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ALCOR

ALCOR (ALGOL Converter, acronym) is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universities, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the United States which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 members in 1966. The group had the aim of a common compiler specification for a subset of ALGOL 60 after the ALGOL meeting in Copenhagen in 1958.

In addition to its programming application, as the name Algol is also an astronomical reference, to the star Algol, so too, Alcor is a reference to the star Alcor. This star is the fainter companion of the 2nd magnitude star Zeta Ursae Majoris. This was sometimes ironized as being a bad omen for the future of the language.

In Europe, a high level machine architecture for ALGOL 60 was devised which was emulated on various real computers, among them the Siemens 2002 and the IBM 7090. An ALGOL manual was published which provided a detailed introduction of all features of the language with many program snippets, and four appendixes:
 Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 
 Report on Subset ALGOL 60 (IFIP)
 Report on Input-Output Procedures for ALGOL 60
 An early "standard" character set for representing ALGOL 60 code on paper and paper tape. This character set introduced the characters "×", ";", "[", "]", and "⏨" into the CCITT-2 code, the first two replacing "?" and the BEL control character, the others taking unused code points.

References

 Baumann, R. (1961) Baumann, R. "ALGOL Manual of the ALCOR Group, Pts. 1, 2 & 3" Elektronische Rechenanlagen No. 5 (Oct. 1961), 206–212; No. 6 (Dec. 1961), 259–265; No. 2 (Apr. 1962); (in German)
 Papertape, punched card, magnetic tape coding schemes Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

External links
 ALCOR in The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
 The ALCOR Project, Klaus Samelson, Friedrich L. Bauer, 1962.

Algol programming language family
Systems programming languages
Procedural programming languages
Character encoding
Character sets
Programming languages created in the 1960s
Professor of Divinity

Professor of Divinity may refer to academics in the field of theology (see divinity) and in particular to chairs in the UK as in the following:

Ely Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
Professor of Divinity, Glasgow
Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, Glasgow
Gresham Professor of Divinity, Gresham College, London
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
Lady Margaret Professor (Oxford)
Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge and Oxford 
Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, Durham
Paphinia

Paphinia, abbreviated in horticultural trade Pna, is a genus of orchids, composed of an estimated 16 species from Central America, northern South America and Trinidad. These species are medium-sized epiphytes with small ovoid pseudobulbs and 2 or more leaves. The generic name comes from the Greek Paphia, the name of Aphrodite of Cyprus. Most authorities consider the genus rare.

Species accepted as of June 2014:

 Paphinia benzingii Dodson & Neudecker – Ecuador
 Paphinia cristata (Lindl.) Lindl. – Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil 
 Paphinia dunstervillei Dodson & G.A.Romero – Venezuela
 Paphinia grandiflora Barb.Rodr. – northern Brazil 
 Paphinia herrerae Dodson – Ecuador
 Paphinia hirtzii Dodson – Ecuador
 Paphinia levyae Garay – Ecuador
 Paphinia lindeniana Rchb.f. – Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru
 Paphinia litensis Dodson & Neudecker – Ecuador
 Paphinia neudeckeri Jenny  – Ecuador, Colombia
 Paphinia posadarum Dodson & R.Escobar  – Ecuador, Colombia
 Paphinia rugosa  Rchb.f. – Colombia
 Paphinia seegeri G.Gerlach – Colombia
 Paphinia subclausa Dressler – Costa Rica
 Paphinia vermiculifera G.Gerlach & Dressler – Panama
 Paphinia zamorae Garay – Ecuador

Hybrids include:
Paphinia Majestic (P. cristata x P. herrerae)
Paphinia Memoria Remo Lombardi (P. herrerae x P. lindeniana) 
Gonginia (Gongora x Paphinia), an intergeneric hybrid

References

External links 

 International Plant Names Index (IPNI)

 
Stanhopeinae genera
Epiphytic orchids
Bernardino Molinari

Bernardino Molinari (11 April 1880 – 25 December 1952) was an Italian conductor.

Molinari studied under Renzi and Falchi at the Accademia (then "Liceo Musicale") of Santa Cecilia in his home town of Rome.

In 1912, he was appointed artistic director of the Augusteo Orchestra, Rome, later renamed l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, a position he held until the end of the Second World War. Since this was then, like now, the leading symphony orchestra position in Italy, it aroused the envy of several rivals. He was engaged as a guest conductor, including for the St. Louis Symphony in 1930.

After the liberation of Rome on 4 June 1944, Molinari was contested by the public, in particular during two concerts held on 9 and 12 July, for his involvement with the Fascist regime. He had to suspend the performance and, since then, he was able to conduct in Rome the Orchestra of the Theatre of Opera only.

In 1945, he arrived in Palestine and conducted the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, then became its musical advisor. The performance of the Korngold violin concerto with David Grunschlag as soloist was critically acclaimed

According to some, his arrangement of the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah was praised by Leonard Bernstein. His version serves most Israeli performances of the piece.

Molinari guest-conducted at all the important musical centres in Europe and the Americas. Unlike most Italian conductors, he seldom conducted opera.

Composer Robert Starer tells of his experience as a young harpist in the Palestine Orchestra in the 1940s:

Notable premieres

Concert 
 Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma, Augusteo, Rome, 4 December 1924
 On 15.12.1947 Molinari directed Josef Tal's Exodus premiere with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel-Aviv.
 Samuel Barber: Symphony in One Movement, 13 December 1936

Recording 
 Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Parlophone/Cetra 1942
 Ottorino Respighi: Fontane di Roma, Odeon, ca.1942

References
Mucci, E.: Bernardino Molinari. Lanciano, 1941.

Notes

1880 births
1952 deaths
Italian male conductors (music)
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians
Musicians from Rome
La Belle Province (restaurant)

La Belle Province () is a well-known fast food restaurant chain in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is also known as LBP, LB, BP, La Belle Pro, Belle Pro, La Belle or Labelle, as nicknames. Each location is independently franchised; some are open 24 hours a day.

History
Founder Peter Kivetos, a native of Greece, opened the first La Belle Province on Sherbrooke Street East in 1970. He took the name with permission from a restaurant on Saint Catherine Street where he had worked, which had burned down in the 1960s. It became a franchise when the second location was opened in Saint-Hubert in 1976.

Kivetos' ownership group had 45 locations in 1997. By 1999 there were 125 locations under the name La Belle Province. It is not strictly a franchise operation, in 1999 there were six different ownership groups, mostly relatives of Kivetos.

In 2010, two restaurant owners were fined $22,000 for failure to pay the Goods and Services Tax and were charged an additional $45,000 for the amount that they owed.

Fare

La Belle Province serves breakfast and lunch, including items such as poutine, club sandwiches, hamburgers, Montreal hot dogs, smoked meat sandwiches, and souvlaki.

Reason for the various names
A Quebec judge ruled that the La Belle Province franchise owners could not prevent others from giving a similar name to their restaurants, because "la belle province" is an official nickname for the province of Quebec. This resulted in several knock-off franchises that had menus and prices similar to the original franchise in order to capitalize on its existing image and marketing. Notable knock-offs include Belle Province II, La Plus Belle Province, La Belle Québécoise and La Très Belle Province.

See also
List of Canadian restaurant chains
 Dic Ann's Hamburgers
 Lafleur Restaurants
 Valentine (restaurant)

References

External links

 

Fast-food chains of Canada
Hot dog restaurants in Canada
Regional restaurant chains in Canada
Restaurants in Montreal
Restaurants established in 1970
1970 establishments in Quebec
Gary Howe

Gary Howe is a British comedy writer and performer, most noted for working in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. He has had a working partnership with fellow writer Richard Preddy since 1988.

Renowned zoologist and bargain hunter Mark Cartwright once described Gary as "the funniest thing with two legs."

Performer 

All Aboard The Cat Bus on Channel 4's Comedy Lab - (1999)
House Of Rock - (2000–02)
Green Wing - (2004-2006) Playing a lodger.

Writer 

ChuckleVision - (1987–Present)
Birds Of A Feather - (1989–98)
Smith and Jones - (1989–98)
Tracey Ullman: A Class Act - (1993)
Shooting Stars - (1993-2002)Harry Enfield And Chums - (1994-97)The Fast Show - (1994-2000)Ant and Dec Unzipped - (1997)Sunnyside Farm - (1997)We Know Where You Live - (1997)The Morwenna Banks Show - (1998)The Zig and Zag Show - (1998)All Aboard The Cat Bus on Channel 4's Comedy Lab - (1999)Smack the Pony - (1999-2003)Shooting Stars - (2001)House Of Rock - (2000-02)Tv to Go - (2000-02)Green Wing - (2004-2006)The All Star Comedy Show, later Monkey Trousers - (2004-05)Man Stroke Woman - (2005-Present)Stupid'' - (2005–Present)

References

External links 
Gary Howe in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide  Green Wing writers.

British comedy writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Kent
Craig Melchert

Harold Craig Melchert (born April 5, 1945) is an American linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.

Biography
He received his B.A. in German from Michigan State University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1977. From 1968 to 1972 he served in the United States Air Force, where he learned Chinese and worked as a Chinese radio listener. In 1978 he accepted a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became Paul Debreczeny Distinguished Professor of Linguistics. In 2005 he was the Collitz Professor at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. As of July 1, 2007 he is A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected works
Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, 
Lycian Lexicon. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Copytron, 1989, iv + 122pp.; 2nd edn. Chapel Hill University Press, 1993, vi + 130pp.
Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon. Chapel Hill, N.C.: self-published, 1993, 
Anatolian Historical Phonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994, 
A Grammar of the Hittite Language, Eisenbrauns, 2008, 
A Dictionary of the Lycian Language, Ann Arbor–NY: Beech Stave Press, 2004,

Further reading
Craig Melchert's home page

References

  

Hittitologists
Linguists from the United States
Defense Language Institute alumni
Historical linguists
Michigan State University alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Living people
Indo-Europeanists
Linguists of Indo-European languages
1945 births
Linguists of Anatolian languages
Malcolm Speed

Malcolm Walter Speed  (born 14 September 1948) is an Australian businessman and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.

Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Cricket Board from 1997 until in 2001, he took up the job of the CEO of the International Cricket Council. In this role, he has worked with four Presidents of the ICC: Malcolm Gray, Ehsan Mani, Percy Sonn and Ray Mali. He was succeeded as ICC CEO on 4 April 2008 by Haroon Lorgat.

Speed was put on paid leave until his contract ran out on 4 July 2008 after rumours had been circulating for the last month that he had had a serious falling-out with Ray Mali, the President, following the ICC executive's decision not to take any major action against Zimbabwe following an independent forensic audit carried out by KPMG.

Speed was formerly in charge of the Australian National Basketball League, overseeing the 1996 removal of three teams from the League, and is a member of the NBL Hall of Fame. He was also a board member of the Australian Sports Commission.

Speed is currently a board member of Golf Australia and the Richmond Football Club.

Speed was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2012.

References

External links
List of current Golf Australia board members

1948 births
Living people
Australian cricket administrators
Australian chief executives
Australian barristers
Officers of the Order of Australia
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
Gold Eagle

Gold Eagle may refer to:

 Eagle (United States coin) (1792–1933)
 American Gold Eagle, a modern bullion coin
 Gold Eagle Reserve, an Indian reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada
 Gold Eagle, a publishing imprint of Harlequin Enterprises

See also
 Golden Eagle (disambiguation)
Graham Smorgon

Graham Smorgon  is a prominent Australian businessman and a member of the Smorgon family – one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful and influential families.

Business career 
He was appointed as Chairman of Smorgon Consolidated in 1994, and was the chairman of the Smorgon Steel Group in 2006 when it was split and sold to OneSteel and BlueScope. Smorgon then went on to become Chairman of the GBM Group, Smorgon Consolidated Investment and Scental Pacific. Smorgon is also a director of Incitec Pivot Limited. Smorgon's other roles and positions included Director of Federation Square, Deputy Chairman of Melbourne Health, Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Trustee of the Victorian Arts Centre Trust.

Sports Administration career

Carlton Football Club
In 2002, Smorgon joined the Board of directors at the Carlton Football Club.
In April 2006, Smorgon took over the Presidency of the Carlton Football Club after Ian Collins stood down. He held this position until he failed to win a board position in the February 2007 club election that elected Richard Pratt as President of the Carlton Football Club. Smorgon's tenure as President of the club was unstable because Carlton struggled to maintain off-field stability with club debt, as well as continuous poor on-field results. Also in Smorgon's tenure as president of Carlton, In September 2006, Smorgon was involved in a board of the club coup plot to push for the removal 
of senior coach Denis Pagan, Smorgon then reversed this position and declared his full board support for senior coach Pagan and extended Pagan's contract as senior coach until the 2008 season.

Order of Australia 
Smorgon was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours.

Personal life 
As a member of the Smorgon family, He is also the grandson of Moses Smorgon, who emigrated from the Russian empire in the 1920s with his brother Naum; Naum's son Victor Smorgon co-founded Smorgon Consolidated Industries. He is also the cousin of David Smorgon, the former executive and director of Smorgon Consolidated Industries and the former President of Western Bulldogs Football Club.
.

References 

Australian Jews
Carlton Football Club administrators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the Order of Australia

20th-century Australian businesspeople
Australian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Businesspeople from Melbourne
Stuart Kenworthy

Stuart Kenworthy is a British comedy writer, most noted for his work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. A scene originated by Stuart, for Green Wing,  was nominated for Most Memorable Comedy Moment of 2005 (BBC TV Moments). 
The pilot episode of Scallywagga (previously called Spacehopper) won Best Comedy at the RTS North West Awards 2007. The first series of Scallywagga was broadcast on BBC Three in April 2008.
Previously, Stuart spent ten years working as a photographic artist, supplementing his income by working as an Evidence Gathering photographer for Lancashire Constabulary. 
In 1999 he gained a first class honors degree in Sociology and was awarded the faculty prize from the University of Leicester.  His agent is Hugo Young at Independent, London.
I

Writer 

Smack the Pony - (1999-2003)
TV Burp - (2002)
The All-New Harry Hill Show - (2003)
UGetMe - (2003)
The Crust - (2003)
Green Wing - (2004-2007)
Planet Sketch - (2004-Present)
Comic Relief - Green Wing Sketch - (2005)
Man Stroke Woman - (2005, 2007)
It's Adam and Shelley - (2007)
Spacehopper - (2007)
Rush Hour - (2007)
Scallywagga - (2008-2010)
Canimals - (2011-2018)
Mr Bloom's Nursery - (2012)
Tilly and Friends - (2012-2013)
DNN - (2013-2014)
Angry Birds Toons - (2013-2016)
Strange Hill High - (2013-2014)
Swashbuckle - (2014)
Toot the Tiny Tugboat - (2014-2015)
The Furchester Hotel - (2015, 2017)
Go Jetters - (2016-2017)
Oddbods - (2016-2017)
Angry Birds Blues - (2017)
Bitz and Bob - (2018) (segment "Sinking Feeling")
Space Chickens in Space - (2018-Present)

External links 
Stuart Kenworthy in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide Green Wing writers.

http://www.comedycaster.com/profile/stuart-kenworthy/

British comedy writers
Alumni of the University of Leicester
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Classic Now

Classic Now is a program that aired on ESPN Classic between August 2005 and March 31, 2006.  The show was hosted by Josh Elliott from a studio in New York City rented by K2 Productions.  

Classic Now mixed interviews with sportswriters and analysts on current sports topics with flashbacks of past sporting events.  The show aired at 7 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday.  
This program was not as successful as other talk shows on ESPN networks like Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, and Cold Pizza, leading to its cancellation.

References

 

ESPN Classic original programming
2005 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
American sports television series
English-language television shows
Nes, Innlandet

Nes is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The  municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964 when it became part of Ringsaker Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Tingnes where Nes Church is located. The largest village in Nes was Stavsjø where the Stavsjø Church is located. The municipality included the Nes peninsula and the island of Helgøya which both are surrounded by the large lake Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake.

History
The parish of Næs was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Nes (population: 4,184) was merged with the municipality of Furnes (population: 7,288), the municipality of Ringsaker (population: 16,490), and the Hamarsberget and Vikersødegården areas of the municipality of Vang (population: 34) to create the new, larger Ringsaker Municipality.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Nes farm () since the first Nes Church was built there. The name is identical to the word  which means "headland".

Government
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Nes was made up of 23 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

Ringsaker
Former municipalities of Norway
1838 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
Landforms of Innlandet
Peninsulas of Norway
Ƽ

Ƽ (minuscule: ƽ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its fifth tone, high-rising . In 1986 it was replaced by q.

It originates from an alteration of the numeral 5.

Computing codes

See also
Ƨ ƨ
З з
Ч ч
Ƅ ƅ

References

Latin-script letters
Romanization of Chinese
Oriane Messina

Oriane Messina is a British comedy writer and performer, best known for her work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. She has had a working partnership with fellow writer Fay Rusling since 1999. In 2007, she appeared briefly as a nurse in sitcom Not Going Out, and again briefly in 2008 as a driving tester in The Inbetweeners.

Performer 

Green Wing (2004–2007) Playing several roles.
Speeding in Channel 4's Comedy Lab (2005) Playing Louise.
The Inbetweeners (2008) Playing the driving tester.

Writer 

Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
2DTV – (2001–2004) (as Orianne Messina)
Green Wing (2004–2007)
Speeding in Channel 4's Comedy Lab (2005)
Campus (2009–2011)
Me and Mrs Jones (TV series) (2012) (also creator)
Brief Encounters (TV series) (2016) (also creator)
Breeders (2020–2021)

Radio 

Bearded Ladies – (2005) (presenter, writer and performer)

External links 
Oriane Messina in BBC Comedy Guide
Orianne Messina in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide Green Wing writers.

British comedy writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing
Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi

Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi (, lit. 'small Sai Yok waterfall') is a small town (thesaban tambon) in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, along the route of the Death Railway linking Thailand with Burma. It is named after Sai Yok Noi Waterfall of Sai Yok National Park. During World War II, the small town was known as Tarsoa or Tarsau.

History
The sanitary district (sukhaphiban) was created in 1971. It was upgraded to a township (thesaban tambon) in May 1999, when all of the sanitary districts were upgraded. , the town had a population of 3,675, and covered an area of 4.4 km2 of subdistrict (tambon) Tha Sao.

Camp Tarsoa
Camp Tarsoa was a large Japanese prisoner of war camp constructed during World War II. It consisted of a transit camp, a work camp and a hospital camp, and was founded on 24 January 1943. The work camp originally contained 400 prisoners, but was enlarged to 800 prisoners. The hospital had a very bad reputation and hardly any medical supplies. There were three large cemeteries near the camp, one of which was for deaths from cholera. The camps closed in April 1944. 

Australian prisoners of war veterans erected a memorial at Hellfire Pass, and each year on 25 April, there is a memorial ceremony. Hellfire Pass is located  from Nam Tok.

References

Populated places in Kanchanaburi province
Burma Railway
2006 Thomas & Uber Cup

The 2006 Thomas & Uber Cup was held from 28 April to 7 May in Sendai and Tokyo, Japan. It was the 24th tournament of Thomas Cup and 21st tournament of Uber Cup, men's and women's badminton tournaments.

Sendai hosted all of the group stage and play-off matches while Tokyo hosted the event starting from the quarter-finals until the final.

This was first time the Thomas & Uber Cup was played with a three-game 21-point scoring system.

China emerged as champions of both tournaments after beating Denmark and Netherlands in the men's and women's competitions respectively.

Host city selection
Japan, which was competing with Indonesia and the United States for hosting the 2004 Thomas and Uber Cup finals, was awarded with this event.

Venues
Sendai Gymnasium
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Teams
The following nations from five continents, shown by region, qualified for the 2006 Thomas & Uber Cup. Of the sixteen nations, defending champion of both tournaments China and host Japan qualified automatically and did not play the qualification round.

Thomas & Uber Cup
 China
 England
 Germany
 Japan
 Korea
 New Zealand
 United States
 South Africa

Thomas Cup
 Denmark
 India
 Indonesia
 Malaysia

Uber Cup
 Chinese Taipei
 Hong Kong
 Netherlands
 Singapore

Thomas Cup

Group stage

Group A

All times local (UTC +9)

Group B

All times local (UTC +9)

Group C
 

All times local (UTC +9)

Group D

All times local (UTC +9)

Knockout stage

Semi finals

Final

Uber Cup

Group stage

Group W

All times local (UTC +9)

Group X

All times local (UTC +9)

Group Y

All times local (UTC +9)

Group Z

All times local (UTC +9)

Knockout stage

Semi finals

Final

References

External links
Official Website

Thomas Uber Cup
Thomas and Uber Cup
Thomas & Uber Cup
T
Thomas Uber Cup
Richard Preddy

Richard Preddy (3 September 1966 – 7 July 2020) was a British comedy writer and performer, most noted for working in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. He had a working partnership with fellow writer Gary Howe since 1987.

Performer 

All Aboard The Cat Bus on Channel 4's Comedy Lab - (1999)
House Of Rock - (2000-02)

Producer 

Tommy the Tungsten Robot - (2008)

Writer 

ChuckleVision - (1987-2009)
Birds Of A Feather - (1989-98)
Smith and Jones - (1989-98)
Tracey Ullman: A Class Act - (1993)
Harry Enfield And Chums - (1994-97)
The Fast Show - (1994-2000)
Ant and Dec Unzipped - (1997)
Sunnyside Farm - (1997)
We Know Where You Live - (1997)
The Morwenna Banks Show - (1998)
The Zig and Zag Show - (1998)
All Aboard The Cat Bus on Channel 4's Comedy Lab - (1999)
Smack the Pony - (1999-2003)
House Of Rock - (2000-02)
Tv to Go - (2000-02)
Green Wing - (2004-2007)
The All Star Comedy Show, later Monkey Trousers - (2004-05)
Man Stroke Woman - (2005-Present)
Stupid - (2005-2007)
Campus - (2009-2011)
Rastamouse - (2012) (segment "Book Ah Records")
Gates - (2012)
Angry Birds Toons - (2013-2016)
Trollied - (2013)
The Amazing World of Gumball - (2015) (segment "The Crew")
Bottersnikes and Gumbles - (2016)
Space Chickens in Space - (2018-2019)

External links 
Richard Preddy in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide Green Wing writers.

British comedy writers
Living people
1966 births
Wey South Path

The Wey South Path is a Long Distance Path in Surrey and West Sussex, England. For part of its 32-mile route it follows the banks of the River Wey and of the Wey and Arun Canal.

The route
Guildford
Stonebridge
Bramley
Run Common
Elmbridge
Fast Bridge
The Three Compasses
Highbridge
Loxwood
Drungewick Lane
Newbridge
Harsfold
Stopham
Greatham
Houghton Bridge

See also
Long-distance footpaths in the UK

References

External links
The Wey and Arun Canal Trust – walks along the Wey South Path

Footpaths in Surrey
Footpaths in West Sussex
Long-distance footpaths in England
Sur offering

A sur offering is a Tibetan Buddhist practice in which a mixture of flour, sweets and dairy products, sometimes with additional valuable or aromatic substances, is consecrated and placed in a fire or burned as incense.  The resulting fragrant smoke is offered to the objects of refuge and shared with all sentient beings.

Tiny, high-pitched cymbals called tingshas may be struck while the offering is burned; these call sentient beings, especially hungry ghosts (pretas), to share it and satisfy their hunger.  Partaking of this blessing purifies their karma and allows them to pass on to a blessed rebirth.

The practice may be long or short, as time and circumstances allow, and generally does not require initiation from a lama.  The merit of the practice is dedicated to the benefit of deceased persons or animals, especially during the 49 days after death, during which they are believed to be in the bardo state.  Sur offerings may also be done to dispel negative or harmful influences, such as ghosts.

External links 
Advice from Lama Zopa on helping disaster victims
General discussion on Khandro.net of fire and smoke offerings
Tibetan Treasures page with sur offering supplies and teaching

Tibetan Buddhist practices
Fay Rusling

Fay Rusling is a British comedy writer and performer, most known for her work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. She has had a working partnership with fellow writer Oriane Messina since 1999.

Performer 

Green Wing (2004-2007) Playing Nurse.
Speeding in Channel 4's Comedy Lab (2005) Playing Abigail.

Writer 

Smack the Pony (1999-2003)
2DTV (2001-2004)
Green Wing (2004-2007)
Speeding in Channel 4's Comedy Lab (2005)
Campus (2009-2011)
Me and Mrs Jones (2012) (also creator)
Brief Encounters (TV series) (2016) (also creator)
Breeders (2020-2021)

Radio 

Bearded Ladies - (2005-Present, Writer and Performer)

External links 
Fay Rusling in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide  Green Wing writers.

British comedy writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Maura A. Harty

Maura Ann Harty (born 1959) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs from November 21, 2002 to February 29, 2008. She was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service.  She was then the President and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation. In November 2014, Harty was appointed President & CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC).

Biography
Harty is a native of Staten Island, New York. She graduated from New Dorp High School in 1977, where she was elected "Most Likely to Succeed" and "Class Citizen". Harty received her bachelor's degree at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she was a member of the Mu Alpha chapter of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. 

She began her career with the Department of State in 1981 as a vice-consul in Mexico City, Mexico, and was one of two Foreign Service Officers sent to accompany U.S. forces during the invasion of Grenada (to help evacuate American citizen medical students from the island).

Harty went on to serve several tours in Washington, DC, including tours in the State Department's Operations Center and as special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz, executive assistant to Secretary Warren Christopher, and Executive Secretary of the Department under Secretary Colin Powell.  She also served abroad at the U.S. Embassies in Bogotá, Colombia, and Madrid, Spain, before being appointed U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay from 1997 to 1999.

During her tenure as Assistant Secretary, Harty oversaw the introduction of new visa security regulations in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as the identification and evacuation of American citizens after the tsunami in Indonesia and the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006. In her position, she served as primary liaison within the Department of State to the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services on security and visa issues.  She announced her February 2008 retirement from the Foreign Service on November 21, 2007, the five-year anniversary of her swearing-in as Assistant Secretary.

In November 2014, Harty was appointed President & CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC).

See also
 Office of Children's Issues

References

External links
Bureau of Consular Affairs website

1959 births
Living people
People from Staten Island
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
United States Foreign Service personnel
American women ambassadors
Ambassadors of the United States to Paraguay
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
American women chief executives
American nonprofit chief executives
New Dorp High School alumni
Durham City Council elections

Durham City Council elections were generally held every four years between the reforms of 1974 and the council's abolition in 2009. Durham was a non-metropolitan district in County Durham, England. On 1 April 2009 the council's functions passed to Durham County Council, which became a unitary authority.

Political control
From 1836 to 1974 the city of Durham was a municipal borough, sometimes called "Durham and Framwelgate". Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory enlarged and became a non-metropolitan district. The first election to the reconstituted city council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1973 until its abolition in 2009 was held by the following parties:

Leadership
The leaders of the council from 2003 until its abolition in 2009 were:

Council elections

By-election results
The following is an incomplete list of by-elections to Durham City Council.

Notes

References

Council elections in County Durham
Politics of Durham, England
District council elections in England
James Henry (writer)

James Henry is a British comedy screenwriter, best known for his work on Green Wing, Campus and co-writing ITV's The Delivery Man.

Career
He began his career writing for children's television program Bob the Builder, and would contribute to several other series, such as Shaun the Sheep and Dr. Panda. He also wrote on sketch shows like Smack the Pony. He is currently developing two projects. Hero Trip is a huge-budget superhero/road trip comedy, being developed by the UK Film Council. Henry is also developing a teen drama series set in Cornwall for the BBC.

He co-hosts a screenwriting podcast with Matthew Graham, Script Rambles, where the two walk and talk about the UK film and TV industry. He has lectured on television at Falmouth University.

Filmography

References

External links
James Henry in BBC Comedy Guide
Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
British Sitcom Guide  Green Wing writers.

James Henry's Blog

21st-century British screenwriters
21st-century British male writers
British male television writers
British male screenwriters
British comedy writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jeux

Jeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Debussy initially objected to the scenario but reconsidered the commission when Diaghilev doubled the fee. Debussy wrote the score quickly, from mid-August to mid-September 1912. Robert Orledge has analysed the chronology of Debussy's composition and preserved manuscripts of the score.

Jeux premiered on 15 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux. The work was not well received and was soon eclipsed by Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which was premiered two weeks later by Diaghilev's company.

The first commercial recording was made by Victor de Sabata with the Orchestra Stabile Accademica di Santa Cecilia in 1947. A critical edition of the score, prepared by Pierre Boulez and Myriam Chimènes, was published in 1988.

There are about sixty different tempo markings in the work, enough for Émile Vuillermoz to describe the score as changing "speed and nuance every two measures".  The thematic motifs of Jeux are likewise very short, often two measures long or constructed from two single-measure building blocks.  L.D. Berman has analysed Jeux in the context of Debussy's earlier Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Jann Pasler has analysed in detail Debussy's motivic construction.

Scenario

According to Nijinsky's Diaries, made during the weeks before his psychological breakdown, Diaghilev intended the music to describe a homosexual encounter between three young men, and Nijinsky wanted to include an airplane crash. The final version of the story involved a man, two girls, and a game of tennis. The scenario was described to the audience at the premiere as follows:

The scene is a garden at dusk; a tennis ball has been lost; a boy and two girls are searching for it. The artificial light of the large electric lamps shedding fantastic rays about them suggests the idea of childish games: they play hide and seek, they try to catch one another, they quarrel, they sulk without cause. The night is warm, the sky is bathed in pale light; they embrace. But the spell is broken by another tennis ball thrown in mischievously by an unknown hand. Surprised and alarmed, the boy and girls disappear into the nocturnal depths of the garden.

References

Bibliography 
 Nijinsky's Bloomsbury Ballet: Reconstruction of Dance and Design for Jeux, by Millicent Hodson, Pendragon Press, 2008.

External links
San Francisco Symphony Program Notes

Ballets by Vaslav Nijinsky
Ballets by Claude Debussy
1913 ballet premieres
Jeux (Debussy)
Compositions by Claude Debussy
BCSL

BCSL may refer to:

Bergen County Scholastic League, a New Jersey high school athletic league
Burlington County Scholastic League, a New Jersey high school athletic league
Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Dream Theater's 10th studio album released on June 23, 2009
Chakkarakadavu

Chakkarakadavu is a small village to the east of the town of Cherai, on Vypin Island in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India.

Chakkarakadavu shares a common history with Cherai and with the greater Vypin Island. It is the birthplace of Mathai Manjooran, an Indian independence activist from Kerala and  the staunchest proponent for the formation of the Kerala State.

References

Villages in Ernakulam district
San Mateo Daily News

The San Mateo Daily News was a free daily newspaper in San Mateo, California published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 22,000. The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by Dave Price (journalist) and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News. Both papers were distributed in large red newspaper racks and inside stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools, and major workplaces. The San Mateo Daily News, along with five other Daily News editions, was sold to Knight Ridder on February 15, 2005. After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the San Mateo Daily News were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado. The surviving Daily News, papers merged on April 7, 2009.

External links
 Knight Ridder buys Daily News
 Daily News publishers ride into sunset

MediaNews Group publications
San Mateo, California
Defunct newspapers published in California
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Newspapers established in 2000
Publications disestablished in 2009
2000 establishments in California
2009 disestablishments in California
Bob Shepherd

Bob Shepherd is the British author of The Circuit (), a non-fiction account published in 2008 of the defence industry contracts spawned from the Iraq conflict.

"After nearly twenty years of SAS operations, Bob Shepherd retired from the military to work as an adviser on the international commercial security circuit -- simply referred to by its members as The Circuit.  Certain his most dangerous days were behind him, Bob settled into a sedate life looking after VIPs.  Then 9/11 happened.""Written with the passion of an elite soldier, THE CIRCUIT is a pulse-racing and at times shocking first-hand testament to what is really happening on the ground, in the major trouble spots of the world."

References

British non-fiction writers
Living people
British male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male non-fiction writers
Sollia

Sollia is a village in Stor-Elvdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.  The village is located just up the hill from the Setninga river, about  northwest of the town of Koppang and about  north of the village of Ringebu. Sollia Church is located in the long, narrow village. The County Road 219 runs through the small village. Historically, this village was the administrative centre of the old Sollia Municipality.

Name
The first element is sol which means "the Sun" and the last element is the finite form of li which means "hillside". Thus, the name means "the sunny hillside".

References

Stor-Elvdal
Villages in Innlandet
Kool Shen

Bruno Lopes (, ; born 9 February 1966), better known as Kool Shen, is a French rapper, actor and producer, with Portuguese and Breton origins. He is also a break dancer and a graffiti artist. He is a co-founder of Suprême NTM and one of the major figures of French rap. He was featured on Enhancer's album Electrochoc in the song "Hot".

Olympique Lyonnais shirt 
On 2 November 2009, it was announced by French football club Olympique Lyonnais (OL), in collaboration with Betclic and Universal Music, that Kool Shen's name would feature on the team's shirt in a match against league rivals Olympique de Marseille (OM) the following week. It was the first time that a musical artist's album was promoted on a football shirt. OL and OM went on to play out a memorable 5–5 draw in the match.

Discography 
 Dernier round (2005)
 Kool Shen – Live (2005)
 Crise de conscience (2009)
 Sur le fil du rasoir (2016)

Music videos

 1998 : "That's my people".
 2000 : "United we stand" (feat Toy). Directed by J.G Biggs
 2002 : "Are You Ready?" (feat Toy). Directed by J.G Biggs
 2004 : "Qui suis-je?" (actors: Samuel Le Bihan & Jo Prestia). Directed by J.G Biggs.
 2004 : "II shoot IV my people" (feat Big Ali) Directed by J.G Biggs.
 2004 : "Un ange dans le ciel". Directed by J.G Biggs.
 2005 : "L'avenir est à nous" (feat Rohff  & Dadoo). (actor: Tchéky Karyo) Directed by J.G Biggs.
 2005 : "That's my people (live)" (feat Sinik & Kery James) Directed by J.G Biggs.
 2006 : "HOT" (with Enhancer & David Banner) Directed by HK corp.
 2009 : "J'reviens" (feat JoeyStarr) (Actor : Philippe Nahon)
 2009 : "C'est bouillant" (with Salif)

Filmography

References

External links 
 Official Site
 

1967 births
Living people
French rappers
French people of Breton descent
French people of Portuguese descent
People from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
Rappers from Seine-Saint-Denis
French poker players
French male film actors
21st-century French male actors
Redwood City Daily News

The Redwood City Daily News was a free daily newspaper in Redwood City, California, United States, published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000. The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News. The Redwood City Daily News was adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation by the San Mateo County Superior Court in 2001, enabling it to publish legal notices. Both the Palo Alto and Redwood City Daily News editions were distributed in large red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces. The Redwood City Daily News, along with five other Daily News editions, was sold to Knight Ridder on Feb. 15, 2005. After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Redwood City Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

On November 12, 2004, the Redwood City Daily News became one of the first print media outlets in the United States to report late-breaking news of national interest. The trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son had taken place at the Redwood City courthouse, and less than an hour after the jury read their verdict the Daily News began circulation of an "extra" edition which announced the result.

The surviving Daily News papers merged on April 7, 2009.

References

External links
 Redwood City Daily News Official Website
 Knight Ridder buys Daily News
 Daily News publishers ride into sunset

MediaNews Group publications
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Free daily newspapers
Redwood City, California
CD Linares

Club Deportivo Linares was a Spanish football team based in Linares, Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1990 and dissolved in July 2009, it played its last season in 2008–09, in Second Division B - Group 4. The team's stadium was Estadio de Linarejos, with a capacity of 10,000 seats.

History
Club Deportivo Linares was founded in 1990 with Miguel Hernández as its first president, first reaching the fourth division four years later, with a brief spell in the third level in 2000–01 – immediate relegation back.

On 21 July 2009, after seven consecutive seasons in Segunda B, the mayor of Linares, Juan Fernández, announced the club's defunction, due to the impossibility of paying its debt (around €4.7 million). It managed to play another seven seasons in division three.

On 5 August, Linares' new managing board confirmed the registration in the fourth category but, eventually, the Royal Spanish Football Federation forced the team to disappear.

Club background
SG Linarense – (1909–20)
Linares FC – (1920–29)
Gimnástica Linarense – (1929–31)
Linares Deportivo (I) – (1940–46)
Atlético Linares – (1946–48)
CD Linares (I) – (1952–64)
Linares CF – (1961–90)
CD Linares (II) – (1990–2009)
Linares Deportivo (II) – (2009–present)

Season to season

8 seasons in Segunda División B
7 seasons in Tercera División
4 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Last squad

Famous players

References

External links
Official website 

Defunct football clubs in Andalusia
Association football clubs established in 1990
Association football clubs disestablished in 2009
1990 establishments in Spain
2009 disestablishments in Spain
Linares, Jaén
Burlingame Daily News

The Burlingame Daily News was a free daily newspaper in Burlingame, California published six days a week with an average daily circulation of 7,000. The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by Dave Price (journalist) and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News.

Distribution 
Both papers were distributed in large red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces. 

Burlingame Daily News, along with five other Daily News editions, was sold to Knight Ridder in 2005. 

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Burlingame Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado. The surviving Daily News papers merged on April 7, 2009.

External links
 Official site
 Knight Ridder buys Daily News
 Daily News publishers ride into sunset

Free daily newspapers
Burlingame, California
Defunct newspapers published in California
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
MediaNews Group publications
Newspapers established in 2000
Publications disestablished in 2009
2000 establishments in California
2009 disestablishments in California
East Bay Daily News

The East Bay Daily News was a free daily newspaper in Berkeley, California published 5 days a week with an average daily circulation of 10,000. The newspaper was founded May 20, 2005 by journalist Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News. The East Bay Daily News was distributed in large red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces in Berkeley, Albany, Piedmont and Oakland. After McClatchy's acquisition of the paper's previous owner Knight Ridder in early 2006, the Palo Alto Daily News group, including the East Bay Daily News, was bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

External links
 East Bay Daily News Official Website

MediaNews Group publications
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Free daily newspapers
Newspapers established in 2005