoshiyuki Suga. It is the fifth feature film in the One Piece film series which mostly focuses on Roronoa Zoro.

Plot
Zoro is lured away from the crew by henchmen of his childhood friend Saga. In search of Zoro, the Straw Hats encounter the young priestess Maya. Luffy and Usopp becomes lost and meet Saga, while Saga's men attack Maya's village. Zoro, alongside them, takes three purple orbs from Maya, which none of Saga's men can touch. Luffy fights Saga, but during the encounter falls off a high cliff, causing Usopp to jump after him. Zoro returns to Saga with the orbs and disposes of them in a well. 

Luffy and Usopp find a tunnel system and explore it where they stumble upon the orbs and take them along. While in the village the remaining Straw Hats hear about the evil Seven-Star Sword, that has taken control of Saga, and the stolen orbs needed to seal the sword's power, when Luffy and Usopp emerge from the ground in front of them. After hearing the story, the Straw Hats decide to help. Zoro learns that Saga is controlled by the Seven-Star Sword and that Saga plans to make him the sword's first sacrifice. They start a fight during which Zoro attempts to destroy the cursed blade. 

Using the orbs, Maya performs a ritual to keep the sword's power from fully awakening. Saga defeats Zoro, but before he can kill him, the ritual catches his attention and hurries to interrupt it. With the sword's power unfolding, Saga fights Luffy a second time. During their fight, the sword crumbles and its power is transferred into Saga's body. Zoro appears where he takes over for Luffy, and defeats Saga. After the cursed power leaves Saga's body and his mind is freed from the evil influence, the Straw Hats set sail for their next adventure.

Cast
Kazuya Nakai as Roronoa Zoro
Mayumi Tanaka as Monkey D. Luffy
Akemi Okamura as Nami
Kappei Yamaguchi as Usopp
Hiroaki Hirata as Sanji
Ikue Ōtani as Tony Tony Chopper
Yuriko Yamaguchi as Nico Robin
Ryouka Yuzuki as Maya
Shidou Nakamura as Saga
Masami Hisamoto as Izaya
Hiroki Uchi as Toma
Seiji Sasaki as Bismark
Takeshi Aono as Boo Kong

Film comic
Shueisha created a film comic adaptation of the film, titled  and released it in two volumes on July 2, 2004 ( and ).

First volume chapter list

Second volume chapter list
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Notes

References

External links
 Official website of Toei Animation 

2004 anime films
2004 films
Toei Animation films
Cursed Holy Sword, The
Films scored by Kohei Tanaka
Films scored by Shirō Hamaguchi
Animated films based on animated series

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Silberling

Silberling is the colloquial name for the n-coaches of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, a type of regional passenger coach of which more than 5,000 units were built from 1958 to 1981. Nearly all of the coaches have undergone extensive modernisation – these modernised units are widely known as Mintling, Grünling ("greenling") or Rotling ("redling") after their exterior colours. The term Buntling ("colourfulling") is used to denote refurbished Silberling coaches in general.

Origin of the name
The term Silberling derives from the coaches' stainless steel body which gave them a unique look during their term of service. Translated it means "silverling" in the English language. Historically, Silberling is a silver coin and widely known from the bible: the thirty pieces of silver (in the German Bible: "30 Silberlinge", Matthew 26,14) Judas obtained for his treason.

Technical data

Type overview

 Indicator z: Central control (Zugsammelschiene)
 Indicator r: disc brakes

See also
Rail transport in Germany
History of rail transport in Germany

Railway coaches of Germany
Joe Fagin

Joe Fagin (January 1940 – 5 September 2023) was an English pop singer-songwriter. He was best known for the 1984 chart hit "Breakin' Away / That's Livin' Alright", and for singing a version of "As Time Goes By" for the 1990s BBC comedy series of the same name starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer.

Musical career

Early years
In the early 1960s, Fagin was a guitarist with a group called The Strangers, who played gigs at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, sometimes with The Beatles, and at the Star-Club in Hamburg. He then played in France with a band called The Playboys.

By the 1970s, Fagin had returned to England and worked in advertising, writing jingles. He also worked as a session musician.

Chart successes and TV themes
In 1982, Fagin had his only U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charting single, "Younger Days". It was released there on Millennium Records and peaked at No. 80. He was musical director for Jim Davidson, including his 1983 Falklands tour.  In January 1984, the single "Breakin' Away" / "That's Livin' Alright", which were the opening and closing theme songs to the first series of the comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

In 1985 he was part of The Crowd, which reached number one with the charity single "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the Bradford City stadium fire.

"Get it Right" and "Back With the Boys Again", the two songs for the second series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, were also released as a single, reaching number 53 in 1986.

Fagin sang the version of "As Time Goes By" used as the theme of the sitcom of the same name.

Later years
Fagin released a greatest hits album in 1996, which included a cover of the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home".

"Breakin' Away" / "That's Livin' Alright" was re-released when Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was repeated on Channel 4 in 1996.

A reworked version of "That's Living Alright" was released on 5 June 2006 for the World Cup. However, "That's England Alright" was an unofficial song, since Embrace were chosen to record the official song, "World at Your Feet".

Personal life and death
Fagin was born in Kirkdale, Liverpool in 1940, and trained as an electrician before beginning his music career. In adulthood, he was a longtime resident of Brixton. 

Fagin and his wife, Valerie, had five children. He died on 5 September 2023, at the age of 83.

References

External links

1940 births
2023 deaths
20th-century English male singers
21st-century English male singers
English male singer-songwriters
English rock guitarists
English singer-songwriters
Musicians from Brixton
Musicians from Liverpool
Place of death missing
Ranzi

Ranzi may refer to:

Ranzi (surname)
Ranzi is a small old town close to Pietra Ligure in the north of Italy.
Ranzi is also a town in the Niari Region in the Republic of Congo.
The Arabic name for Tokimeki Tonight series
American Music Awards of 1998

The 25th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 26, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from the year 1997.

The Spice Girls were the biggest winners of the night, winning all of the three awards they were nominated for, while Puff Daddy didn't win any of the five awards he had been nominated for.

Performances

Notes
  Pretaped in Dublin, Ireland, on January 21st.

Winners and nominees

References
 http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/amas.htm

1998
Central Coast Adventist School

Central Coast Adventist School is an independent Seventh-day Adventist co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school, located in Erina, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Founded in 1969, the school is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. John Hammond was the first principal with 18 students. The school has grown to over 900 students today.

History 
The school was established on former farm land which was donated to the local church for the establishment of the school. Local church member, Kevin Chugg, built two classrooms at a total cost of $16,000.

The school buildings have also changed over time. As early as 1995 the school only had two buildings, the white building at the top of the school (which has been removed) and the old primary school rooms (which have been removed).

Gallery

See also

 List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
 List of non-government schools in New South Wales

References 

1969 establishments in Australia
Adventist secondary schools in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1969
Private secondary schools in New South Wales
Private primary schools in New South Wales
Adventist primary schools in Australia
Central Coast (New South Wales)
Infant's binder

An infant's binder is a form of corset for infants. Infant's binders were introduced in the 19th century, after swaddling had become unpopular, and were in several forms, shapes, and materials in use until well into the twentieth century. Some say the binder was used to obtain a proper posture, others see it as a preparation for later proper corset wearing, or as a way to diminish the baby's restlessness. By tightening the infant's binder the care giver could lower the yell and squall from the baby by crushing its airways. The Hawaiian Filipino has used this traditional practice, Latin and English cultures since the early 1800s.

Although there is a common belief that the use of baby belly binders can keep the abdomen warm thus reducing the risk of colic, there is no scientific evidence that this is true. Other reasons given for the use of the baby belly binder are to keep the diaper from rubbing against the umbilical stump, thereby reducing irritation, and protecting the umbilical stump from urination. Whether baby binders reduce the risk of umbilical infection has not been shown scientifically.

See also
Infant clothing

References

Binder
Corsetry