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Sogen Con

Sogen Con was an annual three-day anime convention held during the summer months at the Sioux Falls Convention Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was originally based in Minnesota until moving before the 2007 convention. The name of the convention is based from the Japanese word for prairie, sogen.

Programming
The convention features artists, dances, dealers, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, video games, voice actors, and workshops.

History
In 2011, Sogen Con started a Kickstarter with the goal of raising $15,000 to cover the costs of the convention. The issues stemmed from the organizers (Otaku Incorporated) involvement in two less successful contentions, KakkoiCon and Minneapolis Anime Convention (M.A.C), which had financial and staff issues. The convention was able to successfully raise the money in two weeks.

Event history

References

External links
Sogen Con Website

Defunct anime conventions
Recurring events established in 2005
Recurring events disestablished in 2013
2005 establishments in Minnesota
South Dakota culture
Festivals in South Dakota
Culture of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tourist attractions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Laboratory school

A laboratory school or demonstration school is an elementary or secondary school operated in association with a university, college, or other teacher education institution and used for the training of future teachers, educational experimentation, educational research, and professional development.

Many laboratory schools follow a model of experiential education based on the original Laboratory School run by John Dewey at the University of Chicago. Many laboratory schools still operate in the United States and around the globe. They are known by many names: laboratory schools, demonstration schools, campus schools, model schools, university-affiliated schools, child development schools, etc., and most have a connection to a college or university. Each university-affiliated school has a unique relationship with a college or university and a different grade configuration. Some lab schools are only for preschool or kindergarten children, some are preschool through fifth or sixth grade, and some continue through high school.

Khan Lab School in Silicon Valley is one of the few laboratory schools not affiliated with a college or university. It is affiliated with Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization. The school's experimentation with abolishing grade levels was featured on Voice of America in 2016.

Classroom observation
Laboratory school classrooms may be observed by university professors to assess the student-teacher, but this is conducted without the students or student-teachers aware of the observation. The observers want to avoid creating a distraction or disrupting classroom activities. Before the miniaturization of electronic camera viewing systems, laboratory schools often included elaborate direct-view observation systems with special observation decks above classrooms or observation rooms alongside the classrooms. One-way mirrors and speaker/intercom systems allowed a professor to silently observe the classroom, but without being seen by the students or the student-teacher.

A modern laboratory school is able to use a standard-design school as a laboratory school. The standard rooms are outfitted with CCTV cameras hidden inside black plastic domes on the ceiling. Complex lens optics and multiple cameras allow a single stationary dome to view 360 degrees, with no mechanical noises or moving parts. High-speed Internet connections allow for a professor at a college to remotely view and interact with student-teachers in a distant laboratory school.

In either case, students or student-teachers know that observation may occur, but they do not know when such observation takes place.

Examples

Asia

Australia

Canada

Europe

United States

See also
Progressive education
List of demonstration schools in Thailand

References

External links
International Association of Laboratory Schools

 
Progressive education
Types of vocational school
Limoncocha National Biological Reserve

Limoncocha National Biological Reserve is a nature reserve is located 229 miles from Quito, Ecuador. The reserve includes over 13,000 acres (53 km2) of land in the Shushufindi Canton, Sucumbíos Province.

Fauna
There is a large concentration of Fauna in and around the reserve. The over 347 species of bird that live in the reserve make Birdwatching very popular attraction. Limoncocha also holds a large number of tortoises and a diverse population of fish.

Flora
The park is a largely water environment so a large portion of the Flora in the Nature reserve is either aquatic or semi-aquatic in nature. As with much of Ecuador towering trees provide homes for hundreds of types of animals. The microscopic algae in the water gives it a lemongreen color.

Attractions
Much of the reserve is a lagoon style landscape that was formed by the ancient course of the Napo River. A small community of Quichua also live in the Reserve.

See also
List of national parks in Ecuador

References 
 ambiente.gob.ec

Nature reserves in Ecuador
Geography of Sucumbíos Province
Educational institutions established in 1998
1998 establishments in Ecuador
František Halas

František Halas (3 October 1901 in Brno – 27 October 1949 in Prague) was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator.

Life 
Born as the son of textile worker, Halas worked as bookseller. He was self-taught, without higher education. After 1921 he started publishing in the communist newspapers Rovnost and Sršatec, and in 1926 he became an editor at the Prague publishing house Orbis. During World War II he was active in the resistance movement, and after 1945 he was engaged at the Ministry of Information.

Work 
poetry:

Sepie (1927)
Kohout plaší smrt (1930)
Tvář (1931)
Hořec (1933)
Dělnice (1934)
Staré ženy (1935)
Dokořán (1936)
Torzo naděje (1938)
Naše paní Božena Němcová (1940)
Ladění (1942)
Já se tam vrátím (1947)
V řadě (1948)

References 
Bohuš Balajka: Přehledné dějiny literatury II. Prague: Fortuna, 2005.

External links

 Biography
 Biography 

1901 births
1949 deaths
Writers from Brno
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians
Members of the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
Czech communists
Czech poets
Czech male poets
Surrealist poets
Czech surrealist writers
Czech translators
20th-century translators
20th-century Czech poets
Communist poets
Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Skypix

Skypix is the name of a markup language used to encode graphics content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound to bulletin board system. The system was written by Michael Cox on the Amiga in 1987, and first hosted on the Atredes BBS system, which was later renamed Skyline. Skypix allowed BBS sysops to create interactive BBS systems with graphics, fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

Skypix used an extension of the ANSI graphics system that added new instructions. The graphics were normally created using Skypaint, which could generate Skypix files directly from a familiar-looking paint program. The files could be placed in the system and any Skypix-enabled terminal program would notice the encoding and recreate the graphics.

The underlying BBS software could be programmed in the ARexx language (a variant of REXX for the Amiga). This resulted in an enthusiastic group of Skypix hobbyists.

Skypix was available only on the Amiga computer, hosted on the Skyline BBS and accessed using the Skyterm terminal emulator. Skypix support was later implemented in JR-Comm by Johnathan Radigan. At one time over a thousand Skyline systems were operating the world over. Amiga inventor Jay Miner himself ran a Skyline system for a time.

With the terminal program JR-Comm, other BBS software programs started to support Skypix.  C-Net Amiga Pro BBS Software was one of them. Today there are several of these boards still alive using Telnet.  One of these boards still offers Skypix graphics when using JR-Comm.

References

External links

 "BBS: The Documentary, An Overview of BBS Programs", expanded view. This document is part of the making of the DVD.
 (Ripscrip Graphic Protocol Specs citating briefly Skypix as primitive markup language)
 MC MIcroComputer Magazine issue nr. 97, June 1990, Italy; PDF Collection of Computer Magazine MC-Microcomputer (In Italian Language) citing briefly Skypix as emerging promising language for BBS.
 "Computers are no fun anymore", a discussion of 2003 on [http://forums.randi.org/forumindex.php JREF Forum] (James Randi Educational Foundation) featuring the author of Skyline BBS participating the discussion.
Ansi/Skypix Specs and Tutorials at Amiga Aminet official repository (in AmigaGuide and text format).
 Official Website for Sky99 Exch

Network protocols
Amiga software
Langah, Chakwal

Langah, (), is a village in the Chakwal District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is a very old village.
Langah is a village of UC Jand Awan on the eastern part of Chakwal, surrounded by Dhoda, Jand, Dumali and Hasola.

References 

Populated places in Chakwal District
Sunlight Studio

Sunlight Studios is a recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden which is run by Tomas Skogsberg.

It has been a popular choice for Swedish death metal bands such as Dismember, At The Gates, Entombed, Grave, Katatonia and Tiamat.

Records

1989
Treblinka - Severe Abominations
Therion - Time Shall Tell
Nihilist - Only Shreds Remain

1990
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
Grotesque - Incantation
Carbonized - No Canonization

1991
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Entombed - Clandestine
Grave - Into the Grave
Therion - Of Darkness...
Merciless - The Treasures Within
Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
Xysma - Yeah

1992
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Obscure Infinity - Beyond the Gate
Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey
Vader - The Ultimate Incantation First Recording Session
Convulse - Reflections

1993
Dismember - Indecent & Obscene
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Desultory - Into Eternity
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Utumno - Across The Horizon
Internal Decay - A Forgotten Dream

1994
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Amorphis - Black Winter Day

1995
Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity

1996
Amorphis - Elegy

1997
Dismember - Death Metal
Entombed - DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
Vibrion - Closed Frontiers

1998
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

1999
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision

2001
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

2013
Jesus Chrüsler Supercar - Among The Ruins And Desolate Lands

2018
Befouled - Refuse to Rot

2022
Xorsist - Deadly Possession

References
 A chronological "discography" of the studio can be found 
carnagedeathmetal.de – SUNLIGHT STUDIO (SWE)

Recording studios in Sweden
Music in Stockholm
Solar puffing

Solar puffing (also called solar toking or taking solar hits) is the act of using the sun's rays with a magnifying lens or burning glass to heat cannabis for consumption.  

Utilization of this method also provides the practitioner the ability to consume a greater amount of THC within a given amount of cannabis because more THC is preserved for inhalation due to a lower heating temperature as opposed to that of combustion. This method is similar to that of vaporization.

See also
Hookah
One-hitter (smoking)
Operation Pipe Dreams
Thuoc lao
Water pipe percolator

References
 

Drug culture
Cannabis smoking
Sebbins Pond

Sebbins Pond is an approximately  body of water in Bedford, New Hampshire. It is located in the eastern part of the town, between Back River Road and the Everett Turnpike. It is named for a man with the last name of Sebbins, who in 1735 set up shop at a site near the pond to make shingles, which he then dragged down to the nearby Merrimack River to ship – two years before the first permanent settlement in Bedford in 1737.

Sebbins Pond is the largest body of water totally within the town boundaries.  It is bounded on the southwest side by Camp Kettleford, which is owned and operated by the Swift Water Council of the Girl Scouts of the USA, which uses the pond for canoeing and swimming. The rest of Sebbins Pond is bounded by approximately 20 private homes, many of which are former summer cabins or houses that have been winterized and expanded.  There is no public access to the pond.

The pond is fed by several springs and by a small stream draining from nearby Silver Springs Pond ("Muddy Pond" on some maps). Its outlet is Sebbins Brook, which leads southeast, combines with the outfall from Sandy Pond, and continues to the Merrimack River.

Like all water bodies greater than  in New Hampshire, Sebbins is a great pond, public property held in trust by the state.

External links

Camp Kettleford Swift Water Council site about Camp Kettleford
Camp Kettleford Another Swift Water Council site about Camp Kettleford

Lakes of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Area code 901

Area code 901 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Memphis, Tennessee, and most of its inner-ring suburbs. it is the smallest numbering plan area in the state.

History

Area code 901 was one of the original North American area codes created in 1947 for the first nationwide telephone numbering plan. It served the entire state of Tennessee until 1954, when the state was divided in a flash cut into two numbering plan areas. West Tennessee retained the area code, while the eastern two-thirds of the state, essentially, the part of the state east of the Tennessee River, received area code 615.

Despite the presence of Memphis, the state's largest city at the time, West Tennessee is not as densely populated as the state's other two Grand Divisions. As a result, while the eastern two-thirds of the state went from one area code to four from 1995 to 1999, 901 remained the sole area code for West Tennessee for 47 years. However, by the turn of the millennium, 901 was close to exhaustion due to the Memphis area's rapid growth, as well as the proliferation of cell phones and pagers. On September 17, 2001, area code 731 was assigned to most of West Tennessee outside the immediate Memphis area.  Area code 901 remained in service for Fayette, Shelby and Tipton counties, an area largely coextensive with the inner ring of the Memphis area.

Despite the Memphis area's growth and the continued demand for telecommunication services, 901 is not in danger of exhaustion. It is one of the few urban area codes that has not been overlaid, making Memphis one of the largest cities where seven-digit dialing is still possible. According to 2021 projections, it will likely stay that way until about 2035.

The area code was the inspiration for the name of Memphis 901 FC, a local professional soccer team that plays in the USL Championship.

Service area
Major cities in these counties are the following.

Hardeman County
 Whiteville

Fayette County 
 Somerville

Shelby County
 Arlington
 Bartlett
 Collierville
 Germantown
 Memphis
 Millington

Tipton County 
 Covington

See also
List of NANP area codes

References

External links

901
901
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947
1947 establishments in Tennessee
List of ship launches in 1921

The list of ship launches in 1921 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1921.


References

Sources

1921
Ship launches
Someone to Love (1987 film)

Someone to Love is a 1987 comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. It was Orson Welles' final live action film appearance, released two years after his death but produced before his voice-over in The Transformers: The Movie, his final film performance.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
The film is a pseudo-documentary about a filmmaker who throws a Valentine's Day party at an old theater that is about to be demolished. The filmmaker invites numerous single friends, including his brother, the real estate agent who sold the theater to a developer who is going to build a modern shopping mall, to the party and then quizzes them on camera about their lives, failed relationships, intimacy issues, and loneliness.

Cast
 Orson Welles as himself
 Henry Jaglom as Danny Sapir
 Andrea Marcovicci as Helene Eugene
 Michael Emil as Mickey Sapir
 Sally Kellerman as Edith Helm
 Oja Kodar as Yolena
 Stephen Bishop as Blue
 David Frishberg as Harry
 Miles Kreuger as Theatre Manager
 Bjorke Andersun as Truck Driver

See also
 Your Name Here – a 2015 Canadian docufiction film directed by B. P. Paquette featuring dozens of amateur actors and that examines the art and craft of movie acting, and the desire for movie stardom.
 Hello Cinema – a 1995 Iranian docufiction film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf that shows various everyday people being auditioned and explaining their reason for wanting to act in a film.
 Filming Othello – a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. 
 F for Fake – the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film, which is loosely a documentary that operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.

References

External links
 
 

1987 films
1987 comedy films
Films directed by Henry Jaglom
American comedy films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
Karel Václav Rais

Karel Václav Rais (January 4, 1859 – July 8, 1926) was a Czech realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems.

Biography 
Rais was born into the family of a simple farm laborer and weaver. He studied in Jičín and Prague. In the latter one, since 1899, he was director of the citizen school in Vinohrady. During his life in Prague he kept in touch with many Czech artists, including Alois Jirásek, Zikmund Winter, Josef Václav Sládek, Ignát Herrmann, and Josef Thomayer.

He was one of the editors of the magazine Zvon, and wrote contributions to numerous other magazines as well. He was a member of the board of the literary company Máj and the society for national education Svatobor.

He died in 1926 and he was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery.

Selected works 
 Kalibův zločin - 1895
 Západ - 1896

See also

 List of Czech writers

References

External links

  Biography and bibliography

1859 births
1926 deaths
People from Lázně Bělohrad
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
Czech novelists
Male novelists
Czech children's writers
Czech male poets
Novelists from Austria-Hungary
Ghuman

Ghuman may refer to:
Ghumman (surname), people with this surname live both in India and Pakistan
Ghuman, Gujrat, a village in Pakistani Punjab
Ghuman, Gurdaspur, a village in Indian Punjab
Kapur Singh Ghuman, Indian writer and theatre actor
Varinder Singh Ghuman, Indian bodybuilder and wrestler
Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman, Pakistani cleric

See also
Guman (disambiguation)
J. Spencer Kinard

J. Spencer Kinard is an American radio and television personality He was a reporter for KSL television when he was invited to replace Richard L. Evans as voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Kinard had previously worked for CBS in New York. He spent 18 years as the voice of the choir.

Early life
Kinard attended the University of Utah, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1966. He went to work for CBS News in New York, where he also completed a CBS News fellowship at Columbia University. He returned to Utah in 1971 to work for then-CBS affiliate KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. After covering the funeral of Richard L. Evans that November, he became determined to break the story of who would replace Evans as voice of the choir. In the meantime, Alan Jensen (who had substituted for Evans from time to time) announced for the choir.

Career
In January 1972, Kinard was invited to audition for the position of announcer. He was introduced to the choir the next week and officially took over the helm at the Tabernacle Choir's Music and the Spoken Word broadcast in February 1972, where he continued for 18 years. In the meantime he remained at KSL, where he gradually gained more responsibilities and eventually became news director.

On November 1, 1990, the Deseret News reported that Kinard had resigned as vice president of news and public affairs for KSL:

The next day, the Deseret News followed up with an article entitled "Kinard - At His Request - Is Released From Choir Post".

Later years
Kinard went on to become deputy director of the Utah Travel Council, where he worked for nearly twelve years until his 2006 retirement. Kinard is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Utah. He has been chairman of the national Radio-Television News Directors Association and was president of the University of Utah Alumni Association (2005–08).

References

External links
Kinard biography at the official Music and the Spoken Word website

Latter Day Saints from Utah
American radio personalities
American television personalities
Living people
Columbia University alumni
University of Utah alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Latter Day Saints from New York (state)
CG Power and Industrial Solutions

CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited, also known as Crompton Greaves Limited, is an Indian multinational company engaged in design, manufacturing, and marketing of products related to power generation, transmission, and distribution & Rail Transportation. It is based in Mumbai and is a part of the Murugappa Group since 2020, who acquired it from the Avantha Group. The company was restructured in 2016 following the demerger of its consumer goods business.

History 
Col. R. E. B. Crompton founded R.E.B. Crompton & Company in 1878. The company was merged with F.A. Parkinson in 1927 to form Crompton Parkinson Ltd. Greaves Cotton and Company, established by James Greaves in 1859, was appointed as their concessionaire in India.

The company was incorporated on 28 April 1937 as Crompton Parkinson Work Private Limited. In 1947, it was acquired by Karam Chand Thapar of Thapar Group. The company went public in 1960 and changed its name to Crompton Greaves Limited in 1966.

The company in Cold War era collaborated with the USSR and the Eastern Bloc for technology transfer of new electrical technologies.

In July 2014, Crompton Greaves Limited announced plans to demerge the company in order to separate its consumer goods business from the power and industrial systems segment. The demerger was completed in 2016 with the listing of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited (CGCEL) and Gautam Thapar selling his 34% stake in CGCEL to Advent International and Temasek Holdings for  2,000 crore.

In January 2017, Crompton Greaves changed its name from Crompton Greaves Limited to CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited.

In August 2019, CG Power and Industrial Solutions reported that its employees had carried out unauthorised transactions resulting in an "understatement of the company's liabilities" by thousands of crores in the previous financial year.

In September 2020, Murugappa Group's Tube Investments acquired a 56% stake in CG Power and Industrial Solutions for  700 crore.

Products & Services
MV Switchgear
VCB, PCVCB, GIS & RMU, all Rail Transportation Equipments like Traction Motors, Converters, cubicles, Relays, Point machines etc.

Awards 
 Received NABL Accreditation for 5 of its labs & 1 calibration lab.

References

External links
Crompton Greaves Global

Companies established in 1878
Companies based in Mumbai
Electrical engineering companies of India
Murugappa Group
Indian companies established in 1878
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Indian companies established in 1937
John P. Kelly (clergyman)

John P. Kelly is a convening apostle of the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders.

External links
 International Coalition of Apostles
 International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders
 European Coalition of Apostolic Leaders
 John P. Kelly Ministries

American Christian clergy
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Private Vow

Private Vow (April 19, 2003 – July 22, 2020) was a thoroughbred race horse.  As a foal of 2003, he was a possible contender for the Triple Crown in 2006.

Background
Private Vow's sire is Broken Vow, who in 2001 won four stakes races (including graded wins at Keeneland and Monmouth Park) and finished either second or third in four other stakes. His dam, Smooth as Silk, had two wins from eight starts for trainer Bobby Frankel. 

Private Vow's damsire was the Canadian-bred champion Deputy Minister.

Racing career
Owned by Mike McCarty and primarily trained by Steve Asmussen, Private Vow won two Grade 2 stakes races as a two-year-old in 2005, but fared poorly in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile that year. He placed 15th in the 2006 Kentucky Derby and was retired after a 7th-place finish in a listed stakes race at the Fair Grounds in 2007.

Breeding
Following his retirement, Private Vow stood as a stallion at Red River Farms in Louisiana. He was then sold to a farm in South Korea to stand starting with the 2015 breeding season.

Death
In December 2020 it was learned through public record searches that Private Vow was killed at a slaughterhouse in South Korea on July 22, 2020. The animal rights organization PETA, citing multiple Korean databases, claimed that four of Private Vow's offspring - two fillies and two colts - were killed similarly in 2019 and 2020, respectively. 

In response to PETA's announcement, major US racetrack operator Stronach Group has called on banning the sale of North American thoroughbreds to South Korean interests. Both PETA and Stronach have requested that the Korean Racing Authority (KRA) provide better safeguards for retired racehorses. The KRA later released a statement saying that they have established guidelines for retired racehorses that are communicated on a regular basis, including the operation of a retirement program and an equine welfare committee. They emphasized that no horse is imported to Korea for slaughter purposes, adding that "...the right to dispose (of horses) belong to owners and are not subject to external intervention."

According to The Blood-Horse, the KRA lists Private Vow's date of death as September 22, 2020.

References

2003 racehorse births
2020 racehorse deaths
Thoroughbred family 5-e
Racehorses trained in the United States
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Bila Krynytsia, Chernivtsi Oblast

Bila Krynytsia (; ; ) is a village in Ukraine, administered by the village Staryi Vovchynets in the Kamianka rural hromada of the Chernivtsi Raion in the Chernivtsi Oblast. It is located 45 km from the district center, near the border crossin with Romania Bila Krynytsia–Climăuți.

The village is located in the historical region of Bukovina. The time of the founding of the village is unknown. In January 1775, it became part of the Habsburg Empire. The name of the village comes from the whitish color of the water in some local wells caused by the presence of chalk rocks in the soil.

On 28 November 1918, the village of Bila Krynytsia became part of Kingdom of Romania (Rădăuți County). At that time, most of the population was made up of Lipovans.

The village was the seat of the first hierarch within the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy from 1846 to 1940. Afterwards, due to the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina, it moved to Brăila for two reasons: fear of persecution by the Soviet authorities and the fact that it was the only Lipovan village in Northern Bukovina. All other vicariates in its territory were located either in Southern Bukovina, which remained in Romania, or in other parts of Romania.

In 1941, the village was the site of the Fântâna Albă massacre.

Further reading 
 Сайко М., Писарева А. Из истории Белой Криницы // Белая Криница: Православно-старообрядческий общественный журнал 1999. — Июнь. — [№ 1]. — С. 14-19.
 Панкратов А. В. От востока направо: История, культура, современные вопросы старообрядчества. — М., 2000. — С. 83-109, 220—228.
 
 

Villages in Chernivtsi Raion
Fráňa Šrámek

Fráňa Šrámek (January 19, 1877, Sobotka – July 1, 1952, Prague) was a Czech impressionist and vitalist poet, novelist, playwright and anarchist.

In 1885 his family relocated to Písek, where he lived for a long time and much of his work was created in and about this town. After study he joined the military for a period of about a year, but was forced to continue service for another due to bad behavior. In 1914 he fell seriously ill.

Novels 
 Stříbrný vítr
 Tělo
 Past
 Křižovatky

Poems collections 
 Modrý a rudý (1906)
 Splav
 Ještě zní
 Života bído, přec tě mám rád (1905)
 Nové básně
 Rány, růže

See also

 List of Czech writers

External links

  Biography and bibliography
  Short biography and list of works 

1877 births
1952 deaths
Czech male poets
Czech male novelists
20th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Czech novelists
20th-century Czech poets
Czech male dramatists and playwrights
Czech anarchists
People from Jičín District
Poets from Austria-Hungary
Dean Pleasants

Dean Pleasants (born May 18, 1965) is an American guitarist. He has been the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies since 1996, and is their longest-standing lead guitarist, surpassing Rocky George, who had been in the band for 11 years. He is also a member of the Suicidal Tendencies funk metal side project Infectious Grooves. He also played with Ugly Kid Joe on their America's Least Wanted album. He also played with George Clinton, Tone Loc, Coke advertisements, Poe, Jody Watley and Atlantic Starr. Dean currently endorses Schecter guitars, having also used Fernandes and ESP guitars in the past. For amplification he has used VHT, Fender and Marshall amps.

References 

1965 births
African-American guitarists
African-American rock musicians
American heavy metal guitarists
American male guitarists
Guitarists from Texas
Living people
Musicians from San Antonio
Suicidal Tendencies members
20th-century American guitarists
Bazai

The Bazai () is a Pashtun tribe settled in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Bazai Tribe is the sub-cast of Kakar tribe living in the western and southern region of Quetta District, Pishin, Ziarat and Sibi districts of Balochistan. The tribe is mainly settled in the mountainous regions, including the Maslagh, Zarghoon, Takatoo mountains of Quetta. 

Gharghashti Pashtun tribes
Pashto-language surnames
Novye Atagi

Novye Atagi (: , Ƶima Ataġa) is a rural locality (a selo) in Shalinsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, located  south of Grozny. Population:  

Novye Atagi is separated from Starye Atagi by the Argun River.

See also
ICRC Hospital of Novye Atagi

References

External links
The attack on the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi
17 December 1996 : Six ICRC delegates assassinated in Chechnya

Rural localities in Shalinsky District
Constant Chaos

Constant Chaos is the debut studio album by Green Velvet. It was released on Music Man Records in 1999.

Critical reception

John Bush of AllMusic wrote, "Though none of the previous Green Velvet club favorites are reprised for his album, Cajmere has created a raft of future classics, all along the same lines." Peter Margasak of Chicago Reader commented that "his austere mix of robotic rhythms, analog synth squelches, and occasionally hallucinatory lyrics sounds like nothing else out there." Richard Brophy of Hot Press described the album as "a minefield of personal traumas and reflections on the woes of our world".

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from the CD edition's liner notes.

 Green Velvet – vocals, instruments, production, engineering
 The Misfits – additional vocals (2)
 Michael Voltattorni – photography
 Phreddy Lee – photography

References

External links
 

1999 debut albums
Green Velvet albums
Eduard Heis

Eduard Heis (18 February 1806, Cologne – 30 June 1877 in Münster) was a German mathematician and astronomer.

He completed his education at the University of Bonn in 1827, then taught mathematics at a school in Cologne. In 1832 he taught at Aachen, and remained there until 1852. He was then appointed by King Frederick William IV to a chair position at the Academy of Münster in 1852. In 1869 he became rector of the Academy.

While at the academy he made a series of observations of the night sky, including the Milky Way, zodiacal light, stars, and shooting stars. These were published in the following works, among others:

 Atlas Coelestis Novus, Cologne, 1872.
 Zodiakal-Beobachtungen.
 Sternschnuppen-Beobachtungen.
 De Magnitudine, 1852.

His star atlas, which was based on Argelander's Uranometria Nova (1843), helped define the selection of constellations in the northern sky that was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922. His other publications included a treatise on the eclipses during the Peloponnesian war, Halley's comet, and some mathematical text books.

He was also the first person to record a count of the Perseid meteor shower in 1839, giving an hourly rate of 160. Observers have recorded the hourly count every year since that time.

Awards and honors
 Order of the Red Eagle, 1870.
 Awarded doctor honoris causa by Bonn University, 1852.
 Foreign associate, Royal Astronomical Society of London, 1874.
 Honorary member, Leopoldine Academy, 1877.
 Honorary member, Scientific Society of Brussels, 1877.
 The crater Heis on the Moon is named after him.

References

External links

 
 Atlas Coelestis Eclipticus, Coloniae ad Rhenum, 1878 da www.atlascoelestis.com
The Atlas ‍Coelestis ‍Novus of Eduard ‍Heis

1806 births
1877 deaths
19th-century German astronomers
German Roman Catholics
19th-century German mathematicians
Scientists from Cologne
Scientists from the Rhine Province
University of Bonn alumni
Academic staff of the University of Münster
Conor Flaherty

Conor Flaherty is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by actor Seán Gleeson from 22nd September 1997 to 22nd February 1999. The character first appeared in a special week of episodes set in Ireland, the first broadcast in 1997.

Storylines
Flaherty first appeared in 1997 when Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard) tracked down his mother Maggie Flaherty (Olivia Shanley), who was her long-lost sister. Conor also had a daughter, Mary Flaherty (Melanie Clark Pullen), the three of them moving to Walford with Pauline. Flaherty soon started working as a mechanic for Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), and as a loan shark 'heavy' for Annie Palmer (Nadia Sawalha).  Eventually, he falls for Ruth (Caroline Paterson), the wife of his cousin, Mark Fowler (Todd Carty). After a brief affair, Ruth is impregnated by Flaherty, leading to Fowler beating up Flaherty. Flaherty and his daughter would both move to Scotland after this, leaving the show.

Casting
Colm O Maonlai had auditioned for the part of Conor Flaherty, but lost out to Gleeson and was later cast as Tom Banks.

Reception
Merle Brown from the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record commented that Conor and Mary were "two of the most irritating characters" in the soap and she was not happy that they were moving to Scotland.

References

EastEnders characters
Fictional mechanics
Fictional Irish people
Television characters introduced in 1997
Male characters in television
Beale family (EastEnders)
CUCN

CUCN or China-US Cable Network was a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It was retired from service in December 2016.

It has landing points in:
Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Fangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Chongming, Shanghai, China
Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Pusan, South Korea
Chikura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Tanguisson Point, Tamuning Village, Guam (unincorporated territory of the United States)
Bandon, Coos County, Oregon, United States
San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

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Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
1999 establishments in Asia
1999 establishments in Guam
1999 establishments in California
1999 establishments in Oregon
Claw (disambiguation)

A claw is a sharp growth at the end of a toe or finger.

Claw or Claws may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities
Claw (comics), several unrelated characters
C.L.A.W., a fictional weapon in  the G.I. Joe universe
Claw the Unconquered, a sword and sorcery character from DC Comics
Doctor Claw, the main villain of the animated television show Inspector Gadget
The Claw, the main villain in the animated series Karate Kommandos

Films
 Claws (film), a 1977 horror film
 The Claw (1927), a movie directed by Sidney Olcott

Games
Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions
 Claw crane,  a type of arcade game known as a merchandiser
 Claw, a name frequently given to Street Fighter character Vega

Music
 "Claw", a song by the British metal band Motörhead from their album Orgasmatron (1986)
 "Claws" (song), a song by English singer Charli XCX
 C-L-A-W-S, Gospel Claws album
Gospel Claws, an indie rock group

Television
 Claws (TV series), a 2017 American TV series  
 "Claws", a 1976 episode of the television show The Bionic Woman
 "Claws", an episode of the American animated television series Johnny Bravo

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick
 Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell

Implements
Claw beaker, a type of drinking vessel used in the Dark Ages in Europe
Claw chisel or tool, used for stone carving
Claw hammer, a common carpentry tool

Organizations
 Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team
 Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), India
 Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand
 Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and ecology
Chela (organ), a pincerlike organ terminating certain limbs of some arthropods like crabs
Claw, in botany, the narrowed, stalk-like, basal part of a petal, sepal, or bract
 "Claws", the nickname given to the Baryonyx dinosaur find made in a clay pit in Surrey
CLAW hypothesis, a feedback loop between the climate and oceanic ecosystems

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
Claw (graph theory), in mathematics a complete bipartite graph 
CLAWS (linguistics), a program that performs part-of-speech tagging
 Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like systems

See also
Clawful, a fictional character in the Masters of the Universe toy line and the accompanying cartoon series He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon
Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships
Klaw (disambiguation)
The Claw (disambiguation)
Divini Redemptoris

Divini Redemptoris (from the incipit "", Latin for "the promise of a Divine Redeemer") is an anti-communist encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI.  It was published on 19 March 1937. In this encyclical, the pope sets out to "expose once more in a brief synthesis the principles of atheistic Communism as they are manifested chiefly in Bolshevism".

Mariano Cordovani O.P. (February 25, 1883 – April 4, 1950) professor of dogmatic theology at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum from 1912 to 1921 and Master of the Sacred Palace under Pope Pius XI contributed especially to the encyclical and afterward published his Appunti sul comunismo moderno treating the Church's position on communism.

Description
The encyclical describes communism as "a system full of errors and sophisms" that "subverts the social order, because it means the destruction of its foundations".

Pius XI goes on to contrast Communism with the civitas humana (ideal human civilization), which is marked by love, respect for human dignity, economic justice, and the rights of workers.  He faults industrialists and employers who do not adequately support their workers for creating a climate of discontent in which people are tempted to embrace Communism.  He refers to two earlier papal writings on this topic, Rerum novarum and Quadragesimo anno.

The work expresses concern at the growth of communism in the Soviet Union, Spain, and Mexico, and it condemns the Western press for its apparent "conspiracy of silence" in failing to cover such events in those countries. It was published five days after the publication of the more controversial Mit brennender Sorge encyclical, which condemned the German Nazi regime and ideology.

Notes

References

External links 
 Divini Redemptoris, complete English text of the encyclical on Vatican.va

Papal encyclicals
Documents of Pope Pius XI
Anti-communism
1937 documents
1937 in Christianity
Holy See–Soviet Union relations
March 1937 events
Barmstedt

Barmstedt () is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in the south of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Elmshorn, and 30 km northwest of Hamburg.  It has approximately 10,400 inhabitants which makes it the smallest town in the Pinneberg district.

Culture
There were 133 shoemakers working in Barmstedt in 1839.  Only one remains today, and it was in Barmstedt that the shoe retailer Gabor Shoes was founded.
The ex German champion in unicycling, Peer Fischer, was born in Barmstedt.

The town is twinned with Oakham, England.

Personality

Born in Barmstedt 
 Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz (1815-1870), wrote in 1844  the lyrics of the song  Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen 
 Volker Schönfelder (born 1939), physicist and professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich
Marco B. von Ostpreußen (1922-1987), politician and former mayor of Barmstedt, in his testament he said "we never forget the cowardly fratricide, sanctify Barmstedt" with that he mentionted the fractricide on Christian Detlev zu Rantzau, which was murdered on the initiative of his brother Wilhelm Adolf.

Connected to Barmstedt 

 Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (around 1690-1757), organ builder, built in 1717 the organ of the Heiligen-Geist-Kirche
 Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), architect, Semper Opera, went here during his childhood some years to school
 Joachim Gabor (1929-2013), founder of the Women's Shoe manufacturer Gabor in Barmstedt

References

Pinneberg (district)
Sinister Minister (horse)

Sinister Minister is a thoroughbred race horse.  As a foal born on March 29, 2003, he was a possible contender for the Triple Crown in 2006.

Connections

Sinister Minister is owned by the Lanni Family Trust and trained by Bob Baffert.  He's often been ridden by Victor Espinoza.

Sinister Minister was bred in Kentucky by Mr & Mrs. Michael L. Owens.  By Old Trieste, his dam is Sweet Minister by The Prime Minister.

Stud career
Sinister Minister was retired to stud in 2008 and stands at the Arrow Stud in Japan.

Notable progeny

c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding

Races

References

 NTRA bio
 Sinister Minister's pedigree

2003 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 4-m
Gnostic Mass

A Gnostic Mass is a liturgical Mass administered by a Gnostic church. Several such churches exist, each with its own version of the Mass. Some of these are:

 Ecclesia Gnostica celebrates a traditional Gnostic Mass called the Gnostic Holy Eucharist.
 Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica's Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass written by Aleister Crowley.

External links

The Gnosis of The Eucharist by Stephan A. Hoeller of Ecclesia Gnostica
Gnostic Scriptures and The Gnostic Church by Stephan A. Hoeller

Gnosticism
Mass (liturgy)
Quickborn

Quickborn () is a rich and affluent town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It belongs to Metropolregion Hamburg  and is located on the north part of Hamburg on Autobahn A7. It is a 700 year old town which also belonged to Denmark in the past.

Connectivity
Quickborn is located about 18 km north from the centre of Hamburg, on the eastern edge of Kreis Pinneberg. It lies on the A7 between Hamburg and Neumünster. It is situated just 6 km from the Hamburg Airport. Quickborn is also located along the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway, which connects it to the AKN railway and buses of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.  The S bahn train is coming in 2025 to Quickborn which will connect it directly to the main train station at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof without any change of trains. This is going to be a big boost in Quickborn‘s connectivity as well as ambitious plan for saving Co2.

Geography
Northwest of Quickborn is the Himmelmoor, the largest raised bog in Schleswig-Holstein, which is about 605 hectares large. It has long been used for  peat mining. For this purpose, a narrow-gauge railway was built through the bog. South of the city is the Holmmoor, a nature preserve that is about 110 ha. large.

Climate

Employers in Quickborn
 Comdirect Bank Head Quarters
 Pinneberg Justice Court Branch
 Hansewerk

International relations

Quickborn is twinned with:
 Boxholm,  Sweden (since 13.09.1974)
 Uckfield,   Sussex, England (since 18.02.1990)
 Malchow,  Germany (since 08.09.1990)

Notable people
 Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), songwriter, poet, satirist, novelist 
 Mike Krüger (born 1951), Comedian, actor, singer, lived for several years in Quickborn
 Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780–1808), botanist
 Carlo von Tiedemann (born 1943), TV Anchorman and actor

References 

Towns in Schleswig-Holstein
Pinneberg (district)
Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex

The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), in Spanish and officially Complejo de Comunicaciones de Espacio Profundo de Madrid, is a satellite ground station located in Robledo de Chavela, Spain, and operated by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). Part of the Deep Space Network (DSN) of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), along with its two sister stations at Goldstone, California and Canberra, Australia it is used for tracking and communicating with NASA's spacecraft, particularly interplanetary missions. The DSN and the Near Space Network (NSN) are services of the NASA Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN).

Deep Space Network

The MDSCC is part of NASA's Deep Space Network run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The facility contributes to the Deep Space Network's mission to provide the vital two-way communications link that tracks and controls interplanetary spacecraft and receives the images and scientific information they collect. The complex is one of three NASA Deep Space Network complexes in the world, located at separations of approximately 120° longitude so that a spacecraft will always be in sight of at least one station; the others are the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex located in California, near the city of Barstow, and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia which is close to the city of Canberra.

The complex also serves some missions of the European Space Agency.

Functions

The antennas and data delivery systems make it possible to:

Acquire telemetry data from spacecraft.
Transmit commands to spacecraft.
Track spacecraft position and velocity.
Perform Radio Astronomy (both single-dish and very-long-baseline interferometry) observations.
Measure variations in radio waves for radio science experiments.
Monitor and control the performance of the Deep Space Network.

Antennas

The complex has eight large parabolic antennas, called DSS-61, DSS-54, DSS-55, DSS-56, DSS-63, DSS-65 and DSS-66.

See also
 Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
 RT-70

References

External links

 Official Site at JPL
 Blog of the scientists manning the station
 How the station works, alone and within the DSN (interactive graphic, in Spanish)
 Official Site at ISDEFE, operator of MDSCC at Robledo

Deep Space Network
Radio telescopes
Earth stations in Spain
NASA facilities
INTA facilities
1961 establishments in Spain