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It has also been difficult for states and countries to make synthetic cannabis illegal because there are so many different cannabinoids.
For example, in 2009, the United Kingdom made all the cannabinoids that existed illegal.
However, scientists quickly created new versions of cannabinoids, which were not listed as illegal in the U.K.'s laws.
Like many other countries, the United Kingdom has tried to ban every new cannabinoid as soon as it is created, but new ones are made all the time.
Before 2010, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had made some of the cannabinoids used in synthetic marijuana illegal in the U.S.  Other cannabinoids were not illegal.
Some states passed laws on their own, to make synthetic cannabis illegal in their states.
However, before 2010, not all cannabinoids were illegal in the United States.
On June 6, 2010, a teenager from Iowa named David Mitchell Rozga killed himself.
His friends said they and Rozga had smoked synthetic cannabis about an hour before he shot himself.
Rozga's suicide, and the idea that it might have been caused by synthetic cannabis, was reported in newspapers and media all over the world.
After Rozga's suicide, the DEA used "emergency powers" to make five cannabinoids often found in synthetic marijuana illegal.
Also, after the suicide, United States Senator Chuck Grassley suggested a law called the "David Mitchell Rozga Act."
This law would make using or selling synthetic cannabis illegal.
The law was passed by the United States Congress in June 2011.
On July 10, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 into law.
It made the most common chemicals used in synthetic marijuana illegal.
Designer drugs
THC (the chemical that synthetic cannabinoids try to imitate)
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The Ostwald process is a chemical process for making nitric acid (HNO3).
The Ostwald process provides the main raw material for the most common type of fertilizer production.
It is closely associated with the Haber process.
It is named after Wilhelm Ostwald, who developed the process and patented it in 1902.
1) It is oxidized in the presence of platinium as catalyst at about 900 degrees Celsius to form nitric oxide and water.
4 NH3 (g) + 5 O2 (g) → 4 NO (g) + 6 H2O (g)
2 NO (g) + O2 (g) → 2 NO2
3 NO2 (g) + H2O (l) → 2 HNO3 (aq) + NO (g)
Alternatively if the nitrogen dioxide reacts with oxygen.
4 NO2 (g) + O2 (g) + 2 H2O (l) → 4 HNO3
The 2014 Volleyball World Championship was held in Poland from 30 August to 21 September 2014.
The tournament featured 24 teams to determine the world champions in men's volleyball.
In addition to the host nation Poland, 23 teams qualified for the tournament by means of continental and regional competitions.
The matches took place in seven venues across seven Polish cities, with the final being held at Spodek, Katowice.
Final Standing
Formula and Prize Money
Highlights World Championship
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (born 10 December 1989) is a French politician.
She is the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen.
She is a member of Front National and an MP for Vaucluse's 3rd constituency since 2012.
Twenty-two years old at the time of her election, she became France's youngest MP in modern political history.
Cornway College (or simply Cornway) is a private, day and boarding school for boys and girls in Mount Hampden, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, Africa.
It is  from the Harare central business district.
Cornway College was opened on January 23, 2006.
It has a preparatory school (Cornway Junior College) and a high school (Cornway Senior College).
The language used to communicate within the school is English.
Students at the Junior College are taught the primary schools curriculum developed by Cambridge International Examinations or CIE (an exam board in the United Kingdom) and ZIMSEC (an exam board in Zimbabwe).
The children learn the following subjects:
General Paper
Senior College
In Form Three and Form Four (Year 10 and Year 11), students are taught according to the curriculum of CIE and ZIMSEC.
In Form Four, the students then write tests for the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (given by CIE) and the GCE Ordinary Level certificate (given by ZIMSEC).
In the Sixth Form (that is, Lower Six and Upper Six, or Year 12 and Year 13), students learn a minimum of three subjects according to the Advanced Level curriculum of CIE and ZIMSEC.
In Lower Six, students can choose to write tests for the Cambridge International AS Level certificate (half the content of Advanced Level is tested, the certificate is given by CIE) then write tests again in Upper Six for the full Cambridge International A Level certificate.
Another option is to write the Cambridge International A Level and or the ZIMSEC GCE Advanced Level tests in Upper Six.
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An orizuru (折鶴 ori- "folded," tsuru "crane"), or paper crane, is a classically designed paper Japanese origami.
Red paper cranes is a representation of the Japanese red-crowned crane which is special in Japanese culture.
The orizuru is often is used restaurant table decoration.
Senbazuru (千羽鶴), which means "thousand cranes," are one thousand paper cranes strung together.
"Out of the Woods" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
It is the sixth single from her album, 1989.
It was co-written and co-produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff from the American alternative band Fun.
The two produced the song along with Swedish songwriter and producer Max Martin.
It became her sixth top-20 hit in a row on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The music video for the song was released on December 31, 2015, live on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on ABC stations in the United States.
Stephen Walter Stanton (born August 22, 1961) is a German-born American voice actor, impressionist, visual effects artist and comedian.
He has done many voice roles in television shows, movies and video games.
He is best known for his work in The 7D and in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars franchise.
Foodfight! -
Mr. Clean (deleted scene), Lord Flushington
Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Pete Puma
Garfield Gets Real - Father, Randy Rabbit
Garfield's Fun Fest - Randy Rabbit, Stanislavsky
Garfield's Pet Force - Randy Rabbit, News Guy, Skinny Guard
Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever - Jojo the dog
Life Itself - Roger Ebert's memoir voice
My All-American - Football play-by-play commentator voice
Pink Five Strikes Back - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Return of Pink Five - Emperor Palpatine, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Secretariat - Triple Crown race announcer
The Reef 2: High Tide - Jack
Sith Apprentice - Yoda
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation - FedNet
Superman vs. The Elite - Bialyian Ambassador, Cartoon Superman, Manchester Black's Father
Titan A.E. - Alien Prisoner, Colonist 2004
Unbroken - Olympics Radio Announcer
Archer - Capt.
Lammers/Narrator
Black Panther - Klaw
Breadwinners - Judge Pobun
Doc McStuffins - Gustav Gator
Family Guy - Additional Voices
G.I. Joe: Renegades - Tomax and Xamot
Girl Meets World - voice of Frank Mantucci
Halt and Catch Fire - Cardiff Giant commercial Announcer
Hero Factory - Jimi Stringer/Nitroblast
King of the Hill - Heck Dorland
MAD - Buzz Lightyear, Boris Karloff, The Grinch, Woodrow Dolarhyde, Gandalf, David Rossi, Richard Donner, Al Gore, Will Smith/Agent J, Jay Pritchett, Phil Coulson, Erik Selvig, James P. Sullivan, Professor X, Additional Voices
Medium - Monkeyheads (Episodes "Four Dreams: Part One" and "Four Dreams: Part Two")
Raising Hope - "The Chance Who Stole Christmas" Narrator
Cartoons - Mr. Frank
Robot Chicken - Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Roger Ebert, Alvin, Simon, Theodore
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy - Jeff Goldblum
Sofia The First - Jade Jaguar
Star Wars Rebels - Grand Moff Tarkin, Stormtrooper #2 ( JTN-303)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Brother Viscus, Colonel Meebur Gascon, Dilanni, Edcel Bar Gane, Mak Plain, Mas Amedda, Moralo Eval, Wilhuff Tarkin
The 7D - Sleepy
The Legend of Korra - Air Lion Turtle, Old Wan (Episode "Beginnings, Part 2")
Wolverine and the X-Men - Blob
2 - Blisk, Agent Sergi
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Ben Kenobi
EverQuest II - Bartender Coppershot, Galenus Vafia, Hunter Vannil, Rori
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented - Additional Voices
Gun - Additional Voices
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law - Phil Ken Sebben
Hot Shots Tennis - Big Chief
Iron Man - Iron Man, Afghan Soldier, Engineer, Pilot
Jeanne d'Arc - Prince Charles VII
Kinect Disneyland Adventures - Stinky Pete
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - Happy, Deep Space Ship System
Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Blob, Malekith the Accursed, Sentinel
Over the Hedge - Ozzie the Opossum, RJ the Raccoon
Psychonauts - Bonita Soleil, Sasha Nein
Rogue Galaxy - Alekt Rosencaster, Robert
Spider-Man 3 - Additional Voices
Spider-Man: Battle for New York - Kingpin
Star Wars: Battlefront II - Darth Maul, Additional Voices
Star Wars: Empire at War - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Capt.
Antilles, Additional Voices
Storybook Weaver - The Rabbit, The Grinch
Storybook Weaver Deluxe - The Rabbit, The Grinch
Tales of Symphonia - Maxwell
Tangled: The Video Game - Additional Voices
Toy Story 3: The Video Game - Stinky Pete
The Bard's Tale - Additional Voices
The Cave - The Cave, Shopkeeper
The Incredible Hulk - Iron Man, Male Pedestrian #2
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth - Uruk Hai
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - Sauron
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king - Sauron, Uruk Hai
The Matrix: Path of Neo - Agent Jackson, Additional Voices
The Outfit - Hans von Back
The Sopranos: Road to Respect - Additional Voices
X-Men: The Official Game - Additional Voices
Disneyland Rivers of America - Mark Twain Riverboat Captain
Disney California Adventure Toy Story Mania - Stinky Pete
Disney D23 Expo Carousel of Projects - Pre-show Narrator
Hong Kong Disneyland Mystic Manor - Lord Henry Mystic
Walt Disney World Seven Dwarfs Mine Train - Happy
Disneyland Club 33 - audio-animatronic vulture
Walt Disney World D23 Destination D: Attraction Rewind - Announcer as "Father" from Carousel of Progress
Visual Effects Work
For Boss Film Studios
Alien 3 - Digital Camera Operator
Batman Returns - Digital Camera Operator
The Last of the Mohicans - Computer Graphics Coordinator
Cliffhanger - Computer Graphics Coordinator
Last Action Hero - Computer Graphics Coordinator (Uncredited)
For Tippett Studio
Starship Troopers - Digital Scanner Operator
Armageddon - Digital Scanner Operator (Uncredited)
Virus - Digital Scanner Operator
My Favorite Martian - Digital Scanner Operator
Komodo - Digital Scanner Operator (Uncredited)
Mission to Mars - Digital Scanner Operator (Uncredited)
Hollow Man - Digital Scanner Operator
Evolution - Digital Scanner Operator
Cats & Dogs - Digital Scanner Operator (Uncredited)
The Official Stephen Stanton Facebook Fan Page
Point Break is a 1991 American action crime thriller movie.
It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and it was produced by Peter Abrams and Robert L. Levy.
Point Break was released on July 12, 1991.
In the movie, a gang of robbers called the "Ex-Presidents" wear face-masks of former Presidents of the United States (Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter) to hide their true identities.
The movie got mixed and positive reviews from critics.
Movie critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four.
In his review, he wrote that "Bigelow is an interesting director for this material.
She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons.
They aren't men of action, but men of thought who choose action as a way of expressing their beliefs."
Patrick Swayze as Bodhi
Keanu Reeves as FBI Agent Johnny Utah
Gary Busey as FBI Agent Angelo Pappas
Lori Petty as Tyler Endicott
John C. McGinley as FBI Agent Ben Harp
James LeGros as Roach
John Philbin as Nathaniel
Bojesse Christopher as Grommet
Lee Tergesen as Rosie
Julian Reyes as FBI Agent Alvarez
Daniel Beer as FBI Agent Babbit
Vincent Klyn as Lupton "Warchild" Pittman
Chris Pedersen as Bunker Weiss
Dave Olson as Archbold
Anthony Kiedis as Tone
Christopher Pettiet as 15
Sydney Walsh as Miss Deer
Peter Phelps as Australian surfer
Tom Sizemore as DEA Agent Dietz (uncredited)
For seven years, he was the chief counsel of the Appropriations Committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
He was an outspoken fiscal conservative and critic of legalized gambling, unconstitutional legislation and political corruption.
William Ronald "Bill" Plager (July 6, 1945 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
He was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Plager started his National Hockey League career with the Minnesota North Stars in 1967.
He also played for the St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Flames.
He left the NHL after the 1976 season.
Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner.
He helped the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language.
He began his career as an astronomer for which he received his PhD degree in 1957.
From 1969 to 1998 Naur was a professor of computer science at University of Copenhagen.
Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining the ALGOL 60 programming language.
Robert Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an English-Australian music entrepreneur and impresario.
He was best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees.
He relocated to England in 1954.
In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the most successful figures in the entertainment world, through his management of music groups like Cream and The Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar and movie productions including the hugely successful Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Robert Stigwood Organisation official site
Joseph Brennan: Gibb Songs website http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/67.first.html
The Knitting Circle: Popular Music http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/popularmusic.html
Disraeli Gears Cream website http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/gears/disraeligears1.htm
General Igor Dmitrievich Sergun (28 March 1957 – 3 January 2016) was a Russian military officer.
He was Director of the GRU, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, since December 26, 2011.
He worked in military intelligence since 1984, and served in various positions in the Main Intelligence Directorate.
He speaks several foreign languages and was awarded state awards.
In 1998 as a colonel, he served as a RF Military Attaché in Tirana, Albania.
In December 2011, he was appointed as Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 1922 – 4 January 2016) was a French actor.
He was known for his roles in Subway (1985), Belle époque (1992) and as Abraracourcix in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar (1999).
Galabru was born in Safi, Morocco to French parents.
He was raised near Paris, France.
He appeared in over 250 movies mostly directed by Bertrand Blier, Jean-Luc Godard, Luc Besson and Costa-Gavras.
Galabru died on 4 January 2016 in his home in Paris, France at the age of 93.
Bertrand Blier (born 14 March 1939) is a French screenwriter and movie director.
His 1978 movie Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
His 1996 movie Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.
His 2005 film How Much Do You Love Me?
was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver George for Best Director.
Safi (Berber: Asfi, ⴰⵙⴼⵉ; , Portuguese: Safim) is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean.
The capital of Safi Province, it has a population of 282,227 (2004 census).
Safi is the main fishing port for the country's sardine industry, and also exports phosphates, textiles and ceramics.
Entry in Lexicorient
Shaykh al-Islam () ( is a title of respect for outstanding scholars of Islam.
The title may also be used for the chief expert in Islamic Law of a city or kingdom.
The title shaykh al-Islam was reserved for very few scholars.
Usually those with the greatest merits.
Al-Sakhawi defines it as follows:
There were not many scholars known as shaykh al-Islam.
The title was used for the following scholars:
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (396-481 A.H.)
Ibn Surayj (249–306 A.H.)
Al-Daraqutni (306–385 A.H.)
Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (336–430 A.H.)
Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini (344–406 A.H.)
Al-Bayhaqi (384–458 A.H.)
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (393–476 A.H.)
Al-Juwayni (419–478 A.H.)
Ibn al-Jawzi (509/510–597 A.H.)
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (544–606 A.H.)
Al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam (577–660 A.H.)
Ibn Daqiq al-'Id (625–702 A.H.)
Al-Nawawi (631–676 A.H.)
Ibn Taymiyyah (661–728 A.H.)
Taqi al-Din al-Subki (683–756 A.H.)
Taj al-Din al-Subki (727–771 A.H.)
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773–852 A.H.)
Zakariyya al-Ansari (823–926 A.H.)
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (909–974 A.H.)
Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini (724–805 A.H.)
Shihab al-Din al-Ghazzi (000–822 A.H.)
Shihab al-Din al-Ramli (000–957 A.H.)
Muhammad al-Tahir ibn 'Ashur (1296–1392 A.H.)
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud (1328–1397 A.H.)
Al-Dhahabi, Siyar a'lam al-nubala' ('Biographies of Noble Personalities').
Shaykh Al-Islam
Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro, Sr. (
born September 21, 1971) is an American actor, television director, dancer, and game show host.
He is best known for his roles as Carlton Banks on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and as Alfonso Spears on the sitcom Silver Spoons.
Ribeiro is the current host of America's Funniest Home Videos.
He took over for former host Tom Bergeron who left after fifteen years.
Ribeiro took part in the nineteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.
He was paired with professional dancer Witney Carson.
Ribeiro and Carson were both able to win the competition.
Silver Spoons - Alfonso Spears (1984–87)
John Grin's Christmas - Rocky (1986) (TV movie)
Magnum, P.I. - Kenneth (1986)
Mighty Pawns - Frank (1987)
A Different World - Zach Duncan (1990)
Bill Nye the Science Guy - Himself (1994)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Carlton Banks (1990–96)
Ticks - Darrel "Panic" Lumnley (1993)
Soul Train - Himself (1994) (Host)
Spider-Man - Randy Robertson/Teenage Robbie Robertson (1994–98) (voice)
In the House - Dr. Maxwell Stanton (1996–99)
Kidz in the Wood (1996) (TV movie)
Extreme Ghostbusters - Roland Jackson (1997) (voice)
Your Big Break - Himself (2000) (Host)
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase - Moon Goon #1 (2001) (voice)
Love Wrecked - Bert Hernandez (2005)
Celebrity Duets - Himself (2006) (contestant)
GSN Live - Himself (2008–09) (Host)
Catch 21 - Himself (2008–11) (Host)
Things We Do for Love - Darren (2011)
Big Time Rush - Captain McAllister (2012)
Shake It Up - Mr. Zigfeld (2013)
Spell-Mageddon - Himself (2013) (Host)
The Graham Norton Show - Himself (2013)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! -
Himself (2013) (contestant)
Dancing with the Stars - Himself (2014) (contestant)
Unwrapped 2.0 - Himself (2015-present) (narrator)
America's Funniest Home Videos - Himself (2015-present) (narrator)
Kharkov National Medical University (KNMU, , ) is a medical university in Kharkov, Ukraine.
It was first known as Kharov State Medical University and then Kharkov Medical State Institute.
At present, over 700 professors teach at the university.
Since 1951, the university has been training medical staff for countries of Eastern Europe, China and Mongolia.
Since 1961, it has been training students from other countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
At present, there are about 3,400 foreign students in the Kharkiv National Medical University who study at the Preparatory Department, Medical, Nursing and Dental Faculties.
They do postgraduate and clinical post-graduate (residency) courses as well as professional probation at departments of the university in Dental, therapy, orthopedics, surgery, oncology, psychiatry, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, as well as other medical specialties.
The University has trained over 5,000 specialists for 86 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
The history of the higher medical school in Kharkiv is more than 200 years long.
It is closely connected with the history of University of Kharkiv, because it originated from its Medical Faculty.
The University was founded in 1805.
A decree about its foundation was signed by the Russian Tsar Alexander I, and the first rules of the university were approved at that time.
Rankings and reputation
The university ranks 481 out of 11,000 universities in the world by 4icu world university ranking.
The university takes the 26th general place and the 5th place among higher medical educational establishments of Ukraine in the scientometrical database SCOPUS.
It ranks 47th among Ukrainian higher educational establishments by UNESCO Top 200.
In 2015, the Order of Honour and Silver Diploma by the rating "Golden Fortune" were awarded to the University.
KhNMU became a laureate of the rating of higher educational establishments "Ukraine-2000".
In 2010, the University won an honorary title "Leader of Modern Education" at the International Exhibition "Modern Education of Ukraine"; in 2011-2012 – "Leader of National Education" at the International Exhibitions "Education and Career - 2011" and  "Education and Career - 2012".
Campuses and buildings
The university has a complex of buildings for teaching.
It has 5 hostels.
All the students of the graduate and post-graduate stages of training are provided with beds at the hostels.
The university has 65 departments.
The departments are equipped with modern classrooms and have all the opportunities for high-quality training of students.
Institutes and faculties
7 faculties;
Educational Research Institute for Postgraduate Training;
Medical college;
2 research institutes: Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, Ukrainian Institute of Clinical Genetics;
Central research laboratory;
4 research laboratories;
Medical training and research unit of “University Dental Centre”;
Scientific-Practical Medical Centre.
About 40 studies in priority subjects are conducted at the university.
These are working out of methods for prevention, diagnosing and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular, reproductive and musculo-skeletal systems.
The university is a member of the International Association of Universities (an organisation overseen by UNESCO) since 1998.
It is on the register of medical universities of the World Health Organization (Avicenna Directories).
Victor Skumin studied medicine at the University and graduated in 1973 with diploma with honours.
In 1968, while still a medical student, he proposed (1968) the term Culture of Health (Russian: Культура Здоровья).
He wrote many books and articles about psychiatry, yoga.
He was the first to described a previously unknown disease, now it is called Skumin syndrome.
He elaborated on the concept of spiritual evolution and proposed (1990) a classification of Homo spiritalis (Latin: "spiritual man"), the sixth root race, consisting of eight sub-races (subspecies) - HS0 Anabiosis spiritalis, HS1 Scientella spiritalis, HS2 Aurora spiritalis, HS3 Ascensus spiritalis, HS4 Vocatus spiritalis, HS5 Illuminatio spiritalis, НS6 Creatio spiritalis, and HS7 Servitus spiritalis.
Colleges and universities in Ukraine
Gitanjali is a book of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore.
There are 157 poems in the book.
All the poems are in the Bengali language.
It has been translated into many languages by many writers.
Gitanjali is a book of song offerings.
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature on November 14, 1913 for his book ''Gitanjali'. '
It also contains the special poem known as the"mind is without fear".
Harold Huyton "Tim" Francis (1928 – 2 January 2016) was a New Zealand diplomat.
He was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1978 to 1982.
He was also Ambassador to the United States from 1988 to 1991.
Francis was born in Auckland.
He was married to Sherrah and had three children.
Francis died from cancer on 2 January 2016 in Wellington.
Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu (1 September 1928 – 2 January 2016) was a Turkish army general.
He was Secretary-General of the National Security Council from 1988 to 1990.
He was said to be behind a failed killing of President Turgut Özal in 1988.
He was born in Foça, Izmir.
Irma Ida Ilse Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a powerful Nazi military organization, during World War II.
She was a guard at the Nazi concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
She was also the warden of the women's part of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Grese was nicknamed "the Hyena of Auschwitz" () by prisoners there because of the cruel ways she treated them.
After World War II ended, Grese was put on trial for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.
She was convicted of crimes against humanity for the things she did at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
She was executed in 1945 at age 22.
Irma Grese was born in Germany in 1923.
In 1936, when Grese was 13, her mother killed herself by drinking hydrochloric acid, a poison, after finding out that her husband had an affair (a relationship with another woman).
Grese's father probably joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and got married again in 1939.
When she was 14, Grese quit school.
By then, she was a member of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel), a Nazi group for girls.
Concentration camp guard
Grese volunteered to work in a concentration camp.
In 1942, when she was 19 years old, she started working as a guard at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp for women.
In March 1943, she was sent to work at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
After a year, Grese was promoted to Rapportführerin - warden - at Bergen-Belsen.
This was the second-highest rank that a woman could reach.
In this job, she helped choose which prisoners would be killed in the concentration camp's gas chambers.
When British soldiers were getting close to Bergen-Belsen to liberate it (take it over and free its prisoners), Grese and some other people in the SS decided not to run away.
They were captured by the British on 17 April 1945, and taken to prison.
In her famous memoir called Five Chimneys, Olga Lengyel (who had been a prisoner in a camp where Grese worked) wrote about how Grese acted there.
Lengyel wrote that Grese liked hurting prisoners, making them afraid of her, and choosing which ones would be killed in the gas chambers.
Grese was put on trial for war crimes at the "Belsen Trial."
Instead of having one big trial with hundreds of defendants, the Nuremberg Trials were separated into smaller trials.
For example, people who were accused of committing crimes at Bergen-Belsen were put on trial at the Belsen Trial.
Grese was tried there with 44 other people.
Her trial lasted from September to November 1945.
She was given a lawyer named Major L. Cranfield.
Grese was accused of treating prisoners in ways that were illegal because of an international law called the Third Geneva Convention.
People who had been prisoners in the camps Grese worked at talked about how Grese murdered and tortured prisoners.
They said she especially liked to hurt women.
They talked about how Grese beat prisoners, let her dogs attack them, whipped them, and shot them.
They said she liked to whip women's breasts, and then make the camp doctor, Gisella Perl, do surgery on the women's breasts without anesthetic, because she liked watching them suffer.
Two other female guards were tried at the Belsen Trial.
However, Grese was the only woman to get the death penalty.
Stephen Warren Bosworth (December 4, 1939 – January 3, 2016) was an American academic and diplomat.
He served as U.S. Ambassador three times: Tunisia (1979–1981), Philippines (1984–1987), and South Korea (1997–2001).
Bosworth was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Bosworth died from prostate cancer on January 3, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Educators from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Jean-Paul L'Allier (August 12, 1938 – January 5, 2016) was a Canadian politician and journalist.
He was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
He served as the 38th Mayor of Quebec City from 1989 to 2005.
He served in the National Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes from 1970 to 1976.
He also worked for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in the 1980s.
He was born in Hudson, Quebec.
L'Allier died after an illness on January 5, 2016 in Quebec City.
Hyman Paul Bley  (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian pianist.
He was known for his work to the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
He began his career in the 1950s and was active until his death in the 2010s.
He worked with jazz musicians Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Evan Parker, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and many others.
Bley was born in Montreal, Quebec.
He was adopted and Jewish.
He was married to Carla Bley until their divorce.
Bley died on January 3, 2016 in Stuart, Florida.
Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American retired basketball player.
Hill was born in Dallas, Texas.
He was part of the US basketball team who won the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
He is the son of Calvin Hill.
He was a selected third overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1994 draft.
He played six seasons, five as an All-star.
He then played for the Orlando Magic from 2000-04.
Hill played for 5 seasons for the Phoenix Suns.
He finally retired from the Los Angeles Clippers after a 19-year career.
He was a seven time NBA All-star.
Hill is a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
He received the 2015 Candle in the Dark award.
He is in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
Grant Hill Webpage
Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author and poet.
She won the Prix Femina for her novel Cold Comfort Farm.
Cold Comfort Farm is a British comedy movie from 1995.
It was directed by John Schlesinger.
It is based on Stella Gibbons' book of the same name.
The movie stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell.
It was first shown on the BBC on 1 January 1995.
Claude Gagnière (January 20, 1928 – September 12, 2003) was a French writer.
He was born in Alès.
After he died he was awarded the prize of the Bouquinistes for all his work in 2004.
All over all - Small dictionary of the unusual and of the smile, 1986
To the happiness of the words, 1989
Of words and wonders, 1994
Between guillemets: small dictionary of appointments, 1996
Versiculets & texticules: epigrams, madrigals, five centuries of fugitive poetries, 1999
The fable express: of Alphonse Went to Boris Vian, 2002
Gay bars are drinking establishments that cater to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.
The term gay is used as an inclusive concept for LGBT communities.
Gay bars once served as the centre of gay culture.
They were one of the few places people with same-sex orientations and gender-variant identities could openly socialize.
Other names include boy bar, girl bar, lesbian bar or dyke bar.
The Stonewall Inn in New York City is one example of a gay/lesbian bar.
The gay rights movement was born there.
The Stonewall Inn (or just Stonewall) is a gay/lesbian tavern and recreational bar in New York City.
It was also the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots.
The original inn closed in 1969.
In 1990, a bar named "Stonewall" opened in the western half of the original location.
In June 2015, the Stonewall received an official landmark status from New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its role as the catalyst of the LGBT movement.
It is the first landmark in New York City that has been recognized due to its status in LGBT history.
Dow Chemical is a company which has its headquarters in the United States.
It is the second-largest producer of chemicals in the world, after BASF.
The German Academic Exchange Service (, or DAAD) is an organisation in Germany.
It is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation.
It was founded on 1 January 1925.
It closed in 1945, but was refounded in 1950.
The DAAD headquarters are in Bonn.
There are 15 international regional branch offices.
They provide information and advice on study and research opportunities and available grants.
The German Academic Exchange Service is mainly funded by the Foreign Office of Germany and the European Union.
In 2012, the DAAD received 407.4 million Euro.
Regional branch offices
DAAD London (established in 1952)
DAAD Cairo (1960)
DAAD New Delhi (1960)
DAAD Paris (1963)
DAAD New York (1971)
DAAD Rio de Janeiro (1972)
DAAD Moscow (1973)
DAAD Nairobi (1973)
DAAD Tokyo (1978)
DAAD Jakarta (1990)
DAAD Beijing (1994)
DAAD Warsaw (1997)
DAAD Mexico City (2001)
DAAD Hanoi (2003)
DAAD Brussels (2007)
DAAD Homepage
DAAD London
DAAD New York (North America)
Jorge Alberto Lepra Loiodice (4 September 1942 – 4 January 2016) was a Uruguayan diplomat and politician.
He was Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2005 to 2008.
He was also Ambassador to France from 2008 to 2010.
Lepra died from heart failure on 4 January 2016 in Montevideo.
The Venice Film Festival is a festival held in Venice, Italy.
It is the world's oldest movie festival.
It dates back to 1932.
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an animated children's television show.
It was shown on the Disney Channel from 1988 to 1991.
In the opening theme and 1989 and 1991 ending theme (that sounds similar to the opening theme), the Korg DSS-1 patch "Fantasia" (that sounds like the Roland D-50 patch "Fantasia") was heard.
This show is on Spacetoon in other countries.
The Golden Bear is the highest prize given at the Berlin International Film Festival (often known as Berlinale).
List of Golden Bear winners
International standard is a guidance made by international organizations to be considered and used around the world.
The standard can be used directly or with small changes to suit the local conditions.
International standard is used as one of the way to ease technical differences and barriers for international trading which caused by different regulations about technical aspects by each country.
Gandaki zone (), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal.
It is located in the Western Development Region.
Gandaki zone is divided into 6 districts.
An Autotransformer (sometimes called autostep down transformer) is a transformer which has only one winding.
The "auto" (Greek for "self") prefix refers to the single coil acting on itself and not to any kind of automatic mechanism.
The winding acts as both primary winding and secondary winding in a normal transformer.
Since part of the winding does "double duty", autotransformers have the advantages of often being smaller, lighter, and cheaper than typical dual-winding transformers.
The disadvantage of an autotransformer include not providing electrical isolation between the primary winding and the secondary winding.
There is also a higher possibility of short circuits due to low impedance.
Autotransformers are used in power transmission, power distribution, audio, rail transport, etc.
Autotransformers are often used to step up (increase) or step down (decrease) voltages in the 110–120 V range and in the 220–240 V range.
The Basics of Autotransformers
Difference between Isolation Transformers and Autotransformers
Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian actress.
She was Miss Italy in 1946.
She began her acting career in 1947.
She appeared in over sixty movies, mostly comedies.
Her final acting role was in 1999.
Pampanini was born in Rome.
She was never married and had no children.
She was the niece of Rosetta Pampanini.
The National Archive Department of the Republic of Azerbaijan () is the national archive of Azerbaijan.
It is a governmental agency within the government of Azerbaijan in charge of managing, maintaining, protecting and updating national archives of the Azerbaijani nation state.
The archive houses documents, maps, stamps, audio tapes, video clips, photographs and special publications.
It was established on December 2, 2002.
It is in the capital city Baku.
Archives in Azerbaijan
Antonio Carrozzi Abasca (15 September 1926 – 1 January 2016), better known as Antonio Carrizo, was an Argentine radio host, actor and television presenter.
He worked for the radio station Radio El Mundo and Radio Rivadavia.
He hosted shows on many channels including Canal 7.
He appeared in the movies El barro humano (1955), El noveno mandamiento (1963) and Muchachos impacientes (1966).
Carrizo was born in General Villegas, Buenos Aires Province.
He had a stoke in 2008.
He died on 1 January 2016 in Buenos Aires, aged 89.
Tommy Sale  (21 July 1918 – 3 January 2016) was an English rugby league player.
He played for Leigh Centurions and Widnes Vikings.
He later coached Leigh.
Ambrose Gerald "Amby" Fogarty (11 September 1933 – 3 January 2016) was an Irish football player and manager.
He played as a midfielder from 1953 to 1975.
He played for Bohemians, Glentoran, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Cork Celtic, Cork Hibernian and the national team.
He also managed Cork Hibernians, Cork Celtic, Drumcondra, Limerick and Athlone Town.
Fogarty was born in Dublin.
He died on 3 January 2016 at the age of 82.
John Griffiths Roberts (11 September 1946 – 4 January 2016) was an Welsh football player and manager.
He played as a defender from 1964 to 1983.
He played for Swansea Town, Northampton Town, Arsenal, Birmingham City, Wrexham, Hull City and the national team.
He was a player manager of Oswestry Town from 1982 to 1983.
Roberts was born in Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
He died on 4 January 2016 at the age of 69.
Sarosh Homi Kapadia (29 September 1947 – 4 January 2016) was an Indian politician and lawyer.
He served as the 38th Chief Justice of India from 12 May 2010 until 28 September 2012.
He was born in Mumbai and was Parsi.
Chief Justices of India
Politicians from Mumbai
Christy O'Connor Jnr (19 August 1948 – 6 January 2016) was an Irish golfer.
He turned professional in 1967.
He played in the Ryder Cup twice.
O'Connor was born in Galway, County Galway.
He was married to Ann and had three children.
His uncle was golfer Christy O'Connor Snr, who died in May 2016.
The  Class 800 Hitachi Super Express is a new train built by Hitachi to replace old InterCity 125 and InterCity 225.
The class 800 will use diesel fuel and electricity.
The 801 trains will be electric-only.
The trains can run at a speed of 125mph (200kmph).
They can reduce the travel time between London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh by as much as 18 minutes.
One train, a test version of the Hitachi Class 800 Super Express, has arrived from Japan.
A new Manufacturing plant will produce 122 trains in the coming years.
It will create 730 new jobs.
In 2017 the first trains will run on the Great Western Railway main line.
In 2018 they will run on the East Coast Main Line.
Masaryk University (; ) is a university in Brno, Czech Republic.
It is named for Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia.
He wanted to have a second Czech university (until then, the only Czech university was Charles University in Prague).
The Palacký University in Olomouc had been closed.
The university has nine faculties and about 35,000 students.
Between 1960 and 1990, the university used the name of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a Czech scientist.
Masaryk University is member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network of universities.
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (; 22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor.
He was born in Lazio, Italy.
He was also a movie and stage director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio and television presenter.
During his career he won many awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles.
He is thought to be the greatest Italian actor of all time.
Nino Manfredi at Discogs
Italian radio personalities
Andres Rodríguez (11 May 1984 – 4 January 2016) was a Venezuelan businessman and an international show jumping competitor.
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
He was the co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
He won the Turing Award in 1969.
Minskey was born in New York City, New York.
He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard University and at Princeton University.
Minskey died in Boston, Massachusetts of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 24, 2016 at the age of 88.
His body is chronologically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Oral history interview with Terry Winograd at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Winograd describes his work in computer science, linguistics, and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discussing the work of Marvin Minsky and others.
Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler  radio show November 26, 2003
Consciousness Is A Big Suitcase: A talk with Marvin Minsky
Video of Minsky speaking at the International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
Charles William "Charlie" Bachman III (December 11, 1924 – July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist.
He spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia.
He is particularly known for his work in the early development of database management systems.
The Bachman diagrams are named after him.
He won the Turing Award in 1973.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community".
It is named after Alan Turing and is given each year in New York City.
It is the highest award that could be given to a computer scientist.
and the "Nobel Prize of computing".
The first Turing Award was given in 1966 to Alan Perlis, a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University.
It has been given every year since.
The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University.
Frances E. Allen of IBM, in 2006, was the first female recipient in the award's forty-year history.
ACM List of Turing Laureates
Visualizing Turing Award Laureates
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist.
He is best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.
In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
People from Winterthur
Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is known for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004,  and the Kyoto Prize in 2008.
He work includes solving problems of combinatorial optimization (mostly network flow), asking questions about what an efficient algorithm looks like, and works about algorithmic complexity theory,.
ACM Crossroads magazine interview/bio of Richard Karp
Karp's Home Page at Berkeley
William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist.
He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and added to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
William Kahan's home page
portrait picture of Kahan (on page 5)
Paranoia for modern graphics processing units (GPUs)
Paranoia source code in multiple languages
IEEE 1985.
IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic.
ACM SIGPLAN Notices 22, 2 (Feb.), 9–25
An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point, 1998-Feb-20
A Conversation with William Kahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal November, 1997
Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist.
He was known as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems and for creating the password system for computers.
Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
Corbató discusses computer science research, especially time-sharing, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Fernando Corbató reviews his early educational and naval experiences in the Eddy program during World War II, including the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), Project MAC, and Multics.
Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing, documentary ca.
1972 about the ARPANET.
Includes footage of Fernando Corbató.
, featuring MIT's CTSS time-sharing system and an interview with MIT Professor Fernando J Corbato.
Juris Hartmanis (born July 5, 1928) is a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist.
Hartmanis with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".
Hartmanis biography at Cornell
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect,  software engineer, and computer scientist.
He is best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers alongside Gerrit Blaauw and Gene Amdahl and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
Brooks was born in Durham, North Carolina.
He studied Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers.
Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization.
She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.
Frances Allen via IBM Women in WITI Hall of Fame.
Frances Allen: 2000 Fellow Awards Recipient via Computer History Museum
Fran Allen on Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems Notes from her 2008 Organick Memorial Lecture
Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress and model.
She was raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Her brother is actor Matthew Daddario.
Her paternal grandfather was politician Emilio Q. Daddario.
Daddario is perhaps known best for playing the character Annabeth Chase in Percy Jackson & the Olympians and Blake in the movie San Andreas.
She has also played Heather Miller in the 2013 movie Texas Chainsaw 3D and Summer Quinn in Baywatch (2017).
Thomas William  "Tom" Allin (27 November 1987 – 4 January 2016) was an English cricketer.
He was a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who also batted right-handed.
He played for Warwickshire.
He was born in Bideford, Devon.
Allin died on 4 January 2016 in Bideford, aged 28.
He jumped to his death off a bridge.
Tom Allin at ESPNcricinfo
Tom Allin at CricketArchive
Nivaria Tejera (30 September 1929 – 6 January 2016) was a Cuban poet and novelist.
She was awarded the Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve prize in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol.
Her book, The Ravine (2007), is based on her early life.
Tejera was born in Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos Province.
Her mother was Cuban and her father was Spanish.
She grew up in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
She lived in Paris, France until her death.
Ronald Peter "Percy" Freeman (4 July 1945 – 5 January 2016) was an English footballer.
He played for Lincoln City, West Bromwich Albion, Reading, Stourbridge and Boston United.
He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurry pictures, taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
The photographs were taken by a prisoner in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
This was Auschwitz's extermination camp - a place where people were sent to be killed in gas chambers.