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Jim Kastama

James Matthew Kastama (born October 5, 1959) was a Senator in the Washington State Senate. A Democrat, Kastama represented the 25th legislative district. He chaired the Senate Economic Development, Trade and Innovation Committee, and participated on the Higher Education & Workforce Development and Transportation Committees. Represented the 25th Legislative District since 1996 until 2012 Kastama was first elected to the Senate in 2000 after two terms in the House of Representatives.

Upon graduation from Puyallup High School in 1978, he matriculated to Claremont Men's College and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.

Currently, Kastama is a part-time faculty member at the community college and university level where he teaches classes in Organizational Assessment, Strategic Planning, and Managing in a Political and Legislative Environment. He is also an examiner for the Washington State Quality Awards.

Kastama is best known in state politics for utilizing a rarely used procedural motion called "the 9th Order" to join two Democrats in temporally shifting Senate control to the Republicans to pass a budget by a margin of one vote. The maneuver earned Kastama tremendous animus from within his own party. His refusal to shift control back to the Democrats forced negotiations that eventually resulted in a bipartisan budget with 44-2 votes.

In the 2012 election cycle Kastama was a Democratic candidate for Washington Secretary of State but was defeated in the state's August 2012 primary.

Footnotes

References
Senator Jim Kastama, Biography
Campaign Website
Sen. Bruce Dammeier
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman

External links
Washington State Senate Democrats: Jim Kastama, weekly video update

1959 births
Living people
Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators
Politicians from Puyallup, Washington
Politicians from Bellingham, Washington
Claremont McKenna College alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
21st-century American politicians
Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives
Puyallup High School alumni
Mark de Solla Price

Mark de Solla Price (born May 17, 1960, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an author, journalist, public speaker, civil rights activist, and HIV/AIDS educator. Price is a long-time Greenwich Village resident and a Unitarian Universalist, and the author of the book Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS.  He was a featured subject (along with his late husband Vinny Allegrini) in the HBO documentary Positively Naked with Spencer Tunick.

Formerly Director of Information Technology for CDM Publishing, LLC (Smart + Strong : POZ Real Health AIDSmeds ComboCards).

He is the son of the historian of science Derek J. de Solla Price. He is of Spanish-Jewish and English-Jewish descent on his father's side, and his mother is Danish.

Price was widowed when his husband Vinny Allegrini died at 66 on March 4, 2015, from an AIDS-related cirrhosis.

Bibliography 

 Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS - Avon Books ,  (1995)

References

External links 
 Official Website 
 Mark's HIV Blog
 
 Positively Naked

1960 births
Living people
Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
Writers from New York (state)
American essayists
American people of English-Jewish descent
American people of Danish descent
American people of Spanish-Jewish descent
American self-help writers
American spiritual writers
American Unitarian Universalists
American gay writers
HIV/AIDS activists
Jewish American writers
American LGBT rights activists
American writers with disabilities
People with HIV/AIDS
American male essayists
21st-century American Jews
American activists with disabilities
LGBT writers with disabilities
Andrew Henderson (schoolmaster)

Andrew Henderson (schoolmaster) (1797 – April 25, 1869) was a pioneering schoolmaster in Nova Scotia, Canada. He immigrated from Ireland into New Brunswick in 1818 with his wife and two small children. In 1820 he moved to Wilmot, Nova Scotia, where he became a school teacher.

In 1832, he moved to nearby Annapolis Royal and opened a boarding and day school with a grant from the Nova Scotia legislature. In 1837, on a farm outside the town, he set up Albion Vale Academy. This school operated until 1847 when he sold the farm and school. He returned to Annapolis Royal, where he became postmaster, a storekeeper, and a magistrate. Much of what is known about Henderson comes from a letter. He also kept a diary. His remains lie buried in Garrison Cemetery, Annapolis Royal.

References 

Canadian diarists
1797 births
1869 deaths
19th-century diarists
Karen Keiser

Karen Lynne Keiser (born September 29, 1947) is an American journalist and politician of the Democratic Party. She represents the 33rd Legislative District in the Washington State Senate, which contains parts of Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Kent and Des Moines.

Senator Keiser has served in the Washington state senate since 2001 and served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001.

References

Further reading
 Biography on Washington State Legislature website

1947 births
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives
Politicians from Sioux City, Iowa
Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators
Women state legislators in Washington (state)
Texas toad

The Texas toad (Anaxyrus speciosus) is a species of medium-sized (to ) toad that occurs in the southern United States and northern Mexico. It breeds in temporary water pools after heavy rains.

Distribution and habitat
The Texas toad is native to the United States where it is found in the state of Texas, wherein 2009 it was designated as the Texas State Amphibian, its range also extends northward to Oklahoma, westward to New Mexico and southward to northern Mexico. It is a desert species and is found in dry grassland, savannahs with scattered mesquite and open woodland, usually on sandy or frequently inundated soils.

Description
Males measure  and females  in snout–vent length.

Ecology
The Texas toad feeds on insects such as beetles, ants and bugs. It digs a burrow in soft soil and can bury itself in mud. It sometimes conceals itself in a gopher burrow, under a log or in a deep crack in the mud to prevent desiccation, spending much of its time dormant in prolonged dry weather.

Breeding occurs after heavy rains when male frogs congregate at temporary pools, ditches, cattle tanks and other wet places and call continuously, especially at night. The call is described as being a "series of explosive trills", each lasting for about one and a half seconds with intervals of one second. The females seem to be attracted to the largest males with the loudest calls. The eggs are laid in the water, often entangled in submerged vegetation. They hatch in two days and the tadpoles feed on algae growing on underwater plants. They may retreat to deeper water when disturbed. They spend between eighteen and sixty days as tadpoles depending on circumstances such as water temperature, after which time they undergo metamorphosis and leave the water as juvenile toads.

Other toads using the same water bodies for breeding include the Gulf Coast toad (Incilius nebulifer), the green toad (Anaxyrus debilis), the Great Plains narrow-mouthed toad (Gastrophryne olivacea) and Couch's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii). The Texas toad sometimes hybridizes with Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) or the Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus).

Status
The Texas toad has a wide range and a large total population and is one of the most common toads in the southern United States. It is tolerant of changes in its habitat and is present in cultivated areas as well as grasslands and savannahs. No particular threats have been identified and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of "least concern".

References

Reference Photos

Anaxyrus
Amphibians of Mexico
Fauna of Northeastern Mexico
Amphibians of the United States
Fauna of the Southwestern United States
Fauna of the Plains-Midwest (United States)
Amphibians described in 1854
Seventh Cambridge Survey

The 7C Survey (7C) of radio sources was performed by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group using the Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.

7
Joseph Mercer

Joseph Mercer may refer to:

 Joe Mercer (1914–1990), English football player and manager
 Joe Mercer (footballer, born 1889) (1889–1927), English footballer & father of Joe Mercer (b.1914)
 Joe Mercer (jockey) (1934–2021), English jockey
 Joseph Wayne Mercer (1845–1906), American politician in Missouri
First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources

The First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (1C) refers to the catalogue listed in the article Ryle M, Smith F G & Elsmore B (1950) MNRAS vol 110 pp508-523 "A Preliminary Survey of Radio Stars in the Northern Hemisphere". 

The 1C catalogue listed about 50 radio sources, detected at 3.7 m with a fixed meridian interferometer. According to researchers at the Special Astrophysical Observatory , most of the sources from 1C were later recognized to be the effect of confusion, i.e. they were not real objects.  

The survey was produced using the Long Michelson Interferometer at the Old Rifle Range in Cambridge in 1950. This device operated primarily at a wavelength of 3.7 metres, with an aperture of 110λ, and was operated using Ryle's phase switching technique. Francis Graham-Smith also used the interferometer to measure the electron density in the ionosphere.

The catalogue from this survey is only informally known as the 1C catalogue.

List of sources

After Ryle, et al.

§ Intensity is in Watts metres−2 (c./s.)−1 x 1025

Note that the position can be specified more accurately for sources of small declination, since the nature of the instrument is such as to make the table errors overstated if the axis is not exactly East-West.

Results
The survey found radio sources in close proximity to four of the five major extragalactic nebulae, namely M31, M33, M101 and M51, corresponding to sources 00.01, 01.01, 14.01 and 13.01 respectively.  Only M81 had no observed radio source.

The isotropy of the sources lead the team to conclude that radio stars were either local phenomena, or extragalactic.

References

1
Rangers Strike

is a Japanese trading card game created by Carddas initially based upon Toei's Super Sentai Series television franchise. It was released in 2006 in commemoration of the Super Sentai series' 30th anniversary. The game was expanded with several expansion packs, such as   collection in 2007, featuring characters from the Kamen Rider Series television franchise, and the  in 2008 featuring characters from the Metal Hero Series television franchise. The new  expansions feature characters from the Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Metal Hero Series, and other TV series based on works by Shotaro Ishinomori (Robocon, Kikaider, and Inazuman).

External links
 Rangers Strike

References

Card games introduced in 2006
Collectible card games
Kamen Rider
Metal Hero Series
Super Sentai
Gafsa Governorate

Gafsa Governorate ( ; ) is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in central Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 7807 km2 and has a population of 337,331 (2014 census). The capital of the city is Gafsa - ruled by Nader Hamdouni - whom all the heads of local municipalities report to.

Geography 
The governorate is located  from the capital and borders the governorates of Gabès, Sidi Bouzid, Kebili, Tozeur, and Kasserine.

The average temperature is 19.8 °C and annual rainfall is 48.9 millimeters.

Gafsa is a noted irrigated fruit-growing oasis and a major shipping center for phosphates obtained from the salt flats of Chott el Djerid (Arabic: شط الجريد Šoṭṭ el-Jarīd). It is connected to the port of Sfax (Ṣafāqis) by road and rail. (Ijtihed Kilani)

Administrative divisions
Administratively, the governorate is divided into eleven delegations (mutamadiyat), eight municipalities, nine rural councils, and 76 sectors (imadas). The delegations and their populations from the 2004 and 2014 censuses, are listed below:

The following eight municipalities are located in Gafsa Governorate:

References

 
Governorates of Tunisia
Adam Kline

Adam Daniel Kline (born October 27, 1944) is an American politician who was the State Senator for Washington's 37th district, comprising part of South Seattle, six precincts in Renton and two in Tukwila. He served the 37th District for more than 17 years.  He chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and was a member of the Government Operations and Elections Committee and the Rules Committee.

Before entering law school, Kline worked as a merchant seaman and as a newspaper reporter. He is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement. He worked for SNCC in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the 1964 Freedom Summer and, after law school, returned to Greenwood in 1972 to work for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.

In January 2010, Kline sponsored SB 6396 which attempted to ban assault rifles and pistols. In February 2013, Kline sponsored SB 5737 which would allow police to conduct warrantless searches in the homes of gun owners once per year, with a punishment of up to one year in jail for citizens who did not comply. Kline later stated he had not closely read the bill and had made a mistake. Media reports noted the inspection provision was present in Kline's bills SB 6396 (2010) and SB 5475 (2005) as written by the Brady Campaign and the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Kline practiced law for 32 years before retiring in 2004 to work for the Laborers Union. He was a cooperating attorney with the ACLU and is active with NARAL Pro-Choice America and Washington Conservation Voters.

In 1972, Kline married Desire Plumb, with whom he had one child, Genevieve Amanda Kline. He and Desire parted in 1979, and, in 1989, he married Laura Gene Middaugh, who serves as a judge on the King County Superior Court.

Notes

External links
State lawmakers to seek ban on sales of semi-automatic weapons
37dems.org

Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators
Living people
1944 births
People from Red Bank, New Jersey
Activists from New Jersey
20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
1981 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 7th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best filmmaking of 1980, were announced on 14 December 1981 and given on 13 January 1982.

Winners
Best Picture:
Atlantic City
Runner-up: Reds
Best Director:
Warren Beatty - Reds
Runner-up: Lawrence Kasdan – Body Heat
Best Actor:
Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Runner-up: Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
Best Actress:
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman
Runner-up: Diane Keaton – Reds
Best Supporting Actor:
John Gielgud – Arthur
Runner-up: Jack Nicholson – Reds
Best Supporting Actress:
Maureen Stapleton – Reds
Runner-up: Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Best Screenplay:
John Guare – Atlantic City
Runner-up: Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths – Reds
Best Cinematography:
Vittorio Storaro – Reds
Runner-up: Freddie Francis – The French Lieutenant's Woman
Best Music Score:
Randy Newman – Ragtime
Runner-up: Vangelis – Chariots of Fire
Best Foreign Film:
Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco) • Brazil
Runner-up: Chariots of Fire • UK
Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
R. Bruce Elder – The Art of Worldly Wisdom 
New Generation Award:
John Guare
Career Achievement Award:
Barbara Stanwyck
Special Citation:
Kevin Brownlow – Napoléon

References

External links
7th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1981
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Kuwabara kuwabara

is a phrase used in the Japanese language to ward off lightning. It is analogous to the English phrase "knock on wood" to prevent bad luck or "rain rain go away". 

The word kuwabara literally means "mulberry field". According to one explanation, there is a Chinese legend that mulberry trees are not struck by lightning. In contrast, journalist Moku Jōya asserts that the "origin of kuwabara is not definitely known, but it has nothing to do with mulberry plants, though it means 'mulberry fields'."

In popular culture 

The phrase was used in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater by antagonist Colonel Volgin, a character with the ability to control electricity. It has also been used in various Japanese animation, including Inuyasha, Urusei Yatsura, Sekirei, Aku no Hana, and Yu Yu Hakusho. In a well-known monologue, the Yu Yu Hakusho character Kazuma Kuwabara remarks "A mulberry is a tree and Kuwabara is a man". The phrase was also used in an episode of Mushi-Shi entitled "Lightning's End" and in Street Fighter X Tekken by Yoshimitsu. In the video game Genshin Impact, one of the playable characters, the Raiden Shogun, the archon of a Japanese-inspired realm called Inazuma, makes reference to this phrase in one of her voiced dialogs.

In folklore 

In the 9th century, there was a Japanese aristocrat called Sugawara no Michizane. Sugawara Michizane, who died bearing a heavy grudge after being trapped and exiled to Kyushu, threw his fierce anger in the form of his thunderbolts as a god of lightning. In 930, Seiryoden of the court was struck by a large thunderbolt. The master of onmyo said that this misfortune was the work of the vengeful spirit of Michizane. Those who trapped Michizane trembled with fear and tried to placate the curse by dedicating a prayer to his vengeful ghost, thus leading to the construction of Kitano Shrine.

The land that Michizane owned was known as Kuwabara, so people thought it would be a good idea to claim the land he/she was standing on was a part of Kuwabara, so that Michizane would be hesitant to strike his own people. People of such an era chanted "Kuwabara, Kuwabara" when they heard the rumble of thunder as a method of reminding Michizane not to strike them. This saying often appears in the literature of the Heian period, with elements such as "Tsureduregusa", a spell to cast away thunder. The very people living in Kuwabara at that time relied on the Kuwabara spell and the land of Kuwabara is said to have remained unharmed by lightning for that reason.

References
Mock Joya, Mock Joya's Things Japanese. Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd. (1985) p. 341

Superstitions of Japan
Jendouba Governorate

Jendouba Governorate (  ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is predominantly in the high hills of the Tell Atlas north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea. It covers an area of 3,102 km2 and has a population of 401,477 (2014 census). The capital is Jendouba.

Administrative divisions
The governorate is divided into nine delegations (mutamadiyat), listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses:

The following eight municipalities are located in Jendouba Governorate:

Notable people
 Boubaker Ayadi (March 6, 1949) is an author, professor and journalist.
 Salah Mejri

References

External links 
 Ain Kroumir - Regional Website of Northwest Tunisia

 
Governorates of Tunisia
Alpha Cygni variable

Alpha Cygni variables are variable stars which exhibit non-radial pulsations, meaning that some portions of the stellar surface are contracting at the same time other parts expand. They are supergiant stars of spectral types B or A. Variations in brightness on the order of 0.1 magnitudes are associated with the pulsations, which often seem irregular, due to beating of multiple pulsation periods.  The pulsations typically have periods of several days to several weeks.

The prototype of these stars, Deneb (α Cygni), exhibits fluctuations in brightness between magnitudes +1.21 and +1.29.  Small amplitude rapid variations have been known in many early supergiant stars, but they were not formally grouped into a class until the 4th edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars was published in 1985.  It used the acronym ACYG for Alpha Cygni variable stars.  Many luminous blue variables (LBVs) show Alpha Cygni-type variability during their quiescent (hot) phases, but the LBV classification is generally used in these cases.

A large number (32) were discovered by Christoffel Waelkens and colleagues analysing Hipparcos data in a 1998 study.

Pulsations
The pulsations of Alpha Cygni Variable stars are not fully understood.  They are not confined to a narrow range of temperatures and luminosities in the way that most pulsating stars are.  Instead, most luminous A and B supergiants, and possibly also O and F stars, show some type of unpredictable small-scale pulsations.  Nonadiabatic strange mode radial pulsations are predicted but only for the most luminous supergiants.  Pulsations have also been modelled for less luminous supergiants by assuming they are low mass post-red supergiant stars, but most Alpha Cygni variables do not appear to have passed through the red supergiant stage.

The pulsations are likely induced by kappa mechanism, caused by iron opacity variations, with strange modes producing the observed short periods for both radial and non-radial pulsations.  Non-adiabatic g-modes may produce longer period variations, but these have not been observed in Alpha Cygni variables.

List

Galactic

Extragalactic

References

Sources
Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., et al. Combined General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2, 2004 Ed.)
Rosemary McAuliffe

Rosemary Ann McAuliffe (née Belmont; born August 1, 1940) is a Democratic politician, elected as the Washington State Senator for the 1st District in 1992, beginning her term in 1993. Preceding her election to the State Senate, McAuliffe served 14 years on the Northshore School District Board of Education and as Chair of the Bothell Downtown Management Association, leading to the area's revitalization. This district includes Bothell, Mountlake Terrace, Brier, Maltby and parts of Lynnwood, Edmonds, and unincorporated Snohomish County. She served on the Washington State Senate's Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee as a ranking member, as well as on the Higher Learning Committee and Joint Select Committee on Education Accountability.

References

External links
State Senator Rosemary McAuliffe official government website
Follow the Money - Rosemary McAuliffe
2008 2006 2004 2000 1996 1992 campaign contributions
Senator Rosemary McAuliffe from the Senate Democratic Caucus

1940 births
Living people
Washington (state) state senators
Women state legislators in Washington (state)
Seattle University alumni
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
People from Bothell, Washington
Yellow Peril (disambiguation)

The Yellow Peril is a racist color-metaphor that represents East Asian peoples as an existential danger to the Western world.

Yellow Peril may also refer to:

Books
Yellow Peril (novel), a 1991 Chinese language novel by Wang Lixiong that was published in English as China Tidal Wave
The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & The Rise of Chinaphobia, a 2014 book by Sir Christopher Frayling
The Dragon, 1913 novel by M. P. Shiel, serialized as The Yellow Peril in 1929

Film and television
"The Yellow Peril", an episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses

Internet
 Yellow Peril, a blog by New Zealand commentator Tze Ming Mok
 Yellow Peril, a webcomic by Jamie Noguchi

Music
Le Péril Jaune, a 1983 album by French band Indochine

Nicknames and slang terms
 Handley Page Type D and Handley Page Type E, monoplanes referred to as the Yellow Peril
 N3N Canary, an aircraft
 Stearman N2S, a trainer aircraft
 Vault (sculpture), a sculpture in Melbourne, Australia, popularly known as The Yellow Peril

See also 
 Yellow Pearl (disambiguation)
Mount Typo

Mount Typo is a mountain in Victoria, Australia.

See also

List of mountains in Victoria

References 

Mountains of Victoria (state)
Mountains of Hume (region)
London Opera Centre

The London Opera Centre, a school for the training of opera singers and other opera professionals, existed in England between 1963 and 1978.  It was located in the former Troxy Cinema on Commercial Road in London's East End Borough of Stepney (now Tower Hamlets). The Troxy, with 3,520 seats, opened in 1933 and was one of England's largest cinemas.  As a result of wartime damage and the general decline of the area, the cinema closed in November 1960.

The English singer Joan Cross, an important figure in British opera at Sadler's Wells, who guided the company through the Second World War, and others had formed the National School of Opera in 1948, but its impact was limited due to little or no language teaching or technical stagecraft. (Nonetheless, its alumni included many successful artists such as Ava June, Marie Collier, Inia Te Wiata, Johanna Peters, April Cantelo and the D'Oyly Carte's Kenneth Sandford.)

By 1963, the Arts Council of Great Britain had provided a £27,900 grant to set up the London Opera Centre to provide musical and dramatic training to young voice students who were offered two-year scholarships.  It was to be located in the Troxy and managed out of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as a rehearsal space as well as an opera school. Among the most famous of the former students was the soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa who was offered an opportunity to study there between 1966 and 1968 after winning a major vocal competition in New Zealand.  In addition, the Centre was used for other aspects of stagecraft and technical training, scenery construction and storage.  A 500-seat theatre was created in the balcony for occasional performances, although rehearsal needs tended to take precedence over the Centre's needs for its own student performances.

While on the Board of the Centre, Joan Cross and others resigned a year later because they did not feel that the association with the Royal Opera House benefited the Centre. Gradually, several factors caused dissatisfaction with the Centre's activities, its high cost and remote location being the most important ones. By the time the lease came up for renewal in July 1977, the Opera House was willing to abandon the Troxy in favour of a smaller National Opera Studio at the Opera House itself.  This was set up in 1978 under the opera singer Michael Langdon.

References

Bibliography

 Gilbert, Susie and Shir, Jay, A Tale of Four Houses: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003 

Opera in London
Performing arts education in London
Educational institutions established in 1963
Educational institutions disestablished in 1977
1963 establishments in England
Kanpech

Kanpech is a mizik rasin band from Port-au-Prince, Haïti.

History

Kanpech has produced one album, Pale Yo, released in 1996.

Discography

Haitian musical groups
1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 8th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best filmmaking of 1982, were announced on 11 December 1982.

Winners
Best Picture:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Runner-up: Gandhi
Best Director:
Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Runner-up: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
Best Actor:
Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
Runner-up: Peter O'Toole – My Favorite Year
Best Actress:
Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice
Runner-up: Jessica Lange – Frances
Best Supporting Actor:
John Lithgow – The World According to Garp
Runner-up: James Mason – The Verdict
Best Supporting Actress:
Glenn Close – The World According to Garp
Runner-up: Cher – Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Best Screenplay:
Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal – Tootsie
Runner-up: Barry Levinson – Diner
Best Cinematography:
Jordan Cronenweth – Blade Runner
Best Music Score:
James Horner and The BusBoys – 48 Hrs.
Best Foreign Film:
The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) • Australia
Runner-up: The Long Good Friday • UK
Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
Wayne Wang – Chan Is Missing
New Generation Award:
Melissa Mathison
Career Achievement Award:
Robert Preston
Special Citation:
Carlo Rambaldi (for the body of his work)

References

External links
8th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1982
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Per Hållberg

Per Hållberg (born March 24, 1978 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing for Växjö Lakers Hockey of the Elitserien (SEL). Hållberg has played over 500 games in the Elitserien. He has won both the Swedish Championship and the World Championship one time each.

Playing career
Hållberg started his career with his hometown club, Modo Hockey, as a child and made his debut in Elitserien for Modo in 1994–95 at the age of 17. He played a few games in 1994–95 and 1995–96, but in 1996–97 he became a regular.
 
In 1999 Hållberg played his first Swedish Championship final, but Modo lost to Brynäs IF. The following season Modo came to the finals once again, but lost again, this time to Djurgårdens IF. Two years later Modo once more came to the finals, but once again they lost, Färjestads BK won with 3–0 in a best-of-five series.
Now Hållberg was tired of silver and seconds places and he decide to change club. He therefore signed with Färjestad, the same club that had defeated him a few months earlier. With no better luck than before, Färjestad made it to the finals but lost three consecutive finals, twice (2003 and 2005) to Frölunda HC and once (2004) against HV71.

In 2004 Hållberg represented Sweden in the World Championship. Sweden lost in the finals to Canada.

During the 2005–06 season Hållberg announced that he would leave Färjestad after the season and that he had signed with the Swiss club EV Zug. That meant that this was maybe his last chance to win the Swedish Championship. And finally Hållberg got his gold when Färjestad defeated Frölunda HC with 4–2 in best-of-seven series. The same season Hållberg also played with the Swedish national team, and there also he won a gold medal at the World Championship.

Hållberg then went over to Modo Hockey in 2007 to play there for four seasons. On June 1, 2011, Hållberg signed a one-year contract with Växjö Lakers Hockey of the Elitserien (SEL).

Achievements
 Silver medal at the World Championship in 2004.
 Swedish Champion with Färjestads BK in 2006.
 Gold medal at the World Championship in 2006.

Career statistics

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Färjestad BK players
Modo Hockey players
Växjö Lakers players
Swedish ice hockey defencemen
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
People from Örnsköldsvik Municipality
Ice hockey people from Västernorrland County
Benetech

Benetech is a nonprofit social enterprise organization that empowers communities with software for social good. Previous projects include the Route 66 Literacy Project, the Miradi environmental project management software, Martus (human rights abuse reporting), and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Current program areas include global education, human rights, and poverty alleviation.

About 
One of Benetech's key education program initiatives is Bookshare, an e-book library for people with print disabilities such as dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and physical disabilities.

Another project is Benetech Service Net, an open standards data exchange platform that makes it easier to share and maintain information on local social and human services. Organizations providing referrals or referral technology (such as 2-1-1s, Healthify, or Health Leads) and agencies providing information about their services (such as community-based shelters, food pantries, or government agencies) can work together to make better data available for everyone.

History
Benetech was founded by technology entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman in Palo Alto, California, under the name of Arkenstone in 1989. It was initially created to provide reading machines for blind people. During the period 1989-2000, over 35,000 reading machines were sold in sixty countries, reading twelve different languages. In 2000, the Arkenstone reading machine product line was sold to Freedom Scientific, and the nonprofit's name was changed to Benetech. The funding from the asset sale was used to start the Bookshare initiative and Martus project in 2001.

Benetech and its Martus software were featured on the PBS NewsHour.

In 2019, Benetech announced the expansion of its inclusive education initiatives, creating new partnerships with organisations such as Vision Australia, the Royal National Institute of Blind People in the UK, National Council for the Blind of Ireland, Canada's Center for Equitable Library Access and the Dubai government.

See also
 Guatemala National Police Archives

Notes

External links
Benetech
Bookshare: accessible online library for people with reading barriers
Benetech Service Net
Martus Human Rights Database Software
Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Miradi Environmental Project Management Software

Social enterprises
Non-profit organizations based in California
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Free and open-source software organizations
Manouba Governorate

Manouba Governorate (  ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia and is in inland, northern Tunisia. It has a population of 379,518 (as at the 2014 census), and an area of 1,137 km2. The capital is Manouba.

Geography 
The governorate is  from the capital, in an area of foothills of and verdant plains below the Tell Atlas uplands and borders Bizerte, Zaghouan, Beja, Tunis, Ariana and Ben Arous Governorates.  The east and west of the province have high foothills; from both ranges the three lakes of Tunis and the Bay of Tunis can be seen.  The east part of the west range is named the Forest of Tebourba, one of its four largest settlements.

The average temperature is 18.7 °C and annual rainfall is 450 millimeters.

Administrative divisions
Administratively, the governorate is divided into eight delegations (mutamadiyat), nine municipalities, eight rural councils and 47 imadas.

Nine municipalities are in Manouba Governorate:

References

Governorates of Tunisia
Dalton Trumbo's Reluctant Cabaret

Dalton Trumbo's Reluctant Cabaret, or simply Reluctant Cabaret are a musical comedy double act. 

Reluctant Cabaret are made up of Lord Trumbo and Lady Hugo with special guest appearances from the Reverend Po Chi. Trumbo used to have a dutiful man servant, Jenifer, but he was sacked for stealing the naughty juice.

Their brand of comedy is absurd, silly and musical.

Accolades 
 In 2002 they won the Krater New Act of the Year Competition at the Komedia Brighton and were voted Laughing Horse audience favorite act
 In 2003 they won a BBC New Comedy Award
 In 2004 they produced a CD of their songs called 'Conception'
 In 2005 they took their show to the Edinburgh Fringe and received four star reviews from The Scotsman and The List
 In 2007 they briefly retired from comedy to concentrate
 In 2011 they return

External links
 Official Facebook Page
 Reluctant Cabaret blog
 Fan review of a Reluctant Cabaret show

British comedy troupes
Ueta

Ueta (written:  or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

, Japanese murderer
, Japanese volleyball player
, Japanese triple jumper

See also
1619 Ueta, a main-belt asteroid
Ueta Station, a railway station in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
Ueda (disambiguation)

Japanese-language surnames
Lesotho Trade Union Congress

The Lesotho Trade Union Congress (LTUC) is a national trade union center in Lesotho. The organisation was first established in 1971. The group's secretary general, Moletsane Jonathan is a veteran leader of pro-BNP labour federations.

The group supported a protest march against the Public Service Bill in 1995.

References

Trade unions in Lesotho
LTUC

The abbreviation LTUC may refer to:

The Lesotho Trade Union Congress, national trade union center in Lesotho
The London Transport Users Committee, a British consumer organization now known as London TravelWatch
Gross Memorial Coliseum

The Gross Memorial Coliseum is a 6,814 seat multi-purpose arena in Hays, Kansas. It was built in 1973.  It is the home of the Fort Hays State University Tigers women's volleyball team, as well as the men's and women's basketball teams.  It also hosts state championship events for Classes 1A, 2A, and 3A wrestling (combined), 1A volleyball, and 1A boys' and girls' basketball for the Kansas State High School Activities Association.

Indoor arenas in Kansas
College basketball venues in the United States
Sports venues in Kansas
Basketball venues in Kansas
Podvisoki

Podvisoki () was a medieval settlement, a castle town (in ), as part of wider area just beneath of the fortress Visoki, located on the Visočica hill above modern-day Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History 

Podvisoki served as the primary trading center for much of the medieval history of the Bosnian state from the mid-14th century onwards. Its first recorded mention was in 1363. The town was situated along the Fojnica river, at the foothills of Visočica hill in the Bosnia region, and was considered one of the early examples of medieval urban settlements in the area.

Podvisoki was home to a colony of Ragusan merchants, who remained there until the 1430s when they moved to Fojnica. One notable local merchant from Visoko in the 14th century was Milaš Radomirić. 

According to Ragusan sources, the biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Ragusa occurred in 1428. On August 9 of that year, Vlachs committed to delivering 1500 modius of salt with 600 horses to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić. The delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and the Vlachs' price was half of the delivered salt.

In the late 14th century, merchants from Podvisoki were involved in the slave trade. Historical records indicate that in November 1389, a man named Bogovac Vukojević (also known as Bogaueç Vochoeuich Bossinensis de Souisoch) traded a young Bosnian boy named Milko for 4 ducats.

See also 

 Visoko during the Middle Ages
 Old town of Visoki
 Mile, Visoko

References

Literature 
 Pavao Anđelić, Srednji vijek – Doba stare bosanske države, „Visoko i okolina kroz historiju I, Visoko 1984.

History of Visoko
Medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina
Medieval Bosnian state
Kingdom of Bosnia
Economic history of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Castles in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slider (cricket)

In cricket, a slider is a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler. While a topspinner is released with the thumb facing the batter, a slider is bowled in a similar manner to a legbreak, but instead of imparting sidespin with the third finger, the bowler allows his fingers to roll down the back of the ball, providing a mixture of sidespin and backspin. Whereas a topspinner tends to dip more quickly and bounce higher than a normal delivery, a slider does the opposite: it carries to a fuller length and bounces less than the batter might expect. The sliders will typically head towards the batter with a scrambled seam (with the ball not spinning in the direction of the seam, so the seam direction is not constant, unlike in conventional spin bowling). This has less effect on the flight and bounce but absence of leg spin may deceive the batter. Frequently the slider is bowled with a mixture of side spin and backspin. This has the effect of making the ball harder to differentiate from the leg break for the batters without reducing the mechanical effects caused by the backspin. This delivery may skid straight on or it may turn a small amount.

It is claimed that Shane Warne invented this type of delivery. However, this is inaccurate. The Australian spinner Peter Philpott used the technique in the 1960s, calling it simply an orthodox backspinner, while Australian all-rounder and captain Richie Benaud used what he called his 'sliding topspinner' which appears again to have been similar. Since he was taught the technique by Doug Ring, it may be more accurate to suggest that Ring is the originator. Either that, or the ball is one of those deliveries with no easily identifiable point of origin. However Shane Warne's use of the delivery in the 2005 Ashes brought the variation once more into the public consciousness. His dismissal of Ian Bell lbw with the delivery was a classic piece of spin bowling; Bell played for the turn of a normal leg break, but the delivery skidded straight into his front pad without turning.

Although there is often a good deal of confusion on the subject, the slider is thought to be more or less an identical delivery to the "zooter".

Finger spin bowlers, like Ravindra Jadeja, commonly bowl an exactly equivalent ball, which comes out of the front of the hand with backspin present. However the name slider has not passed over into common parlance for its offspin cousin, and the terms arm ball, backspinner or, more recently, teesra are used instead.

See also
Cricket terminology
Leg spin

References

Bowling (cricket)
Cricket terminology
1983 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 9th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best filmmaking of 1983, were announced on 17 December 1983.

Winners
Best Picture:
Terms of Endearment
Runner-up: Tender Mercies
Best Director:
James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Runner-up: Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Best Actor:
Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
Runner-up: Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben
Best Actress:
Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
Runner-up: Jane Alexander – Testament
Best Supporting Actor:
Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
Runner-up: John Lithgow – Terms of Endearment and Twilight Zone: The Movie
Best Supporting Actress:
Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
Runner-up: Cher – Silkwood
Best Screenplay:
James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Runner-up: Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek – The Big Chill
Best Cinematography:
Sven Nykvist – Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
Runner-up: Hiro Narita – Never Cry Wolf
Best Music Score:
Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
Runner-up: Billy Goldenberg – Reuben, Reuben
Best Foreign Film:
Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) • Sweden/France/West Germany
Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
Michael Snow – So Is This
New Generation Award:
Sean Penn
Career Achievement Award:
Myrna Loy
Special Citation:
Restored versions of A Star Is Born and The Leopard

References

External links
9th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1983
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Medenine Governorate

Medenine ( ; ) is one of the 24 governorates (provinces) of Tunisia.

Geography
The governorate encompasses the south-easternmost coastal strip, totalling 9167 km2 and had a population of 479,520 at the 2014 census. The capital is Medenine. The governorate includes the country's largest island, Djerba, which is connected by a ferry boat and has over a third of the total population of the governate and its own airport.

The area is generally lowlands.  It extends in two projections at its extreme ends a maximum of 60 km from the coast, otherwise the neighbouring division of Tataouine is 30 km from the coast.  The northern projection abuts Kebili Governorate and includes part of a long escarpment which extends from the south of Gabes Governorate (adjoining Medenine to the north) to beyond Tripoli in Libya and which is dotted with settlements.  Precipitation is low and reaches a maximum between October and January, the far north of the governorate and western hill range benefiting from this most.  Key settlements are those associated with ports, tourism, fishing, farming in more fertile parts within the north-east and oases.

Administrative divisions
The governorate is divided into nine delegations (mutamadiyat), listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses:

Seven municipalities are in Medenine Governorate:

References

 
Governorates of Tunisia
Owensboro Sportscenter

The Owensboro Sportscenter is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Owensboro, Kentucky. It is the home of the basketball teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College and Owensboro Catholic High School. It has been the home to three minor-pro basketball teams, the Kentucky Bisons, the Kentucky Mavericks and currently, the Owensboro Thoroughbreds.

In March 2016, the ECHL approved the relocation of the Evansville IceMen franchise to the Sportscenter, pending proposed renovations to the arena, and currently hoping to begin play in 2017. However, in August 2016, team owner Ron Geary still had not taken over management of the Sportscenter and the City of Owensboro announced Spectra would temporarily take over management of the Sportscenter on September 1 with a deadline for Geary set to September 30. If Geary has not begun management by the deadline, then Spectra will begin their own renovations and the agreement with the IceMen will be voided. On the September 30 deadline, Geary sent a letter to Owensboro mayor Ron Payne stating he would not be purchasing the Sportscenter because of too much cost to convert and refurbish the arena and Spectra became the official operators moving forward.

The Kentucky Knights, a proposed indoor American football squad, was to begin play at the arena in 2016 as part of the new North American Indoor Football. However, the team had to make an ownership change in late 2015 and then attempted to join Supreme Indoor Football but the Knights were never able to field a team and the SIF failed to launch in 2016.

References

External links
 

Indoor arenas in Kentucky
College basketball venues in the United States
Basketball venues in Kentucky
Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball
Buildings and structures in Owensboro, Kentucky
American Basketball Association (2000–present) venues
1949 establishments in Kentucky
Sports venues completed in 1949
Javier Lozano Chavira

Javier Lozano Chavira (born 9 February 1971) is a Mexican former professional footballer. He played for Tigres UANL and Monarcas Morelia as a midfielder. He is nicknamed "El Pastor", which means "The Shepherd". He played in both teams with the number 22.

He debuted with Tigres in 1992. His most notable season was 1995–96, when he scored 12 goals. That year, Tigres fought to avoid relegation to the Primera División A. Though Tigres qualified to the playoffs at the end of the regular season, the Primera Division's use of a percentage system for relegation, in which the team with the worst percentage in three years (instead of the worst team of a season) is relegated, meant Tigres would still be dropping to the Primera División A. The crisis led to the privatization of the team.

After privatization, Tigres reinforced the team to fight for promotion, which was achieved within the year. "El Pastor" Lozano participated fully with the team. He played in First Division with Tigres the following season as well.

However, overweight issues led to his separation of the team. He trained with Necaxa for a short period, but was never able to regain his condition.

In 1999, he returned to play with Morelia for 6 seasons, in which he scored a total of 13 goals. He was champion with Morelia in 2000 and runner-up in 2002.

Honours
UANL
Primera División A: Invierno 1996, Verano 1997
Copa México: 1995–96

Morelia
Mexican Primera División: Invierno 2000

Mexico
CONCACAF Gold Cup: 1998

Career statistics

International goals

Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.

References

External links
 

1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Nuevo León
Tigres UANL footballers
Atlético Morelia players
Footballers from Monterrey
Men's association football midfielders
1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Mexico men's international footballers
Mexican men's footballers