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Scottish Fisheries Museum

The Scottish Fisheries Museum is a museum in Anstruther, Fife, that records the history of the Scottish fishing industry and its people from earliest times to the present day.

Opened in 1969, the museum is situated on the harbour front in Anstruther, in the heart of the East Neuk crab and lobster fishing villages of St Monans, Pittenweem, Cellardyke and Crail. It has grown over time into a sizable complex, occupying a number of converted buildings set around three sides of a cobbled courtyard. These include two Category 'A' listed buildings: the 16th century Abbot's lodging and an 18th-century merchant's house, both of which have historical associations with the fishing life of the village.

The museum collection contains many model boats, fishing gear, a significant historical photographic archive and paintings. In addition to the traditional exhibits, the museum also boasts a collection of 18 boats, the pride of which is the 104-year-old twin masted Fifie herring drifter, Reaper. This vessel was restored by the museum's boat club and sails regularly in the summer months. Between 2003 and 2005 she visited 26 ports around Britain, including a visit to the Festival of the Sea in Portsmouth, attracting 44,000 visitors. When not sailing, the boat is berthed in Anstruther harbour opposite the museum.

In total, the collection comprises over 66,000 items. In 2007, the museum was one of the first in Scotland to have its entire collection awarded Recognised Collection status by Museums Galleries Scotland (previously the Scottish Museum Council), designating it as being of national or international importance. The museum also incorporates a small private chapel, which commemorates the Scots who perished at sea while fishing.

See also
Fishing industry in Scotland

References

External links
 Scottish Fisheries Museum
 National Register of Historic Vessels
 The history of herring fishing on the east coast of Scotland

Museums established in 1969
1969 establishments in Scotland
Museums in Fife
Ships of Scotland
Fishing in Scotland
History of fishing
Category A listed buildings in Fife
Maritime museums in Scotland
Fisheries
Fishing museums
Anstruther
German Sea Rescue Society

The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service ( - DGzRS, ; lit. German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons) is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, including the Exclusive Economic Zone.

The headquarters and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of the Society are located in Bremen. It was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865. It owns 60 lifeboats at 55 stations which are operated by 185 employed crew members and 800 volunteers. The society has about 2000 engagements every year. Up to 2019, it rescued approximately 85,000 persons. In 2019 it saved 81 lives, rescued 270 persons from critical situations and carried out 373 medical transports. The DGzRS is entirely financed by membership fees, private donations and legacies.

Writer and honorary member Nikolai von Michalewsky has immortalized the DGzRS in his series of science fiction novels by taking it as the model for his "Independent Society for Saving Spacewrecked".

Fleet
The DGzRS operates 59 vessels on 55 stations in the North Sea and Baltic. 20 of which are seagoing cruisers (German: Seenotrettungskreuzer) between 20 m and 46 m of length and 39 vessels are classified as inshore lifeboats (German: Seenotrettungsboote). A feature of the cruisers is that all but the 20-m class carry a fully equipped small lifeboat on deck which can quickly be released through a gate in the aft for conducting operations in shallow waters. This principle was developed by DGzRS in the 1950s. The 20-m class uses a rigid-hulled inflatable boat instead.

Lifeboats

Voluntary Lifeboats

Gallery

See also
 German Federal Coast Guard
 Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij
 Lebanese Sea Rescue Unit
 Redningsselskapet
 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
 Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima
 Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
 Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue Group - One of the 3 last independent charitable lifeboat stations left in Western Australia after the others came under the government FESA umbrella (some coerced, some voluntarily), the group and the other two still face government pressure to be nationalised)

References

External links

Official English language website
Men in Red - Hermann Helms
 

Organisations based in Bremen (city)
Sea rescue organizations
Organizations established in 1865
Emergency services in Germany
Charities based in Germany
Non-profit organisations based in Bremen (state)
Front de Seine

Front de Seine is a development in the district of Beaugrenelle in Paris, France, located along the river Seine in the 15th arrondissement at the south of the Eiffel Tower. It is, with the 13th arrondissement, one of the few districts in the city of Paris containing highrise buildings, as most have been constructed outside the city (notably in La Défense).

The Front de Seine district is the result of an urban planning project from the 1970s. It includes about 20 towers reaching nearly 100 m of height built all around an elevated esplanade. That esplanade is paved with frescos that can be seen only from the elevated floors of the towers. As opposed to Italie 13, the design of the towers is much more varied. The Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (formerly known as Hôtel Nikkō), for instance, has red-encircled windows, while the Tour Totem consists of a stack of several glazed blocks.
A newly redesigned shopping centre, the Centre commercial Beaugrenelle opened in 2013.

Furthermore, while 13th arrondissement towers are predominantly residential and La Défense towers are predominantly commercial, the towers of the Front de Seine are of mixed commercial and residential use.

High-rise buildings

 Tour Avant-Seine (1975): 98 m, 32 storeys.
 Tour Mars (1974): 98 m, 32 storeys.
 Tour Paris Côté Seine (1977): 98 m, 32 storeys.
 Tour Seine (1970): 98 m, 32 storeys
 Tour Espace 2000 (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys.
 Tour Évasion 2000 (1971): 98 m, 31 storeys.
 Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys.
 Tour Totem (1979): 98 m, 31 storeys.
 Tour Beaugrenelle (1979): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Panorama (1974): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Perspective 1 (1973): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Perspective 2 (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Reflets (1976): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Rive Gauche (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys.
 Tour Keller (1970): 98 m, 29 storeys.
 Tour Cristal (1990): 98 m, 27 storeys.
 79 quai André Citroën: 24 storeys.
 Tour Mirabeau (1972): 18 storeys.
 Immeuble le Village (1973): 17 storeys.
 Bureaux Hachette Livre (1969): 12 storeys.
 Tour Mercure (1973): 12 storeys.

Other structures
 Cheminée du Front de Seine (1971): 130 meters

See also
 
 Italie 13
 La Défense
 List of tallest structures in Paris

References

External links

 Front de Seine website

15th arrondissement of Paris
Districts of Paris
River Seine
Front be Sene
István Hiller

István Hiller (born 7 May 1964) is a Hungarian politician and former chairman of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party between 16 October 2004 and 24 February 2007, succeeding László Kovács, succeeded by Ferenc Gyurcsány. A co-founder of his party, Hiller was Minister of National Cultural Heritage under the government of Ferenc Gyurcsány from 2003 to 2005 before being replaced by András Bozóki. He became Vice Chairman of the party in 2003. Hiller was the Minister of Education and Culture between 2006 and 2010. He was elected one of the deputy speakers of the National Assembly in May 2014. In 2016, Hiller was elected caucus chair of MSZP.

Education
He earned  a degree in history and latin from the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University.
Hiller attended university in Budapest and Heidelberg, and carried out research at the University of Vienna in 1995 and 1997. He speaks German, Latin and Ancient Greek fluently, as well as Italian and English.

Personal life
Hiller is married and has two sons, Gábor (b. 1990) and Dávid (b. 1992). His wife is Julianna Farkas.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20060408170859/http://www.hiller.hu/

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1964 births
Living people
20th-century Hungarian historians
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Education ministers of Hungary
Culture ministers of Hungary
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026)
People from Sopron
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Members of the Bajnai Government
Red mercury (disambiguation)

Red mercury is a hoax substance of uncertain composition purportedly used in the creation of nuclear bombs.

Red mercury may also refer to:

 Red Mercury (newspaper stamp), an Austrian postage stamp
 Red Mercury (film), a film produced in the United Kingdom, first released in 2005
 Cinnabar, the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide

See also
 Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, a video game
Walter Blake (politician)

Sir Walter Blake, (bef. 1672–May 1748), 6th Bt., was a minor Irish aristocrat and politician from County Galway.

Biography

Blake was the son of Sir Thomas Blake and Maria French. In October 1686, Walter Blake succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Blake of Menlough. During the Williamite war in Ireland, he was a captain in Colonel Dillon's Regiment of Foot of King James II's Irish Army.

Blake was Member of Parliament for Galway County in the Patriot Parliament of 1689. He was the first Roman Catholic of distinction to join William of Orange's forces, where he raised and maintained a regiment at his own expense.

Blake lived in Menlough, County Galway. In 1687, he married Anne Kirwan, daughter of Sir John Kirwan. In 1706, he married Agnes Blake, daughter of John Blake.

Blake died in May 1748 in Marlborough Street, Dublin. He was succeeded as Baronet Blake by his son, Thomas Blake.

External links
 thePeerage.com Person Page 14379

Year of birth missing
1748 deaths
Irish soldiers in the army of James II of England
18th-century Irish people
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies
Politicians from County Galway
Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
Irish MPs 1689
Doxastic attitudes

Doxastic attitudes are epistemic attitudes which a person can hold towards a proposition. The most commonly discussed doxastic attitude is belief (holding something to be true). Other doxastic attitudes include disbelief (holding something to be false) and suspension of judgment (withholding assent to a proposition without judging it to be true or judging it to be false).

The term doxastic is derived from the ancient Greek word δόξα (or doxa), which means "belief". Thus, doxastic attitudes include beliefs and other psychological attitudes which resemble beliefs. Doxastic attitudes in many ways resemble propositional attitudes, although the two concepts are distinct from one another.

Other terms which are commonly used to refers to beliefs, such as "judgment" and "opinion", can also be classified as doxastic attitudes. More broadly, the term "doxastic attitude" can also refer to states sufficiently similar to beliefs, such as psychological certainty and credence.

See also
 Doxastic logic

References

Belief
Epistemology
Cerebellar peduncle

Cerebellar peduncles connect the cerebellum to the brain stem. There are six cerebellar peduncles in total, three on each side:

 Superior cerebellar peduncle is a paired structure of white matter that connects the cerebellum to the mid-brain.
 Middle cerebellar peduncles connect the cerebellum to the pons and are composed entirely of centripetal fibers.
 Inferior cerebellar peduncle is a thick rope-like strand that occupies the upper part of the posterior district of the medulla oblongata.

The peduncles form the lateral border of the fourth ventricle, and form a distinctive diamond the middle peduncle forming the central corners of the diamond, while the superior and inferior peduncles form the superior and inferior edges, respectively.

Structural origin
The superior cerebellar peduncles (bracchia conjunctiva) emerge from the cerebellum and ascend to form the lateral portion of the roof of the fourth ventricle, where they enter the brainstem below the inferior colliculi. They are bridged by the superior medullary velum. The superior cerebellar peduncles represent the main output route from the cerebellum, and as such, most of their fibers are efferent. A relatively small afferent contribution is present. The efferent pathways include the cerebellorubral, dentatothalamic, and fastigioreticular tracts. All of them emerge from cerebellar nuclei; the cerebellorubral fibers from the globose and emboliform nuclei, the dentatothalamic fibers from the dentate nucleus, and the fastigioreticular fibers from the fastigial nucleus. They emerge together from the various nuclei to ascend in the roof of the fourth ventricle and proceed anteriorly to the midbrain tegmental area medial to the lateral lemniscus. The cerebellorubral fibers cross over at this point to enter the contralateral red nucleus. The dentatothalamic fibers also cross over and ascend to synapse in the ventral intermediate (VI) and ventral anterior (VA) nuclei of the thalamus. The fastigioreticular fibers enter the reticular formation of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.
Afferent pathways include the anterior spinocerebellar and tectocerebellar tracts. The fibers of the anterior spinocerebellar tract originate in Clarke's column of the spinal cord and cross in the anterior white commissure to the lateral funiculus, where they ascend to upper pontine levels before crossing back to enter the cerebellum through the superior peduncle. They terminate in the hind limb region of the cerebellar cortex. The tectocerebellar tracts emerge from the superior and inferior colliculi on both sides, terminating in the intermediate vermis (culmen, declive, folium, tuber, pyramid) and the lobulus simplex. The function of the tectocerebellar tract is not known, but it is widely believed to mediate visual and auditory reflexes.

References

Cerebellar connections
BJD

BJD may refer to:

 Ball-jointed doll
 Ballyjamesduff, a town in Ireland
 Bangladesh Nationalist Party, a political party of Bangladesh
 Barycentric Julian Date, a time correction in astronomy
 Biju Janata Dal, a political party in India
 Bovine Johne's Disease or paratuberculosis
 Bratislava Jazz Days, a jazz festival in Slovakia
 Bridget Jones's Diary, a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding
 Bridget Jones's Diary (film)
 British Journal of Dermatology
Fantasy sports stock simulation

A fantasy sports stock simulation is a type of fantasy sports game. It differs from standard fantasy sports games,  which involve drafting teams and competing against other teams in a league in certain statistical categories. In a fantasy sports stock simulation, players and teams are "stocks" in a stock market which can be bought and sold, and which acquire earnings based on their statistics. While standard fantasy sports games typically require drafting a team at the beginning of a season to participate, fantasy players can join and participate in a fantasy sports stock market at any time during the season.

Fantasy stock simulations are similar to prediction games and prediction markets in that players speculate on the future of stock prices in a virtual world.

The format was largely developed by Wall Street Sports in the 1990s, with the game growing to 75,000 members by 1998. Wall Street Sports was later sold to Sandbox.com, which grew to an audience of 3.5 million players. However, Sandbox.com went bankrupt in 2002 and the game ceased operations and the domain name was sold to Tradesports.com, Inc., a new fantasy sports site.

References

Fantasy sports
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra based in Moscow, Russia.  It was founded in 1951 by Samuil Samosud, as the Moscow Youth Orchestra for young and inexperienced musicians, acquiring its current name in 1953.  It is most associated with longtime conductor Kiril Kondrashin under whom it premiered Shostakovich's Fourth and Thirteenth symphonies as well as other works. The Orchestra undertook a major tour of Japan with Kondrashin in April 1967 and CDs of the Japanese radio recordings have been made available on the Altus label.

The orchestra has also flourished under Yuri Simonov, the orchestra's principal conductor since 1998. In recent years it has performed in Britain, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Lithuania, and Spain, as well as Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.

They also have collaborated with composers Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Music directors
Samuil Samosud (1951–1957)
Nathan Rachlin (1957–1960)
Kirill Kondrashin (1960–1975)
Dmitri Kitaenko (1976–1990)
Vassily Sinaisky (1991–1996)
Mark Ermler (1996–1998)
Yuri Simonov (1998–)

Discography 
A to Z of Conductors: Naxos Educational    8.558087-90 Ballet, Orchestral, Choral - Sacred MYASKOVSKY: Symphonies Nos. 24 and 25 Naxos 8.555376
Pavlova: Monolog / The Old New York Nostalgia / Sulamith (Suite) Naxos 8.557674 
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad" BIS BIS-CD-515 
Tishchenko: Symphony No. 7, Op. 119 Naxos 8.557013 
Xenakis: Dox-Orkh / Mira Fornes: Desde Tan Tien BIS BIS-CD-772

See also 
 Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
 National Philharmonic of Russia

References
Notes

External links
Page about the history of the orchestra from Philharmonia.spb.ru, accessed 18 June 2013
Moscow Philharmonic hoax

Musical groups established in 1951
Russian symphony orchestras
1951 establishments in the Soviet Union
E. Donald Two-Rivers

E. Donald "Ed" Two-Rivers, sometimes known as Donald Two-River, was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) poet, playwright and spoken-word performer.

Brought up first on the reservation and then in the urban Native community in Chicago, Two-Rivers has been an activist for Native rights since the 1970s, for which he was awarded the Iron Eyes Cody Award for Peace in 1992.  He is also an accomplished poet, who has, among other honours, been awarded the American Book Award in 1992.  A critic of "victim politics", Two-Rivers is a strong supporter of programs that give disadvantaged Native peoples the chance to stand on their own two feet.

He had been critical of Euro-American directors and actors in the past, saying that "I believe that for non-Natives to perform a Native American play, they would first have to undergo a certain level of sensitivity training.  In fact, I would require it for any of my plays."

E. Donald Two-Rivers was the founding (Artistic Director) of the Chicago-based Red Path Theater Company.

In 2007, he returned to Chicago, to work on his last book In the Spirit of the Coyote.

He died December 27, 2008.

In 2009, a mosaic inspired by his poem "Indian Land Dancing" was dedicated in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.

Bibliography

Plays
Chili Corn
Coyote Sits In Judgement
Forked Tongues
I Aint Tonto
No Honors Today
Old Indian Trick
Peeking Out Of Ameriks Museums
Pow-Wow Posse
Red Requiem - A Political Intrigue On City Streets
Shattered Dream
Sunka Cheslie (The Urban Pile)
Survivors Medicine
Whats Buzzin Cousin?
Winter Summit
Briefcase Warriors

Short story collections
Survivors' Medicine

Poetry anthologies
Pow-Wows and Fat Cats Mammoth 2003, available at www.mammothpublications.com
A Dozen Cold Ones by Two Rivers: Native American Poetry in an Urban Setting March Abrazo 1992

See also

List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
Native American Studies

References

External links
Author's own website
Audio clips of Two-Rivers reading his own work
Obituary in Chicago Tribune
Obituary

Ojibwe people
American male poets
Year of birth missing
2008 deaths
Native American dramatists and playwrights
American male dramatists and playwrights
American dramatists and playwrights
American Book Award winners
Selinia

Selinia  may refer to:
 Selinia, Greece, a town near Ampelakia, Salamis Island, Greece
 Selinia (fungus), a fungus genus
Selinia Cojocaru
Samuil Samosud

Samuil Abramovich Samosud () (Tbilisi, Georgia,  — Moscow, 6 November 1964), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

He started his musical career as a cellist, before becoming a conductor at the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917.  From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad.  In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow.  He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951.  He premiered several important works, including Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Nose and the Seventh Symphony; as well as Prokofiev's War and Peace and On Guard for Peace.  Shostakovich "had a high opinion" of Samosud's theatrical performances, and regarded him as "the supreme interpreter" of operatic works including Lady Macbeth.  Nonetheless, after hearing Samosud conduct the Seventh Symphony, the composer wrote that he wanted to hear Yevgeny Mravinsky perform the symphony, as he didn't "have great faith in Samosud as a symphonic conductor".

References

External links 
 Samuel Samosud — Biography on Prokofiev.org (on Internet Archive, captured on 4 February 2012)

1884 births
1964 deaths
Soviet conductors (music)
20th-century Russian conductors (music)
Russian male conductors (music)
20th-century Russian male musicians
Russian Jews
Musicians from Tbilisi
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Bay owl

The bay owls (Phodilus) are a genus of Old World barn-owls. The defining characteristics of bay owls are their smaller bodies, in comparison to other barn owls, and their U- or V-shaped faces. These owls can be found in South to Southeast Asia within forest and grassland ecosystems.

Taxonomy and systematics
The genus Phodilus was erected by the French zoologist Boho Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1830. Some taxonomists place two species in the genus, while others include three. The name is from the Ancient Greek phōs for "light" or "daylight" and deilos for "timid" or "cowardly".
Most classification schemes recognize three extant species in this genus:

The Itombwe owl (T. prigoginei) was formerly classified in this genus as the Congo bay owl, but morphological evidence suggests that it is a member of the genus Tyto.

Description
Although bay owls are typically smaller, they bear resemblances to other barn owls. Other characteristics of the bay owl are groupings of feathers that resemble ears, and a divided face disk. Bay owls have also been attributed with U-or V-shaped faces. Their wings are rounded and their tail is chestnut-colored, with a few narrow, dark bars.  Their tarsi, or leg/foot bones, are relatively short and fully feathered to the joint. Their toes are yellowish-brown with pale claws. Their throat has a creamy color and their underparts are often a pale yellowish-brown, with speckles of blackish-brown coloring.

Distribution and habitat
The bay owl can be found in regions from India to Southeast Asia and Indonesia. It is uncertain where the ancestors of these avians lived as the phylogeny of all species of bay owls has not been analyzed. These owls can be found in both forests and grasslands, but are fairly scattered in their distribution. However, their primary habitat is within dense evergreen forests, where the owls may roost during the day in the opening of tree trunks or branches sheltered by palm tree leaves. They are often found roosting no more than 2 meters off the ground. They are most vulnerable in this state and not very alert.

References

Further reading
 
Bruce, M. D. (1999): Family Tytonidae (Barn-owls). In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds: 34–75, plates 1–3. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

External links 

Tropics
Taxa named by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Electronic Payment Services

Electronic Payment Services (), commonly known as EPS, is an electronic payment system based in Hong Kong, Macau, and with limited acceptance in Shenzhen since it began operations in 1985. The service is provided by EPS Company (Hong Kong) Limited with currently over 30,000 acceptance locations.

System
In each retail location, a terminal is installed and is usually connected to the POS system of the retailer.  The terminal may also be independently connected to banks through the public phone system.

Transactions approved before the cut-off time are batched into a payment made directly to the retailer's account by the end of the business day.

Service

ATM card payment
EPS entails the simple use of an ATM card or a credit card with ATM capability issued by a member bank of the EPS, acting as a debit card. No application for the service is required.

The EPS device is a dual-unit device consisting of a removable card processor and a stationary base that serves as a charger and data link. Some retailers may use an integrated machine. In such situations, the customer inserts the card into the machine directly and waits for the retailer's acknowledgement before proceeding to the rest of the steps.

EasyCash service 
EasyCash () allows card holders to withdraw cash at over 1,200 locations in Hong Kong upon a regular purchase by EPS. The cash withdrawal amount must be in units of $100, up to $500. EPS EasyCash service is a kind of cashback service.

EPS EasyCash service is available at Hong Kong based chain stores such as Gourmet, Great, IKEA, Mannings, MarketPlace, Massimo Dutti, Circle K, Oliver's, Parknshop, Taste, ThreeSixty, Vango, China Resources Vanguard (CRV), V'ole and Wellcome.

PPS 
PPS () is a service which allows card holders to pay bills using the phone or the internet. To use the service, the card holder must swipe the ATM card or the credit card with ATM capability through a PPS terminal to create an account. Afterwards, the account may be used to pay bills either through the PPS hotline, website or the mobile application.

Members
Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited
Bank of Communications, HK Branch
China Construction Bank (Asia)
China Merchants Bank Company Limited
Chiyu Banking Corporation Limited
Chong Hing Bank Limited
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited
China CITIC Bank International Limited
Dah Sing Bank Limited
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Hang Seng Bank Limited
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)
ICBC (Asia)
Mevas Bank Limited
Nanyang Commercial Bank Limited
Shanghai Commercial Bank Limited
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
The Bank of East Asia Limited
OCBC Wing Hang Bank Limited
CMB Wing Lung Bank Limited

See also
Payment by Phone Service (PPS)
Octopus card
Credit card
Economy of Hong Kong

References

External links
Official website  

Financial services companies established in 1984
Financial services companies of Hong Kong
Payment systems
Interbank networks
Fluorosilicate glass

Fluorosilicate glass (FSG) is a glass material composed primarily of fluorine, silicon and oxygen. It has a number of uses in industry and manufacturing, especially in semiconductor fabrication where it forms an insulating dielectric. The related fluorosilicate glass-ceramics have good mechanical and chemical properties.

Semiconductor fabrication
FSG has a small relative dielectric constant (low-κ dielectric) and is used in between metal copper interconnect layers during silicon integrated circuit fabrication process. It is widely used by semiconductor fabrication plants on geometries under 0.25 microns (μ). FSG is effectively a fluorine-containing silicon dioxide (κ=3.5, while κ of undoped silicon dioxide is 3.9). FSG is used by IBM. Intel started using Cu metal layers and FSG on its 1.2 GHz Pentium processor at 130 nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS). Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) combined FSG and copper in the Altera APEX.

Fluorosilicate glass-ceramics
Fluorosilicate glass-ceramics are crystalline or semi-crystalline solids formed by careful cooling of molten fluorosilicate glass. They have good mechanical properties.

Potassium fluororichterite based materials are composed from tiny interlocked rod-shaped amphibole crystals; they have good resistance to chemicals and can be used in microwave ovens. Richterite glass-ceramics are used for high-performance tableware.

Fluorosilicate glass-ceramics with sheet structure, derived from mica, are strong and machinable. They find a number of uses and can be used in high vacuum and as dielectrics and precision ceramic components. A number of mica and mica-fluoroapatite glass-ceramics were studied as biomaterials.

See also
Fluoride glass
Glass
Silicate

References

Silicates
Glass compositions
Integrated circuits
Semiconductor fabrication materials
Biomaterials
Rita Walter

Rita Walter ( McLaughlin; March 8, 1951 – December 25, 2022) was an American actress, best known for her role as Carol Deming on the popular soap opera As the World Turns, which she played from May 1970 to December 1981.

Originally credited by her maiden name, Rita McLaughlin, she made her acting debut in the 1960s on The Patty Duke Show, in the uncredited role of Patty Duke's double. Prior to that, she was also one of Don Herbert's child assistants in the Watch Mr. Wizard television series and was featured in a TV commercial for Phillips Milk of Magnesia in 1967.

Walter's first daytime soap role was in 1966 as the original Wendy Phillips on The Secret Storm, but it would be a short stint. Four years later, in May 1970, she joined the ATWT cast as Carol Deming (and her later married names Hughes Stallings Andropoulos Frazier) until her exit from the serial on Christmas Day 1981. She also appeared in the 1985 movie Cry From the Mountain.

Walter, who had been married to Reverend Norman Walter since 1976, was an optician working at Warby Parker in Westfield, New Jersey. She has three children, Brian, Jillian and Amy, and 8 grandchildren.

Walter died on December 25, 2022, at the age of 71.

References

External links

1951 births
2022 deaths
21st-century American women
American soap opera actresses
Actresses from Brooklyn
Mazaris

Mazaris (; fl. c. 1415) was a late Byzantine Greek writer known only for having authored a satirical text entitled Mazaris' Journey to Hades. Although his identity and first name are unknown, Mazaris has been tentatively identified with at least two known historical personalities of the same name, one Manuel Mazaris, who was a hymnographer and served as protonotarios of Thessaloniki, and one Maximus Mazaris, who was a monk and author of a text on grammatical rules. According to yet another hypothesis, however, these two were actually the same person. Because of this uncertainty, the author of the Journey is mostly referred to simply by his family name.

The Journey to Hades is believed to have been written between January 1414 and October 1415. It contains elements of social satire targeting the Byzantine ruling elite, but also some information about the lower classes in the Peloponnese, including some remarks about the various ethnic groups that made up its population.

Footnotes

References
Mazaris: Mazaris' Journey to Hades: or, Interviews with dead men about certain officials of the imperial court. Greek text with translation, notes, introduction and index. (Seminar Classics 609). Buffalo NY: Dept. of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975.
R. Romano (ed.): La satira bizantina dei secoli XI-XV. Turino: Unione Tipografica, 1999.
E. Trapp: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit. Vienna, 1985.

Byzantine writers
15th-century Byzantine writers
Greek satirists
Byzantine Thessalonian writers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
15th-century Greek writers
Gotham Stakes

The Gotham Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race  for three-year-old horses run in early March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York.  A Grade III event with a current purse of US$300,000, it is set at a distance of 1 mile on the dirt. It is part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby.

History
The race is named for New York City, which has been nicknamed Gotham since an 1807 article by Washington Irving. The event was inaugurated in 1953 at Jamaica Racetrack but following the facility's closure was moved to Aqueduct Racetrack for the 1960 season. In 1958, the race was restricted to horses four years of age and older.

The Gotham Stakes is the final local prep to the Wood Memorial Stakes and an official prep race for the Kentucky Derby. The only Derby winner who competed in the Gotham was American Triple Crown champion Secretariat, who tied the track record when winning the race in 1973. Easy Goer improved on this in 1989, setting a track record of 1:32.40 – one of the fastest times ever run in North America on the dirt.

Since its inception, the Gotham has been competed at various distances:
 1 mile : 1960–1976, 1978, 1980–2002, 2004–2005, 2018–present 
  miles (8.5 furlongs) : 1953–1959, 1977, 1979, 2006–2017
 1 mile, 70 yards : 1984, 2003

The race was run in two divisions in 1953, 1974, 1975, and 1983.

Records
Speed record: 
 1:32.40 – Easy Goer (1989) (Stakes and track record at 1 mile)
 1:42.65 – I Want Revenge (2009) (at former distance of  miles)

Most wins by a jockey:
 3 – Jorge Velásquez (1969, 1978, 1980)
 3 – Ángel Cordero Jr. (1970, 1975, 1991)
 3 – Jacinto Vásquez (1976, 1979, 1986)
 3 – Richard Migliore (1985, 2003, 2005)
 3 – Mike E. Smith (1990, 1992, 1995)
 3 – Jose Lezcano (2008, 2022, 2023)

Most wins by a trainer:
 3 – Claude R. McGaughey III (1989, 1992, 2005)
 3 – Kiaran McLaughlin (2006, 2018, 2019)

Most wins by an owner:
 2 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1954, 1956)
 2 – Claiborne Farm (1969, 1992)
 2 – Locust Hill Farm (1983, 1988)

Winners

† In 1992 there was a dead heat for first.

References

1953 establishments in New York City
Horse races in New York City
Aqueduct Racetrack
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Triple Crown Prep Races
Graded stakes races in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1953
Grade 3 stakes races in the United States
Nashoba

Nashoba may refer to:
 Nashoba, Oklahoma
 Nashoba Commune
 Nashoba County, Indian Territory, a political subdivision of the Choctaw Nation
 Nashoba Valley, Massachusetts
 Nashoba Valley Ski Area
 Nashoba Regional High School
PCFC

PCFC may refer to:

 Polokwane City F.C.
Pontefract Collieries F.C.
Prescot Cables F.C.
Protonic ceramic fuel cell
Rebel Stakes

The Rebel Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses: one and one-sixteenth miles run on dirt each March at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  As of 2022, it offers a purse of $1,000,000. It is the second leg of Oaklawn's three-year-old stakes program, run after the Southwest Stakes and before the Arkansas Derby; it is also part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby.

History

The race was first run on March 18, 1961, as the Rebel Handicap over a distance of one mile and seventy yards. It was won by Mrs. Vera E. Smith's Bass Clef in 1:42. The victory was Bass Clef's fifth in a row, a run that included the Louisiana Derby. Later in the spring, Bass Clef would finish third to Carry Back in the Kentucky Derby.

The event immediately became a preparatory event for the Arkansas Derby. The 1965 winner Swift Ruler won both races.

In 1984, the conditions of the event were changed from handicap to stakes allowance and the event was renamed the Rebel Stakes. That same year the distance was increased to one and one-sixteenth miles.

In 1990, the event was upgraded to Grade III. It was downgraded to Listed for the 2003 and 2004 runnings. It was upgraded in 2008 to a Grade II by the American Graded Stakes Committee.

Since 2013, the event has been part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby.

In 2019, the event was split into two divisions after Oaklawn president Louis Cella presented a sporting gesture after the San Felipe Stakes was abandoned in California. Road to Kentucky Derby qualification points for the first four finishers were adjusted.

Records
Time record:

 miles  – 1:41.00  Vanlandingham (1984)  
1 mile and 70 yards –  1:40.80   Betemight  (1967)

Margins:
7 lengths –  Etony  (1968), Manastash Ridge  (1989)

Most wins by an owner:
 5 - Loblolly Stable (1980, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1993)

Most wins by a jockey:
 5 - Mike E. Smith (1986, 1993, 1999, 2014, 2019)

Most wins by a trainer:
 8 - Bob Baffert (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021)

Rebel Stakes – Arkansas Derby double:

 Swift Ruler (1965), Traffic Mark (1969), Promised City (1975), Temperence Hill (1980), Bold Ego (1981), Sunny's Halo (1983), Demons Begone (1987), Pine Bluff (1992), Victory Gallop (1998), Smarty Jones (2004), Lawyer Ron (2006), Curlin (2007), American Pharoah (2015), Omaha Beach (2019)

Winners

Notes:

§ Ran as an entry

ƒ Ran as the field entry

† Floral Shop was first past the post but was disqualified for interference and placed second. Spike Nail was declared the winner.

See also
 Road to the Kentucky Derby
 List of American and Canadian Graded races

External links
 Oaklawn Park Media Guide 2021

References

1961 establishments in Arkansas
Horse races in Arkansas
Oaklawn Park
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Triple Crown Prep Races
Graded stakes races in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1961
Grade 2 stakes races in the United States
Jade Cocoon 2

is a role-playing video game developed by Genki exclusively for PlayStation 2. It is the sequel to Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu. The game features a full 3D polygonal world, 200 cutscenes, and full voice-overs.

Plot 
Jade Cocoon 2'''s plot occurs 100 years after the events in the original Jade Cocoon. The time of the Nagi people and "cocoon masters" has passed. New "cocoon masters" are now cited as "beasthunters" and are the prominent force of monster raising, with the player playing one named Kahu who visits the Temple of Kemuel in the hopes of becoming a beasthunter and having adventures like the old cocoon masters he's idolized. However, Kahu encounters trouble during his license exam required to become a full-fledged beast-hunter. He encounters a young fairy named Nico, who leaves Kahu cursed, and he's given a very short time to live before his body is consumed by evil. Kemuel Temple's resident guardian, Levant - the hero of the original Jade Cocoon - offers Kahu a chance to heal himself. By utilizing the four magical orbs found in the heart of the elemental forests and a dark lute, Levant will be able to save Kahu's life. Kahu now sets off on his adventure, to save himself and eventually the world. Other characters from the first Jade Cocoon also appear, like Kikinak, who became a rich shopkeeper thanks to Levant. A statue of Mahbu, the Nagi Maiden, can also be seen at the room where Levant is.

 Reception 

The game received "generally favorable reviews", a bit more positive than the first Jade Cocoon, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu'' gave it a score of 31 out of 40.

References

External links 
 at Genki website 

2001 video games
Fantasy video games
Genki (company) games
Monster-taming games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Studio Ghibli
Ubisoft games
Video game sequels
Video games about evolution
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Manami Matsumae
List of football clubs in Slovakia

This is a list of association football clubs in Slovakia.

Men's

Fortuna Liga 2020-21

The Fortuna Liga is the top flight of Slovakia′s football league system. Contested by 12 professional clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation. Seasons typically run from August to May with each team playing 22 matches (playing all 11 other teams both home and away) in the round-robin format. After the finish, the league splits into top- (champions) and bottom- (relegation) 6 to play an extra home and away round. The teams keep all their points from the round-robin and play extra 10 matches to finish at 32 matches altogether.

The opening match of 2020-21 kicked off on August 8, 2020, with Nitra (promotion play-off winner) hosting Slovan Bratislava (reigning champion). Most games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 

List of participants:

 ŠK Slovan Bratislava
 FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda 
 MŠK Žilina 
 FC Spartak Trnava
 FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce
 AS Trenčín
 ŠKF Sereď
 FK Pohronie Žiar nad Hronom Dolná Ždaňa
 MFK Ružomberok
 FC Nitra
 MFK Zemplín Michalovce
 FK Senica

2. Liga 2020-21

The 2nd league of Slovakia′s football pyramid is a national professional competition, which is contested by 16 clubs. At the end of the season, the top-finishing team is automatically promoted to the Fortuna Liga, the second-placed team plays against the eleventh-placed team of the Fortuna liga in two-legged play-offs (home and away). 

In summer 2020, MFK Ružomberok reserves team vacated the competition and have not been replaced. In the 2020-21 season, the league comprises an uneven number of 15 football teams. Over the course of a season, which runs typically from August to the following May, each team plays twice against the others, once at 'home' and once 'away', resulting in each team competing in 30 games in total. The opening match of 2020-21 kicked off on July 31, 2020, with  Poprad hosting  Bardejov

The list of participants: 
  MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica
 MFK Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš
 FK Železiarne Podbrezová
 MFK Skalica
 FC Košice
 FC Petržalka
 MŠK Púchov
  MŠK Žilina B
 KFC Komárno
  Slavoj Trebišov
 FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín
  Partizán Bardejov BŠK
  FK Dubnica nad Váhom
  ŠK Slovan Bratislava B
 FK Poprad

Women's

Slovak Women's First League
As of 2020–21 season:
Partizán Bardejov
Slovan Bratislava
MŠK Žilina
Spartak Myjava
FC Nitra
FC Petržalka
FC Spartak Trnava
AS Trenčín
FK Poprad
MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica

References

 
Slovakia
clubs
Football clubs
Housewrap

Housewrap (or house wrap), also known by the genericized trademark homewrap (or home wrap), generally denotes a modern synthetic material used to protect buildings. Housewrap functions as a weather-resistant barrier, preventing rain or other forms of moisture from getting into the wall assembly while allowing water vapor to pass to the exterior. If moisture from either direction is allowed to build up within stud or cavity walls, mold and rot can set in and fiberglass or cellulose insulation will lose its R-value due to heat-conducting moisture. House wrap may also serve as an air barrier if it is sealed carefully at seams.

Housewrap is a replacement for the older tar paper or asphalt saturated felt on walls. It is lighter in weight,  available in much wider rolls, and both faster and easier to apply.

Major types
 Micro-perforated, cross-lapped films
 Films laminated to spunbond nonwovens (Typar or CertaWrap)
 Films laminated or coated to polypropylene wovens
 Supercalendered, wetlaid polyethylene fibril nonwoven ("Tyvek")

Installation
Housewrap is installed between the sheathing and the exterior siding, and is utilized behind vinyl, wood clapboards, shingles or shakes, brick, and other building materials. In all cases, the housewrap helps prevent water intrusion when moisture in any form gets past the siding and its trim and caulking.

As such, housewrap must be both water shedding and have a high moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) to be effective. It must also withstand abuse during installation, hold up in significant winds while awaiting exterior siding installation, and, as housewrap is often left exposed for some time before being cladded-over, be resistant to UV. Some new designs must be installed carefully or they will slightly rip or tear during installation, possibly allowing for water infiltration at the damaged areas. Being both thin and inelastic, most newer designs do not "self-seal" well against nails or staples like asphalt products.

Properties
 Typical MVTR ~200 grams/100 square-inches/24hours (or greater, i.e., Tyvek is ~400)
 Typical 2 ounces/square-yard (varies greatly with manufacturer)
 Typical width 9' (108)" on a 3" core

References

Moisture protection
Building materials
List of Tour de France secondary classification winners

The Tour de France is a road cycling stage race held since 1903 over a current period of three weeks, although it was not staged from 1915 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1946, because of the First World War and Second World War respectively.

The winner of the Tour de France is determined by the general classification. In addition, there are some secondary classifications. The mountains classification, first calculated in 1933 and first associated with the polkadot jersey in 1975; 
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the race in 1953, the points classification was reintroduced, having previously been the main classification from 1905 to 1912 inclusive. It rewarded the consistent finishers in individual stages by awarding points depending on the placing at the end of the stage and, from 1966 onwards, at any designated intermediate points along the route. From 1966 to 1989 inclusive, a separate classification was included solely for points awarded at these intermediate 'hot spots' or 'sprints' and from 1984 onward associated with the award of a red jersey.  In 1975, the Tour organisers launched the young rider classification, replacing the 'combination' classification run since 1968 for 'overall best rider' based on points awarded from the general, mountain and points classification- although the combination classification was subsequently reintroduced from 1980 to 1989 inclusive. Eddy Merckx in 1969 is the only rider to win the King of the Mountains, the points and the overall title in the same year.

By year

By country

References

 
Tour de France
Secondary classification winners
Secondary classification winners