Ganpatrao Deshmukh

Ganpatrao Deshmukh (born 10 August 1927, at Pimpri , Tal-Mohol, Dist-Solapur.) is an Indian politician and leader of the Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWP). He is the longest serving member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly have been elected 11 times, during the last 54 years, from  Sangole in Solapur district. Deshmukh also briefly served as a minister in the First Sharad Pawar ministry in 1978, and later in 1999, when PWP supported the Congress-NCP alliance.

Deshmukh was first elected to the State Assembly in the 1962 elections, and since then won every election, except for the 1972 and 1995 elections . In 2012, the government and the Assembly congratulated him upon his completing 50 years as a member .

In the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election at the age of eighty-eight, he won the Sangole constituency for  a record 11th time with 94,374 votes.

References

He is always used to travel by only government bus and he is live in his old house today also

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Parallels, Events, People

Parallels, Events, People () is documentary series on the Soviet dissident movement and 2011–13 Russian protests.

Parallels, Events, People is produced by Natella Boltyanskaya with support from the Oak Foundation and the Andrei Sakharov Foundation. The documentary series was first presented on 13 May 2014 in Memorial society.

Among participants in the documentary series are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Maria Baronova, Irek Murtazin, Garry Kasparov, Yevgeny Yasin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Nadezhda Mityushkina, Alexander Voronel, Natan Sharansky, Grigory Okhotin, Ekaterina Nagornova, Igor Bakirov, Vladimir Posner, Alexey Makarov, Gabriel Superfin, Ivan Kovalev, Sergei Kovalev, Alexander Podrabinek, Nikolay Uskov, Gleb Pavlovsky, Anton Nosik, Alexei Kondaurov, Alexander Daniel, Arseny Roginsky, Tatyana Velikanova, Ekaterina Krongauz, Dmitry Bykov, Andrey Grigorenko, Yuliy Kim, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Sergei Lukashevsky, Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov, Tomas Venclova, Karinna Moskalenko,  Vyacheslav Bakhmin, Tatyana Osipova, Peter Reddaway, Tatyana Dmitrieva, Semyon Gluzman, Irina Grivnina, Yuri Savenko, Lyubov Vinogradova, Vladimir Bukovsky, Bent Jensen, Zurab Kekelidze, Ildar Dadin, Pavel Litvinov.

References

External links

 Facebook page of the project

See also
 They Chose Freedom
 Dissenters' March
 2011–13 Russian protests

Category:2014 television films
Category:Russian documentary films
Category:Documentary films about politics
Category:Commemoration of communist crimes
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Loretta (disambiguation)

Loretta is a given name.

Loretta may also refer to:

Music
 Dead Loretta, a psychedelic rock band from Newark, Delaware, U.S.
 Get Back Loretta, a funk-rock group from San Diego, California, U.S.
 "Hey Loretta", a 1973 single by Loretta Lynn from the album Love Is the Foundation
 Loretta (album), 1980 album by Loretta Lynn

People
 Mark Loretta (born 1971), an American baseball player

Places
 Loretta (Warrenton, Virginia), or Edmonium, a historic home near Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
 Loretta, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the town of Draper, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, U.S.

Other uses
 1939 Loretta, an asteroid discovered in 1974

See also
 Loreto (disambiguation)
 Laura (disambiguation)
 Laurette (disambiguation)


Remedium

Remedium (Polish remedy) is the third studio album by Polish rapper Tau, released on December 3, 2014 by his own label Bozon Records. It was his first album released after changing his stage name from Medium to Tau. The album features guest appearances by Kali, Bezczel, Buka, Paluch, Zeus, the singer Agnieszka Musiał and rapper Lecrae. At first, rapper stated there was going to be guest appearances by KęKę and Peja, although their contribution was canceled by Tau himself.

Remedium was promoted with four singles: "Logo Land", released on September 24, 2014, "List motywacyjny" with featured appearance by Paluch, which was released on October 28, 2014, "BHO" recorded along with Bezczel and "Remedium", which was shared on Tau's page on October 2, 2014. For all of those tracks there were videos made. In contradistinction to previous Tau's projects, on which he was in charge of the entire production, Remedium was produced by several producers, such as Zdolny, Chris Carson and Gawvi.

The album debuted at number 4 on the Polish OLiS chart, having sold over fifteen thousand copies within several months.

Track listing

Sample credits
 "Pierwsze tchnienie" contains a sample from "Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers and "This Masquerade" by George Benson.
 "BHO" contains a sample from "Jesteś tu" by Maria Koterbska.
 "Puk puk" contains a sample from "Zabiorę Cię ze sobą" by Halina Frąckowiak and Grupa ABC Andrzeja Nebeskiego.

Personnel
All information about the personnel was adopted from Discogs.

Musicians
 Tau - rap, lyrics, producer, executive producer
 Zeus - rap, lyrics
 Kali - rap, lyrics
 Bezczel - rap, lyrics
 Buka - rap, lyrics
 Lecrae - rap, lyrics
 Paluch - rap, lyrics
 Agnieszka Musiał - background vocal
 Kamila Pałasz - background vocal
 Klaudia Duda - soprano
 Chris Carson - producer
 Gawvi - producer
 Zdolny - producer
 Cabatino - bass guitar (tracks: 3, 10)
 Piotr Restecki - acoustic guitar (track: 10)

Technical personnel
 Marek Dulewicz - mixing, mastering
 Jacob "Biz" Morris - mixing (track: 9)
 Wojciech Niebelski - sound engineer
 Karolina Wilczyńska - photography
 SewerX - artwork
 Published by Bozon Records
 Distributed by Step Records
 Recording
 Recorded at United Records in Kielce

References

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Category:Polish-language albums
Category:Tau albums
Category:Albums produced by Tau
Category:Bozon Records albums


Doug Owston Correctional Centre

The Doug Owston Correctional Centre, is  an Australian minimum to maximum security prison for males and females. The centre is located in Holtze, Northern Territory, Australia,  south–east of Darwin and has a capacity of 800 prisoners, replacing the Berrimah Prison.

Facilities
The new correctional facilities deliver education and training programs, rehabilitation and treatment services to prisoners. In addition to the 800 bed correctional centre, the complex has further provision for 200 beds, a 30-bed mental health centre, a 48–bed centre for community based offenders, and a horticulture area for food production.

Construction of the new precinct was delivered through a Public Private Partnership at an estimated cost of 300 million, and was completed late 2014.

See also
 Darwin Correctional Centre

References

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Eddie Perry (footballer)

Edwin Perry (19 January 1909 – 31 October 1998) was a Welsh international footballer who later became manager of Southend United between 1956 and 1960.

Career
A center forward, he was spotted whilst playing for Merthyr Town in an FA Cup tie. He played for Thames in 1930-31 scoring 16 goals. Fulham signed him but it wasn't until 1936 that he claimed a first team place after scoring 1933-34 having scored more than 100 goals for the reserves in three seasons. He joined Doncaster Rovers in November 1936 scoring 44 goals in 98 League games, staying with them until 1938 when he returned to Fulham.

He scored twice in the first London War Cup final for Brentford who lost to Reading, though scored for them the following year when they won.

He gained three caps for Wales in 1937–38 against Scotland, England and Ireland. He scored in the 2–1 defeat against England at Ayresome Park.

Perry guested for Brentford during the war, top-scoring in the 1940–41 and 1941–42 seasons.

He later managed Fulham's junior sides, and played a key role in discovering Johnny Haynes.

He managed Southend United from 1956 until 1960.

Honours
Brentford
 London War Cup: 1941–42

References

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Hamilton C. Horton Jr.

Hamilton Cowles "Ham" Horton Jr. (August 6, 1931 – January 31, 2006) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirty-first Senate district, including constituents in Forsyth county. He also served for one year in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1969 to 1970. An attorney from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Horton served a combined eight terms in the state Senate, from 1971-1975 and 1995-2006.

Senator Horton died of cancer on January 31, 2006 at age 74.

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Desorden Público

Desorden Público is a ska band founded in 1985 in Caracas, Venezuela.

The band's music mixes ska, latin rock, reggae and traditional Latin music styles. The group's lyrics are known for commenting on Venezuela's and Latin America's politics and society. Influenced by the English 2 Tone movement, Desorden Público's  embraces different languages and promotes racial and social tolerance. The band has a dozen or so releases to their name and  have had platinum sales, No. 1 and top 10 hits. They have tours that have taken them all over Latin America, North America and Europe.

Desorden Público was named Ska Artist of the Year at the Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017.

Discography
 Desorden Público (CBS, 1988). LP, reedited in CD in 1993
 En Descomposición (CBS, 1990)
 Canto Popular de la vida y muerte (1994)
 Plomo Revienta (1997)
 ¿Donde está el Futuro? (1998) compilation
 Diablo (2000)
 Todos sus éxitos (Sony Music, 2001), compilation
 The Ska Album (Megalith, 2004) compilation for the United States
 DP18 En Concierto (2004)
 Estrellas del Caos (2006)
 Sex (2006)
 Los Contrarios (2011)
 En Vivo - Teatro Teresa Carreño (2013)
 Orgánico - Rarezas Acústicas Vol.1 (2014)
 Guarachando en Navidad (2014)
 Bailando sobre las ruinas (2016)
 Pa' Fuera (2016)

References

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Huafla

Huafla is a village in central Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Sinfra, Sinfra Department, Marahoué Region, Sassandra-Marahoué District.

Huafla was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

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Madhukar Parekh

Madhukar Balvantray Parekh is an Indian entrepreneur, Chairman of Pidilite Industries, a global company among the leaders in adhesives and sealants, construction chemicals, hobby colors. Madhukar is 16th richest Indian with a net worth of US$7.5 billion as of 2019.

Early years
Madhukar born in the family of Banvantray Kalyanji Parekh in Gujarati Vaishnav Bania Family in Mumbai India. Madhukar completed Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University Department of Chemical Technology of University of Mumbai and Masters in Chemical engineering from University of Wisconsin United States in 1969. Madhukar joined Abbot Laboratories USA after his masters degree.

Madhukar Joined his father's business Pidilite Industries in 1971

Awards & Recognitions
 1. Ranked 13 on Business Today Top 25 business leaders in India 2012
 2. Chemtech Business leader of the Year 2013
 3. Ranked  34 on Forbes India Richest list 2014
 3. EY  Entrepreneur of the year - Consumer products 2014

Associations
Madhukar serves as the chairman and managing director of Vinyl Chemicals India Limited, an Independent non executive director of Excel Industries Limited . Madhukar also serves as an Executive Director of Pidilite Industries and Vinyl Chemicals India Ltd.

Family
Madhukar is married, have two children and lives in Mumbai India

References

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Attack Force Z

This article concerns the 1982 fictional movie. For information about the actual Commando unit, see Z Special Unit.

Attack Force Z (alternatively titled The Z Men) is a 1982 Australian-Taiwanese World War II film directed by Tim Burstall. It is loosely based on actual events and was filmed in Taiwan in 1979. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 1981.

The film is noted for starring Mel Gibson and Sam Neill, who were relatively unknown in the US at the time but who went on to become international stars. The plot concerns Captain P.G. Kelly (Gibson), who leads a team from the elite Z Special Unit against the Empire of Japan during the Second World War. The film fictionalises the exploits of the Z Special Unit, which was also known as Z Force. It was a joint Australian, British and New Zealand commando unit. Its main brief was to conduct reconnaissance and sabotage missions throughout Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia.

Plot

In the Straits of Sembaleng, five men are dispatched by submarine in Klepper canoes to rescue survivors of a shot-down plane on a nearby island which is occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army. Led by Paul Kelly (Gibson), an inexperienced commando officer, the team secretly lands on the island and hides their kayaks. As they venture in land, Ted 'Kingo' King is hit by fire from an unseen machine gun post, the team quickly eliminates the Japanese defenders and return to their wounded comrade. King has been hit on the leg, the bullet smashing his kneecap. King cannot be allowed to fall into enemy hands and compromise the mission under interrogation, and after sharing a cigarette with him, Costello shoots him. The four remaining men return to their search; coming across a rice farmer, they learn of the area in which the plane crashed. The rice farmer is also killed in order to preserve secrecy.

But as they near their destination they spot a Japanese squad at a local house, after the Japanese leave they enter the house and meet the local resistance leader Lin, his grown up daughter Chien Hua and her younger brothers and sisters. With a guide to lead them, they head off to the plane but are attacked by Japanese soldiers at a Buddhist temple. Separated from the rest, interpreter Jan Veitch ends up returning to Lin's house where Chien Hua hides him from the returning Japanese. After the deaths of their soldiers, the Japanese officers Watanabe and Imanaka torture Chien to tell them the location of her father, who they believe is hiding the survivors of the crashed plane, but Chien Hua refuses. Lin's son Shaw Hu falsely tells the Japanese that Lin, the Z men, and the plane's survivors are heading for the island's capital. All the Japanese leave except for two soldiers guarding Chien Hua; Veitch kills both with help of Shaw Hu.

Meanwhile, within sight of the plane, Kelly watches as locals blow up the wreckage. Lin is evasive, and after quizzing the inhabitants of a village, the team head on to the plane. Kelly manages to get Lin to tell them that the two survivors are being taken to his home, so they turn around and head back. In the capital, Veitch is led to the survivors. One of them is a defecting Japanese government official Imoguchi, and he is believed to hold a secret that could end the war faster. Only Kelly knows that he must be rescued at any cost - or killed. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall together, Kelly must persuade his own men that Imoguchi is worth rescuing and the local resistance that it is worth fighting against their Japanese enemies.

Cast

 John Phillip Law as Lieutenant J.A. (Jan) Veitch
 Mel Gibson as Captain P.G. (Paul) Kelly
 Sam Neill as Sergeant D.J. (Danny) Costello
 Chris Haywood as Able Seaman A.D. 'Sparrer' Bird
 John Waters as Sub Lt. Ted 'Kingo' King
 Ku Chun as Rice farmer
 Sylvia Chang as Chien Hua
 O Ti as Shaw Hu
 Koo Chuan Hsiung as Lin Chan-Lang

Production
The script was based on a real-life commando rescue raid, Operation Opossum, where a team of commandos rescued the local sultan on the Japanese-held island of Ternate near Borneo.

The film was originally entitled The Z Men and was to be directed by Phillip Noyce. Pre production commenced in Taiwan where for six weeks Noyce worked on the script with writer Michael Cove. However, Noyce clashed with the producers - McCallum later claimed in particular that Noyce refused to use one of the Chinese actors who had been cast in a small role - and was fired the night before shooting was meant to start. He was replaced by Tim Burstall in November 1979.

Filming was further delayed by constant rain and re-writing of the script. Among the changes made were adding a fifth character to the team - a soldier played by John Waters who would be killed within the opening ten minutes by one of their own men.

Reception
Attack Force Z was only released theatrically in Australia in Melbourne, where it took $88,000 at the box office, which is equivalent to $256,080 in 2009 dollars. After the film's release, Tim Burstall was quoted as saying;
 It sold everywhere, sold all over the world, and it got its money back. And it did perform the task of getting some co-productions going with the East, which was useful and very important. But it's always awful when you take over from somebody else - and Phil is a friend - but he really wanted to do something quite different and I was regarded as much more of a whore, I suppose.
Mel Gibson later called the film "pretty woeful... it's so bad, it's funny."

John McCallum later said he and Robinson wanted to make another film in Asia, about drug running in Thailand "starting from the poppies and the hill factories where they distil the damned suff and send it down to Bangkok" but were not allowed to make it because of the dangers involved in filming in Thailand.

See also
 The Highest Honor - Another film about Z Special Unit made by the same producers in 1983.

References

External links

 Attack Force Z at Rotten Tomatoes
 Attack Force Z at Oz Movies
 Attack Force Z at the National Film and Sound Archive

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RAF Towyn

Royal Air Force Towyn or more simply RAF Towyn is a former Royal Air Force airfield located  west of Machynlleth, Powys and  north of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.

It was operational from 1940 and closed in 1945.

History

The camp was opened on 8 September 1940 as an Anti-Aircraft Co-operation unit for nearby Tonfanau under No.70 Group Army Co-operation Command (AACU). The main function of the Flights on the base was to tow targets for the AACU at Tonfanau.

In December 1943, No 1603 and 1628 Flights were disbanded and joined together to form No. 631 Squadron (RAF). This Squadron stayed at Towyn until May 1945 when it moved on to RAF Llanbedr and the base was closed to flying soon afterwards.

The base continued to be a military working environment being used periodically over the years.

The following units were here at some point:
 No. 1 AACU 'C' Flight.
 No. 1 AACU 'U' Flight.
 No. 6 AACU.
 No. 8 AACU.
 No. 1605 (AAC) Flight + No. 1628 (AAC) Flight
 No. 631 Squadron RAF.
 Aberystwyth UAS.

References

Citations

Bibliography

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Mutoid

Mutoid may refer to:

 Mutoids, cybernetically-enhanced humans from sci-fi TV series Blake's 7.
 Mutoid Waste Company, London rave promoters of the 1980s.
 Mutoid Man, American rock band formed in 2012 in Brooklyn, New York.


Sarah Joly

Sarah Joly  (born 16 February 1977) is a Canadian footballer who played as a midfielder for the Canada women's national soccer team. She was part of the team at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.

References

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List of counties in the Susquehanna River watershed

The Susquehanna River is in the U.S. States of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. As of 2000, the Susquehanna drainage basin population was 3,968,635. Its total area is , and in 2000   were developed,  were used for agriculture,  were forested,  were open water,  were wetland, and  were barren. By area, the Susquehanna basin accounts for 45% of Pennsylvania, 11% of New York, and 3% of Maryland . The drainage basin is divided into six subbasins by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. These are:

Lower Susquehanna (green on the map at right)
Juniata River (pink)
West Branch Susquehanna River (orange)
Middle Susquehanna (purple)
Chemung River (Yellow)
Upper Susqehanna River (brown)

Lower Susquehanna River

Maryland Counties

Baltimore County
Carroll County
Cecil County
Harford County

Pennsylvania Counties
Adams County
Berks County
Centre County
Chester County
Columbia County
Cumberland County
Dauphin County
Franklin County
Juniata County
Lancaster County
Lebanon County
Mifflin County
Northumberland County
Perry County
Schuylkill County
Snyder County
Union County
York County

Juniata River

Pennsylvania Counties
Bedford County
Blair County
Cambria County
Centre County
Dauphin County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Huntingdon County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Juniata County
Mifflin County
Perry County
Somerset County
Snyder County

West Branch Susquehanna River

Pennsylvania Counties
Blair County
Bradford County
Cambria County
Cameron County
Centre County
Clearfield County
Clinton County
Columbia County
Elk County
Indiana County
Jefferson County
Lycoming County
McKean County
Montour County
Northumberland County
Potter County
Sullivan County
Tioga County
Union County
Wyoming County

Middle Susquehanna River

Pennsylvania Counties
Bradford County
Carbon County
Columbia County
Lackawanna County
Luzerne County
Lycoming County
Montour County
Northumberland County
Schuylkill County
Sullivan County
Susquehanna County
Tioga County
Wayne County
Wyoming County

Chemung River

Pennsylvania Counties
Bradford County
Potter County
Tioga County

New York Counties
Allegany County
Chemung County
Livingston County
Ontario County
Schuyler County
Stueben County
Tioga County
Yates County

Upper Susquehanna River

Pennsylvania Counties
Bradford County
Susquehanna County
Wayne County

New York Counties
Broome County
Chemung County
Chenango County
Cortland County
Delaware County
Herkimer County
Madison County
Oneida County
Onondaga County
Otsego County
Schoharie County
Schuyler County
Tioga County
Tompkins County

References

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Eupithecia insignifica

Eupithecia insignifica is a moth in the  family Geometridae. It is found in Algeria.

References

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Carlos Fernandes (footballer, born 1979)

Carlos Alberto Fernandes (born 8 December 1979), known simply as Carlos, is an Angolan professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Amarante F.C. as a goalkeeper.

Club career
Born in Kinshasa, Zaire, Carlos started his career as a striker, subsequently moving into goalkeeper upon replacing an injured teammate. He started playing professionally with lowly U.D. Vilafranquense, having a short stint with S.C. Campomaiorense in the second division afterwards.

Carlos then returned to the lower leagues, with Amora FC. After a string of good performances with F.C. Felgueiras in the second level (sharing teams with Marcelo Moretto, later of S.L. Benfica), he signed with Primeira Liga's Boavista F.C. for the 2004–05 season.

At Boavista, Carlos was initially second-choice behind veteran William Andem, but eventually won starting honours. This prompted a January 2006 move to Romania's FC Steaua Bucureşti, thus becoming the first Portuguese player to have played in the country's Liga I. Shortly after his arrival, he lost the confidence of fans and general manager Mihai Stoica alike, with the latter declaring at a TV show that the player, although greatly underachieving, had been put under immense pressure due to the fact of being the team's only foreigner; he was released and rejoined Boavista on 30 May 2007, having previously trained for a time with Charlton Athletic to remain fit.

In 2007–08, after losing first-choice status to Liechtensteiner Peter Jehle, Carlos was loaned to Foolad F.C. in January 2008, with the move being made permanent the following campaign – the Iran Pro League club was coached by compatriot Augusto Inácio.

After spending one year in Iran, Carlos moved back to Portugal in the summer of 2009, joining Rio Ave FC. He only missed two league games, as the Vila do Conde side retained their top division status.

International career
Through his grandmother, Carlos chose to represent Angola at international level, the first cap coming in 2009 at nearly 30 years of age. He represented his adopted nation at the following year's Africa Cup of Nations, played on home soil.

Carlos was also the starter in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations tournament, participating in the first two games but missing the third due to yellow card accumulation, as the Palancas Negras exited in the group stage.

References

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Portugal national team data

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Bathytoma nonplicata

Bathytoma nonplicata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Distribution
This extinct marine species was endemic to the Eocene of the United States (Alabama, Louisiana, Texas) in the age range between 48.6 Ma to 37.2 Ma

Description
This species is considered an epifaunal carnivore.

References

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Compsoctena ostracitis

Compsoctena ostracitis is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish with the costal edge blackish at the base. The hindwings are light grey.

References

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Category:Compsoctena
Category:Lepidoptera of South Africa


Ömür Gedik

Ömür Gedik (born 22 December 1970) is a Turkish journalist. She is a writer for Hürriyet newspaper, artist, animal rights advocate, a member of SİYAD (Association of Cinema Writers), and founder and president of HAÇİKO Association (The Association for the Protection of Animals from Desperation and Indifference).

Education
In 1992, Gedik graduated from Boğaziçi University, with a degree in English Philology.

Career
After graduating from university, Gedik joined the Sabah Journal Group, and in 1993 she started working for Hürriyet. She worked as an associate lecturer at Boğaziçi University, Preparatory Department, for 1 year. Gedik started working at Hürriyet Culture Art Service in 1999. She has a column in Hürriyet Kelebek where she mainly focuses on cinema. Gedik started her television career in 2004. She prepared and presented the program Stüdyo on TV8 for 1 year. In 2005, she began hosting Cinemania, a cinema program broadcast on Kanal D. She opened the 2012 International Antalya Film Festival.

Recognition

 Kral Pop Special Award for her project "HAÇİKO" (18th Kral Music Awards)
 Most Popular Song of the Year (25th International Tüketici Summit)

Animal rights
{{Quote box|width=30em|align=right|Anatole France had said 'Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.' I want you to continue to support me in my effort to wake those who are asleep. I get this award not only for cats and dogs, but for all animals with hair or without hair, and on behalf of animal lovers." |Gedik}}

Gedik draws attention with her work on animal rights. She is the founding president of the Association for Protection of Animals from Helplessness and Indifference (HAÇİKO). Gedik, took part in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's meeting with animal lovers in February 2011. She works with HAYTAP on animal rights.HAÇİKO SAHADA İYİ ÇALIŞIYOR, Ayşe Arman röportajı, Hürriyet, retrieved 7 January 2013Hayvanlar için stüdyoya girdi, Hürriyet, 23 March 2011

She appeared on the album Hop Dedik Orda Kal, released for the benefit of animals. Gedik duetted with Teoman on the song "Portakal Orda Kal", with Burak Kut on "Aşk Var Ya", and with Halil Sezai on "Paramparça".

 Personal life
Gedik has a daughter, named Tayga.

 Discography
Singles
 Portakal Orda Kal (with Teoman) (2011)
 Paramparça (with Halil Sezai) (2011)
 Aşk Var Ya (with Burak Kut) (2011)
 Neden Yoksun (2013)
 Kaliko (maxi single) (2013)
 Taht Kurmuş Kalbime (45 Yıllık Baba Şarkılar) (2013)
 Dokun Bana (with Umut Kuzey) (2014)
 Bekle Bekle (2014)
 Hey Onbeşli (2015)
 Karşılaşma (2015)
 Dillirga (2015)
 İlişki Durumu Çelişkide (feat. H. Yılmaz) (2015)
 Aşk Mı Dedin (maxi single) (2016)
 Sana Ne Kime Ne (with Yalçın Aşan) (2016)
 Gece Hayvanı (2017)
 Gözyaşlarım Anlatır (2018)
 Neredesin Sen (2018)
 Kulakların Çınlasın (feat. Yalçın Aşan) (2018)
 Aşka Bağlan (feat. Serdar Ortaç) (2018)
 Güneş Seninle Doğar (2019)
 Aşkım (Aşkın'ın Şarkıları'') (2019)
 Manastırın Ortasında (Akustik) (2019)
 Resim (2019)
 Aramışsın (2019)

References

External links

 Official website
 Hürriyet profile

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Stella Maris Light

Stella Maris Light (), Mount Carmel Light, Har Carmel Light or Haifa Light, is a lighthouse in Haifa, Israel. It is located on the seaward face of Mount Carmel, near Stella Maris Monastery, inside an Israeli Navy base.

The lighthouse is closed to the public and there is no access to the building. It can be viewed from nearby.

History
Over the years there have been lighthouses in several locations on Mount Carmel. An ancient lighthouse was present on the mountain in Roman times. One early mention is a lighthouse located at the original site of the Stella Maris Monastery, as early as 1631.

The current location of the lighthouse is at the summer palace of Abdullah Pasha, the ruler of Acre from 1820 to 1831. The house and lighthouse were built using masonry from the Carmelite monastery that stood there, and was destroyed by order of Abdullah Pasha. In 1831 Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt captured Acre, exiled Abdullah Pasha to Egypt, and returned the building to the Carmelites.

The structure was badly damaged in the First World War. However, the building was restored in the end of the war and the Carmelites added a second floor in 1926. In 1928, with a donation by the Spanish Honorary Consul, the current lighthouse was built. The original lens, as well as plans for the original structure and catadioptric apparatus are on display at the facade of Israeli National Maritime Museum.

In the Second World War the British Army rented the house from the Carmelites to serve in the preparation to the Nazi invasion to the area. The British remained there until their evacuation at the end of the British Mandate in 1948. The building has been used by the Israeli Navy ever since.

See also

 List of lighthouses in Israel

References

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Pierre Péron

Pierre Péron (1905–1988) was a French caricaturist, illustrator and printmaker.

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Amusaron kolga

Amusaron kolga is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in Cameroon.

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So Cool

So Cool may refer to:

 So Cool (band), a Thai rock band
 So Cool (Sistar album), 2011
 So Cool (Take 6 album), 1998

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1969–70 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team

The 1969–70 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the  NCAA University Division basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Dan Miller, the Bengals played their home games on campus at Reed Gym in Pocatello.

Idaho State finished the regular season at  with a  record in the Big Sky Conference, runner-up to champion Weber State.

The new ISU Minidome was completed after the season and became the new home court that fall.

References

External links
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Vittorio

Vittorio is an Italian male given name taken from the male name Victor.

People with the given name Vittorio include:
 Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, pretender to the former Kingdom of Italy
 Vittorio Adorni, professional road racing cyclist
 Vittorio Alfieri, dramatist and poet
 Vittorio Amandola (1952–2010), Italian actor and voice actor
 Vittorio Brambilla (1937–2001) Italian Formula One racing driver
 Vittorio Caprioli, actor, director and screenwriter
 Vittorio Cecchi Gori (born 1942), Italian film producer and politician
 Vittorio Cottafavi, director and screenwriter
 Vittorio De Seta, director and screenwriter
 Vittorio De Sica (1901–1974), Italian director and actor
 Vittorio De Angelis (1962–2015), Italian voice actor
 Vittorio Di Prima (1941–2016), Italian voice actor
 Vittorio Gallinari, basketball player
 Vittorio Gassman (1922–2000), Italian actor and director
 Vittorio Giannini, neoromantic composer of operas
 Vittorio Guerrieri, Italian voice actor
 Vittorio Giardino, comic artist
 Vittorio Goretti, astronomer
 Vittorio Grigolo, operatic tenor
 Vittorio Grilli, Italian economist and academic
 Vittorio Gui, conductor and composer
 Vittorio Iannuzzo, motorcycle racer
 Vittorio Marzotto, racing driver
 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor
 Vittorio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and former CEO of Missoni
 Vittorio Monti, composer, violinist and conductor
 Vittorio Mussolini, film critic and producer
 Vittorio Pozzo,  football coach
 Vittorio Sentimenti, Italian football player
 Vittorio Sgarbi,  art critic and politician
 Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer
 Vittorio Taviani, director and screenwriter
 Vittorio Vidali, politician

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Mri (fictional alien species)

The mri are a fictional alien species in the Faded Sun Trilogy of C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. Their culture appears to be drawn upon those of the Apache, Berbers (especially Tuaregs), and Japanese samurai. Their name means simply "the people," and they refer to all other races as "tsi-mri," which literally means not people.

Physical appearance
The mri are a tall and slender humanoid species. Their skin is golden in color and their hair is coarse and golden-brown, generally worn shoulder-length. Their eyes are yellow, with epicanthic folds and a functional nictitating membrane to protect them against wind-blown grit. Their ears are slightly pointed, with a tuft of hair at the tip resembling that of a lynx.

Social structure
The mri are divided into a rigid structure of three castes: kel, sen, and kath. These are functional rather than hereditary castes, but each has a clearly defined role in their society, and the mri regard any change in those traditional functions as completely unacceptable.
 Kel are warriors, and dress in black. Because they interact with outsiders, they veil their faces to preserve the privacy of the People. Furthermore, they are forbidden to read or write, lest they inadvertently betray the ancient secrets of the People. They are masters of both the traditional edged weapons of the People and the modern weapons they use as mercenaries. They play shon’ai, the traditional passing game of the People, with knives.
 Sen are scholars, and dress in gold, except for the she’pan or matriarch of the tribe, who dresses in white. They keep the sacred writings of their people, and are celibate. Because they do not interact with outsiders, they do not veil their faces. They play shon’ai with wands.
 Kath are the children and those women who do not join either the kel or the sen, and dress in blue. No man past puberty may remain in kath, and those unsuited for kel or sen die. The kath are the lowest caste of the mri, responsible for the upkeep of the tribe's dwellings. Kath play shon’ai with a pair of rounded stones.

Language
The language of the mri appears to be agglutinative, with each element having a single function. The apostrophes that give mri words their distinctive appearance appear to represent a glottal stop when separating two vowels, for instance, in kel’e’en, "a woman of the kel". However, in other words they seem to merely mark the boundaries between morphemes. There are a few words in which the function of the apostrophe is unclear, and it has been suggested that those are purely decorative, to make the words look more alien.

A careful reader can assemble a fairly large vocabulary of nouns, and even conjecture additional forms. However, there is little in the way of verbs or grammatical structure, so the novels cannot be used as the basis of a working language, as opposed to the elvish languages of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

History
The mri originated on the world of Kutath, an ancient world which they shared with four other races. As resources grew scarcer, a portion of them left Kutath in slowships, seeking other worlds. They would hire on as mercenaries with a race, but each time the relationship ended badly, and they left a ruined world behind to seek a new start. During each journey, or Dark, everything but the ancient traditions of the mri were forgotten by kel and kath, with only the sen retaining records of the Between they had left between. A hint of this process remained in the Shon’jir or passing song which was sung at births and deaths, but most kel of the Between thought of it only as referring to the individual.

After more than eighty such migrations, the mri settled on Kesrith, a desert planet not dissimilar to their lost home. There they encountered the dusei, bearlike telepaths who had intelligence but not the capacity for speech. The dusei established bonds with warriors of the kel, but were said to find the minds of sen too cold for their tastes. Thus the mri were found by the regul, a race of traders from Nurag, a planet of the Mab system. Various regul clans or docha hired mri as bodyguards, giving the mri the opportunity to hone their skills against one another.

The situation changed when the regul encountered humans and war broke out. Atrocities occurred on both sides, at least in part due to the inability of the regul to imagine the future. After forty years of war, the mri were nearly exterminated. The regul negotiated a peace which involved handing Kesrith over to humanity, then betrayed the mri to prevent the mercenaries from switching sides. All the mri save two were murdered.

After the human protagonist, Sten Duncan, was adopted by the mri, the human command decided to risk an experiment. Using an ancient sacred navigation record, they put Duncan and the two surviving mri, Niun and Melein, aboard a ship and sent them back to the lost homeworld of the mri. On the way, Niun forced Duncan to learn to become a mri, with death the penalty for failure.

As a result, they were reunited with the mri of Kutath, and Melein took command of one tribe. Humans and regul had followed them on their journey, and the regul were ready to commit genocide again to ensure that the mri did not hire on with the humans. However, their murderous plans were foiled, and humans ultimately established an understanding with the mri when a human scholar learned to play shon’ai.

Books
The Faded Sun Trilogy
The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978)
The Faded Sun: Shon'jir (1978)
The Faded Sun: Kutath (1979)
The Faded Sun omnibus (2000)

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Samuel Ancell

Samuel Ancell (ca. 1760 – 1802) was an English soldier and military writer.

Biography
He joined the British Army at an early age, and served with the 58th regiment during the Great Siege of Gibraltar from 1779 to 1783. In 1784, while in Liverpool, Ancell published ‘A Circumstantial Journal of the long and tedious Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar from the 12 September 1779 (the day the garrison opened their batteries against the Spaniards) to the 23rd day of February 1783.’ The book, which is in the form of a series of letters to the author's brother, went through five editions. Ancell apparently retired from active service soon after his return home, and opened a military commission agency in Dublin. In October 1801 he produced there the first part of a monthly military magazine, called the ‘Monthly Military Companion.’ The periodical continued publishing until Ancell's death on 19 October 1802. To the magazine he contributed not only articles on fortifications, military history, and tactics, but also songs set to music of his own composition.

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Wisconsin Historical Museum

The Wisconsin Historical Museum is a museum located on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin.

The museum, which features information about the history of Wisconsin, is operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. In addition to Wisconsin history, it provides information about other American history topics through artifacts, photographs, full-scale dioramas, audio-visual presentations, and interactive multimedia programs. In late 2004, the museum's existence was threatened due to budget cuts, but citing its role in the state's history, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle restored its funding.

In addition to exhibits about traditional aspect of the state's history, the museum has also offered an exhibition on malted milk, which was first made in Wisconsin, and includes in its permanent collection a Big Boy, the mascot of a hamburger chain, rescued in 1985 when its restaurant closed. The museum also opened in 2012 an exhibit about Butch Vig's (of Madison's Garbage (band)) Smart Studios,  a Madison recording facility that closed in 2010.

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 Wisconsin Historical Museum

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Secrets and Wives

Secrets and Wives was an American reality documentary television series that premiered on June 2, 2015, on Bravo. The series was greenlit by Bravo in July 2014. The docu-series chronicles the life of six women who all grew up on Long Island and follows them as they go through the challenges of marriage and divorce. The women are described as a "tight-knit, ultra-wealthy group of friends and rivals who know everything about each other."

The series may resemble the series The Real Housewives aired on the same network. One of the cast members, Andi Black, explains the difference by saying that "we've [the cast] all known each other for 20 to 30 years." She emphasizes the fact that they are all long-time girlfriends and have always been involved in each other's life. "When the camera stops rolling, we're still talking about the same issue," she also added.

The show was not renewed for a second season.

Cast
 Andi Black
 Susan Doneson
 Cori Goldfarb
 Gail Greenberg
 Amy Miller
 Liza Sandler

Episodes

Broadcast
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on September 8, 2015 on Arena.

Reception
Verne Gay from Newsday wrote a negative review about the show by saying that "the ladies seem like fun, the show not so much."

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Hogan Gidley

John Hogan Gidley is a political aide serving as White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary since 2019. He served as Special Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.

Early life and career
Gidley was born in Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science in 1998.

Gidley served as the director of Huck PAC. His past activities include director of media operations for Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican Party, Press Secretary to the David Beasley for Senate campaign, the Karen Floyd for Superintendent of Education campaign, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole's campaign committee. He was the director of communications for the 2012 presidential campaign of Rick Santorum.

Trump administration
The Trump administration announced on October 10, 2017 that Gidley would serve as Deputy Press Secretary, and he started his job at the White House the day after.

In February 2018, Gidley said that Trump was speaking "tongue-in-cheek" when Trump said that it was "treasonous" for Democrats not to applaud him during the State of the Union address. Later that February, after Special Counsel Mueller's investigation led to the indictments of a number of Russians for election interference, Gidley said that Democrats and the media had done more to create "chaos" in the United States than the Russian government.

In June 2019 Gidley was considered a candidate for White House Press Secretary when Sarah Sanders announced she was stepping down from the role. Stephanie Grisham was named to the position with Gidley continuing on as Deputy Press Secretary.

On September 5, 2019, The Washington Times published an opinion piece written by Gidley and press secretary Stephanie Grisham, titled "The Washington Post's lost summer". The authors asserted the Post had not reported on several Trump accomplishments, although the paper actually did report on them. In one instance, the piece linked to a Post story titled "Trump becomes first sitting president to set foot into North Korea" as the authors asserted the paper had not reported the event.

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GadY

GadY RNA (previously named IS183 in ) is a non-coding RNA. The GadY gene is located on between and on the opposite strand to the GadX and GadW genes. GadY can form base pairs with the 3' UTR of its target mRNA gadX, this pairing is thought to confer increased stability to the transcript, allowing accumulation of gadX (a transcriptional regulator of the acid response) and therefore increased expression of downstream acid resistance genes. The GadY gene produces three overlapping transcripts that differ in length. The long form is 105 nucleotides in length and two processed versions are 59 and 90 nucleotides in length. It has been shown that all three forms of GadY bind to the Hfq protein.

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Battlebridge Basin

Battlebridge Basin is a canal basin in the London Borough of Islington. It is located off the Regents Canal.

Current use
The basin contains a number of residential moorings. It is the site of the London Canal Museum, opened in 1992, and Kings Place development completed in 2008 and home to The Guardian. It is around  long and  wide.

History
The basin was constructed in 1820 at the same time as the second half of the canal from Camden Town to Limehouse, though the wharf buildings were not completed until 1822. It was originally known as Horsfall Basin after the original landowner, and later as Maiden Lane Basin. Its current name comes from the former name for the King's Cross area, named after an ancient bridge over the River Fleet.

The canal museum buildings were used in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century for the storage of ice from Norway and its distribution to the surrounding area.

See also
List of canal basins in the United Kingdom

References

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied to various kinds of physical structures such as buildings, bridges, or ships having the degree of freedom zero (in the terms of theory of machines).

Aboard ships and large boats
As stated above, superstructure consists of the parts of the ship or a boat, including sailboats, fishing boats, passenger ships, and submarines, that project above her main deck. This does not usually include its masts or any armament turrets. Note that in modern times, turrets do not always carry naval artillery, but they can also carry missile launchers and/or antisubmarine warfare weapons.

The size of a watercraft's superstructure can have many implications in the performance of ships and boats, since these structures can alter their structural rigidity, their displacements, and/or stability. These can be detrimental to any vessel's performance if they are taken into consideration incorrectly.

The height and the weight of superstructure on board a ship or a boat also affects the amount of freeboard that such a vessel requires along its sides, down to her waterline. In broad terms, the more and heavier superstructure that a ship possesses (as a fraction of her length), the less the freeboard that is needed.

Bridges
On a bridge, the portion of the structure that is the span and directly receives the live load is referred to as the superstructure.  In contrast, the abutment, piers, and other support structures are called the substructure.

Earthquake protection

In order to improve the response during earthquakes of buildings and bridges, the superstructure might be separated from its foundation by various civil engineering mechanisms or machinery. All together, these implement the system of earthquake protection called base isolation.

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Whisky Galore! (1949 film)

Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and Angus MacPhail. The story—based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing. The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.

It was filmed on the island of Barra; the weather was so poor that the production over-ran its 10-week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget. Michael Balcon, the head of the studio, was unimpressed by the initial cut of the film, and one of Ealing's directors, Charles Crichton, added footage and re-edited the film before its release. Like other Ealing comedies, Whisky Galore! explores the actions of a small insular group facing and overcoming a more powerful opponent. An unspoken sense of community runs through the film, and the story reflects a time when the British Empire was weakening.

Whisky Galore! was well received on release. It came out in the same year as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. In the US, where Whisky Galore! was renamed Tight Little Island, the film became the first from the studios to achieve box office success. It was followed by a sequel, Rockets Galore!. Whisky Galore! has since been adapted for the stage, and a remake was released in 2016.

Plot
The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing until 1943, when the supply of whisky runs out. As a result, gloom descends on the disconsolate islanders. In the midst of this catastrophe, Sergeant Odd returns on leave from the army to court Peggy, the daughter of the local shopkeeper, Joseph Macroon. Odd had previously assisted with setting up the island's Home Guard unit. Meanwhile, Macroon's other daughter, Catriona, has just become engaged to a meek schoolteacher, George Campbell, although Campbell's stern, domineering mother refuses to give her approval.

During a night-time fog, the freighter SS Cabinet Minister runs aground near Todday in heavy fog and begins to sink. Two local inhabitants, the Biffer and Sammy MacCodrun, row out to lend assistance, and learn from its departing crew that the cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky. They quickly spread the news.

Captain Waggett, the stuffy English commander of the local Home Guard, orders Odd to guard the cargo, but Macroon casually remarks that, by long-standing custom, a man cannot marry without hosting a —a Scottish betrothal ceremony—in which whisky must be served. Taking the hint, the sergeant allows himself to be overpowered, and the locals manage to offload many cases before the ship goes down. Campbell, sent to his room by his mother for a prior transgression, is persuaded to leave through the window and assist with the salvage by MacCodrun. This proves fortunate, as Campbell rescues the Biffer when he is trapped in the sinking freighter. The whisky also gives the previously teetotal Campbell the courage to stand up to his mother and insist that he will marry Catriona.

A battle of wits ensues between Waggett, who wants to confiscate the salvaged cargo, and the islanders. Waggett brings in Macroon's old Customs and Excise nemesis, Mr Farquharson, and his men to search for the whisky. Forewarned, islanders manage to hide the bottles in ingenious places, including the ammunition cases that Waggett ships off the island. When the whisky is discovered in the cases, Waggett is recalled to his superiors on the mainland to explain himself, leaving the locals triumphant.

Cast

Basil Radford as Captain Paul Waggett
Joan Greenwood as Peggy Macroon
James Robertson Justice as Dr Maclaren
Gordon Jackson as George Campbell
Wylie Watson as Joseph Macroon
Catherine Lacey as Mrs Waggett
Jean Cadell as Mrs Campbell

Bruce Seton as Sergeant Odd
Henry Mollison as Mr Farquharson
Morland Graham as the Biffer
John Gregson as Sammy MacCodrun
Gabrielle Blunt as Catriona Macroon
Duncan Macrae as Angus MacCormac
Compton Mackenzie as Captain Buncher

Production

Pre-production
Whisky Galore! was produced by Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios; he appointed Monja Danischewsky as the associate producer. Danischewsky had been employed in the studio's advertising department, but was becoming bored by the work and was considering a position in Fleet Street; Whisky Galore! was his first job in production. The film was produced at the same time as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, and with the studio's directors all working on other projects, Danischewsky asked Balcon if Alexander Mackendrick, one of Ealing's production design team, could direct the work. Balcon did not want novices as producer and director, and persuaded Danischewsky to select someone else. They asked Ronald Neame to direct, but he turned the offer down and Mackendrick was given the opportunity to make his debut as a director. With studio space limited by the other films being produced, Balcon insisted that the film had to be made on location.

The screenplay was written by Compton Mackenzie and Angus MacPhail, based on Mackenzie's novel; Mackenzie received £500 for the rights to the book and a further £1,000 because of the film's profitability. Mackendrick and Danischewsky also worked on the script before further input from the writers Elwyn Ambrose and Donald Campbell and the actor James Robertson Justice, who also appeared in the film. The film and novel's story was based on an incident in the Second World War, when the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the north coast of Eriskay in 1941 in the Outer Hebrides. Local inhabitants from the island and from nearby South Uist heard that the ship was carrying 22,000 cases of whisky; they rescued up to 7,000 cases from the wreck before it sank. Mackenzie, a Home Guard commander on the island, took no action against the removal of the whisky or those who took it; Charles McColl and Ivan Gledhill, the local Customs and Excise officers, undertook raids and arrested many of those who had looted whisky.

The plot underwent some modification and condensation from the novel, a lot of the background being removed; in particular, much of the religious aspect of the novel was left out, the novel's Protestant Great Todday and Roman Catholic Little Todday being merged into the single island of Todday. Mackenzie was annoyed with aspects of the adaptation and, referring to the removal of the religious divide, described the production as "[a]nother of my books gone west".

Alastair Sim was offered the role of Joseph Macroon in the film, but turned it down to avoid being typecast as "a professional Scotsman". It had been Mackenzie's ambition to appear in a film, and he was given the role of Captain Buncher, the master of SS Cabinet Minister, as Politician was renamed in the book and film. Most of the cast were Scottish—with the exception of two of the lead actors, Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood—and many of the islanders from Barra were used as extras.

In May 1950 the British Film Institute's monthly publication, Sight & Sound, estimated the film's budget to be around £100,000. The following month, Balcon wrote to the magazine to complain that "Your estimate of the cost is wrong by more than a thousand or two". He also stated in his letter that the film "over-ran its budget by the unprecedented figure of 60 per cent to 70 per cent". Roger Hutchinson, who wrote a history of the sinking of Politician, states that the budget was £60,000.

Filming

Filming began in July 1948 on the island of Barra; a unit of 80 staff from Ealing was on location. As most of the established production staff were working on other films at Ealing, many of Mackendrick's team were inexperienced. On what was supposed to be the first day of filming, Mackendrick threw away the script and had Mackenzie and MacPhail rewrite it over two days. For a box of cigars, Mackenzie was persuaded to add material to the script from his 1943 novel Keep the Home Guard Turning. He played no part after the initial filming: according to the film historian Colin McArthur, Mackenzie had an "impatient disengagement from the filming and marketing". The summer of 1948 brought heavy rain and gales and the shoot ran five weeks over its planned 10-week schedule and the film went £20,000 over budget.

The church hall on the island was converted into a makeshift studio, which included basic soundproofing. Nearly everything had to be brought from the mainland for filming and many of the sets had been prefabricated in Ealing; the islanders were perplexed by some of the items the crew brought with them, such as the artificial rocks they added to the already rock-strewn landscape. The studio also had to send out three cases of dummy whisky bottles, as the island was short of the real equivalent because of rationing. The location shooting meant the use of a mobile studio unit for filming. This was one of the earliest uses by a British studio.

With only one small hotel on the island, the cast were housed with the islanders, which had the advantage that it helped the actors pick up the local accent for the film. One local, who was adept at Scottish dancing, stood in as the body double for Greenwood in the rèiteach scene; Greenwood, a talented ballet dancer, could not master the steps of the reel, and the feet of one of the islanders were filmed.

There was tension between Danischewsky and Mackendrick during filming, which led to disagreements; this included a difference of opinion concerning the moral tone of the film. Mackendrick sympathised with the high-minded attempts of the pompous Waggett to foil the looting, while Danischewsky's sympathy lay with the islanders and their removal of the drink. Mackendrick later said: "I began to realise that the most Scottish character in Whisky Galore! is Waggett the Englishman. He is the only Calvinist, puritan figure – and all the other characters aren't Scots at all: they're Irish!"

Mackendrick was unhappy with the film; as the cast and crew were preparing to return to London, he told Gordon Jackson that the film would "probably turn out to be a dull documentary on island life". He later said "It looks like a home movie. It doesn't look like it was done by a professional at all. And it wasn't".

Post-production
Balcon disliked the completed rough cut of Whisky Galore!—mostly put together from the rushes—and his initial thought was to cut its running time down to an hour and classify it as a second feature. He did not provide Mackendrick with another directoral role, but assigned him to second unit work. The initial editing had been done by Joseph Sterling, who was relatively inexperienced. Another of Ealing's directors, Charles Crichton, shot more footage at Ealing Studios and re-edited the film closer to the version Mackendrick had produced. Crichton said "All I did was put the confidence back in the film". The Crichton version was the one released to cinemas.

Mackendrick was still not satisfied with the final film and thought it looked like an amateur work. Because of financial pressures on the studio Balcon decided to release it with little promotion. John Jympson, one of the editors at Ealing, recommended the film to his father, Jympson Harman, the film critic for The Evening News. Although there was to be no trade viewing, Harman and several other press reviewers visited the studios to see the film. They all wrote good reviews, which forced Balcon to provide funds for promotion.

Danischewsky later called the film "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens the world over"; the whisky producer The Distillers Company later presented those associated with the film a bottle of whisky each, given at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London.

Music

The music for Whisky Galore! was composed by Ernest Irving, who had been involved in several other productions for Ealing Studios. His score incorporated adaptations of themes from Scottish folk music to include in his compositions, and used the Scotch snap musical form to reinforce the theme. The musicologist Kate Daubney writes that Irving's score "Seems positively lush with its expansive seascapes and emotive expressions of anxiety in the community". The opening music to the film begins with English brass notes, but this changes to Scottish melodies; Daubney describes how the "balance of material evokes the English-Scottish relationship which will emerge in the film's story".

One scene in the film, soon after the first whisky has been rescued from the ship, shows the male islanders celebrating the return of whisky to the island by drinking and singing in unison in  (trans: "mouth music"). According to McArthur, the music and the action show a social, communal event, with whisky the central focus of their enjoyment. The tune was "Brochan Lom", a nonsense song about porridge. The scene mixed the professional actors and local islanders; Crichton said it was not possible to differentiate between the two in the final film.

Scottish folk music is used for the accompaniment of the eightsome reel, which is danced at the rèiteach. According to the music historian Rosemary Coupe, the dance and music are "a vibrant expression of the Scottish spirit, second only to the 'water of life' itself".

Themes
Whisky Galore! primarily centres on the conflict between two men, Macroon and Waggett; women have what McArthur describes as "peripheral roles". Much of the film's humour is at the expense of Waggett, and the film historian Mark Duguid considers there is a "cruel bite" to it. Waggett is described by the cultural historian Roger Rawlings as a fish-out-of-water on Todday; he is the intruder in a film that contains what the film historian Christine Geraghty describes as "a narrative of rural resistance". Not all outsiders to the island are intruders: the other Englishman, Sergeant Odd, "acts as the audience's entry point into the community", and immerses himself in the island's ways. Whisky Galore! is one of several films that show an outsider coming to Scotland and being "either humiliated or rejuvenated (or both)", according to David Martin-Jones, the film historian.

Jonny Murray, the film and visual culture academic, considers the Scottish characters in the film as stereotypes: "the slightly drunk, slightly unruly local, the figures who are magically cut adrift or don't seem to respect at all the conventions of how we live in the modern world". He likens the film's portrayals of the Scottish to the portrayals in the Kailyard school of literature, which represents a false image of Scotland. The film historian Claire Mortimer sees the Western Isles as portrayed as "being a magical space which is outside of time and the 'real' world". This is true of both Whisky Galore! and Mackendrick's other Scottish-based Ealing comedy, The Maggie. Both films evoke "a tension between myth and reality in the portrayal of the idyllic island community".

McArthur, in his work comparing Whisky Galore! to The Maggie, identifies what he sees as "the Scottish Discursive Unconscious" running through the film: an examination of the ethnicity of "the Scots (in particular the Gaelic-Speaking, Highland Scots) as having an essential identity different from—indeed, in many respects the antithesis of—the Anglo-Saxon identified by (a certain class of) Englishmen". According to McArthur, this view of the Scots has permeated much of British culture, influenced by Sir Walter Scott, Felix Mendelssohn, James Macpherson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Harry Lauder and Queen Victoria. The critic John Brown argues that the film, created by outsiders to the community, tries to "embody some kind of definitive essence", but fails to do so, although the result is not unsympathetic.

According to Daubney, the islanders "relish their isolation and simple way of life and go to considerable lengths to protect it against a moral code imposed from outside". An unspoken sense of community runs through the film, according to Geraghty, such as in salvaging the whisky, and particularly in the rèiteach scene; immediately coming from that celebration, the islanders come together to hide the whisky when they hear the customs men are on their way. Martin-Jones—describing the scene as a —considers that it offers a Kailyard image which "illustrates the curative charms Scotland offers to the tourist or visiting outsider".

Mackendrick's biographer, Philip Kemp, identifies different strands of comedy, including what he describes as "crude incongruity", "verbal fencing—beautifully judged by the actors no less than the director in its underplayed humour" and "near-surreal" conversations. Martin-Jones sees such flexibility in approach as a method to allow important points in the plot to make themselves apparent.

The film historians Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards describe Whisky Galore! as a progressive comedy because it upsets the established social order to promote the well-being of a community. In this, and in the rejection of the colonial power by a small community, Aldgate and Richards compare the film to Passport to Pimlico. The device of pitting a small group of British against a series of changes to the status quo from an external agent leads the British Film Institute to consider Whisky Galore!, along with other of the Ealing comedies, as "conservative, but 'mildly anarchic' daydreams, fantasies". Like other Ealing comedies, Whisky Galore! concerned the actions of a small insular group facing and overcoming a more powerful opponent. The film historian George Perry writes that in doing so the film examines "dogged team spirit, the idiosyncrasies of character blended and harnessed for the good of the group". Like Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore! "portrays a small populace closing ranks around their esoteric belief system that English law cannot completely contain". Along with the other Ealing comedies, this rejection of power and law reflects a time when the British Empire was weakening.

Release and reception
Whisky Galore! was released in UK cinemas on 16 June 1949 and was financially successful. In France, the film was retitled Whisky à gogo; the name was later used as that of a discothèque in Paris. Whisky Galore! was released in the US in December 1949, though because of restrictions on the use of the names of alcoholic drinks in titles, the film was renamed Tight Little Island. The film was given an open certification in most territories, allowing people of all ages to see it, but in Denmark it was restricted to adults only. The Danish censor explained "There is in this film an obvious disregard for ordinary legislation, in this case the law against smuggling ... Also, we believed that it was damaging for children to see alcohol portrayed as an absolute necessity for normal self-expression".

Critics warmly praised Whisky Galore! on its release. C. A. Lejeune, writing in The Observer, considered it "a film with the French genius in the British manner"; the reviewer for The Manchester Guardian thought the film was "put together with ... tact and subtlety", and Henry Raynor, in Sight & Sound magazine, called it "one of the best post-war British films". Several critics identified the script as excellent and The Manchester Guardians reviewer thought that the main credit for the film should be given to Mackenzie and MacPhail for the story. Lejeune thought that the story was treated "with the sort of fancy that is half childlike and half agelessly wise: it accepts facts for what they are and only tilts their representation, ever so slightly, towards the fantastic and the humorous".

The acting was also praised by many critics; Lejeune wrote that the actors portray "real people doing real things under real conditions", and the reviewer for The Monthly Film Bulletin considered that "a talented cast sees to it that no island character study shall go unnoticed", while the lead roles "make the most of their opportunities". The critic for The Manchester Guardian considered Radford to have played his part "with unusual subtlety" and thought that among the remainder of the cast "there are so many excellent performances that it would be unfair to pick out two or three names for special praise". The critic Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, thought that Radford and Watson were the stand-out actors of the film, although he also considered the rest of the cast strong.

The film surprised many at Ealing Studios for the level of popularity it gained in the US, where it became Ealing's first to achieve box office success. For Crowther, "the charm and distinction of this film reside in the wonderfully dry way it spins a deliciously wet tale". T. M. P. in The New York Times wrote that the film was "another happy demonstration of that peculiar knack British movie makers have for striking a rich and universally appealing comic vein in the most unexpected and seemingly insular situations".

Whisky Galore! was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film, alongside Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, although they lost to The Third Man (1949).

Legacy
Rockets Galore, Mackenzie's sequel to Whisky Galore, was adapted and filmed as Rockets Galore! in 1958, with direction from Michael Relph. Danischewsky provided the screenplay, and several of the personnel who filmed Whisky Galore! also worked on Rockets Galore! Whisky Galore!—along with Mackendrick's other Scottish-based Ealing comedy The Maggie (1954)—had an influence over later Scottish-centred films, including Laxdale Hall (1953), Brigadoon (1954), The Wicker Man (1973), Local Hero (1983) and Trainspotting (1996). Much of the influence is because of the Kailyard effect used in Whisky Galore!, according to the author Auslan Cramb.

Whisky Galore! was produced at the same time as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets; all three comedies were released in UK cinemas over two months. Brian McFarlane, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, states that although it was not an aim of releasing the three films together, together they "established the brand name of 'Ealing comedy'"; Duguid writes that the three films "forever linked 'Ealing' and 'comedy' in the public imagination". The film historians Duguid, Lee Freeman, Keith Johnston and Melanie Williams consider 1949 was one of two "pinnacle" years for Ealing, the other being 1951, when The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob were both released.

In 2009 Whisky Galore! was adapted for the stage as a musical; under the direction of Ken Alexander, it was performed at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. In June 2016 a remake of the film was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; Eddie Izzard played Waggett and Gregor Fisher took the role of Macroon. The critic Guy Lodge, writing for Variety, thought it an "innocuous, unmemorable remake" and that there was "little reason for it to exist". In contrast, Kate Muir, writing in The Times thought "the gentle, subversive wit of the 1949 version has been left intact".

Notes and references

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 Whisky Galore! at the British Film Institute

 Whisky Galore! at Screenonline

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Maria Komissarova

Maria Leonidovna Komissarova (; born September 5, 1990) is a Russian athlete who competes in freestyle skiing. She was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics, but during a training run before her event, she fractured a vertebra with a dislocation of her spine, rendering her unable to compete.

Career
Komissarova was born on 5 September 1990, in Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg).

At the 2012 World Cup in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Maria Komissarova became the first-ever Russian woman to win a medal in the World Cup in ski cross, placing second. She has been described as the "face of Russian freestyle skiing".

In 2013, surgery on a leg injury meant that Komissarova was unable to compete for six months.

Komissarova was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. However, while training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on the ski cross course on 15 February 2014, she suffered a spinal cord injury with a fracture and dislocation of the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Komissarova was rushed into surgery which lasted six and a half hours. The Russian Federation, for which she was competing, said, "Doctors carried out the necessary examination and took the decision to operate on her on the spot". Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said, "We hope that the operation will be successful and that she will be back". She was due to compete on the 21 February 2014, but it was announced after the accident that she would not be competing. Hers was the first serious injury of the 2014 Olympic Games.

On the same day Komissarova was admitted to hospital, on the evening of 15 February 2014, Vladimir Putin visited the skier and spoke to her father.

On 16 February 2014, the day after the incident, Komissarova was moved to a Munich hospital where she underwent further surgery on 17 February. Komissarova said in an Instagram update at the end of February that she was paralyzed from the waist and down. The Russian Freestyle Federation has called for donations to cover her medical costs. She hopes to recover, saying "some day I will definitely be on my feet again". However, on 5 March, the opinion of her doctors was published stating she would never fully recover. £400,000 has been raised for her treatment.

References

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Tygh Valley, Oregon

Tygh Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The population was 224 at the 2000 census.

History
Tygh Valley is considered by some to be the beginning of the Barlow Road because many wagon trains crossed the Deschutes River at Sherars Bridge and proceeded west bypassing The Dalles.  However, the National Park Service treats the first tollgate site at Gate Creek on the White River as the beginning of the Barlow Road.

Geography
Tygh Valley is located at  (45.246747, -121.170213).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land. The community is located  above sea level.

Climate

 Annual Average High Temperatures: 86 °F (summer) 41 °F (winter)
 Annual Average Low Temperatures 50 °F (summer) 26 °F (winter)
 Highest Recorded Temperature: 110 °F (1928)
 Lowest Recorded Temperature: -28 °F (1950)
 Warmest Month: July
 Coolest Month: January
 Highest Precipitation: January
 Annual Precipitation: 13.37 inches

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 224 people, 97 households, and 67 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 59.4 people per square mile (22.9/km²). There were 109 housing units at an average density of 28.9 per square mile (11.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.09% White, 1.34% Native American, 2.23% Asian, and 1.34% from two or more races.

There were 97 households out of which 22.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.6% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.79.

In the CDP, the population was spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 20.5% from 25 to 44, 31.3% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.3 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $24,167, and the median income for a family was $24,688. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $11,750 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $14,255. About 23.5% of families and 22.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 50.0% of those under the age of eighteen and 4.5% of those sixty five or over.

Transportation

 U.S. Route 197 (Generally a north–south route)
 Oregon Route 216 (Generally an east–west route)

References

External links
 Photos of Tygh Valley from Wasco County schools history site

Official Facebook page for Tygh Valley Bluegrass Jamboree: Tygh Valley Bluegrass Jamboree
Official Homepage for Tygh Valley Bluegrass Jamboree: Tygh Valley Jamboree Homepage

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International Association of Hydrological Sciences

The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) is a non-profit non-governmental scientific organisation committed to serving the science of hydrology and the worldwide community of hydrologists. The IAHS was established in 1922, and presently claims a membership in excess of 8600 with members in almost 200 countries.

Ten international scientific commissions deal with the hydrological cycle, water resources, and specific techniques. Other working groups and initiatives address particular issues.

Governance
IAHS is one of the eight associations that comprise the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In accordance with the IAHS statutes and by-laws, the IAHS officers and commissioners are elected every four years by national representatives at IAHS assemblies.

National representation
Official contact between the IAHS and member countries is via the national representative in each country who acts as a focal point and channel for communication. If there is a national IUGG committee (usually appointed by the national academy of sciences or equivalent), the IAHS representative is nominated by it, or its IAHS subcommittee. Member countries may also appoint national correspondents of the Commissions.

Publications
IAHS Press fulfills the IAHS mission of worldwide dissemination of research results and practice, and raises funds, by publishing and selling the Hydrological Sciences Journal and three book series. The IAHS electronic news is distributed free to the members.

Finance

IAHS is a UK registered charity; all revenues are used to support the aims of the Association. The greater part of IAHS’ funding is raised through the publication of the Hydrological Sciences Journal.

IAHS works closely with IUGG, International Council for Science (ICSU), UNESCO, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and WWC, and often collaborates with organisations such as International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Inland Waterways Association (IWA).

Hydrological decades
IAHS supports hydrological research decades that aim to encourage hydrological research around the globe under a common theme.

Predictions in ungauged basins
The Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) scientific decade lasted from 2003 to 2012. It was described as the "first scientific endeavour to track and quantify the world's water supply". Results from the PUB decade benefited other scientific initiatives such as HEPEX.

Panta rhei: change in hydrology and society
The Panta Rhei scientific decade runs from 2013–2022. The name 'Panta Rhei' means 'Everything Flows'. The Panta Rhei decade focuses on scientific understanding, prediction and water management in rapidly changing environmental systems, with an explicit focus on the role of humans in the water cycle. The theme and the name of the Panta Rhei decade was identified through a community discussion and Panta Rhei was launched in 2013. During the first Panta Rhei biennium 2013-2015, 31 working groups were formed on diverse topics related to hydrology, society and change. Panta Rhei shares some common aims with the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) Phase VIII on Water Security.

References

External links
 IAHS Homepage

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Faught

Faught is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

 Bob Faught (1921–2002), American basketball player
 George Faught (born 1962), American businessman and politician
 Howard E. Faught (1907–1955), American politician and jurist
 Josh Faught (born 1979), American artist


Artifact (software development)

An artifact is one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software. Some artifacts (e.g., use cases, class diagrams, and other Unified Modeling Language (UML) models, requirements and design documents) help describe the function, architecture, and design of software. Other artifacts are concerned with the process of development itself—such as project plans, business cases, and risk assessments.

The term artifact in connection with software development is largely associated with specific development methods or processes e.g., Unified Process. This usage of the term may have originated with those methods.

Build tools often refer to source code compiled for testing as an artifact, because the executable is necessary to carrying out the testing plan.  Without the executable to test, the testing plan artifact is limited to non-execution based testing.  In non-execution based testing, the artifacts are the walkthroughs, inspections and correctness proofs.  On the other hand, execution based testing requires at minimum two artifacts: a test suite and the executable.  An artifact occasionally may be used to refer to the released code (in the case of a code library) or released executable (in the case of a program) produced but the more common usage is in referring to the byproducts of software development rather than the product itself. Open source code libraries often contain a testing harness to allow contributors to ensure their changes do not cause regression bugs in the code library.

Much of what are considered artifacts is software documentation.

In end-user development an artifact is either an application or a complex data object that is created by an end-user without the need to know a general programming language. Artifacts describe automated behavior or control sequences, such as database requests or grammar rules, or user-generated content.

Artifacts vary in their maintainability.  Maintainability is primarily affected by the role the artifact fulfills.  The role can be either practical or symbolic.  In the earliest stages of software development, artifacts may be created by the design team to serve a symbolic role to show the project sponsor how serious the contractor is about meeting the project's needs.  Symbolic artifacts often convey information poorly, but are impressive-looking. Symbolic enhance understanding.  Generally speaking, Illuminated Scrolls are also considered unmaintainable due to the diligence it requires to preserve the symbolic quality.  For this reason, once Illuminated Scrolls are shown to the project sponsor and approved, they are replaced by artifacts which serve a practical role.  Practical artifacts usually need to be maintained throughout the project lifecycle, and, as such, are generally highly maintainable.

Artifacts are significant from a project management perspective as deliverables. The deliverables of a software project are likely to be the same as its artifacts with the addition of the software itself.

The sense of artifacts as byproducts is similar to the use of the term artifact in science to refer to something that arises from the process in hand rather than the issue itself, i.e., a result of interest that stems from the means rather than the end.

To collect, organize and manage artifacts, a Software development folder may be utilized.

 // POST: api/Todo
 [HttpPost]
 public async Task<ActionResult<TodoItem>> PostTodoItem(TodoItem item)
 {
     _context.TodoItems.Add(item);
     await _context.SaveChangesAsync();

     return CreatedAtAction(nameof(GetTodoItem), new { id = item.Id }, item);
 }

See also
Artifact (UML)
Software development folder

References

Further reading
 Per Kroll & Philippe Kruchten (2003). The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP. .

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Malin Strömberg

Malin Maria Birgitta Strömberg (born 13 April 1976 in Staffanstorp, Skåne County) is a former Swedish Olympic swimmer. She competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she finished 24th in the 100 m butterfly.

Clubs
Ystads SS

References

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Mongolia at the 1994 Asian Games

Mongolia participated in the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan from 2 to 16 October 1994.

Medal summary

Medalists

References

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1944
Asian Games


Alaria (alga)

Alaria is a genus of brown alga (Phaeophyceae) comprising approximately 17 species. Members of the genus are dried and eaten as a food in Western Europe, China, Korea, Japan (called sarumen), and South America. Distribution of the genus is a marker for climate change, as it relates to oceanic temperatures.

The most common species, Alaria esculenta is a large brown seaweed common on the shores of the British Isles. It has been studied for its potential for aquaculture.

Description
Alaria is a genus of highly variable brown algae, and a member of the order Laminariales, more commonly known as kelp. It has mature sporophytes as small as  and as large at  in length. It does not show definite air-floats. All species’ sporophytes consist of a ramified holdfast, an unbranched cylindrical stipe, and a blade with a percurrent, cartilaginous midrib, Alaria is frequently found with lacerations running from the margin to the midrib caused by the ravages of the sea.

Taxonomy
Alaria  the second largest genus of Laminariales, with about 17 currently recognized species. However, due to its highly plastic morphology, the kelp has over 100 specific and subspecific names, which have arisen since it was first described in 1830. These synonyms have been tailored down to the present species through genetic comparisons.

Species
The  species currently recognised are:
Alaria angusta
Alaria crassifolia, sarumen, ezo-wakame
Alaria crispa
Alaria dolichorhachis
Alaria elliptica
Alaria esculenta
Alaria fragilis
Alaria grandifolia
Alaria marginata
Alaria oblonga
Alaria paradisea
Alaria praelonga
Alaria pylaiei

Distribution

Biogeographical
Alaria is most commonly found in far northern waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, with the greatest variety of species concentrated in the north Pacific. More specifically, it has been found on the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and the United States.

Ecological
Alaria is typically found in the sublittoral zones, at a depth of . An important factor in Alaria’s distribution is temperature; it is limited by sea temperature of 16°C. and greater. Presumably due to this factor, and rising sea temperatures, the genus has largely disappeared from the English Channel within the past 100 years. Recent research conducted on Alaria esculenta in the Arctic showed pronounced temperature effects on the photosynthesis and germination of the algae.

Life history
As with all kelps, Alaria demonstrate a heteromorphic, sporic life history, with a macroscopic, dominant sporophyte, and a microscopic gametophyte. Unique to the genus Alaria is that the sori of the unilocular sporangia are restricted to certain blades, the sporophylls. The sporophylls are formed as lateral blades from the stipe. Most species are perennial; after reproduction, the blade sloughs off, leaving the stipe and meristem. The persisting meristem produces a new blade at the beginning of the next growing season.

Uses

Human consumption
In Ireland, Scotland, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands, the midrib is removed, and the blade and sometimes the leaflets are eaten, although it is not commercially available. It is more commonly eaten in the Far East (China, Japan, and Korea), where seaweed consumption is much more popular than in the West. Seaweeds are considered to be highly nutritious, because typically they are low in fat, and have vitamins and minerals in amounts comparable or superior to terrestrial vegetables. Alaria esculenta, in particular, is an excellent source of protein and iodine.

Also known as...
"Badderlocks", "dabberlocks" or "henware" in Scotland proper
"Honey-ware" in the Orkney Islands (Northern Scotland)
"Murlins", "láir", and "láracha" in Ireland
"Wing kelp" unknown origin
"California nori"
"Wild nori"
"California wakame"

References

External links
Images of Alaria at Algaebase

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Luis Barrancos

Luis Barrancos Álvarez (born August 19, 1946 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a retired Bolivian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain between Argentina and El Salvador.

Barrancos is known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 1975 to 1987. He officiated at the 1979 and 1987 Copa America tournaments, as well as qualifying matches for the 1978, 1982, and 1986 World Cups.

Barrancos was a panelist at CONMEBOL's 'Futuro III' referee's conference in Buenos Aires in May 2008.

References

Profile

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Familial (album)

Familial is  the debut solo studio album by English musician Philip Selway, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released on 30 August 2010 in the United Kingdom. The album contains ten tracks written by Selway, and collaborations with various musicians.

On 1 July 2010, Selway streamed the opening track from the album, "By Some Miracle", from the newly set-up website, in addition to offering a free, high-quality download of the track via e-mail.

Reception

Andy Kellman of Allmusic complimented the album's lyrics saying they "soothed rather than seethed" and wrote that "subtle, touching albums like this should be made more often". A mixed review from Pitchfork Media described "Familial" as a "modest, mannered record that prizes directness, simplicity and bittersweet sentiment above all, sometimes successfully, sometimes not."

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 66, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Track listing
"By Some Miracle" – 2:37
"Beyond Reason" – 2:52
"A Simple Life" – 3:14
"All Eyes on You" – 2:31
"The Ties That Bind Us" – 3:41
"Patron Saint" – 3:27
"Falling" – 3:13
"Broken Promises" – 3:01
"Don't Look Down" – 5:03
"The Witching Hour" – 2:54
"Running Blind" (iTunes & Japan Bonus Track)
"What Goes Around (Demo)" (iTunes & Japan Bonus Track)

Personnel
Philip Selway
Lisa Germano
Sebastian Steinberg
Glenn Kotche
Pat Sansone

References

Category:2010 debut albums
Category:Bella Union albums
Category:Philip Selway albums


Nicolae Linca

Nicolae Linca (1 January 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a Romanian amateur welterweight boxer. After winning bronze medals at the 1953 and 1955 European championships, he became Romania's first Olympic champion in boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Fighting with a broken finger, he won against Fred Tiedt in a 3:2 split decision. His amateur record upon retirement was 281-25. After competing as an amateur, Linca turned to coaching in the sport. By the 1990s he was living in poverty and suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, which led to his deaths at the age of 79. In 2005 he was awarded the Sports Merit Order of First Class.

References

Category:1929 births
Category:2008 deaths
Category:Olympic boxers of Romania
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Romania
Category:Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Category:People from Blaj
Category:Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in boxing
Category:Romanian male boxers
Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics