Elle Ramirez

Elle Ramirez (born in Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines) is a Filipina actress, model, and dancer. She started her acting career when she joined Protégé: The Battle For The Big Artista Break.

Career
Ramirez auditioned for the Season 2 of GMA's reality-based talent show Protégé, where she became the protégé of singer and actress Jolina Magdangal. But due to the show's twist of events, her mentor Jolina has to let her go and award-winning actress Gina Alajar became her new mentor, and by October 21, 2012 she became one of the runners-up, along with Zandra Summer, Mikoy Morales and Ruru Madrid, while Thea Tolentino and Jeric Gonzales were pronounced the  Season 2 ultimate winners.

In 2013, after her debut in Protégé, Ramirez was cast in the fantasy-drama series Pyra: Babaeng Apoy, together with her co-Protégé stars Thea Tolentino, Jeric Gonzales, Zandra Summer, and veteran actresses Angelu de Leon and Gladys Reyes. Since then, she had been cast in various TV series and anthologies throughout her career.

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Television

Movies

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Asmafines River

The Asmafines River is a river in the United States territory of Guam.

See also
List of rivers of Guam

References
USGS Geographic Names Information Service

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Eric Werner

Eric Werner (born January 26, 1983) is a retired American ice hockey defenseman. He is a 3-time NCAA champion with Michigan, a 1-time EIHL champion with the Nottingham Panthers, and a 1-time SIHL champion with Jesenice.

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AEC Renown

The AEC Renown was a front-engined double-decker bus chassis manufactured by AEC. It superseded the AEC Bridgemaster around 1962.

History
The lowbridge doubler decker AEC Bridgemaster was nearing the end of its production when AEC launched the Renown as its successor around 1962. Production examples were bodied by Park Royal. The design, like the Bristol Lodekka and the Dennis Loline meant this double-decker could travel under low height bridges, whilst maintaining near-full-height standing room.

References

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Lushoto

Lushoto is a town in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. It is the capital of Lushoto District, Tanga Region. The 2012 national census estimated the population of Lushoto ward at 28,190.

History
During German colonial rule, Lushoto was known as Wilhelmstal (William's Valley) and was named after Emperor Wilhelm II.

References

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Cégep de Matane

Cégep de Matane is a francophone CEGEP pre-university and technical college located at 616 Saint-Rédempteur in Matane, Quebec, Canada.

Partnerships
The College of General and Vocational Education is affiliated with the ACCC, and CCAA.

History
In 1967, several institutions were merged and became public ones, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created.

Programs
The CEGEP offers two types of programs: pre-university and technical. The pre-university programs, which take two years to complete, cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school given elsewhere in Canada in preparation for a chosen field in university. The technical programs, which take three-years to complete, applies to students who wish to pursue a skill trade. In addition Continuing education and services to business are provided.

Programmes préuniversitaires
Sciences de la nature
Sciences humaines
Arts et lettres
Programmes techniques
Gestion et exploitation d'entreprise agricole
Soins infirmiers
Technologie de l'électronique industrielle;
Techniques d'aménagement et d'urbanisme; de l'administration; de l'informatique; de tourisme;  de photographie; d'animation 3D et de synthèse d'images; d'intégration multimédia
Formation générale

See also
List of colleges in Quebec
Higher education in Quebec

References

External links
http://www.cegep-matane.qc.ca/

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Appomattox (opera)

Appomattox is an opera in English based on the surrender ending the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that included Dwayne Croft as Robert E. Lee and Andrew Shore as Ulysses S. Grant. The revised version commissioned and premiered by the Washington National Opera on November 14, 2015 expanded the work from 90' to 160' and added roles for Martin Luther King, jr. and Lyndon Johnson.

Roles

Synopsis (2007 version)
Time: The final days of the American Civil War.

Prologue
Julia Dent Grant sings of her fears for her husband, Ulysses, and her sense of foreboding. She is soon joined by Mary Custis Lee and her daughter Agnes Lee who worry for their way of life and hope the war will be over soon. Mary Todd Lincoln appears and asks her black servant Elizabeth Keckley to interpret a nightmare her husband, the President, has had. All sing of the sorrows of war and the hope that this will be the last, joined by a female chorus who carry pictures of their loved ones killed in the war.

Act 1
Scene 1: The days leading up to Robert E. Lee's surrender

While Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant are aboard his floating headquarters on the Potomac, the President and Grant outline a plan to end the war and discuss the generous terms of surrender to be offered to Lee. Their wives arrive, Mrs. Lincoln voicing petty grievances, while Mrs. Grant is steadfast and calm. News of a successful retaking of a Confederate-held fort is brought in by Brigadier General John Rawlins and Colonel Ely S. Parker of the day's battle; Grant then orders the final assault on Richmond. The scene ends with an actual Civil War campfire song. "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground", sung by both armies as Grant and Robert E. Lee watch the sunset from their different offices.

Scene 2: the offices of General Lee

Mrs. Lee rejects her husband's advice to flee Richmond before the coming battle. Lee reflects on his reason for joining the Confederacy despite having been offered the leadership of the Union forces: his invincible loyalty to his home state of Virginia. General Howell Cobb arrives to give a report and confronts Lee over a bill he supports, one that will recruit slaves to fight for the Confederacy, a bill that Cobb believes undermines the entire revolution: If slaves make good soldiers, where does that leave the theory of slavery? Lee responds that his business is war, not theorizing.

Scene 3

Julia Grant, on the eve of the Union's attack on Richmond, reflects on the hard years of her husband's earlier life, including his business failures and alcoholism, but she recalls her mother's prophecy that he would rise to be the highest in the land. Now she worries about the horrible strain the long, bloody war has put on him. Grant assures her that the seemingly endless killing will soon be over.

Scene 4: the destruction of Richmond

A chorus of refugees flees and sings between bomb blasts. Mrs. Lee, remaining in her home, watches as the residents of Richmond flee and burn everything they own so as to not leave anything behind for the Union army. She and Agnes reflect on the horrors of war. A regiment of black Union soldiers enter and sing a marching tune, a variation of the Marching Song of the First Arkansas. The black reporter T. Morris Chester writes a triumphant report to his newspaper while sitting in the speaker's chair of the House of Representatives. President Lincoln arrives and meets a throng of newly freed slaves. When one of them falls to her knees in front of him, he lifts her up telling her to kneel only to God. The slaves sing a hymn in praise of Lincoln. Mrs. Lee meets with Brig. General Rawlins, and expresses her outrage at having a black soldier as sentry in her occupied house. The sentry is to be replaced with a white soldier.

Scene 5: the exchange of letters between Lee and Grant after the taking of Richmond

Grant proposes that Lee surrender to avoid further bloodshed. Lee's initial response is equivocal, only inquiring as to the terms Grant might propose, and later suggesting they meet to discuss "peace" rather than "surrender". But when Lee receives news of his encircled army's failed breakout attempt, he realizes his options are disappearing. His aide, Brig. General Edward Alexander, proposes a radical change of strategy: guerrilla warfare. Lee rejects the stratagem, saying that the soldiers would have to revert to robbing and plundering just to subsist. With no remaining alternative, Lee writes to Grant and asks for a meeting to discuss surrender. The full, crushing weight of his decision weighs upon him as he accepts the reality of defeat.

Act 2
The Appomattox Court House, Virginia

For the April 9, 1865 meeting to negotiate the surrender, the property is being prepared. Lee arrives impeccably dressed, while Grant in his haste appears in a battered, stained uniform. After polite reminiscence about their past acquaintance, Lee finally raises the subject of surrender. Grant proposes the broader terms and proceeds to write them down.

Their discussion is interrupted by a sudden flash-forward to early morning, five days later. Mrs. Lincoln tells Elizabeth Keckley about another of the president's nightmares in which he witnessed his own funeral after being killed by an assassin. Keckley interprets the dream as the death of the war, not the President. Mrs. Lincoln tells of another dream, in which the president rode alone on a great ship to a vague, distant shore. This time, Keckley has no answer and rushes from the room. Mrs. Lincoln sees a vision of a funeral procession bearing a flag-draped coffin, and sees herself following it. She screams and collapses, and the action returns to the treaty signing.

Grant proposes—to Lee's great relief—that all officers and men be allowed to return to their homes after handing over their arms. Lee requests a moment to look over the terms.

The action flashes forward again, to 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana. T. Morris Chester enters and, obviously traumatized, reports the infamous Colfax massacre, in which a hundred black militiamen were cut down by the Ku Klux Klan and White League.

Grant accedes to Lee's request that all his men, not just the officers, be allowed to keep their horses, so that they can return home to work their farms. The terms are set down in ink by Colonel Ely Parker, the only Native American present.

The scene flashes forward again, this time to 1965. Four Civil Rights Marchers enter and, with the chorus, sing "The Ballad of Jimmie Lee", a folk song telling of the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, and set out on the Selma to Montgomery marches.

The meeting concludes as Lee signs the letter accepting the terms, and the generals shake hands. After Lee bows and leaves, he approaches his troops and confirms the surrender; they can go home now, and if they are as good citizens as they were as soldiers, then he will be proud of them.

As the generals depart, soldiers and civilians advance, and the McLean household is systematically ravaged by souvenir hunters. Rapacity and greed—harbingers of the future—violently intrude on the heels of a moment of historic reconciliation.

The action flashes forward one last time, to the present day. Edgar Ray Killen, a Klan member now in jail for his role in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964, appears. Now an old man who uses a wheelchair, he sings in short, barking phrases of his pride in ordering the death of two Jewish civil rights workers and their black driver, and relives the murder in enthusiastic detail. His horrible recollection over, he disappears.

Epilogue
Julia Grant sorrowfully realizes that the War was not the last, as she has hoped, and that mankind will forever fight and kill. She leads the Women's Chorus in a wordless lament to the sorrow of war.

References

External links
San Francisco Opera's Appomattox site

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's 30 kilometre pursuit

The men's 30 kilometre pursuit at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 took place on 27 February 2011 at 12:00 CET at Holmenkollen National Arena. The defending world champion was Norway's Petter Northug while the defending Olympic champion was Sweden's Marcus Hellner.

Results

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Naval Station Argentia

Naval Station Argentia  is a former base of the United States Navy that operated from 1941 to 1994. It was established in the community of Argentia in what was then the Dominion of Newfoundland, which later became the tenth Canadian province, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Construction

Established under the British-US destroyers for bases agreement of 1940, the base was first occupied on 25 January 1941 following the expropriation of the flat headland formed by a small natural bay called Little Placentia Sound and the western end facing Placentia Bay by the Newfoundland government; over 400 families were displaced.

Civilian construction crews from civilian contractors George A. Fuller Company and Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation,  rushed to build the base as well as an adjoining air field. On 15 July 1941, the Naval Operating Base was commissioned.  On 12 October 1942 the 17th Naval Construction Battalion began to arrive at the base and worked jointly with the civilians until 5 May 1943.  At that time it became a completely military operation.  Before that happened the 64th CB started to arrive in March followed by the 69th CB in June.  On November 17, 1943, Construction Battalion Maintenance Units (CBMUs) 525 and 526 arrived to take over the station maintenance with the CB's having completed the  base's construction.

Atlantic Conference

On 7 August 1941 the heavy cruiser USS Augusta carrying U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in the anchorage at Little Placentia Bay off the base. Roosevelt inspected the base construction progress and did some fishing from Augusta over the next two days. Augusta was joined by the British warship HMS Prince of Wales carrying British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on 9 August 1941. While in the Argentia anchorage from 9–12 August, the chiefs of staff of Britain and the U.S. met to discuss war strategies and logistics once the U.S. joined in the war. The two leaders and their aides also negotiated the wording of a press release that they called a "joint statement". That press release was issued on 14 August 1941 in Washington, D.C. and was issued simultaneously in London, England. Several days later the Daily Herald would characterize the public statement as being the Atlantic Charter. However, there never was a signed, legal document called the "Atlantic Charter". Neither Roosevelt nor Churchill signed it. The conference concluded the evening of 12 August 1941 with the British and American warships and their escorts passing in review before departing the area for their home ports. The joint declaration was publicly announced on 14 August, presumably after Prince of Wales had returned to UK waters.

Second World War operations

On 28 August 1941 Naval Air Station Argentia was commissioned. NAS Argentia was built on the plateau atop the triangular peninsula adjacent to Naval Station Argentia's anchorage and shore facilities. The air station was used to base convoy protection, coastal patrol and anti-submarine aircraft, both land-based aircraft and seaplanes. While NAS Argentia was nominally an independent facility from Naval Station Argentia, both facilities are largely viewed as one.

Beginning that summer,  was used to house Flag Headquarters at the base.

February 1942 saw the Argentia base at the centre of one of the worst accidental disasters in the US Navy's history when  and  grounded and were lost with heavy casualties  southwest of the base. Over 100 victims were buried in Argentia's military cemetery.

United States Army Coast Artillery Corps troops were first deployed to Argentia in early 1941, at first a single coast defence battery with two or four 155 mm guns and an anti-aircraft battery. In January 1942 construction began on two batteries of 6-inch guns, and in March 1942 the United States Army established Fort McAndrew at Argentia to provide security to the navy base through an anti-aircraft battery and additional coast defence guns. Later that spring the Royal Navy established a small maintenance base at Argentia to service its ships involved in convoy escort groups operating out of Halifax, Sydney, St. John's and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

A US Navy-manned indicator loop station (Station 1X) was at Argentia; this detected submarines via their magnetic signature.

In the spring of 1943 a 7,000 ton floating drydock was installed at Argentia, along with a ship repair facility. In August 1943, Task Force 24 Flag Headquarters moved ashore to permanent facilities after having been housed aboard USS Prairie.

In 1944, Argentia served as one of the two stopover bases for the refuelling, maintenance, and crew changes of the six United States Navy (USN) K-class blimps that made the first transatlantic crossings of non-rigid airships. Blimps K-123 and K-130 from USN Blimp Squadron 14 (also known as ZP-14, Blimpron 14, or "The Africa Squadron") left South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Massachusetts on 28 May 1944 and landed at Argentia about 16 hours later. The two K-ships then flew for approximately 22 hours to Lages Field on Terceira Island in the Azores, the second stopover base for the transatlantic flights. The last leg was a ~20-hour flight to the squadron's final destination with Fleet Air Wing (FAW) 15 at Port Lyautey, French Morocco (now Kenitra, Morocco). Blimps K-123 and K-130 were followed by K-109 and K-134 then K-112 and K-101 which left South Weymouth on 11 and 27 June, respectively, in 1944. These six blimps initially conducted nighttime anti-submarine warfare operations to complement the daytime missions flown by FAW-15 aircraft (PBYs and PB4Y-2) using magnetic anomaly detection to locate U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Strait of Gibraltar. Later, ZP-14 K-ships conducted minespotting and minesweeping operations in key Mediterranean ports and various escort missions including that of the convoy carrying Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to the Yalta Conference in early 1945. In late April 1945, K-89 and K-114 left NAS Weeksville (now Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City) in North Carolina and flew a southern route to NAS Bermuda, the Azores, and Port Lyautey, where they arrived on 1 May 1945.

Aerodrome

In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as USAAF Aerodrome - Argentia, Newfoundland at  with a variation of 29 degrees west and elevation of .  The field was listed as "All hard surfaced" and had three runways listed as follows:

Fort McAndrew

United States Army Coast Artillery Corps troops were first deployed to Argentia in January 1941, initially Battery A of the 57th Coast Artillery (Tractor Drawn) (TD) Regiment with two or possibly four mobile 155 mm guns, and Battery B of the 62nd Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) (AA) Regiment. A command known as the Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St. John's was established at this time to coordinate US coast defence activities in Newfoundland, under the Newfoundland Base Command. On 20 July 1941 the 155 mm gun battery was redesignated as Battery A, 53rd Coast Artillery (TD) Regiment, and on 1 August 1941 (some sources 1942) the AA battery was redesignated as Battery A, 421st CA (AA) Battalion (Separate). After the US entered the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, construction on two batteries (Batteries 281 and 282) of two 6-inch guns each began in January 1942 and was completed in October 1942. These guns were on shielded long-range carriages with reinforced concrete and earth bunkers housing magazines and fire control equipment. On 16 February 1942 the harbour defence units in Newfoundland were redesignated as components of the 24th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) (Composite) Regiment, the headquarters and two additional batteries of which arrived at Fort McAndrew from the US on 25 March 1942. In April 1942 the AA defences were strengthened with the arrival of the 422nd CA Battalion (AA).

By the end of 1942 the coast defence gun batteries in the Argentia area were as follows:

In March 1943 the 24th CA Regiment was reduced to a battalion. In December 1943-January 1944 elements of the unit returned to the US for inactivation. In October 1944 the unit was reorganized, but was not fully inactivated until 8 September 1945. The date the unit was transferred to the US for inactivation is unclear. Postwar, circa 1946 the coast defence batteries were inactivated. The 6-inch guns of Batteries 281 and 282 survive. Battery 282's guns are still in place, and in 1993 Battery 281's guns were moved to Fort Columbia in Washington state, US.

Cold War operations
Following the war's end in August 1945, the first dependents of naval personnel were permitted to move to Argentia to live in permanent quarters on base.

In 1946, Fort McAndrew was transferred to the U.S. Army Air Forces which became the United States Air Force in 1947. In 1948, Fort McAndrew was renamed McAndrew Air Force Base.

In 1949, Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation as the 10th province. During the Cold War, Argentia Naval Station became a key "node" in the Northwest Atlantic's SOSUS network, helping to detect Soviet nuclear submarines. The base was the target of several espionage attempts between the 1940s–1990s as a result.

In 1955 McAndrew AFB was decommissioned and the facility was turned over to the US Navy with USAF personnel moving to other locations in Newfoundland such as Ernest Harmon AFB, Goose AFB or various radar installations being built in conjunction with the Royal Canadian Air Force such as the Pinetree Line, Mid-Canada Line and Distant Early Warning Line. Associated with the DEW Line, radar picket ships such as USS Hissem used the base, and Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star aircraft used the airfield. These ships and aircraft were called Barrier Force Atlantic (BARLANT) and operated from 1955 through 1965.

In 1959 the Navy deployed a portable Transit tracking station at the station, which recorded the doppler data from the 24-minute flight of the Transit 1A satellite launched on 17 September 1959. An ionospheric refraction value was calculated using the doppler data recovered by the portable station, and a correction factor was then applied to the data to produce a doppler curve unaffected by ionospheric refraction. The Satellite 1-A trajectory thus determined was in close agreement with range track data. Also in 1959 a NAVFAC (Naval Facility) was established at Argentia to operate part of the SOSUS seabed sonar system.

Closure
In 1972 NAVFAC became a joint operations station for the US Navy and the Canadian Forces but Naval Air Station Argentia was decommissioned and the land transferred in 1975 to the Government of Canada. It was subsequently transferred to the provincial government for development. On 30 September 1994 the US Navy left Argentia completely when NAVFAC Argentia was decommissioned (Canadian operations were transferred to Canadian Forces IUSS Centre in Halifax) and the last personnel moved out.

Until 1994, the runways of the former airfield were utilized by the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. The Air Cadets operated weekend glider familiarization through the Air Cadet Gliding Program. The Schweizer SGS 2-33 was launched using an auto-tow launch method, utilizing the entire length of the runway surfaces. Personnel were housed at the Naval Station Argentia facilities. After the US Naval Station was decommissioned, the glider program was operated without facilities support for a few years until the airfield was occupied for the Hydromet Test Facility owned by INCO. With the announcement that the INCO development would not be using the airfield, the Air Cadet Gliding Program once again started using the airfield for gliding operations in May 2008.

Bibliography

 Gaines, William C., Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950, Coast Defense Journal, vol. 23, issue 2
 Hein, David. "Vulnerable: HMS Prince of Wales in 1941.” Journal of Military History 77, no. 3 (July 2013): 955–989.

External links

 NAVFAC Argentia, Newfoundland established
 Photos: NAVFAC NF Argentia, 1960–1999

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Emil Gârleanu

Emil Gârleanu (January 4/5, 1878 – July 2, 1914) was a Romanian prose writer.

Born in Iași, his parents were Emanoil Gârleanu, a colonel in the Romanian Army, and his wife Pulcheria (née Antipa). He began high school in his native city in 1889, but withdrew after the first three grades. He then entered the School for Soldiers' Sons in the same city, where one of his classmates was Eugeniu Botez. In 1898, he enrolled in the Infantry School and was assigned to the Ștefan cel Mare 13th Regiment. Due to his journalistic activity, prohibited by the rules, he was transferred to Bârlad as a disciplinary measure. His literary debut took place in 1900, in Arhiva magazine, where he published the poem "Iubitei" and the sketch "Dragul mamei", both signed with the pen name Emilgar. In 1900, Gârleanu enrolled in the literature faculty of Iași University, but did not attend classes. Publications that ran his work include Arhiva, Evenimentul, Sămănătorul, Făt-Frumos, Luceafărul, Albina, Neamul românesc, Convorbiri Literare, Convorbiri Critice, Flacăra, Seara and Revista idealistă; among the pen names he used were Emilgar, Em. Maril, Gladiatoru and Glaucos.

Together with George Tutoveanu and D. Nanu, he founded the Sămănătorist magazine Făt-Frumos at Bârlad; it ran from 1904 to 1906. He resigned from the army in 1906 and moved to the national capital Bucharest. He was an admirer of Nicolae Iorga's and influenced by his social and aesthetic ideas, as can be discerned from his first book, the 1905 Bătrânii. Schițe din viaţa boierilor moldoveni. In turn, Iorga commented favorably on Gârleanu's prose work. A familiar figure in the capital's literary bohemian scene, he subsequently entered the Convorbiri Critice circle, where Mihail Dragomirescu became his new mentor. In 1908, Gârleanu helped lay the foundations for the Romanian Writers' Society, of which he was elected president for 1911-1912.

From 1911 until his death in 1914, he directed the National Theater Craiova, where he hired Liviu Rebreanu as literary secretary. In the year of his premature death, he published Proza magazine, the entirety of which he wrote himself. Gârleanu's final weeks were marked by a campaign in the Craiova press, launched by an obscure journalist who wished to secure the theater directorship for himself. Meanwhile, he was recuperating from a kidney operation at Câmpulung. However, an article published in late June and brought to his sick bed by an ill-wisher so distressed the writer that it ended up crushing his spirit, aggravating his illness and hastening his death. He was buried at Bellu cemetery. His translations include works by Guy de Maupassant (A Life), Alphonse Daudet (Sapho, Artists' Wives) and Octave Mirbeau. He published popular editions of Vasile Alecsandri, Grigore Alexandrescu, Ion Creangă, Mihail Kogălniceanu and Costache Negri, as well as a revised and enlarged version of Ioan Barac's One Thousand and One Nights translation.

Gârleanu was a minor prose writer, imbued with nostalgia for a traditional world in which he evokes romantic, "unadaptable" and defeated boyars, in the style of Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, I. A. Bassarabescu and Mihail Sadoveanu, but with an added component of romantic melodrama. His preoccupation for dramatic conflict and novel psychological enquiry reveal a more authentic side to the realist narrator of Nucul lui Odobac, Punga and Înecatul. His melancholy, lyricism and gentle irony come to the fore in the naturalist vignettes of Din lumea celor care nu cuvântă (1910), precursors to the stories of Tudor Arghezi.

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Levantine Gothic

The Levantine Gothic is the Gothic style developed in Levante, the Mediterranean area of Spain, characterized by its halls and churches of great horizontal extent with emphasis on the structural part supported by buttresses and minimal and austere decorations.

The main differences with Castilian Gothic are:

 single nave instead of three, in case that there are, has the same height and the wider central
 chapels between the buttresses
 thinner supports
 low figurative decoration, dominated by the geometric type
 minor surface of openings, resulting in a low light penetration.

Very few examples of this style of architecture exist outside the larger Christian strongholds. The surrounding countryside was still being fought over by the Spanish Christians and Spanish Muslims (Moors). In the capital cities of Medieval mediterranean Christian kingdoms, cathedrals of this style were erected in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Many buildings of this architectural style can be found around the region of Valencia with its own style Valencian Gothic and across the Balearic Islands.

See also
 Catalan Gothic
 Valencian Gothic
 Gothicmed

References
 Valdearcos, Enrique: «El arte gótico» Clio n.º 33 (2007)

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Now Deh Garrison

Now Deh Garrison ( – Pādegān Neẓāmī Now Deh) is a village and garrison in Khormarud-e Jonubi Rural District, Cheshmeh Saran District, Azadshahr County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 98, in 21 families.

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Dingolfing

Dingolfing is a town in southern Bavaria, Germany.  It is the seat of the Landkreis (district) Dingolfing-Landau.

History
The area now called Dingolfing was first mentioned in Tinguluinga  in the year 833.

In the year 1251 the duke of Bavaria, Otto II. awarded municipal rights to the town, which was the Upper City. The Lower City, around the church of St. John's, was an older settlement belonging to the Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg. By treaty of 1265 between Duke and Bishop, both cities were united.

Dingolfing's large growth took place during the years of about 1315 to 1600.  During this time the city prospered mostly through trade, fishing, leather craft and the production of wool cloths.  The duke promoted these works, causing Dingolfing to prosper even more.

The war of Austrian succession caused very heavy damage to the city and decimated the population by epidemics. The city became nothing more than debris and ash on May 16, 1743 after being fired upon by Austrian troops. Greater parts of the city were burnt in a large fire.  Many of the town's records were destroyed in this fire.

Between 1802 and 1803 the local courts were dissolved.  Between 1816 and 1817 there were many economic and harvest failures.  There was also a period of large price increases.  This period is thought to be the lowest point in the long history of the city.

A railroad track leading from Munich to Prague and many new roads were built in the mid-19th century, which began a major turn-around for the city.  Many new industries formed in Dingolfing around this time too.  The region began to paint a new picture of itself.

In 1905 a new machine shop opened to repair broken farming equipment. After the Second World War this shop changed its business and began producing scooters and automobiles. In the 1950s the plant began producing automobiles under the Glas car company. BMW bought the facility in 1967. Known today as BMW Group Plant Dingolfing, the plant produces the 3 Series GT, the 4 Series, the 5 Series, the M5, the 6 Series GT, the 7 Series and the 8 Series. With 330,000 vehicles made in 2018, the Dingolfing plant has the highest production volume of any BMW plant in Europe.

After 1945 and especially since the 1970s Dingolfing intensified its investments in its urban infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, and housing for the elderly.

Geography
Dingolfing is located on the Isar river.  Dingolfing is about 100 km northeast of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria, and about 30 km east of Landshut and 25 km south of Straubing.  The Isar divides the city into the older historical section of the city on the right side of the river (historically divided into the Upper City and the Lower City), and the area of the former farming villages Goben, Geratsberg, Höll and Sossau, where much residential development in recent decades has grown to a newer section of the city on the left side of the river.

Important buildings
 Parish church St. Josef, a monumental hall church planned by Robert Vorhoelzer, 1954–1956

Economy
The most important industry in the Dingolfing-Landau region is automobile construction. Dingolfing is home to BMW's largest production facility which produces around 270,000 cars (BMW 5, 6, 7 series and also the M5 and M6) each year. Hans Glas GmbH began as makers of agricultural equipment in 1895 and were bought by BMW in 1966.

People from Dingolfing

 Heinrich Deubel (1890–1962), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant. He resided in Dingolfing after the war but was not born there.
Peter Högl, SS officer in World War II
 Marco Sturm, former NHL forward, was born in Dingolfing on September 8, 1978.
 Johann Sziklai, poet

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References

Literature
 Joseph Wolfgang Eberl: Geschichte der Stadt Dingolfing und ihrer Umgebung. Dingolfing 1856 online (Google Books)

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 Deed by Louis the German for St. Emmeram Abbey (Regensburg), 27 May 833 with first record of the place name of Tinguluinga,
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Bowesdorp

Bowesdorp was formerly a town between Garies and Springbok, 60 km south of the latter. Established on the farm Wilgenhoutskloof and named after Henry Bowe, doctor in Namaqualand. Situated in a narrow valley between high mountains, there was not sufficient water or space for expansion, and the church, post office, police station and shops were moved to Kamieskroon, 7 km away.

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All About Steve

All About Steve is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Phil Traill and starring Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, and Bradley Cooper as the eponymous Steve. The film is the winner of two Golden Raspberry Awards and has a 6% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Plot
Mary Horowitz, a crossword puzzle writer for the Sacramento Herald, is socially awkward and considers her pet hamster her only true friend. Her parents decide to set her up on a blind date. Mary's expectations are low, as she tells her hamster. Mary is pleasantly surprised when her date turns out to be handsome and charming Steve Miller, a cameraman for the television news network CCN. Steve does not reciprocate her feelings. After an attempt at an intimate moment fails, in part because of her awkwardness and inability to stop talking about vocabulary, Steve fakes a phone call about covering the news out of town. Trying to get Mary out of his truck, he tells her he wishes she could be there.

Mary believes him and decides to pursue him. Mary's obsession gets her fired when she creates a crossword titled "All About Steve". Following her termination, Mary decides to track Steve around the country in the hopes of winning his affection. She is encouraged by CCN news reporter Hartman Hughes, who hopes to use Mary's encyclopedic knowledge in his reports to help himself get a promotion to become a news anchor. On the road, Mary annoys some bus passengers so much, the driver abandons her. She hitchhikes with a trucker named Norm, then meets and travels with a pair of protesters, Elizabeth, a ditzy but sweet and likeable girl, and Howard, who sells apples he carves into celebrities. She gradually grows close to the two.

Steve and crew end up covering a breaking news story: an old mine collapsed with numerous deaf children stuck inside. Initially, it appears that the children are rescued. Mary, who arrives on the scene, accidentally falls into the mine shaft as well while making a beeline for Steve. It turns out that not all the children have been rescued, and Mary is trapped with one left behind. Steve begins to realize that Mary, in her own unique way, is a beautiful person. Just as Mary figures a way out, the two are joined by Hartman, who is made to feel guilty by Elizabeth and Howard for getting Mary into this predicament. Mary's rescue plan works, but she lets Hartman take the credit. Mary finally realizes she does not need Steve to be happy. She states, "If you love someone, set him free; if you have to stalk him, he probably wasn't yours in the first place."

After the end credits, a competitive TV reporter, in despair that Hartman got popularity by falling into the mine while trying to save Mary, also jumps into the mine.

Cast

 Sandra Bullock as Mary Magdalene Horowitz
 Bradley Cooper as Steven "Steve" Miller
 Thomas Haden Church as Hartman Hughes
 Ken Jeong as Angus Tran
 DJ Qualls as Howard
 Katy Mixon as Elizabeth
 Beth Grant as Mrs. Horowitz
 Howard Hesseman as Mr. Horowitz
 M. C. Gainey as Norman James "Norm" Durwood
 Luenell as Protester's wife
 Jordan Morris as Protester Winston
 Keith David as Danny
 Holmes Osborne as Soloman
 Jason Jones as Vazquez
 Noah Munck as Student
 Rachel Sterling as Booby Botanist

Production
Production began in July 2007. Parts of the film were shot at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena, California. Scenes featuring the collapsed mine and sink hole were filmed at The Walt Disney Company's Golden Oak Ranch in Canyon Country, California. Originally scheduled for release on March 6, 2009, the film was not released until September 4, 2009.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film a rating of 6% based on 139 reviews with a rating average of 2.61/10. The sites consensus states: "All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film an average score of 17/100 based on 27 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".
Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave it a grade of C-plus, a low score, indicating poor word of mouth.

Roger Ebert gave the film 1 and a half stars out of 4. Time named it one of the top ten worst chick flicks.

Box office
All About Steve opened at #3 behind the previous two weeks' #1 openers, The Final Destination and Inglourious Basterds with $11.2 million. The film grossed $33.8 million at the North American  box office and has a worldwide total of $40.1 million.

Accolades

The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards in 2010, including Worst Picture, Worst Director (Phil Traill), Worst Actress (Sandra Bullock), Worst Screenplay (Kim Barker) and Worst Screen Couple (Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper). All About Steve ultimately won Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple. Sandra Bullock accepted the Razzie for Worst Actress, giving out a copy of All About Steve to each member of the audience, promising to attend next year if they all watched to consider if it was "truly the worst performance". When an audience member thanked her for the copies, Bullock replied "You say that now". She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for The Blind Side the next day, making Bullock the first performer to win an Academy Award and a Razzie Award in the same year.

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William Andleby

William Andleby (Anlaby) (executed at York, 4 July 1597) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

Life
William Andleby was born in Etton, Yorkshire into a gentry family. At 25 he went to the Netherlands to take part in the Dutch war. He visited Douay College out of curiosity and met William Allen; a discussion led to his conversion, and eventually Andleby became a Catholic priest, being ordained 23 March 1577, along with Ralph Sherwin. Andleby returned to England in April 1578.

At first he worked alone. According to Challoner, "For the first four years of his mission he travelled always on foot, meanly attired, and carrying with him usually in a bag his vestments and other things for saying Mass; for his labours lay chiefly among the poor, who were not shocked with such things."

Later Andleby acquired a horse, and around 1587 worked with another Douai priest and native of the Riding, William Atkinson. They travelled widely from Richmond through York to Howden, Hemingbrough and Hull. He is known to have taken his ministry to Mr. Tyrwhitt's, in Lincolnshire, and also to the Catholic prisoners in Kingston upon Hull's blockhouse.

In 1597, he was arrested and condemned as a Catholic priest.  He was executed at York with three laymen: Henry Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and Edward Fulthrop.

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Kaleköy

Kaleköy (literally "Castle's village" in Turkish;  - Simena), is a village of the Demre district in the Antalya Province of Turkey, located between Kaş and Demre, on the Mediterranean coast. Kaleköy faces the island of Kekova, and can be reached by sea or on foot from Üçağız.

The village lies amidst a Lycian necropolis, which is partially sunken underwater. Kaleköy is overlooked by a Byzantine castle, built in the Middle Ages to fight the pirates which nested in Kekova. The castle contains a small theatre.

Kaleköy is a popular yachting destination.

See also
 Lycia
 Turkish Riviera

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Gloria Montero

Gloria Montero (born 1933) is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She co-directed with David Fulton the documentaries "Years of Struggle" (1975), "The Horsemen" (1977), "The Cry of the Gull" (1977), and "Crisis in the Rain" (1981).

Montero was born to Spanish immigrants in Australia. She lived in Toronto from 1955 to 1978. As of 1973, Montero was the Executive-secretary of the Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain, and as of 1975, its President. The organization opposed fascism in the country.

Her book The Immigrants (1977) included pieces of interviews with over 400 people, talking about their experiences. The same year, she hosted a series for CBC Radio called The Music of Spain. A second series, spanning 13 weeks, aired in 1980.

Montero and David Fulton moved from Canada in 1978. As of 1980, they were known to have been living in the old quarter of Barcelona, Spain with their teenaged son, Miguel. Her daughter, actress Allegra Fulton, stayed in Canada. She would later star in her mother's one-woman show Frida K., about Frida Kahlo at the 1994 Fringe of Toronto Festival. The production was The Globe and Mail critic's second favourite production that year.

In 1980, she released the book We Stood Together, a history of Canadian trade unions. She was working on a book about Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.

The Archives of Ontario has preserved four of her documentary films in its holdings as the Gloria Montero and David Fulton fonds (F 4368, 1975-1984).

As of 1980, she was known to be friends of pianist Jordi Sabates and Tete Montoliu.

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1953 Orange Bowl

The 1953 Orange Bowl, part of the 1952 bowl game season, took place on January 1, 1953, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The competing teams were the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Syracuse Orangemen, competing as a football independent. Alabama won the game by a record margin of 61–6. The 55-point margin of victory remained the largest for a bowl game until the 2008 GMAC Bowl, and still stands as the largest margin of victory for an Alabama football team in a bowl game.

Teams

Alabama

The 1952 Alabama squad posted their best overall record the 1950s, finishing 9–2 leading into the postseason.  However, losses to Tennessee and Georgia Tech cost the Tide an SEC title. The day after defeating Maryland 27–7, Alabama accepted a bid to play in the Orange Bowl on New Years Day. The appearance marked the second for Alabama in the Orange Bowl, as they defeated Boston College 37–21 in the 1943 game.

Syracuse

The 1952 Syracuse squad finished the regular season with a record of 7–2 and as winners of the Lambert Trophy for the first time in school history. The Orangemen accepted a bid to play in the Orange Bowl after Navy declined the initial bid.

Game summary
Alabama opened the scoring on the afternoon with a 27-yard touchdown pass from Clell Hobson to Bobby Luna to take a 7–0 lead. Syracuse responded on the following possession with their lone points of the game on a 15-yard, Joe Szombathy touchdown run. After the extra point failed, the score was 7–6. The Orangemen did not score again while the Crimson Tide scored 54 unanswered points. Alabama extended their lead to 21–6 at the half with two touchdowns on a one-yard Bobby Marlow run and a 50-yard Thomas Tharp reception from Hobson. The scoring continued in the third quarter with three more touchdowns on a 38-yard Bobby Luna run and runs of one and 30-yards by Tommy Lewis. Leading 41–6, Alabama scored another three touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a 21-yard Joe Cummings reception from Bart Starr, an 80-yard Hootie Ingram punt return and a 60-yard Marvin Hill interception return.

The final score of 61–6 set a NCAA record for largest margin of victory in a bowl game, surpassing the previous record of 49 points set by Michigan in both the 1902 and 1948 Rose Bowl Games. The 55-point margin of victory stood as the all-time record for a bowl game through the 2008 GMAC Bowl where Tulsa defeated Bowling Green 63–7 for a 56 point margin of victory. The 55-points still stands as the largest margin of victory for an Alabama football team in a bowl game.

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Mahmud Shah III of Johor

Mahmud Ri’ayat Shah Zilu’llah fil’Alam Khalifat ul-Muminin ibni al-Marhum Sultan ‘Abdu’l Jalil Shah (24 March 1756–1811) was the 15th Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Johor of the Old Johor Sultanate Empire and their dependencies who reigned from 1770 to 1811.

Early life
Born on 24 March 1756, Mahmud Shah III is the younger son of the 13th Sultan of Johor, Abdul Jalil Muazzam Shah by his second wife, Tengku Puteh binti Daeng Chelak. To maintain their de facto control of Johor Empire, the Bugis continued to install puppet rulers on the throne, including the infant grandson of Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah, Mahmud Shah III, who succeeded on the death of his elder brother, Ahmad Riayat Shah in 1770.

Treaty with the Dutch

During the early part of his reign, the office of Yamtuan Muda was held by the powerful Bugis chief, Daeng Kemboja. Mahmud Shah III came of age at a time when Bugis-Dutch trade rivalry was intensifying. He exploited the rivalry by concluding a treaty of protection with VOC on board the Utrecht on 10 November 1784 in which he was accorded the style of 'Most Serene Prince' (Doorlugtigen Vorst).

The treaty called for the end of the Bugis monopoly over the office of Yamtuan Muda and prohibited other Bugis from holding office within Johor's administration. It also demanded the expulsion of all Bugis not born or bred in Riau. Additionally, the treaty allowed the Dutch to post a Resident in Johor. Shortly thereafter. Mahmud Shah III retreated to Pahang. All-out conflict soon erupted between the Dutch and the Bugis. Hostilities between the two powers continued until 1795, when the Dutch finally succeeded in ousting the Bugis chief, Raja Ali from Riau, allowing Mahmud Shah III to return to his capital.

Return of the Bugis dominance
The same year, however, the Netherlands came under French occupation and the Dutch allowed the British to temporarily take over their territories in the Malay world. This enabled Raja Ali to make a comeback. After the Bugis ousted Tengku Muda, the Malay Yamtuan Muda of Johor, Mahmud Shah III had no choice but to accept Raja Ali's return in 1803. To appease both the Bugis and Tengku Muda, the Sultan married his son, Tengku Hussein, to Tengku Muda's daughter, while his other son, Tengku Abdul Rahman, was made Raja Ali's ward. To maintain his distance from the Bugis, Mahmud Shah III established his capital at Daik, Lingga.

Dissolution of the empire
By the early 19th century, the Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga empire had begun to break up. Based in Lingga, Mahmud Shah III exercised little power over his empire. This enabled the emergence of a number of powerful chiefs from the same family, such as Temenggong Abdul Rahman (great great grandson of Abdul Jalil Shah IV, second cousins once removed to Mahmud Shah III) and Tun Abdul Majid (grandson of Abdul Jalil Shah IV and first cousins once removed to Mahmud Shah III). Installed in 1806, the Temenggong had de facto control over Johor mainland, Singapore and the islands in the Riau Archipelago. While in Pahang, Bendahara Tun Abdul Majid became increasingly independent and began carrying the title 'Raja Bendahara' ('King Grand Vizier') of the dominion, following the weakening control from the capital.

This development had resulted in the empire's constituent parts effectively became principalities, and the cultural unity that had hitherto existed between the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Riau-Lingga was gradually destroyed.

Death
Mahmud Shah III died at Fort Tanna, Bukit Chengah, Lingga on 12 January 1811 and was buried at Masjid Jamie', Daik, Lingga without having named a successor and having had issue, two sons by commoners, and two daughters.

A succession dispute arose between his sons, later ended when the Bugis seized the throne for his younger son, Tengku Abdul Rahman and crowned him in Riau as the next sultan.

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Chloé Coulloud

Chloé Coulloud is a French actress, known for her role in the 2011 French horror movie Livide.

Filmography

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Franz Knoop

Georg Franz Knoop (20 September 1875, Shanghai – 2 August 1946, Tübingen) was a German biochemist, most well known for his discovery of the β-oxidation of the fatty acids in 1905.

Alongside Hans Adolf Krebs and Carl Martius, he clarified the reaction sequence of the citric acid cycle in 1937. He determined the structure of histidine and demonstrated that amino acids can be synthesized not only in the plants, but also in animals.

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Celebrity Big Brother

Celebrity Big Brother (or Big Brother VIP) is an adaptation of the Big Brother reality television series. Just like its parent franchise, Celebrity Big Brother airs in several countries, however the housemates or houseguests are local celebrities. In some countries, the prize money normally awarded to the winning housemate is donated to a charity, and all celebrities are paid to appear in the show as long as they do not voluntarily leave before their eviction or the end of the series. The rest of the rules are nearly the same as those of the original version.

Popularity
The celebrity version has become particularly popular in the UK, causing UK broadcaster Channel 5 to extend its deal with Endemol enabling them to air two celebrity series in addition to the civilian version every year from 2012. In total the UK aired 22 celebrity series with their twenty-second and final series ending on 10 September 2018, Four days later on 14 September 2018, Channel 5 confirmed that they had axed both Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother.

In Bulgaria, VIP Brother has replaced the original format of the show and more seasons of the celebrity edition have been produced than the regular one. Due to the show's popularity there, it lasts for two months unlike most countries where it only airs for a month.

Versions
Examples include:

 Celebrity Big Brother (UK TV series) – series:
Channel 4 (2001–2010): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Channel 5 (2011–2018): 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
 Celebrity Big Brother (Australian TV series)
 Celebrity Big Brother (Croatian TV series)
 Celebrity Big Brother (South African TV series)
 Celebrity Big Brother (U.S. TV series): 1, 2
 Big Brother Famosos / Big Brother VIP (Portugal) – seasons: 1, 2, 3
 Big Brother VIP (Albania and Kosovo) – upcoming
 Big Brother V.I.P. (Denmark)
 Big Brother VIP (Hungary) – seasons: 1, 2, 3
 Big Brother VIP (Mexico) – seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 Big Brother VIP (Poland)
 Big Brother VIPs (Belgium) – seasons: 1, 2
 Big Brother VIPs / Hotel Big Brother (Netherlands) – seasons: 1, 2
 Big Brother Slavnih (Slovenia)
 Bigg Boss (India) – seasons:
Hindi: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Halla Bol, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Kannada: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bangla: 1, 2
Tamil: 1, 2, 3
Telugu: 1, 2,  3
Marathi: 1, 2
Malayalam: 1
 Gran Hermano Famosos (Argentina) – seasons: 1
 Gran Hermano VIP (Spain) – seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 Grande Fratello VIP (Italy) – seasons: 1, 2, 3
 HaAh HaGadol VIP (Israel) – seasons: 1, 2, 3
 Julkkis Big Brother (Finland)
 Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition (Philippines) – seasons: 1, 2
 Promi Big Brother (Germany) – seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
 Veliki brat VIP (Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina) – seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 VIP Brother (Bulgaria) – seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

See also
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National Metal and Steel

National Metal and Steel Corporation was engaged in ship dismantling operations at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor Region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

The president of National Metal and Steel was Harry Faversham.

History
National Metal and Steel was the final destination for many decommissioned United States Navy ships.

In 1953 it was the first U.S. company to export scrap metal to postwar Japan.

It provided for the demolition of many famed Pacific Electric Railway red cars and Los Angeles Railway yellow cars as those public transit systems were eliminated in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Also, a number of the very heavy coal-fired Southern Pacific class AC-9 articulated locomotives were demolished here. For operational reasons, they had been usable mainly only in New Mexico and Texas, and were very rarely operated elsewhere on the SP system due to clearance considerations.

Operations on Terminal Island ceased on 1 January 1986 when the company lost that facility to a harbor expansion project. National Metal and Steel maintained headquarters in the nearby city of Carson.

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Danny Is Dead

Danny Is Dead, the first EP and fourth studio album from American rapper/producer Danny!, is a half-hour-long EP that was released July 17, 2007 (see 2007 in music) on Danny!'s 1911 Music/Badenov Records vanity label.  The eight-song record is the extended play follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2006 album Charm and composed primarily of reducia from Charm'''s standout tracks (namely, "Now You're Gone", "Cafe Surreal" and "Fly").

Like all of the titles in Danny!'s catalogue, production on Danny Is Dead was helmed solely by Danny! himself.  There are also no guest appearances or features on the album, making Danny Is Dead the first record since Danny!'s debut, The College Kicked-Out, to be a completely solo effort.

 Overview
 Reception

The record was well received and touted by critics as a sign of great music to come from Danny!.  PopMatters optimistically stated that while Danny! certainly "has a brilliant album in him", Danny Is Dead ultimately "lacks the amazingness of both what he’s done and what he’s likely to do".  RapReviews.com gave the album an 8.5 out of 10—the same score given to Charm—and offered that Danny! "continues to impress...this rapper's career [is] definitely on the rise".

Overall Danny Is Dead was hailed as an enjoyable album, short enough to not overwhelm listeners and long enough to keep them interested in future material.  Presumably playing up his claims of being "A Tribe Called Quest on acid", Danny!'s first single from Danny Is Dead, entitled "Check It Out", is, for all intents and purposes, an energetic remake of their 1998 single "Find A Way". This song was the most well-received track from Danny Is Dead (followed closely by "Fly, Pt. 2"), and was briefly featured by sites such as Pitchfork, URB and Okayplayer, who would later relaunch their record label division and sign Danny! as their first artist.

 Availability Danny Is Dead was, like Charm before it, released worldwide through retail chains such as Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and FYE.  More copies were pre-ordered and subsequently sold than anticipated, and a second short run of discs were pressed up not even a month after Danny Is Dead's July 17 release date.  As a result, the album was listed as "out of stock" or "back-ordered" for several weeks, much to the dismay of fans attempting to track down the EP.

Three different versions of Danny Is Dead'' were manufactured and shipped to various outlets in different regions of the world.  HMV's UK and Japanese stores have since stocked the item; on the Japanese retail version sold on HMV Japan, the bonus track "Just Friends (Live)" is included at the end of an instrumental reprise of "Now You're Back". In England, the never-before-released "Fullaschidt, Pt. 2" (also known as "Fullaschidt (remix)") is preceded by "Outro (Dead...?)", just as "Ebony Flower" is on the North American retail version.  As of August 2007, only the Japanese retail version has been made available for sale on iTunes.

Track listing

Credits
 Danny! – executive producer, producer, composer, featured vocals

Release history

References

External links
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 "Danny Is Dead" lyrics courtesy of the Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive (OHHLA.com)
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DGSN

DGSN may refer to:

General Directorate for National Security (Direction Générale de Surêté Nationale), the state police body of Morocco
Direction Générale de Surêté Nationale, the Algerian police
DGSN: ICAO code of Sunyani Airport, Ghana


Night People (You Me at Six album)

Night People is the fifth studio album by English rock band You Me at Six. Following an 18-month touring cycle for Cavalier Youth, the group took a break. In the autumn, the group worked on new music at drummer Dan Flint's house, and subsequently tracked demos with Ross Orton. Reconvening in January 2016, the group were in discussions with several different producers before being approached by Jacquire King. The group then went to Nashville, Tennessee to record their new album with King in February. Majority of the album was recorded live-in-the-studio, an approach the group hadn't attempted before. The group returned home to write more material before returning to the studio. Recording subsequently wrapped up in June. Night People was announced in August, followed by the single release of the title-track.

Preceded by the single release of "Plus One", the group went on a UK tour in October. In November, the group released two singles ("Give" and "Swear") before embarking on a European tour. Before the end of the year, "Heavy Soul" was released as a single. Night People released on 6 January 2017 through Infectious Music. It charted at number 3 in the UK, as well as charting in Australia, Belgium and New Zealand. Eight of its ten tracks charted on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. Following its release, "Take on the World" was released as a single in March, and the group went on a tour of the UK. Over the summer, the group went on a tour of the US, performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Sundown festival.

Background
You Me at Six released their fourth studio album Cavalier Youth in January 2014. The group supported it with an 18-month long touring cycle, which included the band's first arena tour, and ended with an appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival in June 2015. Following this, the band's social media accounts went inactive. After the preceding ten years of constant touring, the band members went on a break, which vocalist Josh Franceschi considered to be "necessary to appreciate the things we had, to get off the ride for a little bit." During the break, the band members refrained from listening to the radio or rock albums, instead consuming hip hop, UK grime, soul and funk music.

In an interview with Kerrang! in May 2015, guitarist Max Helyer revealed that the band would be meeting up in the summer to work on new ideas. Franceschi said that due to the touring schedule for Cavalier Youth they didn't write any new material between 2013 and 2015. In the autumn, the band built a personal studio at drummer Dan Flint's house, which would allow them to work whenever they wished. The band visited Flint's studio as often as three or four times a week to write new material; the group ended up writing 50–60 new songs. Following demoing sessions in Sheffield with Ross Orton, the vision for the group's next album began to form, as Franceschi explains: "Out of that process we knew that we were necessarily going down the right route—musically, mentally, everything."

Production
The band members reconvened in January 2016 with no immediate plans to record a new album, nor any idea of who might produce it. After having discussions with several different producers, the group were approached by Jacquire King in early February. King offered the band the chance to record in Nashville, Tennessee, and "literally three days later", according to Franceschi, the band boarded a plane to Nashville. The group was so eager to record that they flew before their management had been able to figure out accommodation in the city. In the past, the group had "screaming matches with some of our producers", according to Franceschi; to avoid stressing out King or themselves, the band's management recommended they took a meditation class prior to recording. Recording for Night People took place at Black Bird Studios with King producing the sessions.

The group entered the studio with six to eight songs, and planned to record for three weeks. King wanted to record a rock album with the band, something he hadn't done since Kings of Leon's Only by the Night in 2008. According to Franceschi, King's "attitude was very much, ‘I can’t have you make a record with me unless it’s your best record, and I want it to be the best rock record I’ve made.’" The group had wanted to work with King for Cavalier Youth but they "didn’t think he’d even return our phone call". King asked the group if they had recorded live-in-the-studio before, to which they replied they hadn't. After attempting it, King was instantly impressed with how well the group worked as a cohesive unit: "I've not seen a band play like that in a long, long fucking time. I can tell you guys know each inside out." The band recorded the majority of the album with this approach.

Halfway through the sessions, the group went home to write more songs, before returning to Black Bird Studios. Working in Nashville, the band were "so focused and determined at the same [time]", according to Franceschi. He added that the process was different from when they recorded Sinners Never Sleep (2011) and Cavalier Youth "in California, where we were socializing and partying ... We put a lot of time, a lot of dedication into [Night People]". Recording finished in June. Andrew Scheps mixed the recordings, while Eric Boulanger mastered them.

Composition
All of the songs on the album, apart from "Plus One", "Take on the World" and "Can't Hold Back", were written by the band. "Plus One" and "Can't Hold Back" were written by the band and Longpigs frontman Crispin Hunt, while "Take on the World" was written by the band and Iain Archer. Franceschi wrote all of the songs' lyrics, and attempted to give them "its own character, its own sort of perspective." Discussing the album's title, Franceschi explained: "Most bands have a kinda 4pm to 4am existence, ... so it seemed like an appropriate title for a rock record." The album's sound has been described as pop rock, hard rock, and rock and roll. Rock groups such as Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who, Muse, the Strokes and the Killers have been cited as influencing Night People.

The title-track was one of the first songs the group wrote for the record. "Plus One" was written while Franceschi was playing an acoustic guitar during the group's first recording session at Black Bird Studios. The group worked on it as a full-band song at Flint's home studio. Franceschi described the song's lyrics as being about the "pursuit of someone you've wanted for a long time." "Heavy Soul" was put together during a rehearsal which Franceschi could not attend due to being ill. Flint sent a demo of the song to Franceschi, who exclaimed "Fucking hell, lads, this is good!" According to Franceschi, the song's lyrics talk about the "heartbreak when you’re no longer in love with the idea of being a musician and what that might mean." According to Franceschi, as soon as the group recorded "Take on the World", "we knew that it was a big anthem." Franceschi described "Brand New" as the type of song he had been "waiting for us to write for a while." The song's lyrics were partially written on the behalf of people in Franceschi's life and talks about "not letting the past dictate your future."

"Swear" was the first song written for the album, shortly after the group's performance at the Isle of Wight Festival. With it, the group wanted a song that was reminiscent of "Loverboy" in the bass and drums, as well as being "more in line with what we are listening to now", according to Helyer. The song initially started out as a verse and then "all of a sudden this song came together in the space of an hour." According to Franceschi, the group wanted the bassline to "almost be offensive, and make people feel like they're being attacked." The song's lyrics are partially "where you’re pursuing someone not necessarily for a confrontation, but for an answer, or an apology, perhaps", according to Franceschi. Franceschi wanted the lyrics to complement the "intensity of the music." Franceschi considered the middle eight of "Make Your Move" to be the "heaviest piece of music" on the album, "almost flirt[ing] with a Limp Bizkit kind of vibe."

While working in Dan's studio, Franceschi tracked a demo of "Can't Hold Back" consisting solely of a guitar riff and a middle eight. The group later altered the structure of the song, according to Franceschi "a hundred times" and almost abandoned it. The lyrics to it were influenced by the Arctic Monkeys' "Fake Tales of San Francisco". Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has "always been really good in setting scenes with his lyrics, and I was kinda trying to do something similar here", according to Franceschi. With "Spell It Out", Franceschi attempted to write a song that could "almost fit as a sync to a movie trailer or some Game Of Thrones battle scene." While performing at an Australian festival, Franceschi spotted Sticky Fingers, who have "one song that had a slow tempo but was really euphoric", which inspired Franceschi to write "Give". Franceschi would frequently play the guitar riff to it during rehearsals. Within an hour, the group had the finished song. Heyler said that when the group heard Franceschi's melody for the chorus, "we all knew that it was a special song straight away."

Release
On 10 August 2016, the band hosted a livestream on their Twitter account. The livestream lasted an hour, revealing the hashtag "#NIGHTPEOPLE" and a logo. This led to speculation of a new album, which was later revealed to be titled Night People. The following day, the band posted an image with the phrase "Raise a glass to tomorrow's blues" over it. On 22 August, Night People was announced for release, and the album's artwork and track listing was revealed. A day later, "Night People" was released as a single. On 8 September, a music video was released for the title-track, directed by Ryan Vernava and Liam Achaibu. "Plus One" was released as a single on 3 October. In October, the band went a tour of the UK with support from VANT. The following month, the band went on a tour of Europe with support from Lower Than Atlantis. "Give" was released as a single on 4 November. A Vaults remix of "Night People" was released as a single on 18 November.

"Swear" was released as a single on 23 November. Heyler said the group did not want to release it as a single as it sounded too much "like a You Me at Six-sounding song" since "Night People" displayed a different sound for them. A day later, a music video was released for the song, film during the band's performance at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. "Heavy Soul" was released as a single on 21 December. Night People was initially planned for release on 13 January; it was released on 6 January through Infectious Music. Franceschi said the group had discussed releasing the album before Christmas, however, "sometimes if you put your record out towards the end of the year, it feels like last year’s music". He added that they went with a January 2017 release "because we wanted it to be the rock record of 2017". The Japanese edition of the album included live versions of "Night People", "Plus One" and "Swear", recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire, as bonus tracks.

On 7 February, a music video was released for "Give", also filmed at Shepherd's Bush Empire. Franceschi said that the video wasn't originally meant to have live performance footage. Instead, it would have been "footage [of the band] and the content for that song". The group's label however thought the performance would work as a video. "Take on the World" was released as a single on 24 March. The band went on a tour of the UK in April with support from Tonight Alive and Black Foxxes. A AlunaGeorge remix of "Take on the World" was released as a single on 28 April. In early May, released a video for "Take on the World", filmed during a performance at Alexandra Palace in London. Later in the month, the band went on a tour of the US and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend festival. In late August, the band performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, followed by headlining Sundown festival in early September. On 8 September, an acoustic EP, titled Acoustic in Amsterdam, was released an included versions of "Take on the World", "Brand New", "Night People" and "Give". Following this, the group performed a few shows in Australia.

Reception

Night People received mixed reviews from critics. The album charted at number 3 in the UK, after selling 14,318 copies in its first week. It charted at number 3 in Scotland, number 20 in Australia and number 84 in Belgium. It also charted at number 1 on the New Zealand Heatseekers Albums chart. Most of the tracks on the album charted on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart: "Night People" at number 4, "Plus One" at number 24, "Heavy Soul" at number 17, "Take on the World" at number 1, "Brand New" at number 21, "Swear" at number 19, "Spell It Out" at number 32 and "Give" at number 5.

Track listing
All songs written by You Me at Six, except where noted. All lyrics by Josh Franceschi.

Bonus tracks

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

You Me at Six
 Josh Franceschi – lead vocals
 Chris Miller – lead guitar
 Max Helyer – rhythm guitar
 Matt Barnes – bass guitar
 Dan Flint – drums

Production
 Jacquire King – production, programming
 Andrew Scheps – mixing
 Eric Boulanger – mastering
 Studio Juice – art direction
 Alex Page – photography
 David East – photography
 Max Fairlough – photography
 Matt Salacuse – photography

Charts

References
Citations

Sources

External links

Night People at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

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David Grimes (meteorologist)

David Grimes is a career meteorologist who studied mathematics and nuclear and quantum physics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He has been assistant deputy minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada in charge of the Meteorological Service of Canada since July 2006. In 2011, he was elected president of the World Meteorological Organization by its 189 members, succeeding Alexander Bedritskiy of Russia.

References

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Nenad Filipović (racewalker)

Nenad Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Филиповић; born 5 October 1978) is a Serbian racewalker. He competed in the 50 km event at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics with the best result of 30th place in 2008. His twin brother Predrag is also an Olympic racewalker.

References

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Rhodotorula evergladiensis

Rhodotorula evergladiensis is a yeast species first found in the Florida Everglades.

References

Further reading

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Category:Yeasts
Category:Fungi described in 2011


Burundi at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Athletics

Burundi qualified five athletes.

Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal); qC=Final C (non-medal); qD=Final D (non-medal); qE=Final E (non-medal)

Boys
Track & road events

Girls
Track & road events

Beach Volleyball

Burundi qualified a boys' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.

Tennis

Burundi qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.

Singles

Doubles

References

You
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Franklinothrips

Franklinothrips is a genus of thrips with pantropical distribution.

Name
The genus name is derived from the surname of entomologist H. J. Franklin, who described thrips taxa in the early 1900s. The thrips genus Frankliniella is also named after him. Franklin worked at the entomology department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1930s.

Reproduction

Most species are apparently bisexual (have both males and females) and occur only in small areas. An exception is F. vespiformis, which is unisexual (mostly females) and occurs in many tropical countries. Only few males were produced during rearing programmes involving F. vespiformis.

Mimicry
The fast-running females are easily misidentified as ants or bethylid wasps (superfamily Chrysidoidea). Particularly the African species F. megalops very closely mimics ants in its behavior and body form. Males are less ant-like in appearance. They are smaller, have longer antennae and a less constricted waist.

Feeding behavior
F. orizabensis is known to be unable to survive solely on plant food. It is used as a control agent against thrips on avocado trees. Together with F. vespiformis it has been marketed in Europe as a control agent against thrips in greenhouses. F. vespiformis also feeds on mites, nymphs of a whitefly species and the larvae of an agromyzid fly. F. megalops has been used for thrips control in "internal landscapes".

Taxonomy

The three neotropical species F. orizabensis, F. tenuicornis and F. vespiformis are closely related.

The species F. megalops, F. rarosae and F. variegatus appear to part of a cline across the Old World tropics from Africa to Australia, with F. rarosae being intermediate in appearance as well as distribution.

The only genus closely related to Franklinothrips is Corynothripoides from Africa, and its only species, C. marginipennis, could even belong to the same genus.

F. caballeroi and F. suzukii are possibly the same species, with one having been distributed through horticultural trade.

References

 Includes key to species and color photographs.
 Thrips of the World Checklist: Genus Franklinothrips

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Category:Thrips genera
Category:Terebrantia
Category:Insects of Asia
Category:Pantropical fauna


Chicago Review of Books

The Chicago Review of Books is a literary publication of StoryStudio Chicago which reviews recent books covering diverse genres, presses, voices, and media. Besides book reviews, the magazine also published interviews, features, and essays. It is considered a sister publication of Arcturus, which publishes original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

References

External links

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Category:Magazines published in Illinois
Category:Magazines with year of establishment missing


Myoporum petiolatum

Myoporum petiolatum, commonly known as sticky boobialla, is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. For many years this species has been confused with the much less common species Myoporum viscosum from which it can be distinguished by its thinner, noticeably petiolate and non-odorous leaves.

Description
Myoporum petiolatum is a  shrub which usually grows to between  in height. Its leaves are arranged alternately and have a distinct petiole  long. The leaves are mostly  long,  wide, elliptic to egg-shaped and with the upper surface dark green and shiny compared to the lighter lower surface. The leaf margins have tiny serrations.

The flowers are borne in leaf axils in clusters of 2 to 5 on stalks  long. There are 5 narrow triangular sepals and 5 petals forming a tube with spreading lobes on the end. The petals are white with a slight lilac flush and purple spots on the lobes and in the tube. The tube is  long and the lobes are  long. The fruit is a succulent, rounded, yellow-green drupe about  in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming
Myoporum petiolatum was first formally described by taxonomist Bob Chinnock in Eremophila and allied genera: a monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae in 2007 from a specimen collected in the Waitpinga Conservation Park. The specific epithet is from the Latin petiolatum, 'with a petiole', referring to the leaves.

Distribution and habitat
Myoporum petiolatum occurs in South Australia and Victoria. It is found in and between the Flinders Ranges, the Mount Lofty Ranges, Kangaroo Island and the ranges around Melbourne. It often grows in exposed parts of woodland.

References

petiolatum
Category:Flora of South Australia
Category:Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Category:Lamiales of Australia
Category:Plants described in 2007


Kurimoto, Chiba

was a town located in Katori District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Kurimoto Village was established on April 1, 1889. It was raised to town status on April 10, 1924.

On March 27, 2006, Kurimoto, along with the city of Sawara, and the towns of Omigawa and Yamada (both from Katori District), was merged to create the city of Katori, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

In November 2005 (the last data available before its merger into Katori), the town had an estimated population of 5,179 and a population density of 178 persons per km². Its total area was 29.05 km².

External links
Katori official site

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Category:1889 establishments in Japan
Category:Populated places established in 1889
Category:Populated places disestablished in 2006
Category:2006 disestablishments in Japan


Tae Okajima

is a Japanese voice actress who works for Kenyu Office.  She is also known as  for her roles in visual novels and OVAs.

Her major roles include Kotonoha Katsura in School Days. Anzu Yukimura in Da Capo II, Hakuryu in Saiyuki Reload, and Chokaku in Koihime Musō.

Filmography

Anime

Video games

References

External links

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List of films set around Valentine's Day

This is a list of films set on or around Valentine's Day.

Animated
 A Charlie Brown Valentine - a 2002 animated TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts
 A Valentine for You - a 1999 TV special based on the Disney television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
 Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown - a 1975 animated TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts
 Madly Madagascar - a 2013 animated direct-to-DVD special
 The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine
 The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight

Comedy
 I Hate Valentine's Day - a 2009 romantic comedy written and directed by Nia Vardalos
 Obvious Child - a 2014 romantic comedy
 The Old Maid's Valentine - a 1900 short romantic comedy directed by George Albert Smith
 Sleepless In Seattle - a 1993 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
 Valentine's Day - a 2007 comedy TV special made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 Valentine's Day - a 2010 romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall

Crime
 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - a 1967 dramatization directed by Roger Corman

Drama
 An Affair to Remember - a 1957 drama starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr

Horror
 Hospital Massacre - a 1982 horror film also known as Be My Valentine, or Else...
 My Bloody Valentine - a 1981 slasher film directed by George Mihalka
 My Bloody Valentine 3D - a 2009 remake of the 1981 film
 Valentine - a 2001 slasher film, directed by Jamie Blanks
 Happy Death Day - a 2017 American slasher film directed by Christopher Landon
 Happy Death Day 2U - a 2019 American slasher film written and directed by Christopher Landon

Mystery
 Picnic at Hanging Rock - a 1975 mystery drama directed by Peter Weir

See also
 :Category:Valentine's Day television episodes

Category:Lists of films set around holidays
Films


NuttX

NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on technical standards compliance and small size. Scalable from 8-bit to 32-bit microcontroller environments, the main governing standards in NuttX are from the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Further standard application programming interfaces (APIs) from Unix and other common RTOSes (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functions unavailable under these standards, or inappropriate for deeply embedded environments, such as a fork.

NuttX was first released in 2007 by Gregory Nutt as free and open-source software under the permissive BSD license. It is currently undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation.

Implementation
NuttX is written almost exclusively in the programming language C and uses Kconfig to configure and generate GNU makefiles for the system. The program distribution combines the kernel and a substantial amount of middleware and code for board support and device drivers. The kernel and much of the other code was written by the original author, Gregory Nutt. He maintains the source code exclusively, and must approve all community contributions.

Key features
 Standards compliant
 Core task management
 Modular design
 Fully preemptible
 Naturally scalable
 Highly configurable
 Easily extensible to new processor architectures, SoC architecture, or board architectures
 Scheduling: first in, first out (FIFO) and round-robin (RR)
 Real-time, deterministic, with support for priority inheritance
 Tickless operation
 POSIX/ANSI-like task controls, named message queues, counting semaphores, clocks/timers, signals, POSIX Threads (pthreads), environment variables
 Multiple file systems
 VxWorks-like task management and watchdog timers
 BSD socket interface
 Extensions to manage preemption
 Optional tasks with address environments (processes)
 Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
 Loadable kernel modules
 Memory configurations: (1) flat embedded build, (2) protected build with MPU, and (3) kernel build with MMU
 Memory allocators: (1) standard heap memory allocation, (2) granule allocator, (3) shared memory, and (4) dynamically sized, per-process heaps
 Thread local storage (TLS)
 Inheritable controlling terminals, pseudoterminals (PTY) and input/output (I/O) redirection
 On-demand paging
 System logging
 May be built either as an open, flat embedded RTOS or as a separately built, secure kernel with a system call gate interface
 Built-in, per-thread CPU load measurements
 Custom NuttX C library

Supported platforms
 ARM
 ARM7TDMI (TI TMS320 C6571, Calypso, MoxART, NXP LPC214x, LPC2378, STMicro STR71x)
 ARM920T (Freescale i.MX1)
 ARM926EJS (TI DM320, NXP LPC31xx)
 ARM Cortex-A5 (Atmel SAMA5D2, SAMA5D3, SAMA5D4)
 ARM Cortex-A8 (Allwinner A10)
 ARM Cortex-A9 (NXP/Freescale i.MX6)
 ARM Cortex-R4/R4F (TI TMS570, Samsung Artik)
 ARM Cortex-M0 (nuvoTon: NUC120, NXP: KL25Z, KL26Z, LPC11xx, Atmel: SAMD20/21, SAML21, ST Micro STM32 F0)
 ARM Cortex-M3 (ST Micro STM32 F1/F2/L1, TI/Stellaris LM3S, NXP LPC17xx, Atmel SAM3U/3X, SiliconLabs EFM32)
 ARM Cortex-M4 (with/without floating point unit: ST Micro STM32 F3/F4/L4/L4+, TI/Stellaris LM4F/TM4C, NXP LPC43xx/LPC54xx, Freescale Kinetis K20/K28/K40/60/64/66, Atmel SAM4C/4E/4S/4L, Infineon XMC4xxx, Nordic NRF52xxx, Sony CXD5602/Spresense)
 ARM Cortex-M7 (Atmel SAMV71/SAME70, ST Micro STM32 F7/H7, NXP i.MX RT)
 Atmel AVR
 Atmel 8-bit AVR (AT90USB, ATmega)
 AVR32
 Freescale M68HCS12
 Intel
 80x86
 MIPS
 MicroChip PIC32MX (MIPS32 24Kc)
 MicroChip PIC32MZ (MIPS32 M14k)
 Misoc
 LM32 (Qemu)
 OpenRISC
 mor1kx
 Renesas/Hitachi
 Renesas/Hitachi SuperH
 Renesas M16C/26
 RISC-V
 NEXT RISC-V NR5Mxx (RV32IM)
 GreenWaves GAP8 (RV32IM)
 Xtensa LX6
 Expressif ESP32
 Zilog
 Zilog Z16F
 Zilog eZ80 Acclaim!
 Zilog Z8Encore!
 Zilog Z80

File system
 Tiny in-memory, root pseudo-file-system
 Virtual file system (VFS)
 Mountable volumes. Bind mountpoint, file system, and block device driver
 Generic system logging (SYSLOG) support
 File Allocation Table (FAT) 12/16/32 file system support
 Network File System (NFS) client, supports NFS, version 3, UDP
 NXFFS: a tiny wear-leveling flash memory file system
 SMART: flash file system from Ken Pettit
 Generic driver for SPI-based cards: MultiMediaCard (MMC) and Secure Digital (SD/SDHC)
 Romfs file system support
 BINFS pseudo-file system support
 HOSTFS file system support (simulation only)
 Union file system: supports combining and overlaying file systems
 PROCFS (/proc) pseudo-file system
 A Binary Loader with support for the following formats:
 Separately linked Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) modules
 Separately linked modules for NXFLAT: a binary format that can be XIP from a file system
 PATH variable support
 File transfers via TFTP and FTP (get and put), HTML (wget), and Zmodem (sz and rz)
 Intel HEX conversions

Device drivers
 VFS supports character and block drivers
 Asynchronous I/O (AIO)
 Network, USB (host), USB (device), serial, I2C, I2S, NAND, Controller Area Network (CAN bus), ADC, DAC, PWM, Quadrature Encoder, and watchdog timer driver architectures
 RAM drive or disk, pipes, FIFO, /dev/null, /dev/zero drivers
 Generic driver for SPI-based or SDIO-based MMC/SD/SDH cards
 Power management subsystem
 Modbus support provided by built-in FreeModBus version 1.5.0
 Graphics devices: framebuffer drivers, graphic and segment LCD drivers
 Audio subsystem: Codecs, audio input and output drivers. Command line and graphic media player applications
 Cryptographic subsystem
 Input devices: touchscreen, USB keyboard, USB mouse, GPIO-based buttons and keypads
 Memory technology devices
 Analog devices: support for analog-to-digital converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter (DAC), multiplexers, and amplifiers
 System logging devices
 Porting guide

C/C++ library
 Standard C library fully integrated into the OS
 Includes floating point support via a Standard Math Library
 Add-on uClibc++ module provides Standard C++ Library supporting input/output (C++) (iostreams), strings, Standard Template Library (STL), run-time type information (RTTI), exceptions, etc. (LGPL)

Networking
The network stack included with NuttX is derived from uIP (micro IP), originally developed by Adam Dunkels.
 Multiple network interface support; multiple network link layer support
 IPv4, IPv6,Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 2 (client) stacks
 Stream and datagram sockets
 Raw socket and local, Unix domain socket support
 DNS name resolution, NetDB
 IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) FullMac
 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC + 6loWPAN
 Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), TUN/PPP, local loopback devices
 A cJSON port
 Small size (based on uIP)
 BSD compatible socket layer
 Networking utilities (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and client, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) client, Telnet client, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server and client, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server and client, Network Time Protocol (NTP) client); inheritable Telnet sessions (as controlling terminal). VNC server
 Network File System (NFS) client, supports NFS, version 3, UDP
 ICMPv6 autonomous auto-configuration
 A NuttX port of Jef Poskanzer's thttpd HTTP server integrated with NXFLAT to provide embedded CGI
 PHY link status management
 UDP network discovery, XML RPC server
 XML RPC server
 Support for network modules (such as the TI CC3000 WLAN module)

Flash support
 Memory Technology Device (MTD) inspired interface for MTD devices
 FTL: simple flash Translation Layer support file systems on Flash
 NAND Support
 NXFFS: a wear-leveling flash memory file system
 Support for Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus based flash devices

USB support

Host
 USB host architecture for USB host controller drivers and device-dependent USB class drivers.
 USB host controller drivers available for the Atmel SAMA5Dx, NXP LPC17xx, LPC31xx, and STmicro STM32.
 Device-dependent USB class drivers available for USB mass storage and HID keyboard.
 Seamless support for USB hubs.

Device
 Gadget-like architecture for USB device controller drivers and device-dependent USB class drivers
 USB device controller drivers available for the PIC32, Atmel AVR, SAM3, SAM4, and SAMA5Dx, NXP LPC17xx, LPC214x, LPC313x, and LPC43xx, Silicon Laboraties EFM32, STMicro STM32 F1, F2, F3, and F4, and TI DM320.
 Device-dependent USB class drivers available for USB serial and for USB mass storage
 Built-in USB trace functionality for USB debug

Graphics support
 Framebuffer drivers
 Liquid-crystal display (LCD) drivers for both parallel and SPI LCDs and organic light-emitting diode (OLED)
 Segment LCD drivers
 VNC Server
 NX Graphics Subsystem: A graphics library, windowing system, and font support that works with either framebuffer or LCD drivers
 NuttX Widgets: A graphical user interface (GUI) written in conservative C++ that integrates with NX graphics
 NuttX window manager: tiny, based on the NX graphics subsystem and NuttX widgets

Projects using it
 Thingsee Internet of things (IoT) development device.
 PX4 autopilot uses NuttX to control a variety of autonomous platforms.
 Biffer Board supports many RTOSs including NuttX.
 MP3 player implemented with NuttX.
 OsmocomBB uses NuttX to develop an operating system for cell phones.
 A homebrew steer-by-wire system implemented using NuttX.
 Video Performance Measurement Device.
 Low Power Embedded Software Optimization for the NuttX RTOS.
 Motorola Moto Z.
 Sony uses NuttX in their audio processors.
 Samsung announces TizenRT based on NuttX RTOS.

References

External links

 Official NuttX user group
 Linux Journal mentioned NuttX This citation bring NuttX attention to my Linux developers on 2010-09-01
 Compiling NuttX to micropendousX open hardware board
 Dangerous Prototypes post about NuttX Dangerous Prototypes is creator of famous Bus Pirate board sniffer.
 Port of NuttX to x86

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Category:Microkernels


Colpothrinax wrightii

Colpothrinax wrightii, the palma barrigona, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

It is found only in—endemic to Cuba.

References

wrightii
Category:Endemic flora of Cuba
Category:Vulnerable plants
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot


Waldo Ballivián Municipality

Waldo Ballivián Municipality is the sixth municipal section of the Pacajes Province in the  La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Tumarapi (or Waldo Ballivián).

See also
 Ch'alla Jawira
 Janq'u Apachita
 Wila Qullu

References
 www.ine.gov.bo / census 2001: Waldo Ballivián Municipality

External links
 Map of the Pacajes Province

Category:Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)


1992 Dow Classic – Singles

Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but did not compete at the Dow Classic in 1992.

Brenda Schultz won in the final against Jenny Byrne, 6–2, 6–2.

Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.

  Zina Garrison (Quarterfinals)
  Nathalie Tauziat (Third Round)
  Gigi Fernández (Third Round)
  Lori McNeil (Quarterfinals)
  Natalia Zvereva (Third Round)
  Brenda Schultz (Champion)
  Pam Shriver (Semifinals)
  Yayuk Basuki (Third Round)
  Larisa Savchenko-Neiland (Quarterfinals)
  Jo Durie (Semifinals)
  Mariaan de Swardt (Second Round)
  Patty Fendick (First Round)
  Elna Reinach (Second Round)
  Mana Endo (Second Round)
  Kimberly Po (Third Round)
  Katrina Adams (First Round)

Qualifying

Draw

Finals

Top Half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom Half

Section 3

Section 4
{{16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3-Byes
| RD1=First Round
| RD2=Second Round
| RD3=Third Round
| RD4=Quarterfinals

| RD1-seed03=
| RD1-team03= E deLone
| RD1-score03-1=6
| RD1-score03-2=0
| RD1-score03-3=1
| RD1-seed04=
| RD1-team04= N Guerrée
| RD1-score04-1=3
| RD1-score04-2=6
| RD1-score04-3=6

| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05= A Henricksson
| RD1-score05-1=6
| RD1-score05-2=4
| RD1-score05-3=2
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=
| RD2-score03-1=2
| RD2-score03-2=6
| RD2-score03-3=8
| RD2-seed04=14
| RD2-team04= M Endo
| RD2-score04-1=6
| RD2-score04-2=4
| RD2-score04-3=6

| RD2-seed05=10
| RD2-team05= J Durie
| RD2-score05-1=6
| RD2-score05-2=6
| RD2-score05-3=
| RD2-seed06=WC
| RD2-team06= B Nagelsen
| RD2-score06-1=3
| RD2-score06-2=4
| RD2-score06-3=

| RD2-seed07=
| RD2-team07= R Fairbank-Nideffer
| RD2-score07-1=4
| RD2-score07-2=3
| RD2-score07-3=
| RD2-seed08=2
| RD2-team08= N Tauziat
| RD2-score08-1=6
| RD2-score08-2=6
| RD2-score08-3=

| RD3-seed01=5
| RD3-team01= N Zvereva
| RD3-score01-1=6
| RD3-score01-2=65
| RD3-score01-3=4
| RD3-seed02=
| RD3-team02=

References
 1992 Dow Classic Draws
 ITF Tournament Page
 ITF singles results page

Dow Classic - Singles
Singles