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Libertarian National Committee

The Libertarian National Committee (LNC) controls and manages the affairs, properties, and funds of the United States Libertarian Party.  It is composed of the party officers, five at-large representatives elected every two years at the national convention, and a theoretical maximum of 10 regional representatives. The current chair is Angela McArdle, elected at the 2022 Libertarian National Convention.

The LNC has lobbied or filed lawsuits against laws and regulations that restrict contributions to parties and candidates.

Current members

At-large members

Regional representatives

List of LNC chairs

Subcommittees

See also 
 Democratic National Committee
 Green National Committee
 Republican National Committee
 List of state parties of the Libertarian Party (United States)

References

External links 
 Official Website
 Members of the Libertarian National Committee
 Libertarian Party Bylaws and Convention Rules (PDF) adopted in Convention, July 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana

Libertarian Party (United States)
Libertarian Party (United States) organizations
Executive committees of political parties
Organizations based in Alexandria, Virginia
Desiya Geetham

Desiya Geetham () is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language political drama film directed by Cheran. The film co-produced by R. Chandru, Abuthahir, Sathish Kumar, G. V. Suresh Kumar. The film created controversy during release. The film was one among 1998 Diwali releases.

Plot 

The film is about a Chief minister and his family being kidnapped and taken to a remote village making them undergo the hardships of village life to learn about it.

Cast

Soundtrack 
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Reception 
A critic from Dinakaran noted "Cheran has won in highlighting minutely and emotively the village maladies and it's disastrous shortcomings". Kala Krishnan-Ramesh from Deccan Herald noted "This film has a message, which is meant for all of us, “Before the last Indian goes mad, let’s do something". D. S. Ramanujam of The Hindu wrote, "A thought-provoking movie on the plight of the villagers denied basic necessities like water, roads, hospitals and consumable rice at the FP shops, has been brought out with a lot of thrust by director Cheran".

References

External links 
 

1990s political drama films
1990s Tamil-language films
1998 films
Film controversies in India
Films directed by Cheran
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Films shot in Delhi
Indian political drama films
Cordes-Tolosannes

Cordes-Tolosannes (; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

See also
Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department

References

Communes of Tarn-et-Garonne
Jamie McClen

James David McClen (born 13 May 1979) is an English retired footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.

Early life and youth career
McClen attended St. Benet Biscop Catholic High School in Bedlington, Northumberland. He honed his footballing skills at the youth academy of Newcastle United at the age of 10 after being spotted whilst playing for Cramlington Juniors.

Playing career

Newcastle United
McClen debuted for Newcastle in 1999 against Tottenham Hotspur under the management of Ruud Gullit. Gullit offered McClen a long-term deal which was promptly signed. He drifted out of the first-team picture for a few years, only to get a break in the team when injuries took their toll on Newcastle. McClen took his chance, including a goal against Peterborough United in the FA Cup, going on to make 10 more appearances in the 2001–02 season, including against Arsenal in the FA Cup. McClen's performances that season, in which Newcastle finished 4th, earned him another long-term deal which was promptly signed. However, McClen struggled to retain his place in the first team before eventually being released in 2005 to Carlisle United.

Later career
McClen's spell at Carlisle only lasted a few months before he was released. He then went to Blyth Spartans on a short-term basis. He returned to the Football League to join Shrewsbury Town, but he was released due to concerns over his fitness levels. In June 2006 he signed a 12-month contract with Kidderminster Harriers of the Football Conference. On 3 November 2006, McClen returned to the north-east to play for Bedlington Terriers on loan.

McClen was released by Kidderminster in January 2007 and signed for Hamilton Academical until the end of the season. However, he was released in March 2007.

In August 2007, McClen joined Northern Premier League outfit Gateshead ahead of the 2007–08 season. January 2008 saw McClen join Newcastle Blue Star on loan until the end of the season. The move became permanent at the start of the 2008–09 season.

After Newcastle Blue Star dissolved, McClen joined Morpeth Town, before a trial with Thai Premier League side Pattaya United F.C.  in January 2010. McClen opted to stay in the north-east as he had a young family.

External links

References

1979 births
Living people
People from Cramlington
Footballers from Northumberland
English men's footballers
English expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football utility players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Motherwell F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Blyth Spartans A.F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Kidderminster Harriers F.C. players
Bedlington Terriers F.C. players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Gateshead F.C. players
Newcastle Blue Star F.C. players
Premier League players
Scottish Premier League players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Scottish Football League players
Northern Premier League players
Northern Football League players
Morpeth Town A.F.C. players
Ndogo people

The Ndogo are an ethnic group from the South Sudan, part of the Fertit.

They have an estimated population of 40,000, scattered around Wau, Raga and Deim Zubier.

References 

Ethnic groups in South Sudan
Ronny Weller

Ronny Weller (born 22 July 1969 in Oelsnitz, Saxony) is a German weightlifter who competed for East Germany and later for Germany.

During the 1990s, he was three times world champion, and broke world records 11 times. He participated in the Olympic Games five times, winning four medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he had to retire from the contest due to an injury he suffered during the snatch competition.

He is, jointly with fellow (East) German Ingo Steinhöfel, the second weightlifter to compete at five Olympics. The first was Hungarian Imre Földi from 1960-76.

Major results

Personal records
 Snatch: 205 kg in 1989 on Fort Lauderdale in class to 110 kg (junior world record until 1992).
 Snatch: 210 kg (former world record in weight class over 105 kg)
 Clean and jerk: 260.0 kg 1998 in Riesa in class over 105 kg (European record 1998–2018)
 Total: 467.5 kg (210+257.5) 2000 Summer Olympics in class over 105 kg (that was a world record in old weight class over 105 kg)

See also
List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References

External links

 Ronny Weller at Lift Up
 Ronny Weller at Weightlifting Exchange
 Ronny Weller at Database Weightlifting
 Sports-Reference Profile

1969 births
Living people
People from Oelsnitz, Vogtland
German male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for East Germany
East German male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Saxony
People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
Hakim Noury

Hakim Noury is a Moroccan television and film director.

Filmography
L'Enfance volée - The stolen childhood
 Le destin d’une Femme - The destiny of a woman
 Le marteau et l’enclume -
 Histoire d’amour - A love story
 Un simple fait divers
 Fiha El Malha ou soukar ou mabghatch tmoute
 Qalaq - (Anxiety)

References

Living people
Moroccan film directors
Mass media people from Casablanca
Year of birth missing (living people)
Asen's Fortress

Asen's Fortress (, Asenova krepost), identified by some researchers as Petrich (Петрич), is a medieval fortress in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains,  south of the town of Asenovgrad, on a high rocky ridge on the left bank of the Asenitsa River. Asen's Fortress is  above sea level.

History
The earliest archaeological findings date from the time of the Thracians, the area of the fortress being also inhabited during the Ancient Roman and Early Byzantine period. The fortress gained importance in the Middle Ages, first mentioned in the statute of the Bachkovo Monastery as Petrich in the 11th century. The fortress was conquered by the armies of the Third Crusade.

In 1205 the Latin Duke of Philippopolis, Renier of Trit, fled from Philippopolis, which was under pressure from Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and took refuge in Asen's Fortress (at the time called Stanimaka). Renier of Trit would be besieged in the fortress for eleven months with just 40 knights before being relieved by the army of Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders.

It was considerably renovated in the 13th century (more precisely 1231) during the rule of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II to serve as a border fortification against Latin raids, as evidenced by an eight-line wall inscription. The foundations of fortified walls—the outer ones being  thick and preserved up to a height of , originally  high—a feudal castle, 30 rooms and 3 water repositories have been excavated from this period.

The best preserved and most notable feature of Asen's Fortress is the Church of the Holy Mother of God from the 12th-13th century. It is a two-storey cross-domed single-naved building with a wide narthex and a large rectangular tower, and features mural paintings from the 14th century. The conservation and partial restoration works on the church were finished in 1991 (the whole fortress was left to decay after the Ottoman conquest in the 14th century and only the church remained standing in its original appearance as it was used by the local Christians) and now it is in regular use as a Bulgarian Orthodox church.

Taken by the Byzantines after Ivan Asen II's death, the fortress was once again in Bulgarian hands at the time of Ivan Alexander in 1344 only to be conquered and destroyed by the Ottomans during their rule of Bulgaria.

The town of Asenovgrad takes its modern name from the fortress, formerly being named Stanimaka.

Gallery

References
 Asen's Fortress - website
 3D Virtual Tour - Click here

Asenovgrad
Castles in Bulgaria
Rhodope Mountains
Medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church buildings
Buildings and structures in Plovdiv Province
Tourist attractions in Plovdiv Province
Ngulgule people

Ngulgule is an ethnic group of South Sudan  living just north of the confluence of the Sopo and Boro rivers. They are one of seven distinct ethnicities comprising the Daju people. They speak Njalgulgule, a Nilo-Saharan language. Most of them are Muslims. The population of this group is 900.

References

External sources
Language Map of Sudan Huffman, Steve

Ethnic groups in South Sudan
VLK

VLK may refer to :
 Vlk, a Czechoslovak surname
 Volume license key, a type of product activation key
 Vladivostok Air, a Russian airline
 Villivakkam railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (station code)
Alain Enthoven

Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930) is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Enthoven received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1952, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1954, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1956. He was a RAND Corporation economist between 1956 and 1960.

Enthoven has argued that integrated delivery systems — networks of health care organizations under a parent holding company that provide a continuum of health care services — align incentives and resources better than most healthcare delivery systems, leading to improved medical care quality while controlling costs.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a former Rhodes scholar.

He features in the Adam Curtis documentary The Trap.

Selected publications

References

External links
 Alain C. Enthoven bio from Stanford University.
Interview about nuclear strategy for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

Living people
1930 births
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Alumni of New College, Oxford
American Rhodes Scholars
Health economists
American economists
Kennedy administration personnel
Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel
United States Department of Defense officials
RAND Corporation people
Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Neimongosaurus

Neimongosaurus (meaning "Nei Mongol lizard") is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaur theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation.

Discovery and naming
Neimongosaurus is a therizinosauroid which is known from the holotype LH V0001, consisting of a partially preserved braincase; the front of the right lower jaw; a nearly complete axial column compromising 15 cervical (including the axis), 4 dorsal and 22 caudal vertebrae; a furcula; both scapulocoracoids; both humeri; left radius; fragmented ilia; both femora; both tibiae; left tarsals and a virtually complete and articulated left pes. A second specimen, LH V0008, consisting of a sacrum composed by 6 sacral vertebrae and both ilia, was assigned as the paratype. The specimens were collected in 1999 at Sanhangobi in Inner Mongolia from the Iren Dabasu Formation, dating from the Cenomanian stage.

Based on these remains, the type species, Neimongosaurus yangi, was formally named and described by Zhang Xiaohong, Xu Xing, Paul Sereno, Kwang Xuewen and Tan Lin in 2001. The generic name is derived from Nei Mongol, the Chinese name for Inner Mongolia. The specific name honours Yang Zhongjian.

Description

Neimongosaurus is thought to have been a small-sized therizinosaur, from  in length and weighing .

Neimongosaurus was a bipedal and ponderous animal with well developed hindlimbs. The femur measured  long, having a straight shaft, the femoral head points to the inner sides. Both tibiae are preserved, measuring ; shorter than the femur. Its lower jaw is U-shaped, preserving only a partial right dentary. There are 5 alveoli in which only one tooth was preserved. It is coarsely serrated, indicating a herbivorous diet like other therizinosaurs, such as Alxasaurus or Erlikosaurus. It had a relatively elongated neck composed by approximately 16 cervicals (if preserved atlas). Overall, the forelimbs are well preserved, missing the manus. Its scapula had a tapering end.

Classification
The original describers of the genus assigned Neimongosaurus to the Therizinosauroidea, in a basal position. Subsequent cladistic analyses have indicated a position in the more derived Therizinosauridae, but an analysis in 2010 by Lindsay Zanno recovered the original placement. However, Hartman et al. 2019 recovered Neimongosaurus as a therizinosaurid again. Below are the results:

Paleobiology
In a 2006 conference abstract, Sara Burch presented the inferred range of motion in the arms of the therizinosaur Neimongosaurus and concluded the overall motion at the glenoid-humeral joint at the shoulder was roughly circular, and directed sideways and slightly downwards, which diverged from the more oval, backwards-and-downwards-directed ranges of other theropods. This ability to extend their arms considerably forwards may have helped Neimongosaurus reach and grasp for foliage.

See also

 Timeline of therizinosaur research

References

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 2001
Therizinosaurs
Taxa named by Paul Sereno
Wuyi

Wuyi () may refer to:

Places
Wuyi Mountains (武夷山) in Fujian and Jiangxi
Wuyi County, Hebei (武邑县)
Wuyi County, Zhejiang (武义县)
Wuyi Lane, historical street in Nanjing
Wuyi, Anhui (乌衣镇), town in Nanqiao District, Chuzhou
Wuyi, Hengshui (武邑镇), town in and seat of Wuyi County, Hebei
Wuyi Avenue Subdistrict (五一大街街道), Qiaodong District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei
Wuyi (五邑 "five counties") of Jiangmen, Guangdong

Other uses
ROCS Wu Yi (AOE-530), a fleet oiler and logistics ship of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN)
Wu Yi of Shang or Wuyi, King of the Shang dynasty (12th century BC)
International Workers' Day (May First), Wuyi in Chinese
Wuyi Square (disambiguation), to commemorate May First

See also
Wu Yi (disambiguation)
William L. Eagleton

William Lester Eagleton Jr. (August 17, 1926 – January 27, 2011) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat who served as Ambassador to several Middle Eastern and North African states.

Early life
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Eagleton served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He joined the U.S. foreign service in 1949.

Diplomatic career
Eagleton served as American consul in Tabriz, Iran between 1959 and 1961 and United States Ambassador to Yemen 1967, Tunisia 1977, Libya 1978–1979, Algeria 1979, Iraq 1980–1984 and Syria 1985–1988. He is also an author of The Kurdish Republic of 1946 (1961) and "Iraqi Kurdistan" in The World Today (1956).

After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999–2001). He rejoined the State Department in 2003 as a special advisor for Northern Iraq.

Textile publications
Eagleton's 1988 book An Introduction to Kurdish Rugs drew from his experience collecting rugs in Baghdad and elsewhere in the Middle East. It remains the standard book on Kurdish pile weavings, which remain relatively unknown even among textile collectors.

See also

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara

References

External links
Povich, Elaine S. "William Eagleton remembered as adventurous spirit, skilled diplomat", Peoria Journal-Star, July 16, 2011 
United States Interests Section in Iraq Cable from William L. Eagleton Jr. to the Department of State. "Follow-up on Rumsfeld Visit to Baghdad", December 26, 1983
Nomination of William L. Eagleton Jr. To Be United States Ambassador to Syria

1926 births
2011 deaths
United States Navy personnel of World War II
Yale University alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen
Ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia
Ambassadors of the United States to Libya
Ambassadors of the United States to Algeria
Ambassadors of the United States to Iraq
Ambassadors of the United States to Syria
People from Peoria, Illinois
Writers from Illinois
United States Foreign Service personnel
20th-century American diplomats
Atlanto-occipital joint

The atlanto-occipital joint (Capsula articularis atlantooccipitalis) is an articulation between the atlas bone and the occipital bone. It consists of a pair of condyloid joints. It is a synovial joint.

Structure 
The atlanto-occipital joint is an articulation between the atlas bone and the occipital bone. It consists of a pair of condyloid joints. It is a synovial joint.

Ligaments
The ligaments connecting the bones are:

 Two articular capsules
 Posterior atlanto-occipital membrane
 Anterior atlanto-occipital membrane

Capsule
The capsules of the atlantooccipital articulation surround the condyles of the occipital bone, and connect them with the articular processes of the atlas: they are thin and loose.

Function
The movements permitted in this joint are:
 (a) flexion and extension around the mediolateral axis, which give rise to the ordinary forward and backward nodding of the head.
 (b) slight lateral motion, lateroflexion, to one or other side around the anteroposterior axis.

Flexion is produced mainly by the action of the longi capitis and recti capitis anteriores; extension by the recti capitis posteriores major and minor, the obliquus capitis superior, the semispinalis capitis, splenius capitis, sternocleidomastoideus, and upper fibers of the trapezius.

The recti laterales are concerned in the lateral movement, assisted by the trapezius, splenius capitis, semispinalis capitis, and the sternocleidomastoideus of the same side, all acting together.

Clinical significance

Dislocation 
The atlanto-occipital joint may be dislocated, especially from violent accidents such as traffic collisions. This may be diagnosed using CT scans or magnetic resonance imaging of the head and neck. Surgery may be used to fix the joint and any associated bone fractures. Neck movement may be reduced long after this injury. Such injuries may also lead to hypermobility, which may be diagnosed with radiographs. This is especially true if traction is used during treatment.

Additional images

References

Joints
Joints of the head and neck
Waveform buffer

In computing, a waveform buffer is a technique for digital synthesis of repeating waveforms. It is common in PC sound cards.

The waveform amplitude values are stored in a buffer memory, which is addressed from a phase generator, with the retrieved value then used as the basis of the synthesized signal. In the phase generator, a value proportional to the desired signal frequence is periodically added to an accumulator. The high order bits of the accumulator form the output address, while the typically larger number of bits in the accumulator and addition value results in an arbitrarily high frequency resolution.

References 

Digital signal processing
Live Search Academic

Live Search Academic was a Web search engine for scholarly literature that existed from April 2006 to May 2008; it was part of Microsoft's Live Search group of services. It was similar to Google Scholar, but rather than crawling the Internet for academic content, search results came directly from trusted sources, such as publishers of academic journals. Users were required to log in to access the service.

Live Search Academic was known as Windows Live Academic Search when the beta version was officially launched on April 11, 2006. The name had changed to Live Search Academic by December 6, 2006, when Microsoft announced the addition of millions of new articles, mainly in biomedicine.

On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Academic and Live Search Books, both sites to be closed, with their results integrated into regular Search. The project scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.

Features
Live Search Academic indexed journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses and dissertations from the following fields: 
Information and computer science
Physics
Electrical engineering
Biomedicine

In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Academic also featured:
Sorting by relevance, date, author, journal and conference
Slider bar to change level of details of search results
Export citations for different formats, including BibTeX, RefWorks and EndNote
Preview window on the right displaying the title, journal name, abstract summary, authors, volume, publication year, publisher, source and the article's digital object identifier

See also
 Web of Science from the Institute for Scientific Information
 Live Search
 Microsoft Academic Search
 Scirus
 Scopus
 Windows Live

References

External links
 Live Search Academic
 Live Search Academic Blog

Bibliographic databases and indexes
Academic
Scholarly search services
Gilgit (disambiguation)

Gilgit is a city in northern Pakistan

Gilgit may refer to other terms related with the area of the city:
 Gilgit River
 Gilgit Valley
 Gilgit District
 Gilgit Division
 Gilgit Agency (former administrative region of British India and of Pakistan)
 Gilgit Airport

See also
 Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory in Pakistan
Spinostropheus

Spinostropheus is a genus of carnivorous ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period and has been found in the Tiouraren Formation, Niger. The type and only species is S. gautieri.

History of discovery 
In 1959, Albert-Félix de Lapparent excavated fossils near Oued Timmersöi, west of In Tedreft in the Agadez desert. Among the finds were the remains of a theropod. In 1960, de Lapparent, based on these, named a second species of the genus Elaphrosaurus,  E. gautieri. The specific name honours François Gautier, the discoverer of the type locality.

In 2004, Paul Sereno, John Wilson and John Conrad named a separate genus: Spinostropheus. The generic name is derived from Latin spina, "spine", and Greek στροφεύς, stropheus, "vertebra", and refers to the epipophyseal processes of the cervical vertebrae, which are prominent and dorso-ventrally flattened.

The holotype, MNHN 1961-28, was found in a layer of the Tiouraren Formation dating from the Bathonian-Oxfordian. De Lapparent had presumed that the strata dated from the Early Cretaceous. It consists of a cervical vertebra, seven pieces of the dorsals, three pieces of the sacrum, five tail vertebrae, a humerus, the lower end of a pubic bone, the lower end of a thighbone, a piece of a shinbone, a piece of a fibula, a metatarsal, four additional pieces of the metatarsus and a phalanx of a toe. The paratypes were an ulna, a metatarsal and a second partial skeleton consisting of vertebrae and limb elements. In 2004, Sereno e.a. referred a third skeleton, specimen MNN TIG6 consisting of a series of cervical and dorsal vertebrae together with some ribs.

Description 
Spinostropheus was a relatively small theropod. In 2010, Gregory S. Paul estimated its length at 4 metres (13 feet), and its weight at 200 kg (441 lbs). In 2012 Thomas R. Holtz Jr gave a length of 6.2 meters (20.3 feet).

Classification 
In 2002, a cladistic analysis by Sereno et al found Spinostropheus to be the sister taxon of the Abelisauria. In this study only the data from specimen MNN TIG6 were considered. Subsequent studies have confirmed the original interpretation as a basal ceratosaur, outside of Neoceratosauria, more closely in the evolutionary tree to Elaphrosaurus. Rauhut and Carrano (2016) believe that the holotype and paratype specimens of Spinostropheus lack ceratosaurian features, unlike the specimen MNN TIG6 which they consider ceratosaurian, and suggest that Spinostropheus might be a basal tetanuran.

See also 

 Timeline of ceratosaur research

References 

Ceratosaurs
Middle Jurassic dinosaurs of Africa
Bathonian life
Oxfordian life
Mesozoic Niger
Fossils of Niger
Fossil taxa described in 2004
Taxa named by Paul Sereno
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun

The Order of Blue Sky and White Sun with Grand Cordon (Chinese:青天白日勳章 or 青天白日勛章) is the Republic of China's second highest military award. Created in 1929, it is awarded for "outstanding contributions to national security under foreign invasion" and is second only to the Order of National Glory. The name and the design come from the Blue Sky with a White Sun symbol of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.

Unlike many other ROC medals, Order of Blue Sky and White Sun comes only as a first-class medal, without varying degrees of commendation; since 1981, it has been presented with the Grand Cordon, a very large ribbon, in this case, a white ribbon with red and blue edges. Before that, it came with a plain ribbon that is the smaller version of the modern grand cordon.

Notable recipients
 Albert C. Wedemeyer, for his role in reorganizing the training of the Chinese army
 Chen Qingkun (陳慶堃), for his leading role in the Breakout of Yangtze River 長江突圍 during the civil war in 1949 in which he successfully got away from Communist forces after his admiral surrendered to the Communists.
 Chiang Chung-ling  former Minister of Defense
 Claire Lee Chennault, for his aid in defending China during World War II
 Gao Youxin, one of China's top ace-fighter pilots during the Second Sino-Japanese War-Second World War
 Huang Baitao, for his campaign in Henan in 1948
 Hu Lien, Hu commanded 11th Division and defended western Hubei. This was easiest route to capture China's capital Chungking for the Japanese army, but Hu fought gallantly and deflected the Japanese.
 Xie Jinyuan, for his defense of Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai during early part World War II
 Zhang Zizhong, one of the highest-ranked Allied officers killed in action in World War II
 General Shen Yi-ming, killed when a Black Hawk crashed alongside 7 other personnel. He was serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces at the time of his death. (posthumously awarded)
Xue Yue  薛岳 for his role fought off Japanese forces in Changsha, Hunan.

See also
Recipients of the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun with Wikipedia biographies.

References

External links 
 A full listing of the recipients of the order 

Orders, decorations, and medals of the Republic of China
Awards established in 1929
1929 establishments in China
Neophytus VIII of Constantinople

Neophytus VIII (1832 – 18 July 1909) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1891 until his resignation in 1894.

References

See also
List of Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople

1832 births
1909 deaths
Theological School of Halki alumni
Bishops of Adrianople
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople

People from Serres (regional unit)
Metropolitans of Preveza
Arikabe Station

is a railway station in the city of Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Arikabe Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 437.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout
Arikabe Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge.  The station is unattended.

Platforms

History
Arikabe Station opened on October 16, 1924. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Tōhoku Main Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924
Kurihara, Miyagi
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Dionysius V of Constantinople

Dionysius V (22 March 1820 – 25 August 1891) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1887 to 1891.

1820 births
1891 deaths
People from Edirne
Bishops of Nicaea
Bishops of Adrianople
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
Joachim IV of Constantinople

Joachim IV (5 July 1837 – 15 February 1887) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1884 to 1886.

See also
 List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople

1837 births
1887 deaths
Clergy from Chios
Bishops of Larissa
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
Willis Jackson (saxophonist)

Willis "Gator" Jackson (April 25, 1928 – October 25, 1987) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Biography
Born in Miami, Florida, and educated at the University of Miami, Jackson joined Cootie Williams's band in 1948 as a teenager, and was part of it on and off until 1955.

Under his own name (Willis Jackson and His Orchestra) he recorded various rhythm-and-blues instrumentals for Atlantic Records. His most famous record for Atlantic is "Gator's Groove" (1952), with "Estrellita" as the B-side.

Jackson toured as leader of the backing band for singer Ruth Brown. Publicly they were married, but privately they never married but lived together from 1950 to 1955. Jackson joined Prestige Records in 1959, making a string of albums.

Jackson died in New York City one week after heart surgery, in October 1987, at the age of 55.

Discography

As leader 
 Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige, 1959)
 Cool "Gator" (Prestige, 1959)
 Blue Gator (Prestige, 1960)
 Really Groovin' (Prestige, 1961)
 In My Solitude (Moodsville, 1961)
 Cookin' Sherry (Prestige, 1961)
 Thunderbird (Prestige, 1962)
 Bossa Nova Plus (Prestige, 1963)
 Neapolitan Nights (Prestige, 1963)
 Grease 'n' Gravy (Prestige, 1963)
 The Good Life (Prestige, 1963)
 Loose... (Prestige, 1963)
 Jackson's Action! (Prestige, 1964)
 Boss Shoutin' (Prestige, 1964)
 'Gator Tails (Verve, 1964)
 More Gravy (Prestige, 1964)
 Together Again! with Jack McDuff (Prestige, 1965)
 Smoking with Willis (Cadet, 1965)
 Live! Action (Prestige, 1966)
 Soul Night/Live! (Prestige, 1966)
 Together Again, Again with Jack McDuff (Prestige, 1967)
 Tell It... (Prestige, 1967)
 Soul Grabber (Prestige, 1968)
 Star Bag with Trudy Pitts, Bill Jennings (Prestige, 1968) 
 Swivelhips (Prestige, 1969)
 Gator's Groove (Prestige, 1969)
 Mellow Blues (UpFront, 1970)
 Recording Session (Big Chance, 1972)
 West Africa (Muse, 1974)
 Headed and Gutted (Muse, 1974)
 Funky Reggae (Trip, 1974)
 The Way We Were (Atlantic, 1975)
 Plays with Feeling (Cotillion, 1976)
 In the Alley (Muse, 1977)
 Bar Wars (Muse, 1978)
 The Gator Horn (Muse, 1979)
 Single Action with Pat Martino (Muse, 1980)
 Lockin' Horns with Von Freeman (Muse, 1981)
 Gatorade (Prestige, 1982)
 Nothing Butt... (Muse, 1983)
 Ya Understand Me? (Muse, 1984)

As sideman
 George Benson, Erotic Moods (Paul Winley, 1978)
 Bo Diddley, Big Bad Bo (Chess, 1974)
 Don McLean, Homeless Brother (United Artists, 1974)
 Johnny "Hammond" Smith , Johnny "Hammond" Cooks with Gator Tail (Prestige, 1962)

References

1932 births
1987 deaths
Soul-jazz saxophonists
Jump blues musicians
Hard bop saxophonists
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Atlantic Records artists
Fire Records artists
Delmark Records artists
Prestige Records artists
Muse Records artists
Fantasy Records artists
20th-century American saxophonists
Musicians from Miami
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Black & Blue Records artists
Bernhard Neumann

Bernhard Hermann Neumann  (15 October 1909 – 21 October 2002) was a German-born British-Australian mathematician, who was a leader in the study of group theory.

Early life and education
After gaining a D.Phil. from Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Berlin in 1932 he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1935 and a Doctor of Science at the University of Manchester in 1954. His doctoral students included Gilbert Baumslag, László Kovács, Michael Newman, and James Wiegold. After war service with the British Army, he became a lecturer at University College, Hull, before moving in 1948 to the University of Manchester, where he spent the next 14 years. In 1954 he received a DSc from the University of Cambridge.

In 1962 he migrated to Australia to take up the Foundation Chair of the Department of Mathematics within the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University (ANU), where he served as head of the department until retiring in 1975. In addition he was a senior research fellow at the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics from 1975 to 1977 and then honorary research fellow  from 1978 until his death in 2002.

His wife, Hanna Neumann, and sons, Peter M. Neumann and Walter Neumann, are also notable for their contributions to group theory.

He was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1936 at Oslo and in 1970 at Nice. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959. In 1994, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

The Australian Mathematical Society awards a student prize named in his honour. The group-theoretic notion of HNN (Higman-Neumann-Neumann) extension bears the names of Bernard and his wife Hanna, from their joint paper with Graham Higman (who later supervised the PhD of their son Peter).

Career
 Assistant lecturer, University College, Cardiff, 1937–40.
 Army Service, 1940–45.
 Lecturer, University College, Hull, (now University of Hull), 1946–48
 Lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, Manchester, 1948–61
 Professor and head of Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU, Canberra, 1962–74; Emeritus Professor, 1975–2002.
 Senior research fellow, CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, 1975–77; honorary research fellow, 1978–99.
 Founding member of the World Cultural Council, 1981.

Awards
1984 Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture
1952 Adams Prize, University of Cambridge

References

External links

1909 births
2002 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Academics of Cardiff University
Academics of the University of Manchester
Australian mathematicians
Companions of the Order of Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Fellows of the Royal Society
Founding members of the World Cultural Council
German emigrants to Australia
Group theorists
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Academic staff of the Australian National University
Rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's singles

The men's singles competition was one of two rackets events held as part of the Rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to 12 players, though only Great Britain competed and with a total of 6 players.

Results

Standings

Bracket

References

 
 

Men's singles
Day's Lock

Day's Lock is a lock on the River Thames near Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England on the Dorchester side of the river.

The pound lock was built in 1789 by the Thames Navigation Commissioner. The lock is across the river from the small village of Little Wittenham and is overlooked from the south by the hills of Wittenham Clumps, with a particularly good view from Round Hill.

The weir runs straight across the river from the other side of the lock island.

Day's Lock is the main gauging station for the measurement of the water flow in the River Thames.

The Thames Path crosses the river here.

The World Poohsticks Championships, on behalf of the RNLI, have taken place annually here since 1983.

History

The name Day's Lock comes from the Day family, local Catholic yeomen since the 17th century. During the 16th century, there was a flash lock here. The pound lock was staked out in August 1788. It was judged best to build it on the Oxfordshire bank provided the existing weir  owner would "remove his bucks"(eel traps). In 1865 it was reported to be in utter ruin and dangerous, but reconstruction did not take place until 1871. In 1882 a bell push to summon the keeper was installed, there being no lock keeper's house at that time. The lock house was not built until 1928 when it was erected on Lock House Island next to Little Wittenham Bridge.

Access to the lock
A short way downstream of the lock is Little Wittenham Bridge which spans the river in two sections with an island between. Using this, the lock is a short walk from Little Wittenham where is a car park near St Peter's Church. The lock is a little further to walk to from Dorchester.

Reach above the lock

On the eastern bank to the north-east is the historic town of Dorchester with its ancient Abbey. The river follows a long bend round to Clifton Hampden. Here it goes under Clifton Hampden Bridge and past the historic Barley Mow public house, as mentioned in the book, Three Men in a Boat. After the bridge and before Clifton lock, the river divides between the old river course, past Long Wittenham; with the navigation following the Clifton Cut. The river meander is now a weirstream and has almost no public footpath access.

The Thames Path follows the western/southern bank to Clifton Hampden Bridge, where it crosses to the opposite northern bank to continue to Clifton Lock.

There are navigation transit markers upstream of the lock to allow boats to check their speed. A powered boat should take more than one minute to pass between the markers.

See also

 Locks on the River Thames
List of crossings of the River Thames

External links
 About the Thames — Day's Lock
 Thames Path — National Trails — Day's Lock
 Berkshire History: Two Iron Age Swords from Day's Lock, Little Wittenham

References

Locks on the River Thames
Locks of Oxfordshire
1789 establishments in England
Hunza

Hunza may refer to:

 Hunza, Iran
 Hunza Valley, an area in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan
 Hunza (princely state), a former principality
 Hunza District, a recently established district
 Hunza River, a waterway
 Hunza Peak, a mountain 
 Hunza people, also known as Burusho, the inhabitants of the valley
 Hunza, a variety of the Burushaski language
 Upper Hunza, another name for Gojal, a valley situated in the far north of Pakistan
 Shinaki, the inhabitants of Lower Hunza
 Pre-Columbian name of Tunja a city in Colombia

See also
 Hanza (disambiguation)
Naltar Valley
Popovo, Bulgaria

Popovo ( , from , pop, meaning "priest", and the placename suffix -ovo, literally "the priest's village") is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Targovishte Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Popovo Municipality. In 2021, it had a population of 13,324 and an absolute Bulgarian majority.

The town was first mentioned in an Ottoman tax register of 1555.

Popovo Saddle in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Popovo.

Geography

The town is built along the length of the Popovska river (also called Popovski Lom or Kalakoch Dere) on top of two hills opposite from one another and in the valley as well. Not long ago, before the corrections to the Sofia-Varna railway line were completed, the tracks ran by the suburbs of the city. The land of the villages Gagovo, Zaraevo, Kardam, Medovina, and Palamartsa.

Prehistory, Antiquity 
There are three prehistoric mounds of the Eneolithic and Chalcolithic settlements in the Popovo area, one northwest of the city and those in Nevsky and Seyachi neighbourhoods, as well as nine Thracian tombstones from the Roman epoch. Tombstone mounds are divided into two mound necropolises, but most of them were already destroyed by illegal "treasure hunters".

The nearby Roman fort at Kovachevsko kale is notable for its size and remaining walls.

Twin cities
 Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
 Câmpulung, Romania
 Lüleburgaz, Turkey
 Negotino, North Macedonia
 Zaraysk, Moscow Oblast, Russia

References

External links
Official website

Gallery

Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Targovishte Province
Incompressibility

Incompressibility may refer to:
 a property in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, see Compressibility or Incompressible flow
 a property of a vector field, see Solenoidal vector field
 a topological property, see Incompressible surface
 a proof method in  mathematics, see Incompressibility method
 a property of strings in computer science, see Incompressible string
Joachim III of Constantinople

Joachim III the Magnificent (; 30 January 1834 – 26 November 1912) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1878 to 1884 and from 1901 to 1912.

Joachim was born in Istanbul in 1834, with Aromanian origin from Kruševo. He was educated in Vienna. In 1858-1861, he was the deacon in the holy temple of St George. In 1864, he was elected bishop of Varna and in 1874 bishop of Thessalonica In the time of his first reign, he worked on the improvement of the financial state of the Patriarchate. In 1880, he founded the magazine Truth and did various other charitable acts. He is seen as one of the most prominent and important patriarchs of the twentieth century and modern times.

In his 1911 encyclical, Joachim said that holding church services in the Aromanian language was against the teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and threatened clergy performing services in Aromanian with unfrocking and excommunication.

Joachim repeatedly attempted to find a solution to the Bulgarian schism, to little avail. Patriarch Joachim was a Mason, a member of the «Πρόοδος» lodge. He was awarded the Serbian Order of the Cross of Takovo and the Austro-Hungarian Order of St. Stephen.

References

External links
Website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

1834 births
1912 deaths
People from Kruševo
Aromanian people
Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire
Aromanian priests
Anti-Aromanian sentiment
Ottoman Thessalonica
Bishops of Thessaloniki
 
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
20th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in Austria-Hungary
 
Clergy from Istanbul
People from Sarıyer
Pinkillu

A pinkillu, pinkuyllu or pinqullu (Quechua or Aymara, Hispanicized spellings pincollo, pincuyllo, pingullo, pinquillo, also pinkillo, pinkiyo, pinkullo, pinkuyo) is a flute found throughout the Andes, used primarily in Argentina northwest, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. It is usually played with one hand, leaving the other one free to accompany oneself on a drum like the tinya. It is used in a variety of public festivals and other kinds of communal ceremonies.

Construction and materials 
The pinkillu can measure in length up to 1 meter 20 cm, and has six finger holes.  It is most commonly made out of cane, but can be made out of bamboo, bone, or tree branches as well. In Peru and Bolivia, sheep and llama nerves are used to tie the instrument together. Among the different kinds there are
ch'aka pinkillu (bone flute), qina qina pinkillu (cane flute) and tupa pinkillu  (made out of thicker tuquru cane).

Cultural uses and significance 
The pinkillu has great cultural significance. In the Andes the instrument is played during the early rainy season to celebrate cattle and farming. The pinkillu is often played in pairs or ensembles during the rainy season and at festivals. In Bolivia it is believed that the pinkillu made from cane attracts rainfall. The pinkillu is moistened with alcohol or water before playing, and are associated with fertility.

See also
 Andean music
 Qina
 Tarka (flute)

References

External links
 Video of a pinkillu builder demonstrating the range of the instrument

End-blown flutes
Bolivian musical instruments
Chilean musical instruments
Andean music
Indigenous South American musical instruments
Peruvian musical instruments
An Aerial Joy Ride

An Aerial Joy Ride is a 1917 Fox silent comedy, starring Josef Swickard, Annette DeFoe and Raymond Griffith, written and directed by Charles Reed.

Cast
 Josef Swickard - Inventor
 Annette DeFoe - Daughter
 George Utell - Boyfriend (as George Uttal)
 Jack Abbott - Government official
 Harry Moody - Clever crook
 Raymond Griffith - Foolish Crook

References

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1917 films
American black-and-white films
American silent short films
American aviation films
1917 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
1917 short films
American comedy short films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
Nyamusa people

Nyamusa is an ethnic group of Western Equatoria in South Sudan. They speak Nyamusa-Molo, a Nilo-Saharan language.

References

Ethnic groups in South Sudan