alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
GeoDNS

GeoDNS (or GeoIP) is a patch for BIND DNS server software, to allow geographical split horizon (different DNS answers based on client's geographical location), based on MaxMind's geoip (commercial) or geolite (free) databases.

The objective of this technology is to enhance the domain name lookup by address resolution based on the geographical location of the client. For example a website might have 2 servers, one located in France and one in the US. With GeoDNS it's possible to create a DNS record for which clients from Europe would get the IP address of the French server and clients from the US would get the American one. This makes network access faster and possibly cheaper, compared to directing all users worldwide to the same server or to multiple servers using random distribution, such as round robin.

As this technology is DNS based, it is much easier to deploy than BGP anycast. It does not require any support from the ISP and will not break existing connections when the server selected for a particular client changes. However, as it is not intimately tied into the network infrastructure it is likely to be less accurate at sending data to the nearest server.

The requester that the resolving DNS server sees is typically not the end user, but the DNS server of the user's ISP doing a recursive lookup, and the recursive DNS server caches the result.  As ISPs typically arrange for users to use DNS servers geographically near them, the system usually works nonetheless.

External links
 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01149 BIND9 Documentation for GeoIP feature
 http://news.constellix.com/dns-coach-digs-deeper-into-geoip-infographic/ Geo-IP Info graphic 

DNS software
Paristan

In Persian cosmology, Paristan, Peristan or Pariestan ( Pariyestân, Peristân, "Land of the Peris"; also Koh-i-Qaf or Qafkuh) is the home of peris.

Muslim folklore
Although originating in pre-Islamic Persian literature, peris and Peristan were adopted in the wider Middle Eastern folklore and, through the spread of Islamic culture eastward, in the Muslim mythology of Central and South Asia. With peris being identified as a benevolent (often female ) jinn in early Quran translations into Persian, Peristan became what can be fairly compared with the fairyland/elfame of European folklore.

Mount Qaf
The alternative name Koh-i-Qaf or Qafkuh "Mount Qaf" was used by Persians both as the name of a legendary mountain and for the "strange" and unknown territory of the Caucasus Mountains which marked the extent of their knowledge and influence.

See also 
 Peri
 Fairy

References

Jinn-related places
Locations in Persian mythology
Ronald Anthony Cross

Ronald Anthony Cross (September 12, 1937, Hollywood – March 1, 2006, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He published his first science fiction story in 1973.

Works

The Eternal Guardians
 The Fourth Guardian, Tor Books, March 1994, 
 The Lost Guardian, Tor Books, April 1995, 
Paperback edition: Tor Books, August 1996, 
 White Guardian, Tor Books, May 1998,

Standalone novels
 Prisoners of Paradise, Franklin Watts, October 1988,

External links

Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
SF Author Is Dead link broken

1937 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
20th-century American male writers
Franc Roddam

Francis George "Franc" Roddam (born 29 April 1946) is an English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher, best known as the creator of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Masterchef and as the director of Quadrophenia (1979). He is a graduate of the London Film School.

Career

Roddam's films include Quadrophenia, K2, Aria, The Lords of Discipline and War Party. He created the worldwide TV franchise, MasterChef, which is shown in 200 countries worldwide and there are 47 locally produced versions.

He also produced formats for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Making Out, and Harry, all of which were highly successful TV dramas. He directed the award-winning TV drama Dummy, which won the prestigious Prix Italia Drama Prize. He directed the Grammy-nominated/Golden Globe nominated US mini-series Moby Dick and Cleopatra.

He won awards for his BBC documentaries, Mini and The Family. He is the founder and Chairman of Ziji Publishing, whose many titles include The Last Templar which sold over 5 million copies worldwide. He is a sponsor and former Governor of the London Film School and is an active member of the Greenworld Campaign.

Filmography

Films
 Quadrophenia (1979) – director/co-writer
 The Lords of Discipline (1983) – director
 The Bride (1985) – director
 Aria (1987) – segment director
 War Party (1988) – director
 K2 (1991) – director

Television
 Birthday (1969) – Director
 The Fight (1973) – Executive Producer
 The Family (1974) – co-director
 Mini (1975) – Director (episode of Inside Story documentary series)
 Dummy (1977) – director/producer
 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004) – format creator, executive producer, writer
 Johnny Oddball (1985) – director (episode of 40 Minutes documentary series; sequel to Mini)
 Making Out (1989) – format creator
 An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) – executive producer
 Harry (1993–1995) – format creator, executive producer
 The Crow Road (1996) – executive producer
 Cleopatra (1999) – director (two episodes)
 Moby Dick (1998) – director (two episodes)
 The Canterbury Tales (2003) – format creator, executive producer
 MasterChef (2005–to date) – format creator, executive producer (until 2015)

Commercials
Director on numerous accounts, including:
 Shell
 The Observer
 Campbell Soups
 BP
 COI – Aids Campaign

In development
 Waltzing Matilda — producer/director/co-writer
 Let's Face It — producer/director/co-writer
 IGGY — format creator/co-writer
 Win-Win — format creator/co-producer
 2 in a Million — format creator/producer

References

External links

Ziji Publishing - Official website

English film directors
1946 births
Living people
People from Norton, County Durham
English screenwriters
English male screenwriters
English television producers
English businesspeople
English publishers (people)
Alumni of the London Film School
M'Boi Mirim

M'Boi Mirim () is a road in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Its name comes from the Tupi language and means "little snake". It comprises two districts: Jardim Ângela and Campo Limpo.

M'Boi Mirim is an extremely poor and violent area, and some years ago it was pointed out that it has a rate of death caused by firearms higher than many of the world's most violent areas, such as in Colombia and the Middle East. In 2000, it was described by the United Nations as the world's most violent place. However, the crime rate has fallen in the recent years due to community action. The murder rate was reduced by almost 50%.

References

Neighbourhoods in São Paulo
Nemesis (video game)

is a 1990 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Konami for the Game Boy. It is part of the Gradius series. Similar to Taito's Sagaia, this game uses a once-international title for an earlier game in the series to represent a mostly original project.

A sequel, Nemesis II, was released for the same platform in 1991. Both games were later rereleased through the Konami GB Collection series, where they are titled Gradius and Gradius II instead.

Gameplay
Nemesis retains the basic power-up meter commonly used in most Gradius games, but with the addition of multi-level missiles not present in the original Gradius.

The game consists of only five stages, each with a unique core boss. Although it is also possible to access hidden bonus stages in which the player may collect 1-ups and score bonus cells. Like other Game Boy titles developed by Konami, the game presents the player with a stage selection screen before starting.

1990 video games
Game Boy games
Game Boy-only games
Gradius video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Michiru Yamane
Horizontally scrolling shooters

ja:ネメシス (ゲーム)#ネメシス
XEBG-AM

XEBG-AM (1550 AM) is a radio station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, airing a Spanish and English pop and rock music format. It is known as Estéreo Baja and operated by Esquina 32.

History

XEBG received its first concession in October 1936. It was owned by Ángel B. Fernández and operated from facilities in the Baron Long house in Tijuana on 820 kHz, with 1,000 watts. Baron Long was the founder of the Agua Caliente resort, and some sources note that XEBG operated from the resort on 750 kHz, likely prior to its 1936 concession. XEBG moved to 1550 within several years of signing on and changed hands several times in its first 20 years of operation: Roberto Salazar bought it in 1946 and Octavio B. Lelevier in 1949. In 1956, Octavio's widow, Nelly Murillo Vda. de Lelevier, was granted a 30-year renewal for the concession.

In 1959, XEBG was bought by Mario Marcos Mayans, the founder of Cadena Baja California. Mario Enrique Mayans Concha became the concessionaire in 1977 after Marcos Mayans's death.

On May 22, 2022, Grupo Cadena ceased broadcast operations on its terrestrial stations, and moved the station's Spanish-language talk radio format (which was branded as "Cadena 1550") to online only. Esquina 32 acquired the group in early 2023 and formally launched its programming on the station on May 1, 2023.

References

External links

1936 establishments in Mexico
News and talk radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations established in 1936
Radio stations in Tijuana
Spanish-language radio stations
Peter Kollman

Peter Andrew Kollman (July 24, 1944–May 25, 2001) was a professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

He is known for his work in computational chemistry, molecular modeling and bioinformatics, especially for his role in the development of the AMBER force field and molecular dynamics software package.

Biography
Kollman obtained his B.A. from Grinnell College in 1966 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967 and 1970 respectively. His PhD supervisor was Leland C. Allen, who had received his PhD in 1956 from MIT supervised by John C. Slater. After a post-doctoral position at the University of Cambridge with David Buckingham, Kollman was hired as an assistant professor by UCSF, where he spent the rest of his career.

In 1995, he was distinguished with the Computers in Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society.

He was awarded the UCSF medal in 2018.

References

External links
Nature obituary of Peter Kollman
Biophysical Journal obituary of Peter Kollman
San Francisco Chronicle obituary of Peter Kollman
American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry obituary of Peter Kollman
 UCSF today obituary of Peter Kollman
Peter Kollman at the Academic Family Tree

1944 births
2001 deaths
20th-century American chemists
University of California, San Francisco faculty
Computational chemists
Panayiotis Simopoulos

Panayiotis Simopoulos () is one of Greece's top male fashion models.  He has appeared in numerous fashion magazines and events promoting Greek and international products and appearing on ad campaigns for department stores such as JC Penney. He booked the campaign for the Dolce & Gabbana catalogue Summer 2006, shooting by Marianco Vivanco.  He is represented by Ace Model Agency, based in Athens, Greece.

Job Appearances
Dolce & Gabbana, S/S 06 campaign
Autumn Cashmere
Armani
Cole Haan
Beau Brummel
Velvet Underground
Levi's *Givenchy
Paul Smith
Giorgio Armani
Rene Lezard, F/W 06 campaign
"Daniel Hechter , F/W 06 campaign"
"Levi’s Silver Tab , F/W 05 campaign "
"Edwin, F/W 04 campaign"

Agencies
KULT, Hamburg
DNA, New York
Models One, London
New Madison, Paris
WHY NOT, Milan

External links
Models

Greek male models
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hollywood Squares (video game)

Hollywood Squares is a multiplatform puzzle game based on the television game show of the same name. Versions were also released for MS-DOS, Commodore 64 and Apple II home computers, and look a bit different from the NES counterpart. The photo of the set on both the NES and computer versions is from the 1985 series pilot (the actual show had no gold stars on the studio floor and more elaborate risers for the cars). The game is based on the 1986-1989 version hosted by John Davidson.

Gameplay
Players have to either agree or disagree with fictitious celebrities to earn squares and make tic-tac-toe. Much like the TV series, winning one of the first two games is worth $500, the third game is worth $1,000 and the second game is always the "Secret Square" game. The winner then goes on to the bonus round, where they have to choose one of five keys and insert it into the proper car among the five offered.

Reception
David & Robin Minnick reviewed Double Dare and Hollywood Squares for Compute!'s Gazette and said "Any fan of the TV games will enjoy these 64 versions. And even if you're not a fan, we think you'll get a kick out of these games anyway."

Jeff Hurlburt for RUN Magazine said "Maybe you won't toss out your trusty Trivial Pursuit cards, but they're sure to get a much needed rest. For information, value and just plan fun, it's three in a row for Hollywood Squares."

Leslie Mizell for the Game Player's Encyclopedia of Nintendo Games said "Hollywood Squares doesn't have the necessary substance to be a videogame that remains enjoyable with repeated playing."

Later releases
In 2010, Ludia released a game based on the 2002-2004 era of the show. The game features the voice of host Tom Bergeron and video clips of celebrities Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Jeffrey Tambor, and Martin Mull as the center square. The game was first released for the PC and Wii, followed by releases for iOS devices. In 2011, a port was released onto PlayStation Network. All versions have multiplayer options, except for the PC version. Much like the
2003-2004 season, each of the three games are worth $1,000.the second game is always the "secret square" round for a bonus $1,000. The winner from the best two out of three games goes to the bonus round where Tom will ask each celebrity a question while the player has to correctly either agree or disagree with their answer in order to remove one of the wrong keys from the pool of nine (the actual bonus round had a contestant choose a celebrity by correctly either agreeing or disagreeing statements about that particular celebrity). Then the player has to pick a key that would open the chest in order to win $20,000 plus a new wardrobe item for their avatar.

References

External links

1988 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
GameTek games
Hollywood Squares
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
North America-exclusive video games
Puzzle video games
Rare (company) games
Video games based on game shows
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games developed in the United States
Thomas Alfano

Thomas W. "Tom" Alfano (born September 9, 1959) was a Republican Party member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 21st Assembly district.  The district includes Elmont, Franklin Square, North Valley Stream, Malverne, Floral Park, and West Hempstead.

Biography
He was an honors graduate of St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary. He then earned a B.A. from Fordham University, where he was valedictorian. In 1984, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the Fordham University School of Law.

Alfano worked as an attorney at several law firms in New York City, including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association. He served as counsel to New York State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos from 1988 to 1996. He then became the Chairman of the Town of Hempstead Public Employees Relations Board from 1990 to 1996.

He became a member of the New York State Assembly in February 1996, after winning a special election. He stepped down from the Assembly at the end of 2010.

Alfano resides in North Valley Stream, New York. He and his wife Jacqueline have three children: Thomas Jr., Jacqueline, and Stephanie.

References 

1959 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
Fordham University alumni
Fordham University School of Law alumni
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Valley Stream, New York
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people
Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act

The Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1981 that allows the United States Armed Forces to cooperate with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. Operations in support of law enforcement include assistance in counterdrug operations, assistance for civil disturbances, special security operations, counter-terrorism, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), and similar activities. Constitutional and statutory restrictions and corresponding directives and regulations limit the type of support provided in this area. The legislation allows the U.S. military to give law enforcement agencies access to its military bases and its military equipment. The legislation was promoted during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the context of the War on drugs, and is considered a part of a general trend towards the militarization of police.

The Act was known as Public Law 97-86 and is codified at title 10 of the United States Code, Chapter 18.

See also
 Aviation Drug-Trafficking Control Act of 1984
 Militarization of police
 Posse Comitatus Act

References

External links
 Information about the Act from fas.org
 Text of the law
 Law in PDF
 
 

1981 in American law
United States federal defense and national security legislation
United States federal criminal legislation
Proto-mitochondrion

The proto-mitochondrion is the hypothetical ancestral bacterial endosymbiont from which all mitochondria in eukaryotes are thought to descend, after an episode of symbiogenesis which created the aerobic eukaryotes.

Phylogeny

The phylogenetic analyses of the few genes that are still encoded in the genomes of modern mitochondria suggest an alphaproteobacterial origin for this endosymbiont, in an ancient episode of symbiogenesis early in the history of the eukaryotes. Although the order Rickettsiales has been proposed as the alphaproteobacterial sister-group of mitochondria, there is no definitive evidence as to which alphaproteobacterial group the proto-mitochondrion emerged from.  Martijn et al found mitochondria are a possible sister-group to all other alphaproteobacteria. The phylogenetic tree of the Rickettsidae has been inferred by Ferla et al. from the comparison of 16S + 23S ribosomal RNA sequences.

Metabolism
Toni Gabaldón and Martijn Huynen (2003) reconstructed the proteome (the entire set of proteins expressed by a genome) and corresponding metabolism of the proto-mitochondrion by comparing extant alpha-proteobacterial and eukaryotic genomes. They concluded that this organism was an aerobic alpha-proteobacterium respiring lipids, glycerol and other compounds provided by the host. At least 630 gene families derived from this organism can still be found in the 9 eukaryotic genomes analyzed in the study.

See also

 Abiogenesis
 Endosymbiotic theory
 Hydrogenosome
 Midichloria
 Protocell
 Rickettsiales

References

Mitochondria
Pseudomonadota
Symbiosis
Comedy at Club 54

Comedy at Club 54 was a Canadian television program hosted by Ben Guyatt. The show was produced from the early 1990s until 2002 and is now airing in syndicated re-runs on the Canadian Comedy Network. Tapings took place in Burlington, Ontario at Club 54. The live performances still happen weekly, although new episodes of the Comedy at Club 54 TV show have not been aired since 2002.

The taped shows usually begin with a zoom-in to host Ben Guyatt, who then reads the "Joke of the Week", which was a weekly joke ostensibly sent in from program viewers across North America. Typically, he then throws the joke card behind him and says to the audience "Welcome to Comedy at Club 54!" This was followed by the opening sequence, audience applause, and the show's theme song, played by an in-house band.

Guyatt then introduces the comedians, who over the years have come from all over North America. The performances were almost all of the typical stand-up comedy variety, but also included magicians, ventriloquists, vaudeville acts, comedy duos and musical acts. Every show features at least two comedians with a 12-minute televised spot (less time if there are more guests), although the live performances are much longer and were edited for time.

Acts who appeared on the show include Pat McKenna and Russell Peters.

The show usually closes with Guyatt once again on stage, calling up the comedians for a final bow. At this point Guyatt would usually say "And remember, we share the planet with the animals, so please, I beg ya, treat 'em with respect", followed by "Goodnight Mom, I love ya!"

External links 

 Comedy at Club 54 - Official Website
 Ben Guyatt - Official Website
Comedy at Club 54 at The Comedy Network

1990s Canadian comedy television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
1990 Canadian television series debuts
2002 Canadian television series endings
Canadian stand-up comedy television series
Television shows filmed in Ontario
Burlington, Ontario
Phil Boyle

Phillip Michael Boyle (born July 21, 1961) is an American politician who served as the Senator for the 4th District of the New York Senate from 2013 to 2022. He is a Republican. The district he served includes the villages of Babylon, Brightwaters, Lindenhurst, Ocean Beach, Saltaire in Suffolk County on Long Island.

Early life and education
Boyle was born in Bay Shore, New York, and grew up in Islip. He attended the State University of New York at Geneseo, and transferred to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. He attended Albany Law School where he got his Juris Doctor degree, and also received a Master's in Public Administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the SUNY at Albany. Boyle was a founding partner in the law firm of Steinberg & Boyle, LLP, located in East Islip, New York.

Boyle and his wife, Victoria Ryan, reside in Bay Shore. Boyle is the stepfather to Patrick and Sarah Ryan.

Career
Boyle served several years on Capitol Hill as a senior congressional aide. He was the legislative director to Frank Horton  (R-Rochester) and a campaign manager and chief of staff for Rick Lazio (R-Brightwaters).

In 1994, Boyle was elected to the New York State Assembly as a representative of the 8th Assembly District, which encompassed portions of the Suffolk County towns of Islip and Babylon. He did not seek reelection in 2002 after redistricting divided his district between a strongly Democratic district and a district represented by fellow Republican Thomas F. Barraga.

However, when Barraga ran for the Suffolk County legislature and won, Boyle won a special election to replace him in the Assembly. In 2012, Boyle decided to run for election to the New York Senate, winning a tough race against County Legislator Ricardo Montano 52% to 48%.

In 2017, Boyle ran for Suffolk County Sheriff, but lost the Republican primary to Lawrence M. Zacarese. He then ran for the New York State Supreme Court, and lost.

Senate 
In 2013, Boyle voted in favor of the SAFE Act, to enact an assault weapons ban, to limit the number of rounds allowed in a magazine to seven, and to raise the legal age to own a rifle or shotgun. In 2020, the National Rifle Association gave Boyle a 42 percent rating.

In 2017, Boyle introduced legislation to ban minors from purchasing machetes. The bill passed the Senate, but was not voted on in the Assembly. This followed several machete attacks associated with the gang MS-13 in Suffolk County.

References

External links
 
Sponsored Legislation
Sponsored Resolutions
 Profile at Egan & Golden

1961 births
Living people
Politicians from Suffolk County, New York
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
Albany Law School alumni
People from Bay Shore, New York
People from East Islip, New York
21st-century American politicians
Valve (disambiguation)

A valve is a device that regulates the flow of fluids.

Valve may also refer to:

Mechanical and electrical

 Brass instrument valve, for valves used in brass instruments
 Rotary valve, a valve using an internal rotor to select flow paths
 Piston valve, a valve using a piston to control fluid flow
 Piston valve (steam engine), a piston valve as used in steam engines
 Poppet valve, a valve consisting of a hole and a tapered plug on the end of a shaft, typically used in instruments, engines, etc.
 Vacuum tube, also called "thermionic valve", an electronic component
 Mercury-arc valve, a type of electrical rectifier tube

Biology
 Heart valve, valves in the heart that maintain the unidirectional flow of blood
 Vein valve, valves in veins and other fluid cords in body
 Lymphatic valve, valves in lymphatic vessels
 Valve (mollusc), the shell of a mollusc
 Valve (diatoms), the siliceous unit that makes up one half of a diatom cell
 Valve (botany), part produced by the splitting of a capsule or pod when ripe
 Valve, a paired clasping process on the genitalia of male moths

Companies
 Valve Corporation (also known as Valve Software or Valve), a video game developer and digital distribution company
 Valve Records, an Australian record label
 Valve Amplification Company, a U.S. high end audio electronics company

People
Valve (given name), an Estonian feminine given name

Other uses
 Valve hall, a building which contains the valves of the static inverters of a high-voltage direct current plant
 The Valves, UK band

See also

Valve amplifier (tube amplifier)
 Valve audio amplifier
 Valve RF amplifier
Valve gear
Valve train
Valveless
Valvetronic
John Arrowsmith

John Arrowsmith may refer to:

John Arrowsmith (scholar) (1602–1659), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
John Arrowsmith (cartographer) (1780–1873), geographer and map publisher, nephew of the cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith
John C. Arrowsmith (1894–1985), general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers
Climate policy

Climate policy may refer to:

 Politics of climate change

See also 
 Climate change mitigation framework
Skea, County Fermanagh

Skea () is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 114 people (along with Arney) in the 2001 Census. It lies within the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

References 

 NI Neighbourhood Information System

Villages in County Fermanagh
Townlands of County Fermanagh
António de Almeida Santos

António de Almeida Santos, GCC, GCIH, GCL (15 February 1926 – 18 January 2016), was a Portuguese lawyer, politician and government minister.

Career
Born in Seia, Portugal, António de Almeida Santos was a jurist who graduated as a licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 1950. In 1952 he went to the city of Lourenço Marques, Overseas Province of Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique) where he was a lawyer from 1953 to 1974 and a Member of the Group of Democrats of Mozambique. Following the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, he returned to Lisbon.

As an Independent he was Minister of the Interterritorial Coordination in the first four Provisional Governments, of the Social Communication in the 6th, and Minister of Justice in the 1st Constitutional Government of Mário Soares. In those functions he entered the Socialist Party (PS) in its 2nd Congress. In the 2nd Constitutional Government he was the Adjoint Minister to the Prime Minister of Portugal Mário Soares and in the 6th Constitutional Government he was Minister of State and of Parliamentary Affairs. He was also the President of the Parliamentary Group of PS between 16 October 1992 and 10 November 1993, and the President of PS in 1992, reelected in 1994.

He was elected the 10th President of the Assembly of the Republic in the 7th and 8th Legislatures (31 October 1995 – 4 April 2002).

António de Almeida Santos was also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State from 1985 until his death, as the President of the Assembly of the Republic from 31 October 1995 to 4 April 2002, and from then on as a Member elected by the Assembly of the Republic. In January 2016, aged 89, he died at his home in Oeiras after a brief illness.

Awards and honours

Awards
In 2003 was awarded the North-South Prize.

Honours
 Grand-Cross of the Order of Liberty, Portugal (25 April 2004)
 Grand-Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (6 June 2008)
 Grand-Cross of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (8 March 2017)

Family
He was married. One of his daughters died of a drug overdose, which led him to become a supporter of the fight against the criminalization of drug consumption. He defended drug legalization.

References
 Os Presidentes do Parlamento (Presidents of the Portuguese Parliament), Assembly of the Republic

External links  

1926 births
2016 deaths
People from Seia
Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Government ministers of Portugal
Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
University of Coimbra alumni
Grand Crosses of the Order of Liberty
Ansen Dibell

Ansen Dibell was the pen name used by Nancy Ann Dibble (September 8, 1942 – March 7, 2006), an American science fiction author, who also published books about fiction writing. Born in Staten Island, New York, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop and earned a doctorate in 19th-century English literature. She taught literature and creative writing at several colleges and universities until 1980, when she became a freelance editor and author. From 1983 she worked as editor at Writer's Digest Books.

She published a number of stories and poems in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and received two awards for her poetry. Her novels sublimate events in her life into fiction.

Works

The King of Kantmorie
 Pursuit of the Screamer, DAW Books, June 1978, 
 De laatste koning, Dutch edition (M=SF), 
 Circle, Crescent, Star, DAW Books, February 1981, 
 Ashai Rey, Dutch edition (M=SF), 
 Summerfair, DAW Books, July 1982, 
 Zomermarkt, Dutch edition (M=SF)
 Tidestorm Limit, 1983, (published in Dutch and French translations only)
 Stormvloedgrens, Dutch edition (M=SF)
 Aux confins de l'ouragan, French edition
 The Sun of Return, 1985 (published in Dutch and French translations only)
 Gift van de Shai, Dutch edition (M=SF)
 Le soleil du grand retour, French edition

Non-fiction
 Plot: Elements of Fiction Writing, Writer's Digest Books, August 1988, 
 Paperback edition: Writer's Digest Books, August 1999, 
 Word Processing Secrets for Writers (with Michael A. Banks), Writer's Digest Books, March 1989, 
 How to Write a Million: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Author (with Orson Scott Card, Lewis Turco, and Michael Ridpath), Constable Robinson, January 1995,

External links
 Dani Zweig's review of Dibell's work
 Review of Circle, Crescent, Star Broken link
 Review of Summerfair Broken link
 

1942 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
21st-century American women
Touch Music

Touch (sometimes mistakenly written 'Touch Records' and sometimes written Touch Music, which is technically the publishing side of the company) is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. Touch was founded in 1982 by Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding.

Activities
Touch Music is the main arm of the London-based multimedia publishing company Touch, established in 1982  with such composers as Oren Ambarchi, Jasmin Blasco, Christian Fennesz, Soliman Gamil,  Hildur Guðnadóttir, Philip Jeck, Phill Niblock, BJNilsen (alias Hazard), Yann Novak, Rosy Parlane, Zachary Paul, Peter Rehberg, Simon Scott, Claire M Singer, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Chris Watson (El Tren Fantasma) and Jana Winderen on their roster.

Since January 2005 Touch's project Touch Radio has broadcast monthly programmes of varying lengths by artists including Niblock, Watson, and Jeck. In 2011 the Touch Radio archive was added to the British Library Sound Archive.

Labels
Owned labels:
 Touch
 Ash International
 Spire

References

External links
 Interview with founder Jon Wozencroft, and Michael Harding from 1992 on
 Touch - official site News, artists, catalogue, reviews, etc.
 Discography of Touch at Discogs
 Touch Radio archive at the British Library Sound Archive

British independent record labels
1982 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1982
Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is an American business executive. He has been interim chief executive officer and president of Unity Technologies since October 2023. He was previously the president at IBM, chair of the board and chief executive officer at Red Hat, and chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines. Prior to working at Delta in 2001, he was vice president and director of the Boston Consulting Group and held various management roles at its Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.

During his time at Delta between 2005 and 2007, Whitehurst oversaw the company's recovery from bankruptcy and its struggle against US Airways in 2006, who had repeatedly proposed mergers to the company.

In 2013, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory appointed Whitehurst as a member and vice-chairman of the North Carolina Economic Development Board. In 2014, Whitehurst was selected as the recipient of the NC State Park Scholarships program's William C. Friday Award.

Early life 
Whitehurt was born in Georgia and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics. He also attended University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany, spent a year of his undergraduate education in the general course at the London School of Economics, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Career 

After working for the Boston Consulting Group throughout 1989 to 2001, Whitehurst began working for Delta Air Lines, where he was senior vice president, and later chief network and planning officer. He was appointed by then-CEO Gerald Grinstein in 2005 as chief operating officer, where he oversaw the company's bankruptcy and recovery from an attempted takeover from US Airways. Whitehurst became a prominent figure in the campaign known as "Keep Delta My Delta", having believed in the integrity of the company and its employees enough to resist the merger proposal and resolve the bankruptcy. He left the company on good terms in 2007.

Whitehurst joined Red Hat as CEO in December 2007. Following IBM's acquisition of Red Hat (in July 2019), later in January 2020 it was announced that Whitehurst will be appointed president of IBM on 6 April.  In July 2021, Whitehurst announced his resignation from IBM.

In December 2021, he joined the board of directors at cybersecurity and systems management company Tanium as an independent director. In October 2023, he became interim CEO of Unity Technologies. As of 2023, he is also an advisor at the private equity firm Silver Lake.

Publications 
Whitehurst's first book, The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance, was published in 2015 by Harvard Business Review.

References

External links 

 Red Hat profile

Boston Consulting Group people
Delta Air Lines people
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Open source people
People from Columbus, Georgia
Red Hat people
Rice University alumni
American chief operating officers
American technology chief executives
Businesspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Rurubu River

The Ruvubu River (also spelt Rurubu and Ruvuvu) is a river in central Africa whose waters gather from the most distant, southern portion of the Nile basin. With a total length of  and has a drainage basin of . It rises in the north of Burundi, near the town of Kayanza and then does a southward arc through Burundi, being joined by the Ruvyironza River near Gitega. From there it runs northeast, through the Ruvubu National Park, up to the Tanzanian border. After a stretch along the border, the Ruvubu crosses properly into Tanzania, before joining the Nyabarongo River on the Tanzania–Rwanda border near Rusumo Falls, to form the Kagera River.

The Ruvubu gets its name from the Kirundi word for hippopatamus, imvubu, because the river is home to a large population of hippos.

References

Rivers of Burundi
Rivers of Tanzania
Kagera River
International rivers of Africa
Burundi–Tanzania border
Border rivers
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority

Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) in the state of West Bengal, India. The organisation used to be known as Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) and retains the previous logo. KMDA is functioning under the administrative control of Department of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs of Government of West Bengal.

Functions 
KMDA's role is multi-disciplinary: it is the agency of city planning, it sculpts new areas and townships, it develops physical infrastructure as well as provide basic services like water, drainage, waste management. KMDA is also the Technical Secretariat to Kolkata Metropolitan Planning Committee (KMPC). Besides these major functional areas, KMDA is also engaged in providing consultancy services and implementing projects on behalf of other public sector departments and agencies.

History
The organisation was formed under a Presidential Ordinance in 1970. It works now under provision of the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning & Development) Act, 1979. Its Planning Directorate was set up in 1974.

Governance
KMDA has an 11-member Board that includes both elected peoples' representatives and nominated bureaucrats. The Honourable Minister-in-charge of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs in the Government of West Bengal is the ex-officio Chairman of the Board of KMDA.

Jurisdiction

Notable projects

See also
 Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority

External links
Official KMDA website

References

Organisations based in Kolkata
Government of Kolkata
State urban development authorities of India
State agencies of West Bengal
1970 establishments in West Bengal
Indian companies established in 1970
Föhn cloud

A Föhn cloud or Foehn cloud is any cloud associated with a Föhn (Foehn), usually an orographic cloud, a mountain wave cloud, or a lenticular cloud.

Föhn is a regional term referring to winds in the Alps.

See also
 Cloud types
 Föhn wind
 Nor'west arch
 Pileus

References
Defant, F., 1951: Compendium of Meteorology, 667–669.

External links
 American Meteorological Society
 Manual Of Synoptic Satellite Meteorology

Accessory clouds
Föhn effect
Super Cars

Super Cars is a top-view racing game from Gremlin Interactive, who later produced the Lotus series of games. Stylistically, the game is influenced by Super Sprint.

There are endless tracks at each of the 4 difficulty levels, which can be raced in any order (although the last track raced is made harder than usual). In the races the player wins money, which can be spent on temporary handling and power upgrades, plus armour plating and front/rear shooting missiles that can knock out other racers. The player must finish in the top 3 of each race to progress - initially there are 4 computer opponents, but more are added as the game progresses.

The car can be upgraded throughout the game via the shop section. The player is given an initial price, but also a number of options of things to say to the salesman - with the right combination, the price will drop.

The NES version was released exclusively in America in 1991 by Electro Brain.

It was followed by Super Cars II in 1991.

Cars
Three cars are available for purchase during the game, the Taraco Neoroder Turbo, the Vaug Interceptor Turbo and the Retron Parsec Turbo. Each appears to be based on a real car of the time with the Retron Parsec Turbo being based on the Cizeta-Moroder V16T, the Vaug Interceptor based on the Honda NSX and the Taraco Neoroder based on the Alfa Romeo SZ (Sprint Zagato) but with some slight changes. This is in slight contrast to the box art, where the blue "starter" car (Taraco) instead more closely resembles a contemporary European Ford Fiesta or Escort Cosworth convertible. The Retron is also portrayed differently on the box art, where it is a Lamborghini Countach instead of a Cizeta.

External links
 
 Super Cars at MobyGames

References 

1990 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Electro Brain games
Gremlin Interactive games
Magnetic Fields (video game developer) games
MSX games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Single-player video games
Top-down racing video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Barry Leitch
Video games scored by Ben Daglish
ZX Spectrum games
Mojo Priest

Mojo Priest is the second album by action film star Steven Seagal, following Songs from the Crystal Cave. The album was released in April 2006 by Seagal's own Steamroller Productions company. In a move not seen with Songs from the Crystal Cave, Seagal embarked on an extensive U.S. and international tour in support of the album.

The first single "Alligator Ass" premiered on Los Angeles radio station KYSR on the "Jamie, Jack, and Stench" show.

Reviews and ratings

Allmusic panned the album stating, "all of this music takes itself so seriously that it borders on delusional excess...Seagal's guitar playing, despite showcasing his Les Paul on the cover, leaves plenty to be desired. It rarely rises above bar band pedigree, and most of the time, isn't that good."

Track listing
"Somewhere in Between" - 4:17
"Love Doctor" - 3:40
"Dark Angel" - 3:57
"Gunfire In A Juke Joint" - 3:45
"My Time Is Numbered" - 4:19
"Alligator Ass" - 4:03
"BBQ" (with Teena Marie) - 3:26
"Hoochie Koochie Man" - 4:25
"Talk to My Ass" - 3:51
"Dust My Broom" (with Louisiana Red) - 4:38
"Slow Boat to China" - 8:43
"She Dat Pretty" - 3:44
"Red Rooster" - 3:29
"Shake" (with Bo Diddley)  - 3:32
"Untitled" (bonus track) - 0:36
"Untitled" (bonus track) - 0:45
"Untitled"  (bonus track) - 0:12

References

Steven Seagal albums
2006 albums
Ruth Fuchs

Ruth Fuchs ( Gamm, later Hellmann, 14 December 1946 – 20 September 2023) was a German politician and athlete. Fuchs, representing East Germany, was the winner of the women's javelin at the 1972 (Munich) and 1976 (Montreal) Olympic Games. She set the world record for the javelin six times during the 1970s.

Her personal best throw was 69.96 metres with the old javelin type, achieved in April 1980 in Split. This ranks her seventh among German old-type-javelin throwers, behind Petra Felke (who held the world record), Antje Kempe, Silke Renk, Beate Koch, Karen Forkel, and Tanja Damaske.

Fuchs admitted using steroids during her career, as part of the official East German sports programme.

After retirement from track and field, Fuchs became a member of Parliament for the Party of Democratic Socialism (now the Left Party) in the re-united Germany. After her retirement from public life Fuchs lived in Bucha, Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany.

Ruth Fuchs died at the University Hospital in Jena on 20 September 2023, at the age of 76.

References

Biography from sporting-heroes.net

1946 births
2023 deaths
People from Salzlandkreis
East German female javelin throwers
Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians
Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians
Members of the 10th Volkskammer
Members of the Bundestag for Thuringia
Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002
Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998
Members of the Landtag of Thuringia
Female members of the Volkskammer
Female members of the Bundestag
German sportsperson-politicians
Athletes from Saxony-Anhalt
Olympic athletes for East Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
German sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in athletics
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
21st-century German women politicians
Tsendiin Nyamdorj

Tsendiin Nyamdorj (; 1956) is a Mongolian politician. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 2017 to 2020 and the Chairman of the State Great Khural from 2005 to 2007. Nyamdorj is a member of the Dörvöd tribe.

Life 
Nyamdorj was born 1956 in the Malchin sum of Uvs Aimag (province). He studied law in Leningrad and made his degree in 1981. After that he worked as an attorney general. From 1988 he worked for the council of ministers. Between 1990 and 1992 he was deputy minister of justice. Since 1992 he is a member of Parliament for the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), representing constituency #39 in the Uvs Aimag.

From 2000 to 2004 he served as Minister of Justice and the Interior.

In 2005 he succeeded Nambar Enkhbayar as the Chairman of the State Great Khural. In April 2007, the constitutional court decided that Nyamdorj had violated the constitution by unilaterally changing the text of several laws from the version approved by parliament. The DP fraction demanded that Nyamdorj resign, but the MPRP dominating the parliament tried to help him to keep his position as chairman. He resigned on June 12, 2007.

References

External links 
 The State Great Khural official site.

1956 births
Living people
Chairmen of the State Great Khural
Members of the State Great Khural
Oirats
Mongolian People's Party politicians
Interior ministers of Mongolia
Justice ministers of Mongolia
People from Uvs Province
Mongolian expatriates in the Soviet Union
Óscar Perdomo Gamboa

Óscar Perdomo Gamboa is a writer born in the city of Ibagué, Colombia. Studied Journalism and a magister in Colombian and Latin American literature. Won the Jorge Isaacs award with the novel Hacia la Auora  in 1998, a story about a student who can control other people's dreams. The book was published in 1999 and 2005. He's worked as teacher in several colleges of the city of Cali. In 2008, he published Ella, mi Sueño y el Mar (She, my dream and the sea), collection of romantic short stories dedicated to an imaginary muse. His third book is De cómo perdió sus vidas el gato (How did the cat lose his lives) is a novel for children about a cat who must visit the nine muses in order to reach wisdom. In 2011 with the poet Hernando Urriago Benítez published Escrito en la grama (written in the grass) an anthology of Colombian short stories about soccer. His controversial novel, MD™, is a parody about a surreal factory where everything is created. In 2014 he wrote Fútbol de carnaval (Carnival soccer), a book of short stories about Brazilian soccer players.  In 2015 he published Allá en la Guajira Arriba a historic novel about the colombian independence hero José Prudencio Padilla. He also has written diverse articles, some of them humorous, for local newspapers, magazines and web pages, including La Palabra, cultural publication of Universidad del Valle. Currently he teaches languages and literature in Cali, Colombia, with fellow writers like Carlos Patiño Millán and Fabio Martínez.

References

External links
 Hacia la Aurora review (in Spanish)

1974 births
Living people
Colombian male writers