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Seymouriamorpha

Seymouriamorpha were a small but widespread group of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods). They have long been considered reptiliomorphs, and most paleontologists may still accept this point of view, but some analyses suggest that seymouriamorphs are stem-tetrapods (not more closely related to Amniota than to Lissamphibia). Many seymouriamorphs were terrestrial or semi-aquatic. However, aquatic larvae bearing external gills and grooves from the lateral line system have been found, making them unquestionably amphibians. Though as they matured, they became more terrestrial and reptile-like. They ranged from 30 cm (1 ft) long lizard-sized creatures  to the 1.5 m (5 ft) long Enosuchus. If seymouriamorphs are reptiliomorphs, they were the distant relatives of amniotes. Seymouriamorphs form into three main groups, Kotlassiidae, Discosauriscidae, and Seymouriidae, a group that includes the best known genus, Seymouria. The last seymouriamorph became extinct by the end of the Permian.

Taxonomy

Reptiliomorpha
Order Seymouriamorpha
Biarmica
Enosuchus
Kotlassia 
Leptoropha
Microphon
Nyctiboetus
Utegenia
Waggoneria
Family Karpinskiosauridae
Karpinskiosaurus
Family Discosauriscidae
Ariekanerpeton
Discosauriscus
Makowskia
Spinarerpeton
Family Seymouriidae
Seymouria

Cladogram based on Ruta, Jeffery, & Coates (2003):

Cladogram based on Klembara (2009) & Klembara (2010):

Gallery

References

External links
 Bystrow, A.P. Kotlassia prima Amalitzky. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Washington, 1944, v.55, N5, pp.379-416.
 Seymouriamorpha - at Paleos
 Seymouriamorpha at Tree of Life Web Project

Seymouriamorphs
Cisuralian first appearances
Lopingian extinctions
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library is a public library located in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It serves all of Shawnee County, Kansas with the exception of the Rossville, Kansas and Silver Lake, Kansas townships. The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library is a municipal taxing district authorized by Kansas law.  It is governed by a board of trustees consisting of ten members.

The library offers many services to the public including senior/homebound delivery, work and home delivery, bookmobile services, curbside pickup, public computers, meeting rooms, extensive programming, the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery and the Millennium Cafe.

History
The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library was founded in 1870 when the Ladies' Library Association met to start a library. It was not until March 1871 that the doors of the library finally opened in the Keith & Meyers Dry Goods Store. In 1883, the library opened its first permanent building. Edward Wilder, Secretary-Treasurer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and President of the Library Board, convinced the Union Pacific Railroad and the AT&SFRR to jointly fund a building for the library on the State House grounds.

In 1953, the library opened its new building at the corner of 10th and Washburn. In 1970, the library expanded at its current location in celebration of its centennial. In 1996, voters approved a $23 million expansion project. Michael Graves was retained by the architectural firm to be the design architect. A groundbreaking took place in 1998 for the expansion. The library opened its doors on January 12, 2002.

 Former directors
The current chief executive officer is Marie Pyko. Former directors include Horace Moses, James Marvin, David L. Leamon and Gina Millsap. The library's auditorium is named after James Marvin, and the library's Circulation Lobby is named after David Leamon.

 Controversies
In February 2009, the library board voted to restrict minors from accessing four sexually themed books.  After public protest and controversy over the decision, the library board voted in April 2009 to return the books to the shelves without restriction.

Board of trustees
The Board of Trustees is composed of three county appointees and seven city appointees.

References

External links
 Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
 Alice C. Sabatini Gallery

Library buildings completed in 1883
Library buildings completed in 1953
Buildings and structures in Topeka, Kansas
Education in Shawnee County, Kansas
Public libraries in Kansas
Michael Graves buildings
Tourist attractions in Topeka, Kansas
Education in Topeka, Kansas
Zaqatala

Zaqatala may refer to:
Zaqatala Rayon, a political subdivision in Azerbaijan
Zaqatala (city), the principal city in the rayon
Oxana Ionova

Oxana Ionova was the head of the state tax service of Transnistria and director of Transnistria's central bank from 2008 to 2011. She was born in Tiraspol on 3 June 1966. She started her work in the Ministry of Interior of Transnistria in 1994 as accountant. In 1997, she was appointed head of financial and economic department of the State Customs Committee of Transnistria. In 2000 President Igor Smirnov appointed Ionova as the new Minister of Revenues of Transnistria. After the reform of fiscal service and abolition of the separate ministry of revenues, Ionova was appointed head of state tax service of Transnistria. In 2008 President Smirnov proposed Ionova's candidature to the Supreme Council to be appointed as director of Transnistrian Republican Bank.

Oxana Ionova was considered to be a 'purse' of Igor Smirnov and his family, a person through which money was laundered. In 2011 the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Ionova on a charge of embezzlement of 160 million rubles of Russian humanitarian aid. On 13 March 2012, after 2011 presidential elections in Transnistria when Igor Smirnov lost power, the Transnistrian authorities arrested Ionova on charges of embezzlement of state property, illegal business practices, abuse of power and forgery. It was reported that during search of her villa police exempted her collection of golden coins and gold bars. Her case went to court on 11 March 2013.

References

Living people
1966 births
People from Tiraspol
Women government ministers of Transnistria
20th-century women politicians
21st-century Moldovan women politicians
Mary Burns

Mary Burns (29 September 1821 – 7 January 1863) was a working-class Irish woman, best known as the lifelong partner of Friedrich Engels.

Burns lived in Salford, England. She met Engels during his first stay in Manchester, probably early in 1843. It is likely that Burns guided Engels through the region, showing him the worst districts of Salford and Manchester for his research for The Condition of the Working Class in England.

Mary Burns was the daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. The family may have lived off Deansgate. She had a younger sister named Lydia (1827–1878), known as “Lizzie", and a niece named Mary Ellen Burns (born 1859), known as "Pumps".

After meeting in the 1840s, Burns and Engels formed a relationship that lasted until Burns' sudden death at the age of 41 on 7 January 1863. Although the custom of the day was marriage, the two politically opposed the bourgeois institution of marriage  and never married. After her death Engels lived with her sister Lizzie, whom he married on 11 September 1878, hours before her death.

Not much is written about Mary Burns. The only direct references to Mary Burns that have survived are a letter from Marx to Engels on learning of her death, saying she was "very good natured" and "witty", and a letter from Marx's daughter, Eleanor, saying she was "very pretty, witty and an altogether charming girl, but in later years drank to excess". No images of Burns are known to exist.

References

Karl Marx
1823 births
1863 deaths
Irish activists
Irish women activists
English activists
English women activists
People from Salford
English people of Irish descent
Friedrich Engels
Blackbird (journal)

Blackbird is an online journal of literature and the arts based in the United States that posts two issues a year, May 1 and November 1.  During the six-month run of an issue, additional content appears as "featured" content.  Previous issues are archived online in their entirety.

Background 
Blackbird publishes fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, reviews, and art by both new and established writers and artists.  The journal frequently includes streaming audio and video content, including readings, interviews, and art lectures.  Each fall issue forefronts work by, and about, the late Larry Levis.  The journal's reading period for poetry and fiction closes between April 15 and September 15.  Unsolicited reviews, plays, and art work are not considered.

Publisher 
Blackbird is published jointly by the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in partnership with New Virginia Review, Inc., a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Richmond, Virginia. Its founding editors included Gregory Donovan, Mary Flinn, William Tester, M.A. Keller and Jeff Lodge. The journal is staffed by employees of the two sponsoring organizations as well as by interns and volunteers.

Blackbird has published poems by many poets, including: Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, Julia B. Levine, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Dave Smith, Sofia Starnes, Inge Pedersen, Wesley Gibson, Andrew Zawacki, Elizabeth King, Kiki Petrosino, Negar Emrani, Kaveh Akbar, etc.

Recognition 
Blackbird was one of the first literary journals to be included in the LOCKSS international archive.

Blackbird received AP Wire coverage for its publication of a previously unpublished sonnet of Sylvia Plath in their Fall 2006 issue. Entitled "Ennui," the poem was composed during Plath's early years at Smith College.

Ron Antonucci, in the Library Journal, describes Blackbird it as "one of the most successful, well-assembled online literary magazines available... it is graphically attractive and has attracted writers of stature such as . . . Reginald Shepherd and Gerald Stern."

Blackbird was named as the "best online publication" of 2007 by storySouth. The same year, Blackbird was awarded the Million Writers Award by storySouth by having seven stories selected as "notable stories of the year."

References

External links 
 Blackbird

2002 establishments in Virginia
American literature websites
Art websites
Biannual magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines published in Virginia
Mass media in Richmond, Virginia
Online literary magazines published in the United States
Virginia Commonwealth University
Hernán Gamboa

Hernan José Gamboa Alexis (June 18, 1946 – January 10, 2016) was a Venezuelan musician, composer and singer. He was a member of the Venezuelan fold music group Serenata Guayanesa, and later released separate albums.

Biography 
The first of seven sons between musician and composer Carmito Gamboa Almeida y Carmen Alexis de Gamboa, Gamboa grew up around music. He studies music with his father, who taught him to play the traditional Venezuelan instrument, the Cuatro, as well as the guitar and various other instruments.

In 1970, Gamboa helped found Serenata Guayanesa with his friends and colleagues Mauricio Castro Rodríguez and the brothers Iván and César Pérez Rossi. He was the cuatrista and tenor voice in the group, which from 1972 until he left the group in 1983, recorded 10 albums.

In 1977, While still a part of the Serenata Guauanesa, Gamboa launched his solo career by signing with the Venezuelan record company PROMUS. In August of that year, he released his first solo album, "El Cuatro de Venezuela." Then in 1983, he decided to focus all his attention on his solo career, and hence left the Serenata Guyanesa. He released a total of 25 solo albums in his lifetime.

Gamboa began suffering from muscular dystrophy, and in 1992 decided to move to the United States in order to get a clearer diagnosis and the help he needed. He lived in Miami for a while, before moving to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2010, where he continued his musical career until his death.

In August 2015, Gamboa was diagnosed with lung cancer, which he would die of several months later on January 10, 2016.

Nominations 
He was nominated for the Latin Grammy's for three of his records:  El mundo en cuatro cuerdas (1993), Serenatas en contrapuntos (2006) and La Fiesta (2007), although he never won one.

References

External links 
Interview to Hernán Gamboa in VOZZ.tv for the concert to Simón Díaz
VeinteMundos article about Hernán Gamboa
Hernán Gamboa Info & music 
Hernán Gamboa Discography  

1946 births
2016 deaths
Male composers
People from Anzoátegui
Venezuelan composers
Venezuelan-cuatro players
Venezuelan folk singers
Deaths from cancer in Argentina
Deaths from lung cancer
Nelo Risi

Nelo Risi (21 April 1920 – 17 September 2015) was an Italian poet, film director, translator and screenwriter, nephew of cinematographer Fernando Risi and younger brother of director Dino Risi.

Biography
Born in Milan, Risi graduated in medicine, as did his brother Dino, then with the outbreak of the Second World War he fought on the Russian front and was interned in Switzerland. He started his poetical production in 1941, with the collection Le opere e i giorni. With the end of the war he moved to Paris where he joined a group of filmmakers, led by the Americans Richard Leacock and John Ferno, engaged in documenting the disaster of the war in Europe through a series of human-geography documentary films. During this time Risi also published his second collection of poems (L'esperienza, 1948) and worked as a translator of poetry works by Pierre Jean Jouve, Constantine P. Cavafy, Sophocles, Jules Laforgue and others.

Back in Italy in 1954 he directed a dozen documentary films on popular figures and moments in the history of the twentieth century. He made his feature film debut in 1961, with a segment of the film Le italiane e l'amore; the same year he started his long collaboration with RAI. During his film career Risi won two , in 1960 for the direction of the short film The Brothers Rosselli (1959) and in 1970 for the screenplay of Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl. In 1970 he also won the Viareggio Prize for his poetry collection Di certe cose che dette in versi suonano meglio che in prosa. His poetry style is referred as "poetics of the usual" (poetica dell'usuale), in reference of the attempt of grasping the contradictions and the mystifications of everyday life through a basic, simple language, close to a diaristic style.

Selected filmography
Andremo in città (1966)
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968)
Dead of Summer (1970)
A Season in Hell (1971)
The Infamous Column (1973)

References

External links

1920 births
2015 deaths
Film people from Milan
Italian film directors
Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Italian poets
Italian male poets
Italian documentary filmmakers
20th-century Italian translators
20th-century Italian male writers
Writers from Milan
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader was a device sold by Microsoft, primarily for homes and small businesses.  The underlying software providing the biometrics was developed by Digital Persona.  

Fingerprint readers are more secure, reliable and convenient than a normal traditional password, although they have been subject to spoofing. A fingerprint recognition system is more tightly linked to a specific user than, e.g., an access card, which can be stolen.

History 
First released on September 4 2004, this device was supported by Windows XP and Windows Vista x86 operating systems. It was discontinued shortly after Windows Vista was released.

Functionality
The Fingerprint Reader's software allows the registration of up to ten fingerprints per device. Login names and passwords associated with the registered fingerprints were stored in a database on the user's computer.

On presentation of an authorized fingerprint, the software passes the associated login names and passwords to compatible applications and websites, allowing login without a keyboard. If the software finds that the particular fingerprint does not match one it its database, it declines the access.

Application

64-bit Windows
The Microsoft Fingerprint Reader may be modified to work with 64-bit Windows.

Firefox browser 
The reader works with Firefox using the FingerFox Add-on.

See also
Fingerprint
Fingerprint Verification Competition

References

External links
WebArchive of MS Fingerprint home page

FingerprintReader
Biometrics
Computer access control
German Shanghai Metro Group

German Shanghai Metro Group () was a joint venture between Shanghai Metro, Siemens AG and AEG (the railroad division now part of Bombardier Transportation) to develop railcars for the metro system.

The cars are designed in Germany and built in China.

References

Rolling stock manufacturers of China
Siemens
AEG
Kokkari

Kokkari is a village on the island of Samos, Greece, about  from the capital city, Samos.

Description

Kokkari is a fishing harbour of Samos Island, which has now developed into a tourist center. Still, it preserves its old traditional face, with small houses and lanes full of flowers. Kokkari is on a small peninsula full of houses which climbs up to the top of the hill with a small harbour on one side and a superb pebble beach on the other. Surrounded by green mountains and the view out to the sea, it's worth a journey.

Near Kokkari are several villages like Platanakia, Valeodates, Staurinides as well as many others, which are all connected with streets or small paths. Hiking paths lead all around the island. Find many hidden pebble beaches, like Tsamadou (named after the Greek national hero Anastasios Tsamados), Tsambou, Lemonakia close to Kokkari.

External links

Samos Travel Public Guide 
Hotels and Studio Room Information Kokkari Samos Greece 
Tarsanas Beach Kokkari
Armonia bay by Tsamadou beach, Kokkari 

Populated places in Samos
Saint Cajetan Church, Rașcov

Saint Cajetan is a Roman Catholic church of the Polish era in Râşcov, northern Transnistria a disputed territory with Moldova, which has recently undergone extensive renovation and which the PMR government considers a historical heritage location. The church was built in the 16th century, when northern Transnistria was a part of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom.

References

16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
Roman Catholic churches in Moldova
Roman Catholic churches in Transnistria
Theodor Goldschmidt

Carl Theodor Wilhelm Goldschmidt (4 June 1817 – 4 January 1875) was a German entrepreneur and chemist.

Goldschmidt was born in Berlin. He studied chemistry at the University of Berlin, and then trained as a colorist, a specialist in dyeing textiles. On 8 December 1847, he founded a chemical factory in Berlin. In 1911, it became "Th. Goldschmidt AG". Goldschmidt was a city councilor in Berlin, was interested in philosophy and maintained close contacts with the famous chemists of his time. 

Karl Goldschmidt and Hans Goldschmidt were his sons.

He died in 1875 in Berlin and was buried there. His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof I der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. I of the congregations of Jerusalem'spaye Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor. F

References

External links
 http://www.degussa-geschichte.de/geschichte/de/persoenlichkeiten/theodor_goldschmidt.html
 * http://www.degussa-geschichte.de/geschichte/en/inventions/monopol_soap.html
 http://www.degussa-geschichte.de/geschichte/en/predecessors/goldschmidt.print.html
 http://www.degussa-geschichte.de/geschichte/en/inventions/monopol_soap.html

1817 births
1875 deaths
19th-century German chemists
Scientists from Berlin
19th-century German Jews
Converts to Protestantism from Judaism
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Businesspeople from Berlin
James T. Igoe

James Thomas Igoe (October 23, 1883 – December 2, 1971) was a United States representative from Illinois.

He was born on October 21, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the St. Ignatius College (now known as Loyola University Chicago). He became engaged in the printing and publishing business in 1907.

Igoe served as city clerk of Chicago from 1917–1923. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1928, and 1936 and was elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

He became president of a building corporation in 1931. He was chairman of the Illinois delegation to Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940. Later, he entered the real estate business in 1942. He was director and later chairman of executive committee of Mercantile National Bank of Chicago from 1955 to 1961. He died in Evanston, Illinois on December 2, 1971, and was buried at the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.

References

1883 births
1971 deaths
Businesspeople from Chicago
Politicians from Chicago
Loyola University Chicago alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American businesspeople
Brett Kelly (actor)

Brett Edward Kelly (born 30 October 1993) is a Canadian actor known for his role as Thurman Merman in the 2003 film Bad Santa.

He appeared in Like Mike 2: Streetball, The Sandlot 2, Unaccompanied Minors, Trick 'r Treat, and reprised his role in the 2016 sequel Bad Santa 2.

Kelly was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and lives in Surrey, British Columbia.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 

1993 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian male actors
Canadian male child actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Male actors from Vancouver
People from Surrey, British Columbia
University of British Columbia alumni
Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station

Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station, often abbreviated to Piccadilly Gardens, is one of two main bus stations in Manchester city centre.

Adjacent is a Manchester Metrolink station named Piccadilly Gardens. The majority of the stands are located between Piccadilly Gardens and the Piccadilly Plaza, where buses for south or west Manchester usually begin or end their route. Other stands, also serving Piccadilly Gardens, are located on Oldham Street, Piccadilly or Lever Street for services heading towards north or east of Manchester.

The bus station was first opened on the site of the demolished Manchester Infirmary in 1931 to serve as the new terminus of the various extensive regional express bus services run by Manchester and its partners that had to be curtailed under the Road Traffic Act of 1930 and subsequent regulation of bus services. The station was extended in 1932/33 and finally extended to form the full length of Parker Street in 1935.

Services
There are numerous buses that use Piccadilly Gardens bus station. The majority of services are run by Diamond Bus North West, Magic Bus and Stagecoach Manchester with the remainder of services run by Arriva North West, Go North West and Manchester Community Transport.

There are frequent buses running to areas around the Greater Manchester area as well as  to Glossop, Huddersfield, Macclesfield, Stalybridge and Wilmslow.

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Manchester
Bus stations in Greater Manchester
Piccadilly Gardens
Jet4you

Jet4you was a low-cost airline based in Casablanca, Morocco. It operated services between Moroccan cities and destinations in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland (Sunway charter) and Italy. Its main base was Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, with focus cities at Agadir, Nador, Paris and Tangier.

History

Launch 
The airline started operations on 26 February 2006. It was owned by TUI Travel (40%), Attijariwafa Bank (20%), Investima-SGMB (20%) and MM.Marrache et Benabbes Taarji (20%). The shareholders jointly established a Moroccan company, Societe d'Investissement Aerienne, the investment vehicle behind the airline.

Jet4You was directed by Jawad Ziyat. The objective was to widen the network to other European countries and reach 1.5 million passengers by 2010, with a fleet of ten aircraft and a 395-strong team.

Short-haul flight ban 

In 2006, Walloon Minister of Transport André Antoine prohibited Jet4you from making a stopover in Liège, Belgium during a Charleroi–Casablanca flight, arguing that short-haul flights of fewer than 100 kilometres caused too much environmental damage. In December 2006, the European Commission confirmed that the ban did not violate any aviation agreements with Morocco, with Commissioner Jacques Barrot stating: 'The national authorities are allowed to take such measures, especially for environmental reasons.' Jet4you sued the Walloon Government, but in November 2008 the Court of First Instance in Namur confirmed the legality of the short-haul ban, rejecting Jet4you's damages claim and ordering the airline to pay 15,000 euros for court proceedings. Minister Antoine marked this as a victory and again urged the Federal Government of Belgium to introduce a countrywide prohibition on short-haul flights (which had been considered by the previous Federal Transport Minister, Renaat Landuyt).

Takeover by TUI 
On 17 June 2008, it was announced that TUI Travel had taken 100% ownership of the airline, and on 18 July 2009, TUI Travel signed a letter of intent to sell a majority stake in Jet4you to Royal Air Maroc.

Jet4you adopted the IATA code 8J from the now defunct Russian airline Komiinteravia. (This code was subsequently removed from Jet4you and assigned to Línea Aérea EcoJet S.A.)

On 10 January 2012, it was announced that Jet4you would be completely integrated into the Belgian company Jetairfly (now called TUI fly Belgium). Jetairfly took over all aircraft, personnel and routes from Jet4you. The integration into Jetairfly was finalised in 2012, and all operations transferred in April 2012. All aircraft are now in Jetairfly colours, and all flights are booked through Jetairfly.

Fleet
Jet4You ceased operations in 2011, and merged with Jetairfly. For some other fleet information, see JetairFly's fleet.

References

External links

 

Companies based in Casablanca
2006 establishments in Morocco
2012 disestablishments in Morocco
Defunct airlines of Morocco
Airlines established in 2006
Airlines disestablished in 2012
Defunct low-cost airlines
TUI Group
Alferon Management

Alferon Management Limited of London is a management company responsible for running the International Mineral Resources (IMR) in Kazakhstan. International Mineral Resources (IMR) is a Zurich-based holding subsidiary of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), one of the world’s largest private mining and metals group owned by three Kazakh businessmen Alexander Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev (or Shodiev) and Alijan Ibragimov (or Alidzhon Ibragimov).
Alferon Management Limited of London is a mining acquisition company that has acquired many mining
operations in different countries such as Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Russia, in Kosovo, and other countries that lack corporate governance.

Management
Alexander Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, better known as the Troika or Trio, are the owners of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), International Mineral Resources (IMR) and Alferon Management. The Trio hired well known metallurgic expert, Dr. Johannes Sittard to head Alferon Management, International Mineral Resources, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (known as Eurasian Group), Arduina Holdings and preside over J&W Investments, a Swiss mining company owned by Alferon. Before joining Alferon, Sittard was world steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal’s right-hand man.

After working for  Mittal for several years, Sittard confessed that Mittal had paid the Trio US $100 million in order to facilitate business in Kazakhstan.

Acquisitions

in Kosovo
After much controversy, Alferon Management acquired in 2006 Ferronikeli Complex LLC, a nickel plant in Drenas Kosovo. The controversy behind the acquisition stemmed from Alferon receiving the approval on the acquisition from the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) despite the fact that they were not the highest bidder; US- Albanian company, Adi Nickel was the highest bidder offering 49.5 million Euros.

Ferki Karaxha, the head of Ferronikeli trade union, stated that since Adi-Nickel won the first tender, it was no fair to declare IMR a provisional winner.. He also stated that he "has always been against the sale of the company and is convinced that the sale is a great crime against the national economy".

The sale agreement also includes an investment commitment from IMR-Alferon of €20 million, plus a guarantee to employ at least 1,000 people at Ferronikeli.

Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General (DSRSG), Joachim Ruecker, said the sale sent “a very strong signal to international investors”. Mr Ruecker added: “Kosovo is a stable and mature society, which welcomes international investment.”

Notes

External links
 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) website
 Cunico Resources website

Mining companies of Kazakhstan
Mining companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Zürich
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
Tohoku Mathematical Journal

The Tohoku Mathematical Journal is a mathematical research journal published by Tohoku University in Japan. It was founded in August 1911 by Tsuruichi Hayashi.

History
Due to World War II the publication of the journal stopped in 1943 with volume 49. Publication was resumed in 1949 with the volume numbering starting again at 1. In order to distinguish between the identical numbered volumes, volumes in the first publishing period are referred to as the first series whereas the later volumes are called second series. 

Before volume 51 of the second series the journal was called Tôhoku Mathematical Journal, with a circumflex over the second letter of Tohoku.

Selected papers
. The first publication of the Sprague–Grundy theorem, the basis for much of combinatorial game theory, later independently rediscovered by P. M. Grundy. 
. This paper describes Weiszfeld's algorithm for finding the geometric median.
. This paper, often referred to as "The Tohoku paper" or simply "Tohoku", introduced the axioms of abelian categories.
. Part II, 13: 281–294, 1961, , . The introduction of Sasakian manifolds.

References

Further reading

External links 
 Official website of the journal

Mathematics journals
Publications established in 1911
1911 establishments in Japan
Tohoku University
Academic journals associated with universities and colleges
Jennifer Leigh

Jennifer Leigh (born August 10, 1983 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American professional poker player.

Leigh built up from playing $5 SNG online poker tournaments to playing $100/$200 limit hold'em cash games. She also cashed in the $1,000 limit hold'em event of the World Championship of Online Poker.

Leigh's nickname "Jennicide" was her alias on hacking bulletin boards when she was younger. She was at one time involved in beige boxing. (Leigh has described herself as a nerd, with knowledge of Linux and C# programming.)

Whilst Leigh is best known for playing online poker at PokerStars, she was also involved in the Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages series. She won two preliminary heats and went on to finish 5th in the Grand Final. She  finished in the money in the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2006 Caribbean Poker Adventure.

Leigh has blogged about reaching level 70 on World of Warcraft, previously played the MMORPG EverQuest, and is now actively playing Aion.

Leigh has also posed for FHM Online in 2007, and appeared in the May 2008 issue of Playboy.

As of 2008, her live tournament winnings exceed $61,000.

References

External links
 Official site
 Articles by Leigh

1983 births
American poker players
Living people
Female poker players
People from Wilmington, Delaware
Owen M. Fiss

Owen M. Fiss (born 1938) is an American professor who is a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale Law School.

Biography
Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Fiss received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1959, B.Phil. from Oxford University in 1961, and LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1964.

After graduation from law school, Fiss was admitted to the bar in New York state in 1965.  He clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall from 1964 to 1965, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1965.  He then worked as a Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice from 1966 to 1968.

Fiss joined the faculty  of University of Chicago in 1968, and became a professor at Yale Law School in 1976.

Courses offered by Fiss include civil procedure, distributive justice, the law of democracy and the First Amendment.

Brian Leiter's law school ratings rank Owen Fiss as one of the top 20 most-cited professors in constitutional law.

Campaign finance reform

Fiss is an advocate of strong regulation of political campaigns:
We may sometimes find it necessary to "restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others," and that unless the [Supreme] Court allows, and sometimes even requires the state to do so, we as a people will never truly be free.

Works
 The Civil Rights Injunction, 1978
 Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910, 1993
 Liberalism Divided, 1996
 The Irony of Free Speech, 1996
 A Community of Equals, 1999
 A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism, 2003
 The Law As It Could Be, 2003
 A War Like No Other: The Constitution in a Time of Terror, 2015
 Pillars of Justice, 2017

See also 
 List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 3)

References

External links
Fiss's profile at Yale Law School

1938 births
Living people
People from the Bronx
Dartmouth College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Yale Law School faculty
Yale Sterling Professors
American legal scholars
Greg Cook (cartoonist)

Greg Cook is an underground cartoonist and comic book artist who has been published in Nickelodeon Magazine, Pulse magazine, The Believer magazine, New Art Examiner, Arthur, NON, and L'Association's Comix 2000 along with numerous other publications.

Personal information
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduated at the Art Institute in 1995, and now works as a newspaper reporter and artist/illustrator. His book Catch as Catch Can was published by Highwater Books in 2001. Cook lived in Chicago, Illinois for almost 10 years and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Career
Cook has been experimenting with different styles and subject matters that go beyond the traditional newspaper comics. His new cartoons are about history, comedy, and fictional dramas about daily life. Cooks pieces of art have appeared in venues near Gloucester, Massachusetts, as well as Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Napoli, Italy, Angouleme, and France. From 2003-2004, Cook's work toured the US with the exhibit "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation". Cook was also a newspaper reporter for more than 10 years. He is now writing and illustrating a graphic novel documentary about American veterans from the war in Iraq. It is supposed to be published by a division of Henry Holt Books. Cook is also the editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, commodore of The Society for the Preservation of Fitz Hugh Lane, and founder of The Invisible Museum.

Awards
Cook received the "Promising New Talent" Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda and in Maryland the following year.

References

External links
Greg Cook's Official Website
Entry in the Lambiek Comiclopedia
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research

Alternative cartoonists
American comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artists from Chicago
Frangipani family

The Frangipani family was a powerful Roman patrician clan in the Middle Ages. The family was firmly Guelph in sympathy. The name has many spellings, which include Frangipane, Freiapane, Fricapane and Fresapane. In his Trattatello in laude di Dante, Boccaccio traces the descent of Dante from the family.

History

The family claimed descent from the Roman plebeian family of Anicii, however, the first mention of the family dates only from 1014, in a document relating to the Abbazia di Farfa. A parchment diploma of Otto I in the Frangipani archive at Castello di Porpetto, in Friuli, is dated 10 January 973.

They played a significant part in the struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and briefly governed Rome from 1107 to 1108. In the feuding between the Orsini and Colonna families, they supported the Orsini. Their power was at its greatest when they achieved the election of Pope Honorius II in 1124. From no later than 1130 the Frangipani held the Colosseum of Rome, which they had fortified and which gave them strategic control of the approaches to the Lateran Palace, the papal residence, from the north and west; the family lost control of the Colosseum to the Annibaldi in the mid-thirteenth century.

In 1268 Giovanni Frangipane, lord of Astura, betrayed Conradin, the teenage Duke of Swabia and last of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, who took refuge with him after his defeat at the Battle of Tagliacozzo. Frangipane arrested him and handed him over to Charles of Anjou, who beheaded him.

The family had feuds in the Campagna south of Rome, among them Astura, Cisterna, Marino, Ninfa and Terracina, and later Nemi.

The Roman branch of the family was extinguished in 1654 with the death of Mario Frangipane, marquis of Nemi. Two presumed branches continued, one in Friuli and one in Dalmatia. The former had estates at Tarcento and Porpetto, and received patrician status in Rome. The latter descended from the lords of the island of Veglia (now Krk in Croatia), who in the fifteenth century claimed to be related to the Roman family, took the name Frangipani (Frankopan or Frankapan) on the basis of documents provided by Pope Martin V, and from about 1530 used the Frangipane coat of arms; Croatian historians dispute the historicity of this connection.

The Frangipani had the right of burial at the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome; their chapel – the Frangipani Chapel – in that church is dedicated to Saint Paul. From 1558 or 1559 until his death in 1566, Taddeo Zuccari worked there on a cycle of frescoes of the life of the saint; the paintings were completed by his brother Federico.

Members of the family 
 Cencio I Frangipane
 Cencio II Frangipane
 Oddone Frangipane
 Ottone Frangipane; monk, later canonised.
 Aldruda Frangipane

References 

Medieval Rome
Families of post-ancient Rome
Sutton College

Sutton College (born 2015) formerly known as Sutton College of Learning for Adults (SCOLA, 2001-2015) and Sutton College of Liberal Arts (1972-2001), is a college based in the Borough of Sutton in London, England. The college offers over 1000 part-time courses for all adults of any age. It operates out of two main centres and other community venues throughout the borough

The College grew out of an earlier organization, which offered adult and young adult education classes as early as the 1900s in the borough of Sutton. As of the 1920s, it was known as the Sutton and Cheam School of Art and in the 1950s as Sutton and Cheam School of Art and Crafts. A core group of full-time and part time staff from the School of Art moved to the new Sutton College in 1972. The first Principal of Sutton College was Peter Batten.

The current site in Sutton was built in 1972 as a dedicated adult education facility. Before that, the school was situated on Throwley Road, Sutton, but that site was demolished in 1969. The school then moved temporarily to Stowford School, Brighton Rd, Sutton. The school also ran classes from various locations including Nonsuch Mansion, Carew Manor and many schools in the borough.

History
In 1900, The Boys' Grammar School on Throwley Road in Sutton began to offer evening classes in art for older part-time students. In 1929, the Boys' school moved to Manor Lane, Sutton and the art program became a department of The Evening Institute, which took over the Throwley Road premises. By 1934, the school of art occupied the full premises at Throwley Road, and had 261 students (28 full-time, 233 part-time). By this time it was known as the Sutton and Cheam School of Art.

As of 1965, the London Borough of Sutton took responsibility for running the school and its adult education program, under the Local Government Act of 1964. In 1969, the school of art at Throwley Road was closed and the building demolished.  The school was temporarily relocated to Stowford School, Brighton Rd, Sutton.  Classes were taught there and at other locations such as Nonsuch Mansion, Stanley Park, Wallington Public Hall and the Granada in Sutton until a new building for the Sutton College of Liberal Arts could be completed. Construction began in 1972, and the Sutton College of Liberal Arts opened its new building in 1974. It is now known simply as Sutton College.

Main centres
Sutton Civic Centre, next to the main library

Business unit
In part to national government demands that educational establishments create better links with employers, SCOLA introduced its SCOLA Business Unit, to provide courses both at its centres and at businesses.

References

External links

Education in the London Borough of Sutton
Adult education in the United Kingdom
Sutton, London
Fiss

Fiss is a municipality in the Landeck district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located  south of Landeck on the upper course of the Inn River. The main source of income is tourism.

Population

References

Cities and towns in Landeck District
Jarkko Kari

Jarkko J. Kari is a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to the theory of Wang tiles and cellular automata.  Kari is currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Turku.

Biography
Kari received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Turku; his dissertation, supervised by Arto Salomaa.

He married Lila Kari, a later mathematics student at Turku; they divorced, and afterwards Lila Kari became a professor of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Research

Wang tiles are unit squares with colored markings on each side; they may be used to tesselate the plane, but only with tiles that have matching colors on adjoining edges. The problem of determining whether a set of Wang tiles forms a valid tessellation is undecidable, and its undecidability rests on finding sets of Wang tiles that can only tesselate the plane aperiodically, in such a way that no translation of the plane is a symmetry of the tiling. The first set of aperiodic Wang tiles found, by Robert Berger, had over 20,000 different tiles in it. Kari reduced the size of this set to only 14, by finding a set of tiles that (when used to tile the plane) simulates the construction of a Beatty sequence by Mealy machines. The same approach was later shown to lead to aperiodic sets of 13 tiles, the minimum known. Kari has also shown that the Wang tiling problem remains undecidable in the hyperbolic plane, and has discovered sets of Wang tiles with additional mathematical properties.

Kari has also used the Wang tiling problem as the basis of proofs that several algorithmic problems in the theory of cellular automata are undecidable. In particular, in his thesis research, he showed that it is undecidable to determine whether a given cellular automaton rule in two or more dimensions is reversible. For one-dimensional cellular automata, reversibility is known to be decidable, and Kari has provided tight bounds on the size of the neighborhood needed to simulate the reverse dynamics of reversible one-dimensional automata.

References

External links
Jarkko Kari's personal homepage

Cellular automatists
Finnish computer scientists
Finnish mathematicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Vaisala Prize Laureates
Pierleoni family

The family of the Pierleoni, meaning "sons of Peter Leo", was a great Roman patrician clan of the Middle Ages, headquartered in a tower house in the quarter of Trastevere that was home to a larger number of Roman Jews. The heads of the family often bore the title consul Romanorum, or "Consul of the Romans," in the early days. 

The family descended from the eleventh-century Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto, whose baptismal name comes from the fact that he was baptised by Pope Leo IX himself. They also were bankers and financially backed the reform papacy.

While the Pierleoni during their greatness spuriously claimed to be descended from the ancient Roman noble family of the Anicii, their enemies in Rome made much of their Jewish extraction and levelled the usual charges of usury. Leo's son was the Peter Leo (Pierleone) of the name and it is his sons that garnered for the family such fame as protectors of the popes: Pope Urban II died in one of the Pierleoni's castelli, July 1099. The family's territory was expanded to include the Isola Tiberina and a further tower house near the Theater of Marcellus. 

When Emperor Henry V came to Rome (1111), Petrus Leonis headed the papal legation that effected a reconciliation between the pope and the emperor. Pope Paschal II made Pierleone's son, Peter Peirleone, a cardinal, as well as bestowing the Castel Sant'Angelo on Petrus. Pierleone's attempt to install one of his sons as Prefect of Rome in 1116, though favoured by Paschal II, was resisted by the opposite party with riot and bloodshed. Peter, would later become Antipope Anacletus II (1131), and another, Giordano Pierleoni, with the revival of the Commune of Rome, became the head of the Republic as Patricius in 1144. The family generally supported the papacy and represented the Guelf faction of the city against the Ghibellines, often under the leadership of the Frangipani.

Two branches of the Pierleoni are still in existence. The first is that of Matelica and Pesaro in the Marche and the second is that of Città di Castello in Umbria. Both are still members of the Italian nobility.

Notes

References
Lanciani, Rodolfo A. New Tales of Ancient Rome (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1902).
Williams, George L. Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes (Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2004).

 Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (New York: Brill Academic Pubs. 1987).

External links
"Torre dei Pierleoni": Much restored and picturesquely rebuilt under Mussolini.

Italian noble families
Jewish-Italian families
Medieval Rome
Raymond O'Hurley

Raymond Joseph Michael O'Hurley,  (October 1, 1909 – March 27, 1970) was a Canadian politician.

Born in St-Gilles, Quebec, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1957 for the Quebec riding of Lotbinière. A Progressive Conservative, he was re-elected in 1958 and 1962. He was defeated in 1963 and 1965. From 1957 to 1958, he was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys. From 1958 to 1963, he was the Minister of Defence Production.

References
 

1909 births
1970 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Gewirtz

Gewirtz may refer to:

David Gewirtz, CNN columnist and Pulitzer Prize candidate
Howard Gewirtz, American television writer
Paul Gewirtz, American professor of constitutional law
Russell Gewirtz, American screenwriter
The Gewirtz graph, named after American mathematician Allan Gewirtz

See also
Gewertz