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Thames Measurement

Thames Measurement, also known as Thames Tonnage, is a system for measuring ships and boats.  It was created in 1855 as a variation of Builder's Old Measurement by the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and was designed for small vessels, such as yachts.  It was originally used for calculating the port dues for yachts; the formula was also used in some early handicapping systems for yacht racing.

The calculation of Thames Tonnage uses the following formula:

 

where:
length is the length, in feet, from the stempost to sternpost;
beam is the maximum beam, in feet.

This can be simplified as:

See also

Tonnage

References

Handicap (sailing)
Ship measurements
Varndean

Varndean is the name given to two separate educational establishments located on the hills to the north of Brighton in England:

Varndean Secondary School, for pupils aged 11–16 years
Varndean College, for students aged 16 and over
Back Creek (Conococheague Creek tributary)

Back Creek is a  tributary of Conococheague Creek in south central Pennsylvania in the United States.

The uppermost reaches of the creek, flowing through the Letterkenny Army Depot, are known as Rocky Spring Run or Rocky Spring Branch.

Back Creek joins Conococheague Creek approximately  below Williamson.

See also
 List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Potomac River
Rivers of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Larkfield (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Larkfield was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries and boundary changes
Before 1969, the area formed part of the Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies of Mid-Down and South Antrim.

Larkfield was created by the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 as a division of County Antrim. It was located to the south-west of Belfast, straddling the Upper Malone Road, Upper Lisburn Road and M1 motorway, and comprised "part of the rural district of Lisburn which consists of the district electoral divisions of Andersonstown, Ardmore, Ballygammon, Dunmurry, Finaghy, Ladybrook, and Upper Malone". The boundaries of those divisions are set out in the Lisburn Rural District (Electoral Areas) Order (NI) 1963.

The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election. The Parliament was prorogued on 30 March 1972, under the terms of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972. It was formally abolished in 1973 when the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 received Royal Assent on 18 July 1973.

The parliamentary representative of the division was elected using the first-past-the-post system.

Member of Parliament

Election results

 Parliament prorogued 30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973

References
 Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921-1972, compiled and edited by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921 - 1972

External links
 For more information about the Northern Ireland House of Commons, see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/stormont.html 

Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Parliament
Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies established in 1969
Historic constituencies in County Antrim
Historic constituencies in County Down
Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies disestablished in 1973
Portal Through Time

Portal Through Time is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was published in 2006. The author, Alice Henderson, also wrote, Night Terrors in the Stake Your Destiny series. In this novel, Buffy and her friends time-travel to four different periods of history to protect Slayers of the past from present-day vampires.

Plot summary
An artifact has been forged which enables time-travelling spells while it remains in Sunnydale. A group of vampire-assassins are travelling into the past in an attempt to kill previous Slayers, and disrupt the Slayer lineage. They are led by the spellcaster Lucien, whose aim is to ensure that Buffy does not interfere with the ascension of the Master. When they discover that killing Buffy in the past merely changes the way in which the Master is killed, they become frustrated and decide to go further back.

When Buffy becomes aware of their plans, the vampires have already left and she is forced to follow them into the past. With Giles, Willow and Xander, she travels to first-century Anglesey in Wales where a Druidic stronghold is being invaded by Romans. Next they travel to Uruk in ancient Sumer where they encounter Gilgamesh. Xander inadvertently arouses a plague god, and Willow accidentally summons a snake-demon while trying to banish the god.

Then they return to the American Civil War period, where they find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Shiloh. They destroy many vampires feeding on the soldiers. Finally they head for Paris during the French Revolution where they witness executions on the guillotine and meet Angelus and Darla.

Continuity

Timing

The starting point of the novel is in 1998, during Buffy season 2. It is months after the destruction of the Master's bones, during which time the vampire Lucien perfected the time-travelling spell. Buffy is 16. Angel is still ensouled.
The Buffy books are listed in order of chronology in a navigation box at the bottom of this article.

Canonical issues

Buffy novels, such as this one are generally not considered by fans as part of canon. They are usually not viewed as official Buffyverse reality, but are novels from the authors' imaginations. However unlike fanfic, 'overviews' summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by Fox, who in turn may or may not have sought approval from Whedon (or his office). The book will be published as official Buffy merchandise.

Canon characters in the novel include: Buffy, Angel, Giles, Xander, Willow, Darla and Angelus.

External links
Simonsays.com - Publisher's webpage for this book
Whedonesque.com - Whedonesquers discuss the book in April 2006
Review of Portal Through Time at www.sci-fi-online.com

2006 novels
Books based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Science fantasy novels
Novels about time travel
Cultural depictions of Gilgamesh
Novels set in Wales
Novels set in the Ancient Near East
Novels set during the American Civil War
Novels set in the French Revolution
Tateishi, Tokyo

is a neighborhood in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. The name derives from a tiny stone monument called , located at 8-37 Tateishi. With its retro-chic shopping streets and small, back-street workshops and factories, the area retains an atmosphere associated with Tokyo's earthy Shitamachi ("downtown") neighborhoods. Katsushika Ward Office, is located at 5-13-1 Tateishi.

Geography
Tateishi is situated on the west bank of the Nakagawa, a river, about 3 km south of the Kameari area known to many through the manga Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo.

The Higashi-Tateishi ("east Tateishi") neighborhood lies to the south of Tateishi. , an old-fashioned shopping street near the railway station, was started soon after World War II ended.

Until around 1980, Tateishi was home to numerous small, family-owned factories, though many of these have since closed and small apartment houses now occupy many of their former sites. The neighborhood's chief industries include dyeing works and doll manufacturing.

Transportation
Tateishi is served by the Keisei Electric Railway through its Keisei Tateishi Station. Most trains stopping at Tateishi also serve Asakusa, about 12 minutes away. Narita International Airport is also readily accessible from Tateishi by changing to a limited express train at Aoto, the next station down the line in the Narita direction.

Major businesses

Toy, merchandising, and entertaining giant Tomy is headquartered in Tateishi.

Tateishi-sama

Tateishi ("standing stone") derives its name from a standing stone addressed by locals as Tateishi-sama, sama being a suffix indicating respect. The stone has been at its present location for at least 600 years and is thought to have been carried and erected here given that the area is on alluvial soil. Locals began to worship the stone as an embodiment of the deity Inari during the Edo period (ca. 1600–1868), hence the sama in the name. The stone is reputed to have once had a height of 8-24 inches (approximately 20 to 60 cm), but today it stands only 1 inch above ground level due to the effects of floods, subsidence, and breakage by locals who wanted to use a piece of the stone as a talisman against disease or getting shot in battle.

Education
Katsushika Ward Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools.

Tateishi 1-chome is zoned to Honden Elementary School (本田小学校). 2-4-chome and part of 5-chome are zoned to Umeda Elementary School (梅田小学校). 6-7-chome and the rest of 5-chome are zoned to Seiwa Elementary School (清和小学校). 8-chome is zoned to Katsushika Elementary School (葛飾小学校).

Tateishi 3-4 and 6-8-chome, as well as part of 5-chome, are zoned to Tateishi Junior High School (立石中学校). 2-chome and the rest of 5-chome are zoned to Daido Junior High School (大道中学校). 1-chome is zoned to Honden Junior High School (本田中学校).

References

Neighborhoods of Tokyo
Katsushika
Itzig

Itzig may refer to:

 The Itzig family, famous for its contribution to Jewish and German cultural history
 Julius Eduard Hitzig, born Isaac Elias Itzig
 Itzig, Luxembourg (Hesperingen)

See also 
 Hitzig
Gerhard Heinrich Dieke

Gerhard Heinrich Dieke (1901 in Rheda, Germany – August 26, 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland) was a German/U.S. physicist. He was a pioneer in investigating the structure of atoms and molecules by spectroscopic methods. 
Dieke studied at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, and received a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California in 1926.  After completing his graduate studies, he worked at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Tokyo and in 1929 he was Dirk Coster's assistant at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dieke joined the department of physics at Johns Hopkins University in 1930 as an associate professor, and he later served as chairman of the department, 1950-1965.

Dieke was a man of wide interests, and was an expert on the taxonomy of lady beetles (Coccinellidae). In 1947 he authored a review of the genus Epilachna based on the collections of the Smithsonian Museum and others.

Dieke was elected a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952.

References

External links
 Biographical note at the Johns Hopkins University

1901 births
1965 deaths
Leiden University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
Johns Hopkins University faculty
20th-century American physicists
20th-century German physicists
People from Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Emigrants from the Weimar Republic to the United States
Laila Peak

There are three peaks in Pakistan named Laila Peak.

 Laila Peak (Hushe Valley) (6096 or 6614m) in Hushe Valley, Karakoram,
 Laila Peak (Haramosh Valley) (6985m) in Haramosh Valley, Karakoram (near Chogurunma Glacier),
 Laila Peak (Rupal Valley) (5971m) in Rupal Valley, Himalaya.
Other peak:
 Laila Peak (Caucasus) (approx. 4000m) in Svaneti, Georgia.

See also
 List of Mountains in Pakistan
 Gilgit-Baltistan
 Highest Mountains of the World
Antwain Spann

Antwain Joquan Spann (born February 22, 1983) is a former American football safety. He was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Louisiana–Lafayette.

Spann has also been a member of the New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos.

Early years
Spann played football at El Camino High School in Oceanside, California.

College career
Spann began his college football career in 2001 at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he was a Mississippi Junior College All-State and All-Region player. In 2003, he transferred to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he started 11 games at cornerback in his senior season in 2004, recording a team-high four interceptions.

Professional career

New York Giants
Spann was signed by the Giants as an undrafted free agent on May 17, 2005, following the 2005 NFL Draft. He was waived by the Giants on August 31.

New England Patriots
Spann was signed to the Patriots' practice squad on January 2, 2006, where he spent the remainder of the team's postseason before being signed to a future contract by the team on January 17.

Spann was waived by the team on September 2, 2006, and signed to the Patriots' practice squad the following day. He was signed to the Patriots' 53-man roster on September 30 before being waived from it on November 7. He was re-signed to the Patriots' practice squad on November 8, and again elevated to the 53-man roster on November 18. He was waived by the Patriots on November 22 and re-signed to their practice squad again on November 24. He was signed to the team's 53-man roster for a third time on December 9, where he spent the remainder of the season.

Spann was waived by the team on July 19, 2007, and signed to the Patriots' practice squad on September 25. He then was signed to the Patriots' 53-man roster on December 28.

Spann was waived by the Patriots again on August 30, 2008, and signed to the team's practice squad on September 1. He was elevated to the 53-man roster on October 22 when safety Rodney Harrison was placed on injured reserve.

Spann was waived by the Patriots on July 27, 2009, after signing 2009 draft pick Patrick Chung.

Buffalo Bills
Spann signed with the Buffalo Bills on July 31, 2009. He was briefly waived on August 7 before being re-signed on August 11. He was waived again on August 21 when 2009 first-round pick Aaron Maybin was signed.

Denver Broncos
Spann was claimed off waivers by the Denver Broncos on August 24, 2009. He was waived on September 5.

External links
 Buffalo Bills bio
 New England Patriots bio

1983 births
Living people
Players of American football from Oceanside, California
American football cornerbacks
American football safeties
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football players
New York Giants players
New England Patriots players
Rhein Fire players
Buffalo Bills players
Denver Broncos players
Amanda Ross (television executive)

Amanda Ross is Co-Founder & CEO of Cactus TV, a production company she founded with her husband Simon Ross in 1994. Cactus specialises in broad-based entertainment, features and chat shows, making programs for many major UK broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, UKTV and Channel 4. During a long and varied production career Ross has worked with a wide range of Hollywood stars and famous figures as diverse as Madonna and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Programmes include Saturday Kitchen, Between the Covers, Garraway's Good Stuff, Breakfast Shows with Big Zuu, Katie Piper and Vick Hope, Martin & Roman's Weekend Best!, Zoe Ball on Saturday/Sunday, Modern Wheels or Classic Steals, The Specsavers National Book Awards, John Torode's Malaysian Adventure, Kitchen Garden Live with the Hairy Bikers, Weekend, A Taste of Britain, Drop Down Menu, Fern, Christmas Kitchen, Spring Kitchen, The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain, Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation, Richard & Judy, three Rachel Allen cookery series, The Galaxy National Book Awards, and the ITV3 Crime Thriller Season and Awards.

Ross also created and produced a number of major book-based campaigns on TV, including Richard & Judy's Book Club (and associated Summer Read), the televising of The Galaxy National Book Awards and The Crime Thriller Awards, The Specsavers TV Book Club, and in 2018 The Zoe Ball Book Club. She oversees all of Cactus’ book and writing initiatives, and in 2007 her book choices accounted for over 26% of all books sold in the UK.

Awards

She was named No 1 in the Observer Newspaper List of the fifty most powerful people in publishing. She won a British Book Trade Award for inspiring wider reading in 2006, and The Bookseller Award for expanding the market in 2006 and 2007, and an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2009. She received an RTS Educational Television Award in 2007 for her role in the Channel 4 ‘Lost for Words Season’ which focused on children's literacy. She was voted in the top five of London's ‘Literary Life’ in the Evening Standard's ‘1000 Most Influential People 2008’.

She has a BA (Hons) in Drama from Birmingham University. She is also a Trustee of the Children's Charity, Kidscape and on the UK Advisory Board for the charity Room to Read, an Ambassador for Wellbeing of Women, and also for the National Literacy Trust.

References

British television executives
Women television executives
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tempo Centar

Tempo Centar (formerly: Tempo Cash & Carry) is a Serbian hypermarket chain and a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize.

History
Tempo was founded in 2003, with headquarters located in Belgrade, Serbia. The first Tempo store, with 8,000 m2 of floor space, opened in Belgrade in 2004. Three more Tempo Cash and Carry stores were built in 2006: one in Niš (floor space 6,000 m2), one in Novi Sad (floor space 6,000 m2) and another one in Belgrade (kvantas) (floor space 8,500 m2). All three new stores opened in December 2006.

The first Tempo (Viline Vode) was opened on July 15, 2004. It occupies a floor space of 5500 m2 and it is situated in the centre of Belgrade at Belgrade Harbour. After two years of work the end of 2006 was met by three newly built Tempo centers. The new concept for TEMPO Hypermarket was realized and managed by Marc Ernest Garofani as Chief Operations Officer.

Novi Sad Tempo was opened on December 1, 2006 at n.n. Tekelija street. This is the largest store in Vojvodina with a floor space of 12,000 m2. Inside the centre are a bank, a pharmacy, and a playroom for children. On December 8, 2006, only a week after opening the Tempo store in Novi Sad, a new Tempo store opened in Niš.

At the entrance of Niš, at 80, February 12 street, the biggest store in South Serbia has opened, with a floor space of 6.000 m2 and 30,000 consumer articles, a parking lot, bank and coffee bar. The opening of the biggest store in the Balkans was organized for December 22 in Belgrade.

Tempo centre at Block 53 Autoput I, the industrial zone of New Belgrade, occupies a total area of 18,000 square meters. In front of the store is a parking lot for 550 vehicles. Inside the building are a bank, a coffee bar and a playroom for children.

Goods can be paid in cash or by card: MasterCard, Visa, Dina, Yuba, or Diners.

Tempo stores are open 24 hours a day, including Sundays. They close only on public holidays like New Year's Day or Serbian Orthodox Christmas (January 7).
Tempo offers a wide and deep assortment of more than 40,000 SKUs.

In June 2012, Marc Ernest Garofani was appointed to the position of Director of TEMPO Hypermarkets.
November 26, 2013, a new Tempo hypermarket opened in Belgrade, Bacvanska street. The total area of the store is 5,000 square metres.
Today, Tempo banner is present in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Cacak, Uzice, Vrnjacka Banja, Niksic (Montenegro) and opened in April 2014 a 2500-square metre store in Sabac (Serbia).

Since August 2014, Maxi and Tempo is no longer operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company Tropic Group from Banja Luka bought the ownership of 39 retail supermarkets (Tempo, Maxi) from Delhaize BiH.

Since April 2015, with renewal the object in Ada, Tempo Centar has used a new ident and logo (stylized as Tempo), with the change in ownership structure.

See also
 List of supermarket chains in Serbia

References

External links
 Official website

Ahold Delhaize
Retail companies established in 2003
Serbian brands
Supermarkets of Serbia
Maurice Lemaître (mechanical engineer)

Maurice Lemaître (Maurice Édouard Jean Joseph Ghislain Lemaître; born Charleroi, 6 July 1898; died Etterbeek 25 December 1974) was a Belgian mechanical engineer who developed a steam locomotive exhaust system first used by the Nord-Belge railway company, a subsidiary of the French-owned Chemins de Fer du Nord.

The Lemaître exhaust (échappement Lemaître) – which featured a blastpipe with five nozzles in a circular pattern exhausting up a large-diameter chimney, plus a variable-area nozzle exhausting up the centre – produced an efficiency gain of around 10%.

The design was later improved by the Argentine engineer Livio Dante Porta, who devised the Lempor (a portmanteau of Lemaître and Porta) and later the Lemprex exhaust systems.

References

External links
The ultimate steam page – Steam Locomotive Exhaust Drawings
Lempor Exhaust

20th-century Belgian engineers
Belgian mechanical engineers
Belgian people in rail transport
Locomotive builders and designers
1974 deaths
1898 births
Jaroslav Doubrava

Jaroslav Doubrava (April 25, 1909 in Chrudim – October 2, 1960 in Prague) was a Czech composer, painter, and pedagogue.

He studied in the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Jeremiáš. His works are typified by somber, yet dramatic, music in the Romantic style. His Third Symphony''' (1957) and ballet Don Quijote (1955) are some of his most popular works. Doubrava was heavily influenced by Bohemian  and Moravian folklore as seen in his opera, Ballad on Love (1960). Doubrava was also well known for his satires, especially the ballet King Lávra (1951), Lazy Honza and The Christening of St. Vladimir''.

Notes

References
Short Biography

External links
Life and Legacy of Jaroslav Doubrava
Extensive Biography and Selection of Works

1909 births
1960 deaths
Czech composers
Czech male composers
20th-century composers
20th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
20th-century Czech male musicians
20th-century Czech male artists
Prague Conservatory alumni
Seleh

The sèlèh note or nada seleh is an Indonesian music concept used in Javanese gamelan music. In Javanese gamelan music, the sèlèh note or nada seleh is the final note of a gatra, or four-beat melodic unit. As such it is the note which serves as the goal for all the various strands of the musical texture.

See also

 Gamelan
 kotekan
 Gatra
 Colotomy
 Slendro
 Music of Indonesia
 Music of Java

Sources

Gamelan theory
Lalamusa

Lala Musa (; ; ), is a city located in the Gujrat District of the Punjab province of Pakistan with a population of 91,500 in 2018.

History

Toponymy
According to local legends, the city was inhabited by people of the Arain tribe, and the city was named after two brothers from the same tribe, named Lālah () and Mūsá () who settled in the old city.

Geography
Lalamusa is situated on the Grand Trunk Road (National Highway 5).  It is geographically located at latitude (32.7 degrees) 32° 42' 0" North of the Equator and longitude (73.96 degrees) 73° 57' 35" East of the Prime Meridian on the Map of the world and lies at an altitude of about 250 meters.

It also has major neighbouring cities such as Kharian  (16 km) and Gujrat (22 km).

Transport
This city is connected through the Grand Trunk Road (National Highway 5) which allows it to be linked to major cities like Islamabad (96.313 miles/155km to the west) and Lahore (92 miles/148km to the east).

A railway station (Lala Musa Junction Station) also serves the city for longer journeys operated by Pakistan Railways with around 20 trains travelling throughout the country.

Public Services
The Local Government Training Academy is also in Lalamusa.

Cultural and leisure

Public Parks 
Lala Musa has a number of public parks and nature reserves like Fatima Jinnah park, Haji Asgar park, etc.

Notable people
 
 
 Javed Chaudhry is a journalist from Lala Musa, who is known for his infamous column “Zero Point”.
 Qamar Zaman Kaira is the senior leader of the political party, Pakistan Peoples Party and was the former Information Minister and Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan.
 Alam Lohar, a Punjabi folk singer, died in a road accident on the outskirts of Lala Musa and was buried in the city.
 Arif Lohar is a famous folk singer who is also from Lalamusa. 
 Suri Sehgal, an Indian-American scientist and philanthropist, grew up in Lala Musa city before the partition of Punjab between India and Pakistan.

See also
Punjab, Pakistan
Gujrat Division
Gujrat District

References

External links 
 Fallinggrain: Lalamusa - Pakistan page

Populated places in Gujrat District
Cities in Punjab (Pakistan)
Thomas Rundqvist

Per Thomas Rundqvist (born 4 May 1960 in Vimmerby, Sweden) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and now sporting director of Färjestads BK.

Rundqvist started his senior ice hockey career in 1978 with the Swedish club Färjestads BK. He played with the club until 1984, when he crossed the Atlantic and signed with the Montreal Canadiens (who had drafted him in 1983 (10th round, 198th pick overall)).
But Rundqvist played only two games with the Canadiens in the 1984–85 season, the rest of the year he played with Sherbrooke Canadiens in the AHL. So after only one year he went back to Sweden and Färjestad. He played six more season with them, but in 1993 he and his teammate in Färjestad Bengt-Åke Gustafsson signed for the Austrian team Feldkirch VEU. Rundqvist played there for five years and ended his career in 1998. Now (2006) he is working in the Färjestads BK's organisation.

Färjestads BK has retired Rundqvist's jersey number, #9.

Rundqvist was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2007.

Achievements
 Swedish Championship winner: 3 (1981, 1986, 1988)
 Austrian Championship winner: 5 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
 World Championships winner: 2 (1987, 1991)
 World Championships second place: 3 (1986, 1990, 1993)
 Olympic bronze medal: 2 (1984, 1988)
 Canada Cup third place: 2 (1987, 1991)

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

Swedish Olympic Committee Bio
Viking Award

1960 births
Living people
Färjestad BK players
Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players with retired numbers
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Montreal Canadiens draft picks
Montreal Canadiens players
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
People from Vimmerby Municipality
Sherbrooke Canadiens players
Swedish ice hockey centres
Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Kalmar County
Jake Kaner

Professor Jake Kaner (born 1959) is Associate Dean of Research at the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University. He was previously Head of Research and Professor of Furniture at Buckinghamshire New University, and an editorial board member of the Institute of Conservation.

In 2005, he was awarded a grant by Arts and Humanities Research Council to create an Electronic Furniture Archive of High Wycombe, launched in 2009. In 2004, he was called upon to create replica furniture for the 78 Derngate Charles Rennie Mackintosh project in Northampton of certain Mackintosh originals. In 2013 he was invited to join the REF14 sub panel UoA34 Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory.

Books 
In 2010 Kaner published 'Early Plastics in Furniture 1880-1920: Chemistry, conservation, history and manufacture'.

In 2012 he co-authored 'Conservation of 20th Century Furniture (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology)' with Clive Edwards.

References

External links
 Research Centre for Furniture at Buckinghamshire New University
 High Wycombe Furniture Archive Website

1959 births
Academics of Nottingham Trent University
Living people
Academics of Buckinghamshire New University
Alphonso Hodge

Alphonso Hodge (born May 30, 1982) is a former professional American and Canadian football defensive back. He was originally drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) in the fifth-round (147th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft.

Hodge also played for the New York Jets, Cleveland Gladiators and Toronto Argonauts.

Early years
Hodge was a three-year letterman in football and an all-state selection as a senior at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio.

College career
Hodge was a four-year letterman at Miami University in Ohio, where he appeared in 46 games with 35 starts, including starts in his final 27 games. He recorded 147 tackles (103 solo), including 10 tackles for losses (-51.0 yards), eight sacks, three fumble recoveries and 24 passes defensed.

He started all 13 games in his senior season for the Redhawks, where he recorded 52 tackles (41 solo), 2.0 tackles for losses (-3.0 yards), 5.0 sacks (-31.0 yards) and six passes defensed. Hodge earned first-team All-MAC honors by The NFL Draft Report as a senior. In his junior year, Hodge received second-team All-MAC honors after recording 47 tackles (27 solo), 1.0 sack (-3.0 yards), three fumble recoveries and nine passes defensed.

Professional career

National Football League
Hodge was selected in the fifth round (147th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs. He spent time with the Chiefs (2005–2006) and with the New York Jets (2006).

Arena Football League
On April 8, 2008, Hodge was signed to the practice squad of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League. Then, on April 17, 2008, he was called up to the active roster. He then made his arena football debut on April 19, 2008 against the Los Angeles Avengers.

Canadian Football League
The Toronto Argonauts signed him on February 25, 2009 and released him on November 22, 2010.

Notes

External links
Toronto Argonauts bio

1982 births
Living people
Players of Canadian football from Cleveland
Players of American football from Cleveland
St. Edward High School (Lakewood, Ohio) alumni
American football cornerbacks
Canadian football defensive backs
American players of Canadian football
Miami RedHawks football players
Kansas City Chiefs players
New York Jets players
Cleveland Gladiators players
Toronto Argonauts players
Kansas City Renegades players
Nilus (mythology)

Nilus  or Neilos (Ancient Greek: Νειλος or Νεῖλόν), in Greek mythology, was one of the Potamoi who represent the god of the Nile river itself.

Family 
Nilus was one of 3,000 river gods children of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. He was father to several children, of these included Memphis (mother of Libya by Epaphus a king of Egypt), as well as a son named Nilus Ankhmemiphis (the father of Anchinoe and Telephassa).

His granddaughter Libya in turn became mother to Belus and Agenor. These sons then married (presumably) younger daughters of his son Nilus named Anchiroe and Telephassa, respectively. A daughter Chione was said to be borne to Nilus and Callirhoe, an Oceanid. His other children include: Argiope, Anippe, Eurryroe, Europa and possibly Caliadne, Polyxo and Thebe.

Mythology

Parentage 
 Hesiod, Theogony:

 Hyginus, Fabulae:

Offspring 
 Apollodorus, Bibliotheca:

 Apollodorus, Bibliotheca:

 Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories:

 Tzetzes, Chiliades:

See also 
 Hapi (Nile god)
 Nile God Statue, Naples

Notes

References 
 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Fowler, Robert. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. .
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Potamoi
Egyptian characters in Greek mythology
Nile
Hellenistic Egyptian deities
Personifications of rivers
Deep Freeze

Deep Freeze may refer to:

Entertainment
 Deep Freeze (film), a 2003 horror film
 Deep Freeze (video game), a 1999 PlayStation video game
 "Deep Freeze" (song), a song by Rina Aiuchi
 "Deep Freeze", a song from the album Urban Hymns by The Verve
 "Deep Freeze" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1994 television show episode
 "Deep Freeze", an episode of CSI: Miami
 "The Deep Freeze", an episode of the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown

Other uses
 Deep or Big Freeze, a purported cooling effect of the expanding universe
 Deep Freeze Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
 Deep freezer, a stand-alone freezer unit for preserving food
 Operation Deep Freeze, a series of American expeditions to Antarctica beginning in 1955

See also
 John Friesz (born 1967), American former National Football League quarterback nicknamed "Deep"
Darren Morfitt

Darren Morfitt (born 12 September 1973) is an English actor who has appeared in Dream Team (1997-1998), Grafters (1998-1999), Warriors (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2001), Dog Soldiers (2002), 55 Degrees North (2004), Making Waves (2004), The Government Inspector (2005), Doomsday (2008), and Doctor Who (2010).

Early life
Morfitt was born 12 September 1973 in Hartlepool, England. After finishing his A-levels at Hartlepool Sixth Form College, Morfitt studied acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, graduating in 1997.

Career
In 1997, Morfitt landed his first major television role as Dean Hocknell for 71 episodes of the football drama series Dream Team (1997-1998). He appeared as Simon Purvis in 15 episodes of Grafters (1998-1999). From 2004, he starred as D.S. Patrick Yates in 14 episodes of the Newcastle upon Tyne based Detective series 55 Degrees North (2004).

In 2002, he starred in the werewolf horror film Dog Soldiers (2002), in a cast  which included Sean Pertwee and Liam Cunningham. 

In 2005, he appeared in the television movie The Government Inspector (2005), alongside Mark Rylance. In 2006, he portrayed as Jesus in the Manchester Passion, a live dramatization of the Easter story using songs associated with Manchester. A year later, in 2008, he appeared in the science fiction action film Doomsday as Dr. Ben Stirling. He has also appeared in two 2010 episodes of science fiction programme Doctor Who, "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" as Billy. 

In 2017, Morfitt appeared as a Transport Deck Officer in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Personal life
It was while at Mountview that Morfitt met his wife, the actress Helen Latham.  They met in 1995 and were married in 2004.

Filmography

References

External links

1973 births
English male film actors
English male television actors
Living people
People from Hartlepool
Male actors from County Durham
Egashira

Egashira (written: 江頭) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

, better known as Egashira 2:50, Japanese comedian
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese businessman

Japanese-language surnames
Lake Tumba

Lake Tumba (or Ntomba) is a shallow lake in northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Bikoro Territory of the Province of Équateur.

The lake covers about  depending on the season, connected via the Irebu channel with the Congo River. Water may flow into or out of the lake through this channel depending on the floods. Lake Tumba has 114 species of fish and supports important fisheries.
The lake lies at the center of the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, designated a Wetland of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention in 2008.

Lake Tumba was explored in 1883 by Henry Morton Stanley.
The swamp forest surrounding the lake is inhabited by the Mongo people, who in this area are divided into two castes: the Oto, who farm, and the Twa, Pygmies who fish.

References 

Province of Équateur
Tumba
Tumba
Freshwater ecoregions of Africa
Unix domain socket

A Unix domain socket aka UDS or IPC socket (inter-process communication socket) is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system. It is also referred to by its address family AF_UNIX. Valid socket types in the UNIX domain are:
 SOCK_STREAM (compare to TCP) – for a stream-oriented socket
 SOCK_DGRAM (compare to UDP) – for a datagram-oriented socket that preserves message boundaries (as on most UNIX implementations, UNIX domain datagram sockets are always reliable and don't reorder datagrams)
 SOCK_SEQPACKET (compare to SCTP) – for a sequenced-packet socket that is connection-oriented, preserves message boundaries, and delivers messages in the order that they were sent
The Unix domain socket facility is a standard component of POSIX operating systems.

The API for Unix domain sockets is similar to that of an Internet socket, but rather than using an underlying network protocol, all communication occurs entirely within the operating system kernel. Unix domain sockets may use the file system as their address name space. (Some operating systems, like Linux, offer additional namespaces.) Processes reference Unix domain sockets as file system inodes, so two processes can communicate by opening the same socket.

In addition to sending data, processes may send file descriptors across a Unix domain socket connection using the sendmsg() and recvmsg() system calls. This allows the sending processes to grant the receiving process access to a file descriptor for which the receiving process otherwise does not have access. This can be used to implement a rudimentary form of capability-based security.

See also
 Network socket
 Berkeley sockets
 Pipeline
 Netlink

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 ucspi-unix, UNIX-domain socket client-server command-line tools
 Unix sockets vs Internet sockets
 Unix Sockets - Beej's Guide to Unix IPC

Network socket
Unix

fr:Berkeley sockets#Socket unix
South Kesteven District Council elections

South Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2015, 56 councillors have been elected from 30 wards.

Political control
The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1973 has been held by the following parties:

Leadership
The leaders of the council since 2002 have been:

Council elections
Summary of the results of recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 1999 and 2015 elections, with the number of councillors being reduced from 58 to 56 in 2015.

1973 South Kesteven District Council election
1976 South Kesteven District Council election
1979 South Kesteven District Council election (New ward boundaries)
1983 South Kesteven District Council election

District result maps

By-election results
By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections; full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

References

External links
South Kesteven District Council

 
Council elections in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven
Vitelline veins

The vitelline veins are veins that drain blood from the yolk sac and the gut tube during gestation.

Path
They run upward at first in front, and subsequently on either side of the intestinal canal. They unite on the ventral aspect of the canal.

Beyond this, they are connected to one another by two anastomotic branches, one on the dorsal, and the other on the ventral aspect of the duodenal portion of the intestine. This is encircled by two venous rings; into the middle or dorsal anastomosis the superior mesenteric vein opens.

The portions of the veins above the upper ring become interrupted by the developing liver and broken up by it into a plexus of small capillary-like vessels termed sinusoids.

Derivatives

The vitelline veins give rise to:
 Hepatic veins
 Inferior portion of Inferior vena cava
 Portal vein
 Superior mesenteric vein
 Inferior mesenteric vein

The branches conveying the blood to the plexus are named the venae advehentes, and become the branches of the portal vein. The vessels draining the plexus into the sinus venosus are termed the venae revehentes, and form the future hepatic veins. Ultimately the left vena revehens no longer communicates directly with the sinus venosus, but opens into the right vena revehens. The persistent part of the upper venous ring, above the opening of the superior mesenteric vein, forms the trunk of the portal vein.

Function 
The vitelline veins drain the yolk sac during early embryonic development. They also drain the gut tube in embryos once this has formed from the yolk sac.

Additional images

References

External links
 
 
 

Embryology of cardiovascular system
Old Bridge, Svilengrad

Mustafa Pasha Bridge (, Star most) or The Old Bridge is a 16th-century arch bridge over the Maritsa in Svilengrad, southern Bulgaria. Completed in 1529, it was built on the order of the Ottoman vizier Çoban Mustafa Pasha. The bridge was the first major work designed by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, and was part of a vakıf complex that also included a caravanserai, mosque, bazaar and hamam. The bridge is 295 m long, 6 m wide and has 20 or 21 arches.

The English traveler Peter Mundy crossed the bridge on 14 May 1620, by when the neighbouring town was already known as "Mustapha Pasha Cupreesee" (Mustapha Pasha's Bridge):

A flood destroyed some of the arches in 1766. Reconstruction was completed in 1809. The Ottoman army unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the bridge as it retreated from a Bulgarian advance after the Battle of Lule Burgas during the First Balkan War in November 1912.

A plaque on the bridge has inscriptions in Bulgarian, French and English. The English text reads:

References and notes

Ottoman bridges in Bulgaria
Bridges completed in 1529
Buildings and structures in Haskovo Province
Stone arch bridges
Maritsa
Gramm discography

This is the discography of the defunct Icelandic record label Gramm.

(*): Skytturnar was the soundtrack to the film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It featured The Sugarcubes, Bubbi Morthens, and Megas, among many others. For more information about the movie, please see Skytturnar (film).

Discographies of Icelandic record labels
Mytishchi Arena

Mytishchi Arena (Russian: ) is a multi-purpose indoor sporting arena that is located in Mytishchi, which is 5 km (3 miles) outside of Moscow, Russia.

The arena is used to host events such as: ice hockey, figure skating, basketball, volleyball, handball, tennis, badminton, futsal, artistic gymnastics, gymnastics, ice dancing, ballroom dancing, wrestling, Olympic weightlifting, boxing, concerts, festivals, exhibitions, conferences, dance evenings, circus performances, fashion shows, and other events. The capacity of the arena is 7,000 for ice hockey, 7,280 for basketball, and 9,000 for boxing and concerts.

History
Mytishchi Arena was opened on October 15, 2005. Along with the Khodynka Arena, it hosted the 2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The arena has been used as the home arena of the Russian Kontinental Hockey League club, Atlant Moscow Oblast. In 2017, the basketball club Khimki, started using the arena for their 2017–18 EuroLeague games.

Due to the on-going travel restrictions against COVID-19 pandemic, ice hockey team Kunlun Red Star determined that they would be unable to play in Beijing, China for the 2020-21 KHL season. In August, the club signed a contract to play out of Arena Mytishchi.

See also
 List of Kontinental Hockey League arenas

References

External links

www.arena-mo.ru - Official website 
Image 1 of Mytishchi Arena's Interior
Image 2 of Mytishchi Arena's Interior
Video of Mytishchi Arena

Atlant Moscow Oblast
Basketball venues in Russia
Boxing venues in Russia
Buildings and structures in Moscow Oblast
Indoor arenas in Russia
Music venues in Russia
Indoor ice hockey venues in Russia
Kontinental Hockey League venues
Mytishchinsky District
Sports venues completed in 2005
2005 establishments in Russia
KRS Vanke Rays
Rawil Ğaynetdin

Rawil İsməğil ulı Ğaynetdinev (, ), or Ravil Gaynutdin, is a Moscow-based Mufti, an ethnic Volga Tatar born in the village of Shali of Pestrechinsky District of the Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union on August 25, 1959.

Gaynutdin has served as one of the Grand Muftis of Russia and the Chairman of the Russian Council of Muftis since July 1, 1996. He is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding. Gaynutdin has been called a key figure in relations between the Kremlin and Russia's Muslim population and one of the most important people in the Islamic World in Russia.

Gaynutdin has stated that Muslims are as important part of Russia as Orthodox Christians and that "Russia was originally built by the Slavic and Turkic peoples".

Honours and awards

Honours

National honours
 Russia
  Russian Imperial Family: Knight Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of Saint Stanislaus, Special Class
  Russian Imperial Family: Recipient of the 400th Anniversary Medal of the House of Romanov
 : Order of Merit to the Fatherland
 Grand Officer - 9 September 2019
 Commander - 23 March 2015
 Member - 11 August 2009
 : Member of the Decoration of Honour - 15 January 2004
 : Member of the Decoration of Friendship - 6 October 1997

Foreign honours
 : Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of "10 years of Astana"
 : Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of 20 Years of Independence
 : Commander of the Order of the Star of Jerusalem - 2015

Awards
 Presidential Certificate of Honour - 23 August 1999
 Russian Orthodox Church: Recipient of the gold medal for Peace and Charity - 2011

References

Notes

External links

 Official website of the Russian Council of Muftis

Personalities :: Russia mufties Council :: Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin :: Russia mufties Council

1959 births
Living people
Russian religious leaders
Chief Muftis of Russia
Russian imams
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Islam in Russia
Islam in Tatarstan
Russian Sunni Muslims
Tatar people of Russia
20th-century imams
21st-century imams
Members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Volga Tatar people