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Albert van Ouwater

Albert van Ouwater ( 1410/1415 – 1475) was one of the earliest artists of Early Netherlandish painting working in the Northern Netherlands, as opposed to Flanders in the South of the region.

Biography
He was probably born in Oudewater, and is mentioned by Karel van Mander (1604) as a reputable painter at the time in which he lived. According to Karel van Mander he was possibly a contemporary of Jan van Eyck and had been the teacher of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, though he was quick to qualify this statement with the eye-witness account of an old man named Albert Simonsz who had been a pupil of Jan Mostaert and claimed neither he nor Mostaert had ever even heard of this Albert van Ouwater or Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Van Mander highly commends an altarpiece by Van Ouwater in the principal church in Haarlem, the Grotekerk or Sint-Bavokerk, representing St. Peter and St. Paul, in which the figures are carefully and correctly designed, and richly coloured. Van Mander posits Van Ouwater as the founder of the Haarlem school of painting, making him the first major Dutch (as opposed to Flemish) artist. According to Van Mander, landscape painting was a particular specialty of this Dutch school, although none of Van Ouwater's surviving works exhibit this tendency. Van Ouwater seems to have been a contemporary of Dirk Bouts in mid-15th-century Haarlem, and Geertgen tot Sint Jans may have been his pupil.

Van Mander describes another picture by Van Ouwater of a more extensive composition, the Resurrection of Lazarus, which had been taken by the Spaniards back to Spain after the siege of Haarlem as war booty, but which he saw the copy of that had been greatly admired by Maarten van Heemskerck. This has been identified as the painting now in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. This is the only widely accepted attribution to Van Ouwater, although many scholars also credit him with the small, fragmentary Head of a Donor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Max J. Friedländer also gave him a Virgin and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), but this painting has also been associated with the early works of Dirk Bouts (the Metropolitan Museum now considers it the work of a German painter influenced by the Haarlem school). Less convincingly, Albert Châtelet adds a pair of altar wings with St. John the Baptist and St. Michael (both in the Capilla Real, Granada) to Van Ouwater's œuvre.

According to the RKD he was also known as Albertus Veteraquinas, and the art historian W.R. Valentiner identified him as identical to the painters Master of Bellaert and Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl.

References

 T'leven van Albert van Ouwater, Schilder van Haerlem. in Het schilder-boeck (1604) by Karel van Mander

External links
Gerard David: purity of vision in an age of transition, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Ouwater (see index)

1410s births
1475 deaths
Early Netherlandish painters
Painters from Haarlem
People from Oudewater
Honda Interceptor

Honda Interceptor may refer to:
Honda VF and VFR, introduced in 1983 and 1986, respectively.
Honda VF1000, made from 1984 to 1988
Honda VFR800, first produced in 1998
Honda VTR250, two models, one produced 1988–1990; the other produced 1997 onward

Interceptor
National Institute of Oceanography, Pakistan

The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), (), is a department of the Government of Pakistan and a major research institute of Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan). The NIO is a science and research executive organization located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The NIO' research and studies are funded by the Federal Government of Pakistan while the facilities are provided by the Sindh Government.

History

NIO was established in 1981 through a Government Resolution to conduct multidisciplinary research in oceanography in the coastal and offshore areas of Pakistan (EEZ 24,000 km²). The institute has 30 qualified marine scientists working on ocean biology/productivity, marine chemistry and environment, physical oceanography/coastal hydraulics, marine geology and geophysics.

See also 
 Pakistan Antarctic Programme
 Pakistan Meteorological Department
Jinnah Antarctic Station

References

External links
 NIO official website
 Ministry of Science and Technology

Oceanographic organizations
Pakistan Antarctic Programme
Pakistan federal departments and agencies
Research institutes in Pakistan
1981 establishments in Pakistan
Government agencies established in 1981
Jeff Ranieri

Jeff Ranieri (born in 1978) is a Chief Meteorologist for NBC O&O station KNTV in San Jose, California. Ranieri previously reported for NBC NEWS on Early Today, and MSNBC weekday mornings & afternoons. He was also an NBC Weather Plus Meteorologist for Weekend Today Saturday.  Frequently during weather events he reported for Nightly News and the Today Show.

Prior to joining NBC in 2004 Ranieri was a forecaster at KCRA in Sacramento, California.  Early in his career he also forecasted in Oregon and Florida.

His reporting includes the landfall of Hurricane Katrina from Biloxi, Mississippi, Severe Midwest flooding in 2007, the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak 2008, and historic New England ice storm in December 2008. In 2006 he covered the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy and the Summer Games in Beijing, China.

After NBC Weather Plus dissolved it acquired the Weather Channel.  In late 2008 Ranieri merged with the new brand while remaining a meteorologist with NBC NEWS in New York. On May 22, 2009, TVNewser reported that Ranieri left NBC News in New York to join NBC O&O KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area. This comes after KNTV has laid off several valuable talent as part of the cutting costs. As of June 2010, Ranieri currently serves as Chief Meteorologist, and will occasionally be at various places around the SF Bay with live weather, features & interviews. Ranieri holds the American Meteorological Society television seal of approval.

References

External links
 Biography at NBC Bay Area
 Sacramento Magazine, February 2004
 MySpace Profile
 "Facebook Profile"

American television meteorologists
Television anchors from Sacramento, California
Living people
1978 births
NBC News people
Television anchors from San Francisco
Robert J. Art

Robert Jeffrey Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, and Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies.
He subscribes to the theory of neorealism, which argues that force still underlies the power structure in the modern world. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

Life 
Professor Art received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968.

Professor Art is a former member of the Secretary of Defense's Long Range Planning Staff (1982) and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis, and has consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a member of the editorial boards of the scholarly journals International Security, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Since 1982, he has also co-edited Cornell University's "Series in Security Studies."

He has lectured at numerous American universities and research institutes and at the following U.S. military and foreign institutions: the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. National War College, West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Marine Command and Staff College, the U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College, the U.S. Air University, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the U.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the National War College (Beijing), the People's University (Beijing), the Institute for War Studies (King's College, London), the Free University of Berlin, the Konrad Adenauer Institute (Berlin), the NATO School (Oberammergau), and the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (Hamburg).

Miscellaneous views 
Art has been critical of NATO's expansion, writing in 1998 that

Awards 
He has received grants from the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the Council on Foreign Relations (International Affairs Fellow), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Century Foundation.

Selected works 
  The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military (1968)
 Reorganizing America's Defense (1985) -- contributor and co-editor, with Samuel P. Huntington and Vincent Davis)
 U.S. Foreign Policy: the Search for a New Role (1993) -- contributor and co-editor with Seyom Brown
 The United States and Coercive Diplomacy (2003) -- contributor and co-editor with Patrick Cronin
 A Grand Strategy for America (2003) – a finalist for the Arthur B. Ross Award of the Council on Foreign Relations
 Democracy and Counterterrorism (2007) -- contributor and co-editor with Louise Richardson
 America's Grand Strategy and World Politics (2009)

References

External links 
Brandeis Faculty Guide
MIT Security Studies Program
Belfer Center at Harvard

Political realists
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Harvard University alumni
Brandeis University faculty
International relations scholars
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Placemat

A placemat or table mat is a covering or pad designating an individual place setting, unlike the larger tablecloth that covers the entire surface. Placemats are made from many different materials, depending on their purpose: to protect, decorate, entertain or advertise. Materials and production methods range from mass-produced and commercial, to local and traditional.

Uses 
Their primary function is to protect the dinner table from water marks, food stains or heat damage. They also serve as decoration, especially placemats made from lace or silk. In restaurants, they can be used to advertise menu items, specials, local businesses or games for children. If the mat is cotton, it can absorb water and other liquids, such as spilt drinks. Many people use them to protect kids from drawing on the tables and scratching them.

See also 

 Tablecloth
 Doily
 Beverage coaster
 Marghab Linens – a mid-20th-century company historically renowned for fine-quality table linen
 Neatnik Saucer
 The Dinner Party – an artwork depicting unique dinner place settings for a group of notable women from history

References 

Serving and dining
Linens
Domestic implements
Evanger

Evanger is a former municipality in the Voss district of the old Hordaland county in Norway.  The municipality existed from 1885 until 1964 when it was dissolved and its lands split between two municipalities.  The  municipality included the eastern part of the Eksingedalen valley, the area surrounding the lake Evangervatnet, and the Bergsdalen valley.

The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Evanger where Evanger Church is located.  Evanger Church served the central part of the municipality.  Nesheim Church and Eksingedal Church served the northern part of Evanger and Bergsdalen Church served the southern part of the municipality.

History
The municipality was established on 1 January 1885 when the western district of the large municipality of Voss (population: 2,045) was separated from Voss to become the new municipality of Evanger. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Evanger was dissolved.  The Bergsdalen and Eksingedalen valleys (population: 251) were merged with parts of the municipalities of Bruvik and Modalen to create the new Vaksdal Municipality. The rest of Evanger, with 1,075 inhabitants, was merged into the neighboring Voss Municipality.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Evanger farm () since the first Evanger Church was built there. The first element comes from the word  which means "to rest and eat" or "to rest and feed". The last element is the plural form of  which means "field" or "meadow". The name probably means something like "a place where one lets horses graze while on a journey". Historically, the name was spelled Ævanger until the early 20th century.

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Evanger was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms.  The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Mayors

The mayors () of Evanger:

 1885–1887: Gulleik Horvei
 1888–1897: Anders Kvilekvaal
 1898–1898: Johannes Horvei (V)
 1899–1913: Nils B. Mugaas (V)
 1914–1916: Johannes Horvei (V)
 1917–1928: Nils B. Mugaas (V)
 1929–1937: Olav B. Rongen (V)
 1938–1941: Gustav A. Hantveit (V)
 1942–1945: Lars B. Horvei (NS)
 1945–1946: Gustav A. Hantveit (V)
 1946–1947: Magne Hjørnevik (Bp)
 1948–1963: Ivar Bjørgo (Bp)

Notable people
Knute Nelson (1843–1923), a United States Senator
Bjørn Rongen (1906–1983), a novelist and children's book writer
Viking Mestad, a politician for the Norwegian Liberal Party

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

External links 
Evanger parish records

Vaksdal
Voss
Former municipalities of Norway
1885 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
Thomas Brun

Thomas Brun, also le Brun or Brown, was son or nephew of William Brun (first to bear the name Le Brun), a clerk of Henry I of England. He travelled to Sicily as a child in the entourage of Robert of Selby  about the year 1130. He first appears in a document in Sicily in 1137.

Thomas was a kaid, or magister, of the royal Diwan throughout the reign of Roger II, whose favour he certainly had. His name appears in many official documents and it was probably he who drafted the foundation charter of the Cappella Palatina. He is known to have had a secretary named Othman, named in an Arabic source. He appears in charters in Latin, Greek, and Arabic. The Greek transcription of his name and title was μαστρο Θωμα του Βρουνου.

Upon the succession of William I in 1154, Thomas was removed from office (possibly by the Emir Maio of Bari) and returned to England. There he became the almoner to Henry II.

Sources
Norwich, John Julius. The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194. London: Longmans, 1970.

Anglo-Normans
12th-century English people
Chassigny (meteorite)

Chassigny is a Martian meteorite which fell on October 3, 1815, at approximately 8:00 am, in Chassigny, north-eastern France. Chassigny is the meteorite for which the chassignites are named, and gives rise to the "C" in the name of the SNC group of meteorites. Chassigny is an olivine cumulate rock (dunite). It consists almost entirely of olivine with intercumulus pyroxene, feldspar, and oxides. It was the only known chassignite until NWA2737 was found in the Moroccan Sahara in northwest Africa.

Chassigny is particularly important because, unlike most SNCs, its noble gas composition differs from that in the current Martian atmosphere. These differences are presumably due to its cumulate (mantle-derived) nature.

See also 
 Glossary of meteoritics
 Meteorite falls

References 

Martian meteorites
1815 in France
Haute-Marne
1815 in science
Meteorites found in France
October 1815 events
Evangervatnet

Evangervatnet or  Lake Evanger is a lake in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The Vosso  River flows through both Vangsvatnet and Evangervatnet before it empties into Bolstadfjorden by the village of Bolstadøyri.  Evangervatnet is named for the village of Evanger, located on the eastern end of the lake. The last element vatnet is the definite form of vatn meaning lake.

European route E16 highway and the Bergen Line both run along the southern shore of the lake.  The northern shore of the lake is mostly mountainous and uninhabited.

See also
List of lakes in Norway

References

Lakes of Vestland
Voss
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1994

15th BSFC Awards
December 18, 1994

Best Film: 
 Pulp Fiction 
The 15th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1994. The awards were given on 18 December 1994.

Winners

Best Film 
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Vanya on 42nd Street
3. Ed Wood

Best Actor 
1. Albert Finney – The Browning Version
2. Wallace Shawn – Vanya on 42nd Street
3. Henry Czerny – The Boys of St. Vincent

Best Actress 
1. Julianne Moore – Vanya on 42nd Street
2. Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction
3. Jodie Foster – Nell

Best Supporting Actor 
Martin Landau – Ed Wood

Best Supporting Actress 
1. Kirsten Dunst – Interview with the Vampire and Little Women
2. Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway
3. Tracey Ullman – Bullets Over Broadway, I'll Do Anything and Prêt-à-Porter

Best Director 
1. Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
2. Louis Malle – Vanya on 42nd Street
3. Robert Redford – Quiz Show

Best Screenplay 
1. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary – Pulp Fiction
2. Paul Attanasio – Quiz Show
3. François Girard and Don McKellar – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Best Cinematography 
Stefan Czapsky – Ed Wood

Best Documentary 
Hoop Dreams

Best Foreign-Language Film 
Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) • France/Poland/Switzerland

External links
Past Winners

References
Boston critics pick `Pulp' as top film The Boston Globe
1994 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Internet Movie Database

1994
1994 film awards
1994 awards in the United States
1994 in Boston
December 1994 events in the United States
Kenefick Park

Kenefick Park is a municipal park at 100 Bancroft Street in South Omaha, Nebraska, named for John Kenefick, a former chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Railroad.

It is located at the southwest point of the Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha's botanical gardens; just north of Interstate 80; and just west of the Missouri River and the Iowa state border. On static display in the park are examples of two of Union Pacific's most powerful locomotives: EMD DDA40X No. 6900, the first of the class, and Big Boy No. 4023.

In 2004, Kenefick Park was moved from Abbott Drive north of downtown to make way for CenturyLink Center Omaha, an arena and convention center.

See also
 Parks in Omaha

References

Parks in Omaha, Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad
Landmarks in South Omaha, Nebraska
1891 establishments in Nebraska
Electoral history of the Indian National Congress

Since independence, the Indian National Congress has participated in elections, Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha. This article shows a list of the results of the elections for Congress.

Andhra Pradesh

Legislative Assembly Elections 

As Hyderabad State 

 

As Andhra Pradesh

General Elections

As Hyderabad State

As Andhra Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Assam

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Bihar

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Chandigarh

General Election

Chhattisgarh

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

General Elections

Daman and Diu

General Elections

Delhi

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Goa

Legislative Assembly Elections

As Goa, Daman and Diu

 As Goa

General Elections

As Goa, Daman and Diu

 As Goa

Gujarat

Legislative Assembly Elections

Haryana

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Himachal Pradesh

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Jammu and Kashmir

Legislative Assembly Elections
As Jammu Kashmir State

General Elections

As Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory

Ladakh

Jharkhand

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Karnataka

Legislative Assembly Elections

As Mysore

As Karnataka

General Elections

As Mysore

As Karnataka

Kerala

Legislative Assembly Elections

As Travancore-Cochin

As Kerala

General Elections

As Travancore-Cochin

Kerala

Lakshadweep

General Election

Madhya Pradesh

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Elections

Maharashtra

Legislative Assembly

Manipur

Legislative Assembly

General Assembly

Meghalaya

Legislative Assembly

General Elections

Mizoram

Legislative Assembly

General Assembly

Nagaland

Legislative Assembly

General Assembly

Odisha

Assembly Elections

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Puducherry

Legislative Assembly

General Elections

Punjab

Legislative Assembly Election

General Election

Rajasthan

Legislative Assembly Elections

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Sikkim

Legislative Assembly Election

General Election

Tamil Nadu

Legislative Assembly Election

As Madras State

As Tamil Nadu

General Election

As Madras State

As Tamil Nadu

Telangana

Legislative Assembly Election

General Election

Tripura

Legislative Assembly Election

General Election

Uttar Pradesh

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Election

Uttarakhand

Legislative Assembly Election

General Election

West Bengal

Legislative Assembly Elections

General Election

Ajmer

Bhopal

Bombay

Coorg

Kutch

Madhya Bharat

Patiala and East Punjab States Union

Saurashtra

Vindhya Pradesh

Notes

References

Indian National Congress
Election results in India
Election results by party
Abraham Begeyn

Abraham Begeyn (c. 1637 Leiden – 11 June 1697 Berlin), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography
Begeyn was born in Leiden.  Though perhaps known mostly for his Italianate landscapes and cattle in the manner of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Begyn was a highly skilled painter active in many genres, who traveled widely. According to the RKD, Begeyn's earliest known work is from 1653, though he was first accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in Leiden in 1655. He stopped paying dues in 1667, because he set off for a trip to Italy. He is registered in Rome and Naples from 1659–1660. In the rampjaar or disaster year, of 1672, he is registered in Amsterdam, and after that he lived in London, where he painted at Ham House, Surrey, together with Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707) and Dirck van Bergen (1645–1690). In 1681 he was in the Hague where two years later he became a member of the painters' confraternity 'Pictura'. He moved to Berlin in 1688, where he became Prussian court painter.

There his works were greatly prized, and, according to Houbraken, he was principal painter to Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, afterwards king of Prussia. He died of a heart attack when Augustinus Terwesten came to visit his studio, accompanied by two other painters. It is highly possible that he felt put under great pressure by Terwesten to perform, since Terwesten had also become court painter in Berlin and had also started an academy there, which opened in 1697. Begeyn died in Berlin.

In many collections in the Netherlands, the pictures of Begeyn are placed amongst those of the most admired masters. His pencilling is light and free, and his colouring very agreeable. Many of his works are landscapes like Peasants with Cattle by a Ruin, with views of rivers, ruins, and pieces of architecture, enriched with figures and a variety of animals. He is also known for his still life paintings of flowers and hunting paraphernalia.

References

External links

1630s births
1697 deaths
Artists from Leiden
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Leiden
Court painters
Dutch landscape painters
Dutch still life painters
Wright-Phillips

Wright-Phillips is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer, brother of Shaun
D'Margio Wright-Phillips, English footballer, son of Shaun

See also
Wright (surname)
Phillips (surname)

Compound surnames
English-language surnames
Surnames of English origin
Point of Impact

Point of Impact may refer to:

Literature
 Point of Impact (Stephen Hunter novel), 1993
Point of Impact, a 2001 novel in the Tom Clancy's Net Force series written by Steve Perry
Point of Impact, a 1985 romance novel by Emma Darcy
Point of Impact (comics), a comic by Jay Faerber and Koray Kuranel

Entertainment
Point of Impact (film), a 1993 film starring Michael Paré and Barbara Carrera
Burnout 2: Point of Impact, a 2002-2003 video game in the Burnout series
"Point of Impact" (CSI: Miami), a 2009 episode of CSI: Miami

See also
 Ballistic impact.
Valestrand

Valestrand is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway.  The  municipality existed from 1868 until its dissolution in 1964. It was located on a peninsula on the southern shore of the Bømlafjorden inside the present-day municipality of Sveio.  The administrative centre of Valestrand was the village of Valevåg. The two churches in Valestrand were Valen Chapel and Valestrand Church.

History
The municipality of Valestrand was established on 15 May 1868 when the southern district of the large municipality of Stord (south of the Bømlafjorden) was separated from the rest of Stord to become its own municipality. Initially, Valestrand had a population of 900. On 1 April 1870, the Øklandsgrend area (population: 247) of the neighboring municipality of Finnås was transferred to Valestrand. On 1 January 1964, a major municipal merger took place as a result of the Schei Committee. The municipalities of Sveio (population: 1,697) and Valestrand (population: 1,216) were merged with the western part of the municipality of Vikebygd (population: 471) and a small portion of the northern part of the municipality of Skjold (population: 24), both located north and west of the Ålfjorden. The new municipality was called Sveio. The small portion from Skjold municipality was in Rogaland county, and after the merger it switched to Hordaland county.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Valen farm () since the first Valestrand Church was built there. The first element is the plural genitive case of  which means "ford" or "shallow water". The last element, , was added as a suffix to the farm name. It was derived from the word  which means "shore" or "beach".

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Valestrand was made up of 13 representatives that were elected to four-year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Notable people
 Einar Økland, a poet, playwright, essayist and children's writer 
 Fartein Valen, a composer and music theorist
 Agnes Ravatn, an author, columnist, and journalist

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

Sveio
Former municipalities of Norway
1868 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
Strand plain

A strand plain or  strandplain  is a broad belt of sand along a shoreline with a surface exhibiting well-defined parallel or semi-parallel sand ridges separated by shallow swales. A strand plain differs from a barrier island in that it lacks either the lagoons or tidal marshes that separate a barrier island from the shoreline to which the strand plain is directly attached. Also, the tidal channels and inlets which cut through barrier islands are absent. Strand plains typically are created by the redistribution by waves and longshore currents of coarse sediment on either side of a river mouth. Thus, they are part of one type of wave-dominated delta.

Examples of strand plains:
Western Louisiana
Eastern Texas
West coast of Namibia
South-east and south-west coasts of Australia, and in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Letea and Caraorman, Danube Delta, Romania
Kustvlakte, Suriname
Cayo Costa, Florida

See also
Beach
Beach evolution
Chenier
Coast
River delta 
Shore

References

Coastal and oceanic landforms
Raven (American TV series)

Raven is an American martial arts drama series that originally aired on CBS from June 19, 1992 to April 30, 1993.

Overview 
Jonathon Raven is a ninja-trained former Special Forces agent, retired in Hawaii to search for his long-lost son. Avoiding assassins sent to kill him by his former associates in the Black Dragon Clan, he uses his skills to help those in need. He is assisted by his former military buddy turned eccentric private investigator, Herman Jablonski.

Plot
When Jonathon Raven was twelve years old, his parents were killed by the Black Dragon. He trained with them for many years in the deadly martial arts with the hopes of mastering their lethal skill and then using it against them for vengeance. Although he succeeded in infiltrating them, the Black Dragon are many in number, and are now bent on destroying Raven's bloodline. His one true love, a beautiful Japanese woman named Aki, becomes pregnant with their son at the same time the Black Dragon clan is after Raven's life. Aki dies shortly after giving birth to their son, but before she dies, she realizes that her son's life is in danger. Jonathon learns of his wife's plan of hiding their son from imperilment, but never gets to see him or attain the knowledge of his location. Later on, he joins the U.S. Special Forces and becomes one of their top assassins under a man named Nick Henderson. After many complications and regrets, Raven leaves the Special Forces and continues his search for his long-lost son. His search eventually leads him to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he believes his son may be. Raven is on a lifelong journey in search of his son, and is willing to risk his life along the way to find him and ensure the safety of his life, with the aid of his old military buddy – a private investigator named Herman "Ski" Jablonski.

Cast 
Jeffrey Meek as Jonathon Raven
Lee Majors as Herman "Ski" Jablonski
Andy Bumatai as The Big Kahuna

Episodes

Original Pilot
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons – 90 minutes (without commercials)

Season 1: 1992

Season 2: 1993

Home media
The complete series as originally broadcast on CBS (including the abbreviated 70 minute pilot) was released as a manufacture-on-demand DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on April 5, 2016.

Mill Creek Entertainment announced the re-releasing of the series on DVD.

References

External links
 
 

Ninja fiction
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
CBS original programming
Martial arts television series
English-language television shows
1990s American drama television series
1990s American mystery television series
1992 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
American action adventure television series
Television shows set in Hawaii
Television shows filmed in Hawaii
Television series created by Frank Lupo
Japan in non-Japanese culture
Vigilante television series
Varaldsøy

Varaldsøy is an island (and village) in the municipality of Kvinnherad in Vestland county, Norway.  The  island is the largest island in the Hardangerfjorden.  Most of the inhabitants live on the southern tip of the island in the village of Varaldsøy, where Varaldsøy Church is located.  The  tall mountain Øyefjellet is the highest point on the island.

History
The island was historically a part of Strandebarm municipality until 1902 when it was transferred to the new Varaldsøy Municipality.  The island made up the majority of the municipality (plus some of the mainland to the west and north).  In 1965, the municipality of Varaldsøy was dissolved in a period of municipal consolidations in Norway.  The island was then transferred to the municipality of Kvinnherad.

See also
List of islands of Norway

References

Islands of Vestland
Villages in Vestland
Kvinnherad
Agariste

Agariste may refer to:

Agariste of Sicyon (fl. c. 560 BC), daughter of Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon
Agariste, mother of Pericles (c. 495–429 BC)
Agariste (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Fissurellidae

Greek feminine given names
Feminine given names
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613 – 23 January 1654) was a Dutch Republic-born Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography
Willeboirts Bosschaert was born in Bergen op Zoom, where his Catholic family had moved in the late sixteenth century. He moved to Antwerp in 1628, and entered the studio of Gerard Seghers for eight years. In 1636 or 1637 he became an Antwerp citizen and joined the Guild of St. Luke.  He died in Antwerp.

Art
Willeboirts' style was heavily influenced by Anthony van Dyck, both in history and portrait, leading some scholars to suggest that Willeboirts might have studied in that studio. The artist ran his own studio with at least nine known pupils, and collaborated with other artists of the time such as Daniel Seghers, Paul de Vos, Jan Fyt, Jan van den Hoecke, Frans Snyders, and Adriaen van Utrecht, as well as with Peter Paul Rubens on the decoration series for Philip IV of Spain's Torre de la Parada (1636–1638). Between 1641 and 1647 he also worked for the Dutch stadtholder Frederik Hendrik of Orange. Hendrik's widow, Amalia von Solms also commissioned a work from Willeboirts for the decorations of the Oranjezaal (Orange Room) in the Huis ten Bosch, a decorative program that included both Dutch and Flemish masters. In 1653, a competition was held in Antwerp between him and Cornelis Schut to create an altarpiece with money that had been allocated for Van Dyck before his death; Willeboirts lost to Schut's painting, The Martyrdom of St. George.

Willeboirts made the grisaille centerpieces for two of Daniel Seghers garland paintings. For one of these Seghers was awarded with a solid gold maulstick, and Willeboirts was given a hundred guilders.

Notes

References
 Frans Baudouin, "Van Dyck's Last Religious Commission: An Altarpiece for Antwerp Cathedral," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 57. (1994), pp. 175–190.
 Axel Heinrich, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1613/14-1654). Ein flämischer Nachfolger Van Dycks. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. 
 
 Hans Vlieghe. "Thoughts on Van Dyck's Early Fame and Influence in Flanders," in: Van Dyck 350. Studies in the History of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, vol. 46, edited by Susan J. Barnes and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, pp. 198–220.

1613 births
1654 deaths
People from Bergen op Zoom
Flemish Baroque painters
Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Antwerp
Pupils of Peter Paul Rubens
Toyota TR engine

The Toyota TR engine is a family of gasoline engines that appeared in 2004. They are mainly used for Toyota Hilux and other vehicles in the Toyota IMV platform; and are designed to be mounted longitudinally for pickup RWD and 4WD pickup applications.

1TR-FE

The 1TR-FE is a  Straight-4 gasoline engine. It features DOHC, 16 valves and VVT-i. Bore and stroke is 86 mm × 86 mm (3.39 in × 3.39 in). Its power is  at 5,600 rpm, and  of torque at 4,000 rpm with redline of 6000 rpm.

Just like its sister, the 2TR-FE engine, the 1TR-FE engine also received a Dual VVT-i update. The updated power is  at 5,600 rpm.

Applications
Toyota Dyna Y200 (2003–present)
Toyota HiAce H100/200 (2003–present)
Toyota RegiusAce H100/200 (2003–2020)
Toyota ToyoAce Y200 (2003–2020)
Toyota Innova AN40/140 (2004–2022)
Toyota Hilux AN10/110 (2004–present)
Toyota Comfort TSS13Y (2007–2009, 2011–2017)
Hino Dutro
Mazda Bongo Brawny H200 (2019–present)

1TR-FPE
The 1TR-FPE is an LPG version of the 1TR-FE engine. Its power is  at 4,800 rpm and torque is  at 3,700 rpm. The compression ratio is 10.6:1. Bore and stroke is .

Applications
Toyota Dyna Y200 (2003–2022)
Toyota ToyoAce Y200 (2003–2020)
Toyota Comfort TSS11Y (2007–2009, 2011–2017)
Hino Dutro

2TR-FE
The 2TR-FE is a  Straight-4 gasoline engine. It features DOHC, 16 valves and VVT-i. Maximum power is  at 5,200 rpm, and  of torque at 3,800 rpm with redline of 5500 rpm. The bore and stroke are . The compression ratio is 9.6:1 for the single VVT-i. Average fuel consumption using the JC08 method is .

The 2TR-FE received updates in 2015 to feature Dual VVT-i. The maximum power with Dual VVT-i is  at 5,200 rpm, and  of torque at 3,800 rpm. The compression ratio is raised to 10.2:1 for the Dual VVT-i version.

Applications
Toyota Hilux Surf N210 (2004–2009)
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado J120/150/250 (2004–present)
Toyota HiAce H200 (2004–present)
Toyota RegiusAce H200 (2004–2020)
Toyota Tacoma N220/300 (2004–present)
Toyota Hilux AN10/110 (2004–present)
Toyota Innova AN40/140 (2004–2022)
Toyota Fortuner/SW4 AN50/150 (2005–present)
Toyota ToyoAce
Toyota HiMedic H220 (2006–present)
Toyota Coaster (Bolivia, Hong Kong, Australia)
Toyota 4Runner N280 (2009–2010)
Hino Dutro

See also

 List of Toyota engines

References

TR engine

Straight-four engines
Gasoline engines by model
1952 Louisiana gubernatorial election

The 1952 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held in two rounds on January 15 and February 19, 1952. Like most Southern states between the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support.

This meant that the two Democratic Party primary elections held on these dates were the real contest over who would be governor of Louisiana. The 1952 election saw the defeat of Long candidate Carlos Spaht, and the election of Robert F. Kennon as governor.

In the low-turnout general election held on April 22, 1952, Kennon defeated Harrison Bagwell, a Baton Rouge lawyer and only the second Louisiana Republican gubernatorial nominee since Reconstruction. Kennon received 118,723 votes (96 percent) to Bagwell's 4,958 votes (4 percent).

Results 

First Democratic Party Primary, January 15

Second Democratic Party Primary, February 19

References

Sources 

Louisiana Secretary of State.   Democratic Primary Election Returns, 1952.

1952
Louisiana
Gubernatorial
January 1952 events in the United States
February 1952 events in the United States
Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship

Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) is a private business school with three fully residential campuses, in Bangalore, Kochi and Chennai, all in India.  XIME is currently being led by Anil J Philip as the President. The Institute pioneered the Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS, estd 2008) which is a platform for management education in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

XIME arranges international events in collaboration with seventeen partner institutions around the globe which is popularly known as Student Exchange Programme, including campus exchange programmes, faculty exchange programmes and an international study tour for its students. XIME took the initiative in formation of Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS), thus bringing together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. XIME offers a two-year PGDM course with specialization in Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations and Business Analytics. XIME Banglore also offers PGCM in Construction Management and Healthcare Management.

Ranking 
Ranked 45th best in South India by Outlook-ICARE India MBA Rankings 2020

References

Related links
 

All India Council for Technical Education
Business schools in Chennai
1991 establishments in Karnataka
Educational institutions established in 1991
Business schools in Bangalore
Louis Halphen

Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen (4 February 1880, Paris – 7 October 1950, Paris) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classic  Einhard's "Vie de Charlemagne" (Paris, 1947), He was also known as being one of the general editors of the monumental series Peuples et civilisations.

Louis Halphen was born in Paris to mathematician Georges Henri Halphen. He married Germaine Weill, the daughter of Mathieu Weill, in 1910, with whom he had two children: Étienne and Geneviève.

Selected Published Books 
 Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle, 1906
 review by S Fanning in Speculum, 1985 "...The essential works on Anjou in this period are Louis Halphen, Le comte d'Anjou au XIe siecle (Paris, 1906)  JSTOR
 La Conquête romaine (with A Piganiol,& P Sagnac (1926) - Presses universitaires de France
 Charlemagne et l'empire carolingien, 1947
translated into English as Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire, (1977) North-Holland Pub. Co
translated into Spanish as Carlomagno y el imperio carolingio, Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana (1955)
 Études sur l'administration de Rome au Moyen Âge (751-1252), (1972) Multigrafica Editrice
 À travers l'histoire du Moyen âge, (1950) - Presses universitaires de France

References

 S. Woolf, "Europe and its Historians" Contemporary European History (2003), 12: 323-337 Cambridge University Press
 Edward R. Tannenbaum "French Scholarship in Modern European History: New Developments since 1945" The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 1957), pp. 246–252 JSTOR
Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen âge, dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen : Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1951.

External links
 
 
 
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French medievalists
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
1880 births
1950 deaths
Lycée Hoche alumni
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
Mohammad Said Yusof

Datuk Mohammad Said bin Yusof (born 15 September 1959) was a member of the Malaysian Parliament in the lower house of the Dewan Rakyat, representing the constituency of Jasin in the state of Malacca. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading party of the governing Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

After the dissolution of Parliament on 13 February 2008, Mohammad Said was dropped by BN as a candidate for the seat of Jasin in the 2008 general election, to be replaced by another UMNO-affiliated member, Ahmad Hamzah.

Controversies

Illegal timber exports 
In May 2006, a scandal arose over an MP who allegedly asked the Malaccan Customs and Excise Department for special treatment in the handling of an illegal timber import shipment from Indonesia. After the New Straits Times publicised the issue, Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition Lim Kit Siang from the Democratic Action Party (DAP) moved to refer the issue to the Dewan Rakyat House Rights and Privileges Committee. After the motion failed, the Chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC), Shahrir Abdul Samad, announced his resignation as a matter of principle.

Shortly after, Said announced he was the MP implicated in the scandal. However, he said he had only requested leniency in the case concerned, as the shipment had been confiscated on the basis of a technicality. Although the diameter of the logs concerned exceeded the maximum limit of 152.4 centimetres, Said requested leniency on the behalf of one of his constituents, because the logs had been partially hollowed out. The Department rejected Said's request to simply compound the shipment. Said later told the press that although he felt the decision was right, some discretion should have been exercised to aid the Bumiputra entrepreneur whose interests were affected.

On 10 May 2006, following an exposé by the New Straits Times, Said admitted that the company he was trying to help in the log scandal was in fact his own company, Binyu Sof Enterprise.

"Bocor" remark 
In a 9 May 2007 Parliament session, Mohammad Said supported Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, who made sexist remarks referencing menstruation against Fong Po Kuan, a female Batu Gajah MP from the Democratic Action Party. The incident occurred during a heated argument with Fong over ceiling leakages in the Parliament Houses, accumulating to both men stating the following in Malay:

Both Mohammad Said and Bung Mokhtar's remark led to an uproar among women's groups. The two MPs would later issue a "public apology" to women "who might have been offended" by their words during a meeting with Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil on 18 May 2007.

Death
Mohd Said Yusof died at 28 August 2023 due to heart problems and diabetes.

Election results

Honours
  :
  Companion Class I of the Exalted Order of Malacca (DMSM) – Datuk (2004)

Notes and references

Living people
1959 births
Members of the Dewan Rakyat
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
United Malays National Organisation politicians
Suicide squeeze

Suicide squeeze may refer to:

 Squeeze play (baseball), a play in baseball in which the runner on third starts for home immediately while the batter attempts a bunt.
 Squeeze (bridge), a set of plays of the cards in contract bridge.
 Suicide Squeeze Records, a record label.
 Cannibal squeeze, a contract bridge squeeze also known as a suicide squeeze.
 "Suicide Squeeze", an episode of the TV series Castle
Skånevik

Skånevik is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The   municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. It included the land surrounding both sides of the Skånevikfjorden and its smaller branches: the Åkrafjorden and Matersfjorden in the present-day Etne Municipality and Kvinnherad Municipality. It also included the eastern part of the island of Halsnøya and stretched quite a ways inland all the way to the Folgefonna glacier. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Skånevik where Skånevik Church is located.

History
The parish of Skonevig was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). The spelling of the name was changed in the early 20th century to its present spelling of Skånevik. On 1 January 1965, the municipality of Skånevik was dissolved due to the recommendations of the Schei Committee during a period of many municipal mergers across Norway.  The area of Skånevik situated south of the Skånevikfjord and Åkrafjorden, as well as the parts of Skånevik located north of the fjord and east of the village of Åkra (population: 1,493) were merged with the neighboring municipality of Etne to the south. The rest of Skånevik lying north of the fjord and west of Åkra (population: 1,189), became a part of the neighbouring municipality of Kvinnherad to the north.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Skaanevik farm () since the first Skånevik Church was built there. The meaning of the first element is uncertain. It may be the plura form of the word  which means "harm" or "danger". The last element is  which means "meadow" or "pasture". Prior to the 1917 Norwegian language reform law, the name was spelled Skaanevik with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the letter å was used instead (Skånevik).

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Skånevik was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

Former municipalities of Norway
Etne
Kvinnherad
1838 establishments in Norway
1965 disestablishments in Norway
Orange II (boat)

Orange II is a large catamaran designed for ocean racing, a "maxicat". The boat is 36.80 m long and has a 45 m mast and was designed by the Gilles Ollier Multiplast design team and built by the Multiplast yard in Vannes, France.

History 
Orange II held the Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest time around-the-world at 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds from 2005 until March 2010. Orange II was skippered by Frenchman Bruno Peyron.

The sponsor, Orange (formerly France Télécom), discontinued its yacht racing activities. The boat was in storage at Multiplast for several years.

In February 2014, the boat was purchased by François Bich.

The yacht was restored and given the name VITALIA II. The first tests of the new craft took place in April 2015.

See also
List of large sailing yachts

References

External links
BYM News Photo Gallery Album with hundreds of Orange II photos.
BYM News Interview with Orange II skipper Bruno Peyron.
BYM News Interview with Orange II designer Giles Ollier.

Individual catamarans
Individual sailing vessels
2000s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Gilles Ollier
Sailing yachts built in France