Eugen Boureanul

Eugen Boureanul (February 18, 1885–November 28, 1971) was a Romanian prose writer.

Born in Tecuci, his parents were Gheorghe Boureanul, a general who had an engineering diploma from Germany, and his wife Zoița (née Galery). After obtaining degrees in law, literature and philosophy from the University of Iași, he took a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna. Following his return to Romania, he worked as a lawyer, reporter, teacher and civil servant in Iași and Bucharest. From 1935 to 1944, he worked at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, where he reached the position of director.

Boureanul's first published work appeared in Sămănătorul in 1905; his first book, Povestiri din copilărie, came out the same year. His contributions ran in Flacăra, Neamul românesc, Floarea darurilor, Drum drept, Adevărul literar și artistic, Arhiva and Evenimentul. He published several books of sketches and stories, including Povestiri de pe dealuri (1926), Povestiri de prin văi (1928), Omul fără noroc (1931) and the novel Cel din urmă erou (1943). He took a long study trip that took him from Scandinavia to North Africa, Ceylon and western and northern India. The resulting ravel account appeared in partial form as De la Thule la Taprobana (1969). Boureanul translated works by Oscar Wilde, Gérard de Nerval, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London and Leo Tolstoy. He won the Romanian Writers' Society prize in 1926.

Boureanul died in Poenari. His son was the writer Radu Boureanu.

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The Angry Man of Jazz

The Angry Man of Jazz may refer to:

 Max Miller (jazz musician) (1911–1985), American jazz pianist and vibraphone player, so dubbed by Studs Terkel
 Charles Mingus (1922–1979), American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader, known for his often fearsome temperament


Chenillé-Changé

Chenillé-Changé is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France, located on the river Mayenne 27 km northwest of Angers. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Chenillé-Champteussé.

See also
Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department

References

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Category:Maine-et-Loire communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


The Clay Cole Show

The Clay Cole Show (1959–1968) was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole.

History
First broadcast on WNTA-TV (now WNET) in September 1959 as Rate the Records, within two months the format was changed, and an hour-long Saturday-night show was added. In the summer months, the show was expanded to an hour, six nights a week, live from New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, where Chubby Checker first performed and danced "The Twist". When WNTA-TV was sold in 1963 the show moved to WPIX-TV, where for five years it was successful, thanks to first-time guest appearances of The Rolling Stones (on a program with one other guest act--The Beatles), Neil Diamond, Dionne Warwick, Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Tony Orlando, Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Rascals. In 1965 the show was renamed Clay Cole's Discotek. Clay produced a full hour with just one guest, Tony Bennett. Clay's all-star, ten-day Christmas Show in 1960 at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater holds the all-time box-office record for that theater.

Cole was the first to introduce stand-up comics such as Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Fannie Flagg to a teen audience. He was the first to produce a full hour of all-black performers, his historic Salute to Motown. Unlike other teen music show hosts, Cole danced to the music he played on his shows; he was also unafraid to book lesser-known performers.

In 1968, at the height of his show's popularity, Cole left the show, unhappy with the shift in pop music to psychedelic acid rock and heavy metal.

His memoir of the early years of rock and roll and live television, Sh-Boom! The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll (1953-1968) has been published by Morgan James. Cole died on December 18, 2010.

See also
 The Buddy Deane Show
 The Groovy Show
 The Milt Grant Show
 John Waters
 Brooklyn Paramount Theater

References

External links
 The Clay Cole Show website
 The Jersey Girls Sing website, Clay Cole Tribute Page

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Adnexal mass

An adnexal mass is a lump in tissue of the adnexa of uterus (structures closely related structurally and functionally to the uterus such as the ovaries, fallopian tubes, or any of the surrounding connective tissue). Adnexal masses can be benign or cancerous, and they can be categorized as simple or complex. One of the most important factors used to determine the clinical suspicion of malignancy of an adnexal mass is the sonographic appearance of the mass. Indications that the mass is at a higher risk of being malignant include the presence of loculations, nodules, papillary structures, or septations or a size greater than 10 cm.

Causes
In premenopausal women, adnexal masses include ovarian cysts, ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous) tumors, endometriomas, polycystic ovaries, and tubo-ovarian abscess. The most common causes for adnexal masses in premenopausal women include follicular cysts and corpus luteum cysts.  Abscesses can form as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease.

In postmenopausal women, adnexal masses may be caused by cancer, fibroids, fibromas, or diverticular abscesses.

Diagnosis

Treatment

Removal is sometimes referred to as "adnexectomy".

References

External links

 Adnexal mass entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  Emedicine overview

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Michman

Michman () is a Russian and Soviet Navy rank. It is also used in a number of other countries. The rank is equivalent to praporshchik in the Russian and Soviet army and air force. According to NATO rank system the rank might be comparable to OR-9b in NATO armed forces. In the Russian Navy there are two grades of michman: michman and starshy michman.

While the rank michman is etymologically borrowed from the English rank midshipman, michman is a very senior and experienced enlisted rank, equivalent to a master chief petty officer or warrant officer, while midshipman is a cadet in training or a very junior officer rank (OF-1 in NATO naval forces), which, being an officer, is technically higher in rank than any enlisted rank, despite a midshipman's very junior status.

Soviet Union
The ranks of senior michman (and in the army and air force, senior praporshchik) were added in 1981. The Russian Federation retained the rank structure of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Imperial Russia

Michman was originally an Ober-ofizer rank, in line to the Table of Ranks class XII/XIII in the Imperial Russian Navy equivalent to Praporshik of the Imperial Russian Army and classified as junior officer rank (OF-1c).

The rank was abolished in 1917 by the Bolsheviks and restored in the 1970s in the former USSR for non-commissioned officers and became equivalent to the non-commissioned officer rank OR-9.

See also
Comparative officer ranks of World War I
Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Army 1943–1955, and Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Armed Forces 1955–1991,
Ranks and rank insignia of the Russian Federation´s armed forces 1994–2010
Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation

Michman ranks in other nations
The following countries use a similar rank:
Azerbaijan:
Lithuania:
Poland:
Ukraine:

References

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List of shipwrecks in December 1857

The list of shipwrecks in December 1857 includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during December 1857.

1 December

2 December

3 December

4 December

5 December

6 December

7 December

8 December

9 December

10 December

11 December

12 December

13 December

14 December

15 December

16 December

17 December
For the beaching of Synosure on this date, see the entry for 27 November 1857

18 December

19 December

20 December

21 December

22 December

23 December

24 December

25 December

26 December

28 December

29 December

30 December

31 December

Unknown date

References

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Tascina metallica

Tascina metallica is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found on Borneo and Palawan.

Adults have robust, clubbed antennae. The ground colour of the forewings is black, with an oblique white bar and a broad blue dorsum in males and a black hindwing in females. The hindwing underside is rufous brown, although duller in females with a hint of blue along the dorsum.

References

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Khadijeh, Soltanabad

Khadijeh (, also Romanized as Khadījeh) is a village in Soltanabad Rural District, in the Central District of Ramhormoz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

References

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1990 Women's British Open Squash Championship

The 1990 Hi-Tec British Open Squash Championships was held at the lambs Squash Club with the later stages being held at Wembley in London from 16–23 April 1990. The event was won for the seventh consecutive year by Susan Devoy who defeated Suzanne Horner (née Burgess) in the final.

Seeds

Draw and results

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

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Grenada at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games

The XXIst Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico from July 17, 2010 to August 1, 2010.

Results by event

Athletics

Boxing

Swimming

External links
Mayagüez 2010 Official website

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Central American and Caribbean Games


Minister of Local Government (Manitoba)

The Minister of Local Government is a cabinet minister in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The position was created in 1999 as the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. The portfolio was designated as Intergovernmental Affairs and Trade from November 2003 to September 2006, when responsibility for trade was shifted to the new portfolio of Competitiveness, Training and Trade. Then, the portfolio went back to being called Intergovernmental Affairs. In November 2009, when Greg Selinger became Premier, the portfolio was renamed Local Government. In October 2013, it was renamed Municipal Government.

List of Ministers of Intergovernmental Affairs

List of Ministers of Local Government

List of Ministers of Municipal Government

List of Ministers of Municipal Relations

References

Local Government, Minister of


Uzita

Uzita may refer to the following places and jurisdictions :

 Uzita (Tunisia), a Roman period town located in the central Tunisian coastal region, former Catholic bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see
 Uzita (Florida), a 16th-century chiefdom on the south side of Tampa Bay, Florida
 also the name of its chief town and of its chief


Foresters Park, Tranent

Foresters Park is a sports ground and former greyhound racing track in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland.

Facilities include two floodlit training areas, a 3G pitch and climbing wall. The sports ground is administered by East Lothian Council.

The Tranent greyhound track was built around the football ground at Foresters Park in 1936. The opening night for greyhound racing was 7 July 1936. and racing took place two evenings per week with the gate money being shared with the landlords, the Tranent Juniors F.C. The greyhound racing which was independent (unaffiliated to a governing body) ended in the mid-fifties.

References

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Belknap (surname)

Belknap or Belnap is a surname of Norman origin from England that may come from the Anglo-Norman words "belle," meaning beautiful, and "knap," meaning the crest or summit of a small hill.  Although today the "k" in Belknap is generally silent as in the words "knight" or "knee," it is evident from documents dating from the Middle English period that it was originally pronounced as a hard "k."  The surname is relatively infrequent, and most Belknaps or Belnaps in America are thought to descend from one man, Abraham Belknap (formerly known as Beltoft), who migrated from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England to Lynn, Massachusetts about 1635.  The surname continued in England. Today, a wide variety of locations and institutions are named Belknap or Belnap, all of which are believed to be connected in some manner to this early Puritan emigrant to America.  Places named Belknap or Belnap include over 130 streets, approximately 20 towns, and 1 U.S. county.  Natural features named Belknap range from a nunatak near the South Pole in Antarctica, to a Canadian cape near the North Pole, to a seamount beneath the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, to a tiny rocky island in Indonesia in Southeast Asia.

Surname origins
The earliest documentary reference to someone of this name is to John de Belknap, who first appears in Wiltshire in 1327.  He later appears to have moved to London around the time the Black Death arrived in England.  John was the father of Sir Robert Belknap, who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of England from 1377 to 1388.  The early Belknaps married into a number of notable English families, including the families of Darset, Phelipp, Stonor, Hampden, Boteler, Beauchamp, Sudeley, Avenel, Kymbell, Knollys, Ferrers, Finche, Cooke, Hende, Wotton, Danett, Shelley, Carryll, Scott, and Bishop. Sir Robert's direct descendants include many notable persons, including William Shakespeare, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Francis Bacon, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (through 2 known lines), Princess Diana (through 3 known lines), and England's current reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II (through 6 known lines).

The surname Belknap, as carried through descendants of Sir Robert, appears to have died out with Sir Robert's great grandson, Sir Edward Belknap (about 1471-1521). However, several other males surnamed Belknap, whose connections to Sir Robert are at present unknown, were contemporaries of Sir Robert's family during the 15th and 16th Centuries. The Belknap surname may have continued through one of these other contemporaneous Belknaps through the Beltoft family of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who would reside near several of the early manors of the early Belknaps and suddenly assumed or resumed using the surname Belknap in the late 1500s-early 1600s, not long before Abraham Belknap emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1630s.

Variations of the surname Belknap include Belnap, Bellnap, Belknappe, etc.  Many persons who today spell the surname "Belnap" are known to descend from Jesse Belnap (1760-1854), American Revolutionary War soldier.  He was the grandfather of Gilbert Belnap.

People

Abraham Belknap (1589/90-1643), one of the first settlers of New England.
Anna Belknap (b. 1972), American actress
Arias G. Belnap (1893–1974), Utah politician and LDS Church leader
Charles E. Belknap (1846–1929), United States Army Civil War officer and politician from Michigan
Daniel Belknap (1771–1815), early American composer
David F. Belnap (1922–2009), prize-winning American foreign correspondent
 Sir Edward Belknap (ca. 1471-1521), Privy Councillor for the English kings Henry VII and Henry VIII
George Belknap (1832–1903), United States Navy rear admiral and father of Reginald R. Belknap
Gilbert Belnap (1821–1899), early LDS Church leader and colonizer
Hugh R. Belknap (1860–1901), United States Representative from Illinois
Jeremy Belknap (1744–1798), American clergyman and historian
Joanne Belknap, American criminologist
Matt Belknap, American entertainer
Morris B. Belknap (1856-1910), American businessman and Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky
Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) (1780-1877) Early American iron foundry owner and industrialist.
Nuel Belnap (b. 1930), American logician and philosopher
Reginald R. Belknap (1871–1959), United States Navy rear admiral and son of George Belknap
Robert Bealknap (about 1330-1401), also known as Sir Robert Belknap, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of England
W. B. Belknap (1811-1889), founding owner of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company.
W. C. Belknap, (1850–1937), American politician
William Burke Belknap (1885-1965), Kentucky horse and sheep breeder at his Land O'Goshen Farm, economist, politician, academician
William G. Belknap (1794–1851), United States Brigadier General
William Richardson Belknap (1849-1914) president of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company.
William W. Belknap (1829–1890), Iowa State Representative and United States Secretary of War

See also
Belknap (disambiguation)
Belnap Family Organization

References

External links
Belnap Family Organization


Fairlight (company)

Fairlight is a digital audio company based in Sydney. In 1979 they created the Fairlight CMI, one of the earliest music workstation with digital audio sampler, quickly used by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Jean Michel Jarre. They are now a manufacturer of media tools such as digital audio recording and mixing consoles. Fairlight became such a prominent part of 1980s pop music that Phil Collins included the text "there is no Fairlight on this record" in the liner notes of No Jacket Required.

History
In 1975, Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd was established by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie. They produced microprocessor-based music workstations with samplers, which were revolutionary for their time.

New sounds could be created by drawing a 'sound wave' on the screen, which the computer would produce as sound. Theoretically, any sound was possible. Apart from opening up a world of new sounds, the Fairlight gave composers and performers instant playback. By changing the wave patterns presented on a screen they could tweak a sound into shape without singing or performing it all over again.

The versatility of the early Fairlight was not lost on recording artists. The first record made entirely on a computer in the United States was done by EBN-OZN (Ned Liben, who represented Fairlight in New York, and Robert Ozn) – "AEIOU Sometimes Y" made in 1981, released in 1983.

Their hybrid analogue/digital Computer Video Instrument, invented by Kia Silverbrook, debuted in 1984. The fact that the CVI was also a "computer" was transparent to its use: it did not use a conventional ASCII keyboard (though in later models one could be attached), but rather a set of sliders and a small graphics pad about the size of the palm of a hand. Menu selections were made with a stylus rather than a mouse. The CVI allowed you to paint directly over the top of video footage as well as "with" video footage via an extensive series of effects.

In April 1989, Fairlight ESP (Electric Sound and Picture) was established by Kim Ryrie, with the financial backing of Australian distributor Amber.

In September 2016 Fairlight was acquired by Blackmagic Design.

Products

 CMI Music sampler (mid 1970s)
 MXF Digital Audio Workstation with dedicated Audio control surface (at least 3 versions) (MXF3 released 1997)
 Dream Constellation Digital Audio Workstation with integrated Audio control surface and Mixing console (2004)
 Crystal Core processing engine – a sound processing device capable of sampling frequencies up to 384 kHz. Crystal core does not use DSP-based architecture, but a Field Programmable Gate Array. (CC-1 see Dream software below, CC-2 released 2014)
 Dream II software (ran with Crystal Core engine) (released 2008)
 Xynergi – a tactile control unit that makes use of self-labeling LCD keys. (2008)
 Quantum Digital Audio Workstation, Audio control surface and Mixing console (2012)
• Quantum Live sound mixing console (2014)

Peter Vogel Instruments
In August 2009, a new company called Fairlight Instruments was launched by Peter Vogel, with the objective of producing a new range of computer musical instruments (CMI) based on Fairlight.au's "Crystal Core" media engine.

In July 2012, the company Fairlight Instruments changed its name to Peter Vogel Instruments. Peter Vogel announced the company was developing a completely new keyboard synthesizer which would be launched at Winter NAMM 2013. The name change was the result of a disagreement between the owners of the Fairlight Instruments trademark and himself that resulted in Fairlight revoking his license to use the name. According to them, the use of the Fairlight name only extended to the new version of the CMI, now called the CMI-30A in reference to the instrument's 30th anniversary. Additionally, it extended to several other CMI hardware products planned, including a PC-based "Series IV." They claimed that because Vogel had also used the Fairlight name for the iOS CMI app as well, he had violated the terms of the agreement, and they were within their rights to terminate the agreement. Vogel said that he believed that the licensing agreement also extended to the app as well, but the Federal Court held the agreement had been validly terminated.

Vogel appealed to a full court of the Federal Court however the appeal was only partially successful, and Fairlight was required to pay 50% of Vogel's costs for the appeal.

The iOS app was temporarily withdrawn from the App Store, but subsequently returned. The CMI-30A, however, has remained out of production, and visitors to the Vogel Instruments website are greeted with a notification that sales of the CMI-30A have been suspended pending the resolution of litigation with Fairlight.

References

External links

 Company making the Fairlight CMI 30th Anniversary edition
 FairlightUS North America
 Fairlight Europe
 Candor Chasma – The main French resource about the Fairlight CMI (English version available)
 Image of Xynergi based studio
 Some of Peter Vogel's historical Fairlight images and music collection.
 http://www.fairlightau.com/Archive_Site/2006au2.html
 http://www.vintagesynth.com/
 Technical and historical infos: CMI hardware + software (site by K.M.I.)

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Legislative district of Pasay

The Legislative District of Pasay is the representation of the highly urbanized city of Pasay in the Congress of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress through its lone congressional district.

History
From 1907 to 1972, it was represented as part of the first district of Rizal, and was part of the representation of Region IV in the Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984. Pasay was granted its own representation in the Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, as well as in the restored House of Representatives since 1987.

Lone District
Population (2015): 416,522

See also
Legislative districts of Rizal

References

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The Theater Center

The Theater Center (known as The Snapple Theater Center until 2016) is a multi-theater entertainment complex located on the corner of 50th Street and Broadway in New York City.

History
The complex opened on May 22, 2006. It is a  state of the art entertainment center consisting of two theaters with a total seating capacity of 398, rehearsal studios, contemporary lobbies, WiFi, two bars with cabaret-style seating and two merchandise stands.

References
The Theater Center on Theatermania

External links

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Rubin Tyumen

Rubin Tyumen is an ice hockey team in Tyumen, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.

History
The club's direct predecessor was a team called Vodnik Tyumen. It participated in lower levels of the Soviet hockey championship representing a Tyumen shipbuilding plant. In 1972, its place was taken by a team called Rubin ("Ruby") that began to represent a Tyumen automobile plant. It participated in the second group of the USSR championship "A". That in the seventies for the first time declared themselves Alexander Kuzmin, Nikolai Kornoukhov, Yuri Samovarov, Gennady Samopalnikov, Yuri Perezhogin, Valery Pashnin, Yuri Konovalov.Trenirovali "Ruby" Evgeny Subbotin, Vladimir Shumkov, Yury Konovalov.

In 1995, it was reestablished as Gazovik Tyumen and changed its name back to Rubin Tyumen in 2010. In 2011, Rubin became the first VHL champions.

Achievements
VHL Bratina Cup: 2011
 Uralvagonzavod Cup: 2017
 IHL Championship (1): 1996

External links
Official site

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Naturalism (theatre)

Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interest in naturalism especially flourished with the French playwrights of the time, but the most successful example is Strindberg's play Miss Julie, which was written with the intention to abide by both his own particular version of naturalism, and also the version described by the French novelist and literary theoretician, Émile Zola.

Zola's term for naturalism is la nouvelle formule.  The three primary principles of naturalism (faire vrai, faire grand and faire simple) are first, that the play should be realistic, and the result of a careful study of human behaviour and psychology.  The characters should be flesh and blood; their motivations and actions should be grounded in their heredity and environment.  The presentation of a naturalistic play, in terms of the setting and performances, should be realistic and not flamboyant or theatrical.  The single setting of Miss Julie, for example, is a kitchen.  Second, the conflicts in the play should be issues of meaningful, life-altering significance — not small or petty.  And third, the play should be simple — not cluttered with complicated sub-plots or lengthy expositions.

Darwinian understandings pervade naturalistic plays, especially in the determining role of the environment on character, and as motivation for behavior.  Naturalism emphasizes everyday speech forms, plausibility in the writing,  (no ghosts, spirits or gods intervening in the human action), a choice of subjects that are contemporary and reasonable (no exotic, otherworldly or fantastic locales, nor historical or mythic time-periods); an extension of the social range of characters portrayed (not only the aristocrats of classical drama, to include bourgeois and working-class protagonists) and social conflicts; and a style of acting that attempts to recreate the impression of reality.

Naturalism was first advocated explicitly by Émile Zola in his 1880 essay entitled Naturalism on the Stage.

Influences
Naturalistic writers were influenced by the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin. They believed that one's heredity and social environment determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they really are, naturalism also attempts to determine "scientifically" the underlying forces (i.e. the environment or heredity) influencing the actions of its subjects. Naturalistic works are opposed to romanticism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. They often include uncouth or sordid subject matter; for example, Émile Zola's works had a frankness about sexuality along with a pervasive pessimism. Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, including poverty, racism, sex, prejudice, disease, prostitution, and filth. As a result, Naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for being too blunt.

Plays of naturalism
 Woyzeck (1837) by Georg Büchner
 A Bitter Fate (1859) by Aleksey Pisemsky
 A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
 The Power of Darkness (1886) by Leo Tolstoy
 The Father (1887) by August Strindberg
 Miss Julie (1888) by August Strindberg
 Creditors (1889) by August Strindberg
 The Weavers (1892) by Gerhart Hauptmann
 Drayman Henschel (1898) by Gerhart Hauptmann
 Uncle Vanya (1898) by Anton Chekhov
 The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov

See also
 Naturalism (art)
 Naturalism (literature)
 Philosophical naturalism
 Sociological naturalism
 Realism in the arts
 Realism in theatre

Notes

Further reading

 Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
 Counsell, Colin. 1996. Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Theatre. London and New York: Routledge. .
 Hagen, Uta. 1973. Respect for Acting. New York: Macmillan. .
 Hall, Peter. 2004. Shakespeare's Advice to the Players. London: Oberon. .
 Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou, eds. 1998. Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. .
 Rodenberg, Patsy. 2002. Speaking Shakespeare. London: Methuen. .
 Stanislavski, Konstantin. 1936. An Actor Prepares. London: Methuen, 1988. .
 Weimann, Robert. 1978. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. .
 Williams, Raymond. 1976. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana, 1988. .
 ---. 1989. The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. Ed. Tony Pinkney. London and New York: Verso. .
 ---. 1993. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. London: Hogarth. .

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Colpocrita

Colpocrita is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Colpocrita diptila, which is found in Brazil.

References

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Category:Monotypic moth genera
Category:Moths of Brazil


Historical simulation

Historical simulation may refer to:
 Historical simulation (finance), time series analysis
 Historical dynamics, realistic computer simulations of history
 Living history, historical re-creations, acting out history

See also
 Simulation (disambiguation)


Baron Holand

Baron Holand is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created twice, in 1314 and 1353. The first creation was extinguished by attainder and the second is in abeyance.

Barons Holand, First Creation (1314)

Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (1290–1328)
Robert de Holland, 2nd Baron Holand (1312–1373)
Maud Lovell, 3rd Baroness Holand (1356 – c. 1420)
William Lovell, 4th Baron Holand and 7th Baron Lovell (1397–1454)
John Lovell, 5th Baron Holand and 8th Baron Lovell (1432–1465)
Francis Lovell, 6th Baron Holand and 1st Viscount Lovell (1465–1487)

Barons Holand, Second Creation (1353)
See Earl of Kent, 1360 creation

References

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Demirci, Kurucaşile

Demirci is a village in the District of Kurucaşile, Bartın Province, Turkey. As of 2010, it had a population of 66  people.

References

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Ericameria lignumviridis

Ericameria lignumviridis, common name Greenwood's goldenbush or heath-goldenrod, is a plant species endemic to Sevier County, Utah. It grows in riparian areas alongside Urtica dioica, Salix laevigata and other riverbank plants.

Ericameria lignumviridis is a shrub up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall, with branching stems. Leaves are oblanceolate, up to 30 mm (1.2 inches) long. Flower heads are arranged in cymous fashion. Ray flowers and disc flowers are both yellow.

References

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Category:Flora of Utah
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Category:Sevier County, Utah


2014 Los Angeles Angels season

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's 2014 season was the franchise's 54th season and 49th in Anaheim (all of them at Angel Stadium).

The Angels achieved a historically significant milestone during the course of the season by improving their all-time winning percentage to above the .500 mark. The Angels won their 89th game of the season on September 9 to ensure that they would become the first post-1960 expansion team to finish a season with an all-time winning record since the Houston Astros at the conclusion of the 2006 MLB season.

They finished the season with the best record in all of Major League Baseball, but they were swept by the Kansas City Royals in the American League Division Series.

Standings

Season standings

American League West

American League Division Leaders

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Post-season

Divisional series

Postseason game log

Roster

Farm system

See also
Los Angeles Angels
Angel Stadium

References

External links
2014 Los Angeles Angels Official Site
2014 Los Angeles Angels season at Baseball Reference

Category:Los Angeles Angels seasons
Los Angeles Angels
Los Angeles Angels
Category:American League West champion seasons


E. L. "Shorty" Fuller

E. L. "Shorty" Fuller was a photographer in Boise during the 1930s and 1940s. A collection of his negatives, scrapbooks and prints reside at the Idaho State Historical Society. Although Fuller was a freelance photographer, he began at the Associated Press and continued doing photography with the Idaho Statesman from 1937-1942. His photographs document street scenes, parades, and daily life in Boise at that time.

References

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Riems

Riems is an island in the southwestern part of the Bay of Greifswald, a broad, shallow embayment of the Baltic Sea between the German mainland and the island of Rügen.  Riems belongs administratively to the urban district of Greifswald, but is an exclave.  Riemserort, is municipally part of Riems, but lies opposite the island on the mainland.

Geography

The island of Riems measures about 1,250 metres from east to west, and is about 300 metres across at its widest point.  Since the early 1970s, it has been connected to the mainland by a 500m long causeway.  It has, therefore, been an artificial peninsula for more than 30 years.  Before the causeway, a cable car used to transport goods to the mainland. The cable car has now gone, but the ruins of its pylon foundations are still visible. Because the lack of fresh water to the Gristower Wiek resulted in oxygen depletion in the shallow bay, in the autumn of 2007 a 30-metre-long section of the causeway to the island was opened and bridged to allow fresh water to pass once more.

Fauna
Riems is an important resting and moulting area for waterbirds. The Fahrenbrink Peninsula Nature Reserve () is a recognized reserve. Approximately 15 percent of the northern European waterfowl population spend their winter in the area of the Bay of Greifswald and the Strelasund.  It has therefore been declared a European bird reserve.

History
Riems has been inhabited since prehistoric times as Stone Age and Slavic archaeological finds demonstrate.  The island later belonged, together with the adjacent village of Gristow, to the family of Dotenberg. Between 1375 and 1382, Riems and Gristow became the possession of the city of Greifswald, which leased the then uninhabited island out as pasture land.  After 1820, the city built a homestead but sold it back to its previous tenant in 1883.

Riems is home to the oldest virological research institution in the world, now called the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, which was built by Friedrich Loeffler in 1910. Loeffler, a professor at the University of Greifswald, ran filtration tests in 1898 and found that the dangerous foot-and-mouth disease was not a bacterium, but a previously unknown class he called "the smallest of all organisms".  He had determined it to be a virus. After investigations showed that Loeffler had inadvertently infected the whole region of Greifswald with foot-and-mouth disease he moved to the safer location of his institute on the island of Riems in 1910.

The Third Reich used the institute in Riems to research bioweapons.

While East Germany controlled Riems approximately 800 people were working on vaccine research and development, today there are less than half that number.  The population on the island is quite small.  There are only 13 houses, five one-or two-family homes and eight apartment buildings, with a total of 62 residential units.

Since 1997, the research complex is the headquarters of the Riemser Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI).  The duties of the FLI include research on animal diseases, such as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, foot-and-mouth disease and swine fever, and the development of preventive and protective measures against it, especially veterinary vaccines.  As of 2006, Riems was working on a vaccine for the avian flu.  By 2010, the Institute was to reduce their current locations Tübingen, Wusterhausen and Jena to just Jena and Riems. The total budget for the expansion work is some 150 million €. The construction needed to be handled carefully because of the historically rich old buildings.

The former production plant for animal vaccines was successfully privatized as Riemser Arzneimittel AG.  It has about 150 employees.

After the 1990s the populated area in the western part of the island was freely accessible for some years. However, because of the renewed research work with viruses the island is again closed to the public. Quarantine stables and laboratories security levels are level 4. This means employees and visitors to the complex must change their clothes, and shower, when entering and exiting.

See also
 Erich Traub
 Kurt Blome

References

External links
 Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
 http://www.wassersport-im-bodden.de/

Category:Bay of Greifswald
Category:German islands in the Baltic
Category:Islands of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Category:Pomerania


PCFC

PCFC may refer to:

 Polokwane City F.C.
Pontefract Collieries F.C.
Prescot Cables F.C.
Protonic ceramic fuel cell


Kpodégbé Djigla

Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla is the 16th king of the Fon State of Allada in central Benin. He rose to the throne on December 2, 1992 and is the first king of the kingdom since the death of King Gi-gla I in 1909. Until 2016 the king of Allada served as the president of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin. His successor to the presidency is Sébastien Ajavon.

See also
List of rulers of the Fon state of Alada
List of current constituent African monarchs

References

Category:21st-century Beninese people
Category:Obas of Benin
Category:Beninese Ahmadis


Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo  were a British new wave band, best known for their 1983 hit single "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and the Top 10 in numerous other countries.

History

Beginnings (1978–1982)
Formed in Leighton Buzzard in 1978, the band were originally known as Art Nouveau, a four-piece avant-garde group, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards, and Jeremy "Jez" Strode on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called "The Fear Machine". The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band was unable to get a record deal.

In 1981, they advertised for a new lead singer, ultimately auditioning and choosing Christopher Hamill, who then went under the stage name Limahl (an anagram of his surname). The name of the group was then changed to Kajagoogoo, coined phonetically from a baby's first sounds, 'Ga Ga Goo Goo'.

Success and decline (1982–1985)
The band signed with EMI Records in July 1982 after Limahl, while working as a waiter at London's Embassy Club, had met Nick Rhodes of the group Duran Duran. Rhodes proceeded to co-produce the band's first single, "Too Shy" with Duran Duran's EMI producer Colin Thurston. The single was released on 10 January 1983 and went on to top the UK Singles Chart (before any of Duran Duran's singles had done so, Rhodes lightheartedly noted).

Follow-up singles "Ooh to Be Aah" and "Hang on Now" also both reached the UK Top 20, and the group's debut album White Feathers reached No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart. After being the support act for the Birmingham band Fashion in late 1982, Kajagoogoo embarked on their own headlining White Feathers tour in Spring 1983 (with the show of 31 May at the London Hammersmith Odeon being filmed and released on home video).

As success came, tensions began to rise in the band, which eventually culminated in Limahl being fired by the other band members in mid-1983 and Nick Beggs then taking over as lead singer. Limahl accused the others of being envious of him and said "I've been betrayed!" and "I was sacked for making them a success." However, the other band members went on record as saying that Limahl was an egomaniac and had become increasingly difficult to work with. Soon after Limahl's departure, Beggs commented that "It was a business decision and not one we took lightly. He wanted the band to go in a different direction to the rest of us. Eventually, we realised we were on a different planet to Limahl." Beggs also stated that the band harboured no ill-will towards Limahl, and blamed the press for sensationalising the matter. Guitarist Steve Askew commented "At first ... we did everything possible to make Limahl feel like part of the furniture but, you know, his lifestyle is so different from ours. We're very normal people whereas Limahl likes the bright lights."

The first single by the new four-piece Kajagoogoo, "Big Apple", was released in September 1983 and reached the UK Top Ten. Their next single, "The Lion's Mouth", was released in February 1984 and made the UK Top 30, but after that public interest waned and their next single "Turn Your Back On Me" failed to make the Top 40. The subsequent new album, Islands, was also a commercial disappointment, peaking at No. 35 in the UK.

In the US, the band first adopted the Kaja moniker at this time, and a different edition of the Islands album was released there as Extra Play, peaking at No. 185 on the Billboard charts. However, the single "Turn Your Back on Me" did well on the US Dance Charts peaking at No. 2 for two weeks. Limahl, meanwhile, went on to equally brief success as a solo artist.

Strode then left the band and, in an attempt to gain some credibility and to lose their bubblegum image, the remaining three members relaunched as Kaja in the UK in 1985. Following the name change, the band released the single "Shouldn't Do That" (UK No. 63) in August 1985. The song was featured on their third album, Crazy People's Right to Speak, but this too was unsuccessful. In December 1985, the band split up.

Reunion (2003–2011)
The original five-piece line-up of the band briefly joined forces again on VH1's Bands Reunited in 2003. Following the much publicised VH1 reunion, the original group received many offers and incentives to continue to play together, but disagreements continued between the band members and the reunion was short-lived; with Limahl and Strode both departing the band again shortly thereafter, ultimately leading to the group dissolving the following year. The group felt that the VH1 feature was unfairly edited to portray simplified reasons as to why Limahl was fired and Strode had left the band in the 1980s.

In 2007, Nick Beggs, Steve Askew, and Stuart Neale decided to continue the Kajagoogoo reunion, releasing the single "Rocket Boy" on 24 June 2007. The single received airplay on Steve Wright's BBC Radio 2 show in the UK, and a new album, Gone to the Moon, was scheduled for release on the Spectra Records label later on that year. However, the album was postponed and in February 2008, the three Kajagoogoo members announced plans to reunite with original members singer Limahl and drummer Jez Strode. This was due in part to Bradley Snelling, the organiser of the Retrofest event and the band's new manager. Snelling had succeeded in reuniting the band, arranging their first photo shoot together in 25 years.

The band wrote on their official site that "The atmosphere was relaxed, jovial and, after 25 years, Kajagoogoo, in their original five-piece line-up are back". Since reforming, the band have written new material, released an EP, and have extensively toured throughout Europe (with the first date taking place in Denmark on 14 June 2008, at Esbjerg Rock Festival, where they performed the 16 tracks off the remastered edition of Islands, including encores and B-sides, such as "Monochromatic" or "The Garden"). Their Gone to the Moon album, recorded as a three-piece outfit prior to the full reunion, was made available via the live shows and "Kajashop", the band's online store.

In August 2009 and in addition to the reunion tour commitments, Kajagoogoo again took to the stage to headline the 'Hobble on The Cobbles' all day music event in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. This was followed in September by a new compilation CD/DVD, released by the band's original label EMI Records, called Too Shy – The Best of Kajagoogoo & Limahl. It featured two newly recorded tracks, plus a brand new promotional video for "Space Cadet", one of the new recordings. Quick to capitalise on the renewed interest in the band, EMI released the "White Feathers (Manhattan Clique Remixes) EP" in December 2009.

In December 2009, Kajagoogoo performed their last remaining UK concert with a return to The Stables venue in Wavendon, Milton Keynes. In March 2010, dPulse Recordings released the Kajagoogoo track "First Girl on Mars" as a part of the Who Made Your Music? benefit CD, released to raise funds and bring awareness to the rights of marginalised women. On Saturday 17 July 2010, Kajagoogoo performed at the Midland Music Festival in Tamworth, and later performed at the Rewind Festival in Henley-on-Thames in August. Continuing their renewed interest in the Kajagoogoo back catalogue, EMI Records released So80s Presents Kajagoogoo as a part of the So Eighties series curated by Blank & Jones. The album contains extended mixes of classic Kajagoogoo tracks and was released on CD and digital download format. Also made available digitally in April 2011, Kajagoogoo's Gone to the Moon album was given a digital release via iTunes.

In June 2011, Kajagoogoo released their first single as a five piece since 1983. The track, "Death Defying Headlines", was released as a digital single as both a single edit and an extended dance remix.

In March 2017, bassist Nick Beggs said that Kajagoogoo was no longer active, stating "We did something about nine years ago, and that was good. It was almost like a kind of revisiting of it for old time’s sake and I felt that we did quite a lot of good with that. But in terms of moving forward, there’s no point in revisiting that project."

In an interview with Cherry Red TV in 2018, Beggs talked about the reunion, stating "...we reformed and we toured and we recorded an EP and remastered the back catalogue...and at that point I felt that we had done it all. It was a nice way to tie it up, put a bow on it and leave it alone and move on."

Members
Steve Askew – guitars, programming, backing vocals (1978–1985, 2003–2004, 2007–2011)
Nick Beggs – bass guitar, Chapman Stick, guitars, keyboards, programming, percussion, backing vocals (1978–1985, 2003–2004, 2007–2011), lead vocals (1978–1982, 1983–1985, 2003–2004, 2007–2011)
Stuart Neale – keyboards, programming, piano, backing vocals (1978–1985, 2003–2004, 2007–2011)
Jez Strode – acoustic and electronic drums, percussion (1978–1984, 2003, 2008–2011)
Limahl (Chris Hamill) – lead vocals (1982–1983, 2003, 2008–2011)

Discography

Studio albums
White Feathers (1983)
Islands (1984)
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak  (1985) as Kaja
Gone to the Moon (2008)

References

Bibliography
 Paul Gambaccini (1983), Kajagoogoo

External links
 The Official Kajagoogoo Website

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Frederick (song)

"Frederick" is a song written by Patti Smith, and released as lead single from Patti Smith Group 1979 album Wave. The song is dedicated to Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitar player of the Detroit band MC5 and Smith's future husband.

The melody of "Frederick" is a homage to Bruce Springsteen's live arrangement of "Prove It All Night" from the then-recent Darkness Tour of 1978.

Covers

The song was covered by Sandie Shaw in 1986. The B-side was entitled "Go Johnny Go", and had been written by Shaw as a tribute to Johnny Marr.

Charts
Patti Smith Group

Notes

External links
 Frederick by Patti Smith Group at Discogs

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Islay District

Islay District is one of six districts of the province Islay in Peru.

References


They Flee from Me

"They flee from me" is a poem written by Thomas Wyatt. It is written in rhyme royal and was included in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse.
The poem has been described as possibly autobiographical, and referring to any one of Wyatt's affairs with high-born women of the court of Henry VIII, perhaps with Anne Boleyn.

The poem is transmitted in several differing versions: in the Egerton manuscript, in the Devonshire ms. beneath the line "Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus" (from Horace's Ode III 26) and in print in Tottel's Miscellany (1557) under the title "The louer sheweth how he is forsaken of such as he somtime enioyed".

References

External links
 Poetry Intensive with Stephen Greenblattfrom poetry.harvard.edu
 discussion with Allen Ginsberg

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Category:Early Modern English literature


Vladimirovac

Vladimirovac () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Alibunar municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 4,111 people (2002 census).

Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Vladimirovac or Владимировац; in Romanian as Pătrovăsâla or/also spelled "Petrovăsâla;" in German as Petersdorf; and in Hungarian as Petre.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)
Serbs = 2,259 (54,95%)
Romanians = 1,424 (34.63%)
Roma = 110 (2.67%)
others.

Historical population

Sites
The present church was built from 1859 to 1863; on 8 December 1894. a railway station for rail Vršac - Kovin was opened; and on 26 August 1896, the Pančevo was opened as well.

Notable people
Dejan Dražić, footballer
Baba Anujka, serial killer

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

Gallery

External links

Official page of Vladimirovac
Canadian Webpage

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Category:Populated places in Serbian Banat
Category:Alibunar


Blood Wars

Blood Wars can refer to:
Underworld: Blood Wars
 Blood Wars (card game)
 Blood Wars (video game)

See also

 Blood War


John Grant (pipe-major)

John Grant   (11 August 1876 – 25 April 1961) was an amateur aficionado of the Great Highland bagpipe who, for over fifty years, composed piobaireachd and Ceòl Beag for members of the British Royal Family, important noblemen and women, and contemporary statesmen; wrote and published books on the Great Highland Bagpipe and its music; and taught students under the auspices of the [Royal] Scottish Piper's Society.

Early life
John Grant was the sixth child and fourth son of George Grant and Eliza (Elisabeth) Roy Grant, who resided in "The Bauds" on a hillside outside of the settlement of Kellas, near Dallas and Elgin, Scotland. At 17 years of age John left the farm for Elgin in order to begin a career in law. Within six months he obtained a position as a law clerk with Messrs. Stewart and McIsaac, Solicitors. Needing a hobby to occupy his leisure hours, he took up bagpiping, walking eleven miles one way twice a week to Gordon Castle in order to study with renowned Pipe-Major Ronald MacKenzie. By the summer of 1898, after only two years of study, Grant had become accomplished enough on the bagpipes to win the gold medal in a competition that fielded thirty-three entrants. In late August, Ronald MacKenzie recommended Grant to William Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray, Laird of Abercairny (Crieff), who was seeking a full-time family piper for the Abercairny Estate. Grant accepted the position, serving in the post from October 1898 until May 1902.

The Royal Collection of Piobaireachd
Grant left the employ of the Laird in May 1902 in order to resume work in the legal profession.  He moved to Edinburgh, and became clerk to his old supervisor from Messrs. Stewart and McIsaacs, Mr. A.S. Stoddart, Leith. Shortly thereafter he took up employment as a cash clerk, overseeing the entire payroll operation of the North British Rubber Company, Edinburgh.   Grant married Mary Jane Harper (26 October 1869 – 13 December 1963) at Auchterless on 12 June 1903. The couple set up housekeeping for a time with John's spinster sisters at 5 Athole Place, then moved into their own apartment at 21 Murieston Crescent.

Perhaps as a requirement for his employment as a legal clerk, Grant became skilled in calligraphy. His bagpipe teacher, Ronald MacKenzie, had impressed upon Grant early on in his tutelage the importance of copying and preserving ancient piobaireachd  and Grant, as early as 1900, began compiling manuscripts of the "classical music of the bagpipe," for disseminating among those who were interested in them. Several such collections made their ways into the hands of members of the Highland Society of London and the newly-formed Piobaireachd Society.  Because of the praise these organizations lavished on Grant for his exquisite workmanship, he decided to try his own hand at piobaireachd composition. Combining his talent for calligraphy with his knowledge of piobaireachd, on 20 July 1906 he composed "His Most Excellent Majesty King Edward VII's Salute," then prepared it as a beautifully-illuminated presentation folio to lay before the King. Edward VII graciously accepted the tune dedicated to him, thereby, in essence, granting John Grant license to do the same for others among the Royal Family, the nobility, and those of renown whom he deemed worthy of such an honor. By September 1907 Grant had composed, prepared in illuminated manuscript, and sent for acceptance, five more "royal" piobaireachds, all of which were gratefully accepted, either by those to whom they were dedicated, or a representative. In May 1908, in order to make them available to the public, he published—at his own expense--The Royal Collection of Piobaireachd: Besides the "Salute" written in honor of King Edward VII, the work included "His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught's Salute" (i.e., Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn) "Lament For Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,", "His Grace The Duke of Fife's Salute," "Lord Archibald Campbell's Salute," and "The Piobaireachd Society's Salute."  The work had over 160 subscribers, including those to whom the tunes were dedicated, other royals, and individuals from all walks of life, including such personages as Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal.

Grant considered the first edition so successful he published a second in March 1911, adding fifteen more tunes to the six of the first edition.  The additional tunes, in chronological order of composition, were:

Piobaireachd: Its Origin and Construction

Following successful publications of both editions of The Royal Collection of Piobaireachd, Grant decided to tackle the genre in a more comprehensive manner. The result was a 183-page volume entitled Piobaireachd: Its Origin and Construction.  published at the author's expense by Aird & Coghill, Limited, Glasgow sometime in August, 1915. Known also by its Gaelic title Tus is Alt à Chiuil-Mhoir, Piobaireachd: Its Origin and Construction (hereafter POC) had an impressive list of patrons and subscribers, including Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary of Teck, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra of Denmark, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Edward VIII, various other Royals, Nobles, and members of High Society, and—by no means least—The Highland Society of London.
The book received good reviews from Grant's contemporaries. Modern reviews, however, tend to be mixed. In his “Introduction” to the 1974 reprint of The Pipes of War, referencing POC, Major General Frank Richardson wrote:

This book cannot in all honesty be recommended today.  Some useful information for those who want to know about our instrument, its music and some Highland traditions and legends can be found there, but its good points are embedded in much indigestible matter, like currants in what our generation of Servicemen called a ‘Nafty cake.’

On the other hand, Pipe-Major Roger Huth (The Surrey Pipe Band), Vice President of the Scottish Piping Society of London, former member of the Scots Guards, and an esteemed piper, had much to praise about the book in a 2006 review:

It is soon apparent when reading through the pages of his book, that John Grant was also a man of considerable intellect. His knowledge appears to be no shallow pool as he explains to his reader the poetry of Piobaireachd as well as how the MacCrimmon Clan and others through the years constructed their compositions. He also explains the theory of music as it appertains to the Scottish Bagpipe and I strongly suspect that those who created their own Bagpipe Schools during the 20th Century, including the Army at Edinburgh Castle, leant on this book heavily.

Despite Grant's tendency to be overly Romantic in his prose, the book remains a classic.  The first of its kind, it still remains the largest compendium of articles on topics relating to the "National" music of Scotland in bagpipe literature.

References

External links

 Piobaireachd: Its Origin and Construction

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G Sides

G Sides is a B-sides collection by Gorillaz from their first studio album session, Gorillaz and the Tomorrow Comes Today EP. The compilation was originally released only in Japan in December 2001. The US edition, with a slightly different track listing, followed in February 2002. The European version, released in March 2002, features the original Japanese track listing. The Japanese and US editions are different because the songs "Dracula" and "Left Hand Suzuki Method" are included on the standard US edition of Gorillaz as bonus tracks. The Brazilian limited edition release incorporates all of the tracks from both the Japanese and US versions of the album. Most versions have the same cover, featuring Noodle holding a skeleton doll in her hand, named "Bonsey", although some—notably the Japanese version—have her holding a Godzilla figurine instead. On the top of the sleeve, the title is written in katakana: ジー サイズ (Jī Saizu). G Sides reached number 65 on the UK Albums Chart and number 84 on the US Billboard 200.

"The Sounder" first appeared on the French limited edition bonus disc of Gorillaz and is 6:16 in length. On this album and the "Rock the House" single, it is edited to 4:29.

Track listings
All songs written and composed by Gorillaz.

Song origins
 "19-2000" (Soulchild remix), "19-2000" (The Wiseguys House of Wisdom remix), "Hip Albatross" and "Left Hand Suzuki Method" are B-sides of "19-2000".
 "Latin Simone" (English version) and "12D3" are B-sides of the Tomorrow Comes Today 2000 EP.
 "The Sounder", "Faust", "Ghost Train" and "Rock the House" (radio edit) are B-sides of "Rock the House".
 "Clint Eastwood" (Phi Life Cypher version) and "Dracula" are B-sides of "Clint Eastwood".

Chart positions

Release history

Samples
The song "Hip Albatross" features sound clips from George A. Romero's horror films Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).
"Left Hand Suzuki Method" features a sample from "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters.
"Ghost Train" contains a sample from The Human League's song "Sound of the Crowd".
The song "Dracula" uses sound clips from the Bugs Bunny (Merrie Melodies) cartoon Transylvania 6-5000.

Certifications and sales

References

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Millerite

Millerite is a nickel sulfide mineral, NiS. It is brassy in colour and has an acicular habit, often forming radiating masses and furry aggregates. It can be distinguished from pentlandite by crystal habit, its duller colour, and general lack of association with pyrite or pyrrhotite.

Paragenesis
Millerite is a common metamorphic mineral replacing pentlandite within serpentinite ultramafics. It is formed in this way by removal of sulfur from pentlandite or other nickeliferous sulfide minerals during metamorphism or metasomatism.

Millerite is also formed from sulfur poor olivine cumulates by nucleation. Millerite is thought to form from sulfur and nickel which exist in pristine olivine in trace amounts, and which are driven out of the olivine during metamorphic processes. Magmatic olivine generally has up to ~4000 ppm Ni and up to 2500 ppm S within the crystal lattice, as contaminants and substituting for other transition metals with similar ionic radii (Fe2+ and Mn2+).

During metamorphism, sulfur and nickel within the olivine lattice are reconstituted into metamorphic sulfide minerals, chiefly millerite, during serpentinization and talc carbonate alteration. When metamorphic olivine is produced, the propensity for this mineral to resorb sulfur, and for the sulfur to be removed via the concomitant loss of volatiles from the serpentinite, tends to lower sulfur fugacity.

This forms disseminated needle like millerite crystals dispersed throughout the rock mass.

Millerite may be associated with heazlewoodite and is considered a transitional stage in the metamorphic production of heazlewoodite via the above process.

Economic importance
Millerite, when found in enough concentration, is a very important ore of nickel because, for its mass as a sulfide mineral, it contains a higher percentage of nickel than pentlandite. This means that, for every percent of millerite, an ore contains more nickel than an equivalent percentage of pentlandite sulfide.

Millerite forms an important ore constituent of the Silver Swan, Wannaway, Cliffs, Honeymoon Well, Yakabindie and Mt Keith (MKD5) orebodies. It is an accessory mineral associated with nickel laterite deposits in New Caledonia.

Occurrence

Millerite is found as a metamorphic replacement of pentlandite within the Silver Swan nickel deposit, Western Australia, and throughout the many ultramafic serpentinite bodies of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, generally as a replacement of metamorphosed pentlandite. There is one known occurrence of millerite in South Africa, near Pafuri in the Transvaal. The deposit has never been commercially mined.

It is commonly found as radiating clusters of acicular needle-like crystals in cavities in sulfide rich limestone and dolomite or in geodes. It is also found in nickel-iron meteorites, such as CK carbonaceous chondrites.

Millerite was discovered by Wilhelm Haidinger in 1845 in the coal mines of Wales. It was named for British mineralogist William Hallowes Miller. The mineral is quite rare in specimen form, and the most common source of the mineral is in the Halls Gap area of Lincoln County, Kentucky in the United States.

See also
 List of minerals
 List of minerals named after people
 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania

References

External links

Mineral galleries
Wisconsin minerals
University of Kentucky, Kentucky Geological Survey, Sulfide Minerals

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Maria Pellegrina Amoretti

Maria Pellegrina Amoretti (17561787), was an Italian lawyer. She is referred to as the first woman to graduate in law in Italy, and the third woman to earn a degree.

Biography
When Amoretti was 20 (in 1777), she became a Doctor of Laws, at the University of Pavia, where Columbus was educated. She also received a degree in philosophy from the University.

Amoretti initially applied to the University of Turin, but was rejected because she was a woman, and her graduation from the University of Pavia in 1777 is considered by historian Giulio Natali to be the “most famous graduation of the eighteenth century.”

Though Amoretti died at the age of thirty, she left a manuscript on dowry laws, specifically on marriage in Roman law, which was published posthumously in 1788 by a relative, Carlo Amoretti.

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Haters (novel)

Haters is the 2006 debut young adult novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.

Plot summary
Haters follows the character of Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, also known as Paski, as she tries to deal with extreme changes in her life. As a result of her father's comic strip getting optioned for a movie, Paski and her father move to California. Once there, Paski finds herself in a school where materialism and "haters" control the social circles. Paski begins to develop feelings for the handsome Chris Cabrera, who happens to be dating Jessica Nguyen, the resident mean girl.  Paski soon finds herself dealing with more problems than Jessica, as she also finds that she has the psychic "gift" of premonition and is predicting Jessica having a terrible accident while participating in a motorcycle competition.

Reception
Critical reception for Haters has been mostly positive, with Teenreads calling it a "charming, dishy chick lit with a side of supernatural". Booklist wrote that Haters was "shopworn" with "heavy contrivances", but that readers would be won over by the "hilarious, likable, resilient Paski". The School Library Journal stated that "Paski's first-person narrative is lively and honest". Kirkus Reviews wrote that the book "has the potential to reach a wide audience, although its length will discourage many reluctant readers who might otherwise enjoy it". Publishers Weekly criticized the book's ending, saying it "fulfilled desires rather than real life" but that "readers will likely take delight in seeing the good guys and the bad guys get exactly what they deserve".

Controversy
Haters received some controversy at Aliso Niguel High when it was revealed that one of the characters in the book (a teacher accused of wanting to sleep with his students) and an educator at school had nearly identical names. Valdes-Rodriguez responded, stating that the similarity between the names of the character and the teacher was purely coincidental and that she had used the school as a setting due to her familiarity with the area, having attended the school. Students and faculty at the school also voiced concerns over the depicting the students as "diverse in ethnicity but ... alike in their cruelty" and the school as a location where "money is everything and the Haters rule".

References

External links
Official author page

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2012 UK Open Qualifier 8

The 2012 UK Open Qualifier 8 was the last of eight 2012 UK Open Darts Qualifiers which was held at the NIA Community Hall in Birmingham on Sunday 6 May.

Prize Money

Draw

References

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Santa's Little Helper (film)

Santa's Little Helper is an American comedy film starring The Miz, Paige, AnnaLynne McCord, and Maryse Ouellet. The film was directed by Gil Junger. The film was released direct-to-DVD and digital on November 17, 2015.

Plot
Dax (The Miz) is a greedy, materialistic corporate hatchet-man, who we first see while closing down a community youth center just days before Christmas. Dax is subsequently fired in a corporate powerplay and, as he has been living beyond his means, loses his girlfriend, car and will soon be evicted from his house.

Meanwhile, at the North Pole, Santa Claus (Eric Keenleyside) is looking to replace Santa's Little Helper, the second-in-command. Eleanor (Paige), the daughter of the outgoing Ho-Ho-Ho believes the job should be hers, but Santa, believing the North Pole could use a human influence, tasks Billie (AnnaLynne McCord) with reviewing Dax as a possible candidate. Billie is a kindly elf who is shunned by many of her elfin brethren because of a genetic defect that gives her round ears.

Billie gives Dax a series of difficult and embarrassing tasks to test his character, occasionally bailing him out with North Pole magic, while not revealing that it is Santa who is looking to hire him. Dax starts poorly but begins to soften during the course of the trials while also developing a mutual attraction to Billie. After Dax helps a mugging victim retrieve a precious ring, Billie declares him fit for the position.

Dax does not believe Billie's claim to work for Santa, so Santa himself arrives at Dax's home to convince him to take the job. A flashback reveals Dax had once been optimistic and friendly until he was framed for stealing money from the youth center he shut down in the film's opening.

Dax accepts the position of Santa's Little Helper, but Eleanor, using an obscure North Pole law, challenges him to the position with the winner being decided through a rigorous obstacle course. Dax loses and Eleanor is named Santa's Little Helper.

Dax returns home, having stolen a magic bell that can make wishes come true and plans to use it to save the Youth Center. Santa intercedes and halts his attempts at using magic, so Dax gives a rousing speech to rally the community and save the Youth Center from a wrecking ball and capture the director who really stole the money from it. Santa places Eleanor on the naughty list for her poor sportsmanship during the competition, thus disqualifying her from the position, and reveals it was Billie he was testing for the position of Santa's Little Helper all along. Dax and Billie then share a passionate kiss under a magical snowfall.

Cast
 The Miz as Dax
 AnnaLynne McCord as Billie
 Paige as Eleanor
 Eric Keenleyside as Santa Claus
 Maryse Ouelett Mizanin as Melody
 Peter Kelamis as Ezra Fells
 Nicholas Holmes as Kid #2
 Dylan Schmid as Marcus
 Kathryn Kirkpatrick as Mrs. Claus
 Geoff Gustafson as Fitz
 Tom McLaren as Harvey
 Karen Holness as Miriam
 Ben Wilkinson as Lane
 Mitchell Kummen as Young Dax
 Bruce Blain as Biker #1
 Patrick Sparling as Biker
 John Stewart as Tow Truck Operator
 Anthony Shudra as Birthday Boy
 Austin Abell as Kid #1
 Hector Johnson as Security Guard
 Lucas Rojen as Tommy
 Joshua Morettin as Mike

References

External links

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Abd-Ya-Layl ibn Amr

Abd-Ya-Layl ibn Amr () of the Banu Thaqif tribe was one of the chieftains of the city of Ta'if, a city hostile to Islam. However, in 631 or 632, he was included in a delegation that resulted in his tribe accepting Islam.

See also
Sahaba

External links
The Year of Deputations and Abu Bakr's Leadership of the Pilgrimage, Witness-Pioneer.org
March on Tabook, Inter-Islam.org

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John A. Daniel

John A. Daniel (c.1931-2011) (aka John Daniels) was magician and a collector and dealer of magician memorabilia, Baranger Motion machines, vintage electric trains, toys, antique carousels and other collectibles.

Magician

What started as a hobby at age nine, combined with his skills developed in his Dad’s business (Lee & Daniel Steel Fabricators), quickly progressed to working in a factory that manufactured some illusions and tricks for Harry Houdini as well as many other magicians. As a very young magician John met Bess Houdini who was stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini.

John a toured with school assembly shows and the southwestern states with a midnight spook show, "Dr. Doom's Dungeon of Death," and "Daniel's Magic Circus." His hobby was antique magic collecting.

In 1952 he opened "Daniel's Magic Den" in Pasadena and put out several items under the "Trickmasters" label.

From 1953 to 1955, he served in the Artillery and was over-seas for 18 months. He did do a few shows, and while doing one in Berlin, he met Irene Stolz (the future Irene Larsen). He eventually brought her back to the United States in 1957 as his magician's assistant and they were married.

He joined forces with Carl Owen in 1958 and eventually purchased Owen Magic in 1960.  Daniel was known for his development work “thin model” of sawing a woman in half.

After divorcing Irene, he married Catherine Cynthia Birch (Miss Virginia 1960, Miss America 1961 contestant) who had become his magician's assistant.

Baranger motion displays

Baranger Motion machines or "Baranger Motions" were store-window mechanical animated advertising displays, rented to jewelers, and produced from 1925 to 1959 by the Baranger Company of South Pasadena, California USA. In 1978, the Baranger Studios building and stock of animated displays were bought by Burton A. Burton. John was put in charge of repairing motions and selling duplicates. John became a collector of them. 1986 Daniel sold his collection of 90 motions to Teruhisa Kitahara.  John Daniel subsequently bought the remaining stock of motions from Burton A. Burton.  In 1993, Daniel published a 60 minute VHS video showing 122 motions and in 2001, Daniel published a book showing images of all the motions plus a history of the business.

Model trains and other collecting

John was a builder and dealer vintage electric trains, toys, antique carousels and other collectibles.  John was the president of the T.T.O.S. (Toy Train Operators Society). Daniel collected magic props, posters and tricks including a large collection of Dante the Magician.

Awards

 “Best Stage Performer Award, The Academy of Magical Arts, (1969)
 Lifetime Achievement Fellowship, The Academy of Magical Arts (2011)
 John Daniel AMA Lifetime Achievement Award video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQNc4JWSCM

References

Genii (magazine) 1954 May Vol. 18, Number 9 Cover Story
Genii (magazine) John Daniel's Shazzam, Vol. 34, Number 8 April 1970 pp 357–36 John & Cathy Daniel Molecular Disorganizer Routine1970 Genii Magician Magazine -John & Cathy Daniel Molecular Disorganizer Routine
Genii (magazine) Keeping the Hearth Warm, August 1989
 Form in Geni Magazine on death
 Magic (magazine) My Two Dads, Dante Larsen, June 1992
 Magician of the Month, MUM, NOVEMBER, 1960

 Women in Boxes (2007) is a feature-length documentary film featuring many of the magic world's most famous assistants and planned for theatrical release. It was made by Blaire Baron-Larsen (John Daniel's daughter-in-law)), Harry Pallenberg, Phil Noyes and Dante Larsen (John Daniel's son)
 Baranger: Window displays in motion: dramatizing the jewel John A. Daniel, Zon International Pub. Co,, 2001
 Tribute to John Daniel, David Otth, The Southwestern Limited, May-June 2012,  T.T.O.S. (Toy Train Operators Society)
  Magic Man John Daniel:Master of Illusion, Justin Pinchot, The Quarterly, July 2009

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Woodson, Oregon

Woodson is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 30 seven miles west of Clatskanie and three miles east of Westport, on Westport Slough, a tributary of the Columbia River. In December 2007, the debris overflow from the flooding of Eilersten Creek caused evacuations and mud cover on Woodson Road north of the highway.

Woodson was named for Woods Landing on Westport Slough, which in turn was named a man whose surname was Wood. He would haul logs to the area and dump them into the slough, where they were made into rafts for transportation to sawmills downriver.

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Ngbee language

Ngbee is an extinct Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. Guthrie assigned to the Nyali cluster, Ethnologue leaves it unclassified, and Glottolog places it near the Ngendan languages.

References

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Seeing Stars (TV series)

Seeing Stars was an Australian television variety series which aired live from 1957 to 1959 on Melbourne station ABV-2 (it is not known if it was also telerecorded for broadcast in Sydney). The series featured a mix of singers, dancers, vocal groups, and instrumental groups. Some episodes were "themed", for example 27 April 1959 episode featured a calypso theme while 16 September 1957 featured a French night club setting. The final episode aired 18 May 1959.

An episode of this series may be held by the National Archives of Australia (per a search of their website).

References

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Bilsk

Bilsk may refer to

Populated places
 Bilsk, Kotelva Raion, a village in Kotelva Raion, Poltava Oblast
 Bilsk, Rokytne Raion, a village in Rokytne Raion, Rivne Oblast


Randy David

Randolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, sociologist, and public intellectual. He is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, as well as being a member of the board of advisor of ABS-CBN Corporation.

Biography
Randy David hails from Pampanga and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Sociology, from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1965. He also pursued doctoral studies at the University of Manchester, though he opted not to complete them and chose instead to remain as socialist liberal in the Philippines during the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos.

A longtime professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of the Philippines Diliman, David first came into widespread prominence in 1986, when he accepted an offer by the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation to host a public affairs talk show on IBC-13. The show, named Truth Forum, was notable as the only public affairs talk show during its time that was conducted in Filipino, rather than English. David later joined the newly re-established Associated Broadcasting Company as a newscaster and the host of a new talk show, Public Life with Randy David. After leaving the network in 1995, David hosted Public Life for GMA Network, and until 2003, Off the Record (with Katrina Legarda) for ABS-CBN, his last regular hosting stint to date. Since 1995, his newspaper column, Public Lives, has appeared every Sunday on the pages of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

On February 25, 2006, David was arrested in Santolan, Quezon City while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first People Power Revolution. The reason for the arrest was the lack of permit to rally, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo having revoked all permits after she declared a state of national emergency just a few hours earlier. He was later released with all charges dropped. In May 2006, the Supreme Court declared that the arrests of David and his co-detainees were invalid.

David expressed interest in running for a congressional seat in Pampanga should Gloria Macapagal Arroyo run for Congresswoman in the 2010 general elections, a fight that has been dubbed by several Senators and mediamen as "David vs. Gloriath". David later chose not to run, and Arroyo was elected to the seat in May 2010.

Family
David is married to Karina Constantino-David who served until 2008 as the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) of the Philippines. The couple has four children, including broadcast journalist Kara David, UP National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) professor Dr. Carlos Primo David, Nadya Melina David and Jika David. The Bishop of Kalookan, the Most Reverend Pablo Virgilio David, D.D. is his younger brother. David is also the son-in-law of the historian Renato Constantino.

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Hadith of warning

The Hadith of Warning or Yawm al-Inzar (), also known as the Invitation of the close families of Muhammad (دعوة ذو العشیرة - Da‘wat dhul-‘Ashīrah), was a hadith in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad attempted to warn his relatives to become Muslim.

Narration
The hadith is narrated in the context of the revelation of Ash-Shu'ara, the 26th surah in the Quran, in 617.  The surah includes a verse in which Muhammad is instructed to warn his relatives against adhering to their pagan beliefs and to instead become Muslim so as to avoid imminent disaster. There are two primary versions of the hadith, though both conclude with Muhammad mostly failing to convince his family and being mocked by his uncle Abu Lahab. Due to the latter incident, the hadith has also been linked to surah Al-Masad.

Address on the mountain
Muhammad ascended a mountain to address the warning to his clan, the Quraysh, speaking of an approaching Doomsday and stating that only faith in God would save them. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj and Abu Awana ascribe the following declaration to him:

The hadith is further elaborated in other variations with Muhammad issuing warnings of individual fates and stating that his own intercession would not be enough to save them. In such a context, he intreats by name his aunt Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib, his paternal uncles, as well as his daughter Fatimah.

Address during a feast
According to the Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, upon receiving the Quranic instruction, Muhammad summoned thirty members of his immediate family to share in a meal with him. He then asked his gathered relatives "who of you is willing to act for my religion and for my prophecies, and in return will dwell in Paradise with me and become my successor in my family?" Among those gathered, only his young cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, offered his consent. Muhammad's reaction to this is not recorded, though other variations of the story state that he explicitly accepted Ali's support. In one such account, recorded by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad declares Ali to be his brother, his heir, as well as his successor. Others also add a miraculous aspect to the hadith. Ibn Sa'd narrates that when forty members of his family arrived for the meal, Muhammad instructed Ali to feed them with a single plate of food. This plate provided enough food to satisfy all the guests, though Abu Lahab dismissed it as sorcery. Muhammad invited the group another night and repeated the miracle, asking who among them will lend him their support so as to become his "brother" and enter Paradise. Here too, Ali is the only one to agree. In both versions, his response is shown in clear contrast to the remainder of the Quraysh. Sir Richard Burton comments that this banquet "won for [Muhammad] a proselyte worth a thousand sabers in the person of Ali, son of Abu Talib."

Sunni and Shia interpretations
The differing primary versions of the hadith have historically been appropriated for political means in the schism between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam. In regards to the address on the mountain, the idea that kinship with Muhammad not being enough to secure salvation can be interpreted to have anti-Shia insinuations. This is due to the reverence given by the sect to the family of Muhammad. The implication was made especially clear with the implicit warning given to Fatimah, from whom the later Shia Imams descend. Conversely, the second version was used to advance one of the primary tenets of Shi'ism; the right of Ali as the successor to Muhammad. The direct appointment of Ali as Muhammad's heir was used to convey that his right to succession was established at the very beginning of Muhammad's prophetic activity. His merit for the role was further emphasised by the description of him being alone among his family in his support of Muhammad.

See also
 The event of Ghadir Khumm
 Succession to Muhammad

References

Further reading

 Imamate: the Vicegerency of the Prophet by Rizvi, S. Saeed Akhtar,  (Tehran: WOFIS, 1985) pp. 57–60.

External links
 Peshawar Nights by Sultanu'l Wa'izin Shirazi, 2001

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Mike Martin (basketball, born 1974)

Mike Martin (born 20 February 1974 in London, England) is a British professional basketball player, and currently plays for the London Lions in the British Basketball League.

The 6ft6 Forward started his career in 1996, where he spent two years before signing professional with BBL club Milton Keynes Lions in 1998. However, after just one season, Martin started a nomadic career by signing for Leopards, in 1999, before moving to Brighton Bears and back to the Leopards, within the space of a few months.

In 2001, after two seasons with his hometown franchise, Martin signed for Thames Valley Tigers, the predecessors to his current club, Guildford. The following year, Martin was on the move again, this time to Europe, where he played for French team Saint Étienne, before moving back to the BBL to play for Scottish Rocks in 2003. After just a season back in his homeland, Martin moved again back to France, where he signed for JSF Nanterre of the Pro B Ligue.

In 2005, Martin signed for Guildford in their rookie season, and also won a Bronze medal with England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. In 2007, Martin was part of the Heat team that won their first piece of silverware in the BBL Cup final, on 7 January, in an 81–78 win against Scottish Rocks. Martin has been at the Heat ever since.

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Deportivo Mictlán

Deportivo Mictlán is a Guatemalan football club, playing in the top division again in the 2010 Clausura tournament.

Nicknamed Los Conejos (the Rabbits) and based in Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, their home stadium is Estadio La Asunción, which holds 3,000.

History
Mictlán was promoted for the first time in 1992 when they bought the license that Galcasa from Villa Nueva left in the top division. In 2006 Mictlán achieved their second promotion to the Liga Nacional when they defeated Xinabajul in Primera División de Ascenso extra match, playing the 2006–2007 season in Liga Nacional for the first time since 1996. They would be back in the Second Division soon again after finishing last in the overall standings, thus being automatically demoted and stay there through the 2009–2010 season .

The team returned to Guatemala's top division for the 2010 Clausura tournament after defeating Sacachispas 1–0 in overtime.

First-team squad

Current Coaching Staff
As of December 1, 2012.

Board of directors
As of June 25, 2010.

Club Statistics and Records
Biggest win achieved: 6–1 to Juventud Retalteca (1993–94 League).
Embedded biggest win: 6–1 from Comunicaciones (1994–95 League).
Best League position: 3rd. (1995)
Top scorer: Rudy Rolando Ramírez (18 goals)

List of coaches
 Jhonny Chávez

References

Mictlan


Sparganium angustifolium

Sparganium angustifolium is a species of flowering plant in the cat-tail family known by the common names floating bur-reed and narrowleaf bur-reed. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It is an aquatic plant, growing in water up to 2.5 meters deep. Its habitat includes acidic, low-nutrient freshwater bodies such as ponds, lakes, slow-moving streams, and ditches. It can become abundant, practically covering the surface of the water. It is a perennial herb producing a floating stem with long, narrow, flattened leaves which can be quite long, sometimes reaching over two meters. It is monoecious, individual plants bearing both male and female inflorescences. These are spherical, the male inflorescence a ball of stamens and the female inflorescence a ball of developing fruits.

References

External links

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Washington Burke Museum
Photo gallery

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Al-Quwarsha

Al-Quwarsha is a Basic People's Congress administrative division of Benghazi, Libya.

References

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2010 AFC U-19 Championship

The 2010 AFC U-19 Championship was the 36th edition of the tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation.

Qualification for the tournament started in October 2009 with the finals tournament being hosted in October 2010.

The AFC recommended China as the host for the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship Finals, which was subject to approval on 9 February 2010 and confirmed the hosting right's and finals venue of Zibo on 18 February 2010. The top four teams qualified for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Host cities and venues

Qualification Competition

Qualifiers

Draw
The draw for the AFC U-19 Championship 2010 was held on 9 May 2010 in Zibo, China.

Squads

Group stage
All times are China Standard Time (CST) - UTC+08:00.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout Stages
All times are China Standard Time (CST) - UTC+08:00.

Knockout Map

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Winners

Awards

Goalscorers
7 goals
 Kerem Bulut
6 goals
 Ahmed Khalil
5 goals
 Jong Il-gwan
4 goals
 Hiroshi Ibusuki
3 goals

 Takashi Usami

 Pak Song-Chol

2 goals

 Matthew Fletcher
 Mustafa Amini
 Jin Jingdao

 Wu Lei
 Kaveh Rezaei
 Ryo Nagai

 Ji Dong-won
 Jung Seung-yong

1 goal

 Mathew Leckie
 Kofi Danning
 Dylan McGowan
 Terry Antonis
 Saad Al Amer
 Tan Tiancheng
 Zhu Jianrong
 Ali Abas
 Mitsunari Musaka
 Mahmoud Za'tara
 Jang Kuk-chol

 Jang Song-hyok
 Ri Hyong-jin
 Ri Hyok-chol
 Mohammed Majrashi
 Yahya Dagriri
 Yasser Al-Fahmi
 Abdullah Otayf
 Fahad Al-Johani
 Hwang Do-yeon
 Kim Kyung-jung

 Radwan Kalaji
 Sokjono Pattana
 Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov
 Omar Abdulrahman
 Abdumutallib Abdullayev
 Akram Bahritdinov
 Sardor Mirzaev
 Pavel Smolyachenko
 Lê Quốc Phương
 Ahmed Al-Baidhani

1 own goal

 Ali Bahjat (playing against Bahrain)

 Abdel-Aziz Saraweh (playing against Vietnam)

 Adan Rashid (playing against Japan)

Countries to participate in 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup
Top-4 team qualified for 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

References

External links
"AFC U-19 Championship schedule". The-AFC.com. 15 July 2010.

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Marcin Lijewski

Marcin Lijewski (born 21 September 1977 in Krotoszyn) is a retired Polish team handball player, who was playing on the Poland national handball team. He currently is a manager. He received a silver medal with the Polish team at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany and a bronze medal at the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where Poland finished 5th.

His brother Krzysztof Lijewski is playing for the Polish national team and for PGE Vive Kielce.

References

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Mirker Bach

Mirker Bach is a small river in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Wupper in Wuppertal-Elberfeld.

See also
List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia

References

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Inverugie railway station

Inverugie railway station was a railway station in Inverugie, Aberdeenshire. It was closed to passengers under the Beeching Axe in 1965.

Former Services

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NUP98

Nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NUP98 gene.

Function

Signal-mediated nuclear import and export proceed through the nuclear pore complex (NPC), which is composed of approximately 30 unique proteins collectively known as nucleoporins. The 98 kD nucleoporin is generated through a biogenesis pathway that involves synthesis and proteolytic cleavage of a 186 kD precursor protein. This cleavage results in the 98 kD nucleoporin as well as a 96 kD nucleoporin, both of which are localized to the nucleoplasmic side of the NPC. Rat studies show that the 98 kD nucleoporin functions as one of several docking site nucleoporins of transport substrates. The human gene has been shown to fuse to several genes following chromosome translocations in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL). This gene is one of several genes located in the imprinted gene domain of 11p15.5, an important tumor-suppressor gene region. Alterations in this region have been associated with the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, and lung, ovarian, and breast cancer. Alternative splicing of this gene results in several transcript variants; however, not all variants have been fully described.

Interactions

NUP98 has been shown to interact with:
 CREB-binding protein,
 KPNB1,
 NUP88,
 RAE1,  and
 TNPO2.

References

Further reading

Category:Nuclear pore complex


Alan Thomas (cricketer)

Alan Thomas (born 7 January 1947) is a former English cricketer.  Thomas was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.  He was born at Bolton, Lancashire.

Thomas made a single first-class appearance for Lancashire against Oxford University at the University Parks in 1966.  Oxford University won the toss and elected to bat first, making 241 all out in their first-innings, during which Thomas bowled eight overs without taking a wicket, though he only conceded 7 runs.  Lancashire then made 203 all out in their first-innings, during which Thomas was dismissed for 4 runs by Richard Elviss.  In response, Oxford University reached 224/8 declared in their second-innings, leaving Lancashire with a target of 262 for victory.  However, they could only make 191 all out in their second-innings, during which Thomas was dismissed for a duck by Elviss.  This was his only major appearance for Lancashire.

References

External links
Alan Thomas at ESPNcricinfo
Alan Thomas at CricketArchive

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