alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Shixinggia

Shixinggia is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Shixing County, Guangdong, China, for which it was named. While no skull was recovered, the specimen (BVP-112) is known from a fair amount of post-cranial material that shows it was a fairly derived oviraptorosaur (slightly more advanced than Nomingia), of superfamily Caenagnathoidea. Lü et al. (2003, 2005) describe it as an oviraptorid, but it could be a caenagnathid .

See also

 Timeline of oviraptorosaur research

References
 Lu, J., Zhang, B.-K. and Li (2003). "A new oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Shixing, Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong Province, Southern China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3), 73A.
 Lu, J. (2004). Oviraptorid dinosaurs from southern China. Southrern Methodist University. unpublished PhD dissertation. 
 Lu, J. (2005). Oviraptorid dinosaurs from Southern China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing. . 200 pages + 8 plates.
 Lu, J. and Zhang, B.-K. (2005). "A new oviraptorid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province of southern China." Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44(3): 412–422.

External links
 Luis Rey and the new oviraptorosaur panoply at Tetrapod Zoology

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Oviraptorids
Fossil taxa described in 2005
Hermite's identity

In mathematics, Hermite's identity, named after Charles Hermite, gives the value of a summation involving the floor function. It states that for every real number x and for every positive integer n the following identity holds:

Proofs

Proof by algebraic manipulation 
Split  into its integer part and fractional part, . There is exactly one  with 

By subtracting the same integer  from inside the floor operations on the left and right sides of this inequality, it may be rewritten as

Therefore,

and multiplying both sides by  gives

Now if the summation from Hermite's identity is split into two parts at index , it becomes

Proof using functions 
Consider the function 

Then the identity is clearly equivalent to the statement  for all real . But then we find,

Where in the last equality we use the fact that  for all integers . But then  has period . It then suffices to prove that  for all . But in this case, the integral part of each summand in  is equal to 0. We deduce that the function is indeed 0 for all real inputs .

References

Mathematical identities
Articles containing proofs
KTVY

KTVY may refer to:

 Tooele Valley Airport in Tooele, Utah (ICAO code KTVY)
 KEGS (TV), a television station (channel 7) licensed to Goldfield, Nevada, United States, which held the call sign KTVY-TV from March 2002 to May 2005
 KEGS-LP, a defunct low-power television station (channel 30) licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, which held the call sign KTVY-LP from August 1997 to May 2005
 KFOR-TV, a television station (channel 4) licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, which held the call sign KTVY from 1976 to 1990
Yukigassen

is a snowball fighting-competition from Japan. Today there are annual tournaments in Sōbetsu, Hokkaidō in Japan, Kemijärvi in Finland, Vardø in Norway, Murmansk in Russia, Mount Buller, Victoria in Australia, Luleå in Sweden, Anchorage in Alaska, Aparan in Armenia, Jasper, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada.

The word consists of the Japanese words yuki (snow) and kassen (battle) with rendaku. Hence yukigassen means snow battle, but is a common term for 'snowball fight' in Japanese.

Gameplay
Yukigassen is a game between two teams with seven players each. The game is played on a court with certain measurements, and the winner is determined through rules made by the Japan Yukigassen Federation.  It is similar to capture the flag; players are eliminated when hit with snowballs.  Players wear special yukigassen helmets with face shields, and a set number of snowballs (90) are made in advance.

Tournaments
 World Championship in Sōbetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan
 European Championship in Kemijärvi, Finland
 Swedish Championship in Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden (Luleå University of Technology)
 Nordic Championship in Vardø, Finnmark, Norway
 Australian Championship in Mount Baw Baw, Australia from 2019
 Anchorage, Alaska, United States
 Jasper, Alberta, Canada
 Russian Championship in Murmansk, Russia
 Champions League of Yukigassen in Aparan, Armenia

Medal winners (until 2017)

2017 
Here is a list of medal winners in the Swedish championship, held in Luleå in 2017

Gold Medal: Team Minttu

Silver medal: unknown

Bronze medal: unknown

2013 
Here is a list of medal winners in the Canadian National championship, held in Jasper, Alberta, in 2013

Gold Medal: unknown

Silver medal: unknown

Bronze medal: Team Goliath Snubbing

2012 
Here is a list of medal winners in the third Swedish championship, held in Luleå in 2012

 Gold Medal: I & Co
 Silver medal: KREwasion Invasion
 Bronze medal: Team LTU/Backyard Porsön

2011 
Here is a list of medal winners in the second Swedish championship, held in Luleå in 2011

Gold Medal: Backyard Porsön

Silver medal: Cockroaches

Bronze medal: I & Co

2010 
Here is a list of medal winners in the first Swedish Championship, held in Luleå in 2010

Gold Medal: Team LTU/Backyard Porsön

Silver medal: I & Co

Bronze medal: Gefle Snow Warriors

2007
Here is a list of the medal winners in the European Nordic Tournament in Vardø in 2007

Gold Medal: Hiawatha (Norwegian)

Silver medal: IL Tempo Gigante (Norwegian)

Bronze medal: KP 55 (Finnish)

2006
Here is a list of the medal winners in the Nordic Tournament in Vardø in 2006:

Gold: Lapin Peurat (Finnish)

Silver: KP 55 (Finnish)

Bronze: Små Rasmus etterkommere (Norwegian)

2005
Here is a list of the medal winners in the Nordic Tournament in Vardø in 2005:

Gold: Små Rasmus etterkommere (Norwegian)

Silver: Hiawatha (Norwegian)

Bronze: KP 55 (Finnish)

See also
Snowball fight

References

External links
Showa-Shinzan International Yukigassen (Japan)
Yukigassen Nordic Championship (Norway)
Swedish Yukigassen Official Association
Yukigassen Canadian Championship

Japanese games
Ball games
Snow
Articles containing video clips
Monacoa grimaldii

Monacoa grimaldii, also known as the mirrorbelly, barreleye, Grimaldi's barreleye, and flatiron fish, is a species of fish in the family Opisthoproctidae. Different sources express different views on its distribution. According to Poulsen and colleagues, it is known with certainty only from the Atlantic Ocean, with records from the Pacific Ocean representing other Monacoa species. However, FishBase and Catalog of Fishes include the Pacific, and in the case of the latter, the Indian Ocean in its range. It is typically mesopelagic, but it has been recorded from depths of . It has a body length of  SL.

References

Opisthoproctidae
Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
Taxa named by Erich Zugmayer
Fish described in 1911
Harry Hyams

Harry John Hyams (2 January 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British millionaire who initially made his money as a speculative property  developer. He was best known as the developer of the Centre Point office building in London.

Early life
Hyams was born in Hendon, Middlesex. His father was an importer. After private schooling he joined an advertising agency, then joined an estate agency and switched to property development.

Career
Hyams made much of his fortune developing office space in London at a time in the 1960s and 1970s when rents there were rising significantly. He preferred to find single, blue-chip tenants for his properties, having them fully repair and insure the buildings they occupied, as is now common with commercial property in the UK. This approach enabled Hyams to manage a valuable and sizeable property business with a staff of just six. It was also used by him as justification for keeping his 33-storey Centre Point development empty for years after its completion: he claimed he could find no tenant willing to lease all  of space.

Private life
In 1954 he married his wife Kay in Chelsea. She died 1 February 2011, aged 91. On 19 December 2015, Hyams died at the age of 87.

Between the mid-1960s and 2010, Hyams owned the classic  motor yacht Shemara, although he is thought to have made little use of her.

In 1965 Hyams bought Ramsbury Manor, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, and surrounding land for £650,000 – said at the time to be the highest price paid for a private house in England. In 2008, a raid at Ramsbury Manor by the Johnson Gang was described as the biggest ever private burglary in England. In his will, Hyams gave the house and his collections of fine art and cars to the nation via his Capricorn Foundation, in a bequest reported to be worth £450m.

References

1928 births
2015 deaths
British real estate businesspeople
People from Hendon
20th-century English businesspeople
Avi Rubin

Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE, and President and co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators. In 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association for a two-year term.

Rubin is credited with bringing to light vulnerabilities in Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold Election Systems) AccuVote electronic voting machines. In 2006, he published a book on his experiences since this event.

In 2012, drawing on his experience as an expert witness in high-tech litigation, Rubin founded the consultancy Harbor Labs "to provide expertise in legal cases, including testimony, reports, source code review and analysis."

As of 2015, Rubin is Director of the Health and Medical Security Lab at Johns Hopkins.

Rubin is a self-professed "poker fanatic" and has competed against professional players on the Poker Night in America television show.

Education
 1994, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 1991, M.S.E., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 1989, B.S., Computer Science (Honors), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

References

External links 
 
 Avi Rubin's JHU home page
 Avi Rubin's research papers
 

Living people
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Computer security academics
Election technology people
1967 births
Hankiralli

The Hankiralli (aka Snow Rally) is a Finnish motor rally, in the European Championship. In 1981, Finnish driver Ulf Grönholm was killed in practice for this event. His son, Marcus Grönholm, later went on to become the 2000 and 2002 World Champion rally driver. Swedish driver Stig Blomqvist won the event twice, in 1971 and 1977, in a Saab 96 V4.

Rally competitions in Finland
White Magic for Lovers

White Magic for Lovers is the second studio album released by the London-based band Drugstore. It reached the UK albums chart at number 45. The album was noted for the "Song for Pessoa", about the Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, "The Funeral" and the song "El President", a duet between Isabel Monteiro and Radiohead's Thom Yorke, which reached the UK singles chart at number 20.

Track listing
All tracks written by Isabel Monteiro; except "Sober" by Daron Robinson and Monteiro, "Never Come Down" by Robinson, and "Tips for Travelling" by Mike Chylinski.

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

Drugstore
 Daron Robinson – guitar, vocals
 Isabel Monteiro – vocals, bass
 Mike Chylinski – drums
 Ian Burdge – cello

Additional musicians
 Thom Yorke – vocals on "El President"
 The Mariachi Band of Orlando Rincon – "Say Hello"
 Terry Edwards – horns on "Never Come Down"
 Mike Kearsey – horns on "Never Come Down"
 Ollie Kraus – cello on "I Know I Could" and "I Don't Wanna Be Here Without You"
 James Banbury – cello on "Mondo Cane"; keyboards on "Never Come Down" and "The Funeral (But Most of All)"
 Kathleen Chylinski – violin on "Tips for Travelling"

Production
 Clive Martin – producer, recording
 Drugstore – producer
 Paul Reed – house engineer
 Lee Butler – house engineer
 Doug Cook – house engineer
 Adi Winman – house engineer
 Tom Rixton – house engineer
 Lem Lattimer – house engineer
 Ray Lombard – band shots
 Andy Willsher – centrefold
 Isabel Monteiro – artwork, voodoo dolls

Charts

References

External links
'Les Inrockuptibles' Albums of the Year List 1998 – Critics choice top 50 albums – ranked 42 (bottom-page)
'FFWD Magazine' issue June 18 1998 – album review

1998 albums
Drugstore (band) albums
Roadrunner Records albums
Wex

Wex is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopaedia,  intended for broad use by "practically everyone, even law students and lawyers entering new areas of law".

It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute ("LII") at the Cornell Law School.  Much of the material that appears in Wex was originally developed for the LII's "Law about..." pages, to which Wex is the successor.

Wex accepts contributions from qualified experts and takes pains to qualify them. It screens editors before allowing them to contribute.

See also

Comparative law wiki

References

External links 
 

American legal websites
Pseudocerastes

Pseudocerastes is a genus of vipers endemic to the Middle East and Asia. It was originally created as a monotypic genus in 1896 by Boulenger for the species Pseudocerastes persicus, but three species are now recognised: the spider-tailed horned viper (P. urarachnoides); Persian horned viper (P. persicus) and Field's horned viper (P.  fieldi). Like all other vipers, the members of this genus are venomous.

Pseudocerastes are often referred to as false-horned vipers because of the horn-like structures above their eyes that are made up of numerous small scales. This is in contrast to the "true" horned viper, Cerastes cerastes, which has similar supraorbital "horns", each consisting of a single elongated scale.

Taxonomy
In 2006, Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami and Papenfuss described a new species: P. urarachnoides. It is found in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran and is described as having the most elaborate tail ornamentation of any snake yet described, save for the rattlesnakes, Crotalus and Sistrurus.

P. fieldi and P. persicus were once regarded as two subspecies of the same species, but further studies on the snakes'  morphology, molecular structure and toxicology determined that they are in fact separate species.

Species

References

Further reading

Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the ... Viperidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I.- XXV. (Genus Pseudocerastes and species Pseudocerastes persicus, p. 501).
Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A[HA] (1854). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie. Comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. (= General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 7. Second Part. Containing the [Natural ] History of the Venomous Snakes). Paris: Roret. xii + pp. 781–1536. (Cerastes persicus, pp. 1443–1444). (in French).
Joger U (1984). The Venomous Snakes of the Near and Middle East. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. 175 pp.
Latifi M (1991). The Snakes of Iran. Second Edition. Oxford, Ohio: Deptartment of the Environment / Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 156 pp. .
Marx H, Rabb GB (1965). "Relationships and Zoogeography of the Viperine Snakes (Family Viperidae)". Fieldiana Zool. 44 (21): 162-206.
Mendelssohn H (1965). "On the biology of venomous snakes of Israel. Part II". Israeli Journal of Zoology 14: 185-212.
Obst FJ (1983). "Zur Kenntnis der Schlangengattung Vipera. [= On Knowledge of the Snake Genus Vipera]". Zoolische Abhandlungen der staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden 38: 229-235. (in German).

External links
 

Viperinae
Snake genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
The Book of the Dead (novel)

The Book of the Dead is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child published on July 1, 2007, by Warner Books. This is the seventh book in the Special Agent Pendergast series. Also, it is the third and final installment to the trilogy concentrating on Pendergast and his relationship with Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta in their pursuit to stop Pendergast's brother, Diogenes.

Preston and Child call these books the Diogenes trilogy. The three books in the trilogy start with Brimstone in 2004 and continue with Dance of Death in 2005.  This final book was released on May 30, 2006, and has been on the New York Times Best Seller list, reaching as high as #4 on the list.

Synopsis
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...
His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime...
A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown...
An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...

Connections to other works by Preston and Child
Near the beginning of the book, Nora Kelly studies yellow micaceous Anasazi potsherds and begins to plan an expedition to find their source. This references Thunderhead.
Readers will find echoes of Relic and Dance of Death in the premise of another big museum exhibit gone wrong.

Sequel
Though this novel ends the trilogy, Agent Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, appear next in the novel The Wheel of Darkness which picks up very shortly following the events depicted here.

References

External links
Official website
Review on The Thunder Child
This Just In...News from the Agony Column

American thriller novels
2006 American novels
Novels by Douglas Preston
Novels by Lincoln Child
Collaborative novels
Sequel novels
Techno-thriller novels
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (, , lit. "Botanic Garden") is a French and Canadian film, with the background set as in China. It was released in 2006.

Plot
Set in China in the 1980s or 1990s, the film tells the story of Li Ming, a young orphan of the Tangshan earthquake, who leaves to study at the home of a renowned botanist. A secretive man and commanding father, he lives on an island that he has transformed into a luxurious garden. Anxious to share this solitary life, his daughter, An, welcomes with joy the arrival of the female student. Soon their friendship develops into a sensual, but forbidden attraction. Incapable of separating themselves, Ming and An create a dangerous arrangement to be able to continue spending their lives together: Ming marries An's brother, who is a People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier and cannot bring his wife with him. However, An and Ming's relationship is discovered by the botanist who has a heart attack when he finds out. Before he dies, he tells police that it was his daughter and daughter-in-law's homosexuality "disease" that killed him. Thus, An and Ming are sentenced to death by a court and executed.

Casting
 Mylène Jampanoï — Li Ming
 Li Xiaoran — An
 Dongfu Lin — Botanist

Controversies
Due to the sensitivity of the topic of homosexuality, this movie was not allowed to be shot in China. It was shot in northern Vietnam instead (mainly in Ba Vì and Hà Tây) to create a similar environment.

Awards and nominations
Montréal World Film Festival:
Best Artistic Contribution (Guy Dufaux, won)
People's Choice Award (Sijie Dai, won)
Grand Prix des Amériques (Sijie Dai, nominated)

Inside Out Film and Video Festival:
Best Canadian Film or Video (Sijie Dai, won)

References

External links
Official site in French
Release information

 Les Filles du Botaniste at ELMS
 
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters Interview with Dai Sijie in Tokyo Wrestling

2006 films
2006 romantic comedy-drama films
Canadian romantic comedy-drama films
French romantic comedy-drama films
Lesbian-related films
Canadian LGBT-related films
French LGBT-related films
2000s Mandarin-language films
Films set in China
Films directed by Dai Sijie
2006 LGBT-related films
LGBT-related comedy films
LGBT-related drama films
Films shot in Vietnam
2006 comedy films
2006 drama films
LGBT-related controversies in film
Film controversies in China
2000s Canadian films
2000s French films
Debt management plan

Debt management plan (DMP) is an agreement between a debtor and a creditor that addresses the terms of an outstanding debt. This commonly refers to a personal finance process of individuals addressing high consumer debt. Debt management plans help reduce outstanding, unsecured debts over time to help the debtor regain control of finances. The process can secure a lower overall interest rate, longer repayment terms, or an overall reduction in the debt itself.

Overview

DMPs for consumers are often negotiated by a credit counseling agency on behalf of the debtor.  Credit counseling agencies often address the debt by working with the debtor to set a budget based on their regular income and expenditures that will then include one regular bill payment that is allocated across the creditor(s). Agencies will negotiate on behalf of the debtor to lower payments and interest rates with creditors. Some of the agencies are non-profits that charge no or non-fee rates, while others can be for-profit and include high fees. The effect on the debtor's overall credit score will vary. In the United Kingdom, as well as DMPs, residents can also apply for an Individual voluntary arrangement (IVAs), which can give the debtor a discount on their debt.

Regulations

United States

In the United States, credit counseling agencies are loosely regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, which can sue companies that have deceived consumers about the cost, nature, or benefits of their services. Different states may regulate DMPs individually and attorneys general are empowered to protect state citizens from fraud.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority is responsible for the regulation of consumer credit and has established a Debt Management Plan Protocol. It can impose fines for improper conduct.

European Union

Elsewhere in the European Union, regulation and non-regulation of credit counseling agencies and their approaches, including DMPs, are widely varied. In Sweden, guidelines for credit counseling are loosely provided by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO) and creditors are encouraged to use them in lieu of the court system. In Ireland, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) provides debt resolution information directly to debtors. In Latvia, a debt advisory company called LAKRA works with employers to assist indebted employees.

See also
 Debt consolidation
 Debt counseling
 Debtors Anonymous
 Debt-snowball method
 Bankruptcy

References

Management plant
Personal finance
Quebec Route 173

Route 173 (Route-du-Président-Kennedy) is a major north/south highway on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, named after the assassinated American president, John F. Kennedy. Its southern terminus is at the Armstrong-Jackman Border Crossing in  Saint-Théophile in the hamlet of Armstrong, at the border with Maine (U.S. Route 201 / Maine SR 6), and its northern terminus is in Lévis at the junction of Route 132. Route 173 follows the Chaudière River for most of its course, from Saint-Georges, down to Scott, where the route takes a more northeastern route towards Lévis, crossing the Etchemin River in the municipality of Saint-Henri-de-Lévis.

Municipalities along Route 173
 Saint-Côme-Linière
 Saint-Georges
 Notre-Dame-des-Pins
 Beauceville
 Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce
 Vallée-Jonction
 Sainte-Marie
 Scott
 Saint-Isidore
 Saint-Henri
 Lévis

Major intersections

See also
List of Quebec provincial highways
List of buildings and monuments honoring presidents of the United States in other countries

References

External links 
 Provincial Route Map (Courtesy of the Quebec Ministry of Transportation) 
 Route 173 on Google Maps

173
Ashington (disambiguation)

Ashington is a town in Northumberland, England.

Ashington may also refer to:

a place in the United Kingdom:
 Ashington, Dorset
 Ashington, Somerset
 Ashington, West Sussex
 Ashington End, a village in Lincolnshire
 Ashingdon, a village in Essex with a similar pronunciation.
Bjarni Thorarensen

Bjarni Vigfússon Thorarensen (December 30, 1786 – August 24, 1841) was an Icelandic poet and official. He was deputy governor of northern and eastern Iceland. As a poet he was influenced by classicism and romanticism. Politically he was aligned with the Fjölnismenn and favored the reestablishment of the Althing at Þingvellir. He was a friend of Jónas Hallgrímsson whose own poetry was influenced by Bjarni's work.

Bjarni's best known work is Íslands minni, also known as Eldgamla Ísafold.

See also 

 List of Icelandic writers
 Icelandic literature

References
Jónas Hallgrímsson: Bjarni Thorarensen Information on Jónas Hallgrímsson's elegy on Bjarni
Bjarni Vigfússon Thórarensen Britannica article
Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

External links
Ljóð eftir Bjarna Thorarensen  Several of Bjarni's poems

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Bjarni Thorarensen
Bjarni Thorarensen
1786 births
1841 deaths
Bjarni Thorarensen
Bjarni Thorarensen
Donny MacLeod

Donald B. MacLeod (1 July 1932 – 6 September 1984), popularly known as Donny MacLeod and Donny Bee, was a Scottish TV presenter . MacLeod is best known for appearing on the BBC 1 afternoon show Pebble Mill at One.

Early life and career
MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he studied in Glasgow and then at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, before returning to teach art at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.

He stood for election to the UK Parliament at the 1959 United Kingdom general election for his home constituency of The Western Isles as a Liberal Party candidate, in a campaign described as "one of the most charismatic in Island memory". The local Conservative Party did not contest the election and were happy to recommend him to their supporters. However, he was defeated by the Labour candidate.
At the 1964 United Kingdom general election he again contested The Western Isles for the Liberal Party, but this time, the Conservatives decided to run their own candidate. He finished second, again behind the Labour candidate.

After occasional print journalism pieces MacLeod joined Grampian Television in Aberdeen as a reporter, before moving to the BBC and in 1970 joining the presenting team of its early evening magazine programme Nationwide, where features he fronted included a dieting item, Slim '72.  As a result of their success on the programme, he and another Nationwide reporter Bob Langley transferred to Birmingham in 1972 to launch a new lunchtime features programme Pebble Mill at One, which became an immediate success.  MacLeod remained a key presenter on the show (as well as a weekend evening show called "Saturday Night at the Mill") from its beginning in 1972 until his death.

MacLeod was also known for his role as the presenter of the 1982 and 1983 World's Strongest Man competitions as well as several acclaimed travel documentaries including "MacLeod's America", "MacLeod's Russia" (where MacLeod and his crew were given previously-unknown access behind the Iron Curtain), "MacLeod's Japan", and "Macleod's Singapore".

Death
MacLeod died from a heart attack in 1984, aged 52, after a short struggle with bowel cancer.

Personal life

Macleod's oldest son is Channel 4 continuity announcer David MacLeod. His second son Iain is executive director of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in New Hampshire, United States and is a noted expert on birds. His third son Kevin was a star of the popular Scottish theatre group The Singing Kettle. He is now co-director, writer and performer with Funbox.  His daughter Catherine is a business owner in Aberdeenshire.

References

External links
 
 Donny Macleod at the British Film Institute

1932 births
1984 deaths
Scottish television presenters
BBC television presenters
People from Stornoway
Scottish Liberal Party parliamentary candidates
Alumni of Gray's School of Art
2730 Barks

2730 Barks, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 August 1981, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station, Arizona, United States. The asteroid was named after comic-book illustrator Carl Barks.

Orbit and classification 

Barks orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.4–3.1 AU once every 4 years and 6 months (1,640 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic.

It was first identified as  at Johannesburg Observatory in 1935. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in 1954, or 27 years prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.

Physical characteristics 

In the SMASS taxonomy, Barks is characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid.

Rotation period 

In August 2012, a rotational lightcurve of Barks was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the  Oakley Southern Sky Observatory () in Australia. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 6.084 hours with a brightness variation of 0.26 magnitude (). This concurs with observations taken at the Palomar Transient Factory in January 2011, which gave a period of 6.087 hours and an amplitude of 0.28 magnitude ().

Diameter and albedo 

According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Barks measures between 9.87 and 15.830 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.162 and 0.415.

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 24.30 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.8.

Naming 

This minor planet was named for American cartoonist Carl Barks (1901–2000), best known for the fictional character Scrooge McDuck he created while working at Walt Disney in the late 1940s. In many of his stories, he described space  exploration and adventure. Barks was one of the first to use the term "rubble pile asteroid".

Peter Thomas, an assistant of Cornell University, proposed the idea of naming an asteroid after Barks. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 (). A week later, Thomas informed Barks by mail about his initiative.

References

External links 
 Helnwein Talks with Carl Barks, 11 July 1992
 Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
 Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
 Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
 
 

002730
Discoveries by Edward L. G. Bowell
Named minor planets
002730
19810830
Southern Hockey League

Southern Hockey League can refer to two different professional ice hockey leagues:

Southern Hockey League (1973–1977)
Southern Hockey League (1995–96)

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Innovation Place Research Park

Innovation Place is the registered business name of the Saskatchewan Opportunities Corporation (SOCO), a crown corporation in Saskatchewan. SOCO operates two research parks: one located near the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the second near the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2018, approximately 140 companies were based at Innovation Place. Research parks such as Innovation Place are sometimes referred to as science parks or technology parks.

Saskatoon
The Saskatoon park was established in 1980.

Innovation Place in Saskatoon consists of the following buildings:
 The Atrium
 Bio Processing Centre
 Canadian Space Agency building's large ground station
 The Concourse
 Dr. Burton Craig Building
 411 Downey Road
 Galleria Building
 L.F. Kristjanson Biotechnology Complex  (410 Downey Road)
 Maintenance/Energy Centre 
 National Hydrology Research Centre - Hydrology research and environmental monitoring facility run by Environment Canada
 108 Research Drive 
 110 Research Drive 
 112 Research Drive 
 121 Research Drive
 SaskTel Remote Switching Station 
 SED Systems

Regina

The  site is located near the University of Regina and was established in 2000.  This research park emphasizes collaborative university and industry research in the areas of information technology, petroleum, and environmental science.  Currently, over 850 people work for the various tenants of the research park.

 ISM Building  (1 Research Drive) is a two-storey building built in 1990 with .  The building houses ISM Information Systems Management Canada Corporation (subsidiary of  IBM Canada).
 IT Building (2 Research Drive) was built in 1995 with .  The building houses McNair Business Development Inc, TRLabs, SpringBoard West Innovations Inc., GB Internet Solutions, SRnet and the University of Regina. 
 Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) (6 Research Drive) is a three-storey building built in 2000 with .  This houses the Saskatchewan Research Council, University of Regina. PTRC offices.
 Titanium Pilot Plant houses a pilot plant of Titanium Corporation Inc.
 The Terrace (10 Research Drive) opened in 2001 with  and houses various tenants.
 Greenhouse Gas Technology Centre is near Innovation Place and operated by the University of Regina.  This  building houses the International Centre for CO2 Capture and includes a pilot plant.
Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory (5 Research Drive) opened in 2010.

Prince Albert
The Forest Centre in Prince Albert opened on September 27, 2005 and was originally managed by Innovation Place. On March 15, the University of Saskatchewan purchased the property to bring together the university's educational programming taking place across Prince Albert.

References

External links

 
 Saskatchewan Opportunities Corporation

 

Science parks in Canada
University of Saskatchewan
University of Regina
Buildings and structures in Regina, Saskatchewan
Buildings and structures in Saskatoon
Companies based in Saskatoon
Buildings and structures in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
The Mercenary

The Mercenary may refer to:

 The Mercenary (film), a 1968 film directed by Sergio Corbucci
 The Mercenary, a 2019 American film starring Dominique Vandenberg
 A novel by Jerry Pournelle, included in The Prince omnibus
 Luc Poirier, a professional wrestler who wrestled as The Mercenary
 Ron Fuller (wrestler), a professional wrestler who wrestled as The Mercenary
 El Mercenario, also known as The Mercenary, a Spanish comic series

See also 
Mercenary (disambiguation)
Ben Aigan

Ben Aigan is a hill in Moray rising to a height of 471m (1546 feet) to the east of the River Spey, which flows along the foot of its western and northern slopes. It lies to the east of Rothes and north east of Craigellachie. The Speyside Way passes over the shoulder of the hill.

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Mountains and hills of Moray
Mountains and hills of the Eastern Highlands
Marilyns of Scotland
Ernest S. Brown

Ernest S. Brown (September 25, 1903July 23, 1965) served briefly as a United States senator from Nevada in 1954.

Ernest Brown, born in Alturas, California, moved with his family to Reno, Nevada, in 1906, where he later attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1926.  Brown gained admission to the bar in 1927 and then commenced a legal practice in Reno. He served in the Nevada State Assembly in 1933.  From 1935 to 1941, Brown worked as district attorney of Washoe County.  He resigned from office in 1941 to enter active service in the United States Army as a second lieutenant. He gained a commission as a colonel, and the Army discharged him in 1945.  Brown returned to his Reno home to resume the practice of law.

On October 1, 1954, Nevada Governor Charles H. Russell appointed Ernest Brown to the U.S. Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of veteran Senator Pat McCarran. Democrat Alan Bible defeated him in a special election to keep his Senate seat in November 1954.  Bible assumed the seat on December 1, 1954, and Brown once again resumed the practice of law.

Brown died in Reno in 1965, and was interred in the Masonic section of Mountain View Cemetery.

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1903 births
1965 deaths
20th-century American politicians
District attorneys in Nevada
Republican Party members of the Nevada Assembly
Military personnel from Nevada
Nevada lawyers
People from Alturas, California
Politicians from Reno, Nevada
Republican Party United States senators from Nevada
United States Army colonels
University of Nevada, Reno alumni
20th-century American lawyers
Military personnel from California
Fraidy Cat

Fraidy Cat may refer to:
 Fraidy Cat (film), a 1942 cartoon featuring Tom and Jerry
 "Fraidy Cat" (Garfield and Friends), a season 1 episode of Garfield and Friends
 "Fraidy Cat", a season 4 episode of The Garfield Show
 Fraidy Cat (TV series), a cartoon series from 1975
 Fraidy Cat (2008 film), an animated horror short film

See also
 Scaredy Cat, a 1948 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones featuring Porky Pig
Pete Kendall

Peter Marcus Kendall (born July 9, 1973) is a former American football guard.

High school and college 
Kendall played High school football at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Massachusetts. He decided to stay in Massachusetts and play college football at Boston College where he was named all-Big East Conference as a junior and senior.

Professional career
He was drafted in the 1996 NFL Draft in the first round by the Seattle Seahawks with the 21st overall pick. He would later play for the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets.

In 2007, Kendall became embroiled in a contract dispute with the Jets' front office.  Kendall believed the team had reneged on a verbal agreement to raise his base salary for 2007 after he had agreed to restructure his contract the year before.  Kendall made his grievances public despite head coach Eric Mangini's instructions not to do so.  As a result, Mangini sent Kendall to the rookie dorms and demoted him to second string, further aggravating the situation.  On August 23, 2007 Kendall was traded to the Washington Redskins for a conditional draft pick (either a fifth round pick in 2008 or a fourth round pick in 2009, based on playing time). He became a free agent after the 2008 season.

Retirement
In an interview for the New York Jets Kendall stated between the ages of 36 and 37 he began a new career in financial services, accepting a job at a firm working in equity research sales.

Kendall was inducted into Boston College's Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 2010.

External links
Boston College Eagles Bio

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1973 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
New York Jets players
Seattle Seahawks players
Arizona Cardinals players
Washington Redskins players
Boston College Eagles football players
Sportspeople from Quincy, Massachusetts
Players of American football from Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Archbishop Williams High School alumni
Michael Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings

Michael de Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, Knt. (c.1318 – 7 March 1369), of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, was an English nobleman and soldier. He was present at the Battle of Crécy.

Michael de Poynings was summoned to Parliament by writs direct to Michaeli de Ponynges from 20 November 1348 to 24 February 1368. On account of the valiant conduct of his father, Thomas, who died in 1339 in battle at the storming of Hunycourt in Vermandois, France, the King received Michael's homage, though the latter was under age, and granted him livery of his lands and the full benefit of his marriage, taking security for the payment of the relief.

Rayment stated that Thomas de Poynings was summoned to Parliament on 23 April 1337, which would indicate that he was the first baron, but Cokayne held a contrary position, which is that Thomas was summoned to 'a council of prelates and magnates'. The leadership of Thomas at the storming of Hunycourt and Michael's direct feudal obligations to the king are evidence of a prior feudal barony. So some historians number the first barony from Thomas, while most consider Michael to be the first baron.

Michael de Poynings gave a thousand marks to Queen Philippa of Hainault in 1366 for the wardship and marriage of William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, son and heir of John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf and his wife Elizabeth Damory. William married Michael's daughter Agnes, who by the name of "Agnes Bardolf" is mentioned as a legatee in the will of her mother, Joane Lady Poynings, dated 12 May 1369, and by that of "Lady Bardolf my sister" in the will of Thomas Lord Poynings, dated 28 October 1374.

Marriage and issue
Poynings married, before 1348, Joan Ruxley (d. 11 May 1369), widow of John de Moleyns, son and heir apparent of John, Baron Moleyns, and daughter of Sir Richard Rokesley. They were buried together in the parish church at Poynings, Sussex. He was succeeded by his son Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Baron Poynings (d. before 25 June 1375), who married before 5 June 1372 as her third husband, Blanche Mowbray (d. 21 July 1409) daughter of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray and his second wife Joan of Lancaster. He also had at least one daughter, Agnes, who married first;y William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, by whom she had several children, and secondly Sir Thomas Mortimer. She died in 1403.

Notes

References

 
 Burke, John, and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England Scotland and Wales, with their Descendants etc., London, 1848, volume 2, pedigrees XIV and XVI where Lord Poynings is erroneously given the Christian name of Thomas;and pedigree CXVII for the marriage of his daughter Agnes.
 Burke, Sir Bernard, Ulster King of Arms, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p. 444.
 Copinger, W. A. The Manors of Suffolk, London, 1905, p. 49.

 Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p. 56.

1310s births
1369 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of England
Peers created by Edward III
Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus

Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus is a species of armored catfish endemic to Brazil where it occurs in the Tocantins River basin. It grows to a length of  SL.

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Hypostominae
Fish of South America
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Fish described in 1991
Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) is the largest trade union in Guyana. It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union. After failing in the 1950s it was reformed as the Guyana Sugar Workers' Union in 1961 but changed its name to Guyana Agricultural Workers' Union in 1962 before becoming the GAWU later that decade.
Some functions, in a nutshell, would be first to represent workers' interests with a view to ensuring their rights and benefits are respected; secondly, to engage the employer in collective bargaining to improve wages, benefits and conditions of work; and thirdly, to engage government towards the improvement of the rights of workers generally.

The GAWU is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.

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Trade unions in Guyana
World Federation of Trade Unions
Agriculture and forestry trade unions
1946 establishments in British Guiana
Trade unions established in 1946
Agricultural organizations based in the Caribbean
William A. Marra

William A. Marra (February 20, 1928 – December 12, 1998) was a third-party Right to Life Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 presidential election; his running mate was Joan Andrews.  They received 20,504 votes.  Marra had also been a candidate in the Republican and  Democratic parties' United States presidential primary in New Hampshire.  In the former he received six write-in votes and in the latter received 142 votes.

Biography
William A. Marra was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 20, 1928 of Italian immigrant parents. He grew up in Jersey City, but attended the Jesuit Regis High School in New York City.

He was a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Engineering and Fordham University, serving as a professor of philosophy at the latter for nearly four decades.  Marra was an active lecturer, opposing topics such as abortion, atheism and sex education.

For 17 years, Marra hosted a radio program called "Where Catholics Meet" on 710 WOR-AM in New York City. On the show, he addressed issues facing orthodox Catholics in the post-Vatican II world. He often had guests. In the early 1990s, Marra hosted a TV program on the EWTN Global Catholic Network called "The Roman Forum." This program ran for two seasons and addressed many of the same issues as "Where Catholics Meet", but involved fewer guest hosts.

Marra founded Catholic Media Apostolate, an organization dedicated to the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith through the media. He was also heavily involved in Keep the Faith, an organization similar to CMA.

In 2003 his daughter Lorretta Marra Malvasi was convicted of assisting James Charles Kopp subsequent to Kopp's killing of Barnett Slepian, a physician who legally performed abortions in New York State.

Bibliography
 von Hildebrand, Dietrich (1973). Satan at Work: in Biblical exegesis...in Catechetics & Religious Education...in Desacralized Worship...in Ostpolitik (foreword)
 Marra, William A. (1979) Happiness and Christian Hope: A Phenomenological Analysis 
 Marra, William A. (with Dietrich von Hildebrand). Sex Education: The Basic Issues
 Marra, William A. “Von Hildebrand on Love, Happiness, and Sex.” In The Catholic Writer: The Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute 2 (Ignatius Press, 1989): 119-127.

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1928 births
1998 deaths
Roman Catholic activists
Candidates in the 1988 United States presidential election
20th-century American politicians
University of Detroit Mercy alumni
Fordham University alumni
Paz Alicia Garciadiego

Paz Alicia Garciadiego (Born September, 1949 México D.F.) is a Mexican screenwriter and scholar, known for The Beginning and the End (Principio y fin) (1993), Deep Crimson (Profundo carmesí)) (1996), and Bleak Street (2015). She and her husband Arturo Ripstein have worked together on film and television since 1986 with their first collaboration The Realm of Fortune (El imperio de la fortuna) (1986), winning multiple Ariel Awards in different categories. In 2013 Garcíadiego received the Salvador Toscano prize, awarded by the Cineteca Nacional, the Fundación Carmen Toscano and the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences.

Early life 
Garciadiego was born in Mexico City in a middle-class family. She grew up in Colonia Juárez, Mexico City and from an early age enjoyed hearing and reading stories with her grandmother. She graduated from a Catholic School in 1968 and after having her first child she studied philosophy, literature and Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Career 
Garciadiego began working as a writer at Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico) adapting literary classics and episodes of Mexican history into comic books, then she worked writing educational content for children at Unidad de Televisión Educativa y Cultural (UTEC). There, she met director Arturo Ripstein and they made the adaptation of The Golden Cockerel by Juan Rulfo, what would be their first collaboration El imperio de la fortuna (1986)

Works

Films 
Devil Between the Legs (2019)
Bleak Street (2015)
The Reasons of the Heart (2011)
El carnaval de Sodoma (2006)
La virgen de la lujuria (2002)
La perdición de los hombres (2000) 
Así es la vida (2000) (based on Medea)
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) (based in the novel with the same name by Gabriel García Márquez)
El evangelio de las maravillas (1998) 
Noche de paz (1998) 
Deep Crimson (Profundo carmesí)) (1996) 
The Queen of the Night (La reina de la noche) (1994) 
Principio y fin (1993) 
La mujer del puerto (1991) 
Ciudad de ciegos (1991) 
Love Lies (Mentiras piadosas)) (1987) 
The Realm of Fortune (El imperio de la fortuna) (1986)

Television 
 La Hora Marcada (1989) (episode "Noche de Paz")

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Mexican screenwriters
1949 births
Writers from Mexico City
Living people
Naturalised citizens of Spain