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The Nebraska Library Commission's statutory authority is set forth under Article 4, Chapter 51 of Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska. In addition to the powers granted in Chapter 51, state statutes provide that the Commission is the state agency designated to receive federal library program funds appropriated for the Library Services and Technology Act. The mission of the Nebraska Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and coordination of library and information services. As the state library agency, the Commission is an advocate for the library and information service needs of all Nebraskans.

Mecyclothorax gourvesioides Mecyclothorax gourvesioides is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Psydrinae. It was described by Perrault in 1988.

The album debuted at number 15 and peaked at number two on the Mexican Albums Chart, being blocked for the number-one by "" by Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte. The album is the highest placement in the chart for Guzmán since "Indeleble" which peaked at the top in 2006. "20 Años de Éxitos En Vivo con Moderatto" earned a platinum certificacion in Mexico by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 20 in the "Billboard" Latin Albums and at number seven on the Latin Pop Albums chart, becoming Guzmán's fourth top ten album in the latter chart, following "Flor de Papel" (1992), "Soy" (2001) and "Reina de Corazones: La Historia" (2007). Source:

The first issue appeared on Monday, November 2, 1931, published from the "News" building. The combined circulation was expected to reach "more than 30,000," it was said. The "Citizen" circulation was given as 20,000 and the "News" as "over 20,000." The editorial staff of the "Citizen" struck and picketed the plant on May 17, 1938, in the first walkout called by the American Newspaper Guild in California. Managing editor Harold Swisher said other workers were being hired and that production employees were on the job as usual. Publisher Harlan G. Palmer discharged three of the Guild members while negotiations were going on. Sontag Company filed suit against the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and others, contending it was damaged by union pickets at its Hollywood drug store. A Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the union prohibiting it from picketing 166 companies that continued their advertising in the struck newspaper. The order against this secondary picketing was later made permanent. The union took the matter to the National Labor Relations Board The strike ended on July 30, 1938, with an agreement between the two sides. Superior Judge Emmet Wilson, however, ruled that six guild members he had cited for contempt of court must stand trial. The union lost an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals which had been asked to rule on its claim, among others, that the company had violated labor law when it denied bylines to some employees who had been involved in the strike. The court held that it was within the right of the employer to make such a decision for business reasons. Palmer died on July 25, 1956, and the publishership of the company was taken over by his son, Harlan G. Palmer Jr., who in 1961 sold it to David B. Heyler, owner of the "Beverly Hills Citizen." In January 1962, Heyler announced that the "Citizen-News" would have separate editions for three districts of the Los Angeles area: (1) Hollywood and the metropolitan area, (2) Beverly Hills west to Santa Monica, and (3) the San Fernando Valley. In July 1964 Lamott du Pont Copeland Jr., owner of the "Valley Times" in the San Fernando Valley, purchased the stock of the "Citizen-News," including twenty-seven weeklies operated in the Los Angeles area. A spokesman said it was the largest community-newspaper group in the United States. Copeland appointed Richard M. Horton as publisher.

Lake Pânzelor The Lake of Pânzelor (Romanian: Lacul Pânzelor, also called Lacul Inului) is a natural salt lake in the town of Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is one of the many lakes of the Ocna Sibiului mine, a large salt mine which has one of the largest salt reserves in Romania. In Romanian, "Lacul Pânzelor" means "The lake of webs". Its other name ("Lacul Inului") means "the lake of flax". The lake originates from the "Josef" salt mine, exploited with two wells and abandoned in 1770, due to strong infiltration of water through the walls.

Adapta World Rally Team The Adapta WRT is a World Rally Championship team. Sometimes it is referred to as Adapta AS. It has previously competed with Subaru Impreza WRC of many evolutions, now they use Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Adapta WRT is signed to manufacturers championship with Mads Østberg and Eyvind Brynildsen for 2012 season.

Vladimir Lenin tried to establish removal of grain from wealthier peasants after the initial failure of state farms but this was also unsuccessful. Peasants were mainly concerned for their own well being and felt that the state had nothing of necessity to offer for the grain. This stockpiling of grain by the peasantry left millions of people in the city hungry, leading Lenin to establish his New Economic Policy to keep the economy from crashing. NEP was based more on capitalism and not socialism, which is the direction the government wanted to head toward. By 1928, with the rapid industrialization, and mass urbanization that followed, consumption was to increase rapidly as well. Need for urban dwellers to be fed, the FYP increased collectivization, leading to its recognition be largely associated with Stalin. Beginning in 1929 under the FYP, mass collectivization was communal farms being assigned an amount of agricultural output with government coercion. Villages had to agree to collectivization: some collectivization planners would hold endless meetings that would not end until villages joined; another tactic was through intimidation and coercion. Mass agricultural collectivization was largely supported by the middle and poor peasantry As the peasant class itself was divided into three groups: kulaks, wealthy; serednyak, middle; bednyak, poor. The middle and lower class supported collectivization, because it took private land from individual Kulak's, and distributed it among the serednyak and bednyak's villages. With the serednyak and bednyak joining collectivization they were also joining a kohloz. The kulaks did not support mass collectivization, as their land was being taken from them as well as their animals. At the end of 1929 the Soviets asserted themselves to forming collectivized peasant agriculture, but the “Kulaks” had to be “liquidated as a class,” because of their resistance to fixed agricultural prices. Resulting from this, the party behavior became uncontrolled and manic when the party began to requisition food from the countryside. Kulaks were executed, exiled or deported, based on their level of resistance to collectivization. The kulaks who were considered "counter-revolutionary" were executed or exiled, those who opposed collectivization were deported to remote regions and the rest were resettled to non-arable land in the same region. In the years following the agricultural collectivization, the reforms would disrupt the Soviet food supply. In turn, this disruption would eventually lead to famines for the many years following the first five-year plan, with 6-7 million dying from starvation in 1933.

Deconica inquilina Deconica inquilina is a species of mushroom in the family Strophariaceae. Formerly a member of the genus "Psilocybe" (well known for its psilocybin containing members), this species belonged to the non-blueing (non-hallucinogenic) clade and was consequently moved to "Deconica" in 2009. "Deconica inquilina" is found growing on decaying grass. It is very widely distributed, reported from North America, South America and Europe.

In 1990 he received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In the same year, he became head of the studio of painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, a position he held until 2002. He was appointed full professor in 1991 and also served as vice-rector. He became a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts in 1995. He died of cancer in September 2003. Nešleha's work is rich in themes; it includes paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, as well as installations, collages, luminous objects and reliefs. His work from the late 1950s and 1960s is influenced by expressive and informel art currents in which work is guided by imagination. He depicts the drama of human existence in its various forms. In the mid 1960s, his work gradually becomes more figurative and eventually leads to paintings, graphic art and large-scale drawings that amplify detailed parts of the human body. Starting in 1968, he develops an interest in photography and explores the extent to which the objective depiction of reality can be influenced by an artistic viewpoint; in his work, objects from day-to-day life intersect with the grotesque, the ironic or the absurd. In the 1970s, he develops individualistic themes with surreal overtones; an interest in meditation and the symbolic value of light leads him to explore how light influences man's perception of objects and reliefs. The 1980s bring a different trend to the artist's work. Influenced by the romantic views of K. H. Mácha and C. D. Friedrich, Nešleha explores the relationship between man and nature and the symbolic nature of light through various themes. His paintings highlight paradoxes by combining reality and illusion; he gives relief to his work using doors and various other objects, assembled and sometimes animated with video. His pastels, drawings, and photographs reflect some of the artist's leitmotifs: nature, myth, and fate. By the end of the 1990s, his attention turns once again to light, which is now endowed with spiritual significance — he uses light pastel to depict reality gradually disappearing in abstract colorful characters and visions. His creativity then comes to an end abruptly with his premature death in 2003.

Consulate-General of India, Karachi The Consulate-General of India in Karachi was a diplomatic mission of India in Pakistan. Rajiv Dogra served as the Consul General to Karachi, Pakistan. The consulate was located at Clifton, Karachi. Presently Consulate services are closed since in January 1995. Benazir Bhutto closed the Indian consulate in Karachi in December 1994.

Mike Magee (soccer) Michael Magee (born September 2, 1984) is a retired American soccer player who last played for LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer as a forward. In the 2013 season with the Chicago Fire, Magee scored 21 goals and was named the MLS MVP. Magee graduated from USSF's Bradenton Academy he entered the 2003 MLS SuperDraft, where the MetroStars traded the previous year's third overall selection, Brad Davis, to acquire Magee with the fourth overall pick. With Metro coach Bob Bradley familiar with Magee from his youth soccer days, the youngster quickly stepped into the Metro lineup, and played every game of the 2003 season except the meaningless finale. He became the youngest player in team history to start a game and score a goal. He scored seven goals, nearing the rookie record, which included a couple of game-winning and game-tying efforts. When the MetroStars signed a trio of foreign strikers before the 2004 season, Magee struggled for playing time early on. But he soon found a new niche as an attacking midfielder, as his skill on the ball, leadership, precise passing, and overall intelligence made him an important part of the Metro team. Magee ended up with three goals on the season, one of them in the 90th minute to give the Metros a 2-1 win over Los Angeles Galaxy. He scored five in 2005, adding five assists. Magee followed that with three goals in an injury-filled 2006. Magee's injury woes continued in 2007 as he was limited to 7 league matches. The 2008 season saw Magee receive significant playing time as an attacking midfielder, but it was apparent that he was not fully recovered from his injuries. He was then moved to his natural forward position and had a resurgence as he scored in 3 consecutive matches, helping the club to three straight wins. He ended the 2008 season scoring five key goals, helping the club reach the MLS Playoffs. Magee was traded to Los Angeles Galaxy in January 2009 in exchange for a 2nd round pick in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. In his first season with Los Angeles, Magee appeared in 23 league matches scoring 2 goals. During the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs Magee started all 4 of the team's playoff matches scoring two goals in helping lead the club to the MLS Cup Final. At the MLS 2009 Cup Final Magee scored the Galaxy's only goal but the team ended up losing during an overtime penalty shoot out. Magee made his first professional appearance as a goalkeeper on June 25, 2011, moving to the position in the 43rd minute of a match against San Jose Earthquakes, after starting goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts was injured and reserve goalkeeper Josh Saunders received a red card for an elbow to the face of Steven Lenhart.

Though Zionist groups were first competing with other Jewish political movements, Zionism became an equivalent to political Judaism during and after the Holocaust. The first Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, led a trend to blend the many immigrants who, in the first years of the state, had arrived from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, into one 'melting pot' that would not differentiate between the older residents of the country and the new immigrants. The original purpose was to unify the newer immigrants with the veteran Israelis for the creation of a common Hebrew culture, and to build a new nation in the country. Two central tools employed for this purpose were the Israel Defense Forces, and the education system. The Israel Defense Forces, by means of its transformation to a national army, would constitute a common ground among all civilians of the country, wherever they are. The education system, having been unified under Israeli law, enabled different students from different sectors to study together at the same schools. Gradually, Israeli society became more pluralistic, and the 'melting pot' declined over the years. Some critics of the 'melting pot' consider it to have been a necessity in the first years of the state, in order to build a mutual society, but now claim that there is no longer a need for it. They instead see a need for Israeli society to enable people to express the differences and the exclusivity of every stream and sector. Others, mainly Mizrahi Jews who are more Shomer Masoret and the Holocaust survivors, have criticized the early 'melting pot' process. According to them, they were forced to give up or conceal their Jewish Masoret and their diaspora heritage and culture, which they brought from their diaspora countries, and to adopt the new secular "Sabra" culture. Today cultural diversity is being celebrated; many speak several languages, continue to eat the food of their cultural origins, and have mixed outlooks. While Hebrew is the official languages of the State of Israel, over 83 languages are spoken in the country. As new immigrants arrived, Hebrew language instruction was important. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who founded the Hebrew Language Committee, coined thousands of new words and concepts based on Biblical, Talmudic and other sources, to cope with the needs and demands of life in the 20th century. Learning Hebrew became a national goal, employing the slogan "Yehudi, daber Ivrit" ("Jew - speak Hebrew"). Special schools for Hebrew language learning, "ulpanim", were set up all over the country.

The greatest danger of the Nicene Creed, these bishops believed, was Sabellianism, "the denial of a distinction between the three within the Godhead." The Nicene Creed was thought to make this mistake and to leave the door open to Sabellianism by asserting consubstantiality and denying separate beings (hypostases) to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the Dedication Creed was intended to shut that door. The phrases 'God from God,' 'whole from whole', and similar ones in the Dedication Creed were intended to deny the idea that the Son was a piece of the father that had been broken off or separated. Arians rejected the idea of the Son as a piece of the Father, so this is another sense in which the Dedication Creed was friendly to Arians. However, Hanson considers the rejection of the idea of the Son as a piece of the Father to be an Origenist doctrine rather than specifically an Arian one. The distinction of "hypostases" within the Godhead is also reminiscent of Origen, so that the Dedication Creed can be considered 'Origenist.' Hanson also finds a possible influence of Asterius in the terminology of "hypostases" 'agreeing' (συμφωνίαν), a phrase found in the known fragments of Asterius. For Hanson, the Dedication Creed was put forth as an alternative to the Nicene Creed and was intended to replace it. The Dedication Creed excluded the kind of Arianism originally proposed by and associated with Arius himself. Because of this, Simonetti believes that by 341, Eusebius of Nicomedia had shifted his views from his earlier support of Arius. On the other hand, the Dedication Creed resembled the doctrines taught by Eusebius of Caesarea prior to the Arian controversy. Thus, Hanson concludes that the intellectual ancestors of the Dedication Creed are Origen, Asterius, and Eusebius of Caesarea. In the 350s Constantius II became sole Emperor of the Roman Empire. Constantius generally favored Arians over Nicenes and encouraged the calling of councils to resolve doctrinal disputes. A council was held in Sirmium, which was Constantius' main capital city, in 357. Attendants at the Third Council of Sirmium in 357 included Germinius of Sirmium, Valens of Mursa, Ursacius of Singidunum, Potamius of Lisbon, and Hosius of Corduba.

Daniel Lovitz Daniel Harry Lovitz (born August 27, 1991) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder or wing-back for Nashville SC in Major League Soccer. When he was a kid he played for Lower Merion. Then Lovitz played four years of college soccer at Elon University, making 80 appearances, scoring nine goals and added 16 assists. In 2013 Lovitz was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year after leading the Phoenix to a third straight conference tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth. While at college, Lovitz also appeared for USL PDL club Carolina Dynamo during their 2012 and 2013 season's. On January 16, 2014, Lovitz was drafted in the second round (24th overall) of the 2014 MLS SuperDraft by Toronto FC. He was loaned to Toronto's USL Pro affiliate Wilmington Hammerheads in March 2014 along with Quillan Roberts and Manny Aparicio. Lovitz made his professional debut in a 0–0 draw with Harrisburg City Islanders on April 5, 2014. The following week Lovitz scored his first goal against Pittsburgh Riverhounds in a 4–3 away victory. On December 12, Lovitz was selected by New York City FC in the 2014 MLS Expansion Draft. However, hours later Toronto announced that they had re-acquired Lovitz from New York in exchange for allocation money. In 2015, Lovitz made 11 appearances, starting three for Toronto FC. On February 28, 2017, Daniel Lovitz signed with the Montreal Impact. On November 19, 2019, Lovitz was traded to Nashville SC in exchange for $50,000 in General Allocation Money and $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money. He made his debut for the United States national team on January 27, 2019 in a friendly against Panama, as a starter. He was also named to the 2019 Gold Cup squad, and has continued to feature at left back for the United States national team throughout 2019. Despite this, Lovitz has received criticism for his performance for the national team, referring to his talent and technical ability to play at the international level. "Source: US Soccer"

List of search appliance vendors A search appliance is a type of computer which is attached to a corporate network for the purpose of indexing the content shared across that network in a way that is similar to a web search engine. It may be made accessible through a public web interface or restricted to users of that network. A search appliance is usually made up of: a gathering component, a standardizing component, a data storage area, a search component, a user interface component, and a management interface component.

Introducing...Rubén González Introducing... Rubén González is the second studio album by Cuban pianist Rubén González. It was recorded at EGREM studios in Havana, Cuba, during April 1996, as the last of the sessions that also yielded the albums "A Toda Cuba le Gusta" and "Buena Vista Social Club". It was released on September 16, 1997, through World Circuit, thus becoming González's international debut. The album reached number seventeen on "Billboard" Top Latin Albums. In 2014 it was awarded a diamond certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 200,000 copies throughout Europe. This album was made at the end of World Circuit's three week recording session at EGREM Studios in Havana that had started in March 1996. Every morning during the recording of "A Toda Cuba le Gusta" (produced by Juan de Marcos González), Rubén would wait for the studio's doors to open and would rush to the piano and play. The same would happen throughout the recording of "Buena Vista Social Club" (produced by Ry Cooder). After these two albums were completed, Rubén was still at the piano. Not only was he asked to stay, but he was invited to record his own album, to choose his own repertoire and to play for as long as he wanted. With virtually no rehearsals, the band played this collection of classic Cuban tunes, as a series of "descargas" (Cuban jam sessions).

2014 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships – Men's Artistic Gymnastics The Men's Artistic Gymnastics competition for the 2014 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships was held on 10 April to 12 April 2014 at the Richmond Olympic Oval. The juniors and seniors competed together in the team final and individual all-around, but competed separately during the event finals. The team final and all-around competition were held on 10 April, the junior event finals were held on 11 April, and the senior event finals were held on 12 April. Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results Results

The game marks the series' introduction into 3D environments, though retaining its roots as a platformer. It is also the first game to introduce a second protagonist, allowing the player to switch between Abe and Munch to take advantage of abilities exclusive to each character. Also pivotal was the expansion of elements that were only touched on in their two previous games, such as the ability to "create characters and use them as allies to attack, defend and solve work problems in the world." Other changes include new chanting features, the ability for Abe to pick up objects or people, and power ups that affect gameplay. Veering away from the Quintology a second time, Oddworld Inhabitants' fourth game was "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath", published for the Xbox in 2005 by Electronic Arts. The first Oddworld game to be entirely independent of the Abe series, "Stranger's Wrath" is set in the Wild West of Oddworld and follows a bounty hunter known only as the Stranger, one of the last remaining "steef" on Oddworld, as he collects bounties for capturing outlaws in order to save enough "moolah" for a life-saving operation. The game continues the 3D gameplay introduced by "Munch's Oddysee" and switches between first person perspective for shooting, and third person perspective for long range running, platform jumping and melee combat. It also moves away from Oddworld's reliance on puzzles in favor of an action-adventure style with elements of role playing. Its prominent new features included "live ammunition", where the player can use various in-game creatures and projectiles for differing effects; and the ability to use the game's money system to purchase various items and weapon upgrades. In 2009, Lorne Lanning announced plans to make an Oddworld digital download package exclusively for PC to contain "Abe's Oddysee", "Abe's Exoddus", and for the first time on the platform, "Munch's Oddysee" and "Stranger's Wrath". When Oddworld Inhabitants unveiled their re-designed website on 4 November 2010, they declared the then in-development package would be titled "Oddboxx". The European and U.S. prices of the "Oddboxx" were revealed on 14 December and on 20 December 2010, it was released on Steam. 30 Achievements were added to "Munch's Oddysee", while "Stranger's Wrath" gained 20. On 29 April 2011, Stewart Gilray announced at GameCityNights that they were planning an "Oddboxx" release for the PlayStation Network with the "Stranger" portion of the package to be the remastered edition they had been working on, though the release had been delayed to fix some bugs and add additional features like PlayStation Move and 3DTV support.

He declined this in order to participate in the 2006 election, as Frente de Centro's presidential candidate in an unsuccessful campaign, in which he came in fifth place, receiving 5.75% of the vote. He became a member of the Club of Madrid . On 21 August 2006, he fell seriously ill and was hospitalized for a week with a respiratory infection. A congressman wrongly reported that he had died and Congress observed a moment of silence in his honor, but he had not died and his health had in fact improved. However, in early October 2006, the country learned from a medical spokesperson that Mr. Paniagua's condition had not improved significantly. Valentín Paniagua died in the early hours of October 16, 2006 in a hospital in Lima.

Chełminko Chełminko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Duszniki, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Duszniki, south-west of Szamotuły, and west of the regional capital Poznań.

But even if you don't, you can't help but be impressed by this fascinating portrait of a superstar trying very hard to keep her feet on earth while her career keeps soaring ever upward". Michelle Coude-Lord from "Toronto Sun" gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote that "the movie is a must-see". It "shows Celine as being human, and perfectly depicts the bond between her and Angélil. It connects the public with Dion's words, successes, career heights and her superstardom". She also noted that "Dion's goal was for her world to remain human, real and authentic. Mission accomplished". John Griffin of "The Gazette" said that "fans die and go to pop heaven with Stéphane Laporte's sympathetic and even candid documentary about our very own superstar's world tour in 2008-09. Non-fans discover her real appeal in "Céline: Through the Eyes of the World"". He gave the film 3 out of 5 stars. Linda Cook of "Quad-City Times" gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and said that she "was pleasantly surprised when she realized the movie had her hooked about 15 minutes into the film". She also said that "it's mesmerizing to see audiences all over the world singing along in French and/or English, and to see the moment when she was presented with the Legion of Honour". She "enjoyed watching as Celine and her family became tourists in the countries she visited, whether she was taking in the sounds and sights of Africa or Australia. Above all, it's fascinating to watch her music unite the world as audiences from Dubai and Amsterdam sing familiar lyrics". Sara Schieron from "Boxoffice" stated that "in sum, what you see is a woman and a family that handle celebrity with a unique grace". She also said that the "box office will, no doubt, confirm demand for the movie" and gave it 3 stars out of 5. According to "The Globe and Mail" "you have to admit Dion is the James Brown of her generation - the hardest working woman in showbusiness". "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "rather than capturing a restless star pushing at her own boundaries, "Through the Eyes of the World" finds Dion sitting pretty, on top of the world and happy to stay there". In Canada, after just two days "Celine: Through the Eyes of the World" was shown in 81 theatres and entered the domestic chart at number two, earning $240,942.

Mackie describes Bill as "cool, really fun and really excited", and that she is "really young and doesn't really know much about the world". Capaldi describes her character as coming into the series as "very much as a regular human being from the real world, to whom all of this stuff is extraordinary, she knows nothing about it". Bill challenges the Doctor in his ways, calling him out on issues that he hasn't faced in a long time, and having a curious mind, she asks him continuous questions. On 23 July 2017, a trailer for the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time" was released revealing Mackie's involvement in that episode. On the same day, Mackie officially announced at San Diego Comic-Con that she would not be returning for the eleventh series. Though the character shares a name with William "Bill" Hartnell, who played the First Doctor (and whose wife, like Bill's girlfriend, was named Heather), creator Steven Moffat has said that this was a coincidence. The character's name was in fact inspired when Moffat overheard David Tennant, who portrayed the Tenth Doctor, offhandedly call out to Billie Piper by the name Bill on the set of "The Day of the Doctor" in 2013. Before the episode was broadcast, an advanced screening was given for critics. General reviews for Mackie's character were mixed. Following the broadcast of her first episode, the character was received more positively. Patrick Mulkern of "Radio Times" described Pearl Mackie as "instantly winning as fledgling companion Bill". Den of Geek's Simon Brew also gave a positive review of Mackie, praising the humour in Mackie's performance. Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club said Mackie brought "an energy distinct from any previous new series companion" and called her first appearance a "solid introduction". Wilkins also commented on the character that "she is gay, black, and working class is another welcome step in Doctor Who’s ability to reflect the entire spectrum of who enjoy the show and identify with its characters". However, Catherine Gee of "The Telegraph" gave a more negative review, saying Mackie in her premiere episode "lacked the charismatic spark of Jenna Coleman" and said Mackie's character was a "muddle", but praised the fact Mackie's character was not middle-class.

Combat Logistics Battalion 31 Combat Logistics Battalion 31 (CLB-31) is a logistics battalion of the United States Marine Corps. CLB-31 is the Logistics Combat Element (LCE) of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), the only continuously forward-deployed MEU in the Marine Corps. As the Logistics Combat Element, Combat Logistics Battalion 31 provides all elements of the MEU with combat service support. To do this, CLB-31 comprises a Headquarters, a Motor Transport Platoon, Engineer Platoon, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Platoon, Maintenance Platoon, Supply Platoon, Military Police Platoon, Landing Support Platoon, Communications Platoon and its Health Service Support. Additionally, CLB-31 provides the 31st MEU with ammunition, postal and disbursing services. Although CLB-31 is assigned to the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, the battalion remains permanently assigned to the 31st MEU. CLB-31 is based on Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan. Provide ground combat service support to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to conduct special operations as directed and to act as the nucleus for expanded combat service support operations. In ancient Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial spheres. His burden, according to myth, would be to forever carry the weight of the universe on his shoulders. Atlas represents the spirit of a battalion that keeps the rest of the effort moving forward. CLB-31 adopted the title of Atlas Battalion in June 2012; Like Atlas, CLB-31 upholds, supports, and gives enduring sustainment to the 31st MEU. As one of the most constantly deployed battalions and the Combat Service Support for the only continually forward-deployed MEU in the Marine Corps, CLB-31 continually earns the title "Atlas Battalion". In addition to direct logistics support the attached Battalion Landing Team and general logistics support to the 31st MEU, CLB-31 is tasked with three special capabilities as part of the Maritime Contingency Force: Though the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit had been with logisticians since inception, Combat Logistics Battalion 31 traces its lineage to the activation of Logistics Support Unit 31, 31st Marine Amphibious Unit, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific on 15 June 1979 at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The unit was re-designated 17 October 1979 as Marine Amphibious Unit Service Support Group 31 (MSSG-31), 31st Marine Amphibious Unit (31st MAU).

A new paint scheme, two tone green and cream replaced the NER's brown and cream but most of the NER's characteristic enamel signs remained in use, although the Running in boards were painted over during the Second World War. Although the LNER brought different locomotives, most of the local trains still consisted mainly of NER stock. Under British Railways (BR) the present station lost its characteristic overall roof in 1952 as an economy measure as corrosion meant it was unsafe. The NYMR was granted Heritage Lottery Funding for a number of schemes at Pickering station which includes reinstatement of the 1845 designed roof, which was projected to be complete by 2010, but was not officially unveiled until April 2011. At some time in the early BR period (probably at the same time that the overall roof was removed), Pickering lost its characteristic small W.H.Smiths bookstall on the up platform. This bookstall had been there since some time in the NER period, it appears in the background of views taken by local photographer Sidney Smith before and during the first World War, subjects include a local Sunday School outing. It also appears in a photo of a wedding group on the platform in early BR days, a copy of which is held in the NYMR Archives digital image collection. On 6 April 1959 the engine shed closed and Pickering's engine requirements were supplied by Malton shed. The turntable was also removed (by then there were no terminating passenger services, both branch lines having closed). Pickering station carried on as usual until its death knell was sounded in the Beeching Report of 1963 which planned the closure of all railways serving Whitby. Despite a fierce local campaign of opposition the line between Rillington Junction and Grosmont closed on 8 March 1965. The line from Rillington as far as New Bridge signal box (about a mile north of the station) remained open for goods for a further year, a solitary signalman being retained at Pickering to work all the cabins needed by the goods trains. In 1967, a group of local residents set up the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Society with the aim of preserving the line. Services began in 1970, and on 22 April 1973 the entire line from to Pickering was reopened. In pre-preservation days Pickering was not a terminus; the main line continued south to Rillington Junction and thus to Malton, with connections for York. The Malton - Whitby service was ended in 1965 as part of the Beeching Axe.

If Only the Dead Could Listen If Only the Dead Could Listen (Globic Press, 2008), by Gëzim Alpion, is a play about the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees in Britain. The play is a revised version of Alpion’s six-scene tragedy "Vouchers" (2001). The events of the play take place at a police station in a small town near London, UK, in December 2001. Scene One: Bill Wright, a police sergeant in his late forties, is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Alma Stone, an Albanian researcher in London. She has volunteered to act as an interpreter at the interview of Leka Trimi, an Albanian asylum seeker from Kosova, who has been arrested on suspicion of theft. The conversation between Bill and Alma reveals that she suffers from an inferiority complex because of the bad press her country and expatriates receive in the British media. Bill is taken by surprise by her low opinion of her fellow Albanians. Scene Two: John, a custody officer, orders Leka repeatedly to sit down when Bill and Alma enter the interview room. Leka is profusely apologetic to Bill for having hit him unintentionally the day before during a fight that had broken out between Leka and a fellow Albanian interpreter. Leka speaks broken English throughout the scene. He is very courteous towards Alma. When John leaves the interview room Bill and Alma fail to convince Leka that Alma is Albanian. Leka’s self-esteem and his opinion of his fellow Albanians are apparently so low that he cannot comprehend that some of his compatriots in the UK are not refugees. At some point Leka compares Alma to another woman with a Serbian name, something which makes Alma very curious. She tries without success to learn from Leka about the Serbian woman. Alma could sense that Leka has perhaps a Serbian wife/girlfriend, which, in her view, is very strange considering the hostility between the Albanians and the Serbs in Kosova. John interrupts the interview to inform Bill that the Chief of Police needs to see him immediately. Scene Three: With Bill gone, Leka remains in the interview room, while John and Alma have a chat in the corridor. John is not aware that Alma is Albanian. Alma is eager to enter the interview room and ask Leka about the Serbian woman. She manages to get rid of John temporarily by flirting with him. When she is alone in the interview room with Leka, Alma asks him about the Serbian woman, but he avoids answering her questions.

This unit was joined on 1 March 1937 by No. 63 Squadron and its Hawker Audaxes. During their time at Upwood, No 52 and 63 Squadrons became training units and took on both Fairey Battle and Avro Anson aircraft. In August and September 1939, the two squadrons were reassigned opening the field up to its new tenant, No. 90 Squadron flying Bristol Blenheims. With the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, Second World War was underway. However No 90 Squadron spent most of its time in air-to-air firing and bombing practice. They were joined in February 1940 by another medium bomber unit, No. 35 Squadron, flying both Blenheims and Ansons. Both Upwood squadrons were not destined to see front-line combat as, on 8 April 1940, they were merged into the new No. 17 Operational Training Unit RAF and tasked with training aircrews. Although the Upwood units were not taking a direct part in the war, they did see some action. On two occasions in 1940 and once in 1942 the airfield was attacked by Luftwaffe aircraft. However, only one person was killed during these raids. On 1 February 1941 a German spy, Josef Jakobs, was captured by farmers after he had parachuted into the area, breaking a leg in the process. He was discovered to have maps of the RAF Upwood area, a code device and almost £500 cash in his possession. Jakobs was sent to London where, after a preliminary interrogation by MI5, he spent several months at Dulwich Hospital. Jakobs was transferred to Camp 020 in April 1941 where he was interrogated by agents of MI5. On August 4 and 5, Jakobs was tried by court-martial at the Duke of York's Headquarters where he was found guilty of treachery. Jakobs was executed by firing squad at the Tower of London on 15 August 1941. Since its opening in 1937, Upwood had seen frequent periods where flying operations had to be curtailed or halted altogether due to the grass airfield being unserviceable. This unserviceability was caused by the levels of rain and general dampness of the area. When No 17 OTU was chosen for transition to Vickers Wellington bombers, it was decided to move the unit from Upwood as the field would never take the pounding from these heavier aircraft. When 17 OTU departed for RAF Silverstone in April 1943, Upwood was left with no aircraft. The RAF took this opportunity to begin construction of three concrete runways.

Executive Council of Manitoba The Executive Council of Manitoba (), informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of Manitoba, is the cabinet of that Canadian province. The current cabinet are members of the Progressive Conservatives. Almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, the Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the Cabinet of Canada while being smaller in size. As federal and provincial responsibilities differ there are a number of different portfolios between the federal and provincial governments. The Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, as representative of the Queen in Right of Manitoba, heads the council, and is referred to as the Governor-in-Council. Other members of the Cabinet, who advise, or minister, the vice-regal, are selected by the Premier of Manitoba and appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor. Most cabinet ministers are the head of a ministry, but this is not always the case. As at the federal level the most important Cabinet post after that of the leader is Minister of Finance. Today the next most powerful position is certainly the health portfolio which has a vast budget and is of central political import. Other powerful portfolios include Education and Energy.

The attackers couldn't access the money and fled. On 28 March the group parked a Peugeot 205, with 4 gas tanks linked to a detonator in the boot, beside a police precinct in Lille. The whole building was supposed to be destroyed by the blast. However, the bomb malfunctioned, destroying only the car. For several days, the gang had been under surveillance after the failed assault against the Brink's truck. The police officers succeeded in locating the gang's: the house of one of the members in Roubaix. The day following the failed attack of 28 March, the police decided to intervene. The RAID, a French anti-terrorist Special unit, surrounded and stormed the house. The four men who were inside fought back with assault rifles, screaming that they'd rather die than surrender. The RAID team fired back and launched smoke grenades. A grenade, launched by the group, injured another policeman and started a fire in the house. After several minutes of heavy gunfighting, the roof of the building, weakened by the fire, collapsed on the 3 remaining gang members. The toll of the assault was 4 dead and two police officers injured, including one seriously. The others members of the gang, who were located in several other locations, managed to escape. All the police units were scrambled. Several hours later, Caze, who had managed to escape, was killed by Belgian police. An electronic address book was found on Caze's body which permitted the arrest of Fateh Kamel and Mohammed Omary. Kamel was the leader of a terrorist cell in Montreal, suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Los Angeles. After escaping all across Europe, Dumont was finally arrested in Germany in 2003. He is currently serving a 25-year sentence in France.

S-finite measure In measure theory, a branch of mathematics that studies generalized notions of volumes, an s-finite measure is a special type of measure. An s-finite measure is more general than a finite measure, but allows one to generalize certain proofs for finite measures. The s-finite measures should not be confused with the σ-finite (sigma-finite) measures. Let formula_1 be a measurable space and formula_2 a measure on this measurable space. The measure formula_2 is called an s-finite measure, if it can be written as a countable sum of finite measures formula_4 (formula_5), The Lebesgue measure formula_7 is an s-finite measure. For this, set and define the measures formula_4 by for all measurable sets formula_11. These measures are finite, since formula_12 for all measurable sets formula_11, and by construction satisfy Therefore the Lebesgue measure is s-finite. Every σ-finite measure is s-finite, but not every s-finite measure is also σ-finite. To show that every σ-finite measure is s-finite, let formula_2 be σ-finite. Then there are measurable disjoint sets formula_16 with formula_17 and Then the measures are finite and their sum is formula_2. This approach is just like in the example above. An example for an s-finite measure that is not σ-finite can be constructed on the set formula_21 with the σ-algebra formula_22. For all formula_5, let formula_4 be the counting measure on this measurable space and define The measure formula_2 is by construction s-finite (since the counting measure is finite on a set with one element). But formula_2 is not σ-finite, since So formula_2 cannot be σ-finite. For every s-finite measure formula_30, there exists an equivalent probability measure formula_31, meaning that formula_32. One possible equivalent probability measure is given by Sources for s-finite measures

Little Things (Jessica Mauboy song) "Little Things" is a song by Australian recording artist Jessica Mauboy. It was released digitally on 21 June 2019 as the second single from Mauboy's forthcoming fourth studio album, "Hilda". Upon released, Mauboy explained "This song is everything we want to tell our loved ones... to remind them that all we want is to be loved and appreciated in all of the things we do." adding "This song could also be felt in a way that you could be an eight year old girl or boy and want to feel loved by your parents, trying to catch their attention when your parents aren't watching, to a 20 year old sharing their deepest experience and not getting that back in return from the one they love, (or) to a 50 year old who could has lost their loved one and is haunted by memories of what was unsaid." She further wrote on her Instagram that "Little Things" "holds a special place in my heart". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the song was nominated for two awards ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and Video of the year. Lauren from Sounds of Oz said "It's intimate and powerful, with an emotional maturity that's so compelling" saying "[it] may be her best work yet." The music video for "Little Things" was released on 31 July 2019. Shot in one continuous take, Mauboy breaks down in tears during the video and said "I'm really proud of this video; it's me at my rawest and I can’t wait to see everyone’s reaction to it."

Foldnutfonna Foldnutfonna is a glacier in Wedel Jarlsberg Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has an extension of about three kilometers, is a part of the Recherchebreen complex, and is located between Foldnutane, Haugknatten and Konglomeratfjellet.

Kadakkal’s Freedom Struggle The Kadakal Rebellion of 1938 or Kadakkal Revolt was the spontaneous participation of the people of Kadakkal in the course of India's struggle for freedom and their contribution to the great saga of Indian nationalism, is a unique event in the history of the princely state of Travancore. During pre-independence period, Kadakkal, the small hamlet witnessed a great farmers' movement led by local leaders, which eventually culminated in the formation of an administration, perhaps the smallest in the world lasting for a short span of nine days only, though. The small hamlet of Kadakkal came down to the mainstream of India's struggle against the imperial and colonial forces through its voluntary involvement in the civil disobedience from 26 September 1938 to 5 October 1938 (1114 Kanni 10 to Kanni 18). When the civil disobedience movement gathered momentum in the rest of the country the people of Kadakkal commenced the agitation by obstructing collection of marketing tolls, exhorting the people not to pay taxes, closing down the schools, looting the police station, threatening to demolish Government officials and offices, preventing the entry of Military, by cutting down trees demolishing culverts, etc. There had for some time been complaints regarding collection of tolls in the market. It was reported that the toll contractor, one Abdul Razak was receiving several time the amount actually due from who resort to the market for the sale of articles. The authorities took no steps to redress their grievances. A few enthusiastic young people apparently public spirited took up on themselves to the duty of redressing grievances of the resorting to the market of Kadakkal. They are said to have effectively prevented the collection of tolls by the Contractor there on 26 September 1938. On the morning of 29 September 1938 at about 7 a.m., a police party with two Sub-Inspectors and the magistrate reached Kadakkal "When they reached Kadakkal they learnt that a tumultuous crowd was from the east at some distance and so they decided to meet the crowd on their way itself and prevent them from coming to the locality of the out post. When the police reached Thrikkannapuram, at the place called Pangalkadu, they saw the crowd about 1,000 strong coming from the east shouting Ki-Jais to the state congress leaders most of them clad in Khadar and wearing Gandhi caps and stones and sticks in their possession.

David Bernard (cricketer) David Eddison Bernard (born 19 July 1981) is a West Indian cricketer who has played for the West Indies in Tests and ODIs. He played his second test for a weakened West Indies team on 9 July 2009. In the second test he scored 17 and 69.

Peg o' My Heart (1922 film) Peg o' My Heart is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Laurette Taylor. It is based on the 1912 play written by Taylor's husband J. Hartley Manners. The play starred Laurette Taylor and famously ran a record number of performances on Broadway. Six reels of the original eight reels survive at the Library of Congress. In 1919 Famous Players-Lasky filmed a version of the play and it starred newcomer Wanda Hawley. However, because of legal issues with Laurette Taylor and her husband J. Hartley Manners -- ultimately decided in the United States Supreme Court case "Manners v. Morosco" -- the film was never released. As described in a film publication, Margaret "Peg" O'Connell (Taylor), according to her uncle's will, is to be educated in England under the supervision of her aunt, Mrs. Chichester (Lewis). Upon her arrival from Ireland, she is looked down upon by the Chichester household for her lack of culture, and she vows never to become a lady. She meets Jerry, a young man from a neighboring estate, who becomes her friend. Then she discovers that he is Sir Gerald Adair (Hamilton) and rebels at the deception he has been conducting. She also finds out that the only reason her aunt is keeping her is because of compensation from the will. Peg leaves to return home, but finds that she is in love with Gerald. Gerald follows her and proposes. After his short-lived “Vidor Village” studio closed, King Vidor abandoned independent film-making and sought work with the dominant film studios. Producer Louis B. Mayer, soon to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him the task of adapting the stage production Peg o’ My Heart stage version to film. This would be the first of three plays Vidor would make for Mayer. The enormously popular Broadway actress Laurette Taylor who portrayed the “impish” Peg O’Connell, an 18-year-old Irish orphan girl, was cast to star in the film production and—at the age of thirty-eight (born 1884)—presented certain technical challenges. The relatively insensitive film stock of the early 1920s required ample lighting to record images, and tended to reveal the chronological age of an actor.. Given these limitations, Vidor improvised with modified lens and succeeded in creating a sufficiently youthful screen appearance for Taylor.

Xestia tamsi Xestia tamsi is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Taiwan. The wingspan is 35–45 mm.

2019 Mumbai foot overbridge collapse On 14 March 2019, in Mumbai city of India, a part of a foot overbridge connecting north-end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station to Badaruddin Tayabji Lane collapsed and fell on the road. Six people died and at least 30 others were injured in the accident. The foot overbridge connects north-end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station to Badaruddin Tayabji Lane. It is maintained by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The structural audit and minor repairs of the foot overbridge was carried out six months ago. In July 2018, G. K. Gokhale Road overbridge in Andheri had collapsed after heavy rain resulting in death of two people. After the incident, 445 bridges were audited for the safety. In September 2017, a stampede broke out on a narrow footbridge at the Prabhadevi railway station resulting in at least 23 deaths. On 14 March 2019, around 7:30 pm IST, a part of bridge collapsed on Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji Road. Due peak hours, there are large number of vehicles on the road and people on the bridge when it collapsed. Six people died in the accident and at least 30 others were injured. The traffic on J. J. flyover going north was affected. The injured were admitted to the Saint George's Hospital and Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital. The remaining part of the foot overbridge was demolished. The Government of Maharashtra announced the ex gratia of to next of kin of each person died and to the injured. The collapse will be investigated by the BMC and Central Railways. The preliminary report of the BMC noted that there was an improper structural audit of the foot overbridge. It also noted that the officers had no records of any supervision or inspection during its repair or audit. The structural engineer who audited the bridge and two officers of the bridge department of the BMC were arrested and the complaints against them were filed by the police.

It wasn't until 1967, with his first television experience, that he started to become well-known and influential among Cuban, revolutionary youth. With pro-revolution, yet very independent, lyrics (together with his very informal dress code), Rodríguez soon attracted the animosity of some members of the new Culture Ministry, which was devoted to the eradication of the United States' influence in Cuban culture. In this context, a very important role was played by the cultural institution Casa de las Américas and its then director Haydée Santamaría, the former a respected revolutionary who participated in the Moncada barracks assault of 1953 and sister of Abel Santamaría, who was tortured and killed after the failure of the assault. Haydée Santamaría became a protective mother-figure of the young composers and of several of his colleagues at the time. Casa de las Américas became the home not only for the new Cuban "trovadores" but also for many other Latin Americans on the left. It was in this institution that Rodríguez met Pablo Milanés, and Noel Nicola, who along with Rodríguez would become the most famous nueva trova singers and composers. In 1969, for almost five months, he worked as part of the crew on the fishing boat Playa Girón, and during this fertile episode he wrote 62 songs, among which are the famous "Ojalá" and "Playa Girón." The lyrics and music of these songs became a book named "Canciones del Mar". In 1976, he decided to join Cuban troops in Angola, playing for the soldiers. After more than 40 years of artistic work, Rodríguez has now written a vast number of songs and poems (said to be between 500 and more than one thousand), many of which have never been set to music and probably never will be. Although his musical knowledge has been continuously increasing (counting among his teachers the famous Cuban composer Leo Brouwer), he is more widely praised for the poetry in his songs than for the accompanying music. His lyrics are a staple of leftist culture throughout the whole Spanish-speaking world, and he has been banned from the media during several of the dictatorial regimes that ruled Latin America in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His debut album was "Días y flores", launched in 1975. "Al final de este viaje" and "Cuando digo futuro" feature songs he composed before "Días y flores".

Nishitetsu 3000 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) in Japan since 2006. The trains are formed as two-car, three-car, and five-car formations. , the fleet consists of six two-car sets, six three-car sets, and four five-car sets (50 vehicles in total), formed as shown below. The Mc cars have two single-arm pantographs. The M cars have two single-arm pantographs. The M1 and M2 cars each have two single-arm pantographs. Passenger accommodation consists of transverse 2+2 abreast seating with seat backs that can be flipped over to face the direction of travel. Introduced in 2006, the 3000 series was the first stainless steel bodied design introduced by Nishitetsu. A further two two-car sets (3119 and 3120) were delivered in January 2016.

Eastern blot The eastern blot, or eastern blotting, is a biochemical technique used to analyze protein post-translational modifications (PTM) including the addition of lipids, phosphates, and glycoconjugates. It is most often used to detect carbohydrate epitopes. Thus, eastern blot can be considered an extension of the biochemical technique of western blot. Multiple techniques have been described by the term "eastern blot(ting)", most use prospo protein blotted from SDS-PAGE gel on to a PVDF or nitrocellulose membrane. Transferred proteins are analyzed for post-translational modifications using probes that may detect lipids, carbohydrate, phosphorylation or any other protein modification. Eastern blotting should be used to refer to methods that detect their targets through specific interaction of the PTM and the probe, distinguishing them from a standard far-western blot. In principle, eastern blotting is similar to lectin blotting (i.e. detection of carbohydrate epitopes on proteins or lipids). Definition of the term "eastern blot" is somewhat confused due to multiple sets of authors dubbing a new method as "eastern blot", or a derivative thereof. All of the definitions are a derivative of the technique of western blot developed by Towbin in 1979. The current definitions are summarized below in order of the first use of the name; however, all are based on some earlier works. In some cases, the technique had been in practice for some time before the introduction of the term. There is clearly no single accepted definition of the term. A recent highlight article has interviewed Ed Southern, originator of the Southern blot, regarding a rechristening of "eastern blotting" from Tanaka et al. The article likens the eastern blot to "fairies, unicorns, and a free lunch" and states that eastern blots "don't exist." The eastern blot is mentioned in an immunology textbook which compares the common blotting methods (Southern, northern and western), and states that "the eastern blot, however, exists only in test questions." The principles used for eastern blotting to detect glycans can be traced back to the use of lectins to detect protein glycosylation. The earliest example for this mode of detection is Tanner and Anstee in 1976, where lectins were used to detect glycosylated proteins isolated from human erythrocytes. The specific detection of glycosylation through blotting is usually referred to as "lectin blotting".

Thus far, the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in northwest Iran, northeast Syria and southeastern Turkey (see Assyrian continuity), although others have made unsubstantiated claims of continuity. Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid-7th century, and Assyrian identity, personal, family and tribal names, and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic (which still contain many Akkadian loan words and an Akkadian grammatical structure) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day (see Assyrian people).

During this time, he had isolated himself from people around him, so he tried to learn by listening, imitating and conversing with the Germans around him, but found that his carefully constructed sentences often caused native German speakers to laugh. Again he tried a more classical approach, translation, and even memorizing the entire dictionary but had no better luck. When he returned home, he found that his three-year-old nephew had learned to speak French. He noticed the boy was very curious and upon his first visit to a mill, he wanted to see everything and be told the name of everything. After digesting the experience silently, he then reenacted his experiences in play, talking about what he learned to whoever would listen or to himself. Gouin decided that language learning was a matter of transforming perceptions into conceptions, using language to represent what one experiences. Language is not an arbitrary set of conventions but a way of thinking and representing the world to oneself. It is not a conditioning process, but one in which the learner actively organizes his perceptions into linguistics concepts. The series method is a variety of the direct method in that experiences are directly connected to the target language. Gouin felt that such direct "translation" of experience into words, makes for a "living language". (p59) Gouin also noticed that children organize concepts in succession of time, relating a sequence of concepts in the same order. Gouin suggested that students learn a language more quickly and retain it better if it is presented through a chronological sequence of events. Students learn sentences based on an action such as leaving a house in the order in which such would be performed. Gouin found that if the series of sentences are shuffled, their memorization becomes nearly impossible. For this, Gouin preceded psycholinguistic theory of the 20th century. He found that people will memorize events in a logical sequence, even if they are not presented in that order. He also discovered a second insight into memory called "incubation". Linguistic concepts take time to settle in the memory. The learner must use the new concepts frequently after presentation, either by thinking or by speaking, in order to master them. His last crucial observation was that language was learned in sentences with the verb as the most crucial component. Gouin would write a series in two columns: one with the complete sentences and the other with only the verb. With only the verb elements visible, he would have students recite the sequence of actions in full sentences of no more than twenty-five sentences.

United States environmental law United States environmental law concerns legal standards to protect human health and improve the natural environment of the United States. While subject to criticism at home and abroad on issues of protection, enforcement, and over-regulation, the country remains an important source of environmental legal expertise and experience. The United States Congress has enacted federal statutes intended to address pollution control and remediation, including for example the Clean Air Act (air pollution), the Clean Water Act (water pollution), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) (contaminated site cleanup). There are also federal laws governing natural resources use and biodiversity which are strongly influenced by environmental principles, including the Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act, and Coastal Zone Management Act. The National Environmental Policy Act, governing environmental impact review in actions undertaken or approved by the U.S. federal government, may implicate all of these areas. Federalism in the United States has played a role in the shape of national environmental legislation. Many federal environmental laws employ cooperative federalism mechanisms - many federal regulatory programs are administered in coordination with the U.S. states. Furthermore, the states generally have enacted their own laws to cover areas not preempted by federal law. This includes areas where Congress had acted in limited fashion (e.g., state site cleanup laws to handle sites outside Superfund) and where Congress has left regulation primarily to the states (e.g., water resources law). The history of environmental law in the US can be traced back to early roots in common law doctrines, for example, the law of nuisance and the public trust doctrine. The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental statutes, such as the federal statutes listed above, were passed in the time spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Prior to the passage of these statutes, most federal environmental laws were not nearly as comprehensive. "Silent Spring," a 1962 book by Rachel Carson, is frequently credited as launching the environmental movement in the United States. The book documented the effects of pesticides, especially DDT, on birds and other wildlife. Among the most significant environmental disasters of the 1960s was the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which generated considerable public outrage as Congress was considering several major pieces of environmental legislation. ("See" Environmental movement in the United States.) One lawsuit that has been widely recognized as one of the earliest environmental cases is "Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v.

Michael Jackson (bishop) Michael Geoffrey St Aubyn Jackson (born 24 May 1956) is a Church of Ireland Anglican bishop. Since 2011, he has served as the Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough in the Church of Ireland. He is also the co-chairman of the Porvoo Communion of Anglican and Lutheran churches. Jackson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the son of a Church of Ireland rector (latterly appointed Archdeacon of Elphin & Ardagh), and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. In 1979 he achieved the Louis Claude Purser Entrance Scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin. As only a Junior Freshman, he was elected as a Scholar of the College, the greatest undergraduate achievement, and as a Senior Freshman was awarded the Bishop Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek. As a Sophister, he achieved a First in the Moderatorship Part I along with a Mullins Classical Exhibition, before finally taking a first class Moderatorship II in Classics and a Gold Medal, and graduating B.A., incepting to M.A. in 1982. He read Theology at Cambridge University where he was elected a foundation scholar of St John's College, Cambridge and took a First Class Tripos Part II in Theology and Religious Studies. He is married to Inez Cooke, a medical doctor who was born in County Fermanagh, and they have one daughter, Camilla. He was ordained to the Anglican ministry as a deacon in 1986 and a priest in 1987. His first pastoral appointment was as a curate at Zion Parish, Dublin, and he also lectured at Trinity College, Dublin and the Church of Ireland Theological Institute (now Institute). His next appointment was as college chaplain at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1989 to 1997 where was also a student. He returned to Ireland and served as the incumbent of St Fin Barre's Union and Dean of Cork, from 1997 to 2002. Jackson has held many notable positions in the Church of Ireland, including chairmanship of the Church in Society Committee and, currently, chairmanship of the Board for Social Theology. Jackson also plays an active role in the wider Anglican Communion, especially in the areas of ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue. Jackson was elected Bishop of Clogher by the Church of Ireland House of Bishops on 21 November 2001 and consecrated at St Patrick's Anglican Cathedral, Armagh on 6 March 2002.

In 1940, Greece enters World War II and stops every sporting activity. Some friendly games are played during the occupation, while in 1943 a cup of Patras is organized. Upon the end of the war, the local championship is restarted. During the Greek-Italian war the following athletes of Panachaiki fell: Kapatos Fotis, Niaros Dimitris, Polymeris Nikos, Tsiros Philipas, Mavromatis. During this period Panakaiiki participates in the Patras Championship by giving some chronic qualifying matches to the Pan-Hellenic Championship, without success. The team during the war coached the well-known duo Raptis-Skondras, Reveliotis-Zoumpos. In 1954, Panachaiki participates for the first time in the Pan-Hellenic Championship and occupies the 6th and last place. In 1955, Panetolikos was eliminated in the qualifiers of the Southern Greece Championship. In 1956, it took third place in the South Championship behind Olympic and National Piraeus with 13 points, while in 1957, it was again third in the South Championship. In 1958, is was second in the South Championship, In 1959, is was excluded in the qualifiers from Panegialios in the South Championship, as in 1960. In order to compete a team in qualifying for the league of southern Greece had to conquer the local first, as Panahaiki did all of them the years. After the South or Northern Greece Championship, the final phase of the Greek Championship was followed. The case of Panegialios and Panetolikos, belonging to the same association, was due to the fact that the EPPS of Patras organized two championships, one for the teams of Patras and one for the groups of the Region (i.e. Aitoloakarnania, Zakynthos, Kefallinia, Ilia, Rest of Achaia). Thus, the association each year had two different champions. In 1961, Panachaiki won the South League and participated for the first time in the history in the Football League. From then until 2007, Panachaiki will not again compete in a lower league. Panachaiki immediately starred in the Football League, targeting on the rise every year, which it secured in 1969. But Panachaiki's virgin presence in the big category is downgraded as she is accused of attempting to bribe with Aris. Consequently, it is zero in 13 races. The following year, however, Panachaiki starred in the Football League and returned.

Ophiogomphus smithi Ophiogomphus smithi, known generally as Sioux snaketail, is a species of clubtail in the family of dragonflies known as Gomphidae. Other common names include the yellow-rayed lasthenium and sand snaketail. It is found in North America. The IUCN conservation status of "Ophiogomphus smithi" is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.

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Ikarus Imagine The Ikarus Imagine is a German high-wing, single-place, hang glider, designed by Thomas Pellicci and produced by his company Ikarus Drachen Thomas Pellicci. Production has been completed and the glider is no longer available. The Imagine was designed to be an intermediate glider with good performance. Unlike many hang glider models, the Imagine is available in just one size, with a wing area of . The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing, with the wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The nose angle is 134° and the aspect ratio is 7.73:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is . It is certified as DHV Class 2.

List of protected heritage sites in Bütgenbach This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Bütgenbach. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.

One review stated that "Many raw foods are toxic and only become safe after they have been cooked. Some raw foods contain substances that destroy vitamins, interfere with digestive enzymes or damage the walls of the intestine. Raw meat can be contaminated with bacteria which would be destroyed by cooking; raw fish can contain substances that interfere with vitamin B1 (anti-thiaminases)" Richard Wrangham, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, proposes that cooked food played a pivotal role in human evolution. Evidence of a cooked diet, according to Wrangham, can be seen as far back as 1.8 million years ago in the anatomical adaptations of "Homo erectus". Reduction in the size of teeth and jaw in "H. erectus" indicate a softer diet, requiring less chewing time. This combined with a smaller gut and larger brain indicate to Wrangham that "H. erectus" was eating a higher quality diet than its predecessors. To explain a decreased gut providing the amount of energy required for an increased brain size, Wrangham links his research on the digestive effects of cooked versus raw foods with the lower reproductive abilities of female raw foodists, and BMI in both sexes, to support his hypothesis that cooked starches provided the energy necessary to fuel evolution from "H. erectus" to "H. sapiens". Theories opposed to Wrangham's include that of Leslie Aiello, professor of biological anthropology at University College London, and physiologist Peter Wheeler. Aiello and Wheeler believe it was soft animal foods, including bone marrow and brains, which contributed to humans developing the characteristics Wrangham attributes to cooked foods. Further, archaeological evidence suggests that cooking fires began in earnest only around 250 kya, when ancient hearths, earth ovens, burnt animal bones, and flint appear regularly across Europe and the Middle East. Two million years ago, the only sign of fire is burnt earth with human remains, which many anthropologists consider coincidence rather than evidence of intentional fire. Many anthropologists believe the increases in human brain-size occurred well before the advent of cooking, due to a shift away from the consumption of nuts and berries to the consumption of raw meat.

Some provisions could have short duration, and others could be longer. A few constraints, like enhanced monitoring at specific facilities, could be permanent. Al Jazeera reported in October 2014, that Iran wanted any agreement to last for at most 5 years while the United States prefers 20 years. The twenty years is viewed as a minimum amount of time to develop confidence that Iran can be treated as other non-nuclear weapon states and allow the IAEA enough time to verify that Iran is fully compliant with all its non-proliferation obligations. The Iranian uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz (FEP and PFEP) and Fordow (FFEP) were constructed covertly and designed to operate in a similar manner. In September 2009, Iran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency about constructing the Fordow facility only after it and Natanz were revealed by other sources. The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs quoted in 2014 a 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear capabilities and intentions stated: "We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons." Additionally the Estimate stated that after 2003 Iran had halted the covert enrichment for at least several years. The Estimate also stated: "We assess with moderate confidence that Iran probably would use covert facilities—rather than its declared nuclear sites—for the production of highly enriched uranium for a weapon." Some analysts have argued that negotiations between Iran and the P5+1, as well as most public discussions, were focused on Iran's overt nuclear facilities while alternative paths to obtain fissile material existed. Graham Allison, former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Oren Setter, a research fellow at Belfer Center, compared this approach with Maginot's fixation on a single threat "that led to fatal neglect of alternatives". They pointed out at least three additional paths to obtain such material: Covert make, covert buy and hybrid pathway (a combination of overt and covert paths). The Belfer Center also quotes William Tobey, former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, as outlining the possible ways to nuclear weapons as follows: Break out of the Nonproliferation Treaty, using declared facilities, sneak out of the treaty, using covert facilities and buy a weapon from another nation or rogue faction. The Belfer Center published recommendations for agreement provisions relating to monitoring and verification in order to prevent covert activities and to provide tools to react if needed. One of the sources warned the P5+1 that "if the monitoring elements that we recommend are not pursued now to diminish the risks of deception, it is difficult to envision that Iran would be compliant in the future, post-sanctions environment."

The Brethren of the Long House The Brethren of the Long House is Riot's ninth studio album. It was first released in Japan on November 11, 1995 in Germany in 1996 and eventually in the United States in 1999. The album is dedicated to the lost culture of American Indians.

With all Eurasian herbaceous peonies species, "Paeonia obovata" belongs to the section "Paeonia". The taxonomy of this group of peonies is complicated due to reticulate evolution. In the most recent revision of the genus, "P. obovata" is assigned to the subsection "Foliatae" with "P. algeriensis", "P. broteri", "P. cambessedesii", "P. clusii", "P. coriacea", "P. corsica", "P. daurica", "P. kesrouanensis", "P. mairei" and "P. mascula". "P. broteri", "P. coriacea", "P. cambedessedesii", "P. clusii", "P. rhodia", "P. daurica" ssp. "mlokosewitschi", "P. mascula" ssp. "hellenica" and ssp. "mascula", and "P. wittmanniana" are all hybrids of "P. lactiflora" and "P. obovata". The epithet "obovata" consists of the Latin "ovatus", meaning "egg-shaped" or "oval", and "ob" meaning "opposite" or "against". Together it means "inverted egg-shaped" and refers to the shape of a leaflet. The subspecies "willmottiae" is named after the location for its type specimen, Miss Ellen Willmott's garden at Warley Place in Essex, Great-Britain. The typical subspecies of "P. obovata" grows in forests ranging from deciduous broad-leaved to coniferous forests and may be found at an altitude of 200–2800 m. In China it occurs naturally in Anhui, southeastern Gansu, northern Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, southeastern and western Henan, western Hubei, northwestern Hunan, northern Jiangxi, eastern Jilin, Liaoning, southeastern Inner Mongolia, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, southern Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan and northwestern Zhejiang. It also grows in Korea, Far East Russia (Amur Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Shikotan) and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu).

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His legacy remains in the Brooklyn Museum, with about 1,900 of his glass-plate negatives making up a large portion of the museum's huge collection of Brooklyn- and New York-themed glass-plate negatives.

According to Vamsi, Charan "comes across as a shy and reserved guy but has a fun and family loving side to him", which he tried to show onscreen. Srikanth played the role of Charan's younger paternal uncle and wore his hair long for the role. His costume was rustic in appearance. A still of him in costume was shown in the end of July 2014. His "crucial role" in the film was aggressive and rebellious. Kajal Aggarwal revealed one of her outfits in the film on 27 July 2014 would be a black half-sari. Jayasudha was selected to play the role of Prakash Raj's wife in the film while Rahman was signed in to play the role of Ram Charan's father. Kamalini Mukherjee's character was named Chitra, a rural girl quite unlike the urbane roles she had played in the past. Adarsh Balakrishna, cast as a flashy M. P.'s son living in the same village, wore jewellery with Indian costume, again with long hair. Principal photography began on 6 February 2014 in Hyderabad and continued for 3 days there before a long pre-planned schedule started in Rameswaram, Nagercoil and Pollachi. Kajal joined the sets of the film in Hyderabad on 9 February 2014 and some scenes between herself and Charan were shot there. They also participated in the film's shoot at Nagercoil near Kanyakumari in mid February 2014 after the completion of the schedule at Rameswaram. A fight sequence with Charan, Srikanth and others was filmed at Kanyakumari before shifting to Pollachi. A few action sequences focusing Charan were shot at Pollachi in late March 2014. He also worked on some key action sequences for the film under the supervision of Ram Lakshman in mid May 2014, for which a special set was built. Some song sequences were shot in Malaysia from 2 June 2014. The film's shoot continued in Hyderabad from 5 June 2014 and the team planned to go to London after filming some family scenes at the special house set constructed earlier in Ramanaidu Cine Village in Hyderabad. 30 scenes and 2 songs were shot in that house set in Hyderabad over a period of 45 days. Prakash Raj allotted bulk dates and the reshoot took 8 days only and not 20 days as earlier reported. After completing the shoot of few scenes and a montage song, the first part of the film's Hyderabad schedule ended on 18 June 2014.

Upper mantle (Earth) The upper mantle of the Earth begins just beneath the crust (at about under the oceans and about under the continents) and ends at the top of the lower mantle at . Temperatures range from approximately at the upper boundary with the crust to approximately at the boundary with the lower mantle. Upper mantle material which has come up onto the surface is made up of about 55% olivine, 35% pyroxene and 5 to 10% of calcium oxide and aluminum oxide minerals such as plagioclase, spinel or garnet, depending upon depth. The density profile through Earth is determined by the velocity of seismic waves. Density increases progressively in each layer largely due to compression of the rock at increased depths. Abrupt changes in density occur where the material composition changes. The upper mantle begins just beneath the crust and ends at the top of the lower mantle. The upper mantle causes the tectonic plates to move. Crust and mantle are distinguished by composition while the lithosphere and asthenosphere are defined by a change in mechanical properties. The top of the mantle is defined by a sudden increase in the speed of seismic waves, which was first noted by Andrija Mohorovičić in 1909; this boundary is now referred to as the Mohorovičić discontinuity or "Moho". The Moho defines the base of the crust and varies from to below the surface of the Earth. Oceanic crust is thinner than continental crust and is generally less than thick. Continental crust is about thick, but the large crustal root under the Tibetan Plateau is approximately thick. The thickness of the upper mantle is about . The entire mantle is about thick, which means the upper mantle is only about 20% of the total mantle thickness. The boundary between the upper mantle and the lower mantle is a discontinuity. Earthquakes at shallow depths are a result of strike-slip faulting; however, below about the hot, high pressure conditions inhibit further seismicity. The mantle is viscous and incapable of faulting. However, in subduction zones, earthquakes are observed down to . The Lehmann discontinuity is an abrupt increase of "P"-wave and "S"-wave velocities at the depth of The transition zone is located between the upper mantle and the lower mantle between a depth of and This is thought to occur as a result of rearrangement of grains in olivine to form a denser crystal structure as a result of the increase in pressure with increasing depth.

Other events include drawing competitions, creative writing competitions, general knowledge quizzes, extempores, declamations and debate competitions. The school is situated in Delhi Cantt. The school building is huge and is painted in a pink colour. It has all the basic infrastructure like chemistry, biology and physics labs, computer lab, AV room, basketball and volleyball ground. It also has a vast land area where drill and march past is conducted. It is an environment friendly, no-polybag and no-aluminium foil zone. The school has taken children for outward-bound trips to places like Manali, Shimla, Egypt, Switzerland, Jaipur, Jim Corbett National Park, Kolkata, Mount Abu, Udaipur, Goa and Italy.

While depression severity as a whole is not correlated with a blunted neural response to reward, anhedonia is directly correlated to reduced activity in the reward system. The study of reward in depression is limited by heterogeniety in the definition and conceptualizations of reward and anhedonia. Anhedonia is broadly defined as a reduced ability to feel pleasure, but questionnaires and clinical assessments rarely distinguish between motivational "wanting" and consummatory "liking". While a number of studies suggest that depressed subjects rate positive stimuli less positively and as less arousing, a number of studies fail to find a difference. Furthermore, response to natural rewards such as sucrose does not appear to be attenuated. General affective blunting may explain "anhedonic" symptoms in depression, as meta analysis of both positive and negative stimuli reveal reduced rating of intensity. As anhedonia is a prominent symptom of depression, direct comparison of depressed with healthy subjects reveals increased activation of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC), and reduced activation of the ventral striatum, and in particular the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) in response to positive stimuli. Although the finding of reduced NAcc activity during reward paradigms is fairly consistent, the NAcc is made up of a functionally diverse range of neurons, and reduced blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal in this region could indicate a variety of things including reduced afferent activity or reduced inhibitory output. Nevertheless, these regions are important in reward processing, and dysfunction of them in depression is thought to underlie anhedonia. Residual anhedonia that is not well targeted by serotonergic antidepressants is hypothesized to result from inhibition of dopamine release by activation of 5-HT2C receptors in the striatum. The response to reward in the medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is attenuated in depression, while lateral OFC response is enhanced to punishment. The lateral OFC shows sustained response to absence of reward or punishment, and it is thought to be necessary for modifying behavior in response to changing contingencies. Hypersensitivity in the lOFC may lead to depression by producing a similar effect to learned helplessness in animals. Elevated response in the sgACC is a consistent finding in neuroimaging studies using a number of paradigms including reward related tasks. Treatment is also associated with attenuated activity in the sgACC, and inhibition of neurons in the rodent homologue of the sgACC, the infralimbic cortex (IL), produces an antidepressant effect.

Fontaine, Aube Fontaine is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

Ak-Bash Ak-Bash (formerly: "Spasovka") is a village in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 2,400 in 2009.

2005 Sudirman Cup The 2005 Sudirman Cup was the 9th tournament of the World Mixed Team Badminton Championships of Sudirman Cup. It was held from May 10 to May 15, 2005 in Beijing, China. Beijing and Glasgow submitted bids for the competition. Beijing was confirmed as the host during 2003 IBF council meeting in Eindhoven. 41 teams around the world took part in this tournament. Geographically, they were 22 from Europe, 13 teams from Asia, 3 from Americas, two from Oceania and one from Africa. This edition also saw the expansion of Group 1 to 8 teams.

Later that month, the Bush administration announced the United States would present Israel with loan guarantees only if the Israeli government halted settlement building. Leahy was supportive of the measure and introduced his own proposal that retained the $10 billion in loan guarantees, but "disbursed at a pace up to $2 billion a year for five years." On November 20, 1993, Leahy voted in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The trade agreement linked the United States, Canada and Mexico into a single free trade zone, and was signed into law on December 8 by President Bill Clinton. Clinton publicly weighed reducing funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) by half. In March 1994, during a news conference, Leahy pledged that he would preserve funding for TEFAP, noting his 1987 lawsuit against Agriculture Secretary Richard Edmund Lyng and declaring that TEFAP maintained the same level of significance as it did then. In August 1994 Leahy attended a news conference with the health advocacy group Public Voice as it urged the federal government to take more ambitious steps to increase the healthiness of school lunches, Leahy praising the 41 schools involved with Public Voice for setting a good example for the remainder of the country and citing the importance of school lunches to education. The 1994 midterm elections resulted in Republicans taking a majority in the House for the first time since the 1950s, and conversation arose of limiting feeding programs. Leahy remarked, "Not since the Great Depression has the possibility of millions of children lining up at soup kitchens been so real." Leahy cosponsored legislation with Republican Richard Lugar that led to the downsizing of the Agriculture Department. In December 1994 it announced it was closing 1,274 field offices around the US, a scaling back that was estimated to save the United States over $3 billion within the following five years. Leahy said the Agriculture Department was the only federal agency to be successful in downsizing efforts and called on other agencies to follow its example. In 1994 Leahy introduced legislation to encourage schools to ban soft drinks and other food items of "minimal nutritional value." Leahy acknowledged the benefits vending provided for other positive areas: "These vending profits go for good causes. But when it comes to vending machine junk food, it would be better to put pupils ahead of vending profits." The legislation was met with opposition by the Coca-Cola Company and other representatives from the beverage industry as well as some education organizations. The law was enacted. In October 1999 Leahy voted in favor of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1991. The editor-in-chief is M. Ismail (Ohio State University). The journal covers original research, fundamental and applied, on integrated circuits used for signal processing. Publishing formats include original research, letters, and tutorials. The journal is abstracted and indexed in

The Quoit Brooch Style has been regarded as Jutish, from the fifth century.

These identities are "distinctly national" in ways which "proud people from Yorkshire", much less proud people from Berkshire will never know. Any new constitutional settlement "which ignores these factors" will be built on uneven ground." The Republic of Ireland, on surpassing Britain's GDP per capita in the 1990s for the first time, was given the moniker "Celtic tiger". Thanks in part to campaigning on the part of Cornish regionalists, Cornwall was able to obtain Objective One funding from the European Union. Scotland and Wales obtained agencies like the Welsh Development Agency, and in the first two decades of the 21st century Scottish and Welsh Nationalists have supported the institutions of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Parliament. More broadly, distinct identities in opposition to that of the metropolitan capitals have been forged and taken strong root. These latter evolutions have proceeded hand in hand with the growth of a pan-Celtic or inter-Celtic dimension, seen in many organisations and festivals operating across various Celtic countries. Celtic studies departments at many universities in Europe and beyond, have studied the various ancient and modern Celtic languages and associated history and folklore under one roof. Some of the most vibrant aspects of modern Celtic culture are music, song and festivals. Under the "Music", "Festivals" and "Dance" sections below, the richness of these aspects that have captured the world's attention are outlined. Sports such as Hurling, Gaelic Football and Shinty are seen as being "Celtic". The USA has also taken part in discussions of modern Celticity. For example, Virginia Senator James H. Webb, in his 2004 book "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America", controversially asserts that the early "pioneering" immigrants to North America were of Scots-Irish origins. He goes on to argue that their distinct "Celtic traits" (loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and military readiness), in contrast to the "Anglo-Saxon" settlers, helped construct the modern "American identity". Irish Americans also played an important role in the shaping of 19th-century Irish republicanism through the Fenian movement and the development of view that the Great Hunger was a British atrocity. In 1996, Dr Ruth Megaw and Emeritus Professor Vincent Megaw of Flinders University in the "Antiquity" article "Ancient Celts and modern ethnicity" examined "ethnic identity" particularly in relation to "Celtic identity" in arguing against critics seemingly motivated by an English nationalist agenda opposed to further integration with Europe who saw modern Celtic identity as a threat.

Symington Yard Symington Yard is the largest of Canadian National Railway's rail classification yard in Canada, one of 20 intermodal facilities and one of the largest rail yards in the world. The facility is located next to the Windsor Park area of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Built in 1962 and named for former CNR Director Herbert James Symington (1881–1965), it can store 7,000 cars and handles 3,000 cars per day.

Dave Mahoney David Joseph Mahoney (30 May 1892 – 29 March 1947) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Chrysoprasis bicolor Chrysoprasis bicolor is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Olivier in 1790.

That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. May Allah destroy them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! () This verse is situated in a context of theological disputes with the Jewish community of Medina. The Quran emphasizes the absolute divinity of God and warns against associating any being with him ("shirk"). It further condemns Jewish and Christian leaders of the time for deceiving the masses into taking "their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of God". In casting doubt on claims about the divine status of Uzayr and Christ, the Quran also instructs Muslims to reject such beliefs. These arguments reflect the tensions between the new Muslim community and the more established Christian and Jewish communities of Arabia. In some Islamic texts, Ezra is identified as the person mentioned in Qur'an 2:259: Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall God bring it (ever) to life, after (this) its death?" but God caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him up (again). He said: "How long didst thou tarry (thus)?" He said: (Perhaps) a day or part of a day." He said: "Nay, thou hast tarried thus a hundred years; but look at thy food and thy drink; they show no signs of age; and look at thy donkey: And that We may make of thee a sign unto the people, Look further at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that God hath power over all things." () The history text "Zubdat-al Tawarikh", dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Murad III in 1583, narrates a story of Uzair's grief for the destruction of Jerusalem. His grief is said to have been so great that God took his soul and brought him back to life after Jerusalem was reconstructed. In the miniature accompanying the manuscript, the building on the lower right depicts the rebuilt city of Jerusalem in the form a typical sixteenth-century Ottoman building with a dome and an arched portico. The former ruins of Jerusalem are alluded to by the broken arches and columns on the left. According to the classical Quranic exegete, Ibn Kathir, after Ezra questioned how the resurrection will take place on the Day of judgment, God had him brought back to life many years after he died.

The Finnish Freethinkers Association has criticized the official endorsement of the two churches by the Finnish state, and has campaigned for the separation of church and state. The French version of separation of church and state, called laïcité, is a product of French history and philosophy. It was formalized in a 1905 law providing for the separation of church and state, that is, the separation of religion from political power. This model of a secularist state protects the religious institutions from state interference, but with public religious expression to some extent frowned upon. This aims to protect the public power from the influences of religious institutions, especially in public office. Religious views which contain no idea of public responsibility, or which consider religious opinion irrelevant to politics, are not impinged upon by this type of secularization of public discourse. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy criticised "negative laïcité" and talked about a "positive laïcité" that recognizes the contribution of faith to French culture, history and society, allows for faith in the public discourse and for government subsidies for faith-based groups. He visited the Pope in December 2007 and publicly emphasized France's Catholic roots, while highlighting the importance of freedom of thought, advocating that faith should come back into the public sphere. François Hollande took a very different position during the 2012 presidential election, promising to insert the concept of laïcité into the constitution. In fact, the French constitution only says that the French Republic is "laïque" but no article in the 1905 law or in the constitution defines laïcité. Nevertheless, there are certain entanglements in France which include: The German constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but there is not a complete separation of church and state in Germany. Officially recognized religious bodies operate as "Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts" (corporations of public law, as opposed to private). For recognized religious communities, some taxes are collected by the state; this is at the request of the religious community and a fee is charged for the service. Religious instruction is an optional school subject in Germany. The German State understands itself as neutral in matters of religious beliefs, so no teacher can be forced to teach religion. But on the other hand, all who do teach religious instruction need an official permission by their religious community. The treaties with the Holy See are referred to as concordats whereas the treaties with Protestant Churches and umbrellas of Jewish congregations are called "state treaties". Both are the legal framework for cooperation between the religious bodies and the German State at the federal as well as at the state level.

Bill Fuller (footballer) Bill Fuller (born 6 April 1944) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Crystal Palace as a defender. He also played non-league football for Wellington Town, Margate and Bexley United. Fuller was born in Brixton and began his youth career at Crystal Palace signing professional terms in January 1963. He made his senior debut in the last game of the 1962–63 season; a 4–0 away win against Barnsley. He made one league appearance in the 1963–64 season, when Palace achieved promotion from the old Third Division, plus one in the League Cup. He made one appearance the following season in the Second Division and at the end of the season, moved into non-league football with Wellington Town. In 1966, Fuller signed for Margate then playing in the Southern Football League, where he made eight appearances without scoring. He joined Bexley United the following season, but was released by the club in 1968. Fuller also worked as an engineer alongside his non-league football career.

Otis Angell Gristmill The Otis Angell Gristmill is a historic mill in Governor John Notte Memorial Park, North Providence, Rhode Island. Built about 1855, it is a well-preserved example of a small 19th-century industrial site, with a stone mill building and a small mill pond. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. The mill building now serves as a local community center. The Otis Angell Gristmill stands in north-central North Providence, on the south side of Governor John Notte Memorial Park, one of the town's few public parks. It is a 1-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of uncoursed fieldstone with rough-cut granite corner quoining. It is covered by a gabled roof with a wooden cornice. It has two chimneys, one of brick piercing the roof, and one exterior stone chimney. The main facade faces northeast, and is three bays wide, with a center entrance set in a brick-framed opening with an segmental arch at the top. The flanking window bays have been infilled with stone. There is a service entrance in the gable, historically used for loading materials into the attic level; it is now accessible by an outside staircase. Just to the north of the mill, across the Governor Notte Parkway, is the mill pond. The parkway crosses along the approximate route of what was formerly the mill's main spillway, and is now a culvert over the West River. The site was undeveloped industrially when it was purchased by Otis Angell in 1853. Within the next two years, Angell had dammed the West River (creating the mill pond), and built a house and this mill building. Angell sold the property to Sarah and Thomas Pray in 1866; Sarah was a cousin, and Thomas was a textile manufacturer from Killingly, Connecticut. During his period of ownership, Angell perfected a new type of turbine, for which he was awarded a patent in 1869. The Prays leased the property to James Hilton, who operated a bleachery on the premises from 1868 to 1872. In that year Pray sold the property his daughter Sarah and her husband Henry Randall Hill. Hill was primarily a farmer, also active in local civic affairs, but the mill continued to see some industrial use. The mill area was purchased about 1936 by the Geneva Sportsmens' Club, which used the building as a clubhouse until 2012.

His commitment, conviction and passion for the party is exemplified by the fact that he is considered an absolute worker from the grassroots. Information Technology, State of Tamil Nadu.

One of the main goals of the Indian residential schools of Canada was to Christianize the aboriginal people of Canada thereby replacing their indigenous religious beliefs, practices and spiritual leaders.

Draper performed a version of Mansun's "Wide Open Space" at London Astoria's last ever gig before it closed on 14 January 2009 with My Vitriol. The two acts had toured together previously in 2000, along with King Adora. In October 2013, Draper stated that he was considering releasing material from his abandoned unrecorded solo album "Spooky Action At A Distance" which only existed in demo form, if there was enough interest. After a petition was set up on Facebook, he responded that he was going to give the idea of releasing solo material some "very serious consideration". On 5 May 2014, the debut single "What Goes Around" by The Anchoress was released. A collaboration between Draper and singer-songwriter Catherine AD (Catherine Anne Davies), the duo have recorded an album's worth of material with Draper having co-written several of the songs and co-produced the whole album. A follow up to the single is due for release on 20 October in the form of EP "One For Sorrow". In 2017, Davies reciprocally co-wrote 5 tracks on Draper's solo album Spooky Action. Draper's first solo song "Feeling My Heart Run Slow" was premiered at a Mansun convention held at The Live Rooms in Chester on 23 August 2014. Recorded especially to play at the convention, Draper with the help of musicians from The Anchoress sessions, recorded five songs from his unrecorded solo album with a view to completing a whole album's worth. Draper announced his first solo single would be released via monthly subscription service 'The Too Pure Singles Club' in April 2016. It was announced that the official release of his "EP One" would be on Kscope on 10 June 2016. On 25 November 2016, Draper released "EP Two". His full length album, "Spooky Action", was released on 11 August 2017. In 2016, an online interview with Paul Draper was removed from the "Backseat Mafia" website, after he made numerous unsubstantiated allegations against former bandmate Dominic Chad. The website issues an apology to Chad, stating that "on February 1st we published an article which contained several unsubstantiated assertions about former Mansun guitarist Dominic Chad. We would like to unreservedly apologise for the upset which the article may have caused Mr Chad and his family for the short period it was online. We are all embarrassed and upset by the whole affair, and we must offer our heartfelt thanks to Dominic Chad for his understanding, reason and his kind acceptance of our apologies".

Mohabbat Ke Ansu Mohabbat Ke Ansu () is a 1932 Indian Urdu-language social romantic film. It was directed by Premankur Atorthy for New Theatres Ltd. Calcutta. The music for the film was directed by R. C. Boral. The film starred K. L. Saigal in his debut role with Akthari Muradabadi, Mahajabeen, Ansari and Sadiq. According to reports the film was not successful however Nevile claims that the "debut was successful beyond expectations" as it led to Saigal acting in several New Theatres films. Saigal had worked earlier as a railway time-keeper and typewriter salesman. He had done some amateur singing which was more in the form of Bhajans and ghazals which he had mastered on his own. On the basis of an impromptu amateur evening he was finally noticed by Pankaj Mullick and R. C. Boral who took the 26-year-old Saigal to New Theatres. He was introduced to B. N. Sircar who contracted him to star with Akhtari Muradabadi in New Theatres first Urdu talkie "Mohabbat Ke Ansu". Saigal used the name Saigal Kashmiri for this and the subsequent two films "Zinda Lash" (1932) and "Subah Ka Sitara" (1932) as he didn't want his relatives to find out about his profession. Though the film did not do well he made an enormous impact with "Chandidas" (1934) and went on to become an idol and first superstar through his singing and acting.

Dependency theory Dependency theory is the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system". This theory was officially developed in the late 1960s following World War II, as scholars searched for the root issue in the lack of development in Latin America The theory arose as a reaction to modernization theory, an earlier theory of development which held that all societies progress through similar stages of development, that today's underdeveloped areas are thus in a similar situation to that of today's developed areas at some time in the past, and that, therefore, the task of helping the underdeveloped areas out of poverty is to accelerate them along this supposed common path of development, by various means such as investment, technology transfers, and closer integration into the world market. Dependency theory rejected this view, arguing that underdeveloped countries are not merely primitive versions of developed countries, but have unique features and structures of their own; and, importantly, are in the situation of being the weaker members in a world market economy. Dependency theory no longer has many proponents as an overall theory , though some writers have argued for its continuing relevance as a conceptual orientation to the global division of wealth. Dependency theorists typically divides into two different categories surrounding the theory: liberal reformists and neo-Marxists. Those that align with liberal reformists typically believe that targeted policy intervention is the most effective approach to improving lives. Comparatively, neo-Marxists believe a command centered economy is the more effective approach to improving lives. Dependency theory originates with two papers published in 1949 – one by Hans Singer, one by Raúl Prebisch – in which the authors observe that the terms of trade for underdeveloped countries relative to the developed countries had deteriorated over time: the underdeveloped countries were able to purchase fewer and fewer manufactured goods from the developed countries in exchange for a given quantity of their raw materials exports. This idea is known as the Prebisch–Singer thesis. Prebisch, an Argentine economist at the United Nations Commission for Latin America (UNCLA), went on to conclude that the underdeveloped nations must employ some degree of protectionism in trade if they were to enter a self-sustaining development path. He argued that import-substitution industrialisation (ISI), not a trade-and-export orientation, was the best strategy for underdeveloped countries.

White Lives Matter is an activist group created in response to Black Lives Matter. In August 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center added "White Lives Matter" to its list of hate groups. The group has also been active in the United Kingdom. The "White Lives Matter" slogan was chanted by torch-wielding alt-right protesters during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. On October 28, 2017, numerous 'White Lives Matter' rallies broke out in Tennessee. Dominated in Shelbyville particularly, protesters justified their movement in response to the increasing number of immigrants and refugees to Middle Tennessee. Some black civil rights leaders, such as Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray, Najee Ali, and Earl Ofari Hutchinson, have criticized the tactics of BLM. Author and minister Barbara Ann Reynolds has criticized the confrontational tactics of BLM. Cheryl Selby the mayor of Olympia, Washington, and a supporter of BLM, claimed members of Black Lives Matter vandalized her home and said "It’s like domestic terrorism. It’s unfair. It hurts when you’re giving so much to your community." Some critics accuse Black Lives Matter of creating a false narrative of racial bias in police violence. Author Sam Harris has criticized Black Lives Matter, saying, "the messaging of this movement about the reality of police violence is wrong, and it's creating a public hysteria." Harris argued that the data does not support the movement's claims about racial differences in police violence, blaming social media for making us "unable to distinguish fact from fiction–and then becoming totally destabilized by our powers of imagination, and confirmation bias, and then lashing out at one [an]other on that basis." Some critics accuse Black Lives Matter of being anti-police. Demetrick Pennie of the Dallas Police Department filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against Black Lives Matter in September 2016, which accused the group of inciting a "race war." Marchers using a BLM banner were recorded in a video chanting, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" at the Minnesota State Fair. Law enforcement groups said that the chant promotes death to police. The protest organizer disputed that interpretation, saying "What we are promoting is that if black people who kill police officers are going to fry, then we want police officers to face the same treatment that we face as civilians for killing officers." A North Carolina police chief retired after calling BLM a terrorist group. A police officer in Oregon was removed from street duty following a social media post in which he said he would have to "babysit these fools", in reference to a planned BLM event.

Barbara Peeters Barbara Peeters, also known as Barbara Peters, is an American director and screenwriter of television and film. She is best known for her collaborations with producer-director Roger Corman on films such as "Humanoids from the Deep", as well as directing episodes of television shows such as "Remington Steele". Peeters broke into the film industry working in makeup, as a script supervisor, and as a production manager. An Israeli investor wanted an X-rated sex film, enabling Peeters to turn director with "Just the Two of Us" (originally titled "The Dark Side of Tomorrow"). She wrote and directed the 1971 biker "Bury Me an Angel". She was one of two female directors working for New World Pictures in the 1970s, the other being Stephanie Rothman. Film writer Gary Morris argued that "her New World work is arguably more subversive than Rothman's." She worked in a variety of capacities for that company, also production managing and second unit directing. Says Peeters: We lived like gypsies, sleeping in the hallways when we couldn’t pay rent, sharing a car among five people. I thought I had the best life in the world. I was making movies. What were the other girls I’d graduated high school doing back in Iowa? They were marrying the boy who had the biggest farm. Peeters was quoted in 1978 as saying: I don't like to be dictated to once I start shooting. If you tell me I have to shoot eight pages in a day and its 6pm, let me alone. Don't talk to me at midnight until I am done. If I'm going to take the blame, then I want to make the decisions. If I fail, I won't die. I consider real power the point when you're not afraid to fail... I don't know any director who wants to spend his whole life making low budget exploitation movies, just as nobody wants to spend their whole life in kindergarten. You look forward to graduating to high school. Peeters formed Big Movie Company with Terry Schwartz, intending to develop projects for female stars. However, Peeters fell ill in 1979 and spent some time out of the industry. She returned to directing with the 1980 film "Humanoids from the Deep", which was taken out of her hands and greatly changed by Roger Corman, including the addition of several rape sequences. Peeters asked for her name to be taken off the film, but this was not done. After this experience, she stopped working for New World and directed TV for the next decade.

Also for the "New York Times", Dwight Garner called the book a "terrifically dour, Edward Gorey-ish guide to cooking with offal: everything from pig's trotters and lamb's kidneys to brains, tripe, spleen, heart and tongue." Elizabeth Johnson of "The Journal News" considered first editions of the book to be "collector's items" because of its popularity. Lucy Waverman of "The Globe and Mail" said that its "dry humour and vivid imagery is a refreshing change from traditional recipe writing". Aileen Reid of "The Daily Telegraph" called it a "surprisingly refined book" that is "beautifully and elegantly written". Stephanie Alexander of "The Age" considered it to be an "absolute gem" and a "triumph of book design." Two years later for "The Age", Necia Wilden wrote that the book was "a sleeper that went from underground classic to foodies' must-have".

Nainakala Ojha Nainakala Ojha (Nepali: नैनकला ओझा) is a Nepalese communist politician and member of the National Assembly. In 2018 she was elected unopposed in Province No. 1 for the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) with a four-year term. She is a founder member of the Taplejung All Nepal Women's Association (Akhil Nepal Mahila Sangha).

The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males. The median income for a household in the town was $34,654, and the median income for a family was $36,061. Males had a median income of $27,380 versus $22,188 for females. The per capita income for the town was $14,145. About 12.2% of families and 11.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.3% of those under age 18 and 18.5% of those age 65 or over.

Dominion Chair Company Dominion Chair Company is the wooden furniture manufacturing company that operated from 1860 to 1989 in Bass River, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1860, George and William Fulton, brothers and great-grandsons of the first settler of Bass River, "Judge" James Fulton, built a small sawmill in Bass River and began manufacturing chairs and other furniture. In 1870, the brothers disagreed about moving the business to Truro, and George wound up buying his brother's share of the company. George continued managing the business in Bass River, purchasing and merging with the Acadia Chair Factory to found a joint stock company in 1876, naming it Union Furniture and Merchandise Company. Fires damaged the factory and halted production in 1885 and 1892, but the factory was rebuilt and business continued. The name Dominion Chair Company Limited was adopted in 1903. George Fulton's son, Suther B. Fulton, took over the business when his father retired in 1888. Operations continued through at least four devastating fires and a large explosion. However, a final fire in 1989 damaged the factory irreparably. The company was struggling financially, and two failed attempts at securing government funding to construct a new factory led to the company declaring bankruptcy in 1991. The Dominion Chair Company General Store, built in 1890, still operates in Bass River as a store and historical site.

Freriks Freriks is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include:

Bozan, Iran Bozan (, also Romanized as Bozān) is a village in Zhavarud-e Gharbi Rural District, Kalatrazan District, Sanandaj County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 162, in 39 families.

Zanzibar was most recently in the international news with a January 2001 massacre, following contested elections. Zanzibar has been inhabited, perhaps not continuously, since the Paleolithic period. A 2005 excavation at Kuumbi Cave in southeastern Zanzibar found heavy duty stone tools that showed occupation of the site at least 22,000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries of a limestone cave used radiocarbon techniques to prove more recent occupation, from around 2800 BC to the year 0 (Chami 2006). Traces of the communities include objects such as glass beads from around the Indian Ocean. It is a suggestion of early trans-oceanic trade networks, although some writers have expressed doubt about this possibility. No cave sites on Zanzibar have revealed pottery fragments used by early and later Bantu farming and iron-working communities who lived on the islands (Zanzibar, Mafia) during the first millennium AD. On Zanzibar, the evidence for the later farming and iron-working communities dating from the mid-first millennium AD is much stronger and indicates the beginning of urbanism there when settlements were built with mud-timber structures (Juma 2004). This is somewhat earlier than the existing evidence for towns in other parts of the Swahili Coast, given as the 9th century AD. The first permanent residents of Zanzibar seem to have been the ancestors of the Hadimu and Tumbatu, who began arriving from the African Great Lakes mainland around 1000 AD. They had belonged to various Bantu ethnic groups from the mainland, and on Zanzibar they lived in small villages and failed to coalesce to form larger political units. Because they lacked central organization, they were easily subjugated by outsiders. Ancient pottery demonstrates existing trade routes with Zanzibar as far back as the ancient Sumer and Assyria. An ancient pendant discovered near Eshnunna dated ca. 2500-2400 BC. has been traced to copal imported from the Zanzibar region. Traders from Arabia (mostly Yemen), the Persian Gulf region of Iran (especially Shiraz), and west India probably visited Zanzibar as early as the 1st century AD, followed by Somalis during the Middle Ages with the emergence of Islam. They used the monsoon winds to sail across the Indian Ocean and landed at the sheltered harbor located on the site of present-day Zanzibar Town. Although the islands had few resources of interest to the traders, they offered a good location from which to make contact and trade with the towns of the Swahili Coast.

Mionochroma elegans Mionochroma elegans is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Olivier in 1790. It is known from Guadeloupe, Grenada, Dominica, and St. Lucia.

Taylor managed only one in the semi-final as Australia staggered to 8/207 against the West Indies. Australia appeared to be heading out of the tournament when the Caribbean team reached 2/165, but a sudden collapse saw Australia win by six runs in the last over. Australia managed to reach the final, where they met Sri Lanka. Taylor scored 74, a record score by an Australian captain in the World Cup, but Sri Lanka comfortably triumphed on this occasion by seven wickets to claim the trophy. In another spiteful encounter, some players refused to shake hands after the match. Ranatunga, having declared before the match that Australian leg spinner Shane Warne was overrated, struck a six from a misexecuted flipper which turned into a full toss and promptly stuck out his tongue at the spinner. After the World Cup, Bob Simpson was replaced as Australia's coach by Geoff Marsh, Taylor's former opening partner. Australia's first tournament after the World Cup was the Singer World Series in Sri Lanka. Taylor opted out of the tournament, and in his absence, Australia reached the final but lost by 50 runs to the hosts. On a short tour to India, Taylor made his first ODI century at Bangalore, with 105 against India in his 98th match, having been out in the 90s on three previous occasions. Taylor performed strongly in the ODIs, with a total of 302 runs at 60.40. However, it was a disappointing tour for the team; the solitary Test in Delhi was lost, as were all five ODIs played during the Titan Cup. In 1996–97, Australia confirmed its ascendancy over the West Indies with a 3–2 series win, but Taylor endured a poor season with the bat and failed to pass 50 in nine innings. His partnership with Slater was terminated when the latter was dropped, replaced by Matthew Elliott. Following an injury to Elliott, Matthew Hayden became Taylor's partner for three Tests. Unable to recover form in the ODI series, Taylor's scratchy batting led to many poor starts for Australia. The team suffered five consecutive defeats, and missed the finals of the tournament for the first time in 17 years. Taylor managed only 143 runs at 17.88 with a highest score of 29. The early 1997 tour to South Africa brought no upturn in Taylor's batting despite Australia's 2–1 victory in the series: he scored 80 runs at 16.00. His form was such that it influenced the selection of the team. For the Second Test at Port Elizabeth, played on a green pitch, Australia played Michael Bevan as a second spinner batting at number seven to reinforce the batting, instead of a third seamer to exploit the conditions.

Local Angel Local Angel is the fourth solo album by desert rock musician Brant Bjork. It is considered his most intimate and laid back record, mixing acoustic guitars and simple melodies. Produced by Brant Bjork and Tony Mason Engineered by Tony Mason Recorded and mixed at Rancho de la Luna, February 6-15 2004 Mastered by Mathias Cornelius von Schneeberger at Donnor & Blitzen All songs and music written, arranged, and performed by Brant Bjork except "Hey Joe" written by Billy Roberts and "I Want You Around" by the Ramones Front cover angel by www.mistercartoon.com Layout Bunker/Bjork for Dunart

Joseph W. Esherick Joseph W. Esherick (Chinese name: , born 1942) is an emeritus professor of modern Chinese history at University of California, San Diego. He is the holder of the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies. Esherick is a graduate of Harvard College (1964, summa cum laude). He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (1971), under the supervision of Joseph R. Levenson and Frederic Wakeman. In addition to publishing research monographs, Esherick published a series of essays on historiography and reviews of the large questions in modern Chinese history. As a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, for instance, Esherick in 1972 published a critique of the field and of his undergraduate professor, John K. Fairbank, "Harvard on Imperialism." Later such essays dealt with the Revolution of 1911, Chiang Kai-shek, and the Revolution of 1949.

Yazdanabad District Yazadanabad District () is a district (bakhsh) in Zarand County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 15,936, in 3,783 families. The District has one city: Yazdan Shahr (formerly called Yazdanabad). The District has two rural districts ("dehestan"): Siriz Rural District and Yazdanabad Rural District.

Early tiled garden-edging remains lining the borders of the front path leading to the main entrance of the house. The house has a short-ridge pyramid roof clad in corrugated iron, with two corbelled chimeystacks of brick construction rising above. Paired decorative brackets to the eaves of the main roof are located on all facades of the house. The house is surrounded on 3 sides by a stepped verandah with a skillion roof. The rear verandah has been enclosed and extended. The front pediment features a decorative timber bargeboard and finial, and the verandah has been enclosed sideways-sliding sashes featuring panelled coloured glass. The original cast iron balustrades have been retained. The pedestrian entrance to the residence at 106 Mt Crosby Road is lined by garden beds, which retain some reference to the original garden layout and which screen the facade of the house from Mt Crosby Road. The well-established garden includes a number of mature pine and conifer trees in the front yard. The front boundary is enclosed with a timber-paling fence and the side perimeter is enclosed with a wire fence. There is one vehicular entrance onto the site from Mt Crosby Road leading to a later garage on the northern side of the property. The northern perimeter of the property abuts Tivoli State School and the southern side of the property adjoins Oaklands. The original timber stumps of the house have been replaced with concrete stumps and the sub-floor is enclosed with timber battens. The house is timber-framed and externally clad on its exposed faces in deep chamferboards. The main roof of the residence is pyramid shaped and sheeted in corrugated iron, with 2 brick chimneystacks rising above. The stepped verandah has a bull-nose roof profile. Access to the verandah is gained by a short flight of timber stairs. The decorative fretwork pediment above the stairs features a sunray motif, which is repeated in the timber brackets to the verandah posts and which was a common embellishment of Irish design. The front walls are unlined, vertically-jointed boards braced by horizontal beams. Dowel balustrading encloses the verandah and lattice infill panels have been installed in the front verandah bays. The northern side of the house is enclosed with a combination of early 20th century sliding and fixed windows with coloured glass. To the rear of the house is a recent covered patio area adjoining the house and a pool.

Botswana at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships Botswana competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011. Botswana qualified 2 swimmers.

Kebena Kebena is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after Kebena people. Part of the Gurage Zone, Kebena is bordered on the south by the Wabe River which separates it from Kokir Gedebano, Muhor Na Aklil, Ezha and Cheha, on the west by Abeshge, and on the north by the Oromia Region. It was part of former Goro woreda. The town of Welkite is surrounded by Kebena. Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 52,379, of whom 26,231 are men and 26,148 women; none of the population were urban inhabitants. The majority of the inhabitants were reported as Muslim, with 89.52% of the population reporting that belief, while 8.22% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 1.91% were Protestants.

Puya tuberosa Puya tuberosa is a species in the genus "Puya". This species is endemic to Bolivia.

From 1650 to 1653, most of which time was during the island's separation from Providence, Dyer served as the Attorney General. For reasons that are not clear in existing records, criticism of Coddington arose as soon as he returned with his commission. The venerable Dr. John Clarke voiced his opposition to the island governor, and he and Dyer were sent to England as agents of the discontents to get the Coddington commission revoked. Simultaneously, the mainland towns of Providence and Warwick sent Roger Williams on a similar errand, and the three men sailed for England in November 1651. Mary Dyer had sailed to England just before the three men departed. Because of recent hostilities between the English and the Dutch, the men did not meet with the Council of State on New England until April 1652. Whether true or not, Coddington was accused of taking sides with the Dutch on matters of colonial trade, and in October 1652 his commission for the island government was revoked. Dyer was the messenger who returned to Rhode Island the following February, bringing the news of the return of the colony to the Williams' Patent of 1643, while his wife remained in England. The reunion of the colony was to take place that spring, but the mainland commissioners refused to come to the island to meet, and the separation of mainland from island was extended for another year. During this interim period, John Sanford was elected as governor of the island towns, while Gregory Dexter became president of the mainland towns. In May 1653 Dyer received a commission from the General Assembly in preparation for military action against the Dutch. Captain John Underhill was selected as Commander in Chief upon the land, and Captain William Dyer became Commander in Chief upon the sea. The following year he had some harsh words for Coddington and Richard Tew, who he accused of making "encroachments upon the highway." In 1655 Dyer's name appears on a list of freemen from Newport. In 1657, Mary Dyer returned from England, after being away for five years. While there, she became a Quaker and a minister of that denomination, and upon disembarking at Boston she was jailed by the authorities for her beliefs and religious outpourings. Following the intercession of her husband, she was released, but Dyer was bound to not let her lodge in any town of the Massachusetts Bay Colony nor to speak to anyone during the journey home. Though banned from returning to Massachusetts under threat of death, Mary nevertheless went back to Boston in 1659 and was condemned to hang with two other Quakers.

‘The Cats’ were going for a provincial six in-a-row and an All-Ireland three-in-a-row, however, Wexford beat the reigning champions by 2-20 to 1-6. This win gave Doran his first Leinster medal. Wexford's championship campaign nearly came unstuck in their next game against Galway. A high-scoring game ended in a 5-14 to 2-23 draw and a replay was forced. In the second/replayed game, Wexford emerged victorious by 3-14 to 2-14. Their opponents in the All-Ireland final were Cork, a team looking for their first championship title since 1970. Doran's led initially by 2-2 to no score after just six minutes, however, Cork settled down and the sides were level at the interval. Cork ultimately hung on to win by 2-21 to 4-11 as Doran was left on the losing side. In 1977 Wexford maintained their provincial dominance with another defeat of Kilkenny. It was Doran's second Leinster medal and the defeat for ‘the Cats’ brought the curtain down on Eddie Keher’s inter-county career. Victory in the provincial final allowed Wexford to advance directly to the All-Ireland final. For the second year in-a-row Cork provided the opposition. Wet and windy weather severely hampered both teams, however, the game was still a close affair. For the second year in-a-row Doran ended up on the losing side as Cork claimed a 1-17 to 3-8 victory. In 1978 Kilkenny were back as champions of Leinster and Wexford had to go back to the drawing board. A new force in the province also emerged as Offaly won their first Leinster titles in 1980 and 1981. Doran retired from inter-county hurling shortly afterwards. Doran also lined out with Leinster in the inter-provincial hurling competition. He first played for his province in 1974 as Leinster defeated Munster to take the Railway Cup. Doran added further Railway Cup medals to his collection in 1975, 1977 and 1979. Not long after his playing days were over the Gaelic Athletic Association celebrated its centenary year in 1984. Throughout the year a series of special events were held while special team selections were also named. While a special GAA Hurling Team of the Century was named, a special team of players who never won an All-Ireland medal was also selected.

Tiraboschi laments the fact that no other news of her work has survived other than Vasari’s short mention of her. However, one surviving altarpiece of hers can be found at the Church of Santa Maria e San Pietro in Silvano Pietra, "The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine", an oil-on-canvas painting measuring 180x120 cm (c. 1576). A chapter on Lucrezia Quistelli, authored by Sheila Barker, will be in the forthcoming book, Women Artists in Early Modern Italy: Careers, Fame, and Collectors [Brepols, May 2016]. 1974 Thailand Regional Games The 8th Thailand National Games (Thai: กีฬาเขตแห่งประเทศไทย ครั้งที่ 8) also known as the 1974 National Games and the 1974 Interprovincial Games) were held in Chonburi, Thailand from 3 to 9 December 1974, with 15 sports and representative from 10 regions. The emblem of 1974 Thailand National Games was an orange circle, with a Buddha statue on top, the emblem of Sports Authority of Thailand on the inside, and surrounded by the text . The 8th Thailand National Games represented 10 regions from 71 provinces. The 1974 Thailand National Games featured 11 Olympic sports contested at the 1975 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, 1974 Asian Games and 1976 Summer Olympics. In addition, four non-Olympic sports were featured: badminton, sepak takraw, table tennis and tennis. List of accolades received by Piku "Piku" is a 2015 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by N.P. Singh, Ronnie Lahiri and Sneha Rajani. The film stars Deepika Padukone as the eponymous protagonist, alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan. Moushumi Chatterjee and Jisshu Sengupta play supporting roles. It was written by Juhi Chaturvedi and the musical score was composed by Anupam Roy. "Piku" tells the story of a headstrong Bengali architect, who along with her hypochondriac father and a helpful businessman embark on a road trip from New Delhi to Kolkata. Made on an estimated budget of , "Piku" was released on 8 May 2015, and grossed approximately worldwide.

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Eric Grove Eric Grove (born 1948) is a British naval historian and defence analyst. Grove was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1948. He took an MA in War Studies at King's College London in 1971 and was appointed that year as a civilian lecturer at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth. During the 1970s he wrote books on tanks and armoured warfare. In 1980 and 1981 Grove was the first Dartmouth academic to exchange for a year with the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Leaving Dartmouth as Deputy Head of Strategic Studies and International Affairs at the end of 1984 Grove worked briefly for the Council for Arms Control before becoming a freelance academic and defence consultant. His principal work was with the Foundation for International Security's Common Security Programme followed by its project on Maritime Power and European Security which involved the creation of a back channel, later official, dialogue between the Soviet, US and Royal Navies. He also taught at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Cambridge. In 1993 Grove accepted a position with the Department of Politics at the University of Hull and its Centre for Security Studies. He obtained a PhD on the basis of his published works in 1996. He eventually left in 2005 as Reader in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre, having founded a new undergraduate course in War and Security Studies. During this time he also acted as consultant and co author for the first edition of the Royal Navy's "The Fundamentals of British Maritime Doctrine" (BR1806). He was also involved in the first iteration of British Defence Doctrine. In 1997 Dr Grove was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. In 2005 Grove moved to the University of Salford where he was Professor of Naval History and Director of the Centre for International Security and War Studies. In 2013-15 he was Professor of Naval History and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Applied Research in Security Innovation at Hope University in Liverpool. His works include "Vanguard to Trident: British Naval Policy Since 1945" (1987), "The Future of Sea Power" (1990), "The Price of Disobedience" (2000) and "The Royal Navy Since 1815" (2005). He also edited a new edition of Sir Julian Corbett's "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy" in 1988. Grove has made contributions to many television programmes including BBC2's "Timewatch" series, "Deep Wreck Mysteries", Channel 4's "Hunt for the Hood and the Bismarck" and the series "The Battleships and the Airships".