alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Vidourle

The Vidourle (; Vidorle in occitan) is a  river in southern France that flows into the Mediterranean Sea in Le Grau-du-Roi. Its source is in the Cévennes mountains, northwest of Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, at Saint-Roman-de-Codières. It flows generally southeast. At Gallargues-le-Montueux, it was crossed by the old Roman road Via Domitia with the now ruined Roman bridge Pont Ambroix.

The Vidourle flows through the following departments and towns:

 Gard: Saint-Roman-de-Codières, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, Sauve, Quissac, Sommières
 Hérault: Lunel, Marsillargues
 Gard: Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, Le Grau-du-Roi

References

Rivers of France
Rivers of Occitania (administrative region)
Rivers of Gard
Rivers of Hérault
0Vidourle
2006 elections in India



Legislative Assembly elections

The State Assembly elections in India of 2006 took place between April 3, 2006 and May 8, 2006. The Indian states that went into poll are Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.

Counting of votes for all the states was completed on May 11, 2006 and results were declared on May 20, 2006.

Assam

Elections in Assam for 65 ACs occurred on April 3, 2006 and another 61 ACs on April 10, 2006.

Kerala

Elections in Kerala for 65 ACs occurred on April 22, 2006, 61 ACs on April 29, 2006, and 15 ACs on May 3, 2006. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))-led Left Democratic Front beat the incumbent Indian National Congress-led United Democratic Front by a margin of 56 seats (out of a total of 140 seats). V.S. Achuthanandan, of CPI (M) was sworn in as the 20th Chief Minister of Kerala, on May 18, 2006.

Tamil Nadu

Elections in Tamil Nadu for 234 ACs occurred in a single phase on May 8, 2006. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led front won the elections, beating the incumbent All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-led government. The DMK leader, M Karunanidhi was sworn in as chief minister.

West Bengal

Elections in West Bengal for 45 ACs occurred on April 17, 2006, 66 ACs on April 22, 2006, 77 ACs on April 27, 2006, 57 ACs on May 3, 2006, 49 ACs on May 8, 2006.

Puducherry

Elections in Puducherry for 3 ACs occurred on May 3, 2006 and 27 ACs on May 8, 2006.

References

External links

 Election Commission of India

2006 elections in India
India
2006 in Indian politics
Elections in India by year
1991 World Cup

1991 World Cup can refer to:
 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
 1991 Rugby World Cup
 1991 Alpine Skiing World Cup
Hey Little Tomboy

"Hey Little Tomboy" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1978 album M.I.U. Album. Written by Brian Wilson, the song was to be included as a track on Adult/Child before the album was scrapped. It was also issued as the B-side to their single "Peggy Sue".

Background
Early recording sessions for the song were held in August and October 1976. Wilson, describing "Hey Little Tomboy" as a contender for the Love You track list, said: "It's about a little girl who is sort of a rough neck, and this guy convinces her to become a pretty girl, and sure enough she slowly turns into a pretty—she starts shaving her legs and wearing short sticks—puts lipstick on and makeup. So she's a little tomboy. … We're very happy with it."

Reception
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote: "[the song] reveled uncomfortably in an adolescent girl who is putting away her skateboard and baseball mitt in order to get hot and heavy with the swain portrayed by Mike [Love]. … [it] may be the most unsettling moment in the entire recorded history of the Beach Boys." Music critic Jeff Tamarkin wrote that the song "is politically incorrect in every way by modern standards, yet its innocence and simplicity are undeniably charming".

Cover versions

 2003 – BMX Bandits with Pearl Fishers

See also
"All Dressed Up for School"
"Smart Girls"

References

The Beach Boys songs
Song recordings produced by Al Jardine
Songs written by Brian Wilson
1978 songs
1978 singles
1999 World Cup

1999 World Cup can refer to:
 1999 Cricket World Cup
 1999 Rugby World Cup
 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
 1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup
 1999 World Cup of Golf
Mark Ebner

Mark Charles Ebner (born September 6, 1959) is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author who has covered celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar, The Daily Beast, Gawker, BoingBoing, and New Times. Ebner has covered the Church of Scientology, Bill Cosby's rape accusations, pit bull fighting, the Ku Klux Klan, celebrity stalkers, drug kingpins, missing porn star Viper, sports groupies, college suicides, and Hepatitis C in Hollywood.

He has produced for, and/or appeared as a commentator on news stations NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, A&E, Comedy Central, Reelz, Showtime, History Channel, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, and TruTV, and the entertainment shows The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, The Early Show, Out Front with Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper 360°, Fox & Friends, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Crime Watch Daily, and Media Mayhem. Ebner consulted for Comedy Central on "Trapped in the Closet", an episode of South Park, and for NBC/Dateline on "The Paris Hilton Tapes". He hosted "Rich and Reckless" for TruTV. His books include Hollywood, Interrupted, Poison Candy, Being Uncle Charlie, We Have Your Husband, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and Off the Deep End.

Works

See also 
 Philip Gale

References

External links
 

1959 births
Writers from Providence, Rhode Island
American bloggers
American investigative journalists
Critics of Scientology
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
American male bloggers
Lifestart

Lifestart, a not for profit organisation and registered charity, provides early intervention and school age years inclusion support programs and supports to children and young people 0 – 24 years living with disability or developmental delay.

History 
Lifestart began in 1996 when eight families whose children attended the Macquarie University Early Intervention program decided to set up an Early Childhood Intervention service which would be a model of best practice in service provision and family support. They won a tender from the NSW state government which allowed them to set up a small service in Turramurra, and was later named the model program for the state of NSW. The service is now spread right across Sydney, covering Northern Sydney, Western Sydney (including the Hills District), Eastern and Inner Sydney, Southern Sydney (including Illawarra/Shoalhaven), South West Sydney (including Wollondilly/Southern Highlands) and Nepean Blue Mountains (including the Hawkesbury). Lifestart has been funded by the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, the NSW Department of Education and Training, and is now a registered NDIS provider.  Lifestart is a registered charity and relies on donations for some programs.

Services 
A Lifestart team can provide speech therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, early intervention, social welfare, transition to school and high school, community inclusion and school support.

Services are provided within the home, the child’s school or daycare, at one of Lifestart’s centres, or within the community (e.g. supporting inclusion into a swimming program). One of the most important programs is Open Playgroup, a weekly playgroup where parents can meet together and support one another while their children are supported in play by trained staff. This playgroup is open to members of the community and families on the waiting list as well as Lifestart members.

Lifestart uses a key worker approach.  A key worker is the person you will see and talk to the most. A key worker is an early intervention professional and may be a speech pathologist, special educator, occupational therapist, social worker, physiotherapist or psychologist.

Locations 
Lifestart provides direct services in the following areas:
Inner and Eastern Sydney, Northern Sydney, Nepean, Blue Mountains (including Hawkesbury, Southern, Sydney (including Illawarra/Shoalhaven), South West Sydney (including Wollondilly/Southern Highlands), Western Sydney (including the Hills District).

Lifestart provides online therapy throughout Australia

References

External links 
Lifestart Official Site

Education in Sydney
2011 World Cup

2011 World Cup may refer to:
 2011 Cricket World Cup
 2011 Baseball World Cup
 2011 Rugby World Cup
 2011 IFAF World Cup - American Football
 2011 World Cup (snooker)
 2011 World Cup (men's golf)
 Chess World Cup 2011

Football (soccer)
 Women: 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
 Youth: 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup
 Junior: 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup
 Club: 2011 FIFA Club World Cup
 Beach soccer: 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
2004 Transnistrian census

The 2004 Transnistrian census was organized in Transnistria at roughly the same time that Moldova held its own census, which Transnistria refused to participate in out of principle and deference to its September 2, 1990 declaration of independence.

Census results 

Total population (including Bender): 555,347 (percentages below refer to this first figure)

Total population (excluding Bender): 450,337

 Moldovans: 31.9%
 Russians: 30.3%
 Ukrainians: 28.8%
 Bulgarians: 2%
 Poles: 2%
 Gagauz: 1.5%
 Jews: 1.3%
 Belarusians: 1%
 Germans: 0.6%
 Others: 0.5%

Preliminary data, as shown here, was released forty days after the completion of the census. Final and more detailed results were released with a delay of nearly two years.

Compared with the 1989 census, the population decreased by 18% due to war, natural decrease and economically motivated emigration.

The cost of the census was estimated US$550 thousand.

See also 
 1989 Transnistrian census
 2015 Transnistrian census
 Demographic history of Transnistria
 2004 Moldovan census

References

External links 
 2004 census info

Censuses in Transnistria
Transnistria
2004 in Transnistria
Transnistria
A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha

, also known as A-Ge-Man, is a 1990 Japanese comedy film directed and written by Juzo Itami. It stars Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings good luck to her intimate companions (known as an "ageman", from 上げる ageru 'to raise up') and Masahiko Tsugawa as a man who crosses paths with her by chance.

Cast 
Nobuko Miyamoto as Nayoko
Masahiko Tsugawa as Mondo Suzuki
Ryunosuke Kaneda as Tamonin
Atsuko Ichinomiya as Rin, Tamonin's mother
Kin Sugai as Foster mother
Kazuyo Mita as Hiyoko
Mitsuko Ishii as Eiko
Yoriko Douguchi as Junko
Maiko Minami as Sayori-chan
Fukumi Kuroda as Kiyoka
Isao Hashizume
Haruna Takase as Fur shop manager
Tokuko Sugiyama as Restaurant manager
Yakan Yanagi as Foster father
Michiyo Yokoyama as Tamonin's court lady
Hiroko Seki as Shinkame Chiyo restaurant manager
Noborou Yano as Hirutaji chief
Yan Yano as Hirutaji chief
Harukazu Kitami as Bo-san #1
Akira Kubo as Bo-san #2
Yoshihiro Kato as Segawa Kikunojo
Akari Uchida as Houte couture woman
Mihoko Shibata as Woman carer in movie
Mansaku Fuwa as Executioner's assistant in the dream
Yôichi Ueda as Camera man
Shinobu Oshizaka as Doctor
Eijirō Tōno as Prime Minister
Kiyokata Saruwaka as Traditional dance teacher
Kazuo Kitamura as Tsurumaru
Akira Takarada as Inukai
Shōgo Shimada as Zenbu Okura
Hideji Ōtaki as Chijiwa (uncredited)
Hiroshi Okouchi as Chichiiwa

Release
A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha was distributed theatrically in Japan by Toho on 2 June 1990. The film was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 10, 1990 and at the Japan Today Film Festival in Los Angeles on November 1, 1991.

Reception
A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha was nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards—Best Director (Juzo Itami), Best Actress (Nobuko Miyamoto), Best Screenplay (Juzo Itami) and Best Editing (Akira Suzuki).

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

1990 films
1990s sex comedy films
Films directed by Jūzō Itami
Japanese sex comedy films
1990 comedy films
1990s Japanese films
Sha Mohammed Alikhel

Sha Mohammed Alikhel is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
On 8 May 2003, Muhammad was released at the same time as two other Pakistanis,  
Jehan Wali and Sahibzada Usman Ali.  He was 20 years old.

Muhammad is a baker from Dir, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Only one other Pakistani detainee, elderly Mohammed Saghir, had been released prior to his release.

Shah reported that he felt despair, and made four suicide attempts during his time in Guantanamo, even though suicide was against the tenets of Islam.

When The Guardian interviewed Muhammad, a year after his release, Muhammad reported ongoing after-effects from his incarceration:
"The biggest damage is to my brain. My physical and mental state isn't right. I'm a changed person. I don't laugh or enjoy myself much."

The Guardian reports that Muhammad's first suicide attempt followed a month of solitary confinement in a punishment cell.  
Muhammad was not confined there because he had broken any of the camp rules — rather the camp's expansion meant they had run short of ordinary cells.

Muhammad reported having his suicidal impulses treated by involuntary injections with extremely powerful, long-lasting, psychoactive drugs.

The Department of Defense released a list of all the captives who had been detained in Guantanamo, in military custody on 15 May 2006.
Muhammad Shah's name is missing from that list.

Mark Bowden, writing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, described traveling to Pakistan to interview Shah Muhammad and Shabidzada Usman, another young Pakistani who was among the first captives to be released.
Bowden described being met by "warmth and elaborate courtesy" by the two released men, who he described as "uneducated, unworldly, and dirt poor".  Bowden believed their accounts that they were rounded up and sold to the Americans by undiscriminating warlords, for a bounty, who didn't care if they were innocent.

On an official list of the captives' departure dates from Guantanamo published in November 2008, his name was published as "Sha Mohammed Alikhel".

Claim that he was killed fighting U.S. forces
On 7 April 2009, the Defense Intelligence Agency drafted a report, published on 27 May 2009, that listed a "Shah Mohammed" as having been "killed while fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan". Despite the report, there are tens of thousands of "Shah Mohammeds" in Afghanistan.

See also
Guantanamo suicide attempts
Solitary confinement

References

External links
The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar Andy Worthington

Pakistani extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Shah Muhammad
Bakers
Pashtun people
1981 births
Living people
Mushkil

Mushkil (Urdu: , lit. difficult) is an Urdu film which was released in 1995 across theaters in Pakistan. The film dealt with the issue of child-camel-jockeys illegally trafficked from the third world countries into numerous Arab countries. 

The super-hit film music was composed by Amjad Bobby. Hit tracks included Dil Ho Gaya Hai Tera Deewana and Mushkil Hai Bara Mushkil Hai. This film was directed by Javed Sheikh.

Cast
 Neeli
 Javed Sheikh
 Behroze Sabzwari
 Talish
 Asif Khan
 Meera
 Ghulam Mohiuddin (Guest appearance)
 Nadeem (Guest appearance)

Soundtrack 
The lyrics were written by Masroor Anwar and Saleem A. Saleem and music was composed by Amjad Bobby. 
 Dil Ho Gya Hay, Tera Deevana (Female version) sung by Mehnaz Begum
 Dil Ho Gya Hay, Tera Deevana (Male version) sung by Taskeen Javed
 Tujhko Bhool Kay Zinda Rehna, Mushkil Hai Bara Mushkil sung by Mehnaz Begum, Tehsin Javed

Awards
Nigar Award for Best Actor for Javed Sheikh in Mushkil (1995 film)

References

External links

Pakistani drama films
1990s Urdu-language films
1995 films
Films scored by Amjad Bobby
Nigar Award winners
Urdu-language Pakistani films
It's a grand old team

"Grand Old Team" or "It's a Grand Old Team" may refer to one of two football songs:

 The Celtic Song, associated with Celtic Football Club
 The Everton Song, associated with Everton Football Club

Or, popular fan forum - GrandOldTeam.com
Kugar

Kugar is a discontinued tool for generating business quality reports for KOffice. The reports can be viewed and printed. It includes a standalone report viewer and a KParts report viewer. The latter means that any K Desktop Environment 3 application can embed the report viewing functionality and that reports can be viewed using the Konqueror browser.

Kugar works by merging application generated data with a template to produce the final report. Both the data and the template are specified using XML. This approach means that applications only need worry about generating the data itself. A template can be referenced via a URL which allows businesses to create a centrally managed template library.

History 
Kugar was developed by theKompany as derivative from Metaphrast, originally written by Keith Davis at Mutiny Bay Software, beginning in August 1999. theKompany released version 1.0 on 21 September 2000 which was based on K Desktop Environment 2 and Qt 2.2.0. On 21 February 2001 Kugar was donated to KDE for inclusion into KOffice. KOffice 1.1 – the last version based on K Desktop Environment 2 – was released as beta version on 24 April 2001 and already included Kugar as stable application. Kugar remained part of
KOffice up to version 1.6.3. Kugar was not ported to become part of KOffice 2. Kexi’s new Report Designer – introduced in KOffice 2.2 on 28 May 2010 – served as replacement for Kugar.

Features 
Report printing in PostScript.
Database/data source neutral, data is supplied to the report engine in XML.
Support for direct database access.
Open report definition files, report layout is stored in XML.
Full control of fonts, colors, text alignment and wrapping.
Report Header/Footer.
Page Header/Footer.
Detail Section.
Detail Header/Footer.
Unlimited number of detail levels.
Grand totals: count, sum, average, variance and standard deviation.
Additional formatting (negative numbers, currency, commas for numbers and dates).

References

External links 

Calligra Suite
Free reporting software
Thioacetazone

Thioacetazone (INN, BAN), also known as amithiozone (USAN), is an oral antibiotic which is used in the treatment of tuberculosis. It has fallen into almost complete disuse due to toxicity and the introduction of improved anti-tuberculosis drugs like isoniazid. The drug has only weak activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is only useful in preventing resistance to more powerful drugs such as isoniazid and rifampicin. It is never used on its own to treat tuberculosis;  it is used in a similar way to ethambutol.

There is no advantage to using thioacetazone if the regimen used already contains ethambutol, but many countries in sub-Saharan Africa still use thioacetazone because it is extremely cheap.  Use of thioacetazone is declining because it can cause severe (sometimes fatal) skin reactions in HIV positive patients.

The biological target of thioacetazone has proven elusive and its mechanism of action remains unknown, although it is thought to interfere with mycolic acid synthesis.

Adverse effects
One of the documented adverse effects of thioacetazone is the excessive accumulation of serum (or blood plasma) in the brain. Another is weakening of the thyroid glands. These were found in a treatment combining conteben with PAS acid p-amino-salicylic acid.

See also
 Thiosemicarbazide

References

External links
 Chemindustry
 "Im November 1947 macht der für alles Neue aufgeschlossene Freiburger Internist Professor Dr. Ludwig Heilmeyer, ein Mitschüler des Atomphysikers Heisenberg, die erste schwache Andeutung, daß sich Domagks Präparat in seiner Klinik zu bewähren scheine. Genaue Zahlen gibt aber erst drei Monate später ein bis dahin unbekannter Arzt, Dr. Berthold Mikat, der nur in Vertretung seines Chefs, Dr. Fritz Kuhlmann aus Mölln, spricht: Im Krankenhaus der Landesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein ist nach Tb I-Behandlung bei 49 von 66 Patienten mit Lungentuberkulose eindeutige Besserung nachgewiesen worden. Das ist der Start für die Einführung des Tb I, das später den Namen Conteben bekommt."

Antibiotics
Anti-tuberculosis drugs
Acetanilides
Thioureas
Thiosemicarbazone
Pyar Hi Pyar Mein

Pyar Hi Pyar Mein (Urdu: پیار ہی پیار میں) is a 2003 Pakistani film directed by Fahim Burney. The film generated considerable hype prior to its release but was a commercial failure.

Plot
Sara (Anchal) and Ashal (Ashal) are partners in the academy who are in love. Ashal dreams of becoming rich before getting married and encounters someone who can make his dreams a reality, Nisha.

Nisha, enamored by Ashal, sweeps him off to Dubai to establish a branch of the academy. Ashal becomes involved with her, and Nisha creates hurdles to make Sara marry a business tycoon, Akhter. 

Ashal spots Sara dancing at a nightclub. After a couple of dance sequences, Ashal discovers that the woman he has been pursuing is not Sara but her twin sister Anchal. He discovers she has a fiance, Sameer. 

To reunite with her mother and sister, Ashal brings Anchal and her fiance to Pakistan and discovers Sara has become a widow. She gives birth to a son. Her stepmother-in-law arranges for her to be kidnapped to coerce her to marry her younger son and keep the family's wealth.

Cast
 Ali Tabish
 Anchal
 Nisha
 Meera 
 Wasif Butt

Accolades

Soundtrack

External links
 

2003 films
Pakistani romantic drama films
2000s Urdu-language films
Films scored by Wajid Nashad
Urdu-language Pakistani films
Church of the Nativity, Tiraspol

The Nativity Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Birth of Christ, is the largest and newest church in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. It is a Russian Orthodox Church completed in 1999 to serve as the Mother Church of the Orthodox Christian Diocese of Tiraspol. 

Celebrations marking the completion of the cathedral included, among other things, the issuing of a series of postage stamps featuring the church (see Transnistrian stamps issued for Christmas 1999). In 2001, the cathedral's image was displayed on the principal coins struck for a commemorative series of gold and silver currency featuring Orthodox Temples of Transnistria.

External links 
 Orthodox Wiki Diocese of Tiraspol-Dubossary

Cathedrals in Transnistria
Churches completed in 1999
20th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Tiraspol
Tiraspol
Buildings and structures in Tiraspol
1999 establishments in Moldova
CMFR

CMFR means:
Completely Mixed Flow Reactor
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
Calone

Calone or methylbenzodioxepinone, trade-named Calone 1951, also known in the industry as "watermelon ketone", was discovered by Pfizer in 1966. It is used to give the olfactory impression of a fresh seashore through the marine and ozone nuances. Calone is similar in structure to brown algae pheromones like ectocarpene and is also distantly related in structure to the benzodiazepine class of sedatives.
 
Calone is an unusual chemical compound which has an intense "sea-breeze" note with slight floral and fruit overtones. It has been used as a scent component since the 1980s for its watery, fresh, ozone accords, and as a more dominant note in several perfumes of the marine trend, beginning in the 1990s. In 2014, Plummer et al.  reported the synthesis and fragrance properties of several related aliphatic analogues.

References

External links 
 Constituents of fragrances
 Watermelon ketone

Perfume ingredients
Ketones
Benzodioxepines
Justinian Ovchinnikov

Justinian Ovchinnikov (; born Victor Ivanovich Ovchinnikov, 28 January 1961 in Kosteryovo, Vladimir Oblast) is a high-ranking member of the  Russian Orthodox Church. He held the title of archbishop of the patriarchal parishes in the United States from March 2010 to 2014.

Prior to this appointment, he was head of the Diocese of Tiraspol, in Transnistria (Moldova) and its mother church, the Christmas Church from 1998 to 2010.

References

Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodoxy in the United States
1961 births
Living people
People from Vladimir Oblast
Everytown

Everytown may refer to:

 Welcome to Everytown, a 2007 book by Julian Baggini
 Escape from Everytown, a 1995 book by Terrance Dicks
 Everytown for Gun Safety, an American nonprofit organization based in New York

See also
Anytown, USA (disambiguation)
Tim Kincaid

Tim Kincaid (born July 2, 1944) is an American  film director, film writer and film producer. As a pornographic director, Kincaid is often credited as Joe Gage.

Kincaid is also known for having directed several science fiction/horror films in the mid-eighties: Breeders, Mutant Hunt, and most infamously Robot Holocaust, which was featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and released on Blu-ray by Scorpion Releasing.

Perception
To a perceptive viewer some of the characters in Gage's films can be clearly understood as "gay identified", while others are just as clearly intended to represent bisexual men who normally inhabit the heterosexual world and may even be happily married. Many other characters—perhaps most of them—defy easy categorization, however.  "I never went out of my way to emphasize the butch or straight attributes of my guys--I always sought to portray them as representatives of the average, ordinary, for the most part, working-class citizen."

For all of these reasons, Kincaid's aesthetic sensibilities had a significant impact not only on his contemporaries in the adult film world but on gay-male culture as it was developing in the 1970s and 1980s. "He's... the first artist who dared to suggest that sex between men was more about camaraderie than romance, more about hot action than a lifestyle.  While his characters were always working-class Joes, his 1970s epics became blueprints of sexual tension-building and were also stylistically innovative." Numerous filmmakers of today cite the Gage films as being highly instrumental in their own development, and one gay singer-songwriter (Mark Weigle, on Soul/Sex) used the phrase "a Joe Gage face" in his lyrics, knowing that for some listeners it would immediately evoke a certain kind of male handsomeness, in much the same way that "Gibson Girl" brings to mind a specific type of feminine beauty. "The "Gage Men", as they were known during the heyday of the 1970s, appeared more sexy Average Joe than Abercrombie & Fitch.  They tended toward "the hairy and the hunky".

Awards
2001 GayVN Awards Hall of Fame
 2011 XBIZ Award - Gay Director of the Year

See also
 :Category:Films directed by Tim Kincaid
 List of male performers in gay porn films

References

External links

1944 births
Living people
American film directors
American pornographic film directors
American pornographic film producers
Directors of gay pornographic films
Producers of gay pornographic films
Graissessac

Graissessac (; ) is a commune in the southern French department of Hérault.

Population

See also
Communes of the Hérault department

References

Communes of Hérault
Goffin

Goffin is a surname, and may refer to:

 Albert Goffin (died 1958), Belgian banker, civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium
 Andreas Leopold Goffin (1837-1863), Dutch naval officer and the eponym of Goffin's cockatoo
 Billy Goffin (1920–1987), English footballer
 David Goffin (born 1990), Belgian tennis player
 Dean Goffin (1916–1984), New Zealand musical composer
 Evi Goffin (born 1981), Belgian vocalist
 Gerry Goffin (1939–2014), American lyricist
 Louise Goffin (born 1963), singer, songwriter and musician
 Joel Goffin (born 1981), American film composer
 Peter Goffin (1906–1974), English set and costume designer and stage manager
 Robert Goffin (1898–1984), Belgian lawyer, author and poet, credited with writing the first "serious" book on jazz

See also
 1722 Goffin, an asteroid
 Coffin (surname)
 Tanimbar corella (Cacatua goffiniana) also known as Goffin's cockatoo

Surnames of Old English origin
Surnames of Belgian origin
Sunehri Kothi, Tonk

Sunehri Kothi (Mansion of Gold) is a magnificent hall in the city of Tonk in the Indian state  of Rajasthan.

The hall is within the old palace complex, whose walls and ceilings are one sumptuous expanse of enamel mirror-work, gilt and painted glass illuminated through stained-glass windows from Belgium. The entire effect is that of an exquisite piece of enamel jewellery blown up to the size  of a hall.

It was built by Nawab Mohammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (1867-1930), the Nawab of Tonk, for poetry recitals, dance and music.

Tourist attractions in Tonk district
Buildings and structures in Rajasthan
Anappanthy

Anapanthy is a town in Ayyankunnu Panchayat of Kannur district, Kerala, India.

Facilities
Anapanthy is well connected with roads and communication facilities including broadband Internet and mobile phone service providers. Health and educational institutions are within a few kilometers away . Angadikadavu, Karikkottakary and Vallithode are the neighboring towns.

History
The severe food shortage and political turbulence during the 1920s and 1930s forced the people of central Kerala to search for agricultural land and political security.  Malabar - then part of the state of Madras under the British rule - offered them relative political security as well as vast area of forest land to cultivate. However, cholera, fever, and starvation were endemic.

Economy

The major agricultural products are rubber, pepper, cashew and coconut. The name Anapanthy comes from the elephants in that area. There were people who could mate the elephants and train them to work, especially to clear the forest.

Today's Anapanthy Service Cooperative Bank was the first financial institution for the entire Aralam/Ayyankunnu villages. The bank was started in 1940s as a 'Society' with a few members. Today it has grown into a full-fledged bank with many branches in the area.

Education
In 1956 the first elementary school was started here with a single teacher and approximately 30 students.  Today the school is known as Government L P School.

Transportation
The national highway passes through Kannur town. Mangalore and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side.  The road to the east of Iritty connects to Mysore and Bangalore. The nearest railway station is Kannur on Mangalore-Palakkad line. There are airports at Kannur Airport Mangalore and Calicut.

Religion
Christianity and Hinduism is the religion in this area, many temples and churches are here such as catholic and Pentecostal churches.

India Pentecostal Church of God, Anapanthy
Roman Catholic church
Assemblies of God Church(Pentecostal Church), Anapanthy
CSI church, Anapanthy

References

Villages near Iritty
Postage stamps and postal history of Transnistria

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Transnistria, an unrecognized breakaway territory of Moldova and the de facto independent Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Before independence

Tiraspol Zemstvo stamps 
In the Russian Empire, Tiraspol was an administrative centre of the Tiraspol Uyezd located in the Kherson Governorate. On January 1, 1873, the Tiraspol Zemstvo began running the official local postal service. Two Zemstvo stamps were issued for this purpose, in 1873 and 1879, that were cancelled with a pen. Additionally, free, non-denominated official labels were printed in 1875 but they were not postage stamps.

Romanian occupation 
During World War II, the territory was occupied by the Romanian military forces, and the Transnistrian Government was established. Romania issued special postage stamps for Transnistria in 1941 and 1943, and semi-postals in 1942.

Tiraspol provisional stamps 

Transnistria declared its independence from Moldova on September 2, 1990, and in June 1992, the postal authorities in Tiraspol, the capital and administrative centre of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, overprinted sheets of two definitive stamps of the former Soviet Union. The overprints read  'Тирасполь / 30-VI-92'  (Tiraspol / 30-June-92) and two new values,  '20 коп.'  (20 kopecks) and  '28 коп.'  (28 kopecks). These provisionals were only in use from July 3 to July 21, 1992, and were then confiscated and destroyed by Moldavian authorities in Kishinev (now Chișinău).

First PMR stamps 
On November 18, 1993, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Council) of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic made decision on issuing the first stamps. The first Transnistria stamp was designed by Grigoriy Bronza and appeared on December 31, 1993. Since then it has typically issued between 3 and 5 different series of stamps per year. The region's name is given only in Cyrillic, as  'ПОЧТА ПМР'  (POST OF PMR, with PMR standing for Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic).

Validity 
The postage stamps of Transnistria are not recognised outside of the country and are valid only for domestic service within Transnistria. International mail and mail to the rest of Moldova requires Moldovan postage stamps.

Bogus PMR stamps 

Bogus stamp issues have been a problem in the region for several years, with private persons overprinting stamps of the Soviet Union or printing labels resembling Transnistrian stamps, and selling them to unsuspecting collectors. The bogus stamps usually give the region's name in Cyrillic, as  'ПМР' , although sometimes the Latin letters  'PMR'  are seen instead. There is no consistent practice, with some stamps only inscribed in Cyrillic and others only in Latin.

See also 
 Grigoriy Bronza
 Postage stamps and postal history of Moldova

References

External links 

 
 

 
History of Transnistria
Transnistria
Campbelltown, South Australia

Campbelltown is a north-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The population of the area was 7,003 in 2006. It is bordered in the north-west by the River Torrens, a river that is surrounded by parks and smaller creeks. Campbelltown is 8.7 km north-east of Adelaide. Lower North East Road crosses the middle of the suburb.

Campbelltown is named after Charles James Fox Campbell, a pioneer settler in that locality, and is part of the City of Campbelltown. The original home of Charles Campbell is named Lochend and is located near the River Torrens on Lochend Drive. The building underwent restoration in 2004.

Campbelltown Post Office opened on 1 January 1855. The Postal Code of the area is 5074.

The area is represented in Federal Parliament by James Stevens and by Vincent Tarzia in the South Australian Parliament. The suburb has one school, East Marden Primary School. Campbelltown is home to many parks, playgrounds and outdoor sport courts. Campbelltown also has an Aquatic and Recreation Centre with swim, fitness and sport facilities.

References

Suburbs of Adelaide
Mansab

Mansab may refer to :

 Mansabdar, sort of a military pay grade in the Mughal empire
 Mansab, Yemen
Biafo Glacier

The Biafo Glacier (; ) is a glacier located within the Karakoram mountain range in the Shigar District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It extends over a considerable distance, measuring 67 kilometers (42 miles) in length, and ranks as one of the largest glaciers in the entire Karakoram range. Flowing in a south-eastern direction from the central Karakoram crest, this glacier covers a basin area spanning 853 square kilometers, of which 628 square kilometers are characterized by permanent snow and ice. The accumulation zone alone contributes to 68% of the glacier's total area.

Geography 
Biafo Glacier and Hispar Glacier, which is a 49km (30mi) long glacier, converge at Hispar La, situated at an elevation of 5,128 meters (16,824 feet), forming the world's longest non-polar glacial system, spanning a distance of 49 kilometers (30 miles). This frozen pathway links two ancient mountain regions, connecting Nagar in the west with Shigar District, Baltistan in the east. Approximately, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the village of Askole in Braldo, Shigar District, this glacial junction is found. The entire journey spans 100 kilometers (62 miles), utilizing 51 kilometers (42 miles) of the Biafo Glacier and the entirety of the Hispar Glacier.

The Biafo Glacier presents a trekker with several days of strenuous boulder hopping, with views throughout and Snow Lake near the high point. Snow Lake, consisting of parts of the upper Biafo Glacier and its tributary glacier Sim Gang, is one of the world's largest basins of snow or ice in the world outside the polar regions, up to  in depth.

The Biafo Glacier is the world's third longest glacier outside the polar regions, second only to the  Siachen Glacier, India and Tajikistan's  long Fedchenko Glacier.

Campsites along the Biafo are located off the glacier, adjacent to the lateral moraines and steep mountainsides. The first three (heading up from the last village before the glacier, the thousand-year-old Askole village) are beautiful sites with flowing water nearby. Mango and Namla, the first two campsites, are often covered in flowers and Namla has an amazing waterfall very near the camping area. Baintha, the third campsite, is often used as a rest day. A large green meadow, it has a few running streams near the camp and many places to spend the day rock climbing or rappelling.

Evidence of wildlife can be seen on the trek, including Ibex and the Markhor mountain goat. The area is also known for Himalayan brown bears and snow leopards, although sightings are rare.

See also
 Baltoro Glacier
 Godwin-Austen Glacier
 Sarpo Laggo Glacier
 Azad Kashmir
 Eight-thousander
 List of highest mountains
 List of glaciers

References

External links
 Northern India detailed placemarks in Google Earth 

Glaciers of the Karakoram
Glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan
Hispar Glacier

Hispar Glacier (; ) is a 49-km (30-mile) long glacier situated in the Karakoram Mountains of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It converges with the  Biafo Glacier, which extends for 67 kilometers (42 miles), at the Hispar La (Pass), reaching an altitude of 5,128 meters (16,824 feet). This confluence creates the world's longest glacial system outside of the polar regions.

Details
The 100-km (62-mile) long ice highwayserves as a connecting route between two ancient mountain kingdoms: Nagar in the west and Baltistan in the east. The upper half of Biafo is particularly challenging due to the steep terrain and strenuous boulder hopping required on the lateral moraines and hillsides. The traverse becomes especially demanding when crossing the four major tributary glaciers from the north, and potential high nullah (stream) crossings can be hazardous.

Rivers
The Hispar River, a tributary of the Hunza River, rises from the meltwater of the glacier.

See also
Central Karakoram National Park
List of mountains in Pakistan
List of highest mountains
List of longest glaciers
Hispar Muztagh

References

External links
 Northern Pakistan detailed placemarks in Google Earth

Glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan
Glaciers of the Karakoram
Clarence Gardens, South Australia

Clarence Gardens is an inner southern suburb of Metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Mitcham, 4.6 kilometres south of the City Centre.

It is bounded to the north by Cross Road, the west by South Road, the east by Winston Avenue and the south by Edward Street.

There are many sporting venues in Clarence Gardens which include the Clarence Gardens Lawn Bowls club and the Clarence Gardens Rugby club, both of which are in the A.A. Bailey Recreational Ground facility.

Clarence Gardens Post Office opened on 1 August 1946. It was renamed Clarence Gardens North in 1967 on the same day Edwardstown office (open since 1850) was renamed Clarence Gardens. The Clarence Gardens North office closed in 1980 and Clarence Gardens reverted to Edwardstown in 1987.

References

Suburbs of Adelaide
Texture splatting

In computer graphics, texture splatting is a method for combining different textures. It works by applying an alphamap (also called a "weightmap" or a "splat map") to the higher levels, thereby revealing the layers underneath where the alphamap is partially or completely transparent. The term was coined by Crawfis et al.

Optimizations 
Since texture splatting is commonly used for terrain rendering in computer games, various optimizations are required. Because the underlying principle is for each texture to have its own alpha channel, large amounts of memory can easily be consumed. As a solution to this problem, multiple alpha maps can be combined into one texture using the red channel for one map, the blue for another, and so on. This effectively uses a single texture to supply alpha maps for four real-color textures. The alpha textures can also use a lower resolution than the color textures, and often the color textures can be tiled.

Terrains can also be split into chunks where each chunk can have its own textures. Say there is a certain texture on one part of the terrain that doesn’t appear anywhere else on it: it would be a waste of memory and processing time if the alpha map extended over the whole terrain if only 10% of it was actually required. If the terrain is split into chunks then the alpha map can also be split up according to the chunks and so now instead of 90% of that specific map being wasted only 20% may be.

Related techniques 

Alpha-based texture splatting, though simple, gives rather unnatural transitions. Height-based texture blending attempts to improve on quality by blending based on a heightmap of each texture.

See also
 Alpha compositing
 Blend modes
 Splatting – a volume rendering technique
 Texture mapping

References

External links
 Charles Bloom on Texture Splatting
 Texture Splatting in Direct3D
 Crawfis, Roger and Nelson Max, Texture Splats for 3D Vector and Scalar Field Visualization, Proceedings Visualization '93 (October 1993), IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, pp. 261–266.

Computer graphics
Midway T Unit

The Midway T Unit is an arcade system board designed by Midway and successor to the Midway Y Unit.

Specifications
 Main CPU: TMS34010 @ 6.25 MHz
 Sound CPU: Motorola 6809 @ 2 MHz 
 Sound chip: Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.58 MHz, DAC, OKI MSM6295 @ 8 kHz
 Graphics: 400×254, 32768 colors, 53.20 Hz

Mortal Kombat II uses the DCS Sound System (ADSP2105 @ 10 MHz and a DMA-driven DAC).

List of T Unit games
 Judge Dredd (prototype, unreleased)
 Mortal Kombat (Version 4.0-5.0)
 Mortal Kombat II
 NBA Jam
 NBA Jam Tournament Edition

List of Z Unit games
 NARC

List of Y Unit games
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game) (Version LA1)
 Mortal Kombat (Version 1.0-4.0)
 Total Carnage Trog Smash TV High Impact Football Strike Force (video game) Super High ImpactList of V Unit games
 Cruis'n World Cruis'n USA War Gods (video game) Off Road ChallengeList of Wolf Unit Games
 Mortal Kombat 3 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 WWF WrestleMania NHL: 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge NBA Hangtime NBA Maximum Hangtime Rampage World TourList of X Unit games
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game) (Version LA2, LA3 & LA4)
 Revolution X'' (Revision 1.0 6/16/1994)

References
 Midway T Unit at system16.com

Arcade system boards
Midway Games
Kingswood, South Australia

Kingswood is a suburb of the Australian city of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham. 

Kingswood is bounded to the west by Belair Road, to the north by Cross Road, to the south by Princes Road and to the east by Unley High School and the western boundaries of properties fronting onto Smith Dorrien Street. The suburb is the home of Mitcham Primary School and Mitcham Girls High School.

History 
Kingswood was established in 1945 as a formal proposal by the City of Mitcham to "eliminate superfluous subdivisions names" as requested by the Surveyor General of South Australia. At establishment, it consisted of the sub-divisions of Kingswood Estate, Kingswood Park, Mitchamville and a portion of Old Mitcham.  In February 2003, it was enlarged by the addition of portions of the adjoining suburbs of Netherby and Mitcham.

See also 
 List of Adelaide obsolete suburb names

References

Suburbs of Adelaide
Anthony Diekema

Anthony J. Diekema (born 1933) was the President of Calvin College from 1976 to 1995.

Diekema graduated from Calvin College in 1956, where he played on the men's basketball team, and went on to receive a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Michigan State University. When Diekema came to Calvin College in 1976, he completed the development of the campus master plan and began construction projects to meet growing needs. He also purchased more land for the college to expand further and oversaw the expansion of the curriculum. During his tenure, enrollments rose above 4,000 for the first time. He is married to Doris Jeane Waanders and they have seven children.

References

1933 births
American people of Dutch descent
Calvin University alumni
Living people
Michigan State University alumni
Presidents of Calvin University
People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
People from Zeeland, Michigan
Cartan subgroup

In the theory of algebraic groups, a Cartan subgroup of a connected linear algebraic group  over a (not necessarily algebraically closed) field  is the centralizer of a maximal torus. Cartan subgroups are smooth (equivalently reduced), connected and nilpotent. If  is algebraically closed, they are all conjugate to each other. 

Notice that in the context of algebraic groups a torus is an algebraic group 
such that the base extension  (where  is the algebraic closure of ) is isomorphic to the product of a finite number of copies of the . Maximal such subgroups have in the theory of algebraic groups a role that is similar to that of maximal tori in the theory of Lie groups.

If  is reductive (in particular, if it is semi-simple), then a torus is maximal if and only if it is its own centraliser  and thus Cartan subgroups of  are precisely the maximal tori.

Example 
The general linear groups  are reductive. The diagonal subgroup is clearly a torus (indeed a split torus, since it is product of n copies of  already before any base extension), and it can be shown to be maximal. Since  is reductive, the diagonal subgroup is a Cartan subgroup.

See also 
Borel subgroup
Algebraic group
Algebraic torus

References 

 
 

 
 

Algebraic geometry
Linear algebraic groups
Melrose Park, South Australia

Melrose Park is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Mitcham.  It is bordered by South Road, Daws Road, Winston Avenue and Edward Street.  Until 1989, Melrose Park was part of the suburb of Edwardstown. The name change occurred as the suburb was quite large, located on either side of South Road and was in the jurisdiction of two local government councils, with the larger western side belonging to the City of Marion. The suburb was named after early South Australian aviator, Charles James Melrose.

References

Suburbs of Adelaide
Trango Glacier

Trango Glacier  (, ) is a glacier in the Baltoro Muztagh range of the Karakoram in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Geography 
It flows from north to south on the west side of the Trango Towers and joins the Baltoro Glacier.

The Great Trango Tower declared  a record holder for the "greatest nearly vertical drop" in the world at  and has a height of .

See also 
 Hainablak Glacier
 Trango Towers
 List of mountains in Pakistan
 List of highest mountains
 List of glaciers

References 

Glaciers of the Karakoram
Glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan
Hainablak Glacier

Hainablak Glacier is a glacier near Trango Tower mountain in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

See also
Trango Glacier
Trango Towers
List of mountains in Pakistan
List of highest mountains
List of glaciers

References 

Glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan
Baltistan