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Billmon

Billmon was the pseudonym of an allegedly  American blogger, who provided his own analysis and commentary on political topics, and who was mainly active in the early 2000s when he published material critical of the US Invasion of Iraq. His blog was called Whiskey Bar.

Career as a blogger

Billmon was one of the earliest participants at DailyKos.  His own blog, Whiskey Bar, came into being in the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003.  The actual name of the blog Whiskey Bar is taken from a line from Bertolt Brecht's "Alabama Song," quoted at the top of the blog.

He wrote extended pieces on domestic politics, the Iraq war, and the US economy. 

At the end of June 2004 Billmon announced that he would be closing them down.

Billmon continued posting his analysis and comments, with some periods of inactivity, over the following two and a half years.

On December 28, 2006, Billmon stopped blogging at The Whiskey Bar,  and the URL www.billmon.org became unavailable.  In late April 2007, a more or less complete copy of Whiskey Bar re-surfaced, but was down again by October 2007.  On July 31, 2008, Billmon returned to Daily Kos to post a diary entry in regard to John McCain's presidential campaign entitled "The Great White Hope," and has posted sporadically on DailyKos since then., also maintaining a Twitter account.

References

External links
 Moon of Alabama  (Billmon's current website)
 Billmon's Diary at Daily Kos (inactive last entry 2013)
 The Whiskey Bar (inactive) https://web.archive.org/web/20060413093141/http://www.billmon.org/ (archived (inactive last 2006))

American bloggers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Disilane

Disilane is a chemical compound with chemical formula  that was identified in 1902 by Henri Moissan and Samuel Smiles (1877–1953). Moissan and Smiles reported disilane as being among the products formed by the action of dilute acids on metal silicides. Although these reactions had been previously investigated by Friedrich Woehler and Heinrich Buff between 1857 and 1858, Moissan and Smiles were the first to explicitly identify disilane. They referred to disilane as silicoethane. Higher members of the homologous series  formed in these reactions were subsequently identified by Carl Somiesky (sometimes spelled "Karl Somieski") and Alfred Stock. 

At standard temperature and pressure, disilane is a colourless, acrid gas. Disilane and ethane have similar structures, although disilane is much more reactive. Other compounds of the general formula  (X = hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, aryl, and mixtures of these groups) are called disilanes. Disilane is a group 14 hydride.

Synthesis
Disilane is usually prepared by the hydrolysis of magnesium silicide. This reaction produces silane, disilane, and even trisilane. The method has been abandoned for the production of silane, but it remains viable for generating disilane. The presence of traces of disilane is responsible for the spontaneous flammability of silane produced by hydrolysis by this method (analogously diphosphine is often the spontaneously pyrophoric contaminant in samples of phosphine).

It also arises by thermal decomposition disilane via both photochemical and thermal decomposition of silane.

The reduction of  with lithium aluminium hydride affords disilane in modest yield.

Applications and reactions
Disilane and silane thermally decompose around 640 °C, depositing amorphous silicon. This chemical vapor deposition process is relevant to the manufacture of photovoltaic devices. Specifically it is utilized in the production of silicon wafers.

More generally, diorganosilanes are produced by reductive coupling of silyl chlorides, e.g.

Disilane gas can be used to control pressure of Si vapors during process of graphene growth by thermal decomposition of SiC. Pressure of Si vapors influences quality of produced graphene.

References

Silanes
Industrial gases
Substances discovered in the 1900s
Night on Fire

Night on Fire is the debut album by VHS or Beta. It was released September 21, 2004 on Astralwerks.

The song "Night on Fire" was featured on the video game MLB 06 : The Show and the film Grandma's Boy.

Track listing
 "Night on Fire" – 4:01
 "You Got Me" – 3:36
 "Nightwaves" – 5:41
 "The Melting Moon" – 4:20
 "No Cabaret!" – 5:47
 "Forever" – 5:43
 "Alive" – 5:05
 "Dynamize" – 4:49
 "The Ocean" – 4:36
 "Irreversible" – 9:00

References

External links
VHS or Beta official website
Astralwerks Records

2004 albums
VHS or Beta albums
Astralwerks albums
John Monckton (swimmer)

John James Monckton (28 October 1938 – 29 June 2017) was an Australian backstroke swimmer who won a silver medal in the 100-metre event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.  Although he set multiple world records, he never won an Olympic gold medal.

An apprentice carpenter from the New England region of New South Wales, Monckton appeared to be primed to win gold at the 1956 Olympics.  At the national team camp in Townsville before the games, he became the first person to swim 400-metre backstroke in under five minutes. Although it was not a regularly contested event at international level, it was a promising sign for the event to be included for medal competition in the Olympics. He also set world records in the 110- and 220-yard freestyle events.

At the Olympics, Monckton was the fastest qualifier in the heats and semifinal, but was upstaged in the final by teammate David Theile.

In the absence of Theile, who had retired after the Olympics to study medicine at university, Monckton dominated backstroke swimming, winning the 110-yard backstroke event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and also the 4×110-yard medley relay. Monckton then prepared for another Olympics in 1960 in Rome, with Theile deferring his studies to defend his Olympic title. Monckton again led the qualifying in the heats and semifinals.  However, in the final, he misjudged the turn and broke a finger. He limped home in seventh position, with Theile successfully defending his title.  Monckton continued competing in the hope of reaching a third Olympics in 1964, but retired after his performances began to deteriorate.

He married Maureen Giles, an Australian swimmer at the 1956 Olympics.

He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1999.

The Monckton Aquatic Centre in his hometown of Armidale is named for him.

See also
 List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
 List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
 World record progression 100 metres backstroke
 World record progression 200 metres backstroke

References

Bibliography
 

1938 births
2017 deaths
Australian male backstroke swimmers
Sportsmen from New South Wales
Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
World record setters in swimming
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
20th-century Australian people
Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
People from New England (New South Wales)
People from Armidale
John Monckton

John Monckton may refer to:
 John Monckton (town clerk), British civil servant, Town Clerk of London
 John Monckton (financier), British financier who was murdered in 2004
 John Monckton (swimmer) (1938–2017), Australian Olympic silver medallist backstroke swimmer
Benno Besson

Benno Besson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains – 16 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949.

Some of his acquainted stagings were The Dragon by Evgeny Schwartz, so that he travelled with Deutsches Theater all-around Europe and Asia (also in Japan), and Der Frieden (Aristophanes edited by Peter Hacks). 

He became the Intendant at Volksbühne in the 1960s and worked often with Heiner Müller. In his plays, he worked amongst others with the popular actors Fred Düren, Eberhard Esche and Ursula Karusseit. He had six children, including actress Katharina Thalbach.

References

Further reading

External links

 

1922 births
2006 deaths
People from Yverdon-les-Bains
Swiss male stage actors
Swiss Protestants
Swiss theatre directors
Swiss film directors
Ainiktozoon

Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil animal from the Silurian of Scotland. It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow. Originally described as an early chordate, recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean.

References

External links
 (see the files whose names start "ain")

Thylacocephala
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Silurian crustaceans
Silurian animals of Europe
Fossil taxa described in 1937
Flea Man

Flea Man is an American reality television series that premiered on National Geographic Channel on June 17, 2011. The show follows, flea market veteran, Jimmy Kaplow as he exercises his shrewd eye and haggling abilities to make a profit at flea markets, yard sales, and antiques fairs.

Jimmy Kaplow appeared on Good Day New York July 22, 2011, to give flea market tips and promote Flea Man.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2011)

References

External links 
 
 
 Flea Man on Facebook

2011 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
National Geographic (American TV channel)
2011 American television series endings
CHPQ-FM

CHPQ-FM (The Lounge 99.9) is a Canadian radio station operating in Parksville, British Columbia at 99.9 FM. Island Radio, a division of the Jim Pattison Group, owns the station.

History
The roots of CHPQ can be traced indirectly back to Parksville's first radio station (now CIBH-FM), which also used the call sign CHPQ (which stood for Coombs, Hilliers, Parksville and Qualicum Beach); that station first went on the air on December 3, 1973 as a semi-satellite of Nanaimo station CHUB (owned by Nanaimo Broadcasting Co.), operating at 1370 AM with 1000 watts of power.

The current station got its start when, in 1994, Benchmark Ventures (which bought CHPQ and CHUB from Nanaimo Broadcasting in 1986) merged with Central Island Broadcasting Ltd. (later Island Radio), and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted CHUB permission to move to 102.3 FM (as CKWV) and to place a rebroadcaster in Parksville (CKWV-FM-1) at 99.9 FM. The switch took effect on January 2, 1995.

On January 19, 2005, Central Island Broadcasting changed its corporate name to Island Radio, reflecting its expanded presence on Vancouver Island (with the addition of Courtenay station CKLR-FM and the acquisition of CJAV in Port Alberni). On February 11 that year, Parksville's CKWV-FM-1 ceased rebroadcasting CKWV and became a separate station catering to the residents of Parksville and Qualicum Beach, assuming CIBH's original call sign of CHPQ and broadcasting a combined format of middle of the road and easy listening music. Some station IDs for CHPQ are announced via voice-tracking by late American disc jockey and voice actor Gary Owens. CHPQ has since transitioned to a mixed adult standards/classic hits format.

The sale to Jim Pattison
On November 1, 2005, the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, a division of the Jim Pattison Group, and Island Radio Ltd. announced that Island Radio had agreed to sell its six radio stations (including CHPQ) to the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group; following CRTC approval, Pattison assumed ownership of the Island Radio stations at midnight on June 30, 2006.

References

External links
The Lounge 99.9
 
 

Hpq
Hpq
Hpq
Hpq
Radio stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in British Columbia
Parksville, British Columbia
Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary (MES) is a community-owned elephant park, a conservation area for elephants and Encephalartos cycads in Kwale County, Kenya.

Location
It is located 45 km southwest of Mombasa and is  adjacent to the  Shimba Hills National Reserve. The sanctuary was formed in the early 1990s as a cooperative project between the people of the surrounding Mwaluganje community, United States Agency for International Development, and the Born Free Foundation and the Eden Wildlife Trust.

Ecotourism
MES is an example of ecotourism, as well as community-based-conservation efforts, both of which are very recent trends in conservation management. In this community-based program, the local people have leased their  privately owned property to a community-based trust.

The trust manages the sanctuary for the conservation and preservation of the elephants. In addition it is a  valuable source of  revenue for the  local people, re through  monies generated by eco-tourism and gate entrance fees. The area  is off the Shimba Hills escarpment in Kwale County and is on the migratory route leading to Tsavo East National Reserve. Some of the revenue generating activities include creating paper from elephant dung, bee keeping (honey products)and biofuel
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References
 

Parks in Kenya
Zoos in Kenya
Wildlife sanctuaries of Kenya
Kwale County
Coast Province
Elephant conservation
Krymchak

Krymchak may refer to:

 Krymchak people
 Krymchak language

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
The Astronauts Are Sleeping

The Astronauts Are Sleeping is a double album (actually released in two separate volumes) by Her Space Holiday released in 1999. It was re-released in 2002 as The Astronauts Are Sleeping 2.0.

Volume 1
This volume was released by Skylab Operations.
 "Promised a Flight"
 "Slide Guitars and Moving Cars"
 "Our Favorite Day"
 "Sweet Baby Jesus"
 "Explosion Existence"
 "The Astronauts Are Sleeping (Exit)"
 "The Fourth of July"

Volume 2
This volume was released by No Karma.
 "These Days"
 "Crazy"
 "Sunday Drivers"
 "Slide Guitars and Moving Cars (Reprise)"
 "Count on the Days"
 "Audio Phase"
 "1939"
 "You Know Why I Lie"
 "Homecoming"
 "Ceilingstars"

The Astronauts Are Sleeping 2.0
This version was released in Japan in 2002 by Neoplex Records. The tracks are taken from both albums and placed in a different order.
 The Astronauts Are Sleeping (Enter)
 Promised a Flight
 Our Favorite Day
 Sweet Baby Jesus
 Explosion Existence 
 Slide Guitars and Moving Cars
 These Days
 Sunday Drivers
 Crazy
 Count on the Days
 1939
 Ceiling Stars
 The Astronauts Are Sleeping (Exit)

References 

1999 albums
Her Space Holiday albums
PrideFest (Denver)

PrideFest is an annual Gay pride event held each June in Denver, honoring the culture and heritage of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in the State of Colorado.  The first Denver PrideFest occurred in 1976, the same year the local community center, now known as the Center on Colfax, was founded.  The Center organizes and produces the festival and parade each year. The event currently consists of a two-day festival at Civic Center Park, the Pride 5K, and culminates with a parade along Colfax Avenue.  Denver PrideFest now draws 525,000 guests annually, making it the third largest pride festival and seventh largest pride parade in the United States.

Overview 
PrideFest generally occurs the third weekend of June. Celebrations at local establishments begin the week of PrideFest, with a conclusion of the entire celebration the following Sunday. A stretch of Colfax Avenue is closed for the Sunday parade, from Franklin Street west to Broadway. After the parade, the roads surrounding Civic Center Park (Broadway, the "Colfax Curve", Bannock, and 14th Avenue Parkway) remain closed during the rally and street fair. Vendors sell a variety of products such as homemade jewelry, stained glass, apparel, food, and services. Several companies and organizations also rent booths to show their support for Denver's and Colorado's LGBT community. Local and nationally recognized performers offer entertainment at multiple stages during the event. The festival comes to a close in the early evening. Roads are reopened about an hour after cleanup.

The Parade 

The PrideFest parade generally begins at 9:30am. Floats are built by various companies and organizations that support LGBT rights. The parade staging location is at Cheesman Park in Denver's gay village, the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The parade goes north two blocks to Colfax Avenue, then west toward downtown for about a mile, ending at Civic Center Park at Broadway and Colfax.

Attendees and Constituents 

Denver's PrideFest has historically been host to many media and political agents who support the LGBT community. Some notable past attendees:
 Former Colorado Governor and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (Hickenlooper also officially endorses the Festival, and marches every year).
 Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb
 Radio DJ Jamie White (non-local)
 Radio DJ's "Larry Ulibarri, Kendall and Kathy" from KS107.5
 Denver City Council members
 Tiffany, American singer
 Denver Gay Men's Chorus
 Dear Marsha
 Tracy Edwards
 Daniel Lucio
 RoyalRush Dance Troupe
 Nicole Torres and the Affiliates

References

External links

PrideFest, GLBT Colorado Center

LGBT events in Colorado
Festivals in Delaware
Tourist attractions in Denver
Recurring events established in 1976
Pride parades in the United States
Superforce

Superforce may refer to:
 A single, unified force in a Theory of everything/unified field theory or Grand unification theory.
 Superforce, a book by Paul Davies on the search for a single, unified force.
 Superforce, a central concept developed by Malachi Martin in his book The Keys of This Blood
 Super Force, a 1990s SciFi TV series about a vigilante cop in powered Armour.
Sebastiaen Jansen Krol

Bastiaen Jansz  Krol (also Sebastia(e)n Jans(s)en Crol or Crull; 1595, Harlingen – 14 March 1674) was Director of New Netherland from 1632 to 1633.

Early life
When he was 10, Krol's family moved from Friesland to Amsterdam and in 1623 he lived on the Bloemgracht. In that year he presented himself to church elders of the Dutch Reformed Church to be sent abroad as a "ziekentrooster" ("comforter of the sick").

New Netherland
On 25 January 1624 he sailed to New Netherland, where he arrived when Cornelius May just had become the first Director-General. In November 1624 he had returned to Amsterdam and made a report to the church elders, who gave him the right to perform baptisms and weddings in the new colony. He probably sailed back to New Amsterdam in May or June 1625, prior to the arrival of Peter Minuit the next year.

Bastiaen  Krol is most frequently remembered for arranging the purchase of the domain of Rensselaerswyck in 1630.  Kiliaen van Rensselaer was one of the first to ask for a grant of land. He received a tract of country to the north and south of Fort Orange, but not including that trading-post, which, like the island of Manhattan, remained under the control of the Dutch West India Company. By virtue of this grant and later purchases, van Rensselaer acquired a  tract comprising what are now the counties of Albany and Rensselaer with part of Columbia in the state of New York. 

Before and after his post as Director-General,  Krol was commander of Fort Orange. He returned to the Netherlands at least two more times. Between 1638 and 1643 he lived in New Netherland, but the last records of him are from September 1645 in "Old" Amsterdam.

Personal life
In 1615, he married Annetje Cristoffels in Amsterdam.

See also
 Colonial America
 Dutch colonization of the Americas
 Dutch Empire
 List of colonial governors of New Jersey
 List of colonial governors of New York

References
Notes

Further reading

 William Elliot Griffis The Story of New Netherland. The Dutch In America (Chapter VI.  The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1909)
 Allen Johnson, Ed.  Dutch and English on the Hudson (Chapter IV . New Haven: Yale University Press. 1919)

1595 births
1640s deaths
American people of Dutch descent
People of the Province of New York
People from Harlingen, Netherlands
Directors of New Netherland
Anthony Hughes

Anthony Hughes may refer to:

Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley (born 1948), British judge
Anthony Hughes (footballer) (born 1973), English professional footballer

As Tony Hughes it may also refer to:
Tony Hughes (1890–1967), American actor
Tony Hughes (actor), Australian actor and singer
Tony Hughes (American football) (born 1959), American football coach and former player
Tony Hughes (footballer) (born 1963), Australian rules footballer for Sydney Swans
Tony Hughes (racing driver) (born 1957), British auto racing driver and businessman

See also
Palau Blaugrana

Palau Blaugrana (, meaning in English "Blue and Garnet Palace") is an arena in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, belonging to FC Barcelona. The 7,585 seating capacity arena is home to the basketball, handball, roller hockey, and futsal divisions of FC Barcelona. Palau Blaugrana is located in the same complex that houses the Camp Nou stadium.

History 
Built in 1971, the stadium originally held 5,696 spectators, but the facility was remodeled in 1994, to fit the current capacity of 7,585. During the 1992 Summer Olympics, the arena hosted several events, including roller hockey, taekwondo and judo. The arena's main court area was renovated in 2016.

Retired numbers 
Several basketball, handball, roller hockey and futsal players have had their jerseys retired:
4 Andrés Jiménez, 7 Nacho Solozábal, 11 Juan Carlos Navarro, 12 Roberto Dueñas and 15 Epi for Basketball 
2 Òscar Grau, 4 Xavier O'Callaghan, 5 Enric Masip, 7 Iñaki Urdangarin, 8 Víctor Tomás, 14 Joan Sagalés and 16 David Barrufet for Handball 
1 Aitor Egurrola, 21 Alberto Borregán for Roller Hockey
28 Paco Sedano for Futsal

Nou Palau Blaugrana 

Under Sandro Rosell's presidency, FC Barcelona announced that by 2013, it planned to build a new Palau Blaugrana for its handball and basketball teams, with a capacity of 12,000 seats. Also included in the plan, was a smaller campus with a capacity of 3,000 seats, plus [a special conditions] for hotel partners (operated by a specialist company located on the corner of Aristides Maillol with John XXIII), new parking spaces and an auditorium, with a 2,000 capacity, for the foundation, including the offices of the club. These plans, however, were later dropped in favour of the Espai Barça project.

Under the Espai Barça project, the current Palau Blaugrana will be demolished, and a new arena is expected to be built on the site previously occupied by the Mini Estadi, which was demolished to make way for the new arena. Work is expected to start by the 2017–18 basketball season. The Nou Palau Blaugrana will have a capacity of about 12,500 people with an adjacent, smaller court that will seat approximately 2,000. Additionally, the New Palau will have 24 VIP boxes and 4 sky bars with court views.

See also 
 FC Barcelona (Main body and football club)
 FC Barcelona Bàsquet (basketball)
 FC Barcelona Handbol (handball)
 FC Barcelona Hoquei (roller hockey)
 FC Barcelona Futsal (futsal)
 FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman (wheelchair basketball)
 UB-Barça (Women's basketball)

References

External links 

Palau Blaugrana at fcbarcelona.com

FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona Bàsquet
FC Barcelona Handbol
FC Barcelona Hoquei
FC Barcelona Futsal
Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic judo venues
Olympic taekwondo venues
Sports venues in Barcelona
Handball venues in Spain
Indoor arenas in Catalonia
Indoor arenas in Spain
Basketball venues in Spain
Buildings and structures completed in 1971
Boxing venues in Spain
Miloš Prica

Miloš Prica was the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations from 2005 until 2012.

He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 8 September 2005, replacing Mirza Kušljugić.

Notes

Living people
Bosnia and Herzegovina diplomats
Permanent Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Aven Amentza

Aven Amentza is a Romanian non-government organisation established in 1997 that seeks to improve the social position of the country's Roma minority, while also enhancing Roma rights and combating anti-Roma discrimination. It is also involved in research activities that analyse the situation of the Roma in Romania.

External links

Human rights organizations based in Romania
Romani in Romania
Romani rights
1997 establishments in Romania
Organizations established in 1997
Romani organizations
Samuel O. Outlule

Samuel Otsile Outlule (born 8 July 1957) was the Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of Botswana to the United Nations from 2005 to 2010. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 18 October 2005, replacing Alfred M. Dube.

He formerly held positions at Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming Deputy Director for Africa and the Middle East in 1997 and Director of International Relations in 1999. In November 2000, he became Clerk to the Cabinet and President Festus Mogae's Senior Private Secretary.

Outlule served as PS at the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture for a few months in 2010, and was appointed as the new Ambassador of Botswana to the European Union in November 2010, replacing T. Modise. He will also be accredited to Belgium, Germany and France.

References

Botswana diplomats
Living people
1957 births
Permanent Representatives of Botswana to the United Nations
Government ministers of Botswana
Ambassadors of Botswana to the European Union
Ambassadors of Botswana to Belgium
Ambassadors of Botswana to Germany
Ambassadors of Botswana to France
People's Party of Republicans and Conservatives

People's Party of Republicans and Conservatives (Vabariiklaste ja Konservatiivide Rahvaerakond) was an Estonian political party, which existed under this banner from 1994 to 1998.

History 
It was founded in September 1994 after Pro Patria split and some national conservative members left, including Enn Tarto. The founders of the new party were mostly former members of the Conservative People's Party and the Republicans' Coalition Party (these two parties had formed the Isamaa (Pro Patria) electoral cartel in 1992, together with the Christian Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union).

The People's Party of Republicans and Conservatives contested the 1995 parliamentary election under the banner of Right-wingers (Parempoolsed). The list got 27,053 votes (5.00%) and thus managed to pass the threshold, gaining five seats in the Riigikogu. The party remained in opposition throughout the four-year term.

In May 1998, the party merged with the non-parliamentary Peasant's Party (Talurahvaerakond), forming the new People's Party (Rahvaerakond). Toomas Hendrik Ilves was chosen as the first party leader. As the new party was unlikely to pass the Riigikogu threshold of 5%, it was soon decided to co-operate with possible partners. The People's Party decided to participate in the 1999 election as part of the Moderates' list, which led to a couple of nationalists leaving the party (e.g. Mart Nutt, who joined the Pro Patria Union list). The People's Party and the Moderates merged on 27 November 1999, forming the People's Party Moderates.

After election disasters in 2002 and 2003, this party reformed and renamed itself the Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond.

References
Notes

Sources
Toomla, Rein, Eesti Erakonnad, Tallinn, 1999

Defunct political parties in Estonia
Political history of Estonia
Conservative parties in Estonia
1994 establishments in Estonia
1998 disestablishments in Estonia
Political parties established in 1994
Political parties disestablished in 1998
The Babystars

was a Japanese rock band. The band is signed onto Sony Music Japan's Ki/oon Records label. They came out with the song "Hikari e" in 2002. This song is known as the third opening theme of the anime series One Piece. Later in 2004, their seventh single, "SUNDAY", became the first ending theme of the anime series Yakitate!! Japan. On May 31, 2006, Yōsuke Ichikawa and Asami Tomaru left the band.

Past Member 
  — vocals, guitars
  — guitars
  —  keyboards
  — drums

Discography

Singles 

  (July 24, 2002)
 Hikari E
 happy days?
 Hikari E (Instrumental)

  (October 23, 2002)
 Nande
 Kumori no Chihare
 

  (March 5, 2003)
 Orange
 

  (April 9, 2003)
 

  (October 8, 2003)
 Sari Yuku Kimi E
 Rocket

  (August 25, 2004)
 Natsu no Chikara
 

 SUNDAY (November 10, 2004)
 SUNDAY (1st ending theme for Yakitate Japan)
 My Stride

 WORLD (March 1, 2006)
 World

Albums 

  (April 9, 2003)
 
 Sakura Sakukoro
 Hikari E
 
 Nande
 LITTLE STAR
 love
 Orange
 Young Young Young
 Kumori no Chihare
 

 laugh → love (December 1, 2004)
 SUNDAY
 aria
 
 Natsu no Chikara
 
 OVER (Bonus Track)
 
 
 
 
 
 Sari Yuku Kimi E
 

 LIFE (November 7, 2007)
 
 
 
 
 afternoon cafe
 
 spend my life
 SUN

External links 
 Official Web Site of The Babystars
 Official Web Site by SME

Japanese rock music groups
Ki/oon Music artists
Musical groups established in 1996
Musical groups disestablished in 2014
1996 establishments in Japan
Lucinda Raikes

Lucinda Mary J Raikes (born 14 April 1971) is an English actress, most noted for playing Karen Ball in the sitcom Green Wing and Angela Heaney in The Thick of It and its spin off film In the Loop. She has also appeared in Sensitive Skin, Extras, Casanova and 15 Storeys High.

Film

Television

Theatre

References

External links
 

1971 births
Living people
English television actresses
Actresses from Cambridge
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha.

Previous Directors
 Gautam Bhattacharyya
 Ajit Mohanty
 Bikas Chakrabarti
 Milan K. Sanyal [2009 to 2014]
 Bikash Sinha
 Manoj K. Pal
 D. N. Kundu
 B. D. Nag Chowdhury
 Meghnad Saha

See also
Education in India
List of colleges in West Bengal
Education in West Bengal

References

External links
  

Research institutes in West Bengal
Research institutes in Kolkata
Homi Bhabha National Institute
Physics research institutes
University of Calcutta affiliates
Research institutes established in 1949
1949 establishments in West Bengal
Katie Lyons

Katie Lyons (born 18 August 1981) is an English actress, most noted for her performance as Naughty Rachel in the Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing.

She has also appeared in Doc Martin, The Bill, EastEnders, The Catherine Tate Show, The Complete Guide to Parenting, The Boat That Rocked (2009), Boy A (2007) and Him & Her, with a small role in The Crimson Petal and the White in 2011 Ashes to Ashes in 2010.
From 2013 to 2015 Lyons featured as Corporal Lynda Bird in the BBC Three comedy Bluestone 42.

She is also voice actress for the character "Proxy" in the Splash Damage's 2015 online game "Dirty Bomb" and for the character "Sarah" in the 2016 video game Fragments of Him.

In 2019, Lyons played DS Jo Brunt in the British drama Manhunt. More recently (2022) she appeared in London Kills, season 3 episode 2.

References

External links

1981 births
Living people
English television actresses
English film actresses
Actresses from Southampton
Executive Order 13397

Executive Order 13397, signed by President George W. Bush on March 7, 2006, concerns the "Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives". The executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security to "coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America's social and community needs."

External links

 Executive Order 13397: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, March 7, 2006, the White House Archives
 Department of Homeland Security: Press Release: Executive Order: 13397 (March 8, 2006)

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Patrick Brown (journalist)

Patrick Brown is a British-Canadian journalist based in and living in Beijing, China. He has worked for both CBC News and Global News.

Life and career
Brown was born in Birmingham, England. After his GCE joined VSO, Sierra Leone (West Africa) he attended Cambridge.  He holds a master's degree in social anthropology from Downing College, Cambridge. He is fluent in French and Mandarin.

He moved to Canada in 1970. He was a computer systems analyst, teacher and freelance journalist before joining Radio Canada International as a news editor.

He went to Montreal to work as a reporter with CBC Radio in 1976 and as national reporter in 1978.

He is a co-author, along with Rae Murphy and Robert Chodos, of the 1976 book Winners, Losers, which covered the 1975–76 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign and convention.

Since 1980 Brown has been posted outside of Canada for both CBC Radio, CBC TV and briefly with Global News. He was a correspondent in London (1980–1990), Beijing (1990–1996, for CBC), Delhi (1997–1999) and Beijing (2011–2012, for Global).

Brown is now independent documentary-maker and files stories for the CBC based in China and Canada (Vancouver BC).

He published his memoir, Butterfly Mind, in 2009.

Publications
Winners, Losers. Toronto: Lorimer, 1976. with Robert Chodos and Rae Murphy. .
Butterfly Mind: : Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2009. .

Awards
 Gemini Award for Best Reportage - 1993.
 Gemini Award for Best Coverage (Afghanistan) 1992.
 Gemini Award for Best Coverage (Afghanistan) 2002.
 Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2011.

References

External links
 Patrick Brown at CBC
 Patrick Brown's Twitter
 Interview with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC News: The Hour (June 1, 2006)

Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
Canadian Screen Award winning journalists
Living people
English emigrants to Canada
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mass media people from Birmingham, West Midlands
Global Television Network people
Koch language

Koch is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Koch people of India and Bangladesh. It is primarily spoken in the Indian states of Meghalaya, West Bengal, and Lower Assam and in the parts of the country Bangladesh, where it serves as a major means of communication among the Koches (including Koch-Rajbongshi) and other ethnic groups in the region. Koch language is written with Assamese, Bengali, Roman scripts.

There is an organization Koch Krorang Mathop in Tura, Meghalaya which publishes Koch materials, such as books, an annual Koch magazine. Koch Development Forum is also working on the promotion of the Koch language among the Koch people who have now switched their language to Indo-Aryan languages.

The state and traditional song of Assam in Koch :

Dialects 
The Koch language is currently represented by six surviving dialects, which are as follows: 

 Harigaya,
 Tintikiya,
 Wanang/Swmbri, 
 Chapra, 
 Margan, and 
 Kocha. (Kocha/Koch - Rabha)

Short representation of the various dialects:

Geographical distribution
Koch is spoken in:

Assam:
Baksa district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
Bongaigaon district - Madaci Koch, Koch
Darrang district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
Dhemaji district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
Dhubri district - Madaci Koch, Koch
Goalpara district - Madaci koch, kocha Rabha, Kocho koro, Hodi or Koch Mandai
Kokrajhar district - Madaci Koch, Koch
Lakhimpur district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
Nagaon district - Hodi or Koch Mandai, Kocho koro
Udalguri district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
Sonitpur district - Hodi or Koch Mandai
South Salmara district - Hodi or Koch Mandai, Koch
Bangladesh: Hodi or Koch Mandai and Kocho koro
Bihar: Rajbongshi koch
Meghalaya:
East Khasi hills - Hodi alias Koch Mandai
West Garo Hills district - Kocha rabha or Koch
Tripura: Hodi or Koch Mandai or koch
West Bengal: Rajbongshi koch, Kocha Rabha

Notes

References

Dialects  "Different Dialects" 

Koch language report by UNESCO World Atlas of Languages 

Koch Dictionary 

Languages of Bangladesh
Sal languages
Languages of Assam
Languages of Meghalaya
Languages of Tripura
Endangered languages of India
Joy Mukherjee

Joy Mukherjee (24 February 1939 – 9 March 2012) was an Indian actor and director. He was titled as the 'heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s'.

Family background

Joy Mukherjee was the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi. His father was a successful producer and a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. His uncles were director Subodh Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar. Joy Mukherjee was educated in Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehra Dun and St. Xavier College. His wife's name is Neelam and they had two sons and a daughter.

Career
Joy debuted opposite Sadhana in the film Love in Simla (1960), directed by R. K. Nayyar. He then starred with Asha Parekh for several hits like Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon, Love in Tokyo, Ziddi and Hum Hindustani. Some of his films like Aao Pyar Karen and Shagird (opposite Saira Bano), Ek Musafir Ek Haseena with Sadhna, Ishaara with Vyjayantimala and Jee Chahta Hai with Rajashree were superhit movies. Most of his movies had hit music. By the late 1960s, acting roles began drying up, so he began directing and producing.

He produced and directed Humsaya although this films did not do well. Despite a late success with home production Ek Baar Muskura Do (1972) with brother Deb Mukherjee and later to be sister-in-law Tanuja, Joy faded from the silver screen.

He later directed Rajesh Khanna in Chailla Babu in 1977 which was a major box office success. This film's success solved his insolvency problems which arose due to production of Love In Bombay. Later in 1985, Rajesh Khanna even gave him opportunity as a villain in the film Insaaf Main Karoonga, which became the last successful film of actor Joy Mukherjee.

Financial troubles 
Love in Bombay brought deep financial troubles for Joy Mukherjee but late director-actor's wife Neelam, who is releasing the movie 40 years later, says that despite losing everything, the film remained very close to him. "This film was my husband's Waterloo. He lost everything he had in this film. He sunk in lot of his own money, major properties. There were 37 cases of insolvency against him. But he cleared everything and had a clean slate and started afresh. This film was very dear to him despite it bringing so much problems to him," Mrs Mukherjee said. The 1973 film, was the third part of the "Love in" series which started with Joy debuting with the blockbuster hit Love in Simla in 1960 and the golden jubilee hit Love in Tokyo in 1966. His insolvency issues got resolved when he directed his sole successful directorial venture Chailla Babu in 1977.

Death

Joy Mukherjee died on 9 March 2012 in Mumbai's Leelavati Hospital, exactly two weeks after his 73rd birthday, where he had been on a ventilator. He had a prolonged illness.

Filmography

See also
Pramod Chakravorty

References

External links
 
 Sixties star Joy Mukherjee passes away, Avijit Ghosh
 Love In Bombay was Joy Mukherjee's Waterloo, says wife

Indian male film actors
Film directors from Mumbai
Film producers from Mumbai
People from Jhansi
Bengali male actors
1939 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Indian male actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Michael McLaverty

Michael McLaverty (5 July 1904 – 22 March 1992) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories.

Background
Michael McLaverty was born in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, to Michael McLaverty (a waiter) and Kathleen Brady.  A few years later the family moved to the Beechmount area of Belfast. He went to St Gall's, and later attended St Malachy's College and Queen's University Belfast (QUB), earning his BSc in 1927 and his MSc in 1933 for a thesis, "Earlier Work on the Passage of Electricity through Gases". 

For a short period McLaverty lived on Rathlin Island, off the County Antrim coast, where he gained much of the inspiration for his short stories. Upon marrying, he moved to Deramore Drive, Malone, Belfast. In 1928, he had got a Diploma in Education at St Mary's Teacher Training College in London. He worked as a teacher of maths and physics in Belfast for 35 years, firstly at St John's Primary School (1929–57) and then (as headmaster) at St Thomas Secondary School (1957–64).

Joe Graham in his book, Belfast Born Bred And Buttered speaks fondly of having been taught by McLaverty both at St John's and St Thomas's schools. During McLaverty's tenure at the latter, poet Seamus Heaney was one of his staff. Heaney recalled McLaverty's enthusiasm for teaching but also for literature, and McLaverty introduced him to the work of Patrick Kavanagh.

Writing
McLaverty was one of Ireland's distinguished short story writers, painting with spare intensity the northern landscape of his homeland, the hill farms, rough island terrain and the backstreets of Belfast. He focuses on moments of passion, wonder or bitter disenchantment in lives of struggle. His collected works are illustrated with woodcuts by Barbara Childs, and including an introduction by Seamus Heaney and a foreword by Sophia Hillan,

Heaney summarised McLaverty's contribution: "His voice was modestly pitched, he never sought the limelight, yet for all that, his place in our literature is secure." In the introduction to McLaverty's Collected Works, Heaney describes the writing: "His tact and pacing, in the individual sentence and the overall story, are beautiful: in his best work, the elegiac is bodied forth in perfectly pondered images and rhythms". Heaney's poem Fosterage, in the sequence Singing School from North (1975) is dedicated to him.

Collected works
 Call My Brother Back (1932)
 Lost Fields (1941)
 In This Thy Day (1945)
 Collected Short Stories (1978)
 The Circle (Business Bastard)  (2015)

See also
Irish fiction
Irish literature
List of Irish novelists

References

1904 births
1992 deaths
People from Carrickmacross
People educated at St Malachy's College
20th-century Irish writers
20th-century Irish novelists
20th-century male writers
Irish male novelists
Writers from County Monaghan
Writers from Belfast
Vitelcom

Vitelcom Group was a Spanish manufacturer and distributor of consumer electronics, concentrating on the home entertainment and mobile phone markets. It also provided mobile phone content such as games.

Vitelcom made DVD and VCR equipment under contract using the Funai brand name, mobile phones using the Grundig mobile name under license, plus handheld computer equipment and ADSL modems.

History
Primary markets were Iberia and Latin America, although Vitelcom had some success in selling mobile handsets to a wider market, either under the Grundig brand or branded by the local mobile network operator.

During 2004 to 2005 Vitelcom was engaged in a patent infringement dispute with Nokia which was resolved before it went to court.

In 2007 the company fell into administration and was wound up in 2008. The name "Vitelcom" is now used by a New Zealand IT company.

Products
Product released: TSM5, TSM30 and TSM1000

References

External links
Grundig Mobile
iPhone Unlocker
iPhone Data Recovery

Companies of Andalusia
Mobile phone manufacturers
Defunct companies of Spain
Electronics companies of Spain
Industrial history of Spain
Hermann Paul

Hermann Otto Theodor Paul (August 7, 1846, Salbke – December 29, 1921, Munich) was a German philologist, linguist and lexicographer.

Biography
He studied at Berlin and Leipzig, and in 1874 became professor of German language and literature in the University of Freiburg. In 1893 he was appointed professor of German philology at the University of Munich. He was a prominent Neogrammarian.

Works
His main work, Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1st ed. 1880; 3d ed. 1898), has been translated into English:
Paul, Hermann 1970. Principles of the History of Language, translated from 2nd edition by H. A. Strong (1888; retranslated with changes by Strong, Logeman, and Wheeler in 1891). College Park: McGroth Publishing Company, .

According to Paul, sentences are the sum of their parts. They arise sequentially from individual associations, linked together in a linear form (1886. See also, Blumenthal, 1970). Wilhelm Wundt opposed this theory of sentences, arguing that they begin as a simultaneous thought that is converted into linear, sequential parts (1900).

Other works:

Gab es eine mittelhochdeutsche Schriftsprache? (“Was there a middle high German written language?,” 1873)
Zur Lautverschiebung (“Vowel shifting,” 1874)
Kritische Beiträge zu den Minnesingern (“Critical contributions on the Minnesingers,” 1876)
Zur Nibelungenfrage (“On the Nibelungen question,” 1877)
Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (“Middle high German grammar,” 1881; 25th edition, 2007)
Grundriss der germanischen Philologie, editor (“Outline of German philology,” 1891-93)
Aufgabe und Methode der Geschichtswissenschaften (“Function and method of sciences of history,” 1920, E-Book: Berlin 2014, 
After 1874 Paul and Wilhelm Braune edited the Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (“Contributions to the history of the German language and its literature”).

Disambiguation
This Hermann Paul is not to be confused with 
 Herman Daniel Paul (1827–1885), who emigrated from Germany to Finland, where he worked as a language teacher and music reviewer.  He published a translation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala in 1885 (G. W. Edlund's publishing house, Helsingfors).
nor with
 Hermann Paul (1902–1944), who was a Hungarian musician.

See also

 Rudolf Much

References

External links
 
 Principles of the History of Language, English translation of the second edition by Herbert Strong
 Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte, German original of Hermann Paul's main book Principles of the History of Language
 A partial French translation of Hermann Paul's main book, Principles of the History of Language

1846 births
1921 deaths
German lexicographers
Linguists from Germany
Historical linguists
Germanic studies scholars
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Leipzig University alumni
Linguists of Germanic languages
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
German male non-fiction writers
Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala