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Swedish Radio Choir

The Swedish Radio Choir is a professional choir. It is part of Sveriges Radio, the public radio broadcasting company of Sweden. The choir consists of 32 singers and their chorus master Marc Korovitch. Peter Dijkstra is the choir's most recent chief conductor. He left the position after eleven years, in 2018. Since 1979 the Swedish Radio Choir has been based at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen, in Stockholm.

In 2010 the Swedish Radio Choir was included in Gramophone magazine's special feature article where an international jury was asked to name the world's leading choirs.

Conductors
 1925 - 1952 Axel Nylander and Einar Ralf
 1952 - 1982 Eric Ericson
 1982 - 1985 Anders Öhrwall
 1986 - 1994 Gustaf Sjökvist
 1995 - 2001 Tõnu Kaljuste
 2002 - 2005 Stefan Parkman
 2007 - 2018 Peter Dijkstra
 since 2018 Marc Korovitch, chorus master

References

External links 
Official website (in Swedish)

Swedish choirs
National choirs
Radio and television performing groups
Musical groups established in 1925
1925 establishments in Sweden
Charles Bruck

Charles Bruck (2 May 1911 – 16 July 1995) was a French-American conductor and teacher.

Bruck was born in a Jewish family in Temesvár, Banat, then in the Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austro-Hungarian Empire,  since 1920 Timișoara in Romania.

He left Romania in 1928 for a year of studies in Vienna, then travelled on to Paris.  There he studied with Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlemuter at the École Normale de Musique. In 1934 he began studies with French conductor Pierre Monteux, following him to San Francisco where Bruck served as Monteux's assistant.

After the Second World War, Bruck assumed chief conductor positions with the Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam (1950–1954), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg (1955–1965), and the Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF in Paris (1965–1970).  In 1969, he succeeded Monteux as director of his conducting school in Maine, a post he held for twenty-six years until his death there in 1995.

He was a champion of contemporary music and presented hundreds of world premieres in his career.  He also taught at The Hartt School of Music where he served as Director of Orchestral Activities. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 1992.

Bruck died of cancer in Hancock, Maine, USA. 
A play about his career as Master of the Pierre Monteux School, called Muse of Fire, written by David Katz, one of his students, was premiered in Maine in 2005 and has since toured extensively.

References

External links 
 Charles Bruck biography
 Biography
 Biographical details

1911 births
1995 deaths
Musicians from Timișoara
Romanian Jews
Romanian emigrants to France
French emigrants to the United States
Male conductors (music)
French conductors (music)
French male conductors (music)
American male conductors (music)
Romanian conductors (music)
University of Hartford Hartt School faculty
École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni
French people of Romanian-Jewish descent
20th-century French musicians
People from Hancock, Maine
20th-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American male musicians
Bee Gees discography

The discography of the British-Australian musical group Bee Gees consists of 39 albums (including 22 studio albums) and 83 singles. In a career spanning more than 50 years, the "Kings of Disco" have already sold over 250 million records worldwide, becoming among the best-selling music artists in history. Billboard ranked them as the 28th Greatest Artist[s] of All Time. According to RIAA, the Bee Gees have sold 28 million certified albums in the United States.

Saturday Night Fever is in the top five best-selling albums to date, selling over 50 million copies worldwide (16× Platinum in the US). Billboard also ranked them as the 14th Greatest Hot 100 Artist of all time. They have scored 9 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including 15 top ten hits and 43 chart entries overall. Spirits Having Flown has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, marking yet another huge success for the trio.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Soundtracks

Video albums

Singles

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s–2000s

Notes

References

External links

Discography
Discographies of British artists
Pop music group discographies
Rock music group discographies
Disco discographies
Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness

Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness is a Christian video game title released by Bridgestone Multimedia Group in 1994. The main focus of the game is scripture memorization but action video game elements can also play a significant role depending on options selected during setup.

Plot
The game centers on a city of humans which was one day encased by a Dome of Darkness, perpetrated by robot cybers who have trapped the citizens in lies (which range from various Christian topics such as God, creation, morality, forgiveness, so on and so forth). While the organization known as Bible Corps. has managed to make a hole in the dome big enough for Captain Bible to go through, they have not been able to accomplish much more.

Captain Bible is sent by Bible Corps. to be beamed into the city. Though he is able to take his computer Bible with him, all of the verses are erased once he entered the Dome of Darkness. To remedy this, Bible Corps. beams Scripture stations into the city where he may reload it. In-between each level, a flying small drone type cyborg comes and deletes the Bible scriptures from your Computer Bible while you move onto the next level/world forcing you to find new verses for new lies in the next world/level. Gameplay centers on Captain Bible obtaining these verses and using them to confront the cybers who obstruct the hallways of the buildings in the city. An optional feature allows the player to engage the cybers in hand-to-hand combat giving the options to defend attack and retreat, which is performed using the Sword of the Spirit and the Shield of Faith.

The game is presumably set in the somewhat distant future based upon several of the game details, including the cybers themselves, the transporter-type device used to beam Captain Bible into the Dome, and the spacecraft he uses in the opening screen to fly to the command post.

Reception
Richard Corbett for PC Gamer opined that Captain Bible might be the worst superhero ever to get his own video game.

See also
 Christian video game

References

External links
 Readme file from the Special Edition release
 Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness at GameFAQS.com

1994 video games
Christian video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Eugène Bigot

Eugène Bigot (28 February 1888 – 17 July 1965) was a French composer and conductor.

Life
Bigot was born in Rennes, Brittany, and  taught at the Conservatoire de Paris where his notable pupils included Émilien Allard, Louis de Froment, Henri-Claude Fantapié, António Fortunato de Figueiredo, Karel Husa, Paul Kuentz, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Pierre Rolland, and Mikis Theodorakis.

He died in Paris.

External links
Biography (in French)
Jean-Philippe Mousnier: "Albert Wolff - Eugène Bigot", Editions l'Harmattan, 2001.

1888 births
1965 deaths
20th-century French composers
Breton musicians
French ballet composers
French male conductors (music)
French male classical composers
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Musicians from Rennes
20th-century French conductors (music)
20th-century French male musicians
XAF

XAF may refer to:

Central African CFA franc (ISO4217 Currency Code) 
The Bizana, Eastern Cape vehicle registration plates code
XIAP-associated factor
XAF Radar, an experimental pre-World War II U.S. Navy radar
Xaf (music producer), an electronic music producer
XAG

XAG may refer to:

 XAG (company), Chinese manufacturer of agricultural drones
 the ISO 4217 currency code denoting one troy ounce of silver
Smallest grammar problem

In data compression and the theory of formal languages, the smallest grammar problem is the problem of finding the smallest context-free grammar that generates a given string of characters (but no other string). The size of a grammar is defined by some authors as the number of symbols on the right side of the production rules.
Others also add the number of rules to that. The (decision version of the) problem is NP-complete.
The smallest context-free grammar that generates a given string is always a straight-line grammar without useless rules.

See also

 Grammar-based code
 Kolmogorov Complexity
 Lossless data compression

References 

 

Formal languages
Data compression
Palace of Congresses

The Palace of Congresses () is a venue in Tirana, Albania, where numerous multi-genre concerts, exhibition, festivals, competitions and other events are held, including the annual Festivali i Këngës and Kënga Magjike and the Tirana Book Fair.

It was built during the late communist era to host the Congresses of the Party of Labour of Albania and other official activities. Today, the palace is used as a venue for conferences, festivals, exhibitions, ceremonies, concerts and more. It currently has a capacity of 2,100 seats.

There are three other smaller halls, with a smaller capacity of 150, 280 and 300 people, designed as working environments for different meetings and occasions.

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Tirana
Music venues in Albania
Minnyi Mintha

Minnyi Mintha (, ) was the common title for all Princes of the Blood of the Burmese monarchy (i.e. sons, grandsons, brothers and nephews of a sovereign), who were all assigned fiefdoms when they came of age, and promoted to this rank.

Specific ranks and titles for dynasty members
It was divided into four principal grades, as follows, awarded individually:
 The Great Deputy King: Maha Uparaja Anaudrapa Einshay Min (), incorrectly termed Crown Prince by Europeans, and addressed as His Royal Highness.
 Viceroy or governor of a province: (territorial title) Bayin Khan (), i.e. Viceroy, with the style of His Royal Highness.
 Great Princes, a maximum of eighteen at any one time, divided into nine great princes of the left and nine great princes of the right: Minthaya-gyi ()), together with the rank of Thado Min (), i.e. Prince, with the style of His Royal Highness.
 Middle Princes, a maximum of eighteen at any one time, divided into nine middle princes of the left and nine middle princes of the right: Mintha-lat ()), together with the rank of Min Ye (, Prince, with the style of His Royal Highness.

Specific titles were also used not by office, but by birth; however these were NOT indicative of the succession, for which there were no effective rules, a power struggle in the palace was the rule.
The eldest son of the sovereign, by his chief Queen: Shwe Kodaw-gyi Awratha (), i.e. Prince with the style of His Royal Highness.
 younger sons of the sovereign, by his chief Queen: Shwe Kodaw-gyi Rajaputra (), i.e. Prince with the style of His Royal Highness.
 sons of the sovereign, by his senior Queens: Shwe Kodaw-gyi (), i.e. Prince with the style of His Royal Highness.
 sons of the sovereign, by his junior wives: Kodaw-gyi (), i.e. Prince with the style of His Royal Highness.
 sons of a Prince, by a junior wife: Hteik Tin (), i.e. Prince.

References

See also
Burmese royal titles

Burmese culture
Burmese royal titles
Noble titles
Saintspeak

Saintspeak (1981) is a satirical look at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by LDS author Orson Scott Card.  It is modeled after The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The pamphlet consists of a short glossary of common terms used by members of the LDS with humorous, satirical definitions.

Originally published in 1981, Saintspeak is currently out of print. It contains numerous references to the Equal Rights Amendment and the way missionaries gave lessons to LDS "Investigators".

The book is written in a light-hearted and pokes fun at the shortcomings and idiosyncrasies of Mormons. Frequent targets include hypocritical behavior by church members, the church's repression and denial of its history, and fanatics who take church doctrines a bit too far.

In the introduction, Card makes comments to placate anyone who takes offense too deeply by claiming that Ambrose Bierce appeared to him in a vision and presented the text of this book to him, paralleling the Angel Moroni appearing to Joseph Smith and telling him about the Golden plates that composed the Book of Mormon. Therefore, he isn't responsible for anyone being offended by it because it's all Bierce's fault.

See also
List of works by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card

References

External links
 The entire text of Saintspeak on the publisher's web site
 The official Orson Scott Card website

1981 books
Mormon fiction
Books by Orson Scott Card
Signature Books books
Eino S. Repo

Eino Sakari Repo (September 6, 1919, Isokyrö – December 15, 2002, Helsinki) was the president of  state owned  Finnish Broadcasting Company  from 1965 to  1969 and head of the radio from 1969 to 1974. His time as president was known as   Repo's Radio.

Eino S. Repo took part in the Winter and Continuation War, and left the field in 1944 as captain.

In 1948 he graduated as a Candidate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki; his main subject was literature.

Repo was a free literary critic and wrote  criticisms to the Uusi Suomi newspaper and Parnasso magazine. Repo was known as a radical, and soon Uusi Suomi didn't like his writing any more, and also he didn't have a very good relationship with the main critic Veikko Antero Koskenniemi.

From 1958 to 1964 Repo was a reporter for Apu magazine, and then became a program manager at MTV3. When Finnish Broadcasting Company's president Einar Sundström retired in 1965, Repo became his successor as candidate of Agrarian Party. One of his supporters in Finnish Broadcasting Company was Urho Kekkonen, then the President of Finland.

During the Repo presidency, big reforms were made at Finnish Broadcasting Company. During the Repo era left-wing student extremism was growing also in Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Repo gave support to left-wing students and to their critical social programs, these offers started the so-called Repo's Radio. Many critics wrote that Finnish Broadcasting Company during Repo presidency wasn't so much radio as it was a political institute.

Finnish Broadcasting Company was blamed for supporting the lefts' victory in the parliament elections in 1966. Repo was not elected to a second five-year term to Finnish Broadcasting Company, but he was made head of the radio. He retired in 1974.

During the Zavidovo scandal, Kekkonen's advisor Antero Jyränki told in his questioning that he gave the place of documents which were the part of the Zavidovo notepad, to Repo.

External links
 Eino S. Repo. 375 humanists, 3 March 2015. University of Helsinki.

1919 births
2002 deaths
People from Isokyrö
20th-century Finnish politicians
Finnish military personnel of World War II
20th-century Finnish journalists
Jonathan Figgis

Jonathan Figgis is an Irish film director and producer. He was a co-founder and director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures. Having left October Eleven Pictures in 2012, he now heads Figgis Visuals.

Early life, family and education

Figgis's parents are Peter and Anne Figgis. Figgis has at least two older brothers: Daniel, a former child actor; and Jason Figgis, who has also been a business partner. A cousin, Mike Figgis, is an Academy Award-nominated writer and director of the feature film Leaving Las Vegas.

Career
Figgis worked in the animation industry for a number of years, contributing on award-winning independent animated shorts as well as television series for the international market.

He is a full voting member of the Irish Film & Television Academy.

October Eleven Pictures
In 1999, Jonathan and Jason embarked on their collaborative filmmaking careers working on their first short film, "Pallida Mors".

With the advent of digital technology, the brothers' childhood dreams of making movies materialized as their Dublin-based company, October Eleven Pictures, was formed in February 2001 (though many sources cite 2002 and Jason has also mentioned forming their collaboration in 2000). When October Eleven Pictures was established, Jonathan was responsible for sourcing support from post-production houses who offered their services at reduced costs and who have shown great interest and support for their filmmaking ventures.

Jonathan has been a producer or executive producer on a variety of programmes for Discovery Channel, Sky One, RTÉ (Ireland) and SVT (Sweden), among others. These shows include the feature-length documentary The Twilight Hour, Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice with paranormalist Uri Geller, and the co-production A Maverick In London featuring Joanna Lumley, Steven Berkoff, Richard E. Grant, and Alan Rickman. There has been much success on the festival circuit with official selections at many international festivals, an IFTA Award nomination in 2003 and won Best Feature Film for A Curious Incident In The Life of Uri Geller in 2006.

October Eleven Picture's first feature film 3Crosses (released in the US as Once Upon a Time in Dublin) was completed for Spring 2010 whilst they were preparing for post-production on two feature films (shot Autumn 2007), Handheld and Blood. Blood premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2011.

Figgis Visuals
Jonathan left October Eleven Pictures in 2012 to work on a number of projects including a feature film that he was writing on and off since 2007. Under his new company, Figgis Visuals, this film will be its first release. It was scheduled to go into production in July 2013 with a release in 2014. Jonathan is also working on two documentaries and is writing a book/producing DVDs on self-defence.

Notes

External links

October Eleven Pictures entry at IFTN.ie
The Twilight Hour, review of documentary film
The Twilight Hour - Visions Of Ireland's Haunted Past, review and article on Cork Film Festival

Living people
Irish film directors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Claudio Fäh

Claudio Fäh (born 29 March 1975) is a Swiss film director, producer and screenwriter.

Career 
Fäh has directed films such as Coronado, Hollow Man 2, Sniper: Reloaded and Sniper: Ultimate Kill, as well as webisodes of Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, the online companion series to CBS's Ghost Whisperer.

During fall 2013, he directed Northmen: A Viking Saga.

Personal life
As of 1999, Fäh lives in Los Angeles, California. He married Martina Meier, a doctor, in 2003. Together, they have two daughters.

Filmography

 Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side (16 episodes) – "Episode #1.1", "Episode #1.2", "Episode #1.3", "Episode #1.4", "Episode #1.5", "Episode #1.6", "Episode #1.7", "Episode #1.8", "Episode #1.9", "Episode #2.0", "Episode #2.1", "Episode #2.2", "Episode #2.3", "Episode #2.4", "Episode #2.5", "Episode #2.6", "Episode #2.7", "Episode #2.8"

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Swiss film directors
Swiss film producers
Swiss screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Hertia

Hertia may refer to:

Hertia (plant), a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae
Hertia, a character in Sonic X
Jonathan Nott

Jonathan Nott (born 25 December 1962, in Solihull, England) is an English conductor.

Biography
The son of a priest at Worcester Cathedral, Nott was a music student and choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, and also studied singing and flute in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music.  Nott was also a conducting student in London. He left Britain to develop his conducting career in Germany via the traditional Kapellmeister system.

Nott made his conducting debut in 1988 at the Opera Festival in Battignano, Italy.  In 1989, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera.  In 1991, he was appointed Erster Kapellmeister at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and became interim chief conductor for the 1995–96 season. He later became music director at the Lucerne Theatre and served as principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2002.

With the Berlin Philharmonic, Nott recorded several orchestral works of György Ligeti as part of the Teldec contribution to the complete recorded works of Ligeti. Nott became music director of the Ensemble InterContemporain (EIC) in 2000.  He relinquished this post in 2003, and immediately took up the position of principal guest conductor of the EIC. He stood down as the EIC's principal guest conductor in 2005.

Nott became principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony in January 2000.  With the orchestra, he made his New York City conducting debut. Several years after his 2009 contract extension through the 2011–2012 season, in 2011, Nott and the orchestra agreed on a further extension of his contract with the Bamberg Symphony through the 2015–2016 season. He concluded his Bamberg tenure at the end of the 2015–2016 season.  In 2014, he became principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

Nott first guest-conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in October 2011.  Immediately following this engagement, the orchestra offered him its music directorship, which he accepted.  The orchestra formally announced Nott's appointment as its next music director in October 2012, effective with the 2014–2015 season, for an initial contract of 3 years, conducting 8 weeks of concerts per season. Tokyo Symphony Orchestra announced in September 2015 that they have extended Nott's tenure through the 2025–2026 season. In October 2014, Nott made his first guest-conducting appearances with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR).  Based on these concerts, in January 2015, the OSR named Nott its next music and artistic director, effective January 2017.  In February 2021, the OSR announced the conversion of Nott's OSR contract into an evergreen, open-ended lifetime agreement with no set final date.

Nott and his wife Helen have three children.

References

External links
 Richard Whitehouse, "Prophet Without UK Honour – Jonathan Nott Interview" 

1962 births
Living people
People educated at King's School, Worcester
English conductors (music)
British male conductors (music)
21st-century British conductors (music)
21st-century British male musicians
Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Motto (disambiguation)

A motto is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization.

It can also refer to:

 Aphorism, a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle
 Motto (surname), surname

People and characters

 Motto McLean (1925–2019), Canadian ice hockey player

Fictional characters
 Peli Motto, a Star Wars character from "The Mandalorian"

Places
 Motto River, Virginia, US; a tributary of the South River
 Motto Farm, New South Wales, Australia

Literature
 Epigraph (literature), a sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, chapter, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter
 A short quotation, joke, or an anecdotal message printed on a piece of paper inside a Christmas cracker

Music
 In music, a head-motif

Songs
 "Motto" (Tanpopo song), 1999, the second single by J-pop group Tanpopo
 "Motto..." (Kana Nishino song), a 2009 single by Japanese singer Kana Nishino
 "The Motto" (Drake song), 2011
 "The Motto" (Tiësto and Ava Max song), 2021
 "Motto" (NF song), 2023

Other uses
 Motto Pictures, NYC production company
 Rocco Motto, Italian coachbuilding company established in 1932

See also

  ()
 List of mottos
 Motto della Tappa, Lugano Prealps, Switzerland-Italy; a mountain
 Motto Motto Motto (), a 2003 manga graphic novel by Kazumi Kazui
 

 Motto Motto (disambiguation)
 Moto (disambiguation)
 More (disambiguation)
Great Chart with Singleton

Great Chart with Singleton is a civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The parish population is mostly concentrated in the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton housing development, both located in the eastern part of the parish, near the town of Ashford. Singleton accounts for about 80% population of the entire parish and is directly adjacent to Ashford. The village of Great Chart is located to the west of Singleton, about two miles (3.2 km) from the centre of Ashford. The remaining area of the parish is largely agricultural, with several farms. Chilmington Green is also included in the civil parish.

The medieval parish church is dedicated to St Mary; there is also Grace Fellowship (an independent evangelical church and member of the FIEC Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) which meets 10:30am on Sunday mornings at the old Methodist church building formally known as St John's.

The historic Godinton House and Gardens are located in the north part of the parish.

The Parish also contains the Singleton Environment Centre, and the Ashford Community Woodland, both popular local attractions and important areas of conservational activity.

The parish was formed on 1 April 1987 from part of the parish of Great Chart and part of the unparished area of Ashford.

Transport
The civil parish is bisected by numerous footpaths and roads, including a part of the Greensand Way and the A28 road connecting the parish with junction 9 of the M20 motorway in Ashford. A straight railway line - a part of South Eastern Main Line between Pluckley and Ashford - marks off the north quarter of the parish.

Two bus routes (A and 2) operated by Stagecoach in East Kent connect the parish with Ashford town centre and Ashford International railway station.

References

External links
 Parish Council

Civil parishes in Ashford, Kent
George Dawson (Northern Ireland politician)

George Dawson (10 May 1961 – 7 May 2007) Was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician. 

Dawson was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim from November 2003 until his death in 2007, following a short battle with cancer. He was seen as a potential member of the power-sharing executive of the first minister, the DUP leader Ian Paisley, whose evangelical Protestant and strong unionist beliefs he shared.

Dawson was a founder in 1998, and was until his death the chairman, of the Caleb Foundation, a Christian fundamentalist pressure group. He was also Grand Master of the Independent Orange Order and Treasurer of the Evangelical Protestant Society.

References

External links
 georgedawson.org (archived)

1961 births
2007 deaths
People from Lurgan
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Democratic Unionist Party MLAs
Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007
Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011
Deaths from cancer in Northern Ireland
People educated at Banbridge Academy
Presbyterians from Northern Ireland
Christian creationists
Christian fundamentalists
Donggang

Donggang may refer to:

Mainland China
Donggang District (东港区), in Rizhao, Shandong
Donggang, Liaoning (东港市), county-level city in Dandong, Liaoning
Towns
Written as "东港镇":
Donggang, Huilai County, in Huilai County, Guangdong
Donggang, Qinhuangdao, in Haigang District, Qinhuangdao, Hebei
Donggang, Wuxi, in Xishan District, Wuxi, Jiangsu

Written as "东岗镇":
Donggang, Linzhou, Henan, in Linzhou City, Henan
Donggang, Fusong County, in Fusong County, Jilin

Subdistricts 

 Donggang Subdistrict in Chengguan District, Lanzhou, Gansu

Taiwan
Donggang, Pingtung (東港鎮), town in west-central Pingtung County, Taiwan
Donggang River (Taiwan) (東港溪), river flowing through Pingtung County

South Korea
Donggang (South Korea), a river flowing through the Gangwon-do district, a tributary of the South Hangang River

See also
 Donggong (disambiguation)
Comparison of memory cards

This table provides summary of comparison of various flash memory cards, .

Common information 

Unless otherwise indicated, all images are to scale.

Physical details 
Note that a memory card's dimensions are determined while holding the card with contact pins upwards. The length of cards is often greater than their width. Most cards show a directional arrow to aid insertion; such an arrow should be upward.

Speed comparison

Technical details

Consumer details

Compatibility 

The following chart gives details on availability of adapters to put a given card (horizontal) in a given slot or device (vertical). This table does not take into account protocol issues in communicating with the device.

Following labels are used:

 + (native) – A slot is native for such card.
 D (Directly compatible) – A card may be used in such a slot directly, without any adapters. Best possible compatibility.
 M (requires a Mechanical adapter) – Such adapter is only a physical enclosure to fit one card sized into another; all electrical pins are exactly the same.
 EM (requires an Electro-Mechanical adapter) – Such adapter features both physical enclosure and pins re-routing as terminals are sufficiently different. No powered elements in such adapter exists, thus they're very cheap and easy to manufacture and may be supplied as a bonus for every such card.
 E (requires an Electronic adapter enclosure) – These adapters must have components—potentially requiring external power—that transform signals, as well as physical enclosure and pin routing.
 X (requires an eXternal adapter) – Technically the same as E, but such adapter usually consists of 2 parts: a pseudo-card with pin routing and physical enclosure size that perfectly match the target slot and a break-out box (a card reader) that holds a real card. Such adapter is the least comfortable to use.
 XM (requires an eXternal electro-mechanical adapter) – Technically the same as EM, but such adapter usually consists of 2 parts: a pseudo-card with pin routing and physical enclosure size that perfectly match the target slot and a break-out box (a card reader) that holds a real card. Such adapter is the least comfortable to use.
 Empty cell – Card cannot be used in such slot, no single adapter is known to exist. Sometimes a chain of adapters can help (for example, miniSD→CF as miniSD→SD→CF).

References

External links 
 GumstixDocsWiki Frequently Asked Questions: Are SD cards interchangeable with MMC cards?
 Types of Memory Cards
 USB mass storage device class: Mass Storage device class specification 1.4 Date: Feb 19, 2010 — on the site of the USB Implementers Forum.

Memory cards
Solid-state computer storage media

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Årdal, Rogaland

Årdal is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The  municipality existed from 1859 until 1965. It stretched from the head of the Årdalsfjorden in the west to the county border in the east.  It encompassed the southern half of the present-day Hjelmeland Municipality. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Årdal where the Old Årdal Church is located.

History
The municipality of Aardal was established in 1859 when the large municipality of Hjelmeland was divided into two: Årdal in the south (population: 1,315) and Hjelmeland og Fister in the north (population: 3,084). On 6 March 1869, a small area of Aardal (population: 40) was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Hjelmeland og Fister.  The spelling of the name was changed to Årdal in the early 20th century.  On 1 January 1965 the municipality of Årdal was dissolved due to the recommendations of the Schei Committee.  The majority of Årdal, with 743 inhabitants, was merged into Hjelmeland municipality once again. At the same time, the Sunngardene district (population: 121) was transferred to the neighboring Strand municipality.

Old Årdal Church

Årdal is well known for the Old Årdal Church () which received its final shape after expansion shortly after it was built in the early 17th century. The church was marked by the work of two local artists, the German-born painter Gottfried Hendtzschel (d. 1657 in Stavanger) and the craftsman Lauritz Snekker who was his student. The altarpiece and the pulpit was painted by Hendtzschel. They were both carved by Snekker who was also responsible for most of the carpentry work. The artistic efforts of Hendtzschel and Snekker within various churches in the vicinity formed a part of the Stranganger Renaissance (Stavangerrenaissance), the cultural period which peaked in the middle of the 17th century in the area around Stavanger.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the Årdalen valley () since it is the central geographical feature of the municipality. The first element is the genitive case of the word  which means "river" or "creek". The last element is  which means "valley" or "dale". Prior to the 1917 Norwegian language reform law, the name was spelled with the digraph "Aa" (Aardal), and after this reform, the letter Å was used instead (Årdal).

Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. 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 Årdal 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

Hjelmeland
Former municipalities of Norway
1859 establishments in Norway
1965 disestablishments in Norway
Nannochoristidae

Nannochoristidae is a family of scorpionflies with many unusual traits. It is a tiny, relict family with a single extant genus, Nannochorista, with eight species occurring in New Zealand, southeastern Australia, Tasmania, Argentina and Chile. Due to the group's distinctiveness from other scorpionflies, it is sometimes placed in its own order, the Nannomecoptera. Some studies have placed them as the closest living relatives of fleas. Most mecopteran larvae are eruciform, or shaped like caterpillars. Nannochoristid larvae, however, are elateriform, and have elongated and slender bodies. The larvae are aquatic, which is unique among mecopterans. The larvae are predatory, hunting on the beds of shallow streams, primarily on the larvae of aquatic Diptera like chironomids.

Fossils indicate that Nannochoristidae formerly had a wider distribution, being present in the Northern Hemisphere during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

Some research suggests the nannochoristids are the only holometabolous insects with true larval compound eyes. All other eyed larvae have stemmata, which are structurally different from adult compound eyes with ommatidia. This is unusual, since most adult features are present as imaginal discs in larvae and not formed until pupation. The presence of compound eyes in nannochoristid larvae suggests the timing of the development of adult features can be initiated earlier in development, which has important implications for insect evolutionary development.

Phylogeny
The cladogram of external relationships, based on a 2008 DNA and protein analysis, shows the family as a clade, sister to the Siphonaptera (fleas) and rest of Mecoptera, and more distantly related to the Diptera (true flies) and Mecoptera (scorpionflies).

A more recent study in 2021 found Nannochoristidae to be the sister group to fleas, with strong support.

Genera
After Cao et al. 2022.

 Nannochorista Tillyard, 1917 (8 species: Argentina, Chile, Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand) Koonwarra fossil bed, Australia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
 †Dahurochorista Sukatsheva 1985 (one species: Ichetuy Formation, Russia, Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
 †Dahurolarva Sukatsheva 1985 (one species: Ichetuy Formation, Oxfordian, Russia) (based on larvae only)
 †Itaphlebia Sukatsheva 1985 (14 species) Itat Formation, Russia, Middle Jurassic (Bathonian), Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian), Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) Doronino Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
 †Namdyrus Sukacheva 1993 Khaya Formation, Russia, Late Jurassic (Tithonian)
 †Tarantogus Sukatsheva, 1985 Itat Formation, Russia, Bathonian (based on larvae only)
 †Undisca Sukatsheva, 1990 Glushkovo Formation, Russia, Tithonian

References

Mecoptera
Insect families
Monte San Biagio

Monte San Biagio (Southern Laziale: Muntciegl) is a town and comune in the province of Latina, in southern Lazio (Italy). It is located on the slope of a hill part of the Monti Ausoni. Until 1862 it was known as Monticello.

History and main sights

The Roman presence in Monte San Biagio's territory is testified by the presence of a mausoleum attributed to Emperor Galba, a native of the area, but which probably belonged to Sextus Iulius Frontinus, who had a great villa in the vicinity. The Romans defeated the Samnites here, at the Passo della Portella: in the place a fortified gate was built, which was later used as the border customs of the Kingdom of Naples. Nearby is a watchtower from the period of Pope Sixtus V.

The origins of the modern town date back to the Middle Ages, when a castle was built here (over the Roman ruins), firstly as a stronghold of the Duchy of Gaeta, and later of the Duchy of Fondi. The first document mentioning the Castrum Monticelli, however, dates from 1099, from the archives of Monte Cassino. In the following centuries it was a fief of Fondi, a possession of the dell'Aquila family from 1145. Later it was ruled by the Colonna, the Carafa, the Mansfeld and the Di Sangro, as part of the Kingdom of Naples.

In the winter of 1788 the town was sacked by the French army, while, after the Bourbon restoration and the subsequent unification of Italy, the neighbourhood was the base of brigandage. In 1862 the name was changed to Monte San Vito and, soon thereafter, to the current Monte San Biagio.

Transportation

Monte San Biagio lies next to the Via Appia, once the main road from Rome to Campania. It is also connected by a branch of the Via Flacca from Terracina to Gaeta.

The town is served by a railway station on the mainline between Rome and Naples.

Traditions and gastronomic specialities
There are several dishes particular to Monte San Biagio, some using shrimp from the local lakes, and wild asparagus. The pork sausages are particularly distinctive, usually handmade from the meat and lard of the pig, mixed with chilli pepper and coriander seed.

It is also home to  of cork oak woods, one of the few areas of production outside of Sardinia.

The communes of Monte San Biagio, Sonnino and Terracina itself are those sanctioned to produce Moscato di Terracina wines, the finest of which come from vineyards on the southeast-facing slopes of the coastal hills.

The plains of Monte San Biagio, south of Monti Ausoni, are primarily used for agriculture including the growth of kiwi, olives, pears, citrus fruits, and many types of vegetables.

Climate
Monte San Biagio has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa),with hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters.

Twin cities
 Saint-Romain-le-Puy, France
 Übersee, Germany

References

Cities and towns in Lazio
Roger Cruz

Roger Cruz (born Rogério da Cruz Kuroda on February 22, 1971, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian comic book artist.

Biography 
Cruz started his professional career as a letterer for Editora Abril, the Brazilian publishing house, for whom he lettered many Portuguese translations of American comics; then worked as a writer and art assistant for Mil Perigos, a short-lived black and white comics magazine.

When Art & Comics Studio first introduced Brazilian artists to the American comic book market, he was given the opportunity to work as an artist for Marvel Comics on the titles Ghost Rider, Hulk, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Alpha, X-Patrol, Generation X, X-Calibre, X-Factor, X-Man, Avengers: Timeslide and Silver Surfer. He also worked for DC Comics, where he provided art for one issue of the comic book Batman Chronicles.

At the end of the 1990s, Cruz took a break from working on comic books and returned to Brazil, where he became one of the founders and partners of an art studio/school called Fábrica de Quadrinhos ("Comic Book Factory"; currently named Quanta Academia de Artes). Cruz also worked as a storyboard designer for advertising agencies, a character designer for TV shows, and an art teacher, and gave a two-year course of lectures and workshops in universities.

Still being a Fábrica de Quadrinhos partner, he returned to work for the American market, contributing to Top Cow Productions titles such as The Darkness and Ascension, and Marvel titles like X-Men, Wolverine, and Magneto: Dark Seduction.

In 1999 Cruz gave up his projects in Fábrica de Quadrinhos and returned to work exclusively with comics. In 2002, negotiated by Art & Comics Studio, he illustrated issues of Wonder Woman. From 2004, he worked for Marvel once again, as the artist on Amazing Fantasy and X-Men: First Class.

Since 2019 Cruz published more authorial works in Brazil, such as Xampu- Lovely Losers, Quaisqualingundum (as writer; art by David Calil), based on songs by composer Adoniran Barbosa, A Irmandade Bege e Os Fabulosos, a parody of X-Men.

Controversy 
Cruz was a regular on the (now defunct) Genesis Comics "Swipe Of The Week" website around 1999.  The site placed two pieces of published work by two different artists side by side, and allowed the users to vote whether they were seeing an homage, a coincidence, or a direct copy. Primarily, Cruz's work was placed beside the previously printed work of Joe Madureira, but also Jim Lee. Cruz has acknowledged on his (now defunct) website that he learned to draw primarily by copying from other pencillers.

Partial bibliography 

Uncanny X-Men  #315, 318, 320, 324, 327, 376, 473, 474
X-Factor  #106
Wolverine  #89, #147-148
X-Men  #180-181
Generation X  #7-8
X-Man  #21-25, 27-30, 32-35, 41-44, -1
X-Calibre  #2
X-Men: Alpha/X-Men: Omega
Incredible Hulk  #419
Brigade  #16-17
Silver Surfer Vol. 2  #138-139

Notes

References 
 Official blog
 Roger Cruz at Deviant Art
 Lambiek Comiclopedia entry on Cruz

Living people
1971 births
Brazilian people of Japanese descent
Brazilian comics artists
Brazilian male bloggers
Brazilian art educators
Brazilian storyboard artists
Comic book letterers
Allandale, Falkirk

Allandale is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Allandale is located  south-west of Bonnybridge,  north-east of Cumbernauld and  west-southwest of Falkirk. The entire village is a row of terraced housing along a section of the B816 road from Bonnybridge to Castlecary. The village is bordered to the north by the Forth & Clyde Canal and to the south by the former LMS railway.

History
The village of Allandale was built in 1904 to house workers of a new brickworks started by J.G Stein and Co. Dundas Cottages was built for management and office staff a few years later, the council built additional houses in the 1960s. The village was named after brickworks owner John G Stein's son Allan Stein. 
See www.allandalecottages.co.uk
In 1973 when Granada TV techicians were on strike, three episodes of Coronation Street were filmed in Allandale, mainly for exterior shots.

Sports
In 1970 football club, Steins Thistle, was founded as a team for the workers of the Steins Brickworks, named after John Stein. Despite the closure of the brickworks, the football club remains to date and currently compete in the Central Scottish Amateur Football League.
Allandale prepared a proposal to have the Olympic Games staged in the village in 1984 but were eventually outvoted and the event was hosted by Los Angeles, due to it having slightly better facilities and transport infrastructure.

References

External links

Falkirk Herald - Allandale immortalised by Steins’ legacy
Canmore - Castlecary, Allandale Cottages site record
Canmore - Allandale Fortlet site record

Villages in Falkirk (council area)
Jelsa, Norway

Jelsa is a village in Suldal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The village is located along the inner part of the Boknafjorden, near the mouths of the Sandsfjorden and Erfjorden.  The village is the site of a school, store, gas station, and some small stores.  There was a barrel factory here until it closed in 2009.  Jelsa Church is located in this village.

The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Jelsa which existed from 1838 until 1965.

The village lies along Norwegian county road 517, and it is a regular ferry stop on the route from Nedstrand-Hebnes-Foldøy-Jelsa.

References

Villages in Rogaland
Suldal
Subterranean

Subterranean(s) or The Subterranean(s) may refer to:

 Subterranea (geography), underground structures, both natural and man-made

Literature 
 Subterranean (novel), a 1998 novel by James Rollins
 Subterranean Magazine, an American fantasy, horror and science fiction magazine
 Subterranean Press, an American small press publisher
 The Subterraneans, a 1958 novella by Jack Kerouac

Media (film and TV) 
 The Subterraneans (film) 1960 motion picture based on the Kerouac novella
 The Subterranean, a 1967 Romanian film
 Subterranean (TV program), an American music show which ran from 2003 to 2011

Music 
 Subterranean (EP) (1995), an EP by In Flames
 "Subterranean" (2003), a song by Smack
 "Subterranean" (2014), a song by Foo Fighters on the album Sonic Highways
 Subterranean Records, an American record label
 "Subterraneans" (1977), a song by David Bowie
 "Subterraneans" (1984), a song by Flesh for Lulu
 Subterraneans (band), an English art-rock band

See also 
 
 Subterranea (disambiguation)
 Underground (disambiguation)
Baltimore S.C.

Baltimore S.C. is the name of two soccer clubs based in Baltimore, Maryland. One is a premier youth club formed in 2002 and the other was a member of the American Soccer League (ASL).

The original team began in 1917 under the name of the True American Club. They were the first uniformed boys' team in the state and won the junior state title in the 1920–21 season. A year later they changed their affiliation to Canton S.C. Before the 1936/37 season, the club became known as Baltimore S.C. After the 1941/42 season, the club was granted a one-year exemption from American League play. The club rejoined the league before the 1943/44 season. After the 1947/48 season, the franchise was purchased and moved to Trenton, New Jersey to become the Trenton Americans.

The current club has premier youth teams for children aging 9–18.

Results of the former Baltimore SC:

Year-by-year

References

External links
 (archived, 2009)

American Soccer League (1933–1983) teams
Soccer clubs in Baltimore
Defunct soccer clubs in Maryland
1943 establishments in Maryland
1948 disestablishments in Maryland
Association football clubs established in 1943
Association football clubs disestablished in 1948
U.S. Open Cup winners
Haggs

Haggs is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is situated  south-west of Bonnybridge,  north-northeast of Kilsyth and  south-southwest of Denny, on the east side of the M80 motorway which separates it from Banknock.

At the 2001 census the population of Haggs was reported as 383 residents.

Haggs lies along the A803 road between Banknock and Dennyloanhead and is next to the location where the A80 road formerly turned into the M80 motorway.

Haggs Parish Church is shared with Banknock and often hosts the local school during religious holidays like Easter and Christmas.

Notable people
 Danny Malloy - former professional boxer and footballer.

See also
List of places in Falkirk council area

References

External links

Vision of Britain - Haggs
Haggs Parish Church - History

Villages in Falkirk (council area)