Rod de'Ath

Roderick Morris Buckenham de'Ath (; 18 June 1950 – 1 August 2014) was a Welsh musician, best known for his role as drummer with Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher in the 1970s.

Career

With Rory Gallagher
De'Ath was playing with the band Killing Floor when, at short notice, he was offered the job as a temporary substitute for Rory Gallagher's drummer Wilgar Campbell for a leg of a European tour in 1972. When Campbell left permanently, de'Ath was asked to join full-time. He stayed with Gallagher, performing on several albums, until 1978 when he and keyboard player Lou Martin left the band. Gallagher's bass guitarist Gerry McAvoy stated that de'Ath "was the most undrummer-like drummer I ever played with. His technique was so strange that it added a whole new dimension to Rory's sound."

Later career and accident
After leaving Gallagher's band, de'Ath joined Ramrod (with Martin) and then he played with the Downliners Sect before moving to the United States. In 1981, he played on Screaming Lord Sutch's new recordings of All Black and Hairy and Jack the Ripper. In the mid-1980s, he returned to the UK to produce an album for a band called Road Erect. Around this time, he suffered a serious accident while running to catch a train, which led to the loss of one eye and some brain damage. Deciding to return to the UK permanently, he eventually made a near-complete recovery, although he was no longer able to play. He had also been told by doctors that his brain damage would kill him within four years, and although this prognosis proved incorrect, he did not want to contact friends only to tell them that he was terminally ill.

Later life
When Gallagher died in 1995, many obituaries claimed that de'Ath was also dead, and for this reason he stayed away from Gallagher's funeral. McAvoy had heard that de'Ath had been killed in an accident in 1987. However, he appeared at a memorial service a few months later, having "waited for a suitable moment" to show that he was still alive. McAvoy remembered that de'Ath looked very frail and walked with the aid of a stick.

Little or nothing was known of de'Ath's whereabouts after 1996, until an interview with him was published in Classic Rock magazine in May 2012, within a feature about Rory Gallagher. A few months later in August, de'Ath attended the funeral of former Rory Gallagher and Ramrod band member Lou Martin.

Death
De'Ath died on 1 August 2014, aged 64, after a long illness.

Discography

With Rory Gallagher
Blueprint (1973) Polydor
Tattoo (1973) Polydor
Irish Tour '74 (1974) Polydor
Against the Grain (1975) Chrysalis
Calling Card (1976) Chrysalis
Notes from San Francisco (2011) Capo/Legacy/Eagle Rock (recorded 1977)

References

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Pascal Soriot

Pascal Claude Roland Soriot (born 23 May 1959) is the chief executive officer of the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical multinational company AstraZeneca, since October 2012.

In July 2017, it was reported that Soriot would become the next CEO of Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, succeeding Erez Vigodman, though this was soon refuted.

Early life
Born in France, his father died when Soriot was 20.

He studied veterinary medicine at university (École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort at Maisons-Alfort in south-east Paris). He later obtained an MBA at HEC Paris.

Career

Roussel Uclaf
In April 1986, he joined Roussel Uclaf (formerly France's second largest pharmaceutical company, until bought by Hoechst AG in 1997) as a salesman, where he lived in Australia. In 1996 he became General Manager of Hoechst Marion Roussel in Australia, moving to Tokyo in April 1997

Aventis
In 2000 he moved to Aventis in America, becoming chief operating officer of Aventis USA in 2002, which became Sanofi Aventis USA in 2004.

Roche
He joined Roche in 2006. From April 2009 to 2010 he was chief executive of the Roche subsidiary Genentech. He rejoined Roche Pharma AG in 2010 as chief operating officer.

AstraZeneca
In August 2012 he was named as the new chief executive of AstraZeneca, the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical company, when aged 53. He took up the post on 1 October 2012.

In September 2018 he made headlines commenting on his pay of £9.4m in salary and bonuses,"The truth is I’m the lowest-paid CEO in the whole industry", he said. "It is annoying to some extent. But at the end of the day it is what it is".

Personal life
He is married and has two children. He has three brothers, all of whom are doctors.

References

External links
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2011 Tour of the Basque Country

The 2011 Tour of the Basque Country, was the 51st running of the Tour of the Basque Country cycling stage race. It started on 4 April in Zumarraga and ended on 9 April in Zalla and consisted of six stages, including a race-concluding individual time trial. It was the eighth race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.

The race was won by  rider Andreas Klöden, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey for the second time – having previously won the race in 2000 – with a second-place finish on the final time trial stage. Klöden had also led the race after stage two, having finished second on the stage; one of three second place stage finishes that Klöden achieved during the week. Klöden's winning margin over his team-mate and runner-up Chris Horner was 47 seconds, and 's Robert Gesink completed the podium, also 47 seconds down on Klöden, but behind Horner on countback.

In the race's other classifications, Klöden's consistent high finishes earned him the white jersey for amassing the highest number of points at stage finishes,  rider Michael Albasini won the King of the Mountains classification, Bram Tankink of  won the blue jersey for the sprints classification, with  finishing at the head of the teams classification.

Teams
As the Tour of the Basque Country was part of the 2011 UCI World Tour, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to attend. Two UCI Professional Continental teams were awarded wildcards, and these were the  and Caja Rural teams.

The full list of participating teams was:

 Caja Rural

Race previews and favourites
2010 race winner Chris Horner was a favourite and had  team mate, and 2000 winner Andreas Klöden to help him. Other heavy contenders included Ivan Basso as he prepared for the 2011 Tour de France, Damiano Cunego and Robert Gesink. Samuel Sánchez had hopes in redeeming himself after a split in the peloton ruined his chance of victory in 2010, warming up for the race by taking the GP Miguel Indurain one-day race two days before the start of the Tour. Fränk Schleck was also expected to do well after winning Critérium International and his brother Andy was also a part of the  squad in the Basque Country.

Stages

Stage 1
4 April 2011 – Zumarraga to Zumarraga,

Stage 2
5 April 2011 – Zumarraga to Lekunberri,

Stage 3
6 April 2011 – Villatuerta to Zuia,

Stage 4
7 April 2011 – Amurrio to Eibar,

Stage 5
8 April 2011 – Eibar to Zalla,

Stage 6
9 April 2011 – Zalla, , individual time trial (ITT)

Classification leadership table
In the Tour of the Basque Country, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Tour of the Basque Country, and the winner was considered the winner of the race itself.

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a white jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top fifteen in a stage. The stage win awarded 25 points, second place awarded 20 points, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10 and one point fewer per place down the line, to a single point for fifteenth.

There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. All climbs were categorised, first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.

The fourth jersey represented the sprints classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the sprint classification, cyclists received points for being one of the first three in intermediate sprints, with three points awarded for first place, two for second, and one for third.

References

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Backbencher

In Westminster parliamentary systems, a backbencher  is a member of parliament (MP) or a legislator who holds no governmental office and is not a frontbench spokesman in the Opposition, being instead simply a member of the "rank and file". The term dates from 1855. The term derives from the fact that they sit physically behind the frontbench in the House of Commons. A backbencher may be a new parliamentary member yet to receive high office, a senior figure dropped from government, someone who for whatever reason is not chosen to sit either in the ministry or the opposition Shadow Ministry, or someone who prefers to be a background influence, not in the spotlight. By extension, those who are not reliable supporters of all of their party's goals and policies and have resigned or been forced to resign may be relegated to the back benches. For example, in recent British political events, Clive Lewis became a backbencher after resigning from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet over Brexit, or Boris Johnson who became a backbencher again, after resigning as Foreign Secretary in Theresa May's cabinet, also over Brexit. May herself returned to the backbenches after her resignation from the premiership, to be succeeded by Johnson.

In most parliamentary systems, individual backbenchers have little power to affect government policy. However, they play a role in providing services to their constituents, in relaying the opinions and concerns of their constituents. For example, asking the government for funding for a project in their constituency. Some backbenchers also sit on parliamentary committees, where legislation is considered in more detail than there is time for on the floor of the House and, thereby, provide input into the legislative process. The Wright Committee reforms introduced in the UK provided backbenchers with much more power in committees, giving Parliament greater control of its agenda, increasing backbench membership in committees vastly. In addition, since backbenchers generally form the vast majority of MPs, collectively they can sometimes exercise considerable power especially in cases where the policies of the government are unpopular or when a governing party is internally split. Backbenchers carry considerable influence when the government majority is small, for example, Theresa May's government from 2017 to 2019 was defeated sixteen times in the House of Commons; David Cameron's majority government was defeated three times.

In some legislative assemblies, sitting at the back of the chamber is not necessarily associated with having a minor role. In Switzerland, senior figures sit in the back rows in order to have a better overview and be closer to the doors for discussions outside the plenary. In Germany, the party leaders sit in the front row, but there are no designated places for other senior figures. The term backbenchers ("Hinterbänkler") therefore refers to largely unknown MPs without much influence, regardless of where they sit. Originally, the importance of the front rows for the leaders had also to do with the fact that acoustics were often unsatisfactory before microphones were introduced.

The term "backbencher" has also been adopted outside parliamentary systems, such as the United States Congress. While legislative branches in presidential systems do not share the firm front bench/back bench dichotomy of the Westminster system, the term has been used to denote junior legislators, or legislators who are not part of party leadership within a legislative body. When Democrat Tim Ryan of Ohio challenged Nancy Pelosi of California for House Minority Leader in 2016, the Washington Post reported that he "emerged from the backbench — he literally sits on the last bench in the chamber".

Powers and roles of backbenchers in Westminster
The most important backbench role many would argue is that of a constituency representative. Constituents rely heavily on their MPs to represent them in parliament and make sure their concerns are heard and welfare is looked after, whether or not they voted for the MP representing them. Constituents may email and meet their MPs, raising the issues and concerns they want the government to hear. Without this link many people would find it extremely hard for their voices to be heard fairly by the government. Backbenchers have an important opportunity to raise their constituents concerns directly to the Prime Minister in Prime Minister's Questions. Performing well in this constituency role is vital for backbenchers, as if they aren't prominent names in their party, their performance in their constituency could be a big factor on whether they will be re-elected to their seat in the next election.

Backbenchers also have an unofficial agenda setting power, with Opposition Day Debates, Private Member's Bills, and Prime Minister's Questions available to place items on the parliamentary agenda which are awkward for the government. There is also the Commons Backbench Business Committee which was created in 2010, this has cross party support and debates matters unlikely to be debated in government time, they formally end a decision with a vote. By the end of the 2010 Coalition Government it had undergone 300 debates, ranging from prisoner voting rights to the Hillsborough Disaster. Furthermore, they have influence as discussed above when they are a member of a committee, these committees provide a perfect opportunity for backbenchers to have their voices heard in the legislative process. It usually proves difficult for backbenchers to be involved and have direct input in the legislative process when they are not involved in these activities.

There has been much speculation on the influence backbenchers actually hold in Parliament. Many believe backbenchers hold little to no influence, however, there has been much research to suggest they have a significant background influence. For example, Meg Russell analysed UK government bills and found that successful amendments were due to parliamentary pressure, 60% of these being substantive. Proving the majority of legislation undergoes unofficial parliamentary pressure. Meg Russell also analysed the impact of the Wright Committee Reforms and whether it strengthened backbench power and influence. She found that the Wright Committee led to a significant reduction in governmental and whips hold over the Commons agenda. Finding that backbenchers have more independence and power because of these reforms, and giving them far more opportunity to set agendas and have their voices heard in Parliament. Furthermore, Louise Thompson found that introducing oral evidence into committees scrutinising government bills had a significant impact on backbench influence. Acting as a vehicle for the formulation of significant changes to government Bills, additional opposition scrutiny, and a debating tool. Oral evidence was most identified in undertakings given by ministers to committee members. Whereas, the number of amendments formally accepted by the government at committee stages is low. It found 89% occasions in which oral evidence had a direct impact on bills. This again suggests that backbenchers exert influence in the background of the Westminster legislation process. Therefore, it can be seen that although backbenchers have little official legislation powers in Parliament, they often exert significant background influence on the legislative process.

See also
Crossbencher
Frontbencher
House of Commons
Parliamentary Committees
The Wright Committee
Westminster system

References

External links

 The BBC's definition of 'backbencher'
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Malena Alterio

Malena Grisel Alterio Bacaicoa (born 21 January 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish actress.

She became well-known with the Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva, playing the role of Belén López Vázquez.

Movies
 Bajo el mismo techo (2019)
Perdiendo el Norte (2015)
Cinco metros cuadrados(2011) .... co-starred with Fernando Tejero    Virginia
Al final del camino (2008)  ... Pilar
Una palabra tuya, with Esperanza Pedreño (2008) .... Rosario
La torre de Suso, directed by  (2007) .... Marta
Casual Day (2007) .... Bea
Días de cine, directed by David Serrano (2006) .... Gloria
Miguel y William, directed by Inés París (2007) .... Magdalena
Semen, una historia de amor, directed by Inés París and Daniela Fejerman (2005)
Entre nosotros (2005) .... Patricia
Las voces de la noche, directed by Salvador García Ruiz (2003) .... Julia
Torremolinos 73, directed by Pablo Berger  (2003) .... Vanessa
Cásate conmigo, Maribel(2002) .... Nini
El Balancín de Iván (2002) .... Eva
Mezclar es malísimo(2001) .... Julia
El Palo, directed by Eva Lesmes (2001) .... Violeta "Pecholata"

Series
Señoras del (h)AMPA (2019) (13 episodes)..... Lourdes Sanguino
BuenAgente (2011) (19 episodes)..... Lola
La que se avecina (2007) (13 episodes)..... Cristina Aguilera
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003–06) (90 episodes) ..... Belén López Vázquez
El Comisario (2003) (5 episodes) ..... Agente Lorena
Hermanas (1998) (1 episode) ..... Isabel

Theatre
Charitys (1996), collective direction
Musicantes (1996), directed by  Daniel Lovecchio
Náufragos (1997), directed by María Boto and Jesús Amate
Lorca al rojo vivo (1998), directed by Cristina Rota
La barraca (1998), directed by Cristina Rota
Encierro (1999), directed by Andrés Lima
La pastelera (1999), directed by  Malena Alterio
El obedecedor (2000), directed by Amparo Valle
Rulos (2001), directed by Fernando Soto
Uncle Vanya (2008)

Prizes

Premios Goya

Unión de Actores

Fotogramas de Plata

Premios ATV

Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Ourense

References

External links

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LISMO

LISMO is an online music service provided by au, a Japanese mobile phone brand run by KDDI, a Japanese telecommunication company. This service uses a mobile phone as a music player. This service was introduced on January 19, 2006, and the service began operating at the end of January in Japan. The first mobile phone which supports LISMO was sold on January 26, 2006. Since 2008, KDDI and Okinawa Cellular introduced 'LISMO Video', a new service with new means to enjoy video content as well.

In April 2013, KDDI acquired Taiwanese streaming service KKBOX.  The LISMO and KKBOX services were merged under the KKBOX name.  KKBOX is now expanding into other Asian markets.

Name
LISMO is short for au Listen Mobile service. The "LIS" in "LISMO" is pronounced the same as "risu", the Japanese word for "squirrel".

Setting of mascot

The mascot of this service is LISMO-kun. It is a silhouette of a squirrel carrying an orange logo with earphones connected to it. Some original goods of this mascot are sold only at the "LISMO FOREST" of KDDI Designing Studio.

Supported phones
LISMO is supported by CDMA 1X WIN phones.

Released in 2006
Casio: W41CA,"G'zOne" (W42CA),W43CA
Hitachi: W41H, W42H, W43H, W43HⅡ
Kyocera: W41K, W42K, W43K, W44K
Sanyo: W41SA, W42SA, W43SA
Sharp: W41SH
Sony Ericsson: W41S,"Walkman Phone" (W42S), W43S, W44S
Toshiba: "Music-HDD" (W41T),W43T, W44T, W44TⅡ, W44TⅢ, W45T, "DRAPE" (W46T), W47T
au design project: "neon" (W42T by Toshiba)

Released in 2007
Casio: W51CA, W52CA,"EXILIM Phone" W53CA
Hitachi: W51H, W52SH, "Wooo Phone" W53H
Kyocera: W51K
Panasonic: W51P, W52P
Sanyo: W51SA, W52SA, W53SA
Sharp: "AQUOS Phone" (W51SH),W52SH
Sony Ericsson: W51S,"Walkman Phone" W52S,W53S
Toshiba: W51T, W52T, W53T, W54T, W55T
au design project: "Media Skin" (W52K by Kyocera), and "INFOBAR 2" (W55SA by Sanyo)

Released in 2008
Casio: W61CA,"G'zOne" (W62CA), "EXILIM PHONE" W63CA
Hitachi: W61H, "Wooo Phone" (W62H / W63H)
Kyocera: W61K, W64K, W65K
Panasonic: W61P, W62P
Pantech&Curitel: W61PT
Sanyo: W61SA, W62SA, W63SA, W64SA
Sharp: "AQUOS Phone" (W61SH / W64SH), W62SH, "URBANO" (W63SH)
Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-Shot Phone" W61S, W62S, "re" (W63S), W64S, "Walkman Phone, Xmini" (W65S)
Toshiba: W61T, W62T, "Sportio" (W63T), W64T, W65T

Released in 2009
Casio: CA001
Hitachi: "Wooo Phone" (H001)
Panasonic: P001
Sharp: SH001
Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-shot phone" S001, "Walkman Phone, Premier3(Cube)" (SOY01)
Toshiba: T001

Features

Function overview
This system provides the following functions;
 Listen to music on a mobile phone and/or a personal computer.
 Download and share music on a mobile phone and/or a personal computer.
 Copy music from a CD (compact disc) to a mobile phone.

 Share playlists with other LISMO users.
 Use downloaded music as a ringtone
 Backup address book data etc. to a personal computer

File format
Under investigation

The music file has .KMF extension on the phone and becomes .KDR on the PC, the codec is HE-AAC with 48 kbit/s bitrate, which is same as au's full track ringtone service.

Core services
 au Music Player
 A music player application for au’s mobile phone. Music on the handset can be managed through this application program.
 au Music Port
 A mobile phone data managing application for a personal computer. This application is used to share and backup data from a mobile phone. Manages not only music data, but also other data in the mobile phone like camera data, PIM data, etc. Supports only Microsoft Windows
 au Music Store
 A service similar with the iTunes Music Store. Customers can download and purchase music with PC. The average price of one song is about 315 Yen (including taxes) and there are 20,000 songs available at the beginning of service.
 Uta Tomo (うたとも) (TM)
 Play list sharing service. Works over au's server.

Internationalization
This service is available only in Japan as of January 2006.

Some issues
Although all phones in Japan have an option to switch to English, phones from AU are not truly bilingual. Phones from AU use same software for all phone models (e.g. LISMO player, etc.). This software has not been translated. Thus, it is not easy for non-speakers of Japanese to use it as compared to in-built music players provided by AU competitors (such as NTT Docomo, Softbank, etc.)

Commercials
LISMO commercials, which changes approx. every 3 months, use many songs by J-pop artists. On March 5, 2008, an album titled Best of LISMO! was released. The album contains all 10 songs used in LISMO commercials that aired by the Summer 2007.

List of songs used in the commercial (in order of which the commercial aired):
 Hana - Orange Range
 Ishindenshin - Orange Range
 Keep Tryin' - Hikaru Utada
 By My Melody - Ken Hirai
 Mikazuki - Ayaka
 Lovers Again - Exile
 Cherry - Yui
 Tashika ni - Angela Aki
 Stay with Me - Kumi Koda

See also
 Sony Connect
 Mora (music store)
 iTunes Music Store
 Japanese mobile phone culture

References

External links
KDDI au
KDDI Introduces 'LISMO Video', Allows Viewing Full Movies on au Handsets

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Frank Kilby

Francis David Kilby (24 April 1906 – 3 September 1985) was a New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A halfback, Kilby represented , , and briefly  and  at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1928 to 1934. He played 18 matches for the All Blacks, 13 of which were as captain, including four internationals. He later served on the executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union between 1955 and 1974, and managed the New Zealand Māori team on their tour of Australia in 1958, and the All Blacks on the 1963–64 tour of Britiain, Ireland, France and North America.

References

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Jon Barry

Jon Alan Barry (born July 25, 1969) is an American former basketball player and current television analyst for ABC and ESPN.

Biography
Barry is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry and Pam Connolly, and has three brothers: Scooter, Brent, and Drew, all of whom are also basketball players. Jon played his high school basketball at De La Salle High School in Concord, California. He then played one year each at University of the Pacific and Paris Junior College, before receiving a basketball scholarship to attend Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.

Out of Georgia Tech, he was selected in the first round of the 1992 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, but refused to sign a contract and sat out the season. The Celtics traded their rights to him, mid season, to the Milwaukee Bucks for Alaa Abdelnaby. Barry joined the Milwaukee Bucks, who finished last, tied for last, and 2nd to last in their division Barry's first three years in the NBA.

Off to a slow start of a career as primarily a backup player, Barry did get chances to contribute to playoff runs of some good teams (scored 739 points in 82 appearances with the 2001-2002 Central Division champion Detroit Pistons) and scored 326 career playoff points in 63 NBA playoff games over 14 seasons. He had 2 games with 5 3-point shots and had 6 games with 5 steals, and has 5,041 season and playoff points total.

In addition to the Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons, Jon played for the Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets and most recently the Houston Rockets. Barry had 12 first-half points in a 3-minute span in the deciding game 5 of the first round of the 2002 NBA Playoffs in the Detroit Pistons' series against the Toronto Raptors. Barry left the Pistons after the 2002-03 season, and was also released from the Rockets on March 1, 2006, which marked the end of his NBA playing career.

He has one son

References

External links

 Jon Barry ESPN Bio

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1899 Philippine local elections

Local elections were held for provincial and municipal posts throughout the Philippine archipelago starting May 7, 1899. The first local elections under the American occupation were held in Baliuag, Bulacan, supervised by US General Henry W. Lawton.

External links
Official website of the Commission on Elections

1899, local
Category:1899 elections in Asia
Local elections


1982–83 El Niño event

The 1982–83 El Niño event was one of the strongest El Niño events since records were kept.

It led to droughts in Indonesia and Australia, widespread flooding across the southern United States, lack of snow in the northern United States, and an anomalously warm winter across much of the mid-latitude regions of North America and Eurasia. The estimated global economic impact was over US$8 billion. This El Niño event also led to an abnormal number of hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean during this time span; the strongest hurricane up to 1983 hit Hawaii during the event.

Meteorological Progression
Due to a variety of reasons, ranging from the lack of knowledge among the general public regarding El Niño events to the fact that a volcanic eruption in Mexico from El Chichón distracted many scientists from noticing the telltale signs, this event escaped the notice of the scientific world until 1983. As pointed out by Walter Sullivan, signs began to appear in early 1982, when a noticeable and measurable drop in atmospheric pressure was noted in the central and southeastern Pacific compared to pressures found off the coast of Darwin, Australia. As the year progressed, more and more signs pointed towards an upcoming powerful El Niño event; from the collapse and subsequent reversal of the trade easterlies that traditionally prevent upwelling from occurring in the Western Pacific to the various atmospheric signatures that can all be associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, these indicators all pointed to the fact that one of the most powerful El Niño events of the 20th century had begun.

Effects on Tropical Cyclone Development
As a result of the event, the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season and 1983 Atlantic hurricane season both saw a reduced number of storms and a decrease in their average strength. Over this two-year period, the most notable storm that formed over this period was Hurricane Alicia, a minimal Category 3 storm that made landfall in Texas, causing US$3 billion dollars worth in damages. The rest of the storms that formed during these two seasons were relatively unremarkable; over the two seasons, there were only 9 named storms, 5 hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. One can expect to equal or even beat these numbers in a single season, as the tropical Atlantic typically churns out 10 named storms, 5 to 6 hurricanes, and 2 to 3 major hurricanes in a single year. Despite Hurricane Debby in 1982 reaching Category 4 strength, it never made landfall.

In contrast, the 1982 Pacific hurricane season and the 1983 Pacific hurricane season were both unusually active. The 1982 season ranks as the 4th-most active season alongside 2018, while the 1983 season was the longest Pacific hurricane season recorded at the time (it was later surpassed by the 2015 and 2016 seasons). Notable storms include the aforementioned Hurricane Iwa, Hurricane Paul, and Hurricane Tico.

Despite expectations of diminished tropical cyclone activity, the western Pacific typhoon seasons of 1982 and 1983 were hardly affected by the ongoing El Niño event.

Impacts
In South America, the 1982–83 El Niño event led to declines of 77% among Galápagos penguins and 49% among flightless cormorants. In addition to these losses in penguins and cormorants, this El Niño event caused a quarter of adult native sea lions and fur seals on Peru's coast to starve, while the entirety of both seals' pup populations perished. In the Galápagos Islands, the event killed much of the macroalgae in the area, and Desmarestia tropica is now possibly extinct from overgrazing by herbivores caused by overfishing of predator fish resulting from the event. In Ecuador, heavy rainfall and flooding led to high fish and shrimp harvests; however, the large amounts of standing water also allowed mosquito populations to thrive, leading to large outbreaks of malaria. In just this country alone, the economic impact from this event in regards to damages caused by this flooding were estimated at over US$400 million.

In Indonesia and Australia, one of the worst droughts that the country had ever experienced occurred as a direct result of this event. The cooler waters led to the formation of less convection in the region, which in turn led to less rainfall over the two nations. The damages from crop failure and loss of livestock easily surpassed US$100 million.

North America and Eurasia also faced unusually warm temperatures as a result of this event. The eastern United States in particular saw the warmest winter in roughly 25 years. Other side-effects, such as an uptick in mosquitoes, a loss in salmon off the coast of Alaska and Canada, and an increase in shark attacks off the western United States coast can all also be at least partially blamed upon this event. Several temperature records across both landmasses were broken as a result.

References

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North Macedonia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

North Macedonia will be competing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 25 August to 6 September 2020. This will be their seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1996.

Shooting

North Macedonia have qualified quotas for shooting.

See also
 North Macedonia at the Paralympics
 North Macedonia at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

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Akihiko Kamikawa

is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Coaching career
Kamikawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 9, 1966. In 1994, he started coaching career at alma mater Meiji University. He coached until 2013. In 2016, he became a manager for J3 League club Grulla Morioka. Grulla finished at the 13th place of 16 clubs and he resigned end of 2016 season.

Managerial statistics

References

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Dueto Acosta

Dueto Acosta was a vocal duo that performed Mexican vernacular music with an instrumental ensemble. They seem to be associated with Cancioneros "Acosta", a Chansonnier selling company in Mexico, and the ensemble was one of the earliest performers of corridos ever recorded in the United States (1923).

Recordings
Between the months of December 1923 and January 1924, the ensemble traveled to New York City and made the following studio recordings with Okeh Records. All of them were performed by baritone Víctor J. Rosales with Orquesta González, but the first five of them include tenor G.A. Alva in the vocals while the rest were sung by José Moriche:
 (featuring G.A. Alva, tenor; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González; 19 December 1923)
 (featuring G.A. Alva, tenor; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González; 19 December 1923)
 (featuring G.A. Alva, tenor; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González; 20 December 1923)
 (featuring G.A. Alva, tenor; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González; 2 January 1924)
 (featuring G.A. Alva, tenor; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González; 2 January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on 4 January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on 4 January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on 4 January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on January 1924)
 (featuring José Moriche; Víctor J. Rosales, baritone; and Orquesta González. Recorded on January 1924)
 (14 January 1924)
 (14 January 1924)

Two years later, the ensemble returned to the United States and went back to the studio with different performers. Those sessions were recorded in Los Angeles, California, with Brunswick Records:
 (featuring Hermanos Ramírez, January 1926)
 (featuring Hermanos Ramírez, January 1926)
 (featuring Gómez and Fierro, August 1926)
 (featuring Gómez and Fierro, August 1926)
 (featuring Guzmán and Gómez; tenor and baritone, August 1926)
 (featuring Guzmán and Gómez; tenor and baritone, August 1926)
 (featuring Aurora Patiño and Roberto Guzmán; soprano and tenor, November 1926)
 (featuring Patiño and Tobman, November 1926)

And according to the American Discography Project hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, they also made the following recordings with Victor:
 (28 January 1930)
 (28 January 1930)
 (28 January 1930)
 (28 January 1930)
 (28 January 1930)
 (2 February 1930)
 (2 February 1930)

References

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Lina Pasini-Vitale

Carolina Pasini-Vitale, known as Lina, (born Rome, November 8, 1872 – died there November 23, 1959) was an Italian soprano. Sister of Camilla Pasini, she studied in Rome before debuting at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in Cilea's La tilda. She saw early success at La Scala, in Rome, and in Turin singing Mascagni's Iris and Suzel. She also appeared as Micaëla, Mimi, and Gretel. In 1897 she married the conductor Edoardo Vitale. Beginning in 1914 she became known for her performance in the operas of Richard Wagner, creating Kundry in Buenos Aires for the South American premiere of Parsifal in 1914. In 1926 she appeared as Brünnhilde in Rome; in 1928 she sang Kundry in Naples, and thereafter retired. She recorded numerous excerpts from various operas during her career. Another sister, Enrica Pasini, had a brief career as a mezzo-soprano. Lina Pasini's son was Riccardo Vitale, who eventually became director of the Rome Opera House from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Barezil

Barezil (, also Romanized as Bārezīl; also known as Bāzerīl) is a village in Dasht Rural District, in the Central District of Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 465, in 117 families.

References

Tageo

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Ysaline Bonaventure

Ysaline Bonaventure (born 29 August 1994) is a Belgian professional tennis player.

Bonaventure has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 22 July 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 109. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 57 in the doubles rankings.

Bonaventure is coached by former professional player Noëlle van Lottum and works with her in the Netherlands.

Playing for Belgium at the Fed Cup, Bonaventure has a win–loss record of 9–5. She was selected for the Belgian Fed Cup team for the first time in 2012 when she played a doubles match alongside Alison Van Uytvanck in the World Group Play-offs.

Bonaventure lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2015 Australian Open and 2015 French Open. At Wimbledon, she also lost in the first round of qualifying, beaten in three sets by Michelle Larcher de Brito. She reached the third round of qualifying in the last Grand Slam tournament of 2015.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Doubles: 19 (13 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Performance timelines

Singles
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

This table is current through the 2020 Australian Open.

External links

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1994 Australian Sports Sedan Championship

The 1994 Australian Sports Sedan Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Sports Sedans complying with Group 2D regulations. The title, which was the tenth Australian Sports Sedan Championship, was contested over two eight lap races held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 4 September 1994.

Results

Note:
 There were thirty six entries for the championship
 Only entries known to have started in at least one race are shown on the above table
 The precise method of determining final championship positions is not known

References

Category:National Sports Sedan Series
Sports Sedan Championship


The Mask Zodiac

The Mask Zodiac (Thai: เดอะแมสก์ จักรราศี) is the eighth season of The Mask Singer, a Thai singing competition program presented by Kan Kantathavorn. The program airs on Workpoint TV on Thursday at 20:05, starting from August 29, 2019.

The tournament format is different from other side series. It has only 12 contestants. This season combines zodiac signs and astrology.

Panel of Judges

First Round

Semi-Final

The Last Four/The Last Three

The Last Four

The Last Three

Final

Elimination Table

The Mask Mirror
The Mask Mirror (Thai: เดอะมาสก์ มีร์เรอร์) is a Thai special program about guess artists in masks after the finished Zodiac series that aired 11 episodes. It is different from other previous special programs because it is about guessing who has real identities and fake ones that are called "Mirror" under the same masks. This special program broadcast 13 episodes presented by Kan Kantathavorn. It airs on Workpoint TV on Thursday at 20:05, starting from November 14, 2019-February 6, 2020.

References

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Hjalmer J. Erickson

Hjalmer J. "Jolly" Erickson (January 7, 1906 – February 6, 1959) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Bemidji State Teachers College in Bemidji, Minnesota from 1938 to 1954, compiling a record of 54–54–5. He was also the school's head basketball coach from 1944 to 1946, tallying a mark of 23–6.

Head coaching record

Football

References

External links

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British Commonwealth Forces Korea

British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) was the formal name of the Commonwealth army, naval and air units serving with the United Nations (UN) in the Korean War. BCFK included Australian, British, Canadian, Indian, and New Zealand units. Some Commonwealth units and personnel served with United States and/or other UN formations, which were not part of BCFK.

In 1950, Australian units based with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan were among the first UN personnel to be deployed in South Korea. After the administrative support role of BCOF in Japan to the fighting forces in Korea had been decided in November 1950, the title BCFK appeared. The position of BCFK Commander-in-Chief was always held by Australian Army officers, the first being Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson. Liaison between the Commonwealth C-in-C and the UN high command was provided by a subordinate headquarters in Tokyo.

By the time BCFK came into being, the Commonwealth armies had formed the 1st Commonwealth Division (in July 1951) and British and Canadian Army personnel predominated at the operational level in the Commonwealth land forces. Lieutenant General William Bridgeford took over from Robertson in October 1951, and he was later succeeded by Lieutenant General Henry Wells. Wells was succeeded by Lieutenant General Rudolph Bierwirth in 1954.

The Royal Navy usually had at least one aircraft carrier on station during the war. Five British carriers: Glory, Ocean, Theseus, Triumph, and  (a maintenance and aircraft transport carrier) served in the conflict. The Royal Australian Navy provided the carrier HMAS Sydney. The RN, RAN and Royal Canadian Navy also provided many other warships. The Royal New Zealand Navy deployed a number of Loch class frigates throughout the war.

The RN carriers provided the only British fighter planes to take part in the war. On 9 August 1952 a propeller-driven Sea Fury, piloted by Lieutenant Peter Carmichael of No. 802 Squadron, based on HMS Ocean, shot down a MiG-15 jet fighter, becoming one of only a handful of pilots of propeller planes to have shot down a jet.

The only front-line unit from a Commonwealth air force to serve under BCFK was Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) No. 77 Squadron, which initially flew P-51 Mustang fighters and later converted to Gloster Meteor jets. British and Canadian aircrews also served with the RAAF. The only Royal Air Force contribution was a wing of Short Sunderland flying boats based at Iwakuni in Japan.

See also
 1st Commonwealth Division
KATCOM
 United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, Korea, where a total of 1589 Commonwealth casualties are buried.
Korean War Memorial in London

Footnotes

External links

 Lt Col. John C. Blaxland, 2004, The Korean War: Reflections on Shared Australian and Canadian Military Experiences
 Historical Section, General Staff, Army Headquarters, 1956, Canada's Army in Korea: the United Nations Operations, 1950-53, and their Aftermath
Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and the Cold War (Korean War)
Royal Engineers Museum
Royal Engineer pictures of the Korean War
 Invasions of Inchon and Wonsan remembered French and English supported operations. Allies provide a unique perspective of naval operation in the Korean War ...
  EuroKorVet European Korean war Veterans website (non-off)

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Zimzelen Glacier

Zimzelen Glacier (, ) is the 3.7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Krapets Glacier and west of Blériot Glacier  It drains northwards, and flowing into the east arm of Salvesen Cove.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Zimzelen in Southern Bulgaria.

Location
Zimzelen Glacier is centred at .  British mapping in 1978.

Maps
 British Antarctic Territory.  Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60.  Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
 Zimzelen Glacier. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

External links
 Zimzelen Glacier. Copernix satellite image

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Kaikhosro III Gurieli

Kaikhosro III Gurieli (; died ) was a member of the Georgian family of Gurieli, a princely dynasty of Guria. He was briefly Prince-regnant of Guria as a rival to his brother Giorgi IV Gurieli in 1716. In 1724, he emigrated to the Russian Empire, where he commanded the Georgian Hussar Regiment in the 1740s.

Kaikhosro was the second son of Mamia III Gurieli, Prince of Guria, and Elene, daughter of Giorgi-Malakia Abashidze. He was a monk in 1716, when Elene engineered a coup against his own son, Giorgi IV Gurieli, whom she deposed with the help of Mingrelian and Imeretian troops and installed Kaikhosro as prince of Guria. Next year, Giorgi was able to resume his rule with the help of Ottoman pasha of Erzurum; Elene and Kaikhosro fled to Kartli under the protection of King Vakhtang VI, whose mother Tuta was Kaikhosro's grandfather's sister.

In 1724, Kaikhosro and his wife followed Vakhtang VI in his exile into Russia occasioned by the Ottoman invasion of Kartli. Known in Russia as Kaikhosro Matveyevich Gurielov, he was enlisted in the Georgian Hussar Regiment in 1738 and granted an estate in the Poltava Governorate. In 1741, he was promoted to the rank of podpolkovnik and placed in command of the Georgian Hussar Regiment. He retired in 1751. Kaikhosro's Russia-born son Stepan (1730–1812) and grandson Ivan (1770–1818) were major-generals of the Imperial Russian Army. With Ivan's death, the Gurieli's Russian branch went extinct in a male line; Kaikhosro's female-line descendants sought the right to carry the surname of Gurieli into their families in the 19th century, but to no avail.

References

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Menesia ochreicollis

Menesia ochreicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1954. It is known from Borneo.

References

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1942 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 1942 All Ireland Camogie Championship was won by Dublin, beating Cork in a replayed final. Cork thought they had won the initial final at the Mardyke when Renee Fitzgerald scored first an equalising, then a late winning goal. Referee Sean Gleeson said he had blown the whistle before Fitzgerald's second goal. The replay was the first All Ireland final to have a match programme and the first to be broadcast by Radio Éireann.

Final stages
In the All Ireland semi-finals Cork beat Galway 7–4 to 2–0 and Dublin beat Antrim 12–0 to 1–0. Cork had a goal disallowed in the last minute of the drawn final.

Final stages

 Match Rules
50 minutes
Replay if scores level
Maximum of 3 substitutions allowable only if player was injured

See also
 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
 Wikipedia List of Camogie players
 National Camogie League
 Camogie All Stars Awards
 Ashbourne Cup

References

External links
 Camogie Association
 History of Camogie senior championship slideshow. presented by Cumann Camógaíochta Communications Committee at GAA Museum January 25, 2010 part one, part two, part three and part four
 Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
 Camogie on official GAA website
 Timeline: History of Camogie
 Camogie on GAA Oral History Project
 Camogie Websites for Antrim and Dublin

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Windows DVD Maker

Windows DVD Maker was a DVD authoring utility developed by Microsoft, first released in 2007 in Windows Vista. The utility allows users to create DVD slideshows and videos for playback on media devices such as a DVD player. It is comparable to Apple's iDVD, which was released in 2001.

DVD Maker has been removed as of Windows 8.

History
Windows DVD Maker was first reported by Paul Thurrott during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference of 2003. Thurrott stated that Windows Vista, then known by its codename "Longhorn," would support DVD movie creation "through an independent application, and not through the shell." This information was accompanied by additional reports that Windows Vista would support all major DVD packet writing formats, such as Mount Rainier, and would also eliminate the "staging and burning" steps while writing to optical media—files copied to recordable media would instead be written immediately. The latter functionality is exposed via the Live File System.

Features
Windows DVD Maker is available on Home Premium, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, as well as Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7. It has a simple Aero Wizard-style user interface, which takes the user through the process of creating DVD-Video. The first step involves importing video files, arranging them to play in proper order. Windows DVD Maker automatically splits the videos into scenes that can be accessed from a special scene selection page in the DVD menu. In the next step, animated DVD menus can be added to the compilation. Windows DVD Maker can also add a slide show of pictures with a musical accompaniment and transition effects. Many of these are similar to the transition effects available in Windows Movie Maker. Users can also customize the font and button styles. The application can show an interactive preview of what the DVD will look and act like when it has been burned. For example, users can navigate the DVD menus, testing them.

Windows DVD Maker is designed to encode video as background process with reduced scheduling priority to ensure the computer remains responsive during the compilation process.

See also
Features new to Windows Vista
List of DVD authoring applications
List of features removed in Windows 8

References

Category:Discontinued Windows components
Category:Optical disc authoring software
DVD Maker


Lysiane Gagnon

Lysiane Gagnon is a Canadian journalist based in Quebec. She has written for Montreal's La Presse since 1980 and Toronto's Globe and Mail since 1990.

Gagnon was born in Montreal in 1941. From 1975 to 1980, she was a parliamentary correspondent. In 1975 she received the Olivar-Asselin Award, and has twice (in 1976 and 1982) been awarded the National Newspaper Awards prize. In 1984 she received the Salon de Montréal literary prize for her essay Vivre avec les hommes : un nouveau partage (Living with Men: A New Partnership). She has also published two collections of her columns, Chroniques politiques (Boreal, 1985) and L'esprit de contradiction (Boreal, 2010).

In her columns, Gagnon takes positions in regards to federalism and feminism. Some argue that she is a prominent defender of Israel (Of all Quebec's francophone columnists). She has written extensively about the need to protect the French language in Quebec and Canada.

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The Gold Chignon

The Gold Chignon (French:Chignon d'or) is a 1916 French silent film directed by André Hugon and starring Mistinguett and Harry Baur.

Cast
 Mistinguett as Mistinguett
 Harry Baur as Harry

References

Bibliography
 Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

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Carole Lin

Carole Lin () is a Singaporean actress.She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1995 to 2009.

Career
Lin joined MediaCorp after taking part in Star Search Singapore 1995. She shot to fame for her role in The Price of Peace and won the Best Actress award at the Star Awards 1997. Hers and Hong Huifang's rape scenes were named the Top 5 Most Memorable Scenes at the Star Awards 2007 anniversary special. She left MediaCorp in 2009 after her second marriage and moved abroad.

Filmography
The Journey: A Voyage (2013) as Huang Zhenniang 黄珍娘
I'm in Charge (2013) as Lin Xiufen
My Buddy (2009) as Chen Meijin (US Dollar)
Rhythm Of Life (2008)
The Golden Path (2007)
Metamorphosis 破茧而出 (2007) as Melinda Guan Xiu Qing 关秀清
Making Miracles 奇迹 (2007) as Yang Zhihua
Police And Thief - Desperate Housewives (2007)
Phua Chu Kang - The Return Of The Kin (2007)
A New Life 有福 (2005) as Zhang Zhenzhu
Zero to Hero 阴差阳错 (2005) as Ah Car's mother
My Love, My Home (2004)
Man at Forty 跑吧!男人 (2004) as Fried Chicken
Springs Of Life (2003)
Fantasy 星梦情真 (2002)
Health Matters 一切由慎开始 (2002)
Wok Of Life II 春到人间 (2002)
A War Diary 战争日记 (English drama) (2001)
The Hotel 大酒店 (2001)
The Reunion 顶天立地 (2001)
Bukit Ho Swee 河水山 (2001)
My Home Affairs 家事 (2000)
Hainan Kopi Tales 琼园咖啡香 (2000)
Lost Soul 另类佳人 (1999) as Li Bijiao 李碧娇
From the Medical Files 2 医生档案2 (1999) as Lin Biqi 林碧琪
Act 235  刑事235 (1998) as Nie Keer 聂可儿
From The Medical Files 医生档案 (1998)
A Piece Of Sky 锁不住的天空 (1998)
The Price of Peace 和平的代价 (1997) as Wang Qiumei
Roses, Complete With Thorns 单身女郎 (1997)
Tofu Street 豆腐街 (1996)
The Unbroken Cycle 解连环 (1996)
Marriage, Collars and Sense 5C 老公 (1996)
Diary Of A Teacher 老师的日记 (1996)
Brave New World  新阿郎 (1996)
Wild Orchids  再见莹光兰 (1996)
Tales Of The Third Kind 第三类剧场 (1995)

Personal life
Carole was married in 1999 before it ended in divorce in 2002. In June 2008, she married aeronautical engineer, Bertrand Gouge, at a chateau in France. They divorced in November 2009. Carole married for the third time to entrepreneur David Lim. She currently works as a creative consultant for a chiropractic clinic.  She gave birth to her first child, Brooklyn, on 19 August 2015 at the age of 42.

Accolades

References

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Zale peruncta

Zale peruncta is a species of owlet moths, etc. in the family Erebidae. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Zale peruncta is 8684.1.

Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Zale peruncta:
 Zale peruncta incipiens Walker, 1858
 Zale peruncta peruncta

References

Further reading

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Numerica Skate Ribbon

The Numerica Skate Ribbon serves as safe and modern environment designed for everyone to enjoy in the heart of the downtown Spokane, Washington.This ribbon is located in the midst of Riverfront Park, which is the largest park in the downtown area. This park and its attractions are often seen as a notable feature of Spokane and is valued immensely by the citizens.

The skating ribbon, which made its debut in fall 2017, is located within the park at the corner of Spokane Falls Boulevard and Post Street. Riverfront Park is the largest park in the downtown area and, as of 2014, has begun to be renovated and improved in hopes of becoming a safer and more popular attraction in the city landscape. The town is home to the Spokane Falls and the Spokane River runs through the downtown area, and many Spokanites wish to keep the focus on these natural features. Aside from the park, Spokane is also known for hosting Hoopfest, Bloomsday, Pig out in the Park, and numerous concerts, firework shows, and other events throughout the year.

History

As a previous competitor for the premier rail hub on the west in the 1880s, Spokane had been the most developed city on the eastern side of Washington. It housed a network of lines for most of the major railways, such as Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago Milwaukee, and Oregon Railway. Spokane was later chosen to host Expo ’74 and made it the first of those fairs to emphasize an environmental theme. This marked a new era and burst of excitement for the town, which Spokanites responded to by cleaning the Spokane River, removing the railyards, and demolishing the Great Northern Railroad Depot. Only the Great Northern Clocktower, built in 1902, was left, which is now featured in nearly all depictions of the Spokane city skyline and has become a main landmark in the area. The clocktower and the surrounding area has now been converted into Riverfront Park, dedicated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. With the following success from the world fair, Spokane implemented its first ice rink, the Ice Palace, and discovered it was a successful addition to the recreationally-focused town.

Design
As the first ribbon-shaped ice rink to be constructed in the Pacific Northwest, the Numerica Skate Ribbon stretches 700 feet long and is completed by a trio of fire pits, allowing for a warming experience for the skaters after being out on the ice. The ribbon is able to hold 300 skaters at any time, and the path is lined with lighting fixtures to keep the experience bright and safe. The path winds underneath trees and by David Govedare’s Bloomsday statues, where it leads to a round “pond” area where skaters can congregate. Just as with the Ice Palace it replaced, the developers put thought into designing this attraction for year-round use, however, it has a slightly different twist. Rather than housing miniature golf, a Ferris wheel, and a petting zoo, the skate ribbon transforms into a place for roller-skating, scootering, or amusement rides. Riley Witt, the lead of Stantec’s office in Spokane and the project manager for the design and construction of the ribbon, explained that the ribbon shape and green space were designed to avoid a large concrete area within the park, and to be seen as a mirroring element of the natural falls. Due to this extra consideration to match the construction to the landscape and overcoming the challenges that come with designing a park that was once a rail yard, the project was also recognized by the Engineering News-Record as the Northwest Best Sports and Entertainment project of 2018.

Developers
Stantec, an international professional services company in the design and consulting industry centered in Edmonton, Canada, happily agreed to take on this section of the Riverfront Park design. They originally signed on to design the ice ribbon and building, but the Park Board later asked that the firm be in charge of designing the entire corner of the park where the ribbon would be located. By taking on more than just the rink, Stantec was allowed to go a bit over budget, as the Parks and Recreation division addressed it as a negotiation of sorts. Riley Witt, the project manager, gladly accepted the project, as he felt it would be a great opportunity for Stantec’s promise to “design with a community in mind.”

Challenge
The original planned opening date of the new addition was scheduled for the summer of 2017, but it was later delayed until December 2017 after encountering a number of unforeseen setbacks, such as larger expenses to repair bridges and soil for the rest of the upcoming projects in the area. This added up to a total of an extra $35,000, which would be covered by a $64.3 million taxpayer-approved bond. The original plans also came with a higher price tag than what was originally allotted, as the drawings were planned to cost $400,000 more than the $6.5 billion budgeted for the construction of not only the ribbon itself, but also the skate rental and concession area. Although the construction amounted to more than the budget, Chris Wright, the president of the Spokane Park Board, did not require the construction firm to redesign the ribbon. Contractors Northwest Inc. built the ribbon, with construction costs totaling $7.5 million, according to contract amendments agreed to by Spokane Park Board.

References

Category:Skateparks in the United States


Vadym Merikov

Vadym Ivanovych Merikov (Ukrainian: Вадим Іванович Меріков; born in 23 February 1976) is a Ukrainian politician. He is serving as the People's Deputy of Ukraine VII convocation, and served as he governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast from July 28, 2014 to June 29, 2016.

Biography

Vadym Merikov was born in the village of Mishkovo-Pohorilove, on 23 February 1976. In 1993, he graduated from Pogorelov High School, after which he enrolled in the Mykolaiv State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, who graduated in 1997 with a degree in Physical Education. He received the title of Master of Sports of Ukraine in kickboxing, as well as the title of Honored Boxing Coach.

After graduation, he entered Odessa University. He graduated in 2005 with the Faculty of Law, and has received a lawyer qualification.

Political activity

In 2005, he was elected deputy of the fifth convocation of the Mykolaiv City Council from the "Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko".

In March 2010, he became the head of the parliamentary group "Front of Change" in the Mykolaiv City Council.

In October 2010, he was elected a deputy of the Mykolayiv Regional Council (the first list of the party "Front of Change").

At the next election in 2012, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine headed the electoral headquarters of the United Opposition in the Nikolaev region and was included in the electoral list of Batkivshchyna under No. 66.

June 14, 2013, in connection with the decision to liquidate the Front of Change party, Vadym Merikov joined the party "Batkivshchina". He was elected a member of the political council of the party.

March 15, 2014 Vadym Merikov received the powers of the people's deputy of Ukraine after the Verkhovna Rada terminated the powers of the people's deputies Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Stepan Kubiv, who received positions in the Cabinet of Ministers.

He was a member of interparliamentary groups with Switzerland, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, Austria, and the United States.

Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast

On July 28, 2014, by the decree No. 629 of the President of Ukraine, Vadym Marikov was appointed Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast by Petro Poroshenko.

In mid-August 2014, the media, citing sources in the Security Service of Ukraine, reported the detention of a group of five people who were preparing to assassinate Governor Merikov and his family. According to the siloviki, it is connected with the Donetsk People's Republic, whose interaction with its Mykolaiv like-minded officials previously opposed.

June 15, 2016, Merikov resigned as the Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast. On June 24, 2016, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine accepted the decision.

On June 29, 2016, he was dismissed by President Poroshenko.

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Odessa University alumni
Category:Front for Change (Ukraine) politicians
Category:Batkivshchyna politicians
Category:Governors of Mykolaiv Oblast
Category:Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Category:21st-century Ukrainian politicians


Legendary Masters Series

Legendary Masters Series is the fourth album posthumously released in the US after Eddie Cochran's death in 1960.

Content
The album was released as a two album set on the United Artists label in January 1972. The catalogue number was UAS 9959.

Track listing
Side 1
 "Skinny Jim" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Let's Get Together" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Eddie's Blues" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Little Lou" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Pink Pegged Slacks" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran / Hank Cochran)
 "Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie" (George Motola / Ricky Page)
 "Somethin' Else" (Sharon Sheeley / Bob Cochran)

Side 2
 "Pretty Little Devil" (Fred Carter, Jr)
 "Who Can I Count On" (Sammy Masters)
 "Thinkin' About You" (Bob Luman / Fred Carter, Jr)
 "Opportunity" (Jewel Akens / Eddie Daniels)
 "Latch On" (Dale Fitzsimmons / Ray Stanley)
 "I'm Ready" (Sylvester Bradford / Fats Domino / Al Lewis)
 "Three Stars" (Tommy Dee)
 "Cotton Picker"

Side 3
 "Summertime Blues" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Cut Across Shorty" (Marijohn Wilkin/ Wayne P. Walker)
 "Milk Cow Blues" (Kokomo Arnold)
 "My Way" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)
 "Nervous Breakdown" (Eddie Cochran)
 "C'mon Everybody" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)

Side 4
 "Sittin' In The Balcony" (Johnny Dee / John D. Loudermilk)
 "Twenty Flight Rock" (Eddie Cochran / Ned Fairchild)
 "Teenage Cutie" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles)
 "Fourth Man Theme" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran)
 "Weekend" (Bill Post / Doree Post)
 "Bo Weevil" (Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran / Traditional)
 "Long Tall Sally" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell /  Enotris Johnson / Little Richard)

Notes

External links

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Category:1972 compilation albums
Category:United Artists Records compilation albums


Teotitlán de Flores Magón

Teotitlán de Flores Magón is a town and municipality in the Cañada region of Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.
It is part of the Teotitlán District in the north of the Cañada Region.

Municipality

The municipality covers an area of 95.69 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 8,675 of whom 1,610 speak an indigenous language.

References

Category:Municipalities of Oaxaca
Category:Populated places in Oaxaca


Lady Mayoress

Lady Mayoress is an official female companion to the Lord Mayor of a major city in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, or a capital city of an Australian state. Traditionally this was the wife of a male mayor. It is not an elected office. Lady is used here as a title of respect. The Lady Mayoress accompanies the Lord Mayor to many events and also carries out engagements on her own. As an example, the Leeds Children's Charity states that "it has been the right of every new Lady Mayoress to become the president of the charity".

Variations
The Lady Mayoress was traditionally the wife of a male Lord Mayor, but the mayor can choose their own mayoress. Some mayors have chosen their daughter, mother, or another female relative.

A male companion for a female mayor may be given the title of Lord Mayor's Consort.

When Jessie Beatrice Kitson was the first female Lord Mayor of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England in 1942-1943, she chose her friend Elinor Gertrude Lupton as her Lady Mayoress.

When Bernard Atha was Lord Mayor of Leeds in 2000-2001, he selected 18 "high-profile, well-known Yorkshire women" to act in turn as his Lady Mayoress.

Australia

As in the United Kingdom, the Lady Mayoress of an Australian capital city is usually the wife of an elected Lord Mayor. A Lady Mayoress acts as a hostess for the city at official functions and sometimes acts as Chair of social and charitable committees. Where a woman is elected to the office of Lord Mayor, there is usually no Lady Mayoress although during part of the time in office as Lord Mayor of Brisbane of Sallyanne Atkinson, her mother served as Lady Mayoress. Atkinson's husband had served for a time as President of the City of Brisbane Benefit Fund, a social and charitable organisation associated with the Brisbane City Council.

References

Category:Women's social titles


D'Algy

D'Algy is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

 Helena D'Algy (born 1906, date of death unknown), Portuguese film actress
 Tony D'Algy (1897–1977), Portuguese film actor, brother of Helena

See also
 Algy


Cast No Shadow

Cast No Shadow may refer to:

 "Cast No Shadow" (song), a song by Oasis
 Cast No Shadow (film), a 2014 Canadian drama film
 "Cast No Shadow", a song by Duncan Browne (different from the Oasis song)


George Bachrach

George A. Bachrach (born December 2, 1951 in New York City ) is the former president of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, having former careers as an American politician, attorney, and journalism professor at Boston University.

Biography
A 1973 graduate of Trinity College and a 1976 graduate of Boston University School of Law. Bachrach worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County and as a campaign manager and administrative assistant for Congressman Ed Markey before his election to the State Senate in 1980.

After leaving the state senate, Bachrach practiced law for nearly a decade as a partner with the Boston law firm Brown, Rudnick, Freed, and Gesmer. He then founded Bachrach & Company, a public affairs and strategic marketing firm. He regularly provides commentary on New England Cable News as well as for other Boston newspapers, area television stations, and radio stations. He taught journalism at Boston University.

Bachrach retired as the president of the non-profit Environmental League of Massachusetts in 2017 where he and his staff advocated for strong environmental laws and regulations on a broad range of environmental issues, voice the concerns of citizens, and educate the public.

George's political career did not end after serving for three terms in the Massachusetts state senate. Bachrach ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1986. He finished second in a seven-way Democratic primary in the Massachusetts's 8th congressional district behind Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, who later won the general election.

Bachrach also ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1994, but did not win.  In 1998, he again sought the Democratic nomination for the 8th District seat in the United States House of Representatives and finished third in the primary.

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Castel-Mauboussin CM.7

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The Castel-Mauboussin CM.7 was a high performance sailplane built in France in 1948 and used to establish a large number of altitude and duration records into the early 1950s. Conceived of by designer Robert Castello at his home in 1942, it was not until after the war that he had the opportunity to actually build it. It was a two-seat aircraft with a gull wing and conventional empennage.

Apart from a string of French national records for both men's and women's flight in a two-seat glider, the CM.7 set a number of world records, beginning in 1951 with women's records for altitude (7,042 m) and gain in altitude (6,072 m) on 18 January, and duration (28 hours 41 minutes) on 23 November, piloted by Marcelle Choisnet and Yvette Mazelier. The following year, a new men's record for duration (53 hours, 4 minutes) was set on 6 February by Albert Carraz and Jean Branswick, with a CM.7 used to break this same record by Claude Fronteau and Jacques Lebeau on 30 December 1953 (56 hours 11 minutes). Finally, on 11 January 1954, a CM.7 piloted by Jacqueline Mathé and Marinette Garbarino broke the women's duration record again, this time with a flight of 38 hours 11 minutes. None of these still stand in 2007.

Specifications

References

 Planeurs et Avions

See also

Category:1940s French sailplanes
Category:Gull-wing aircraft


Cooks Lake

Cooks Lake is a lake in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota located at an elevation of .

Cooks Lake bears the name of an early settler.

See also
List of lakes in Minnesota

References

Category:Lakes of Minnesota
Category:Lakes of St. Louis County, Minnesota


Louis Jacob

Louis Jacob may refer to:
 Louis Léon Jacob (11 November 1768 – 14 March 1854), a French admiral and government minister
 Ludovicus a S. Carolo  (20 August 1608 – 10 March 1670), a French Carmelite scholar, writer and bibliographer

See also
Louis Jacobs (disambiguation)


John Collins (Surveyor General)

John Collins was an influential Deputy Surveyor General in the Province of Canada shortly after it was captured by the British.

Personal life

According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography little is known of Collins's early life.  Samuel Johannes Holland, Surveyor General when Collins was appointed his deputy, on September 8, 1764, wrote that he had been “imployed for many years as a deputy Surveyor in the Southern Colonys”.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography notes he was a prominent Freemason.  His wife, Margaret, died in 1770, and he had at least one child, a daughter, Mary, who married John Rankin, also a surveyor.

Work as a surveyor, in Canada

Collins was appointed Deputy Surveyor General on September 8, 1764.

His first major assignment, in 1765 was to survey the border between Canada and the Province of New York.

On September 23, 1787, Collins represented Governor General Lord Dorchester in the negotiation of the Toronto Purchase.

Provincial legislator and administrator

In the Province of Canada the Legislative Council's laws were not fully binding on the Governor, and the Governor appointed many of its members.  Collins was first appointed to the Legislative Council in 1773.  And was entrusted with positions on multiple administrative committees.

References

Category:Surveyors


Log sum inequality

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The log sum inequality is an inequality, which is useful for proving several theorems in information theory.

Statement
Let  and  be nonnegative numbers.  Denote the sum of all s by  and the sum of all s by .  The log sum inequality states that

with equality if and only if  are equal for all , in other words  for all .

Proof

Notice that after setting  we have

where the inequality follows from Jensen's inequality since , , and  is convex.

Applications

The log sum inequality can be used to prove several inequalities in information theory such as Gibbs' inequality or the convexity of Kullback-Leibler divergence.

For example, to prove Gibbs' inequality it is enough to substitute s for s, and s for s to get

Generalizations

The inequality remains valid for  provided that  and .
The proof above holds for any function  such that  is convex, such as all continuous non-decreasing functions. Generalizations to convex functions other than the logarithm is given in Csiszár, 2004.

References
 T.S. Han, K. Kobayashi, Mathematics of information and coding. American Mathematical Society, 2001. .
 Information Theory course materials, Utah State University . Retrieved on 2009-06-14.

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Zoila La Rosa

Zoila La Rosa Cajo (born 31 May 1990) is a Peruvian female volleyball player. She was part of the Peru women's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan. She played with Divino Maestro.

Clubs
  Divino Maestro (2010)
  USMP (2011-2016)
  Volley club Marcq-en-Baroeul Lille Métropole (2016-2017)
  Istres Ouest Provence Volley-Ball (2017-2018)

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Peruvian women's volleyball players
Category:Volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games


N-SAT-110

N-SAT-110, also known as JCSAT-7, JCSAT-110, Superbird-5 and Superbird-D, is a Japanese geostationary communications satellite which was operated by JSAT Corporation and Space Communications Corporation until both companies merged into SKY Perfect JSAT Group in 2008. It is positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 110° East, from where it is used to provide communications services to Japan.

Satellite description
The spacecraft was designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin on the A2100AX satellite bus. It had a launch mass of  with a dry mass of  and a 15-year design life. As most satellites based on the A2100 platform, it uses a  LEROS-1C LAE for orbit raising.

When stowed for launch, the satellite was  high. Its dual wing solar panels gave a power generation capability of 8.3 kW at the end of its design life, with a span of  when deployed. With antennas deployed, its width was .

Its payload is composed of twenty-four 36 MHz Ku band transponders with a TWTA output power of 120 Watts per channel. With its total bandwidth of 864 GHz it is used primarily for multi-channel pay per view business.

History
By September 1997, both JCSAT and Space Communications Corporation (SCC) had requested the 110°East position.
The Japanese government made both companies share the 110°E position, and thus both made a joint order on November 20, 1998 for N-SAT-110 from Lockheed Martin. JCSAT used the JCSAT-7 designation for this satellite, while SCC used Superbird-5.

On October 6, 2000 at 23:01 UTC, an Ariane-42L successfully launched N-SAT-110 to a geostationary transfer orbit from Guiana Space Centre ELA-2. One hour later, at 00:04 UTC, October 7, the first signals from the satellite were successfully received from the Australia ground station. On October 14, 2000, at around 03:00 UTC, N-SAT-110 reached the geostationary orbit. Once it was put in orbit it was renamed as JCSAT-110 by JCSAT and Superbird-D by SCC.

During 2008, JSAT Corporation and Space Communications Corporation merged into SKY Perfect JSAT Group.

See also

2000 in spaceflight

References

Category:Communications satellites of Japan
Category:Spacecraft launched in 2000
Category:Satellites using the A2100 bus
Category:2000 in Japan


Tsaagan

Tsaagan (meaning "white") is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Djadokhta Formation of the late Cretaceous of Mongolia.

Discovery and naming

The fossil of Tsagaan was discovered in 1996 and first identified as a specimen of Velociraptor. After a CAT-scan in May 1998 it was concluded that it represented a new genus. In December 2006 its type species was named and described by Mark Norell, James Clark, Alan Turner, Peter Makovicky, Rinchen Barsbold and Timothy Rowe. The species name, Tsaagan mangas, should be read as a whole with the generic name qualifying the specific epithet, and is derived from the Mongolian words for "white monster" (), although with an accidental misspelling of the word Tsagaan.

The holotype specimen, IGM 100/1015, was found near Xanadu in Ömnögovi Province in layers of the Djadokhta Formation dating to the Campanian, about 75 million years ago. It consists of a well-preserved skull and series of ten neck vertebrae as well as a damaged left shoulder girdle. It is the only specimen found of Tsaagan and belonged to an adult individual.

Description
Tsaagan was a medium-sized dromaeosaurid. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul estimated its length at , its weight at . The skull in general appearance resembles that of Velociraptor but differs from it in many details. It is more robust and smooth on top; unique derived traits, autapomorphies, include long paroccipital processes and basipterygoids at the back of the skull and a jugal touching the squamosal.

Classification
Tsaagan is a member of the group Dromaeosauridae. A cladistic analysis by Norell et al. originally indicated it was more precisely a member of the Velociraptorinae. In 2010 an analysis showed it was closely related to Linheraptor; subsequently Senter (2011) and Turner, Makovicky and Norell (2012) argued that Linheraptor exquisitus is in fact a junior synonym of Tsaagan mangas. Xu, Pittman et al. (2015) reject this synonymy by responding to the counterarguments proposed using new and existing details of Linheraptor'''s anatomy.Tsaagan represents the only dromaeosaurid remains (other than isolated teeth) known from the Ukhaa Tolgod region, though another dromaeosaurid, Velociraptor, is known from the same formation. Animals that may have shared the same habitat with Tsaagan include Protoceratops, Shuvuuia, the small mammal Zalambdalestes, the multituberculate mammal Kryptobaatar'', as well as several lizards and two yet-undescribed species of troodontid and dromaeosaurid.

Below are the results for the Eudromaeosauria phylogeny based on the phylogenetic analysis performed by Currie and Evans in 2019:

See also

 Timeline of dromaeosaurid research

References

Category:Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Category:Djadochta fauna
Category:Dromaeosaurs
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Category:Taxa named by Xu Xing
Category:Taxa named by Mark Norell