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Nigatake Station

is a railway station in Miyagino-ku in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Nigatake Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 4.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at .

Station layout
The station has two elevated opposed side platforms with the station building located underneath the platforms.

Platforms

History
Nigatake Station opened on May 15, 1928 as  on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The station renamed to its present name on February 8, 1943. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 2,969 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 Sendai Nigatake Police Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Sendai
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Null move

In game theory, a null move or pass is a decision by a player to not make a move when it is that player's turn to move. Even though null moves are against the rules of many games, they are often useful to consider when analyzing these games. Examples of this include the analysis of zugzwang (a situation in chess or other games in which a null move, if it were allowed, would be better than any other move), and the null-move heuristic in game tree analysis (a method of pruning game trees involving making a null move and then searching to a lower depth).

The reason a reduced-depth null move is effective in game tree alpha-beta search reduction is that tactical threats tend to show up very quickly, in just one or two moves.  If the opponent has no tactical threats revealed by null move search, the position may be good enough to exceed the best result obtainable in another branch of the tree (i.e. "beta"), so that no further search need be done from the current node, and the result from the null move can be returned as the search value.  Even if the null move search value doesn't exceed beta, the returned value may set a higher floor on the valuation of the position than the present alpha, so more cutoffs will occur at descendant sibling nodes from the position.

The underlying assumption is that at least some legal move available to the player on move at the node is better than no move at all.  In the case of the player on move being in zugzwang, that assumption is false, and the null move result is invalid (in that case, it actually sets a ceiling on the value of the position).  Therefore it is necessary to have logic to exclude null moves at nodes in the tree where zugzwang is possible.  In chess, zugzwang positions can occur in king and pawn endgames, and sometimes in end games that include other pieces as well.

References

Game theory
SBSI

SBSI may refer to:

SBS independent, film and television production company, linked to Special Broadcasting Service public broadcasting network, Australia
Confederation of Indonesia Prosperous Trade Union (Serikat Buruh Sejahtera Indonesia), a trade union federation from Indonesia
SBSI – Surface Based Body Shape Index. A new method to replace Body mass index.
Socorro Bayanihan Services, Inc., a civic organization in Socorro, Surigao del Norte, Philippines
Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival

The Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival is held annually in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The festival was founded as a nonprofit organization by Guthrie resident Byron Berline and Oklahoma state representative Joe Hutchinson in 1996. Each year the festival supports music education through music scholarships and other educational opportunities. The three-day festival draws over 15,000 participants.

References

External links
Official web site
Don Shorock's O.I.B.F. Photo Album - covers each year of the festival beginning in 1997
 Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - International Bluegrass Festival

Bluegrass festivals
Music festivals in Oklahoma
Folk festivals in the United States
Tourist attractions in Logan County, Oklahoma
Music festivals established in 1996
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Monascus

Monascus is a genus of mold.  Among the known species of this genus, the red-pigmented Monascus purpureus is among the most important because of its use in the production of certain fermented foods in East Asia, particularly China and Japan.

Species
 Monascus albidulus 
 Monascus argentinensis 
 Monascus aurantiacus 
 Monascus barkeri 
 Monascus eremophilus 
 Monascus flavipigmentosus 
 Monascus floridanus 
 Monascus fumeus 
 Monascus lunisporas 
 Monascus mellicola 
 Monascus mucoroides 
 Monascus olei 
 Monascus pallens 
 Monascus paxii 
 Monascus pilosus 
 Monascus purpureus 
 Monascus recifensis 
 Monascus ruber 
 Monascus rutilus 
 Monascus sanguineus 
 Monascus vini

Phylogeny
Phylogeny as given by Bisby et al., 2000, who put the genus into a separate family Monascaceae.

Monascus pigments and biosynthesis
Monascus purpureus derives its signature red color from mosascus pigment that is composed of azaphilones or secondary fungal metabolites. There are six primary compounds all with similar biosynthetic pathways, two yellow pigments, ankaflavin and monascin, two orange pigments monascorubin and rubropunctain, and two red pigments monascorubinamine and rubropunctaimine. All six are produced with a combination of polyketide synthase (PKS) and fatty acid synthase (FAS) In the first step a hexekatide is formed through Type 1 PKS encoded by the Mripig A gene. PKS uses the domains acyl transferase, acetyl-CoA, ketoacyl synthase, acyl transferase, acyl carrier protein and the base units of acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA to produce a ketone chain that undergoes Knoevenagel aldol condensations. The second step is the formation of a fatty acid through the FAS pathway. The β-keto acid then undergoes a trans-esterification reaction to form one of the two orange pigments. At this point the compound can either undergo reduction to form one of the yellow pigments or amination to form one of the red pigments.

References

Aspergillaceae
Eurotiomycetes genera
Taxa described in 1884
Paint Rock Bluff

Paint Rock Bluff was once a major navigational landmark for riverboaters on the Upper Mississippi River. It is located in Allamakee County, Iowa. It is noted for Native-American petroglyphs and paintings; these have been badly damaged by the elements and by vandalism. As a hydronym, it gives its name to Paint Creek.

The nearest town is Waukon Junction, Iowa.

External links
River Roads site
Iowa State Park site
National Park Service site

Landforms of Allamakee County, Iowa
Mississippi River
Landforms of Iowa
Cliffs of the United States
SZL

SZL may refer to:

 The Silesian language (ISO 639-3 code)
 Swazi lilangeni (ISO 4217 currency code)
 Swaziland Airlink (ICAO airline code)
 Whiteman Air Force Base (IATA airport code)
Lakes of New Zealand

There are 3,820 lakes in New Zealand that have a surface area larger than one hectare. Many of the lakes in the central North Island are volcanic crater lakes. The majority of the lakes near the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana were carved by glaciers. Artificial lakes created as hydroelectric reservoirs are common in South Canterbury, Central Otago and along the Waikato River.

Statistics

Largest lake: Lake Taupō – 
Deepest lake: Lake Hauroko – 462 m

There are:
41 lakes with a surface area larger than 10 km2 (1000 ha)
229 lakes greater than 0.5 km2 (50 ha)
3820 lakes greater than 0.01 km2 (1 ha)

Pollution
A trophic level index is used as a measure of the pollution levels of lakes in New Zealand.

Based on the monitoring of 134 lakes it is estimated that one third of New Zealand lakes have high nutrient levels or have poor water quality.

See also

Rivers of New Zealand
Water in New Zealand
List of dams and reservoirs in New Zealand
Environment of New Zealand

References

Further reading

External links
Lake Ecosystem Restoration New Zealand
Sectors of Bucharest

The Municipality of Bucharest (the capital of Romania) is divided into 6 administrative units, named sectors (sectoare in Romanian), each of which has their own mayor and council, and has responsibility over local affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and the cleaning services.

Each of the 6 sectors contains a number of informal districts (cartiere) which have no administrative function:

 Sector 1: Dorobanți, Băneasa, Aviației, Pipera, , Primăverii, Romană, Victoriei, Herăstrău, Bucureștii Noi, Dămăroaia, Străulești, Chitila, Grivița, , , , and a small part of Giulești – the part with Giulești Stadium
 Sector 2: Pantelimon, Colentina, Iancului, Tei, Floreasca, Moșilor, Obor, , Fundeni, 
 Sector 3: Vitan, Dudești, Titan, Centrul Civic, Balta Albă, Dristor, Lipscani, , 
 Sector 4: Berceni, Olteniței, Văcărești, , Tineretului, Progresul
 Sector 5: Rahova, Ferentari, Giurgiului, Cotroceni, 13 Septembrie, Dealul Spirii, Odăi
 Sector 6: Giulești, Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Militari, Regie (also known as Grozăvești), Ghencea

History

Initially, Bucharest was divided into plăși. In 1798, there were five of these: Târgul, Podul Mogoșoaiei, Târgul de afară, Broștenii and Gorganul. During the Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812), these were given the names of colors (Roșu - Red; Galben - Yellow; Negru - Black; Albastru - Blue and Verde - Green) and called culori ("colors"). Roșu, the smallest, composed of the commercial center and a narrow strip on the right bank of the Dâmbovița River, was disbanded at the beginning of the 20th century, its territory divided among the other four. After World War I, each of the four culori, also called sectoare by this time, was given its own mayor and council. At the beginning of Ion Antonescu's regime, the culori were briefly abolished but restored several months later.

In 1950, soon after the onset of the Communist regime, the culori were abolished and replaced by eight raions, each with its own local administration:
I.V. Stalin (later 30 Decembrie)
1 Mai
23 August
Tudor Vladimirescu
Nicolae Bălcescu
V.I. Lenin
Gh. Gheorghiu Dej (later 16 Februarie)
Grivița Roșie
In 1968, the raions became sectors, their names replaced by cardinal numbers. In 1979, Sector 8 was merged into Sector 1 and Sector 2 into Sector 3, yielding the present six sectors.

List of sectors by area

List of sectors by population

List of sectors by population density

Notes

References

 Statistics and Demographics relating to Bucharest Sectors

 
Bucharest
Vasily Narezhny

Vasily Trofimovich Narezhny (; 1780, Ustivitsa, Mirgorodsky Uyezd, Russian Empire — , St. Petersburg) was a Russian Imperial writer best known for his satirical depiction of provincial mores in the vein of the 18th-century picaresque novel.

Narezhny came from a poor Ukrainian szlachta family. He studied at Moscow Imperial University from 1799 to 1801, afterwards serving in the civil service in the Caucasus and in Saint Petersburg. During his time at Moscow Imperial University he wrote several tragedies in the Sturm und Drang style. His work Dmitry the Pretender () was published in 1804. His collection of stories Slavonic Nights (1809), set in Kievan Rus, was well received.

Perhaps his most famous novel is A Russian Gil Blas () (1814), an avowed imitation of Lesage's work. The earthy, humorous realism of this novel established him as the chief predecessor of Gogol in Russian literature. Narezhny's rough, vernacular Russian contrasted sharply with the sensitivity and musicality of the Karamzin school's Gallicized language. His last work, The Divinity Student () (1824), is a romance about the adventures of a hetman's son; George Grabowicz considered it "probably his best work."

D. S. Mirsky wrote:Narézhny had a grip on real life, which places him above all the "prehistorical" Russian novelists. But he was too little of an artist, and his books, owing to their heavy style and their diffuseness, are difficult reading. He was in fact little read, and his influence on the development of the Russian novel is almost negligible.
However, his lack of influence also had to do with the immediate suppression of A Russian Gil Blas by the censor; the first three parts were confiscated soon after they appeared and the remaining three were prohibited (the entire work was first published in 1938). Nicholas Crowe takes a more favorable view than Mirsky, calling Narezhnyi "the inheritor and fine-tuner of that solid 18th-century novel-writing tradition in Russia that established prose as a workable and valid medium":An accomplished writer of novels and short stories alike, he represented the high point of the 18th-century fictional legacy rather than the modes of the rapidly evolving literary environment of the early 19th century in which he happened to find himself working. For imaginative sweep, wit, satirical acuity, and consummate gifts in the art of story-telling one could, during that period, do worse than turn to Narezhnyi...

References

Novelists from the Russian Empire
Male writers from the Russian Empire
Male novelists
1780 births
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
1825 deaths
Hipparchus (cavalry officer)

Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (), was the title of an ancient Greek cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit of about 500 horsemen); two such units were commanded by an epihipparchos.

Ancient Greek military terminology
Military ranks of ancient Greece
Military ranks of ancient Macedon
Cavalry
Geba Station

is a railway station in the city of Tagajō, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Geba Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 14.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station.

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History
Geba Station opened on August 1, 1932 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in November 2013.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 3,762 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Geba Post Office

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1932
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Tagajō, Miyagi
Huapai

Huapai is a locality north-west of Auckland, New Zealand. State Highway 16 and the North Auckland Railway Line pass through it. Kumeū is adjacent to the east, Riverhead is to the north-east, and Waimauku to the west.

History 
The area was historically important to Tāmaki Māori, as it formed a section of Te Tōangaroa, the portage linking the Kaipara Harbour with the Waitematā Harbour via the Kumeū River. The area is a part of the traditional rohe of Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and Te Kawerau ā Maki, and was traditionally known as Tūrakiawatea.

During early European settlement, the area was an important transport corridor between the Kaipara Harbour and Waitematā Harbour. In 1875, the Kumeu–Riverhead Section of railway was opened. In July 1881, the North Auckland Line linking Auckland to Helensville opened, causing significant growth in the Kumeū area. Huapai grew as a community from 1915 onwards, when it was promoted as an area well suited for fruit growing. The name Huapai was coined during the 1910s, and means "good fruit" in Māori.

The locality is part of the Kumeū wine growing district, with grapes first planted at Huapai by Nikola Nobilo in 1943.

Governance 
Huapai is part of the Local Government Rodney Ward of Auckland Council and is part of the Kumeū Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board.

Huapai is in the Helensville Electorate however proposed Boundary changes in late 2019 could change this. The Local MP's electorate office is based in Huapai.

Huapai School
Huapai District School is a coeducational full primary school (years 1–8), with a decile rating of 9 and a roll of 436 in 2013. Huapai School currently hosts 22 classrooms and has a roll of  students as of  The school has one large and one medium-sized field, with association football and rugby goals respectively, and two playgrounds, with another soon-to-be built adventure playground worth over NZ$50,000. There is a sealed bike track covering the whole school, as well as a BMX track for students. The school also has a tennis / hockey court, swimming pool, flag court, dedicated music suite, professional audio system, and a soon-to-be built completely new administration block including a large library.

References

External links
Huapai District School

Rodney Local Board Area
Populated places in the Auckland Region
West Auckland, New Zealand
Tagajō Station

is a railway station in the city of Tagajō, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Tagajō Station is served by the Senseki Line, and is located 12.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .

Station layout
The station has one elevated side platform and one elevated island platform with the station building underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Tagajō Station opened on June 5, 1925, as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in November 2013.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 7,201 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Tagajō City Hall
Ruins of Tagajō Temple
Tagajō Post Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1925
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Tagajō, Miyagi
Deildegast

In Norwegian folklore, a deildegast is a type of ghost connected with the sanctity of  boundary stones, and what happened to those who dared to move them. The deildegast-tradition was most prevalent in the southern parts of Norway and is also connected to the gjenganger phenomenon. A deildegast, it was said, does not receive peace in the afterlife as a result of enlarging his own territory while alive by moving the  boundary stones dividing his own and his neighbour's territory. After dying, the deildegast was forced to haunt the area near the  boundary stones until he was able to lift it back to its correct place. This feat proved impossible, however, as the stone would always slip, causing the deildegast to emit a sorrowful scream before trying again to no avail.

Etymology
In Norwegian, "gast" approximately means "ghost", but ghosts in Norwegian and Scandinavian folklore differ greatly from the modern perception of ghosts, often having a corporeal body and being violent in nature. "Deild" is an archaic word for "border-stone". The approximate translation of deildegast then, is "border-stone ghost".

Description
The first mention of a deildegast in literature comes from Draumkvedet, written near the end of the Middle Ages. The belief itself quite likely predates this (and is documented by the Draumkvedet), though no proof exists.

The deildegast was also said to be able to transform into a bird, most often an owl, called ghost (gasten)  by the local people. In human form the deildegast looked like a normal human, except for his clothes. Often having died many years ago, the deildegast wore the clothes of its own days, which often meant that they looked very outdated to those that saw it.

As a social phenomenon, the deildegast served different social functions. The threat of becoming a deildegast deterred any attempt at tampering with border stones, keeping land disputes under control. It might also have prevented people who suspected that their border stones had been moved from enacting physical revenge on their neighbours, in safe knowledge that they would get their metaphysical revenge when the wrong-doer died.

See also 
 Deildegasten Ridge

References

Bibliography
 Hodne, Ørnulf (1995) Vetter og skrømt i norsk folketro (J.W. Cappelens forlag ) 
 Sivertsen, Birger (2000) For noen troll (Andresen & Butenschøn) 

Scandinavian folklore
Corporeal undead
Lucius Verginius Rufus

Lucius Verginius Rufus (AD 1597; sometimes incorrectly called Lucius Virginus Rufus) was a Roman commander of Germania Superior during the late 1st century. He was three times consul (in 63, 69, and 97). He was born near Comum, the birthplace of both Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.

Verginius Rufus was born in Northern Italy as a member of an equestrian family. He became consul in 63 under the emperor Nero. After his consulship, Verginius Rufus was made governor of Germania Superior. When Gaius Iulius Vindex revolted against Nero in 67, Verginius Rufus led an army against him and defeated the rebel in 68 near modern-day Besançon. After Nero's fall, the legions under Verginius Rufus hailed him as emperor in preference to Servius Sulpicius Galba (Vindex' ally), but Verginius Rufus refused to accept the purple. After the death of Otho in April 69, the soldiers again offered the throne to Verginius, but he again refused it. Verginius retreated to an estate at Alsium on the coast of Etruria northwest of Rome. There he studied, composed poems, and had a literary salon.

After the murder of Emperor Domitian, Marcus Cocceius Nerva was elected emperor by the senate. Nerva chose as his co-consul for 97 the elderly Verginius Rufus, who was enticed out of retirement. However, when Verginius Rufus was to hold a speech, he dropped a book he was carrying, and while bending down to pick it up, slipped and broke his hip. He died not long afterward at the age of 82 and was given a state funeral.

At the public burial with which he was honored, the historian Tacitus (then consul) delivered the funeral oration. Pliny the Younger, his neighbor and ward, has recorded the lines which Verginius had ordered to be engraved upon his tomb: Hic situs est Rufus, pulso qui Vindice quondam Imperium asseruit non sibi sed patriae ("Here lies Rufus, who after defeating Vindex, did not take power, but gave it to the fatherland").

The remains of his tomb are in Ladispoli and the nearby Roman villa may have been his.

See also
 Verginia gens

References

Cassius Dio, Roman History 63.23.1-24.4
Wells, Colin. The Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1992. 153-154
Pliny, Letters, Book II.1, IX.19

External links
 Livius.org: Lucius Verginius Rufus

Imperial Roman consuls
1st-century Romans
Roman consuls who died in office
15 births
97 deaths
Roman governors of Germania Inferior
Verginii
Accidental deaths from falls
Rikuzen-Takasago Station

is a railway station in Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Rikuzen-Takasago Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 8.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at .

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Rikuzen-Takasago Station opened on June 5, 1925 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in June 2011.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 5,438 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Fukumuro district (residential)
Fukumuro Elementary School

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Sendai
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1925
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
James Hunter Samson

James Hunter Samson (–March 26, 1836) was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Ireland around 1800 and came to Canada with his father's unit of the British Army in 1813. He studied at York (modern Toronto), where he became close friends with Robert Baldwin. He articled in law with Christopher Alexander Hagerman, was called to the bar in 1823 and set up a practice in Belleville. In 1828, he married Alicia Fenton Russell, the niece of Sir John Harvey. In the same year, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Hastings; he was reelected in 1830 and 1834. He was one of the most conservative members of the assembly. After William Lyon Mackenzie criticized Samson in his Colonial Advocate, he pressed libel charges against Mackenzie in 1831 and introduced a motion to expel Mackenzie from the assembly. He helped build the first hospital in Belleville in 1832 and served on the village council. He also served as lieutenant colonel in the local militia.

With the death of his father in 1832 and his increasing alienation from Baldwin due to their conflicting political views, Samson began drinking heavily and he died in Belleville in 1836.

References
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1800 births
1836 deaths
Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Politicians from Belleville, Ontario
Immigrants to Upper Canada
Rikuzen-Tomiyama Station

is a railway station in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Rikuzen-Tomiyama Station is served by the Senseki Line, and is located 28.6 kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station.

Station layout
The station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.

History
The station opened on April 10, 1928, as  on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944 and the station was renamed Rikuzen-Tomiyama at that time. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.

The station was closed from March 11, 2011 due to damage to the line associated with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and services replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit service. The station was reopened on 30 May 2015.

Surrounding area
Tomiyama Kannon

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Matsushima, Miyagi
Vydrany

Vydrany (, , until 1899 ) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia. .

Names and etymology
The Hungarian name Hodos (the current name in the language of the national minority) and the former Slovak name Hodoš derive from Hungarian appellative hód - a beaver. After the abolition of serfdom and some noble privileges in 1848, the village was renamed to Nemeshodos (nemes - noble). In 1948, the village was renamed to Vydrany. This name comes from a translation mistake. In Slovak vydra means an otter.

History
In the 9th century, the territory of Vydrany became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The village was first recorded in 1245 by its Hungarian name as Hodus. At the end of the 13th century, it was the estate of the Hodossy family, later it became a village of noble families. In the 19th century, the village was the estate of the local Vermes family.

Until the end of World War I, the village was part of Hungary and fell within the Dunaszerdahely district of Pozsony County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. After Soviet occupation in 1945, Czechoslovak administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947.

Demography 
In 1910, the village had 997, for the most part, Hungarian inhabitants. At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 1390 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the village's population also as 1499. As of 2001, 85.40 per cent of its population was Hungarian while 12.23 per cent was Slovak.

Roman Catholicism is the majority religion of the village, its adherents numbering 56.04% of the total population.

References

External links
 Municipality website
 The village on the map of Slovakia
Local Reformed Church community website 

Villages and municipalities in Dunajská Streda District
Municipalities in Slovakia where Hungarian is an official language
Breitenstein

Breitenstein may refer to:

Breitenstein, Lower Austria
Breitenstein, a locality (Ortschaft) in Aigen-Schlägl, Upper Austria, Austria
Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in Germany
Breitenstein (mountain), a mountain in the Bavarian Alps
Breitenstein (Swabian Alb), a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Breitenstein, a small town in Weil im Schönbuch, Baden-Württemberg, in Germany
Tetaru Station

is a railway station in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Tetaru Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 27.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station.

Station layout
Tetaru Station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. There is no station building. The station is unattended.

History
Tetaru Station opened on April 10, 1928 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was closed from March 11, 2011 due to damage to the line associated with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and services replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit service.  The station was reopened on 30 May 2015.

Surrounding area
Miyagi Prefectural Route 27

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Matsushima, Miyagi
Mesonephric tubules

Mesonephric tubules are genital ridges that are next to the mesonephros.

In males, some of the mesonephric kidney tubules, instead of being used to filter blood like the rest, "grow" over to the developing testes, penetrate them, and become connected to the seminiferous tubules of the testes. They also form the epididymis and the paradidymis.

The sperm differentiate inside the seminiferous tubules, then swim down these tubes, then through these special mesonephric tubules, and go down inside Wolffian duct, to the coelom and finally to the organ the animal uses to transport sperm into females.

In females, it gives rise to the epoophoron and the paroöphoron.

References

External links
 
 http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/210labs/kidney2.html

Embryology of urogenital system
Takagimachi Station

is a railway station in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Takagimachi Station is served by the Senseki Line, and lies 25.5 km from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station. It is also served by trains of the Senseki-Tōhoku Line.

Station layout
The station has one island platform serving two tracks and connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History
Takagimachi Station opened on April 10, 1928, as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was closed from March 11 to May 28, 2011 due to damage associated with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and services beyond Takagimachi Station in the direction of Ishinomaki Station were suspended and replaced by a provisional bus rapid transit service. The station was reopened on 30 May 2015.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 1,433 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Matsushima Town Hall
Matsushima Post Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

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Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Matsushima, Miyagi
Teatro di narrazione

Teatro di narrazione (narrative theatre) is a style of theatre, developed in Italy in the later decades of the 20th century, in which there are no actors or action, but only a "narrattore" (a neologism for narrator-actor, or "narractor") who tells the story in narrative form.

Overview
During the show, the narrattore often sits on a chair without moving. There are no props or costumes, nor any lights beyond those necessary to let the audience see the narratore: sometimes the theatre itself is lit so that the narrattore can see the faces of the audience to address them directly.

The genre generally said to have begun with Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery) by Dario Fo in 1969, though Fo has traditionally used mime to physicalize the actions and the entire cast of characters when performing in this style.  This influenced two generations of narrattori, notably Marco Paolini, Marco Baliani and Laura Curino; and later Ascanio Celestini, Davide Enia and Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher.

Although Mistero Buffo reworked medieval stories, the teatro di narrazione has a particular focus on investigating the "dark holes" of Italian modern history. Corpo di stato by Baliani concerns the murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978; Curino's Olivetti concerns Camillo and Adriano Olivetti, founders of the Olivetti business empire; Paolini's Il racconto del Vajont the tragedy of the Vajont Dam disaster; Enia's Maggio '43 the Allied bombing of Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II; Celestini's Radio Clandestina and Scemo di guerra the Nazi-Fascist occupation of Rome and its subsequent American liberation; and Ghebreigziabiher's Tramonto and Il dono della diversità racism and immigration problems in the society.

See also
 Documentary theatre

References

Gerardo Guccini - Michela Marelli (eds), Stabat Mater, Bologna, Le Ariette, 2004;
Gerardo Guccini (ed.), La bottega dei narratori, Roma, Dino Audino, 2005, ;
P. Puppa, La voce solitaria, Bulzoni, 2010
Simone Soriani (ed.), Cicoria. Del teatro di Ascanio Celestini e di Gaetano Ventriglia, Corazzano (PI), Titivillus, 2006; 
Simone Soriani, Sulla scena del racconto. A colloquio con Marco Baliani, Laura Curino, Marco Paolini, Ascanio Celestini, Davide Enia, Mario Perrotta, Civitella in Val di Chiana (AR), Zona, 2009; ID., Engagement, comunicazione e consolazione nel teatro dei narratori, in «Zibaldone», IX, 1-2, 2021, in https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/zibaldone/article/view/20680/pdf

History of theatre
Theatrical genres
Storytelling
Matsushima-Kaigan Station

is a railway station in the town of  Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Matsushima-Kaigan Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 23.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at Aoba-dōri Station.

Station layout
The station has one elevated island platform with the station building underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Matsushima-Kaigan Station opened on April 18, 1927 as  on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944 and the station was renamed to its present name at that time. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was closed from March 11 to May 28, 2011 due to damage associated with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 1,164 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Matsushima
Zuigan-ji

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1927
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Matsushima, Miyagi
Mohammed Zaman

Hajji Mohammed Zaman (Zaman Ghamsharik) (29 April 1965 – 22 February 2010) was a Pashtun Afghan military leader and politician. He was an ethnic Pashtun, connected to the Khogyani tribe. According to Maj. Dalton Fury, who fought together with Ghamsharik in November/December 2001 in the Tora Bora campaign against the Taliban, Haji Zaman had been "one of the more infamous mujahideen junior commanders during the Soviet–Afghan War. When the Taliban took over, Zaman departed Afghanistan for France. When the Taliban fell from grace after 9/11, he returned to his homeland to reclaim his former VIP status. He was said to have influential friends within neighboring Pakistan, including members of the Pakistan intelligence service. He reportedly led a force of 4,000 men during the campaign to oust Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers.

During the initial years of the Taliban's administration of Afghanistan, some sources claim Zaman led resistance fighters from bases in Pakistan against Taliban rule.

In 1997, the government of Pakistan forced him to leave Pakistan. It is possible this is because the Pakistan Government was at that time itself actively supporting the Taliban as a policy of 'strategic depth' in its defence position with India. Haji Zaman spent the remaining years of the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan, (i.e., until shortly after the 9/11/01 WTC attack), in Dijon, France.

Following the September 11 attacks, and subsequent confirmation that Osama Bin Laden was behind the attack, the US demanded Taliban leader Mullah Omar to turn over Bin Laden or face US invasion. Mullah Omar refused to surrender Bin Laden, so the US planned military action as described in CIA officers Gary Berntsen's Jawbreaker, and Gary Schroen's First In. Haji Zaman returned from France to Afghanistan (reportedly at the invitation of the US CIA, as a counterbalance to another Afghan warlord/partner Hazret Ali) and joined with other regional and tribal leaders from the Nangarhar and Khowst provinces to form the Eastern Shura.

The Eastern Shura, of which Haji Zaman was a key member, were early backers of the first post-Taliban President Hamid Karzai.

Karzai later appointed Haji Mohammad Zaman Ghamsharik as deputy Chief of Police for Nangarhar Province.

Haji Mohammed Zaman Ghamsharik was killed on 22 February 2010 in a suicide bombing, while addressing refugees in Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province.

References

Further reading
 Gary Berntsen, Jawbreaker (Three Rivers Press, NY, 2005, paperback ed.), p. 280

Afghan politicians
Deaths by explosive device
Terrorism deaths in Afghanistan
1965 births
2010 deaths
Afghan expatriates in Pakistan

ja:ハジ・モハマッド・ハシェム・ザマン
Seatonian Prize

The Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject. This prize has been awarded annually since 1750 and is open to any Master of Arts of the university. Lord Byron referred to this prize in his 1809 poem entitled 'English Bards and Scots Reviewers.' The prize is still awarded annually, with a deadline of 30 September each year. It is open to all members of the Senate of the University of Cambridge, and all persons who are possessors of the status of Masters of Arts.

Founding 
This prize was founded by the Rev. Thomas Seaton, educated at Stamford School and a Fellow of Clare College, who died in 1741. The prize was financed by the revenue from his Kislingbury estate bequeathed to the University. His bequest was not formally accepted by the University until 1898, at which time regulations were drawn up for the administration of the Seatonian Prize by the Faculty of Divinity.

Winners 
The winner in the first three years was Christopher Smart. "On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being" (Cambridge, 1752) was his prize-winning "poetical essay" of that year. Smart won much credit by his success. In 1754 his fellowship was extended on condition that he continued to write for the prize. In 1759 the prize was won by Beilby Porteus for his poem on "Death", for which he is still remembered. In 1797, 1798, and 1799 the prize was won by William Bolland. 

Byron's poem records the name of some of the winners:

Shall hoary Granta call her sable sons,

Expert in science, more expert at puns?

Shall these approach the Muse? ah, no! she flies,

Even from the tempting ore of Seaton's prize;

Though Printers condescend the press to soil

With rhyme by Hoare, and epic blank by Hoyle:

Not him whose page, if still upheld by whist,

Requires no sacred theme to bid us list.

Ye! who in Granta's honours would surpass,

Must mount her Pegasus, a full-grown ass;⁠

A foal well worthy of her ancient Dam,

Whose Helicon is duller than her Cam.

In 2018, the Seatonian Prize was awarded to Colin Wilcockson of Pembroke College.

List of winners

1807: Charles Hoare. (St John's MA) "The Shipwreck of St. Paul"
1818: Alldersey Dicken, DD (1794-1871) (Fellow of Peterhouse 1816-32). Awarded for his poem, "Deborah" (Cambridge: J. Smith), which tells of the triumph of Deborah and Barak over Sisera's forces (see: Book of Judges, chapter IV). 

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1829: John Howard Marsden (1803-1891)(St John's MA 1829) "The Finding of Moses"
1902: Rev. John Hudson, Peterhouse, "Cyrus and the restoration of the Jews"

Further reading 
  Reprinted in 1808 as two 2 volumes. Cambridge, J.Deighton.

References

British poetry awards
1750 establishments in England
Awards established in 1750
Awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge
Christian poetry
South Carolina Philharmonic

The South Carolina Philharmonic is an orchestra based in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.  Performances are held at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia. The current concertmaster is Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian.  The orchestra was founded in 1963.

2007/8 season
The orchestra's 2007/2008 season consisted of seven performances from 22 September to 5 April. Seven guest conductors (candidates for the vacant position of music director) conducted the Philharmonic in concert.

 Steven Lipsitt (22 September 2007)
 Morihiko Nakahara (13 October 2007)
 Carolyn Kuan (11 November 2007)
 Sarah Hatsuko Hicks (19 January 2008)
 David Commanday (9 February 2008)
 Adam Flatt (15 March 2008)
 Miriam Burns (5 April 2008)

Music directors
Morihiko Nakahara (2008–)
Nicholas R.N. Smith (1993–2007)
Dr. Einar W. Anderson (1982–1993)
Dr. John Bauer (1980–1981)
Arpad Darazs (1971–1980)
Dr. Arthur M. Fraser (1964–1971)

External links 
Official site

Musical groups established in 1963
American orchestras
Culture of Columbia, South Carolina
Wikipedia requested audio of orchestras
Tourist attractions in Columbia, South Carolina
Performing arts in South Carolina
Musical groups from South Carolina

ja:ダラス交響楽団
Martín García (tennis)

Martín Alberto García (; born 2 May 1977) is a professional tennis player from Argentina.

García turned pro in 1996, and has won 8 doubles titles on the ATP Tour during his career. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. 21 on 21 May 2001.

Performance timeline

Doubles

Mixed doubles

ATP Career Finals

Doubles: 22 (8 titles, 14 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Doubles: 25 (13–12)

Notes

External links
 
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Argentine male tennis players
Tennis players from Buenos Aires
21st-century Argentine people
George Henry Richards

Sir George Henry Richards  (13 January 182014 November 1896) was Hydrographer of the Royal Navy from 1863 to 1874.

Biography 
Richards was born in Antony, Cornwall, the son of Captain G. S. Richards, and joined the Royal Navy in 1832. His eldest son, George Edward Richards also became a Royal Navy officer and hydrographic surveyor.

Naval career 
He served in South America, the Falkland Islands, New Zealand, Australia and in the First Opium War in China. Promoted to captain in 1854, from 1857 to 1864 he was in command of the two survey ships:  and .

Survey work in Canada 

He was the second British commissioner to the San Juan Islands Boundary Commission and a hydrographer on the coast of British Columbia in 1857–1862. He is responsible for the selection and designation of dozens of placenames along the British Columbia coast. In the Vancouver area, for example, he named False Creek. In 1859, after his engineer Francis Brockton found a vein of coal, he named Brockton Point and the area of Coal Harbour. In 1860, he named Mount Garibaldi after Giuseppe Garibaldi. Other landmarks in the area named by him are the Britannia Range, and Brunswick Mountain and many features in the Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast, and Jervis Inlet areas.

In 1863 he was appointed Hydrographer to the Navy and held that position until 1874 when he retired. At a time when the merchant navy was expanding rapidly and telegraphic underwater cable laying operations were intensifying, the Admiralty had a great need for more accurate ocean charts. It was in this context that Richards was asked to organise the scientific cruises of the H.M.S. Porcupine and the H.M.S. Lightning between 1868 and 1870, followed by that of the H.M.S. Challenger.

Later life 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1866 and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the same year. He was knighted in 1877, became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1881 and became an admiral in 1884. He died in Bath, Somerset aged 76.

A portrait of him by Stephen Pearce, dated 1865, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mount Richards in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada is named in his honor.

References

Further reading

External links 

1819 births
1896 deaths
English explorers of North America
English hydrographers
Explorers of British Columbia
Fellows of the Royal Society
Hydrographers of the Royal Navy
Knights Bachelor
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
People from Antony, Cornwall
Pre-Confederation British Columbia people
Royal Navy officers
Michael Davern

Michael J. Davern (23 July 1900 – 25 July 1973) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary South constituency from 1948 to 1965.

He was born 23 July 1900 in Ballymore, Cashel, County Tipperary, son of Owen Davern, a shopkeeper, who was a member for many years of South Tipperary County Council, and Johanna Davern (née Ryan). After attending national school locally, aged 17 Michael Davern joined the Irish Volunteers along with his brother Patrick. He was arrested for possession of gelignite, he was imprisoned in Cork Prison and Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where he went on a 21 day hunger strike. He served in the Irish War of Independence with the 3rd Tipperary brigade of the IRA, attaining the rank of Staff captain. He suffered wounds during an engagement with Black and Tans at Ballagh, County Tipperary. Despite anti-Treaty sympathies, he took no active part in the Irish Civil War.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election. He was re-elected at the 1951, 1954, 1957 and 1961 general elections.

Davern did not contest the 1965 general election and was succeeded by his son Don Davern. After Don's death in 1968, another son Noel Davern was elected for Tipperary South at the 1969 general election.

For many years he operated a family-owned licensed business, Davern's Bar, on Main Street, Cashel. He died 25 July 1973 in Cashel, and was buried with military honours in St Cormac's cemetery.

See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

1900 births
1973 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 13th Dáil
Members of the 14th Dáil
Members of the 15th Dáil
Members of the 16th Dáil
Members of the 17th Dáil
Politicians from County Tipperary
People from Cashel, County Tipperary