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Indian desert jird

The Indian desert jird or Indian desert gerbil (Meriones hurrianae)  is a species of jird found mainly in the Thar Desert in India. Jirds are closely related to gerbils.

Distribution
The Indian desert jird is found in southeastern Iran and Pakistan to northwestern India. In India they can be found in Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Description

The Indian desert jird has a grey-brown coat with yellowish-grey belly. It is approximately  long and has a tail  long. The distinguishing characteristics include short ears, long black claws and orange incisors.

Habitat
Jirds inhabit desert and barren areas preferring firm soil. They are not to be found in pure sand dunes or rocky outcrops.

Habits
The jirds are gregarious and their burrows are seen close by. Each jird will have at least two or more entrances to his burrow complex. Often the entrance is in the shade of a tree or near the trunk of bushes. They feed on seeds, roots, nuts, grasses and insects.

Difference between 'jirds' and 'gerbils'
Jirds are closely related to gerbils but can be distinguished by the lack of long hind feet and the characteristic erect posture of a gerbil. The tail of a jird is generally shorter than the head and body. It also has much shorter ears. In addition, the Indian desert jird is diurnal, in comparison to the three common gerbil species found in India which are nocturnal.

References

External links
 Indian hairy-footed gerbil - gerbil-info.com

Meriones (rodent)
Mammals of Asia
Rodents of India
Rodents of Pakistan
Jird, Indian Desert
Mammals described in 1867
Fauna of the Thar Desert
Fauna of Sindh
Wank

Wank may refer to:

 WANK (computer worm), a computer worm that attacked DEC VAX/VMS systems through DECnet in 1989
 WXTY, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to serve Lafayette, Florida, United States, which held the call sign WANK from 2010 to 2018
 Wank (mountain), a German mountain close to the Austrian border
 Male masturbation, in British slang
 Wank (surname), a surname

See also
 Wanka (disambiguation)
 Wankel (surname)
 Wanker (disambiguation)
WSRC

WSRC may refer to:

 WSRC (FM), a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to serve Waynetown, Indiana, United States
 WQTM, a radio station (1480 AM) licensed to serve Fair Bluff, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WSRC from June 2006 to January 2009
 WRJD, a radio station (1410 AM) licensed to serve Durham, North Carolina, which used the call sign WSRC until March 2006 
 Washington Savannah River Company, SRS
 West Side Rowing Club, a rowing club in Buffalo, New York, United States
 Westinghouse Savannah River Company, SRS
Shake (EliZe song)

"Shake" is a Europop song written by the Peter Hartmann, Jan Langhoff and Linda Holmberg and recorded by the Dutch singer EliZe. The song was released as EliZe's first single from her debut album In Control, which was released in October 2006 in the Benelux. It was produced by Peter Hartmann and Jan Langhoff and was made "Dancesmash" by Radio 538. The single spent 5 weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and peaked at number 32.

Music video

Directed by Robert Brouwers, the music video for "Shake" was released prior to the single's commercial release. Shot in a discotheek in her home country The Netherlands, EliZe appears dancing with her background dancers, performing a sensual choreography. EliZe is sexy in the style of Britney Spears, while she keeps on dancing and singing throughout the video.

Review

Review by Artistopia Music:

Formats and track listings

"Shake" was released on October 18, 2004 in the Netherlands. On May 17, 2005, the CD single was released in the U.S. with the vinyl single appearing on May 23, 2005.

Dutch CD single

"Shake" [radio edit] – 3:15
"Shake" [extended edit] – 6:31
"Shake" [remix] – 3:55
"Shake" [club mix] – 7:43
"Shake" [karaoke version] - 3:30
"Shake" [enhanced video] – 3:13

US CD single
"Shake" [radio edit] – 3:14
"Shake" [remix] – 3:52
"Shake" [extended edit] – 6:29
"Shake" [club mix] – 7:42
"Shake" [karaoke version] – 3:28

US (promo) vinyl single
Side 1
"Shake" [extended edit] – 6:29
"Shake" [radio edit] – 3:14
Side 2
"Shake" [club mix] – 7:42
"Shake" [remix] – 3:52

Charts

Personnel

Track 3 & 4 (CD single) produced by Matina Productions.
Published by: T.G. Publishing/Mundo Music/Music Allstars.
Styling: Moon V., Paul Warmer, Tov Jewels, It Store (Laren), The Factory, Kiki Riki, Next Issue (Amstelveen), Hip (Amsterdam) & DS Fashion
Hairstyling & make-up:  Jedidjah Kuijten.
Photos: Priscilla Laurens.
Video director: Robert Brouwers.
Video location: PV Showservice.
Choreography: Angelique Versnel (who is best known for her role in Alice Deejay).
Mastering by: AR Digital Mastering.
Distributed in the Netherlands by BMG.

References

External links
"Shake" Lyrics.

EliZe songs
2004 singles
2004 songs
Spinnin' Records singles
Zajedničar

(Fraternalist) is a newspaper of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America (CFU), a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora.

The magazine was started in 1904, during the CFU's presidency of Josip Marohnić, its founder and the first president.

Zajedničar is headquartered and printed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is published in dual-language format with the first section in English and the second section being a full Croatian translation. Since 2009, the newspaper is also distributed in PDF format.  The paper is the only ongoing Croatian-language newspaper in the United States.

Another publication called  (People's Fraternalist) was launched by Croatian communists within the CFU in 1939, but it was short-lived and no surviving copies are known to exist. It formed part of non-English press of the Communist Party USA.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160115190203/http://voiceofcroatia.hrt.hr/int/zajednicar-new-edition/

Croatian-American history
Newspapers published in Pittsburgh
Newspapers established in 1904
Croatian-American culture in Pennsylvania
Croatian-language newspapers
Bilingual newspapers
Non-English-language newspapers published in Pennsylvania
Malonic ester synthesis

The malonic ester synthesis is a chemical reaction where diethyl malonate or another ester of malonic acid is alkylated at the carbon alpha (directly adjacent) to both carbonyl groups, and then converted to a substituted acetic acid. 

A major drawback of malonic ester synthesis is that the alkylation stage can also produce dialkylated structures. This makes separation of products difficult and yields lower.

Mechanism
The carbons alpha to carbonyl groups can be deprotonated by a strong base. The carbanion formed can undergo nucleophilic substitution on the alkyl halide, to give the alkylated compound. On heating, the di-ester undergoes thermal decarboxylation, yielding an acetic acid substituted by the appropriate R group. Thus, the malonic ester can be thought of being equivalent to the −CH2COOH synthon.

The esters chosen are usually the same as the base used, i.e. ethyl esters with sodium ethoxide. This is to prevent scrambling by transesterification.

Variations

Dialkylation

The ester may be dialkylated if deprotonation and alkylation are repeated before the addition of aqueous acid.

Cycloalkylcarboxylic acid synthesis

Intramolecular malonic ester synthesis occurs when reacted with a dihalide. This reaction is also called the Perkin alicyclic synthesis (see: alicyclic compound) after investigator William Henry Perkin, Jr.

Application 
In the manufacture of medicines, malonic ester is used for the synthesis of barbiturates, as well as sedatives and anticonvulsants.

Used in organic synthesis.

Аs a flavoring agent in the food industry.

See also
 Knoevenagel condensation
 Acetoacetic ester synthesis

References

Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
Substitution reactions
Toivo Särkkä

Toivo Jalmari Särkkä (20 November 1890, in Mikkeli – 9 February 1975, in Helsinki), born Toivo Hjalmar Silén, was a Finnish film producer and director. He was CEO of the production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus.

Before his career in filmmaking, Särkkä worked as a bank manager and chairman in Kotimainen Työ, an organization promoting Finnish work and products. After the death of Erkki Karu, founder and owner of Suomen Filmiteollisuus, Särkkä became the CEO thus producing 233 and directing 49 feature films.

In 1965, when the Finnish film industry was in difficulties due to the coming of television, Särkkä initiated bankruptcy of Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Films directed by Särkkä are e.g. Suomisen perhe, Helmikuun manifesti, Kulkurin valssi and Vaivaisukon morsian.

Särkkä married Russian-Lithuanian Margariitta Beljavsky in 1914. They had one daughter.

Selected filmography
 Radio tekee murron (1951)
 Kvinnan bakom allt (1951)
 Pekka Puupää (1953)
 The Milkmaid (1953)
 Hilma's Name Day (1954)
 The Unknown Soldier (1955)
 Juha (1956)
 1918 (1957)
 Miriam (1957)
 Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
 Skandaali tyttökoulussa (1960)
 Komisario Palmun erehdys (1960)
 Kaks' tavallista Lahtista (1960)
 The Scarlet Dove (1961)

External links

1890 births
1975 deaths
People from Mikkeli
People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Finnish film directors
Bloater

Bloater can refer to:
 Bloater (herring), a term for herring that is smoked whole;
The Yarmouth Bloaters, a defunct motorcycle team named for the herring;
Great Yarmouth Town F.C. commonly known by the nickname The Bloaters;
 Coregonus hoyi, a freshwater whitefish from the Great Lakes;
Several related species of cisco from the Great Lakes, such as the kiyi
 A zombie-like enemy in The Last of Us video game, in which it is the fourth and most dangerous stage of the Cordyceps infection.
 The Bloater, a 1968 novel by Rosemary Tonks
Pont d'Aquitaine

The Pont d'Aquitaine is a large suspension bridge over the Garonne, north-west of the city of Bordeaux, in France. It forms part of the ring-road of Bordeaux and carries the A630 autoroute. It was completed in 1967 and its main span is  long.

The eastern and western aspects of the bridge are dramatically different. To the east there is a ridge of land which allows the roadway to enter the bridge with little or no slope. By contrast, to the west there is an area of flat land, forming part of the Medoc, which means the roadway across the bridge slopes dramatically upwards in order to gain sufficient height to enter the bridge.

History
The first bridge for the city of Bordeaux, the stone bridge, built by order of Napoleon, was completed in 1822. By the Second Empire, the bridge was already considered insufficient to allow the city to develop normally. From 1891, the studies multiplied leading in 1909, to the choice of a Transporter bridge whose construction was entrusted to the Cail-Fives-Lille. The President of the Republic, Armand Fallières, laid the foundation stone on 19 September 1910.

In 1914, only the pylons were built, but Great War interrupted the works and was not resumed as that type of works was now obsolete.

The studies were resumed, and in 1939 the solution was finally found. The stone bridge would be demolished and replace it with a new, sufficiently wide bridge. This idea was confirmed by the ministerial decision of 3 December 1941. Circumstances did not allow the projects execution and the worst was thus avoided.

In 1949, the state, the city of Bordeaux and the communities concerned recognised that it was wiser to create a new bridge, but the choice of its location posed a major difficulty.

In the spring of 1953, it was decided, to increase the roadway of the stone bridge to four lanes, which could be done without notable modifications and at a low cost. The works were quickly completed in 1954. The same year, the mayor of Bordeaux, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, became Minister of Public Works and as of 13 August 1954, the decision was made in principle, to build a suspension bridge. Public Works Minister Robert Buron laid the foundation stone on 20 May 1960.

Beginning in 1961 the construction was spread over six years. The work was officially inaugurated on 6 May 1967, under the presidency of the Minister of Public Works of the time, François-Xavier Ortoli.

Specifications
The Pont d'Aquitaine's central span, 393.75 m, is the second largest French suspension bridge behind the Pont de Tancarville, remains a modest work. In 2008, it ranked 80th in the world of suspension bridges. However, it is extended on the left bank by a viaduct of 1014 m, which brings it to the 8th rank in terms of length of French bridges when all categories combined.

See also
 List of bridges in France

References

External links

 

Suspension bridges in France
Bridges completed in 1967
Transport in Bordeaux
Buildings and structures in Bordeaux
Bridges over the Garonne
Thomas Carr College

Thomas Carr College is a Roman Catholic co-educational day school in Tarneit,  Victoria, Australia. It is named after Thomas Joseph Carr, the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.

School principals 
In 2006, the principal since the College's founding, Paul D'Astoli, was transferred and succeeded by Bruce Runnalls. Runnalls died in office in 2011 and was succeeded by Andrew Watson until December 2018, when he resigned. Craig Holmes took over the role as college principal from January 2019 to 2020, before the role was passed to Jamie Madigan until 23rd of June 2023. Rose Connolly currently holds the position as of 2023.

Sport 
Thomas Carr College is a member of the Sports Association of Catholic Co-educational Secondary Schools (SACCSS) since 2019 and a former member of the Association of Co-educational School (ACS) sporting competition from 2003-2018.

ACS premierships 
Thomas Carr College won the following ACS premierships.

Combined:

 Beach Volleyball - 2018
 Touch Football (3) - 2008, 2010, 2011

Boys:
 Hockey (2) 2015, 2016
 Basketball (7) - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2019
 Cricket (3) - 2011, 2015, 2017
 Soccer - 2005
 Softball (6) - 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
 Table Tennis - 2005
 Tennis - 2015

Girls:

 Football (3) - 2012, 2014, 2015
 Hockey - 2011
 Netball (3) - 2006, 2008, 2009
 Softball (3) - 2007, 2008, 2009

Houses  
There are four houses at Thomas Carr College. They are the Galway (yellow), the Moylough  (blue), Maynooth (red) and Westport (green). All are named after towns in Ireland and are significant places in Thomas Carr's life.

Controversy 
In 2002 it was reported that some Year 8 students were given money from male students to perform sexual acts.

In 2003, a Year 9 student committed suicide after being bullied at school camp. The resulting controversy led to widespread bullying awareness, and the state government introduced various reforms.

In 2005 the school established a "wireless bully button" system which alerts teachers by SMS when students push the button and records incidents via a network of 20 video cameras.

Notable alumni 
 Dante Exum – basketball player
 Manyiel Wugol – basketball player

See more
 List of schools in Victoria
 List of high schools in Victoria
 Victorian Certificate of Education

References

External links
Thomas Carr College website

Educational institutions established in 1997
Catholic secondary schools in Melbourne
Schools in Wyndham
1997 establishments in Australia
Saarijärvi (disambiguation)

Saarijärvi (literally "island lake") is a common name of lakes in Finland. It may mean:

Saarijärvi, a municipality in Central Finland region
Saarijärvi crater, a lake formed in an impact crater in Taivalkoski, Northern Ostrobothnia
Saarijärvi, an older name for Tikka-Mannila, Jyväskylä, Central Finland
Matt Zimmerman (actor)

Matthew Zimmerman (December 26, 1934 – June 2022) was a Canadian actor. He was best known as the voice of Alan Tracy in the 1960s television series Thunderbirds and sequel films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.

Life and career 
Zimmerman was born in Sudbury, Ontario, on December 26, 1934. He was educated in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and started acting at an early age. He attended Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where he was a telecommunications major. Having won a scholarship, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1959 to study drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where he was a contemporary of Ed Bishop.

Zimmerman was cast as Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds after being recommended to producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson by David Holliday, the voice of Virgil Tracy. In an interview, he remembered of his casting: "They were having great difficulty in casting the part of Alan Tracy as they wanted a certain sound for him ...As I walked in [Sylvia Anderson] looked at me and said, 'Don't talk! Oh, my god, you've got those big eyes and the cleft in the chin and the cheek bones, and if you were blond you'd look very much like Alan.' She said, 'Now, sit down. What's your name again?' And I said, 'My name is Matt Zimmerman and I'm from Detroit, Michigan,' and she said, 'That's the voice!' And that's how I got the job."

Besides voicing Alan, Zimmerman, like other actors on the series, also voiced various minor characters. He made a live-action appearance in one episode of UFO ("Exposed", 1970) among the Andersons' other TV productions.

He also starred as Shooty in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Other TV appearances include T-Bag, Mike and Angelo, Crazy Like a Fox, Never the Twain, in addition to many commercials, most notably for Wrangler Jeans.

In 2015, Zimmerman appeared in the Thunderbirds reboot Thunderbirds Are Go; he played Professor Harold in the episode "Tunnels of Time".

Also a stage actor, he starred in plays such as Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once in a Lifetime and West Side Story, and made his most recent West End appearance in Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre in London. In 2008, he appeared in the touring cast of Cabaret, taking the role of Herr Schultz.

On June 9, 2022, it was announced that Zimmerman had died, at the age of 87.

Filmography 
 1965–1966: Thunderbirds
 1966: A Man for All Seasons
 1966: Thunderbirds Are Go
 1968: Thunderbird 6
 1979: Birth of the Beatles
 1979: Quincy's Quest
 1986: Haunted Honeymoon
 1987: Still Crazy Like a Fox
 1988: Turn On To T-Bag
 1989: The Forgotten
 1995: Margaret's Museum
 2015: Thunderbirds Are Go

References

External links 
 

1934 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Bowling Green State University alumni
Canadian expatriates in England
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Male actors from Greater Sudbury
Choate House (Pleasantville, New York)

Choate House was built in 1867 by shoe manufacturer Samuel Baker in what is now Pleasantville, New York. It later became the residence of Dr. George C. S. Choate. Choate added a wing as a private sanitarium to accommodate patients being treated for mental and nervous disorders. Horace Greeley was being treated there at the time of his death on November 29, 1872.

Choate died in 1896; the sanitarium closed ten years later.  His widow, wanting to turn the house over to her newly married son as a wedding gift, decided to live in the wing after moving it down the hill to its present location near Bedford Road.  The job of detaching the wing and moving it began on New Year’s Day 1909 and was completed in summer.  Teams of horses pulled the building over logs to its new location.  Mrs. Choate lived there until her death in 1926 at age 95.

Her dwelling subsequently had three more private owners: banker Dunham B. Scherer, advertising executive Lewis H. Titterton, and Wayne C. Marks, an alumnus and trustee of Pace College (now Pace University).

In 1962, Marks gave his home and surrounding acreage to Pace.  His gift formed the nucleus of Pace's campus in Westchester County. The wing from Choate House is now a campus welcome center known as "Marks Hall."

Eventually, the original Choate House also became part of the campus. As a condition of its acquisition, Pace entered into an agreement with the Choate family to maintain the house in its original state and retain its original pink color. Choate House is visible from the Taconic Parkway. The building houses an office for the president and offices of the University's Dyson College of Arts & Sciences.

References
The History of Pace

Pace University
Houses in Westchester County, New York
University art museums and galleries in New York (state)
Mount Pleasant, New York
1867 establishments in New York (state)
Petterson

Petterson is a Scandinavian and Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Andy Petterson (born 1969), Australian soccer player
 Donald K. Petterson (born 1930), United States foreign service officer 
 Pelle Petterson (born 1932), Swedish yachtsman and boat designer
 Per Petterson (born 1952), Norwegian novelist

See also
 Pettersson
 Patterson (surname), Patterson (disambiguation)
 Peterson (name)
 Petersen

Patronymic surnames
Yeongjong Bridge

The Yeongjong Bridge(영종대교) is a self-anchored suspension double-deck road-rail bridge located in  Incheon, South Korea, linking Yeongjong Island to the Korean mainland. The bridge is part of the Incheon International Airport Expressway and was completed in 2000.

The total length of the bridge is , it includes a main suspension bridge section of , a truss bridge section of  and a steel box girder bridge section of .

The main suspension bridge has two decks and carries both motor vehicles and AREX train.

See also 
 Transportation in South Korea
 List of bridges in South Korea
 Incheon International Airport
 Incheon Bridge

References

External links 

Bridges in Incheon
Suspension bridges in South Korea
Self-anchored suspension bridges
Bridges completed in 2000
Road-rail bridges
Incheon International Airport
Cross-sea bridges in Asia
AREX
Google Data Protocol

GData (Google Data Protocol) provides a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the Internet, designed by Google. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries. It relies on XML or JSON as a data format.

According to the Google Developers portal, "The Google Data Protocol is a REST-inspired technology for reading, writing, and modifying information on the web. It is used in some older Google APIs." However, "Most Google APIs are not Google Data APIs."

Google provides GData client libraries for Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, and Objective-C.

Implementations 
An implementation called libgdata written in C is available under the LGPL license.

See also
 Open Data Protocol (OData) – competing protocol from Microsoft
 GData API Directory
 Resource Description Framework (RDF) – a similar concept by W3C

References

External links
 Google Data APIs -  Google Developers
 Learning from THE WEB by Adam Bosworth - the vision behind GData

Atom (Web standard)
Data Protocol
Web syndication formats
Saint-Marcel station

Saint-Marcel () is a station on Line 5 of the Paris Métro, located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, under the Boulevard de l'Hôpital.

Location
The station is located under the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, south of the intersection of the Rue des Wallons. It is the first underground station for southbound passengers after Gare d'Austerlitz. The station serves Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.

History

The station was opened on 2 June 1906 with the commissioning of the first section of Line 5 between Gare d'Orléans (now Gare d'Austerlitz) and Place d'Italie.

It owes its name to its proximity to the beginning of Boulevard Saint-Marcel, named for a 5th-century bishop of Paris, who died in 436 and was famous for his mythical miracles. He rescued Paris from a monstrous dragon, changed the water of the Seine into wine, as well as converted pagans.

In 2018, 2,286,932 travellers entered the station which placed it at 240th position of Métro stations for its attendance.

Passenger services

Access
The station has two accesses consisting of fixed stairs opening on either side of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital:
 Access 1: Boulevard de l'Hôpital – La Pitié-Salpêtrière, adorned with a Guimard edicule, now a historical monument (decreed on 12 February 2016), is on the right of the No. 83, which is one of the entrances to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital;
 Access 2: Rue des Wallons, embellished with a mast with a yellow "M" in a circle, located opposite No. 50 on the boulevard.

Station layout

Platforms
Saint-Marcel metro station is of a standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by metro tracks and the roof is elliptical. The decor is the style used for the majority of metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s, and the white ceramic tiles bevelled on the sides, the tympans and the outlets of the corridors. The vault is coated and painted white. The advertising frames are white ceramic and the name of the station is written in the Parisine type font on enamelled plates. The platforms are equipped with wooden slat benches.

Bus connections
The station is served by Lines 57 and 91 of the RATP Bus Network and, at night, by the N31 line of the Noctilien network.

Nearby
 Jardin des plantes
 Grand Mosque of Paris
 Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
 Campus Pitié-Salpêtrière

Culture
One of the station's entrances is visible in a scene in the first moments of Claude Autant-Lara's film The Traversée de Paris.

References

Paris Métro stations in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1906
Mutsuro Nakazono

Mutsuro Nakazono (May 22, 1918 – October 8, 1994) (first name also spelled 
"Mitsuro"; also known as Masahilo Mikoto Nakazono; and later, Mikoto Masahilo Nakazono)) was a Japanese acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine  practitioner, a judo 6th dan and a 7th dan Aikikai aikido master.  He studied under Morihei Ueshiba (the founder of Aikido) and Ogasawara (a teacher of the Kototama Principle) for many years. 
Born in the Kagoshima prefecture of Japan, he relocated to France in 1961 where he remained until the early 1970s as a representative of the Aikikai in Europe and North Africa. According to an article by his son, Jei Atacama, Mutsuro Nakazono "changed his name to Masahilo Mikoto Nakazono in his late fifties when he came to realize how his whole life was about his pursuit for 'the truth of life.' 'Masahilo' stood for 'searcher for the beautiful truth of life.'" During this period he was also Chief instructor of Aikido for the international Budo Council. According to Henry Ellis, a pioneer of UK Aikido, Nakazono Sensei's Aikido technique was "the first seen in the U.K. to combine the power found with other instructors, with the grace normally associated with Aikido today."  He operated the Nakazono Clinic, a natural healing center in San Diego, California. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1972 and lived there until his death in 1994.

Nakazono was an authority on kototama and wrote privately published books on the subject. His study of kototama was greatly influenced by his studies with Ueshiba who cultivated a spiritual outlook in his teachings. Ueshiba is believed to have mastered kototama to a certain degree, yet few of his disciples other than Nakazono demonstrated an interest in learning this aspect of aikido from him.

Nakazono was also deeply involved in the spiritual aspect of healing such as Inochi. Having descended from a long family tradition of healers he passed on both his interest in Aikido and his spiritual approach to healing to his son Jiro Nakazono (now known as Jei Atacama) who practiced spiritual healing in New York City until his own death.

In 2007 there was a series of memorial events in Rosfall, Switzerland and Neath, UK sponsored by Nakazono Sensei's students in memory of their beloved teacher.

Works 
 M. Masahilo Nakazono, Inochi - The Book of Life (1979/1984) Kototama Books 
 M. Masahilo Nakazono, My Past Way Of Budo (1979) Kototama Books  
 M. Masahilo Nakazono, The Real Sense Of Natural Therapy (1985) Kototama Books  
 M. Masahilo Nakazono, The Source of the Present Civilization (1990) Kototama Books  
 M. Masahilo Nakazono, The Source of the Old and NewTestaments (1990) Kototama Books

References

External links
 Nakazono's thoughts on Macrobiotics 
 Photos and videos of Nakazono sensei practicing Aikido (often wearing a white Hakama)
Nakazono Sensei Aikido (M. Nakazono Sensei Memorial Blog)

1918 births
1994 deaths
Japanese aikidoka
Llyn Fanod

Llyn Fanod is an upland lake situated between Penuwch and Bontnewydd in Ceredigion, Wales. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest partly owned by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Public access is via a bridlepath from the road. It is a mesotrophic lake located in the headwaters of the River Aeron, whose low nutrient waters are home to a number of locally rare water plants. Waterfowl and passing sea birds can be seen on the lake as can dragonflies, damselflies, and caddis flies in the summer.

The lake has a surface area of  and a maximum depth of . It lies in a hollow probably scoured out glacially, and is dammed by a moraine. Palynological studies show that it has developed since the last ice age and is a remnant of a larger lake, Llyn Farch, which has otherwise dried up. It is surrounded by pasture grazed by cattle and sheep and at the southern end is a small peat mire. There are tussocks of purple moor-grass and tall cushions of common hair moss and Sphagnum recurvum. In the old peat cuttings, marsh cinquefoil, bog asphodel, bogbean, beaked sedge and Sphagnum species grow. In the open water at the southern end, yellow water lilies and European white water lilies float on the surface, and at the northern end can be found water lobelia, lake quillwort, Littorella uniflora and a few plants of water awlwort, all uncommon species in this area.

In the sometimes boggy rough grassland surrounding the lake are also common spike-rush, water horsetail, sharp-flowered rush and soft rush, marsh willowherb, marsh-bedstraw, floating sweet-grass, bogbean and lesser spearwort.

References

External links
Geograph photos of Llyn Fanod and surrounding area

Fanod
Yuuki Matsuda

(), better known by the stage name , is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. Nezumi is best known for voicing K' in SNK's The King of Fighters franchise. On October 20, 1997, he changed his legal name to . He later changed his legal name to Nezumi on April 1, 1999.

Filmography

Anime
.hack//Roots (Pirokio)
Beyblade (Ralf)
Beyblade G Revolution (Ralf)
Boogiepop Phantom (Worker B (ep.5))
D.Gray-man (Pang)
Full Metal Panic! (Terrorist C (ep.11))
Gintama (Matsutarou)
Gravitation (Ken-chan)
Kaleido Star (Agent)
Kiba (Stonos)
Mouse (Male Employee (ep.8))
Petite Princess Yucie (Cat Soldier (ep.7))
Psychic Academy (Teruda)
Saiyuki Premium (Kougaiji)
Soul Hunter (Emperor Zhou)
Tenchi Muyo! GXP (Tarant Shank)
The King of Fighters: Another Day (K' (ep.3))
 Katekyo Hitman Reborn (G)

Video games
KOF: Maximum Impact (K')
Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (K')
The King of Fighters '99 (K')
The King of Fighters 2000 (K')
The King of Fighters 2001 (K')
The King of Fighters 2002 (K')
The King of Fighters 2003 (K')
The King of Fighters XI (K')
The King of Fighters XIII (K')
The King of Fighters Neowave (K')
The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match (K')

Drama CD
Samurai Tamashii -Samurai Spirits- (Samurai)
Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushido Retsuden (Thief)
The King of Fighters '96 (Soldier)
The King of Fighters '97 ~Shukumei Hen~ (Announcer)
The King of Fighters '97 ~Gekitotsu Hen~ (Man C)
The King of Fighters '98 (Radio DJ)
The King of Fighters '99 (K')
The King of Fighters 2000 (K')

References

External links
Data at 81Produce
 
 Yuuki Matsuda at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting

81 Produce voice actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Male voice actors from Tokyo Metropolis
Living people
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gare d'Austerlitz (Paris Métro)

Gare d'Austerlitz () is a station on the Paris Métro, serving line 5 and forming the eastern terminus of line 10 in the 5th and the 13th arrondissements. The Line 5 station hall, "probably the most atypical of the Paris Métro", is open to the exterior though under the roof of the mainline Gare d'Austerlitz and forms part of a sinuous elevated section which has been "considered an exceptional work of urban railway insertion".

History
 The station was opened on 26 April 1931 with the opening of the original section of line 5 between Place d'Italie and Gare d'Orléans, as Gare d'Austerlitz was then known. It was the northern terminus of the line until it was extended to Quai de la Rapée (then called Place Mazas) on 13 July 1906. The line 10 platforms opened on 12 July 1939 when the line was extended from Jussieu. The station was originally named the Gare d'Orléans after the main station of the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans company, which had opened a line from Paris to the south, via Orléans. The metro station was renamed Gare d'Orléans-Austerlitz on 15 October 1930 and with its current name on 25 April 1985. These name changes reflect the changes in the name of the mainline station, which was renamed after the local district, Austerlitz, which is named after the Battle of Austerlitz, the most decisive French victory in the Napoleonic Wars.

Passenger services

Access
The station has several entrances:
 Arrivals and departures Grandes Lignes: escalators and stairs in the station, by RER C
 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Rue Buffon side: a staircase at 2 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Rue Nicolas-Houël side: a staircase at 6 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, odd side SNCF Austerlitz station: a stairway Boulevard de l'Hôpital in front of the station entrance
 Departure court Grandes Lignes: a staircase
 SNCF Departure Grandes Lignes Quai d'Austerlitz: a staircase
 SNCF Arrivals Grandes Lignes: escalators and stairs in the station, by the RER C

Station layout

Bus and other connections
The station is served by Lines 24, 57, 61, 63, 89, 91 and 215 of the RATP Bus Network. It is also served by the OpenTour tourist line. In addition, it is served at night by Lines N01, N02, N31, N131 and N133 of the Noctilien bus network. The line offered a connection with the Voguéo river line between 2008 and 2011. The station also offers a connection with Line C of the RER. SNCF trains head towards the southwest of France.

Gallery

References

Paris Métro stations in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
Paris Métro stations in the 5th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1906
Ranchería

The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages or bunkhouses. Anglo-Americans adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the residential area of a rancho in the American Southwest, housing aboriginal ranch hands and their families. The term is still used in other parts of Spanish America; for example, the Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia call their villages rancherías.

The Columbia Encyclopedia describes it as:
a type of communal settlement formerly characteristic of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Tepehuanes of Durango, Mexico, and of various small Native American groups of the Southwestern U.S., especially in California. These clusters of dwellings were less permanent than the pueblos (see Pueblo) but more so than the camps of the migratory Native Americans.
The term could be applied to the settlements of the California Mission Indians beyond the Spanish missions, such as Maugna of the Tongva people.

History
In California, the term refers to a total of 59 Indian settlements established by the U.S. government, 54 of them between 1906 and 1934, for the survivors of the aboriginal population. San Diego State University maintains a reference titled California Indians and Their Reservations: An Online Dictionary.  It says:
 

The word migrated north with the 49ers to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in an adapted form, "rancherie". It survives in British Columbia as a somewhat archaic but still commonly used word, in rural areas and small towns, as well as in general First Nations English usage, meaning the residential area of an Indian reserve.  It especially means the historical residential area, as opposed to newer subdivisions.  It was further extended to refer to other non-white residential communities, such as the Kanaka Rancherie in early Vancouver, British Columbia, which came to house the city's Kanaka (Hawaiian) residents. In an even more truncated form, the Ranche was used to refer to the Tlingit portion of Sitka, Alaska.

See also
Indian colony
Indian reserve, Canada
Indian reservation
Rancherie, Canada
Ranchos of California

References

Indigenous peoples of California topics
Former populated places in California
Mexican California
Native American populated places
American Indian reservations
Aboriginal title in the United States
Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples
DAVIC

DAVIC, Digital Audio Video Council, was founded in 1994 with the aim of promoting the success of interactive digital audio-visual applications and services by promulgating specifications of open interfaces and protocols that maximise interoperability, not only across geographical boundaries but also across diverse applications, services and industries.  It was a non-profit international organization based in Switzerland.

DAVIC was closed, according to its statutes, after 5 years of activity.

At the most DAVIC had 222 companies from more than 25 countries as members, although over its life 295 organisations were members at some stage. It represented all sectors of the audio-visual industry: manufacturing (computer, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment) and service (broadcasting, telecommunications and CATV), as well as a number of government agencies and research organisations. 

The four major sets of specifications culminated in 1999 with the 1.4 version. The 1.5 version of DAVIC was a set of additional tools and service definitions opening the road towards the setting of IP based audiovisual services such as the TV Anytime and TV Anywhere services. Version 1.3.1 was re-structured and was approved as an ISO/IEC standard and technical report (ISO/IEC 16500 and ISO/IEC TR 16501).

The management of DAVIC had proposed the continuation beyond the 5-year date with a program of work centred on two projects: TV Anytime and TV Anywhere. The membership did not support the continuation of DAVIC but the idea of TV-Anytime continued as a new organisation.

1.4.1 specifications
 
 Description of DAVIC Audio-Visual Functionalities 
 System Reference Models and Scenarios 
 Service Provider System Architecture and Interfaces 
 Delivery System Architecture And Interfaces 
 Service Consumer System Architecture 
 Management Architecture and Protocols 
 High and Mid Layer Protocols 
 Lower Layer Protocols and Physical Interfaces 
 Information Representation 
 Basic Security Tools 
 Usage Information Protocols 
 Systems Dynamics, Scenarios and Protocol Requirements 
 Conformance and Interoperability 
 Contours: Technology Domain

1.5 specifications
 Jitter concealment tools 
 Applicability of DAVIC 1.5 Intranet Architecture to TV Anywhere and TV Anytime Scenarios 
 DAVIC Cable Modem 
 DAVIC Intranet Technical Platform Specification 
 TV Anytime and TV Anywhere

See also
 ATSC
 DVB
 ISDB

External links
 DAVIC's home page - password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
 Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org - password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
 Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org, but cannot download the documents from here
 Copies of DAVIC previously published specifications now available for download
 Leonardo Chiariglione website - evangelist for DAVIC

Technology trade associations
Organizations established in 1994
Organizations disestablished in 1999
International trade associations
Tanisha Brito

Tanisha Nicole Brito (born September 11, 1980) is a beauty queen who has competed at both Miss America and Miss USA. Her home town is Waterford, Connecticut. Brito graduated from Waterford High School in 1998. She attended Clark Atlanta University in Georgia which gave her the residency permission to compete in that state's pageant.

Brito's first major pageant was the 2000 Miss Connecticut state pageant, where she finished second runner-up. The following year she competed in Georgia, where she won a non-finalist interview award. She returned to Connecticut in 2002, where she won the swimsuit award and Miss Connecticut crown. Brito was a top ten finalist in the Miss America 2003 pageant.

On November 6, 2004, Brito was crowned Miss Georgia USA.

She competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland on 11 April 2005, but failed to make the cut at the nationally televised pageant. While preparing for the Miss America pageant, Brito attended the University of Connecticut at Avery Point so as not to disadvantage her studies.

References

Profile of Brito on the Miss Connecticut website (accessed 3 May 2006)
Profile of Brito on the official Miss America website (accessed 3 May 2006)
Profile of Brito on the Miss Georgia USA website (accessed 3 May 2006)

External links
Official Website
Official Miss Connecticut website
Official Miss Georgia USA website

1980 births
Living people
People from Waterford, Connecticut
Miss America 2003 delegates
Miss USA 2005 delegates
Clark Atlanta University alumni
UN-Energy

UN-Energy is an interagency mechanism within the system of the United Nations related to energy. It was created after the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, and its purpose is to create a coherent approach towards a sustainable energy system especially in developing countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

To do this, UN-Energy is reviewing energy-related activities within the UN system and trying to mainstream them into a broader approach. At present, UN-Energy remains a very small UN entity since it does not even reach the programme status.

UN-Energy was established as a subsidiary body of CEB in 2004 to help ensure coherence in the United Nations system’s multi-disciplinary response to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and to promote the effective engagement of non-UN stakeholders in implementing WSSD energy-related decisions.  Its membership consists of senior officials and experts on energy of the commissions, organizations, funds and programmes listed below. Secretariat work is being done by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

Damilola Ogunbiyi, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, are the co-chairs of UN-Energy.

Members
Food and Agriculture Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency
Global Environment Facility
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
United Nations System Chief Executives Board Secretariat
World Bank Group
World Health Organization
World Meteorological Organization

External links
UN-Energy Members
UN-Energy website

Energy policy
Organizations established by the United Nations
Department of Education (Victoria)

The Department of Education is a government department in Victoria, Australia.

Formerly known as the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development until January 2015 and Department of Education and Training (DET) until January 2023, the department is responsible for the state's education system. Until January 2023, the department was also responsible for TAFE, training and higher education until these functions were transferred to the Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions.

Ministers
, the department supports one minister in the following portfolios:

Functions 
The department has responsibility for the following policy areas:
 Early childhood development
 Primary education
 Secondary education

Agencies
Agencies under the DE's portfolios include:

See also 
 Special Assistance Program
 
 Ultranet (product)
 VELS
 Victorian Certificate of Education
 Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning
 Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

References 

Education in Victoria (state)
Education
Funding bodies of Australia
Victoria
Liam Ahern

Liam Ahern (12 January 1916 – 13 July 1974) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served in both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.

Early and personal life
Ahern's father, Eamon Ahern (1882–1953), was a member of Cork County Council from 1919 to 1953. He was a member of the IRA and the IRB. On Eamons' death, Liam was co-opted onto the council. Ahern's uncle, John Dinneen, was also a member of the Dáil between 1922 and 1927. Liam's uncle, Maurice Ahern (1899–1950), was captain of the East Cork 4th Battalion Number One Brigade of the IRA.

Liams' son Michael Ahern was a Fianna Fáil TD for Cork East from 1982 to 2011. Another son, auctioneer Maurice Ahern was a long-standing Fianna Fáil councillor for the Midleton electoral area of Cork County Council from 1979 to 2009. Liam's grand-daughter Ann-Marie Ahern was co-opted by Fianna Fáil to Cork County Council in 2020.

Political career
A farmer and agricultural contractor, Ahern was first elected to the 9th Seanad in 1957 on the Labour Panel. In 1961 he was returned to the 10th Seanad on the Administrative Panel, and re-elected by the same panel to the 11th Seanad in 1965.

At the 1969 general election, he stood for election to the 19th Dáil in the Cork North-East constituency, but was narrowly beaten by his Fianna Fáil colleague Seán Brosnan. After his defeat, Ahern was returned to the 12th Seanad by the Administrative Panel.

At the 1973 general election, he again contested Cork North-East, where he came fourth out of the four successful candidates, unseating the sitting Fianna Fáil TD Seán Brosnan. A Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition government under Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave took power at that election, ending a sixteen-year period of Fianna Fáil government, and Ahern found himself in opposition for the first time in his career in the Oireachtas. He caused a minor sensation during the Dáil debate on the seizure of IRA arms on the MV Claudia in May 1973 when he shouted out, "More guns we want, bags of guns."

He died in July 1974 at the age of 58, triggering a by-election on 13 November 1974 in which his seat was retained for Fianna Fáil by Seán Brosnan.

See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

1916 births
1974 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 9th Seanad
Members of the 10th Seanad
Members of the 11th Seanad
Members of the 12th Seanad
Members of the 20th Dáil
20th-century Irish farmers
Fianna Fáil senators
Labour Panel senators
Administrative Panel senators
Boy O'Boy

Boy O'Boy is a 2003 novel by Brian Doyle. It was named Book of the Year for Children by the Canadian Library Association.

Martin O'Boy, nicknamed Boy O'Boy, is the young narrator of this story set the summer of 1945.  Martin reflects on the ups and downs of his family and neighbours, news from World War II and the popular culture of the day, including Captain Marvel (who shares his name with Martin's friend Billy Batson).

Martin is molested by the church organist who then moves in on Billy. The two boys take their revenge on the man by sabotaging his showpiece at a celebration of the war's end. Martin later confesses what has happened to him to a soldier, a neighbour just returned from the war, who immediately confronts the organist and threatens him if he ever approaches either boy again.

See also

Pedophilia

References

2003 American novels
Child sexual abuse in literature
American young adult novels
Fiction set in 1945