Mohammad Sabir (cricketer, born 1943)

Mohammad Sabir (1 September 1943 – 17 June 1998) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1962 to 1986.

Mohammad Sabir was a leg-spin and googly bowler. He achieved his best innings and match figures in his first season when he took 7 for 61, and 13 for 99 in the match, for Rawalpindi against Karachi B in a semi-final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1962-63. Other notable performances included 11 for 80 (7 for 62 and 4 for 18) against Bahawalpur in 1971-72, and 10 for 68 (4 for 47 and 6 for 21) for Dawood Industries against Lahore A in 1975-76.

His first captain, the Test player Maqsood Ahmed, believed Sabir was comparable to Richie Benaud. However, his fiery temperament made the selectors wary of him and despite his continued success at domestic level he did not play for Pakistan.

References

External links

 Mohammad Sabir at CricketArchive

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Noam Zylberman

Noam Zylberman (born June 30, 1973 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli-Canadian voice actor.

Early life
Zylberman was born in Israel, and his family relocated to Canada when he was 2 years old. The name Noam means "pleasantness" in Hebrew. He attended Vaughan Road Collegiate school in Toronto, and has an older sister, Ilana.

Career
While growing up in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Zylberman booked his own audition for a Crunchie commercial at age 10, and had landed several voice acting jobs in animated TV series by the time he was 13.  He went on to provide voices for many characters on animated series such as The Raccoons, ALF Tales, Garbage Pail Kids, Sylvanian Families, and The Care Bears.

He gained some notoriety playing the title role in The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, a coming-of-age feature film about being Jewish in a multicultural rural Manitoba town. In a year-end arts review for 1988, the Toronto Star's Sid Adilman called Zylberman "the best newcomer to English-Canadian movies this year". He was slated to reprise the role in a subsequent CBC Television series, Max Glick, but more than two years passed before production on the series started, and by that time he had grown too tall for the role.

In 1989, he played the role of Tom Bradshaw in the TV movie Last Train Home, and received a nomination for Best Young Actor in a Cable Special at the 12th Youth in Film Awards.

Voice acting credits
 Tommy (1985-1986) and Bentley Raccoon (1987-1990) in The Raccoons
 Fritz in the 1990 animated movie The Nutcracker Prince
 Curtis Shumway in ALF Tales
 Split Kit in Garbage Pail Kids
 Chip in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
 Billy in Popples
 Bobby in the Police Academy
 Rusty Wildwood in Sylvanian Families
 Buddy in Little Rosey
 Stoke in Iggy Arbuckle
 Tiger in the 1987 animated movie The Wild Puffalumps
 Bookmice
 Babar
 Tales from the Cryptkeeper
 C.O.P.S.
 My Pet Monster
 The Care Bears
 Star Wars: Droids
Switch in KidsWorld Sports

Film acting credits
 Maximilian in The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
 Regan Thatcher in Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
 Tom Bradshaw in Tom Alone
 Arthur Bennett in A Town Torn Apart
 Tom Bradshaw in Last Train Home
 Poultry Boy in Lantern Hill
 Eric in The Long Road Home
 Joshua Then and Now
 Double Standard

TV series acting credits
 Adderly
 Friday the 13th: The Series
 Katts and Dog
 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
 My Secret Identity
 T. and T.
 War of the Worlds

References

External links

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Mölkky

Mölkky (), also known as Finska is a Finnish throwing game invented by Lahden Paikka company (formerly known as Tuoterengas) in 1996. It is reminiscent of kyykkä, a centuries-old throwing game with Karelian roots. However, Mölkky does not require as much physical strength as kyykkä, and is more suitable for everyone regardless of age and condition. Mölkky requires no special equipment and success is based on a combination of chance and skill.
Lahden Paikka has sold nearly 200,000 sets in Finland.

2016 Lahden Paikka sold all rights of Mölkky, games production and the trademark to Finnish company Tactic Games Oy.  Mölkky is protected trademark. All Mölkky games are manufactured in Pori, Finland

Rules

The players use a wooden pin to try to knock over wooden pins (also called "skittles") of almost similar dimensions with the throwing pin, which are marked with numbers from 1 to 12. The pins are initially placed in a tight group in an upright position 3–4 meters away from the throwing line, with the pins organized as follows: 1st row, 1/2; 2nd row, 3/10/4; 3rd row, 5/11/12/6; 4th row, 7/9/8. Knocking over one pin scores the number of points marked on the pin. Knocking 2 or more pins scores the number of pins knocked over (e.g., knocking over 3 pins scores 3 points). A pin does not count if it is leaning on the throwing stick or one of the numbered pins (it must be parallel to the ground to count). After each throw, the pins are stood up again in the exact location where they landed. The first one to reach exactly 50 points wins the game. Scoring more than 50 will be penalised by setting the player's score back to 25 points. A player will be eliminated from the game if they miss all of the target pins three times in a row.

Organizations and competitions

Mölkky players have started more than 250 Mölkky Associations. International Mölkky Organization is umbrella organization for Mölkky associations. 10 countries are currently official members

The Finnish championships for mölkky have been organised in Lahti since 1997 by the union of youth clubs in Southern Tavastia. The technology students in Tampere organised world championships in academic Mölkky in 2001. The Finnish Mölkky Union has been formed to promote the game and its subculture. The first Australian Championships were held 2010 and then 2011.

In the United States, Molkky USA and the US Molkky Association have sanctioned the U.S. Tour since 2014 and have declared US National Champions each year since then. The Berzerkerz (Coleman Rydie & Clint Childers) are the Current US National Champions, winning the title in 2014 and 2015.

The 2016 was first time when Mölkky World Championship was organised outside Finland. Tournament was organized in Le Rheu, France.
Next year, 2017, it was organized in Prague (Czech Republic),
2018 in Pori Finland and
2019 in Samoëns, France.
The 2020 World Championship will be organized in Hyvinkää, Finland

Numbering Song

Due to the quirky nature of the starting arrangement, a song was produced to help young players in the UK remember the order.

To the tune of 1-2-3-4-5. Once I caught a fish alive...

 1, 2
 3, 10, 4
 5, 11, 12, 6
 7, 9, 8

External links

Tactic Games Oy
www.molkky.com
International Mölkky Organization
Finnish International Mölkky Association web site (in Finnish; English version)
Tuoterengas (in Finnish)
Slovak Mölkky Association (in Slovak)
French Mölkky Association (in French)
Japan Mölkky Association
Czech Mölkky Association
SMS Södertälje Mölkky Sällskap, Sweden Association(in Swedish)
List of Mölkky tournaments by Mölkky World

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Santos Vega (1936 film)

Santos Vega is a 1936 Argentine historical film directed by Luis Moglia Barth. It is based on the story of Santos Vega.

Cast
 Mario Baroffio
 Cayetano Biondo
 Enrique Chaico
 Max Citelli
 Miguel Coiro
 Pablo Cumo
 Floren Delbene
 Dora Ferreiro
 Carlos Fioriti
 José Franco
 Nedda Francy
 Ana Gryn
 Pascual Nacarati
 Fernando Ochoa
 Nathán Pinzón
 Alfonso Pisano
 Domingo Sapelli
 Juan Sarcione
 Marino Seré
 Jorge Villoldo
 Luis Zaballa
 Enrique Zingoni

References

Bibliography
 Emilio Pedro Portorrico. Diccionario biográfico de la música argentina de raíz folklórica. 2004.

External links

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Double Portrait of an Old Man and an Old Woman

Pendant Portraits of an Old Man and an Old Woman refers to two 1654 oil on canvas pendant portraits by Rembrandt, Portrait of an Old Man and Portrait of an Old Woman, usually identified as a single pair. Signed and dated by the artist, both works were in the collection of Heinrich von Brühl, whose heirs sold them to Catherine II of Russia in 1769. They are both now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, to which they were transferred from the Hermitage Museum in 1930.

Their subjects are unknown, though are traditionally held to be Rembrandt's brother Adriaen van Rijn and Adriaen's wife Lijsbeth van Leeuwen. That identification was thrown into doubt in 1916 by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, though he still held that the works formed a pair, as did Kurt Bauch and Christian Tümpel. Tümpel additionally argues that the old woman represents a Biblical figure. The only art historian to argue that they do not belong together was Leonard J. Slatkes.

Sources
http://www.arts-museum.ru/data/fonds/europe_and_america/j/0000_1000/2291_Portret_starika/index.php
http://www.arts-museum.ru/data/fonds/europe_and_america/j/0000_1000/2292_Portret_starushki/index.php

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Qalat Kat

Qalat Kat (, also Romanized as Qalāt Kat; also known as Qalāt) is a village in Bahmai-ye Garmsiri-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

References

Category:Populated places in Bahmai County


Sierentz

Sierentz (; Alsatian: Siarez; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It is located roughly halfway between Mulhouse and Basel.  Both cities can be accessed by train from its station.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE

External links

Official site

Category:Communes of Haut-Rhin


Gomis

Gomis (, spelling variant: Gomiz) is a Catalan surname, equivalent to Gomes in Portuguese, and Gómez in Spanish. It is also a Senegalese and Bissau Guinean surname, borrowed from Portuguese, sharing the same spelling ().

Gomis may refer to:
 Alfred Gomis, Senegalese–Italian footballer
Anna Gomis, French wrestler
Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer of Senegalese descent
Bedsenté Gomis, semi-professional French footballer
Émilie Gomis, French female basketball player
José Melchor Gomis (1794-1836), Spanish composer
Joseph Gomis, French basketball player
Kafétien Gomis, French long jumper
Marcel Gomis, Senegalese footballer
Morgaro Gomis, Senegalese footballer
Oswald Gomis, 10th Archbishop of Colombo
Rémi Gomis, French-born Senegalese footballer
Roger Gomis, Senegalese footballer
Víctor Gomis, a Spanish football player currently playing for CD Castellón

See also
Gomes, equivalent Portuguese surname
Gómez, equivalent Spanish surname
Gomiz

Category:Catalan-language surnames


HSED

HSED or High School Equivalency Diploma or HEP is comparable to achieving a high school diploma instead of simply proving the skills by taking the GED. Sometimes it can be synonym.  When spelled HSed it can mean home schooled.

In some places, such as Wisconsin, the HSED is equivalent to a high school diploma because the Department of Public Instruction awards the credential.  It is different from the GED which only certifies the individual has the equivalent of a traditional high school education.  Similar programs can be found in other states such as California.
There are five ways to achieve the HSED according to the Wisconsin State Law setting up the HSED:

PI 5.05 - Take the GED tests and pass three other skill required courses plus a career counseling section.PI 5.06 - Complete unfinished high school credits at a local high school or college.
PI 5.07 - Attain 24 semester or 32 quarter credits at a university or technical college; electives are allowed.PI 5.08 - Have a foreign degree or diploma.
PI 5.09 - Go through an approved special high school completion program offered by a technical college or other group.''

There are currently no venues for achieving a valid GED or HSED credential online. A number of diploma mills claim to offer such a service, but they are unofficial and invalid.

See also
Distance education
GED

References

Category:Education in the United States
Category:School qualifications


North American Bengali Conference

The North American Bengali Conference (NABC) is an annual Bengali culture conference held in the United States and Canada, typically around the weekend of July 4. It was established in 1981 by the Cultural Association of Bengal in New York, and is hosted by a different organization every year. The conference includes performances, readings, discussion, networking, and class reunions.

Performers are often from the United States, Canada, Bangladesh, and India. Audiences are primarily Bangladeshi American, Indian American, Bangladeshi Canadian and Indian Canadian.

Venues
 1981: New York City, New York Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 1982: New York CityOrganized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 1983: New York City Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 1984: Boston, Massachusetts Organized By Prabasi of New England
 1985: Baltimore, Maryland Organized By Prantik of Baltimore
 1986: Cleveland, Ohio Organized By Central Ohio Bengali Association
 1987: San Francisco/San Jose, Bay Area Auditorium at the California School for the Deaf, Fremont, California Organized By Bay Area Bengali Organizations
 1988: Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City Convention Center organized by Kallol NJ
 1989: New York CityOrganized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 1990: Maryland, University of Maryland Organized By Sanskriti DC
 1991  Boston area, Lowell, Massachusetts Organized By Prabasi Of New England
 1992: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Organized By PBCA Toronto
 1993: Los Angeles, California, California State University, Fullerton Organized By Dakshini Los Angeles
 1994: Chicago, Illinois, Hyatt Regency O'Hare Organized By Bengali Association of Greater Chicago (BAGC)
 1995: New York Metro Area, White Plains, New York Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 1996: Houston, Texas, Adam's Mark Hotel Organized By Tagore Society of Houston
 1997: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Valley Forge Convention Center, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Organized By Pragati Philadelphia
 1998: Toronto, Regal Constellation Organized By PBCA Toronto
 1999: San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California Organized By Bay Area Prabasi
 2000: Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City Convention Center and Kolkata, India Organized By Kallol NJ and others
 2001: Boston, Paul Tsongs Arena Lowell MA organized by Prabasi of New England
 2002: Atlanta, Georgia World Congress Center Organized By South Eastern Bengali Association
 2003: Long Beach, CA, Long Beach Convention Center Organized by Dakshini Bengali Association of California
 2004: Baltimore, Baltimore Convention Center Organized By Sanskriti DC
 2005: New York City, Madison Square Garden Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 2006: Houston, George R. Brown Convention Center Organized By Tagore Society of Houston
 2007: Detroit, Cobo Conference/Exhibition Hall Organized By Bengali Association of Greater Michigan
 2008: Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre Organized By PBCA Toronto
 2009: San Jose, McEnery Convention Center Organized By Bay Area Prabasi
 2010: Atlantic City, Atlantic City Convention Center Organized By Kallol of NJ
 2011: Baltimore, Baltimore Convention Center Organized By Sanskriti DC
 2012: Las Vegas, Paris Las Vegas Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 2013: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Metro Toronto Convention Centre Organized By PBCA Toronto
 2014: Orlando, Florida, USA, The Peabody Orlando Organized By Bengali Society of Florida
 2015: Houston, Texas, USA, George R. Brown Convention Center Organized By Tagore Society of Houston
 2016: New York City, Madison Square Garden  Organized By Cultural Association of Bengal
 2017: San Francisco, Santa Clara Convention Center Organized By Bay Area Prabasi
 2018: Atlantic City, Atlantic City Convention Center Organized By Ananda Mandir NJ
2019: Baltimore, Baltimore Convention Center Organized By Sanskriti DC
2020: Las Vegas Nevada, Westgate Las Vegas Organized by Cultural Association of Bengal
2021: Boston, Massachusetts organized by Prabasi of New England
2022: Chicago, Illinois organized by Bengali Association of Greater Chicago (BAGC) At McCormick Place

Hosting rights
The Cultural Association of Bengal approves annual hosts for the North American Bengali Conference. , organizations that wish to be considered need to be membership organizations, have members with experience hosting or volunteering previous NABC conferences, and have the capacity to raise US $2 million.

Related Info

 Bengali language
 Bengali people
 Indian Americans
 Bangladeshi Americans
 Indo-Canadians
 Bangladeshi Canadians

References

External links
 NABC 2017 home page
 NABC 2016 home page
 NABC 2015 home page
 NABC 2014 home page
 NABC 2013 home page
 NABC 2011 home page
 NABC 2010 home page
 NABC 2009 home page
 NABC 2008 home page
 NABC youth home page

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Inevitability thesis

Inevitability thesis is term that has been applied to a number of theories, including:

 Daniel Chandler's thesis that once technology is introduced, it is inevitably developed
 Steven Goldberg's thesis that inevitable male dominance is rooted in physiological differences between men and women
 F. Hayek's thesis in The Road to Serfdom that any amount of central control inevitably leads to totalitarianism
 S. Huntington's thesis in The Clash of Civilizations that modernization of the third world inevitably begets violence
 Immanuel Kant's position that people inevitably make fallacious inferences from the dialectical syllogisms


Charleston High School (Arkansas)

Charleston High School is an accredited comprehensive public secondary school for students in grades 7 through 12, located in the city of Charleston, Arkansas, one of two county seats in Franklin County. The school is the sole high school managed by the Charleston School District.

Academics
Charleston High School is Title I school fully accredited by the ADE that is meeting standards and is an Achieving school under Adequate Yearly Progress requirements of NCLB.
The assumed course of study for students follows the Smart Core curriculum developed by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), which requires students complete at least 22 units to graduate. Students engage in regular courses and exams and may take Advanced Placement (AP) coursework and exams with the opportunity for college credit.

In 2012, Charleston High School was listed and unranked by the Best High Schools report developed by the U.S. News & World Report.

Extracurricular activities
The Charleston High School mascot is the tiger with black and gold serving as the school colors.

Athletics
The Charleston Tigers are members of the 3A Classification administered by the Arkansas Activities Association competing in the 3A Region 4 Conference for interscholastic sporting activities. The Tigers participation includes: football, volleyball, golf (boys/girls), basketball (boys/girls), baseball, softball, and track and field (boys/girls).

Football
 The Tigers football team has won five state championships (2005 at Class 2A; 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2014 at Class 3A).

Basketball
The Lady Tigers basketball team won the 2009 & 2018 Class 3A state championship. The boys basketball team were state finalists and runners-up in the 2012 and 2013 Class 3A.

Clubs and traditions
Beyond athletics, Charleston students participate in a variety of clubs and organizations, including: Art Club, Beta Club, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), FCCLA, Key Club, Math Club, and Science Club.

Notable people
The following are notable people associated with Charleston High School. If the person was a Charleston High School student, the number in parentheses indicates the year of graduation; if the person was a faculty or staff member, that person's title and years of association are included:

 Dale Bumpers (1943)—38th Arkansas Governor (1971–75); U.S. Senator (1975–99).
 Steve Cox—Former professional football player; inductee, Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame; placekicker/punter for Super Bowl XXIII-winning Washington Redskins.

References

External links

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Category:Public middle schools in Arkansas
Category:Schools in Franklin County, Arkansas


1959 European Figure Skating Championships

The 1959 European Figure Skating Championships were held in Davos, Switzerland. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion. Skaters competed in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating and ice dancing.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice Dancing

References

results

European Figure Skating Championships, 1959
European Figure Skating Championships, 1959
Category:European Figure Skating Championships
Category:Figure skating in Switzerland
Category:Sport in Davos


CTQ tree

CTQ trees (critical-to-quality trees) are the key measurable characteristics of a product or process whose performance standards or specification limits must be met in order to satisfy the customer. They align improvement or design efforts with customer requirements.

CTQs are used to decompose broad customer requirements into more easily quantified elements. CTQ trees are often used as part of six sigma methodology to help prioritize such requirements.

CTQs represent the product or service characteristics as defined by the customer/user. Customers may be surveyed to elicit quality, service and performance data. They may include upper and lower specification limits or any other factors. A CTQ must be an actionable, quantitative business specification.

CTQs reflect the expressed needs of the customer. The CTQ practitioner converts them to measurable terms using tools such as DFMEA. Services and products are typically not monolithic. They must be decomposed into constituent elements (tasks in the cases of services).

See also
 Business process
 Design for Six Sigma
 Total quality management
 Total productive maintenance
 [[six sigma ctq]]

References

 Rath & Strong Management Consultants, Six Sigma Pocket Guide, p. 18.
 George, Michael L., Lean Six Sigma, p. 111.

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CARE Australia

CARE Australia is an Australian, not-for-profit, secular humanitarian aid agency assisting in disaster relief efforts and addressing the causes of global poverty in developing countries. It is one of a confederation of 12 national members of CARE International, forming one of the world’s largest international emergency aid and development assistance organisations. It was founded in 1987 by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser who led it until 2002.

CARE Australia’s projects are funded primarily through community donation, which has secured additional support from institutional partners such as the Australian government, European Union, and the World Health Organization. In 2008, 88 per cent of CARE Australia’s total revenue went into overseas projects.

History
Australia became a national member of CARE International in 1987, when it was founded by former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH. Fraser was Chair 1987 to 2002 and for five of those years ('90 to '95) he was also President of CARE International. It grew through the 1990s, delivering disaster assistance and development programs to those in need. Fraser's daughter, Phoebe Fraser, became a CARE worker and together they were the faces of the organisation's fundraising.

Aims
CARE's mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. This is done by:
 strengthening capacity for self-help,
 providing economic opportunity,
 delivering relief in emergencies,
 influencing policy decisions,
 addressing discrimination.

Emergency response
CARE has a team of emergency professionals to assist in immediate relief and long-term rehabilitation for communities that are impacted by man-made or natural disasters. They provide communities with support, shelter, food, sanitation, and health facilities in times of crisis, as well as working with those that are vulnerable to disasters to reduce their future impact.

CARE has provided emergency relief to those affected by emergencies such as Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), post-election violence in Kenya, the 2013 Balochistan earthquakes, and the Boxing Day tsunami. It is involved in aid to devastated areas affected by 2015's Cyclone Pam.

Development projects
CARE Australia’s focus is on the support of women and girls in developing countries to create long term sustainability in the fight against poverty. Their long-term projects cover community development including:
 Agriculture and food security – CARE helps families produce more food and increase their income while managing their natural resources and preserving the environment,
 Education – CARE promotes discussion between parents, teachers and other members of the community to overcome the barriers to education that can keep families in a cycle of poverty,
 Health – CARE helps communities enjoy better health, with a special focus on mothers and children, by improving their access to quality health services, nutrition, family planning, immunisation and HIV awareness and prevention,
 Economic development – CARE assists impoverished families by supporting money-making activities, especially those operated by women,
 Nutrition – CARE teaches practices that help prevent malnutrition, including demonstrating breast feeding, cultivating and preparing nutritious food, providing food as part of emergency relief efforts, and managing food-for-work projects to help communities improve infrastructure,
 Water, Sanitation, and Environmental Health – CARE helps communities build and maintain clean water systems and latrines and educates people about good hygiene practice to reduce the risk of illness.

Countries of operation
At present; CARE has programs in over 20 countries.
	Afghanistan
	Bangladesh
	Cambodia
	Ethiopia
	India
	Indonesia
	Jordan
	Kenya
	Laos
	Malawi
	Mozambique
       Mexico
	Myanmar/Burma
	Pakistan
	Palestinian Territories
	Papua New Guinea
	South Africa
	Sri Lanka
	Timor-Leste
	Vanuatu
	Vietnam
	Yemen

External links
 CARE Australia website
 CARE Australia Annual Reports

Notes

Category:Development charities based in Australia
Category:Non-profit organisations based in the Australian Capital Territory


SS Guiding Star

Guiding Star was a  troopship that was built in 1939 as the Type C2 cargo ship Nightingale by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News, Virginia, United States for Grace Lines Inc, New York. In 1941, she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Egret. In 1942, she was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) and renamed Nightingale. She was returned to Grace Lines later that year and renamed Santa Isabel. In 1943, she was converted to a troopship. She was transferred to the USMC in 1946 and renamed Guiding Star, serving until she was scrapped in 1973.

Description
The ship was built in 1939 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News, Virginia. She was yard number 373, and USMC Hull number 26.

The ship was  long, with a beam of . She had a depth of  . She was assessed at , , 8,656 DWT.

The ship was propelled by two steam turbines, double reduction geared, driving a single screw propeller. The turbines were made by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. They were rated at 1,100 nhp. They could propel her at .

History
Nightingale was launched in 1939 and completed in October that year. Built for Grace Lines Inc, New York, her port of registry was Norfolk, Virginia. The United States official Number 230064 and code letters WCDH were allocated. She was delivered to Grace Lines Inc on 30 October.

In 1941, Grace Lines Inc sold Nightingale. She was bought by the MoWT and renamed Empire Egret. She was placed under the management of Royal Mail Lines Ltd. Her port of registry was London. The United Kingdom Official Number 168168 and Code Letters GNRN were allocated. She was now assessed as , . Empire Egret departed from New York on 20 April and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada four days later. She departed on 25 April, joining Convoy SA 1, which formed at sea on 30 April and arrived at the Clyde on 3 May.

Empire Egret was a member of Convoy WS 9A, which departed from Oversay, Renfrewshire on 3 June and arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 18 June. She sailed two days later for Durban, South Africa, arriving on 4 July and departing five days later for Aden, where she arrived on 21 July. Empire Egret departed the next day for Suez, Egypt, arriving on 25 July. She then sailed to Port Said, from where she departed on 29 July for Alexandria, arriving later that day and departing on 5 August for Port Said, where she arrived the next day. She then sailed to Port Sudan, Sudan, from where she sailed on 11 August for Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, arriving on 24 August. She departed on 1 September for Beira, arriving two days later and departing on 8 September for Cape Town, South Africa, where she arrived on 12 September. Empire Egret departed from Cape Town on 13 September for Trinidad, where she arrived on 29 September, departing the next day for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She arrived at Philadelphia on 6 October, departing five days later for New York, where she arrived on 12 October. She departed on 22 October for the Hampton Roads, Virginia, arriving the next day and the sailing to Norfolk, Virginia, from where she departed in a convoy bound for Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom, arriving on 5 November.

Empire Egret departed from Liverpool on 20 November bound for Newport, Monmouthshire, arriving two days later. She then sailed to the Clyde, from where she departed on 6 December to join Convoy WS 14, which departed from Oversay on 9 December and arrived at Freetown on 21 December. She departed on 25 December for Cape Town, arriving on 2 January 1942 and departing a week later to join Convoy WS 14A, which formed at sea on 19 January and dispersed off Aden on 22 January. Empire Egret arrived at Aden that day, sailing four days later for Suez, where she arrived on 30 January. She then sailed to Port Said, from where she departed on 31 January for Alexandria, arriving the next day. She departed on 19 February for Port Said, arriving the next day and then sailing to Suez, from where she departed on 22 February for Mombasa, Kenya, arriving on 2 March. Empire Egret was a member of Convoy KR 1, which departed from Kilindini Harbour on 10 March and arrived at Colombo, Ceylon on 20 March. She was carrying a cargo of artillery and vehicles, accompanied by 26 troops. She departed from Colombo on 27 March bound for Bombay, India, arriving on 3 April. She departed on 15 April for Mombasa, arriving on 21 April and sailing five days later for Beira, where she arrived on 29 April. Empire Egret departed from Beira on 2 May for Cape Town, arriving four days later and departing on 9 May for Trinidad, where she arrived on 24 May. She departed on 6 June for Baltimore, arriving on 12 June.

Empire Egret was then transferred to the United States Maritime Commission and renamed Nightingale. She was transferred to Grace Lines Inc later that year and renamed Santa Isabel. The Code Letters WCRH were allocated and her port of registry was Baltimore, Maryland. In 1943, she was converted to a troopship by Brewer Dockyard Co, New York. The conversion was completed in 1944. On 30 April, Santa Isabel departed from Port Hueneme, California for Nouméa, New Caledonia with 1,750 troops on board. She arrived on 17 May.

In 1946, Santa Isabel was transferred to the USMC and renamed Guiding Star. She served until June 1973, when she was scrapped at Brownsville, Texas.

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Kumgang Airport

Kumgang Airport is an airport in Kangwon-do, North Korea.

Facilities
The airfield has a single grass runway 01/19 measuring 1500 x 62 feet (457 x 19 m).

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Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego. The company was founded in December 1997 as Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, but was spun off to an independent investor in February 2015 and renamed Daybreak Game Company.

They are known for owning, maintaining, and creating additional content for the games EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, H1Z1: Just Survive, and H1Z1: King of the Kill, along with more recent acquisitions Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online.

History

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (1997-2005)

Sony Online Entertainment began with Sony Interactive Studios America (SISA), an internal game development studio of Sony, formed by 1995. In 1996, John Smedley was put in charge of SISA's development of an online role-playing video game. The game would evolve into the MMORPG EverQuest. Smedley hired programmers Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover, who had come to Smedley's attention through their work on the single-player role-playing game Warwizard.

In April 1998, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) was formed by merging parts of Sony Online Ventures with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Within a matter of months after this change, Sony Interactive Studios America was renamed 989 Studios. Towards the end of 1998, 989 Studios shifted its strategy to making PlayStation games. The company's video game and online development branch spun off; John Smedley, Brad McQuaid and Russell Shanks, as well as 55 other ex-989 employees, founded RedEye Interactive, later renamed Verant Interactive.

Verant Interactive launched EverQuest on March 16, 1999, through Sony with modest expectations. The game became successful. Sales continued rising at a steady rate until mid-2001 when growth slowed. As of 2004, Sony reported subscription numbers close to 450,000. In March 2000, Verant released EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark, the first in a long list of expansion packs for EverQuest.

In April 2000, Verant hired former Ultima Online developers Raph Koster and Rich Vogel. They formed an office in Austin, Texas, to develop Star Wars Galaxies for LucasArts. SOE acquired Verant in June 2000, and eventually promoted Brad McQuaid to be its Chief Creative Officer. In October 2001, McQuaid resigned and founded Sigil Games Online, drawing many of the original developers of EverQuest from SOE.

Developed by Sony Online Entertainment, LucasArts released Star Wars Galaxies in 2003, which saw rapid growth, as expected. Bruce Woodcock estimates that Star Wars Galaxies reached nearly 300,000 subscribers within the year, before trailing off. LucasArts has released three expansions for Star Wars Galaxies, Jump to Lightspeed in October 2004, Rage of the Wookiees in May 2005, and Trials Of Obi-Wan in November 2005.

In 2003, the company also explored relatively untouched MMOG territory with the massively multiplayer online first-person shooter PlanetSide and the PlayStation 2 MMORPG EverQuest Online Adventures. PlanetSide enjoyed a reasonably successful launch, however it never attracted wide popularity. SOE released two expansions for PlanetSide, a retail product titled Core Combat, and Aftershock, a free expansion. EverQuest Online Adventures was not as successful, but it spawned an expansion, EverQuest Online Adventures Frontiers. The game was shut down on March 29, 2012, after nine years of operation.

EverQuest II was released on November 9, 2004. The sequel was set hundreds of years after the original. Similar in strategy to EverQuest, SOE has released several adventure packs and expansion packs for EverQuest II, starting with The Bloodline Chronicles in March 2005.

In January 2005, Sony Online Entertainment announced the creation of Station Publishing, a new label for distributing titles made by external developers. In November 2005, SOE added the New Game Enhancements to Star Wars Galaxies, changing many of the game's core mechanics. This upset players and critics, with the level of concurrent players reduced to around 10,000; relatively few for the MMO industry.

SOE has produced numerous EverQuest expansions and spin-off video games, including Champions of Norrath (for PlayStation 2) and Lords of EverQuest (Windows).  They published Champions: Return to Arms, the sequel to Champions of Norrath, in February 2005. In August 2005, SOE entered a deal with Warner Bros. Entertainment which saw the acquisition and transition of The Matrix Online to the existing line up of SOE games.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (2006-2015)

In April 2006, Sony Online Entertainment, Inc. became Sony Online Entertainment LLC, owned by Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Computer Entertainment America. In May 2006, it was announced that SOE would be co-publisher of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. However, Sigil retained full development rights, and SOE's role was only that of marketing, distribution, technical support, and hosting the game servers. SOE also announced the release of Field Commander, its third game for the PlayStation Portable System. In August 2006, SOE announced the acquisition of developer Worlds Apart Productions, renaming the studio SOE-Denver. The studio has since released an online version of the WizKids pirates constructible strategy game. In November 2006, SOE released its first PlayStation 3 title Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, within the launch window of the PlayStation 3 system. SOE also released Pirates Online Constructible Strategy Game, the online version of the WizKids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

In January 2007, SOE announced that it has licensed rights from Midway Home Entertainment to develop and release six classic Midway games for PlayStation 3 download, including Mortal Kombat II, Gauntlet II, Joust, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, and Championship Sprint. The games were available from the PlayStation Store. The announcement came shortly after SOE released its second PlayStation 3 digital download GripShift. On May 15, 2007, Sony Online Entertainment announced that they had completed a transaction to purchase key assets from Sigil Games Online, including Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (described as Sigil's "tentpole property").

On March 13, 2008, Sony Online Entertainment announced that Sony Computer Entertainment will have direct control over SOE.

On January 16, 2009, the company joined Steam, selling EverQuest, EverQuest II and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes via Steam.  On the same day, the company purchased Pox Nora, an online turn-based strategy game. On August 1, 2009, SOE shut down The Matrix Online after 4 years of operation. Players were treated to about 2 months of gaming despite some initial setbacks that left many veteran players unable to access the game for about a week after the announcement was made. A memory book was developed and was made available for download on the game's site.

, John Smedley is the CEO of Sony Online Entertainment. SOE is headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional game development studios located in Austin, Texas, Denver, Colorado and Seattle, Washington. On July 15, 2010, SOE eliminated 35 full-time positions and an undisclosed number of temporary positions to "...better align the company's resources..." On August 8, 2010, SOE announced that EverQuest Next was in the early stages of development.

On January 7, 2011, SOE and Fastpoint Games announced the alpha launch of the Facebook game Fortune League. Fortune League integrates real-time performance data such as damages, deaths and healings directly from the massively multiplayer online game environment and uses them to form "Hero Stats" that drive the game. Therefore, player actions inside EverQuest II affected what happened in Fortune League, and prizes from Fortune League helped users advance in the EverQuest II environment. Fastpoint Games CEO, Kelly Perdew, positioned Fortune League as a new category of "snackable" data-driven games that would help MMO franchises acquire users and tap new revenue streams. On February 1, 2011, SOE unveiled new PlayStation Network games to be released throughout the year.  These included Acceleration of Suguri X Edition, Akimi Village, Plants vs. Zombies, Rochard, Sideway and Slam Bolt Scrappers. On March 31, 2011, SOE confirmed that "it will eliminate 205 positions and close its Denver, Seattle, and Tucson studios." Production of The Agency was also discontinued.

On December 6, 2011, EverQuest II switched to a free-to-play model, with optional subscriptions. On December 15, 2011, Star Wars Galaxies was closed. SOE maintained a Memory Book for former players.

Data breach

On April 27, 2011, Sony, the parent company of SOE, released statements regarding an intrusion, on or about April 18, into the PlayStation Network, and the potential theft of up to 77 million subscribers' personal data. Sony maintains that PSN and SOE are hosted and run on completely separate subsystems and that the PlayStation Network intrusion had no major effect on SOE's online services.  SOE developers posted messages of concern and apology, but also assurances the SOE servers and systems were not compromised.

On May 2, 2011, SOE interrupted their online services. Players were told "We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems, we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday)." Later, SOE disclosed that "personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen", including names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, gender, date of birth, login ID, and hashed passwords.

Daybreak Game Company (2015-present)
On February 2, 2015, Sony announced that SOE had been sold to investment company Columbus Nova for an undisclosed amount and that it would be renamed Daybreak Game Company. Cutting its ties with Sony, Daybreak subsequently became able to develop their games for platforms other than PlayStation, including Xbox and mobile platforms. On February 11, employees of the company reported they were undergoing layoffs, including several senior developers and project managers. Shortly after, Daybreak responded by announcing the layoffs were intended to make the company profitable, but did not detail the extent of the layoffs or whether it would affect the development and support of their new and existing games. On July 22, 2015, Daybreak announced that John Smedley had stepped down as the company's President, and that Russell Shanks, the company's former COO, will take up his position. On August 21, 2015, Smedley left Daybreak to found a new company. In October 2016, Russell Shanks left Daybreak.

On December 19, 2016, it was announced that Daybreak games would become the new publisher of The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, taking over the role from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. However, the two games would maintain their old account system and server centers, not integrating with the rest of Daybreak. The result of this deal would cause the closure of Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings on January 31, 2017.

In April 2018, Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian businessman and owner of portfolio company Renova Group, was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury as part of an investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Columbus Nova had previously identified itself as an affiliate of Renova Group, while Renova Group had listed Columbus Nova as part of its corporate structure. Subsequently, it was believed that Columbus Nova, and consequently Daybreak, had also been affected by these sanctions. Daybreak subsequently began to deny that it had been sold to Columbus Nova, stating that the company had actually been acquired by Jason Epstein through his company Inception Acquisitions, LLC instead. At the time of the acquisition, Epstein had been a partner to Columbus Nova, though he left that company in 2017. A Daybreak spokesperson claimed that Epstein's exact ties to Columbus Nova had caused confusion in media reporting of the sale, even though its deleted press release made the same claim. Columbus Nova also stated that it had never been owned by Renova Group, though Renova Group had been their largest client.

In September 2018, holding company NantWorks announced its strategic investment in Daybreak, and the resulting new venture in which the company will bring popular Daybreak games (including EverQuest and H1Z1) to mobile platforms. Three rounds of layoffs occurred between April 2018 and October 2019; the December rounds was estimated to have affected around 70 people. These layoffs were towards "a realignment of the company into separate franchise teams, which will allow us to highlight their expertise, better showcase the games they work on, and ultimately provide tailored experiences for our players."

Following from the October 2019 round of layoffs, Daybreak announced in January 2020 that it would reorganize its internal structure to form three divisions: Dimensional Ink Games, Darkpaw Games, and Rogue Planet Games. Dimensional Ink became responsible for ongoing maintenance of DC Universe Online while working on a new MMO, Darkpaw to focus on the Everquest franchise, and Rogue Planet to focus on PlanetSide_2.

Station.com
Sony Online Entertainment's Station.com was a portal to its PC, console, casual and mobile games. Players could access and download games such as EverQuest, EverQuest II and PlanetSide. Station.com also provided sneak previews to new games for Sony PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, including Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. November 2006. In August 2006, Station.com added several games by Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment.

ForgeLight engine
The ForgeLight engine is a game engine developed by the company, and used for Free Realms, Clone Wars Adventures, PlanetSide 2, Landmark, EverQuest Next, Just Survive, and H1Z1.

Games

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Weihenzell

Weihenzell is a municipality  in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria in Germany.

References

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The American Conservative

The American Conservative (TAC) is a magazine founded in 2002 and published by the American Ideas Institute. The publication states that it exists to promote a conservatism that opposes unchecked power in government and business; promote the flourishing of families and communities through vibrant markets and free people; and embrace realism and restraint in foreign affairs based on America's national interests, otherwise known as paleoconservatism. Originally published twice a month, it was reduced to monthly publication in August 2009, and since February 2013, it has appeared every two months.

History

The American Conservative was founded by Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell and Taki Theodoracopulos in 2002 in opposition to the Iraq War. Daniel Strauss wrote:

McConnell served as the magazine's first editor, followed by managing editor Kara Hopkins.

Before the 2006 midterm elections, The American Conservative urged its readers to vote for Democrats, saying: "It should surprise few readers that we think a vote that is seen—in America and the world at large—as a decisive “No” vote on the Bush presidency is the best outcome".

As of 2007, Buchanan and Taki ceased to be involved with the editorial operations of The American Conservative, although Buchanan continues to contribute columns. Ron Unz was named publisher in 2007. In 2011, Wick Allison became the magazine's publisher, followed in 2013 by Jon Basil Utley, the current publisher.

In 2010, Daniel McCarthy succeeded Kara Hopkins as editor. In September 2011, the magazine introduced an editorial redesign of its print publication and in May 2012 a redesign of its website. In October 2014, Benjamin Schwarz, the former national and literary editor of The Atlantic, was named national editor of the magazine.

In November 2016, Robert W. Merry succeeded McCarthy as editor, with Lewis McCrary and Kelley Beaucar Vlahos as Executive Editors. After Merry's retirement in July 2018,  W. James Antle III was named editor.

Reception
In 2009, Reihan Salam, National Review editor, wrote that the publication had "gained a devoted following as a sharp critic of the conservative mainstream".

In 2012, David Brooks, columnist at The New York Times, wrote:
At an event at the University of New Orleans in March 2017, Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. Vance shared: "I did this interview with Rod [Dreher] at The American Conservative magazine [...] and then (sales of) the book [Hillbilly Elegy] exploded!"

Notable contributors
Some notable contributors throughout the years at The American Conservative have included Andrew Bacevich, Doug Bandow, Pat Buchanan, Andrew Cockburn, Rod Dreher, Leon Hadar, Peter Hitchens, Samuel P. Huntington, James Kurth, Christopher Layne, Michael Lind, William S. Lind, John Mearsheimer, Rand Paul, Mark Perry, Paul Gottfried, Josh Hawley, Steve Sailer, Roger Scruton, and Jim Webb.

See also

 Classical liberalism
 Communitarianism
 Conservatism in the United States
 Libertarianism
 List of United States magazines
 Natural Law
 Neoconservatism
 Realism (international relations)
 Religion in the United States
 Tory
 Traditionalist conservatism

References

External links

 "Buchanan's Takeoff" by Murray Polner, Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2003.
 "Paleocon's Revenge" by Whitney Joiner. Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, 1 September 2002.
 The American Conservative Crackup: Why I quit Pat Buchanan’s magazine by Alexander Konetzki, The Washington Monthly
 The American Conservative by J. Bradford DeLong, May 15, 2012.

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Shahla Jahed

Khadijeh Shahla Jahed (10 May 1969 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian nurse who was sentenced to death for her alleged involvement in the murder of her boyfriend's wife. She was hanged on 1 December 2010, being the 146th person to be executed in Iran in that year.

Case and sentencing
Jahed had been living with Nasser Mohammadkhani, an Iranian footballer becoming his mistress in a temporary marriage. Jahed was arrested and charged for the 9 October 2002 murder of Laleh Saharkhizan, Mohammadkhani's wife. Mohammadkhani was in Germany when the killing happened, but it emerged later that he was "temporarily married" to Jahed, a practice allowed under Shia Islam.

Jahed was tried and sentenced to death in June 2004. The footballer Mohammadkhani first faced charges of adultery. These were later dropped, and he was sentenced to 74 lashes for taking drugs after the court heard he had smoked opium with Jahed.

Execution
International human rights groups had campaigned for her release as she had already been jailed for more than eight years. One day prior to the execution, Amnesty International made a last-minute appeal for the execution to be halted, saying Jahed had not received a fair trial. Iranian courts halted the execution of Shahla Jahed when the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani became public.

Jahed was executed on 1 December 2010 at 5am local time at the Evin prison, north of Tehran. The victim's brother was allowed to pull the stool from under her feet.

References

External links
Shahla Jahed Biography

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Marc Voorhoeve

Marc Voorhoeve (5 April 1950, Amsterdam – 7 October 2011, Eindhoven) was a Dutch mathematician who introduced the Voorhoeve index of a complex function in 1976.

Marc studied at the University of Leiden where he wrote a thesis on exponential polynomials.
The Voorhoeve index is a result from this work.

He then worked at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and at Philips Data Systems,
a division of Philips that manufactured minicomputers.

From 1985 to 2011, he was assistant professor in Kees van Hee's group at Eindhoven University of Technology, which specialized in business process modeling techniques based on sound mathematical principles, in particular Petri nets and process algebra.

Publications

See also
 Petersen's theorem

References

External links
 Home page at TU/e

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Displacement field

Displacement field may refer to:
Displacement field (mechanics)
Electric displacement field


Iwate Prefectural Assembly

The  is the prefectural parliament of Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Its 48 members are elected every four years in 16 districts by single non-transferable vote.

The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and voting on important administrative appointments made by the governor including the vice governors.

Iwate is one of three prefectures whose assemblies are currently led by the DJP majority. The others are the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and the Mie Prefectural Assembly.

Members
As of 20 September 2019:

References

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Punkt

Punkt is a studio album by Canadian Québécois Pierre Lapointe, released by Audiogram on 26 February 2013. The album was long listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.

Track listing

 La sexualité
 L’étrange route des amoureux
 Monsieur
 Plus vite que ton corps
 Des maux sur tout
 Tu es seul et resteras seul
 Nos joies répétitives
 Les remords ont faim
 Les délicieux amants
 Nu devant moi
 La date, l’heure, le moment
 N2o
 Gaetano Pesce
 Les ministère
 Barbara
 Les enfants du diable

Reception
The Gazette (Montreal) Bernard Perusse awarded the album 3.5 out of 5 stars.

References

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Jim Rodgers (politician)

Jim Rodgers OBE is a politician from Northern Ireland who was previously the High Sheriff of Belfast, (succeeded by Incumbent Alderman Thomas Haire 16 January 2017) the judicial representative of the sovereign in Belfast. He is an elected Councillor and appointed Alderman at Belfast City Council.

Work

In 1973 he stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party in the election to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

In 1996 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum for East Belfast. Rodgers stood in the 1998, 2003 and 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly elections for East Belfast but was unsuccessful on each occasion. He is a councillor for Ormiston DEA on Belfast City Council and was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2001. Rodgers was again elected Lord Mayor in 2007, he had the backing of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) group on the council and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

Currently Rodgers is Chairman of Belfast Education and Library Board, Ex-Chairman of Belfast District Policing Partnership. He is also a member of the Sports Council and Northern Ireland Events Company. He is also a director of Glentoran FC.

At a DPP meeting in Short Strand Community centre on 15 June 2009 he claimed he had been attacked with eggs and stones by members of the IRSP.

In 2010, dressed as a tomato, Ms Mallon who was taking part in the launch of a gourmet garden event in Botanic Gardens, when Mr Rodgers tried to leapfrog over her, causing back injury that resulted in a £24,000 payment.

References

External links

 Assembly candidates – UUP website

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An Inspector Calls (TV series)

In 1982, the BBC broadcast a made-for-television adaptation of An Inspector Calls based on the J. B. Priestley play of the same title and directed by Michael Simpson. It starred Bernard Hepton as Inspector Goole, with the younger Birlings played by Sarah Berger, and David Sibley as Eric. It also starred Nigel Davenport as Arthur Birling and Margaret Tyzack as Sybil Birling. Simon Ward played Gerald Croft, Sheila’s fiancé, and the part of the maid Edna was acted by Jean Leppard.

References

External links
 An Inspector Calls at the British Film Institute

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Systems Biology Ontology

The Systems Biology Ontology (SBO) is a set of controlled, relational vocabularies of terms commonly used in Systems Biology, and in particular in computational modeling. SBO is part of the BioModels.net effort.

Motivation

The rise of Systems Biology, seeking to comprehend biological processes as a whole, highlighted the need to not only develop corresponding quantitative models, but also to create standards allowing their exchange and integration. This concern drove the community to design common data format such as SBML and CellML. SBML is now largely accepted and used in the field.  However, as important as the definition of a common syntax is, it is also necessary to make clear the semantics of models. SBO is an attempt to provide the means of annotating models with terms that indicate the intended semantics of an important subset of models in common use in computational systems biology. The development of SBO was first discussed  at the 9th SBML Forum Meeting in Heidelberg Oct. 14–15, 2004. During the forum, Pedro Mendes mentioned that modellers possessed a lot of knowledge that was necessary to understand the model, and more importantly to simulate it,  but this knowledge was not encoded in SBML. Nicolas Le Novère proposed to create a controlled vocabulary to store the content of Pedro Mendes' mind before he wandered out of the community. The development of the ontology was  announced more officially in a message from Le Novère to Michael Hucka and Andrew Finney on October 19.

Structure

SBO is currently made up of seven different vocabularies:
 systems description parameter (catalytic constant, thermodynamic temperature...)
 participant role (substrate, product, catalyst...)
 modelling framework (discrete, continuous...)
 mathematical expression (mass-action rate law, Hill-type rate law...)
 occurring entity representation (biochemical process, molecular or genetic interaction...)
 physical entity representation (transporter, physical compartment, observable...)
 metadata representation (annotation)

Resources

To curate and maintain SBO, a dedicated resource has been developed and the public interface of the SBO browser can be accessed at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo.
A relational database management system (MySQL) at the back-end is
accessed through a web interface based on Java Server Pages (JSP) and JavaBeans.  Its
content is encoded in UTF-8, therefore supporting a large set of
characters in the definitions of terms.  Distributed curation is made possible
by using a custom-tailored locking system allowing concurrent access.
This system allows a continuous update of the ontology with immediate
availability and suppress merging problems.

Several exports formats (OBO flat file, SBO-XML and OWL) are generated daily or on request and can be downloaded from the web interface.

To allow programmatic access to the resource, Web Services have been implemented based on Apache Axis for the communication layer and Castor for the validation. The libraries, full documentation, samples and tutorial are available online.

The sourceforge project can be accessed at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbo/.

SBO and SBML

Since Level 2 Version 2 SBML provides a mechanism to annotate model components with SBO terms, therefore increasing the semantics of the
model beyond the sole topology of interaction and mathematical expression.  Modelling tools such as SBMLsqueezer use SBO terms too. Simulation tools can check the consistency of a rate law, convert reaction from one modelling framework to another (e.g., continuous to discrete), or distinguish between identical mathematical expressions based on different assumptions (e.g., Henri-Michaelis-Menten Vs. Briggs-Haldane).  Other tools such as semanticSBML can use the SBO annotation to integrate individual models into a larger one.  The use of SBO is not restricted to the development of models. Resources providing quantitative experimental information such as SABIO Reaction Kinetics will be able to annotate the parameters (what do they mean exactly, how were they calculated) and determine relationships between them.

SBO and SBGN

All the graphical symbols used in the SBGN languages are associated with an SBO term. This permits, for instance, to help generate SBGN maps from SBML models.

SBO and BioPAX

The Systems Biology Pathway Exchange (SBPAX) allows SBO terms to be added to Biological Pathway Exchange (BioPAX). This links BioPAX to information useful for modelling, especially by adding quantitative descriptions described by SBO.

Organization of SBO development

SBO is built in collaboration by the Computational Neurobiology Group (Nicolas Le Novère, EMBL-EBI, United-Kingdom) and the SBMLTeam (Michael Hucka, Caltech, USA).

Funding for SBO
SBO has benefited from the funds of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

References

External links
 www.biomodels.net

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Edingale

Edingale is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. It lies on the River Mease, around  north of Tamworth. Historically, the village is shared with Derbyshire. In 2001 the parish had a population of 598, increasing to 632 at the 2011 census.

The village
A well-known family coming from Edingale would be the Green family, which has lived in the village for generations. Edingale's most famous son must be Mr. E J Holland (Jos Holland), a local farmer who bred shire horses and worked them on his farm into the 1970s. Many of the "shires" bred by Jos Holland earned awards of repute. Jos Holland's main man was Tom Wilcox who worked for him looking after the Shire Horse, Clun Forest Sheep and Tamworth pigs from when he left school until he had to retire due to ill health in his late 50s. The local primary school is the Mary Howard CE School. The village had a second pub until the early 1970s – the Holy Bush.  Another notable village family are the Garlands who originally owned farms in the area and have now expanded into shooting grounds and even rocket launching areas. The village also has its own pub called the Black Horse which many villagers refer to as their local.

History
Edingale was mentioned in the Domesday book as part of Derbyshire and belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth two shillings. The name of the village comes from Old English, with the meaning nook of land of Edins (or Eadwines) people.

Until the late 19th century the village of Edingale was divided between the chapelry of Edingale, within Alrewas parish in Staffordshire, and the parish of Croxall, in Derbyshire.

In 1831 the population of the Staffordshire village was 177. By 1851 it had risen to 197, on about 850 acres of land, when the lord of the manor was the Earl of Lichfield, though the land belonged to a number of other persons.

Formerly in Tamworth Rural District, the parish became part of Lichfield Rural District during the boundary changes of 1934. The civil parish of Croxall was incorporated into Edingale at the same time.

Landmarks
A number of houses in the village are listed Grade II, as is the Church of the Holy Trinity and associated buildings. The village of Croxall also has a number of historic buildings.

Sport
The village has 1 football team Edingale Swifts. they will play the 2016-2017 season in Division 3 of the Tamworth and District Sunday Football League''. The won the Division Three league and cup double in 2015-16 season with an unbeaten league record.

The Black Horse Edingale were the villages other football team but they folded in December 2013.

See also
Listed buildings in Edingale

References

External links
Staffordshire Past Track: Old images of Edingale
A Lost Way of Life: Farms in the Parish, edingalevillage.co.uk

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Russian copulation

In cryptography, Russian copulation is a method of rearranging plaintext before encryption so as to conceal stereotyped headers, salutations, introductions, endings, signatures, etc.. This obscures clues for a cryptanalyst, and can be used to increase cryptanalytic difficulty in naive cryptographic schemes (however, most modern schemes contain more rigorous defences; see ciphertext indistinguishability). This is of course desirable for those sending messages and wishing them to remain confidential. Padding is another technique for obscuring such clues.

The technique is to break the starting plaintext message into two parts and then to invert the order of the parts (similar to circular shift). This puts all endings and beginnings (presumably the location of most boilerplate phrases) "somewhere in the middle" of the version of the plaintext that is actually encrypted. For some messages, mostly those not in a human language (e.g., images or tabular data), the decrypted version of the plaintext will present problems when reversing the inversion. For messages expressed in ordinary language, there is sufficient redundancy that the inversion can almost always be reversed by a human immediately on inspection.

The English phrase suggests that it originally came from an observation about Russian cryptographic practice. However, the technique is generally useful and neither was, nor is, limited to use by Russians.

References

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Yukon Brewing Company

Yukon Brewing is a trademark owned by the Chilkoot Brewing Co. Ltd brewery in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

When entering the American market, Chilkoot Brewing Company Ltd. faced trademark issues and decided to call itself the Cheechako Brewing Company. In 1999, however, the name changed again to Yukon Brewing Company. In February 2010 the Company portion of the name was dropped. The brewery is now known as Yukon Brewing.
In September 2009 Yukon Red, the brewery's Amber Ale was awarded the 2009 Canadian Beer of the Year at the Canadian Brewing Awards, finishing with gold in the Amber Ale category.

In 2009 regulatory changes in Yukon where the brewery is based allowed for distilling. Yukon Brewing distilled and barreled what will become a single malt whiskey. The whiskey and other spirit products are to be sold under Yukon Brewings sister company Yukon Spirits.

Yukon Gold is the best selling draft beer in Yukon.

References

External links
 Official site

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Aristaea thalassias

Aristaea thalassias is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known in Australia from the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and has been introduced to South Africa for the biological control of Australian myrtle.

The larvae feed on Agonis flexuosa and Leptospermum laevigatum. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

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Sissacherfluh Castle

Ruins of Sissacherfluh Castle () is a castle in the municipality of Sissach of the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland.  It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

See also
 List of castles in Switzerland

References

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Deyna Castellanos

Deyna Cristina Castellanos Naujenis (born 18 April 1999) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the Venezuela women's national team.

Club career
After spending her three college years at Florida State, on 2 January 2020, Castellanos signed a two-year contract with the Spanish club, Atlético Madrid.

International career

Venezuela youth teams
In 2014, she was a member of the Venezuela national under-17 team who finished fourth in the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and runners-up in the 2014 Women's Youth Olympic football. She won the Golden Boot of the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup with six goals, equalling her teammate Gabriela García and was also a goalscorer of the 2014 Women's Youth Olympic football with seven. She was also as a top scorer of the 2016 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship with 12. Castellanos is the top goalscorer of the Venezuela U-17 women's team with 35. Castellanos is currently the all-time leading goalscorer of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup with 11.

Castellanos was called up to the Venezuela U-20 women's team in January 2018 for the 2018 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship. She was the only player to score in the Group B matches with three, once against Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile. She was also the only player to score in the final stage, scoring once in a 3–1 defeat against Paraguay U-20 women's team.

Senior team
In April 2018, Castellanos was part of the senior team in the 2018 Copa América Femenina. She scored on her debut against Ecuador on 5 April, and netted four times in an 8–0 win over Bolivia four days later.

Awards
In The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017, Castellanos was named to the three woman shortlist for The Best FIFA Women's Player. Her nomination created some controversy. Megan Rapinoe was outspoken about this nomination, complaining that Castellanos was an unknown player and had not played professionally, nor in a major senior national team tournament at the time of her nomination.

References

External links

 FSU Bio

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Ahnatal-Weimar

Weimar is the oldest part of the municipality of Ahnatal. It is a village situated close to the Dörnberg some 15 km northwest of Kassel and has about 3500 inhabitants. Its history dates back to 1097 when it was first mentioned in a donation record of a monastery. In Weimar, the name of which is supposed to mean "sacred water", there was a monastery which is at the place of the Lutheran church. Weimar's population was mainly dominated by workers in factories in the nearby city of Kassel and also in the quarry which now forms the Bühl. Although there was an anti-aircraft base during World War II close to the village, it was not heavily damaged in the bomb raids. After World War II Weimar was occupied by American soldiers. In the 1970s, it was merged with Heckershausen to form the municipality of Ahnatal. Its main sight is the Bühl, a former pit which was left open after a source leaked into it. It is now being used as a swimming pool, and in the nearby area, there are sports and recreational facilities.
Being close to the city of Kassel, most people who live in Weimar are commuters who work in the city of Kassel. There are no large-scale firms in Weimar and in Ahnatal in general.
The education system consists of a primary school( Helfensteinschule)"which pupils can attend until they reach the sixth grade after which they have to go to a secondary school. The "Helfensteinschule" is attended also by pupils from Kammerberg.

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Oxford Pro Musica Singers

Oxford Pro Musica Singers (OPMS) is a chamber choir based in Oxford, England.

Founded by Michael Smedley in 1977 as the Oxford Pro Musica Chorus to accompany the Oxford Pro Musica Orchestra, the choir soon took on a life of its own and performed regularly in Oxford as well as three of London's main concert halls: St John's, Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room. The choir reached the final of BBC/Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition and won a Bronze Medal in the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, whilst as representatives of the United Kingdom abroad they achieved a Silver Medal in the international 'Florilege Vocal de Tours' competition in France. A recent visit to Europe was a trip to southern Spain in 2012. They have also made several recordings, ranging from folk songs to jazz classics, garnering a rosette from the Penguin CD Guide for their disc of Tavener, Pärt, and Górecki. Michael Smedley led the choir for a 25th anniversary concert University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford, in 2002.

Since the end of 2013, the choir has been directed by Mark Jordan. They perform a wide range of music, from 16th-century polyphony to modern works by composers such as Morten Lauridsen, Ola Gjeilo, and Will Todd, but are also at home with the pillars of the choral repertoire: performances of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil and Bach’s B Minor Mass in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, with the period orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, were part of the choir's 2015 season.

References

External links
 OPMS website

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Van Vollenhoven

Van Vollenhoven is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874–1933), Dutch academic and legal scholar
Joost van Vollenhoven (1877–1918), Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator
Pieter van Vollenhoven (born 1939), Dutch royalty
Tom van Vollenhoven (born 1935), South African rugby player
Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven (1816-1880) Dutch entomologist

See also
Vollenhoven

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The Bridegroom (short story collection)

The Bridegroom is a collection of twelve short stories by Chinese-American author Ha Jin. The stories are set in Muji City in contemporary China, the same provincial city that served as the setting for his novel Waiting.

Contents

"Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in The Best American Short Stories series.

References

External links
New York Times review
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin - Powell's Books

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Nigel Paul (boxer)

Nigel Paul (born 27 June 1989) is a super heavyweight boxer from Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2015 he won the Trinidad & Tobago National Novice Championships and became 7th at the AMBC American Confederation Boxing Championships.

In 2016 he became 2nd at the American Qualification Event for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games and qualified for the Olympic boxing tournament.  Paul was beaten by Nigerian boxer Efe Ajagba at the Olympic boxing tournament on 13 August at the Rio games. Ajagba won the bout with a 7 second knockout of Paul.

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Tolegnaro

Tolegnaro is a genus of spiders in the Oonopidae family. It was first described in 2012 by Álvarez-Padilla, Ubick & Griswold. , it contains 2 species, both found in Madagascar.

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Velasco-class cruiser

The Velasco class of unprotected cruisers was a series of eight cruisers built during the 1880s for service with the Spanish Navy.  They were named for famous Spaniards of the past.

Description
The Velasco class consisted of two slightly different subclasses.  The first two ships, Velasco and Gravina, built by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Leamouth, London in the United Kingdom, had fewer but heavier guns and were slightly faster than the next six, which were built at various yards in Spain.  The class took a long time to complete, with the two British-build ships being laid down in 1881 and the last Spanish built one not being completed until 1889. The ships had one rather tall funnel, an iron hull, and barque rigging.  They were unarmored.

History
The Velasco-class cruisers generally were assigned to colonial service. They were an ill-fated class, with two lost at sea and three more sunk during the Spanish–American War. The three survivors lasted into the early 20th century, with the last one stricken in 1927.

Ships in class

Velasco
Completed in 1881, Velasco was in the Philippines at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898 and was sunk in the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.

Gravina
Completed in 1881, Gravina was sent to the Philippines, where she sank in a typhoon in 1884.

Infanta Isabel
Completed in 1885, Infanta Isabel was the longest lived of the class, undergoing a reconstruction in 1911 and not being stricken until 1927.

Isabel II
Completed in 1887, Isabel II saw action during the Spanish–American War in the Second and Third Battles of San Juan, and was stricken in 1907.

Cristobal Colon
Completed in 1889, Cristobal Colon was lost off Cuba in October 1895.

Don Juan de Austria
Completed in 1887, Don Juan de Austria was in the Philippines at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898 and was sunk in the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898. Salvaged, repaired and in 1900 commissioned into American Navy.

Don Antonio de Ulloa
Completed in 1886, Don Antonio de Ulloa was in the Philippines at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898 and was sunk in the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.

Conde del Venadito
Completed in 1888, Conde del Venadito was stricken around 1905

References
Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. .
Gray, Randal, Ed. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985. .
Nofi, Albert A. The Spanish–American War, 1898. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:Combined Books, Inc., 1996. .

External links

The Spanish–American War Centennial Web Site
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: Spanish Navy Ships: Conde del Venadito (Cruiser, 1888–1902)

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Miss Perú 2003

The Miss Perú 2003 pageant was held on April 29, 2003. That year, 38 candidates were competing for the national crown. The chosen winner represented Peru at the Miss World 2003. The Miss Universo Perú was chosen midway through the Miss Peru contest in a Gala de Belleza show, and would enter in Miss Universe 2003. The Miss Earth Perú would enter in Miss Earth 2003. The first runner up would enter in Miss Intercontinental 2003. The rest of the finalists would enter in different pageants.

Placements

Special Awards

 Best Regional Costume - Cuzco - Aldana García
 Miss Hair - Cuzco - Aldana García Jahnsen
 Miss Fitness - San Martin - Ivette Santa María
 Miss Congeniality - Surco - María Paz González-Vigil
 Miss Internet - Piura - Claudia Hernández
 Most Beautiful Face - Amazonas - Diana Goytizolo

Delegates

Amazonas - Diana Goytizolo
Áncash - Karen Herrera
Apurímac - Paula Ángeles
Arequipa - Claudia Ortiz de Zevallos
Ayacucho - Ericka Canales
Cajamarca - Zuleira Cantera
Callao - Melissa Granda Velarde
Chiclayo- Fiorella Paredes Vásquez
Cono Norte - Sofía Urteaga
Cuzco - Aldana García Jahnsen
Distrito Capital - Danitza Autero Stanic
Huancavelica - Fabiola Beckmann
Huancayo - Katia Osorio
Huánuco - Rosvith Rivera Huamán
Ica - Tania Pérez Escalante
Jauja - Ma. Cristina Ávila Loayza
Junín - Carla Ribero Sotomayor
La Libertad - Giselle Vásquez

La Punta - Marcela Granda Alegre
Lambayeque - Viviana López
Loreto  - Libni Landaeta
Mollendo - Fátima Zimic
Moquegua - Sandra Salazar
Moyobamba - Karol Ortiz Navarro
Pacasmayo - Juliana Quiroz
Pasco - Paula Mauralogoitia
Pisco - Pamela Silva Roldán
Piura - Claudia Hernández Oré
Pomabamba - Karla Tarazona
San Isidro - Natalia Urrunaga
San Martín - Ivette Santa María
Surco - María Paz González-Vigil
Tacna - Yolanda Raygada
Tarapoto - Zayra Díaz
Tumbes - Clara Seminaria Caldas
Ucayali - Carla Yacila

References

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Tabor Church (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen)

Tabor Church (Hohenschönhausen) () is the church of the Evangelical Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Congregation, a member of today's Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (under this name since 2004). The church building is located in the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg, in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen. The church was named in memory of the Transfiguration of Jesus, which allegedly took place on Mount Tabor () in today's Israel.

The congregation's parish comprises the area of the historical village of Hohenschönhausen, which was incorporated into Berlin under the Prussian Greater Berlin Act in 1920. Between 1985 and 2001 the area was part of the eponymous former borough of Hohenschönhausen.

As a Roman Catholic place of worship (until 1539)
Tabor Church is by far the oldest still existing building in the locality. The church is oriented and was built in the late 13th century, or possibly earlier, around 1230. That is about 100 years earlier than the first recorded mentions of the former village (in 1352 and 1356).

 The oldest surviving section of the church is its 13th-century choir, built from granite ashlars in late Romanesque style with a rib vault. In 1352 - as preserved in a document - Heinrich Billerbeck, the "rector ecclesie in alta schonehusen" (parson of the church in Hohenschönhausen), unmasked a man pretending to be the late Waldemar 'the Great' of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, declared dead in 1320.

The present prayer hall of two naves is an addition of about 1450 erected from simple boulders and with a vaulted roof supported by a central square pier. Around 1470 a half-timbered tower was attached to the southern side of the church. In 1480 the von Röbel family was enfeoffed with the manor estate of Hohenschönhausen, thus also holding the ius patronatus to the church.

As a Lutheran place of worship (from 1539 on)
 In 1539 Prince Elector Joachim II Hector converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism, as many of his subjects had earlier done. The church thus became Lutheran too, like most of the electoral subjects and all the churches in the Electorate of Brandenburg. In 1615 the tower underwent its first total reconstruction, followed by further repairs and new buildings at least once every century.

In 1626 - in the course of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) - the Lutheran Swedish troops under Gustavus II Adolphus and the Catholic Imperial Army under Wallenstein ravaged Hohenschönhausen and plundered the church. Out of ten farmer families, three cottager families, and two shepherd families in the parish (as of 1624) only three families holding farms and five merely holding cottages survived (as of 1652).

 In 1714 the peaked spire gave way to a domed top with a weathervane. In 1736 Christian Friedrich von Röbel sold the manor estate for 22,800 thalers to Adam Ebersbach, a merchant from Berlin. The latter thus became the patron of the church and financed its renovation in 1738.

During the reign of King Frederick 'the Great', the cemetery around the church - like all cemeteries - had to be planted with mulberry trees. Their leaves were to be picked by village schoolchildren and delivered for use in the loss-making silk production the king tried to enforce in his dirigist concept of cameralism. The last mulberry tree fell in the 1980s. After Orussia's loss in the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759 (in the course of the Third Silesian or Seven Years' War, 1756–1763, the European chapter of Anglo-French and Indian War), Austrian and Russian soldiers robbed what they considered precious from the inventory of the church.

 In 1817, under the auspices of King Frederick William III of Prussia, the Lutheran congregation of Hohenschönhausen, like most Prussian Protestant congregations, joined the common umbrella organisation then called the Evangelical Church in Prussia (under this name since 1821), with each congregation either maintaining its former denomination or adopting the new united denomination. In 1905 the church was renovated and renamed Tabor Church, but the name 'village church' () also continued to be used.

The church weathered the Second World War intact. In 1945 Hohenschönhausen fell within the Soviet-controlled Eastern Sector of Berlin. Since 1947 the congregation has been a member of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg. In 1952 the congregation had to demolish the dilapidated domed top of the tower because in the communist planning system - even seven years after the war - there was a shortage of construction material, at least if needed for a church building. The south tower has since been a stump.

Furnishings
 The original altar, depicting Mary(am) of Nazareth, was translated in 1924 to St. Nicholas' Church in Berlin's central borough of Mitte and is now exhibited in the Märkisches Museum. In the same year Tabor Church received in return a wooden altar (of the last quarter of the 15th century) from the village church in Berlin-Wartenberg, showing the carved sculptures of Mary(am) of Nazareth with the infant Jesus in the central field, flanked by two bipartite folding flaps with sculptures of Saints. The pulpit dates to the early 17th century and is decorated with diamond-styled Herms pilasters.

 The christening bowl of 1671 shows the arms of the von Röbel family, who donated it. The parapet of the organ loft (17th century) features vivid flat carvings and again the arms of the von Röbel family. Two further sculptures of female saints (around 1430) belong to the furnishings. An oval epitaph commemorates Hans Christoph von Röbel (d. 1671). On the eastern outside wall, four plates recall the four major restructurings of the church in 1738, 1801, 1905, and 1924.

Notes

References
 Georg Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, rev. Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Michael Bollé, Ralph Paschke et al., 22 vols., 2nd ed. Dehio-Vereinigung, Berlin and Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000, vol. 8: Berlin, p. 211. .
 Günther Kühne and Elisabeth Stephani, Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin (1978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, 2nd ed. 1986, pp. 455seq. .

External links
 Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Congregation (official website)

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Rafiqul Islam (activist)

Rafiqul Islam (16 July 1950 – 20 November 2013) was a Bangladeshi-born Canadian language activist. He played a major role in achieving recognition of February 21 as the International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999. He was awarded Independence Day Award posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh in 2016. He was a member of Vancouver-based organization Mother Language Lovers of the World which was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2001 for the same cause.

Death
Islam had lived in Canada for 18 years until he died of leukaemia on 20 November 2013 in Vancouver General Hospital in Canada.

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Gothra, Rewari

Gothra is a village on the Rewari- Narnaul road(National Highway no. 11)  from Rewari in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also named as Gothra Pali.This village is nearby Village Pali that is also on the Delhi Mumbai Freight Corridor Project including gothra which will be India's future trade corridor. The most charming thing of this village is that the Nearest Railway Station of The Pali Village from there every villagers can travel to Narnaul,Phulera,Rewari,and Delhi.  Haryana's second Sainik School is situated in Gothra.For the Sanik School the villagers and whole of the Ahirwal struggled a lot for a period of 30–40 years.It was the main demand of Ahirwal. At last, Sainik school was inaugurated in 2008 by the then Hon'ble former CM Bhupender Singh Hooda.This school is situated in the lap of the hill and covers an area of 56 acre.There is also a Power House(Bijli Ghar)Sub Division in this village. Village also has many temples one of them is Sakti mata mandir in the lap of the hill. People also from the surrounding villages have a religious belief in Sakti Mata and Saturday is the main day when all the inhabitants and those of surrounding villages visit the Mandir. There is a belief that The Sakti Mata always saves the village from evils. Adjacent to the village there is Kribhco container. On the bus stand of this village there are many shops and dhabas namely Rao Dhaba, Chahat restaurant, Chaudhry dhaba, Paras Dhaba,Dehli wala Halwai,Vijay tent House, Marshal Photographer and a Petrol Pump.When travelling from Rewari to Narnaul, if you see all this on the left side of the highway, you can assume that you are at Gothra Village.Apart from this, Sainik School and Power house is also on the Bus stand of the village (on the left side of the highway) and at the right side of the highway is a village Gothra. Adjacent villages are Nandha,Balwari, Nangla, Mamria,Pali. There are five link roads that goes to all these villages that discussed in former statement.
  People from this village are in every field of success like judiciary, taxation, police, defence, para military, banks, teaching line and also in private sector. In India China 1962 war, Captain Ram Kunwar of this village was awarded Veer Chakra.

Demographics
As of 2011 India census, Gothra had a population of 2,606 in 549 households. Males (1,324) constitute 50.8%  of the population and females (1,282) 49.19%. Gothara has an average literacy (1,789) rate of 68.64%, less than the national average of 74%: male literacy (1,052) is 58.8%, and female literacy (737) is 41.19% of total literates (1,789). In Gothra, 12.47% of the population is under 6 years of age (325).This village is a symbol of love where all the communities are living with brotherhood and peace.The main caste of the vill is Aheer. Apart from this, there are Harijans,Khati, Parjapat,Valmiki,Saini,Naai living in a peaceful atmosphere.In the middle of the village, there is a Johad and many temple nearby it Shiv Mandir, Hanuman Mandir, Baba Manohar Dass and the trees of Peepal also gives a religious feeling .All of this gives the village a replica of an ancient historical story's village.At the entry of the vill, there is also a Shiv temple.

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Kim Kih-hoon

Kim Kih-hoon (born 1975) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim's first theatrical film The Mode of Disappearance (2005), tells the story of a man who one day finds his face has changed unrecognizably. The film debuted at the Busan International Film Festival and was invited to other major short film festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France where it was highly received. His directorial feature debut The Boy from Ipanema (2010), won the Audience Critic’s Award and Movie Collage Award at the 11th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2010. Currently working on his latest work Trot (2015), it will star Ahn Sung-ki and Joo Sang-wook.

Filmography
The Mode of Disappearance (short film, 2005) - director, screenwriter
The Way of Calling Nietzsche (documentary short, 2006) - director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor
The Boy from Ipanema (2010) - director, screenwriter, editor, executive producer, planner
Trot (2015) - director

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Victoriatus

The victoriatus was a silver coin issued during the Roman Republic from about 221 BC to 170 BC. The obverse of the coin featured the bust of Jupiter and the reverse featured Victory placing a wreath upon a trophy with the inscription "ROMA" in exergue.

The coin originally weighed about 3.4 grams (3 scruples), meaning that it was half the value of the quadrigatus, a coin weighing 6 scruples that was by this time no longer produced. The victoriatus was made of a more debased silver than the denarius, which was introduced at about the same time. Hoard evidence indicates that the coin circulated in southern Italy and later Gaul, indicating that the coin was intended as a replacement for the drachma or half-nomos instead of as part of the normal Roman coin system. When first issued the victoriatus had a value of about 3/4 of a denarius, however when the quinarius was reintroduced in 101 BC with a similar type, it was valued at 1/2 a denarius. This indicates that victoriati that were still in circulation at this time were worn and considered to be worth only half a denarius. The reintroduced quinarius was produced mainly for Cisalpine Gaul, where the victoriatus and imitations were popular. The reintroduced quinarius may have continued to be called a victoriatus, although there is no written evidence of this.

The name victoriatus is an ancient term, attested by several contemporary texts and inscriptions. The coin was known as a tropaikon (due to the trophy on the reverse) among Greek speakers.

See also
 Roman currency

Literature
 Michael Crawford Roman Republican coinage (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974)
 John Melville Jones, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, London 1990.

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