Beatrice Warde

Beatrice Lamberton Warde (September 20, 1900 – September 16, 1969, née Beatrice Becker) was a twentieth century writer and scholar of typography. As a marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation, she was influential in the development of printing tastes in Britain and elsewhere in the mid-twentieth century and was recognized at the time as "[o]ne of the few women typographers in the world". Her writing advocated higher standards in printing, and championed intelligent use of historic typefaces from the past, which Monotype specialised in reviving, and the work of contemporary typeface designers.

Early life and interests
Born in New York, Warde was the only daughter of May Lamberton Becker, a journalist on the staff of the New York Herald Tribune, and Gustave Becker, composer and teacher. Warde was educated at Barnard College at Columbia University. At the age of thirteen her school introduced her to the art of calligraphy. This led to a general interest in typography and the history of letter forms during her college years. This interest did not translate into an print-related apprenticeship because she said that "the printing trade is barred to women, on the craftsman level," a fact that had "been true for many centuries". Despite the prejudice against women in the trade, she said that in contrast, "anyone who has a good sense of design can make the grade if they know their stuff – whether he or she is a man or a woman".

Career

American Type Founders Company
She became acquainted with Bruce Rogers and, on his recommendation, was appointed after graduation to the post of assistant librarian to the American Type Founders Company. She worked in Jersey City under Henry Lewis Bullen, where she concentrated on self-education and research.  While there she became acquainted with eminent typographers including Daniel Berkeley Updike and Stanley Morison, who later played a highly influential part in her professional life. She remained there from 1921–1925.  While at ATF she was intrigued by Bullen's comment that he was sure the "Garamond" type his company was reviving, supposedly the work of sixteenth-century engraver Claude Garamond, was actually the work of someone else, noting that he had never seen it in a book of the period.

In 1925, Beatrice saw that the future of typographic and book design was set in London with the new Monotype Composing Machine. As a result, she moved to Europe in 1925.

Historical research and The Fleuron
Beatrice Warde spent time investigating the origins of the Garamond design of type, and published the results in The Fleuron in 1926 under the pen-name "Paul Beaujon". Her conclusion that many typefaces previously attributed to Claude Garamont were in fact made ninety years later by Jean Jannon was a lasting contribution to scholarship. Warde later recalled she had amused herself imagining her 'Paul Beaujon' persona to be "a man of long grey beard, four grandchildren, a great interest in antique furniture and a rather vague address in Montparnasse." She noted that the deception confused, but was not immediately suspected by other historians, who were surprised to read a work by Frenchman in idiomatic English and mocking received wisdom by quoting from The Hunting of the Snark.

Publicity manager at Monotype

After publishing her discovery of Garamond's origin, "Paul Beaujon" was in 1927 offered the part-time post of editor of the Monotype Recorder, and Warde accepted—to the astonishment of Lanston Monotype Corporation executives in London, who were expecting a man. She was promoted to publicity manager in about 1929, a post she retained until her retirement in 1960 on her 60th birthday. She thought of herself as an outsider, working in a man's world, but she gained respect for her work and her personal qualities.

During her time there, she was responsible for planning the advertising and marketing activities for Monotype's new and widely acclaimed products. Working with Morison, Warde produced materials and lectures that connected British nationalist sentiment to the visual identity of corporations and functionalist views of efficiency.  This kind of promotional activity aligned the political and public intentions of Jan Tschichold's New, or Modern typography, with the goals of business.

With the tenet of readability being a key benefit of good typography, Warde worked with Eric Gill to launch and promote Gill Sans. Warde penned her famous broadside "This is a Printing Office", to show the Perpetua typeface off. It has since been found on the walls of numerous printing offices and has been cast in bronze and is mounted at the entrance to the United States Government Publishing Office in Washington, D.C.; it has been translated into numerous languages and has been parodied.

Warde's approach of connecting the craft of typography with the concerns of business were not always welcome, even within Monotype. She exchanged many heated letters with Eric Gill about the nature of this relationship, with Gill denigrating the use of promotional materials to sell his designs.  Warde defended her position by arguing, as one historian notes, "that mass culture would be elevated and the public good achieved when artists came to accept their social responsibility, and to regard the forces of advertising as a means to achieve their ends, not the defeat of everything".

Design communicator
While aesthetically associated with "the new traditionalist" typographic movement, Warde made herself part of a larger campaign to raise the standards of commercial publishing by advocating "for the role of design in good management". She often visited printing schools, universities, and factories both in England and abroad to bring this message. During an invitation to speak in Australia, she spoke for cultivating "a print-conscious public" as a necessity for the printing industry to do its best. For Warde, this meant teaching good handwriting and designing attractive schoolbooks for children. All of this was to promote "a general, high, critical standard in the public at large".

As Alan Hutt wrote in 1969:
She was an original typographical scholar of the first rank (the 'Paul Beaujon' Garamond and other studies in The Fleuron and The Monotype Recorder); she was a practicing typographer of sure taste and a calligrapher of elegance; for over 30 years she was a brilliant editor of the Recorder and the Monotype Newsletter, as part of her devoted service to The Monotype Corporation as its publicity manager; she was Stanley Morison's inseparable and incomparable lieutenant in the great work of Britain's typographical renaissance; she was beyond peer as a public expositor, and propagandist for, good typography.

Works

The Crystal Goblet
"The Crystal Goblet" is an essay on typography by Beatrice Warde. The essay was first delivered as a speech, called "Printing Should Be Invisible," given to the British Typographers' Guild at the St Bride Institute in London, on October 7, 1930.
 Like many of Warde's other writings, the essay was written with the intent to be spoken before printed, as she carefully considered the invocations of voice, presence, and personal connection while reading aloud.

The essay is notable historically as a call for increased clarity in printing and typography. It is now significant as a common reading in the study of typography and graphic design. The essay has been reprinted many times and is a touchstone for the concept of "clear" typography and the straightforward presentation of content.

Days after her 1930 address, the lecture appeared in a newsletter called the British & Colonial Printer & Stationer. It was printed again as a pamphlet in 1932 and 1937. Thenceforward, it appeared as either "The Crystal Goblet" or "The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible." In 1955 it was published again and reached its widest audience yet in a book called The Crystal Goblet: Sixteen Essays on Typography.

Typically, design historians associate Stanley Morison as the source of "new traditionalist" ideas and "credit Beatrice Warde with spreading his influence. "The Crystal Goblet" is rich with metaphors. The title itself is a reference to a clear vessel holding wine, where the vessel, the printed word, gives no obstruction to the presentation of its content, the text. Warde poses a choice between two wine glasses: one of "solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns" and one of "crystal-clear glass."

Throughout the essay, Warde argues for the discipline and humility required to create quietly set, "transparent" book pages.

Other works

 An American in England (Pen name of Warde), Enjoying England: A book about an enchanted Island, published by the LNER, 1931

 During World War 2 she also contributed to American Outpost Newsletter, and her mother featured her letters about London in the New York Herald Tribune
 Compiler of Token of Freedom c 1940, (An anthology given to every child who was evacuated to North America during World War II)

Legacy
Warde's success as a design communicator has placed much of her work, like The Crystal Goblet within the canon of graphic design and typography history. She had, as one historian has noted, "the popular touch" which connected printing education with the printing trade. Her work has been continually referred to within discussions on graphic design and typography, for example during the 1990s "legibility wars" or debates concerning electronic interface design.

In 2010, an archive relating to her life and work was established at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship
The Type Directors Club and Monotype offer a scholarship under her name for young women who demonstrate exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography. The Beatrice Warde scholarship emphasizes the merging of technology and typography, as she used to encourage the best use of technology in design.

Personal life
In 1922, Beatrice married Frederic Warde, printer to Princeton University and a typographic designer. After moving to Europe in 1925, their marriage ended in separation in November 1926, followed by divorce in 1938. She was probably artist Eric Gill's lover and model when she worked for Monotype.

References

Online
 Shelley Gruendler, 'Beatrice Warde'. 20th century Graphic Communication: Technology, Society and Culture. (First annual Friends of St Bride conference, September 24 and 25, 2002)
 The Crystal Goblet: sixteen essays on typography, 1955
Printed
Simon Loxley. The Secret History of Letters. I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd.: 2004. /.
Anon, 'Pioneer in a Man's World' in The Times, February 10, 1964; p 13; Issue 55931; col A. A short feature article about her life and work with portrait.
Anon, Obituary, Mrs Beatrice Warde. First Lady of Typography, in The Times, September 16, 1969, p 12, Issue 57666, col, E.
Professor Arthur Newell, Obituary, Mrs Beatrice Warde, in The Times September 25, 1969, p 12; Issue 57674; col G.
Nicolas Barker, Stanley Morison. 1972
James Moran, Stanley Morison, his typographic achievement, 1971

Notes

External links
St Bride's Library
http://www.nenne.com/typography/bw1.html Typography online: Beatrice Warde

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George North (disambiguation)

George North is a Welsh rugby union player.

George North may also refer to:

George North (diplomat) (fl. 1561–1581), English man of letters
George North (numismatist) (1707–1772), English cleric
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (1757–1802), British politician
George North (Tramountanas) (1822–1911), first settler of Greek origin in South Australia

See also
Prince George North, former electoral district in British Columbia, Canada


Gadopsis

Gadopsis is a genus of temperate perches endemic to freshwater habitats in southeastern Australia. The genus was formerly considered to be in a family of its own, Gadopsidae.

Species
There are two species in this genus:
 Gadopsis bispinosus Sanger, 1984 (Two-spined blackfish)
 Gadopsis marmoratus J. Richardson, 1848 (River blackfish)

References

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1989–90 Biathlon World Cup

The 1989–90 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the UIPMB (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon). The season started on 14 December 1989 in Obertilliach, Austria, and ended on 18 March 1990 in Kontiolahti, Finland. It was the thirteenth season of the Biathlon World Cup.

Originally, the World Championships were to be held in Minsk. However, due to a lack of snow, only the individual competitions could be held, and the team, sprint and relay races were moved to Holmenkollen. This caused the UIPMB to declare the World Championship races as counting towards the World Cup. On the last day in Holmenkollen, the men's relay was cancelled during the last leg due to fog; it was subsequently moved to Kontiolahti.

Calendar
Below is the World Cup calendar for the 1989–90 season.

 1991 World Championship races were not included in the 1990–91 World Cup scoring system.
 The relays were technically unofficial races as they did not count towards anything in the World Cup.

World Cup Podium

Men

Women

Men's team

Women's team

Standings: Men

Overall

Final standings after 12 races.

Individual

Final standings after 6 races.

Sprint

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Final standings after 16 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Final standings after 12 races.

Individual

Final standings after 6 races.

Sprint

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Final standings after 16 races.

Achievements

Men
First World Cup career victory
, 25, in his 5th season — the WC 2 Individual in Antholz-Anterselva; it also was his first podium
, 19, in his 1st season — the World Championships Sprint in Holmenkollen; first podium was the 1989–90 Sprint in Walchsee
, 28, in his 9th season — the WC 5 Sprint in Kontiolahti; first podium was the 1985–86 Individual in Lahti

First World Cup podium
, 24, in his 1st season — no. 2 in the WC 1 Sprint in Obertilliach
, 27, in his 4th season — no. 2 in the WC 4 Individual in Walchsee
, 19, in his 1st season — no. 3 in the WC 4 Sprint in Walchsee

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)
, 3 (6) first places
, 2 (4) first places
, 1 (11) first place
, 1 (4) first place
, 1 (2) first place
, 1 (2) first place
, 1 (1) first place
, 1 (1) first place
, 1 (1) first place

Women
Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)
 , 5 (5) first places
 , 2 (5) first places
 , 2 (3) first places
 , 1 (2) first place
 , 1 (2) first place
 , 1 (1) first place

Retirements
Following notable biathletes retired after the 1989–90 season:

References

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World Cup


Gardone Riviera

Gardone Riviera (Gardesano: ) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Garda.

Twin towns
Gardone Riviera is twinned with:

  Arcachon, France, since 1980
  Pescara, Italy, since 2010

Main sights
 The Vittoriale degli Italiani is a former residence of the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. He donated it to the Italian State before his death. It is now a national monument and houses a MAS fast military ship and the plane on which D'Annunzio raided Vienna.
 The English band King Crimson recorded in its auditorium the songs "Three of a Perfect Pair" and "Blastic Rhino" for the album Heavy ConstruKction recorded (June 21, 2000).
 The Giardino Botanico Fondazione André Heller is a botanical garden maintained by artist André Heller.

Sources

External links

Gardone picture gallery

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Borek, Łęczyca County

Borek  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łęczyca, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately  west of Łęczyca and  north-west of the regional capital Łódź.

References

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Anthi Balta

Anthoula "Anthi" Balta (, born October 1, 1987) is a Greek professional basketball player who plays for Olympiacos in the Greek Women's Basketball League.

References

External links
 Hellenic Basketball Federation player profile (Greek)
 Eurobasket.com profile

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Category:Greek women's basketball players
Category:Olympiacos Women's Basketball players
Category:1987 births
Category:Guards (basketball)


John Cohen (musician)

John Cohen (August 2, 1932 – September 16, 2019) was an American folk musician and musicologist, founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a musicologist, photographer and filmmaker. Some of his best known images document the Abstract Expressionist scene centered on New York's Cedar Bar; gallery happenings by early performance artists; young Bob Dylan's arrival in New York; Beat Generation writers during the filming of Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's film Pull My Daisy; and the "old time" musicians of Appalachia. (The title of Cohen's 1962 film, High Lonesome Sound, has become synonymous with that music.) He was one of the most important "discoverers" of traditional musicians and singers, finding and recording Dillard Chandler, Roscoe Holcomb, and many banjo players, most notably on the album High Atmosphere.

Beyond the United States, Cohen traveled extensively to Peru, driven by a fascination for the weaving and lifestyle of the native Andean population. His field recording of a Peruvian wedding song is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft.

Cohen married Penny Seeger (1943–1993), the youngest member of the musical Seeger family, which includes half-brother Pete Seeger. They had two children, Sonya and Rufus, and grandchildren Dio and Gabel.

From 1972 to 1997, Cohen was a Professor of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase College where he taught photography and drawing.

The Grateful Dead song "Uncle John's Band," on Workingman's Dead, according to what Cohen calls "a true rumor," is supposed to have been written about Cohen and his band.

The Library of Congress acquired John Cohen's archive, which includes his films, photographs, music recordings and other historic ephemera in 2011. The artist's work can also be found in the permanent collections of the following museums: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Neuberger Museum, Westchester, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Cohen resided in the lower Hudson Valley of New York. He frequently performed with the Down Hill Strugglers.

Monographs
There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs, introduction by Greil Marcus. New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. ,
Young Bob: John Cohen’s Early Photographs of Bob Dylan, Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2003.
Past, Present, Peru, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010.
The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2012.
Here and Gone: Bob Dylan & Woody Guthrie & the 1960s, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2014.
Walking In the Light, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2015.
Cheap Rents…and de Kooning Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016.

Recent publications
Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris, Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, 2016.
Pull My Daisy, Paris, France: Editions Macula and Centre Pompidou, 2016. Text by Rollet, Patrice; Sargeant, Jack.
 Petrus, Stephen and Cohen, Ronald. Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Foreword by Peter Yarrow.
Glimcher, Mildred L.Happenings: New York, 1958-1963, New York: The Monacelli Press LLC. 2012

Selected filmography
The High Lonesome Sound (1962)
Fifty Miles from Times Square (1970)
The End of an Old Song (1972). A DVD version is in print as part of Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads (2005-09-27). Washington: Smithsonian Folkways.
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival (1979)
Peruvian Weaving: a continuous warp (1980)
Sara and Maybelle (1981)
Gypsies Sing Long Ballads (1982)
Mountain Music of Peru (1984)
Dancing with the Incas (1990)
Carnival in Q'eros (1992)
Play on John: A Life in Music (2009) on Smithsonian Networks
Visions of Mary Frank (2014)

Selected discography (as producer)
High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina (1975)
There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs, Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40091 (2001), companion to the book
Back Roads to Cold Mountain (2004)

References

External links

Website of L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, which represents Cohen's photographic work

Webcast of a Library of Congress presentation, "'The High Lonesome Sound Revisited': Documenting Traditional Culture in America" (2009)
American Standard Time presents John Cohen, a 2011 interview
"The Revivalist: How John Cohen Found Folk Music and (Accidentally) Inspired a Klezmer Renaissance"
"The Picture That Captures Why Jack Kerouac Will Last Forever" Geoff Dyer for UK's Spectator

The Down Hill Strugglers
 Oldtone Roots Music Festival Tribute Video by Fred Robbins
 New Lost City Ramblers at Davidson College Photos, May 1968 by Fred Robbins

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Akō Rōshi (TV series)

is a 1964 Japanese television series. It is the 2nd NHK taiga drama.

Story
Akō Rōshi  deals with the Edo period. Based on Jirō Osaragi's novels "Hana no Shōgai".

It depicts the stories of the Forty-seven rōnin.

Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke
Shinsuke Ashida as Kobayashi Heihichi
Chikage Awashima
Takahiro Tamura as Takada Gunbei
Masakazu Tamura
Jukichi Uno
Katsuo Nakamura
Takashi Shimura as Onodera Junai
Yoichi Hayashi as Hotta Yayato
Kei Taguchi
Rokkō Toura as Takebayashi Takashige
Kyoko Kishida as Aguri
Jun Tazaki
Kanjūrō Arashi
Osamu Takizawa as Kira Kōzuke no suke
Isuzu Yamada as Ōishi Riku

References

External links

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Minger Email Address Verification Protocol

Minger Email Address Verification Protocol is an Internet Engineering Task Force draft for lightweight verification of an e-mail address between trusted servers. It was created by Arvel Hathcock and Jonathan Merkel as a practical alternative to the Finger protocol or SMTP call-forward. The MDaemon e-mail server uses Minger to realize domain sharing over multiple servers with distributed mailboxes.

On February 3, 2010, draft 6 expired. On March 9, 2016, draft 7 was released, but it is available from the manufacturer's website or from within MDaemon's documentation.

References

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TTI Telecom

TTI Telecom, founded in 1992, is a developer and provider of next generation Operations Support Systems (OSS) to large communications service providers. TTI Telecom is based in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel and operates subsidiaries in 7 other countries.

In August 2010 TTI Telecom was acquired by TEOCO Corporation.

History
TTI Telecom was incorporated in 1990 and commenced its operations in 1992 as a subsidiary of Team Computers and Systems Ltd., after having operated as a division of Team Computers since 1988. TTI Telecom shares have been traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol  since an initial public offering of a minority stake of its shares in December 1996 when it was still a Team Computers subsidiary. In April 2005, TTI Telecom ceased to be a subsidiary of Team Computers.

In 2011, TTI challenged the Indian tax authorities in a case brought before the Indian Income Tax Appellate Tribunal in Mumbai. The court ruled in TTI's favor, ruling that software receipts were not royalties under the India-Israel tax treaty.

TTI Telecom has a registered patent in the United States and a patent application pending in Europe. The US patent addresses the functionality of a topology-based reasoning system for root-cause analysis of network faults, a component of the Netrac FaM product line.

See also
Economy of Israel

References

External links
Israel's TTI Telecom CEO assumes president's role, Reuters from Forbes, 20 April 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Ackerman, Gwen, TTI Telecom wins major Hutchison deal, Jerusalem Post, 7 February 2002. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Muscal, Tal, TTI gets NIS 2.5m. order from Cellcom, Jerusalem Post, 6 November 2001. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Groner, Eli, TTI Telecom-IBM partnership wins Telia deal, Jerusalem Post, 27 September 1999. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Chappell, Caroline, Managing Subscriber Data, Light Reading, 2 January 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Le Maistre, Ray, OSS Chief Convicted of Fraud, Light Reading, 2 November 2005. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
TTI Telecom, Wall Street Journal profile
TTI Telecom signs deal with Italian provider for GSM assurance solution, Telecompaper, 7 January 2004 (subscription required). Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Le Maistre, Ray, Hutch 3G Dumps Supplier, Unstrung, 14 November 2002. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
DSL Service Management, Light Reading, 13 January 2005 (overview of DSL service management vendors including TTI). Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Le Maistre, Ray, TTI Hopping Mad Over Hutch, Light Reading, 19 June 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
TTI cuts 10% of staff, Jerusalem Post, 2 May 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Stub, Zev, Major customer cancels TTI contract, Jerusalem Post, 15 November 2005. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
Gerstenfeld, Dan, TTI wins $14m. Belgium deal, Jerusalem Post'', 22 December 1998. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
TTI Telecom official website

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Mount Kelsey

Mount Kelsey is a mountain located in the western portion of Millsfield, New Hampshire. The western slopes of the mountain are contained within the township of Erving's Location, New Hampshire. The summit is occupied by part of the Granite Reliable Wind Farm, with road access from the Phillips Brook watershed to the south.

The north side of Mount Kelsey drains into the West Branch of Clear Stream, a tributary of the Androscoggin River, which flows south and east into Maine, joining the Kennebec River near the Atlantic Ocean. The southeast side of Kelsey drains into North Inlet Stream, thence into Millsfield Pond Brook, and into Clear Stream. The west side of Kelsey drains into Phillips Brook, thence into the Upper Ammonoosuc River, the upper Connecticut River, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut.

See also
 List of mountains in New Hampshire

References

External links
 "AMC Position on Proposed Granite Reliable Windpark, Coos County, NH". Appalachian Mountain Club.

Category:Mountains of New Hampshire
Category:Mountains of Coos County, New Hampshire


Witton, Birmingham

Witton is an inner city area in Birmingham, England, in the metropolitan county of the West Midlands. It was within the ancient parish of Aston in the Hemlingford hundred of the historic county of Warwickshire. It is probably best known as the home of Aston Villa Football Club at Villa Park.

History
According to William Dugdale, Witton was the property of a man named Staunchel (also spelled Stannachetel) before being seized by William Fitz-Ansculf following the Norman conquest of England. Staunchel became the tenant of Fitz-Ansculf, valued at twenty shillings per annum in the Domesday Book. William Futz-Ansculf nicknamed 'The Duke of Dumps' loved ponies. It was named in the Domesday Book as Witone. It was afterwards vested in the Crown. In 1240, King Henry III granted it to Andrew de Wicton, indicating that the name of the area had changed to Wicton. Andrew grew cautious of William de Pyrie, his neighbour who owned Perry and brought action against him for infringing his property. The dispute was settled by the Sheriffs of Staffordshire and Warwickshire by the King's request.

In 1290, Witton became the property of William Dixley and then the property of Richard de Pyrie in 1340. In 1426, Thomas East of Hay Hall in Yardley sold it to John Bond of Ward End of whose descendants William Booth purchased it in 1620. An heiress of Booth brought it by marriage to Allestree of Yardley. It was sold to John Wyrley in the 18th century and then by George Birch of Hamstead in the 19th century. In 1730, Witton contained 22 farms and three cottages, apart from Witton Hall at the north-west end of Brookvale Park. In 1559, the Earl of Warwick purchased to  of moor called Wichalmore in Witton.

At around 1460, a route through Witton towards Oscott was mentioned at crossing the River Tame at 'le Foulford', where Witton Bridge was later built.

Witton Hall was the manor of Witton and it stands at the junction of Brookvale Road and George Road.  By 1850, it was being used as a private school, and c. 1907 was acquired by the Aston Board of Guardians as an elderly home. It continued to be such under the Birmingham Corporation in 1959. The buildings have been extended, both before and after the Second World War, but the original house is represented by a tall, square, three-storey tall block dating from around 1730. Internally, a panelled room and the original staircase have survived.

On 13 June 1902, Birmingham Industrial School opened on Witton Lane. It moved from Penn Street in Deritend, where it was called Penn Street Industrial School. The school had room for 60 boys and opened on 30 January 1869. The new school in Witton had room for 80 boys. It closed on 14 June 1905.

In 1907, All Souls' Church on Wenlock Road was consecrated. It was built using red brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style to a design by Philip Chatwin. When opened, it had a chancel, nave, east and west aisles, and a low central tower with a pyramidal roof. In 1926, a parish was assigned out of Holy Trinity, Birchfield, and St. Peter and St. Paul, Aston. The living was declared a vicarage, in the gift of the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Birchfield, for the first turn only and then of the bishop.

On 28 June 1934 Hugo Hirst was made 1st Baron Hirst, of Witton. He was the only person to have this title, which was made extinct on 22 January 1943 upon Hugo's death.

Industry
Like the rest of Birmingham, Witton was heavily industrialised. The area was the base of industrial company IMI plc. The company was responsible for construction a conveyor next to Witton Brook and dredging the brook in from 1922 to 1929. The conveyor was dismantled in 1943. On 13 November 1929, a waste lime main pipe installed by IMI became dislodged at Lovett's point and slid six to twelve feet downstream. In 2003, IMI moved from the Witton site to new headquarters close to Birmingham Airport.

The General Electric Co. Ltd. (GEC) established a very large engineering works in Witton in 1901. The General Electric Company acquired land at Witton in 1899, and in 1901 began building its large factory together with houses for its workers. At one time, the company was employing 18,000 people on the site. By 1927, London Aluminium was employing 400 people at its works in Witton.

Places of interest
Other notable features of Witton are Witton Cemetery, Witton Lakes, the River Tame, the remains of Witton Hall and Witton railway station. The Birmingham Bulldogs rugby team's training ground is also based on Moor Lane in Witton. Witton Centre is the shopping area for Witton, featuring independent traders. Refurbishment of the shops was carried out in the 1980s under the City Council's Inner City Partnership Programme, although by the late 1990s, shops were beginning to show signs of need of further investment. The quality of the environment in Witton is poor with heavy traffic flows, poor parking and servicing arrangements. There are a number of buildings here which reflect the Victorian and Edwardian legacy of Aston, with the Aston Hotel possibly the most well-known local landmark. In some cases, however, the character and architectural quality of these buildings has been disrupted by modern signage and shop front design.

Flooding
On 15 June 2007, parts of Witton were flooded as a result of heavy rainfall causing the River Tame to burst its banks. Residents of 300 homes in the Brookvale Road area were sent advice by the city council on dealing with the clean-up and cost of the floods. Parts of the area were evacuated as a precautionary measure. Residents were encouraged to evacuate to Great Barr Leisure Centre, in Great Barr where Birmingham City Council was staffing a rest centre. The majority of people chose to remain at home. Roads affected were Brookvale Road, Tame Road, Deykin Avenue and Brantley Road. The river threatened to flood for a second time when the water level rose to within eight inches (203 mm) of the top of the river bank.

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Ireland–Isle of Man relations

Ireland–Isle of Man relations refers to the current and historical bilateral relationship and cultural and economic ties between Ireland and the Isle of Man.

History and culture

There is a long history of relations and cultural exchange between the Isle of Man and Ireland. Some sources state that Christianity was brought to the Isle of Man around 500 AD by Celts from Ireland, perhaps by St. Patrick himself. Trade links between the islands have existed for a long time, owing to their geographic proximity. Until the Isle of Man was integrated into the commercial system of England in 1765, the Isle of Man's trade with Ireland surpassed that of any other country.

Both countries have branches of the Celtic league, and there are regular music festivals and other cultural events that celebrate their common Celtic heritage. The languages of Ireland, Irish Gaelic and of the Isle of Man, Manx Gaelic are also similar, and in 1947, Irish Taoiseach Éamon de Valera spearheaded efforts to save the dying Manx Gaelic language. Additional joint work on language preservation started as recently as 2008.

According to a 2011 census, 1.9% of the population of the Isle of Man were born in Ireland.

Visit of Eamon de Valera
On 23 July 1947 Taoiseach Éamon de Valera made an official one-day state visit to the island. He was escorted around the island by the director of the Manx Museum, Basil Megaw and the attorney-general, Ramsey B. Moore. When he found out that no good sound recording of the near-extinct Manx language were in existence he offered to send someone over from Ireland to make a recording. De Valera ordered that a recording device be bought and on 21 April 1948 a man was sent over to make the recordings.

Constitutional Position of Isle of Man

The Isle of Man is a Crown dependency of the British Crown, and not part of the United Kingdom. As such, the Isle of Man does not itself have diplomatic relations with any other country. It has no diplomatic service of its own. Instead, its foreign affairs are dealt with by the British government.

Tax agreements
The Isle of Man has developed a sophisticated financial services infrastructure. It had also, over many years, developed a reputation as a tax haven. An Irish commission reported in 2001 that Irish banks held £4 billion in the Isle of Man on behalf of Irish residents, which was more than twice the amount held there per capita by UK residents. To address the issue of offshore banking and potential tax evasion, the governments of Ireland and the Isle of Man committed in 2002 to develop a tax agreement. In 2008, Ireland signed several tax agreements with the Isle of Man – the first such agreements made by the Irish government with any international financial centre. These agreements serve two general purposes:
 The information exchange provisions make it more difficult for citizens to evade taxes by placing them in offshore tax havens, by providing a standard way for authorities to request information about assets and property held by their citizens (for example, an Irish citizen placing money in a Manx bank, or a Manx citizen holding real estate investments in Ireland).
 The relief of double taxation provisions help avoid double taxation on income for citizens of both countries.

Environment and energy

Ireland and the Isle of Man have collaborated on preparing reports and jointly pressing the UK government to shut down the Sellafield nuclear plant. According to the governments, the location of the Sellafield plant, close to both the Isle of Man and Ireland, poses an environmental risk.

Isle of Man and Ireland have also had discussions about the development of renewable energy sources, including sharing costs for the development of a wind farm off the coast of the Isle of Man.

An intergovernmental collaboration platform called the Irish Sea Region has also been set up. The platform links the governments of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the UK, and various local jurisdictions, to collaborate on planning for development of the Irish Sea and bordering areas.

In 2004, a natural gas interconnection agreement was signed, linking Ireland with Scotland via the Isle of Man.

See also
British-Irish Council
Common travel area
Foreign relations of the Republic of Ireland

References

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Claes-Göran Granqvist

Claes-Göran Granqvist was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 1946. He is one of the leading figures of Swedish and international science in various fields (see his selected papers and books below) including nanomaterials; green nanotechnology; materials for solar energy utilization and energy efficiency (solar cells, solar collectors, energy efficient fenestration), electrochromic materials (smart windows); condensed matter physics; biomimetics; photocatalytic materials (air and water cleaning); materials for radiative cooling and superconductivity; fluctuation-enhanced sensing; etc. In August 2011, Science Citation Index shows that his h-index is 66; the number of citations to his papers is 18763. He published around 730 research papers in mostly refereed journals, over 30 books, had invited conference presentations at about 250 international conferences and chaired about 30 international meetings. During the years, he had many lectures and lecture tours in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia.

Education
He received the PhD degree in physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1974.

Career
In 1975, he was a Postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, USA. In the period of 1976–89, he had various research positions at Chalmers University of Technology. 1989–93: Full Professor of Experimental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology. Since 1993, he is Full Professor of Solid State Physics and the Head of the Division of Solid State Physics at the Department of Engineering Sciences, The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University. In the period 1997–2006 he was the Vice Rector/Senior Advisor for External and International Affairs at Uppsala University.

Honors
 Honorary Doctorate, Universidad Nacional Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
 Honorary Membership, Materials Research Society of India.
 Arnberg Prize of The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Price for best invention of the year (1989, Sweden)
 Visiting fellowship (1992/93) awarded by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee,
 1998 World Renewable Energy Congress Award.
 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
 Member of the Regia Societas Scientarium Upsaliensis.
 Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering.

Selected publications

Selected papers

 C.G. Granqvist, R.A. Buhrman, "Ultrafine metal particles", J. Appl. Phys. 47 (1976) 2200-22-19. Number of citations: 1070.
 I. Hamberg, C.G. Granqvist, "Evaporated Sn-doped In2O3 films – basic optical properties and applications to energy efficient windows", J. Appl. Phys. 60 (1986) R123-R159. Number of citations: 796.
 C.G. Granqvist, "Electrochromic tungsten oxide films: Review of progress 1993–1998", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 60 (2000) 201–262. Number of citations: 466.
 C.G. Granqvist, O. Hunderi, "Optical-properties of ultrafine gold particles", Phys. Rev. B 16 (1977) 3513–3534. Number of citations: 381.
 C.G. Granqvist, A. Hultaker, "Transparent and conducting ITO films: new developments and applications", Thin Solid Films 411 (2002) 1–5. Number of citations: 287.

Selected books

 Geoffrey B Smith, Claes-Göran Granqvist, "Green Nanotechnology – Solutions for Sustainability and Energy in the Built Environment", Taylor & Francis Inc 2010, 496 pages.
 C.M. Lampert and C.G. Granqvist, editors, Large-area Chromogenics: Materials and Devices for Transmittance Control, The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, USA, Vol. IS4, 1990, 606 pages.
 C.G. Granqvist, editor, Materials Science for Solar Energy Conversion Systems, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1991, approx. 250 pages.
 C.G. Granqvist, Handbook of Inorganic Electrochromic Materials, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1995, reprinted 2002, approx. 650 pages.
 M.J. Garrett and C.G. Granqvist, editors, Basic Sciences and Development: Rethinking Donor Policy, Ashgate, Aldershot, England, 1998, 180 pages.
 C.G. Granqvist, L.B. Kish and W. Marlow, editors, Gas Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis, Springer/Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004, 186 pages.

References

External links
 Claes-Göran Granqvist at the webpage of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (in Swedish)

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Proud Miss Stakes

The Proud Miss Stakes  is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards, at set weights with penalties conditions over a distance of 1200 metres at the Morphettville Racecourse Adelaide, Australia in the Autumn Carnival. Prize money is A$150,000.

History
The race is held on The Goodwood race card on the last day of the SAJC Autumn Carnival.

The race is named after the brilliant two year old South Australian filly, Proud Miss who won nine consecutive races before finishing second in the 1962 Golden Slipper Stakes.

Name
2004–2005 - Pink Diamond
2006 - Chrysler Jeep Stakes
2007 - AV Jennings Home Improvements Stakes
2008 - Chrysler Jeep Dodge Stakes
2009 - Proud Miss Stakes

Grade
2006–2013 - Listed Race
2014 onwards - Group 3

Winners

 2019 - Lady Cosmology
 2018 - She's So High
 2017 - Fuhryk
 2016 - Runway Star
 2015 - Hazard
 2014 - Miss Steele
 2013 - Assertive Eagle
 2012 - Bonnie Mac
 2011 - Dubleanny
 2010 - Hanabananah
 2009 - Burgeis
 2008 - Soaressa
 2007 - Zipanese
 2006 - Clear View
 2005 - Twinciti
 2004 - Ice Dancer

See also
 List of Australian Group races
 Group races

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Trees (comics)

Trees is a science fiction comic book series by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, published by American company Image Comics. The first issue was published May 28, 2014. The narrative begins ten years after the arrival of massive and silent alien presences who stand on the surface of the earth like the "Trees" of the title, not moving and seeming to take no account of human life and society. While a high concept science fiction story, the series also concerns itself with a cross-section of social and cultural issues as experienced by the characters, including police states, feminism, economic disparity, and transgender identity.

A second series titled Trees: Three Fates was published starting in September 2019.  These issues were originally intended to be published as issues 15-19 of volume 1.

Plot
The narrative is divided into several points of view, all centered on the landing site of one of the Trees. Such locations include Rio de Janeiro, Mogadishu, New York City, "The City of Shu", Cefalù, and Spitsbergen. The individual stories, while featuring the Tree sites as settings, having varying degrees of explicit storytelling related to the Trees themselves.

The first volume, In Shadows, divides attention between an Italian woman involved reluctantly with a group of neo-fascists, an African leader hoping to use the Trees as a source of military leverage over neighboring nations, and a young Chinese artist from rural farmland joining an eclectic urban art collective. Finally, as a sort of core narrative, a science team researching a Tree in Norway finds mysterious black flowers growing near the base of the object, culminating in unexpected activity from the seemingly dormant Trees.

The second volume Two Forests, also splits attention between narratives, primarily between a newly christened Mayor of New York City who has a personal subversive plan to take revenge on the city's establishment that nearly cost him his life when the Trees first touched down, and secondly, the sole survivor of the Norway science expedition from the first volume is tasked by the British government to follow up on leads that the mysterious black flowers could be appearing at another Tree landing site.

The third volume Three Fates focuses on Klara Voranova, a police sergeant in the small Russian town of Toska.  A murdered body found at the base of a Tree sets off an investigation into the forces and corruption that control the isolated town.  At the same time, a ghost from Klara's past gives some clues to the purpose of the Trees.

Reception
The series has been positively reviewed.

TV Adaptation
In 2016, Tom Hardy and NBCUniversal announced a television series adaptation is in early development.

Collected editions

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Fawaz Awana

Fawaz Awana Ahmed Hussein Al Musabi (; born 25 November 1988 in Abu Dhabi) or Fawaz Awana, is an Emirati footballer. He currently plays as a Midfielder for Baniyas .

Club career

Baniyas

2010–11 season
In this season's was his debut with the first team. On 2 September 2010, in the game against Al Dhafra, Fawaz made his official league debut for the first-team, when he coming on as a Substitute for Haboush Saleh in the 90 min. After a month, On 9 October, he followed with another match also as a Substitute in the Etisalat Cup against Al Nasr.

2011–12 season

Personal life
Fawaz is Theyab brother, who died in a traffic accident.

Career  Statistics

Club

References

External links
Baniyas SC profile
  Theyab Awana at proleague.ae

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Mario Acerbi

Mario Acerbi (1 July 1913 in Lodi – 20 February 2010 in Lodi) was a professional Italian football player.

He played for 4 seasons (77 games, no goals) in the Serie A for A.S. Roma.

Honours
 Serie A champions: 1941/42.

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Gold Coast Rugby League

The Gold Coast Rugby League Premiership (also known as the Kevin Bycroft Cup) is a rugby league football competition based in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is under the administration of the Queensland Rugby League through the South East Queensland Division, which also administers the Brisbane and Ipswich competitions.

The Gold Coast Rugby League Premiership consists of ten clubs, competing in three senior leagues; A-Grade, Reserves and Colts (under-19s). The Gold Coast Junior Rugby League was formed in 1976 and consists of seventeen clubs, competing in multiple age groups from under-7s to under-17s.

Representative team

The Gold Coast Vikings are the representative Gold Coast team. Vikings teams compete in the statewide Cyril Connell Cup and Mal Meninga Cup competitions.

The Gold Coast Rugby League has previously entered sides in the Queensland Cup and in the Winfield State League as the Vikings. They participated in the Queensland Cup in 1998 only and in the Winfield State League from the first season (1982) to the last season (1995). Gold Coast also made one appearance in the Amco Cup.

Premiership winners
Grand Final results compiled from scores published in the Rugby League Week.

Clubs
The Gold Coast Rugby League Premiership currently has 18 clubs, for senior and junior. All clubs are in the junior division but not all for the senior division.

See also

Rugby League Competitions in Australia

References

External links
 Gold Coast Rugby League official site
 Gold Coast Junior Rugby League official site
 Bycroft Cup Fan site

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Reece Tollenaere

Reece Tollenaere (born 27 June 1977) is an Australian footballer who plays as a striker.

Biography
He has played for the Queensland Roar in the A-League competition, and in the National Soccer League for Brisbane Strikers and Newcastle Breakers. Reece was signed by the Brisbane Strikers FC in the National Soccer League at the age of 17 after a successful two-year stint with the Queensland Academy of Sport, in which he won the NYL top goalscorer award with 23 goals in just 18 appearances.

In his early days with the Strikers he played predominantly as a wide midfielder under the guidance of Frank Farina and was a part of the Brisbane Strikers team to win the Ericsson Cup (NSL title) in the 1996/97 season. He was a part of the Australian U20 squad and played three matches for his country before missing out on the final Youth World Cup squad in 1997.

In early 1998, whilst contracted to the Strikers, Reece transferred on loan to the Newcastle Breakers for the final 9 games of the season. He played in each game scoring 6 goals, which included a hat-trick against Perth Glory in a 4-3 win and a goal against the Strikers to deny his former team of a win. Reece returned to his hometown and the Strikers the next season with the Newcastle Breakers coach John Kosmina. Although the season started brightly with a headed goal against Marconi Fairfield, he suffered a fracture to the ankle in the third game of the season against Sydney Olympic and struggled for the remainder of the season, requiring surgery to remove floating bone.

Reece suffered multiple facial fractures in a head clash in only his third game of the inaugural A-League season whilst playing for the Roar and was forced to miss the remainder of the season, undergoing two facial reconstructions.

After a long absence from the game he continued his playing career with the Brisbane Strikers, halfway through the 2006 Brisbane Premier League season. He managed to score 12 goals in as many games with the club helping the Strikers to the Premiership and Grand Final win with a double in the final. Reece continued playing for the Brisbane Strikers in 2007 and 2008 in both a striker and midfield role and has proved to be a prolific goalscorer.

Reece has a bachelor's degree in Science from the Queensland University of Technology, majoring in Biotechnology, a Bachelor of Science Honours in Genetics from the University of Queensland, and a Diploma of Business in Marketing.

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Imagínate (Menudo album)

Imagínate... (1994) is Menudo's 34th album, and their 22nd in Spanish. The album features Abel Talamántez, Alexis Grullón, Andy Blázquez, Ashley Ruiz and Ricky López, and is the second album recorded by this line-up.

Track listing
Yo Quiero Bailar Reggae (Abel Talamentez)
Amor Mío (Alexis Grullon)
¡Ay, Qué Dolor! (Ashley Ruiz)
Tú Y Yo (Ricky Lopez)
Bienvenido Al Nuevo Mundo (Andy Blazquez)
Sólo Faltas Tú (Alexis Grullon)
Tus Ojos (Ashley Ruiz)
Hombre Que Sabía De Más (Abel Talamentez)
Los Amigos Y Las Amigas (Andy Blazquez)
De Don Juan A Romeo (Ricky Lopez)
Mil Ángeles (Alexis Grullon Ashley Ruiz)
Cosmopolitan Girl (Alexis Grullon)

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Shamil Alyautdinov

Shamil Alyautdinov (Tatar: Шамиль Аляутдинов) (born 20 January 1974) is an imam of Moscow's Memorial Mosque on Poklonnaya Hill. He is a graduate of Al Azhar University. He is serving as a deputy mufti on the Clerical Muslim Board for the European part of the Russian Federation. He is considered one of the most influential Islamic scholars in Russian speaking world. His website umma.ru is the most popular Islamic website in Russian speaking world (over 1 mln views per month).

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Kadaba, Tumkur

Kadaba is a village in Tumkur district, Karnataka, India.

Demographics
Per the 2011 Census of India, Kadaba has a total population of 3573; of whom 1759 are male and 1814 female.

References

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2013–14 in Kenyan football

2013–14 in Kenyan football may refer to:
 2013 in Kenyan football
 2014 in Kenyan football


The Connect U.S. Fund

The Connect U.S. Fund (CUSF) was a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in issues like nuclear nonproliferation, human rights, climate change, and development. It was founded in 2004 by several foundations and shut down in 2013. The organization supported grantees and other non-governmental organizations in their efforts to collaborate, engage policy makers, and bring issues to the attention of the media. Its last President was Nancy Soderberg.

History
The Connect U.S. initiative was founded in 2004 by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund to unite and support a growing number of U.S.-based organizations that work on international affairs. The Ford Foundation joined the collaborative in 2005, the Atlantic Philanthropies joined in 2008, the Ploughshares Fund joined in 2009, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York joined in 2010. The Connect U.S. Fund operated as a project of the Tides Center.

The initiative had emerged from a series of meetings among the founding partners in 2002 and 2003 when they discovered that they faced similar challenges, such as "limited public and private resources for foreign policy advocacy, media focus on a narrowly defined security agenda, and the absence of informed and empowered constituencies on global issues to hold policy makers accountable". The foundations agreed that "a collaborative fund, to which each would contribute, might provide an important incentive to collaboration among NGOs, and thereby enhance the collective impact of advocacy efforts. They thus created the Connect U.S. Fund and embarked on two rounds of grantmaking, from 2004 through 2006."

In November 2006, Eric P. Schwartz joined the Connect U.S. Fund as its first executive director. He developed a program of grant-making and operations designed to promote a vision of responsible U.S. global engagement during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In early 2009, Eric Schwartz left to join the U.S. State Department as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, and Ambassador Nancy Soderberg joined the Connect U.S. Fund as its new President. She served until it shut down in 2013.

Overview

The Connect U.S. Fund was managed and administered by the Tides Center. The Connect U.S. Council provided policy and program guidance for the Connect U.S. initiative, and was composed of representatives from each of the supporting foundations. The Council was supported by the Connect U.S. Fund professional staff and operated as a project of the Tides Center.

Through a program of grant-making and operations designed to foster stronger collaboration among non-governmental organizations active on foreign policy issues, the Connect U.S. Fund sought to advance a vision for responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world.  The Fund supported a community of foundations and non-governmental organizations working together to enhance the effectiveness of their collective advocacy efforts.

Key issues
In 2012, the Connect U.S. Fund was focusing on four key issues:
 Human rights: Encourage strong American leadership in multilateral human rights instruments and institutions, including support for the work of the International Criminal Court; strengthening UN human rights mechanisms; securing ratification of at least one “core” human rights treaty; and a U.S. government structure to prevent genocide and respond to mass atrocities.
 Climate change:  Urge U.S. leadership in addressing the climate crisis through making smart investments at home and in the developing world and by promoting innovative solutions for reducing emissions.  This includes eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies and galvanizing investment in adaptation, clean technology, and forest protection in the developing world.
Development:  Support for international financial and trade reform as a means for global poverty alleviation, including U.S. support for international financial transparency, international financial institution reform, trade preference reform, and export-led growth in the developing world, ensuring U.S. civilian agencies have the funds, capacity, and knowledge needed to conduct development, stability operations, and diplomacy effectively in order to strike a better balance between the civilian and military responsibilities in these areas.
 Security:  U.S. support for arms control treaties, a fissile material cut-off, and efforts to secure vulnerable nuclear materials

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Muthiri kinaru

Muthiri Kinaru (Tamil: முத்திரி கிணறு) is the sacred well located in the north-western corner of Swamithoppe village. This is the famous theertha of the temple. It is located half a kilometre west from the main Pathi.

Historically, this well plays a major role in joining the people in this part of the country, breaking the caste-based discrimination that once prevailed among them. Before and during the period of Lord Vaikundar, this part of the subcontinent was under the grip of feudalism, casteism, and untouchability. There were separate wells and tanks for each caste, and people from the other caste were not allowed to draw out water from those wells. As in the Vinchai, since the social aim of 'uplifting the lowely treated people in the society' occupies a major part in the spiritual mission of Vaikundar, which is projected towards the ideal Dharma Yukam, he wanted to stop this evil practice. So as the first step to reach this aim, this well was established at Swamithoppe. Apart from religious sacredness, this well was also a historical icon since it was the first well in this part of the country where people could use water freely, irrespective of their caste.

History
By the completion of the Six-year Tavam of Vaikundar in 1840, the Thuvayal Thavasu practiced at Vakaippathi and Muttappathi for about one year as they reached Swamithoppe. Several ritual practices of Ayyavazhi originated from this. Some, especially the prayers were continued as followed during the Thuvayal Thavasu period, and some were originated as per the instructions of Vaikundar.

In that series, Akilathirattu speaks of that well as "the eighteen castes assembling in one place, and bathing from the same well". This refers to the prevalence of a seemingly innocuous practice of the people, gathered around Vaikundar, bathing together from the water of this well. People of different castes bathed together at this well, mindless of their social differences. Physical closeness was necessitated, mainly because of the smallness of the well. Besides bathing, they drank this water as cure for their illness. They cooked their food with the use of this water, and eat in community feast along with Vaikundar.

In the course of events, the well and its water seem to have acquired religious significance to the people of Ayyavazhi. The act of bathing, drinking, and cooking the food with this water came to be repeated with a ritual fervour. People began to consider the well a sacred one, and the water as having miraculous powers to heal sickness. A couplet from the Saattu Neettolai of Arul Nool reads as "every one is drinking the milk of the well around which miracles are growing". And by this quote, it seems that Akilam itself accredits the well as a sacred one. People consider it a religious obligation to bathe and drink at least a few drops of water from this well.

Many people and multiple castes congregated there to draw water for bathing and drinking. Lord Vaikuntar used the holy water from the well and the holy mud to cure the people of their illness.

Social background

In the then Travancore society, the discriminatory laws of purity and pollution were very sensitive in places of bathing, and in acts involving the use of water. Demarcation of separate places for the different castes for bathing and drawing water, and a strict enforcement of this discriminated separation through regulations, social and political, along with a strong religious sanction, was the order of the day. As a general custom, the lower castes were prohibited from drawing water from public wells and ponds. The upper caste people had separate wells so that they could avoid the presence and pollution of the lower caste people. Those who, be it a member of the caste fold or one from outside of it, ventured to transgress these demarcated spaces were penalised with severe corporal punishments, or even eliminated unceremoniously.

It was against this back ground that a ritual involving the congregation of the people from different castes around a well, bathing together, and cooking their food with the water of the same well was being performed at Swamithoppe, where Ayya Vaikundar was carrying out his mission. It was an indirect challenge to the evil system of untouchability. This cluster of ritual actions set in motion an interrogation of the system of purity and pollution, and indirectly challenged the hegemonic system of discriminated separation. The ritual boundaries that had been set on the use of water was sought to be transgressed, and the strength of the traditional indoctrination on ritual impurity implied in the exchange of water from one to another, was sought to be weakened.

Miracles

Due to the attention focused on the well, malicious acts have been recorded where poison was twice placed into the water by some anti-ayyavazhi elements. One was during the period of Vaikundar and was noted in Akilam and another was in a recent time.

It is reported that Lord Vaikundar concentrated the poison into a Sivalinga and the Sivalinga remained inside the well in the first poisoning.

As per Akilam, People, hearing about the poisoning reported it to Vaikundar and requested him to save them. Vaikundar informed the devotees that the water in the well was non-poisonous. People who had faith in his words drank and bathed in the well and were totally safe. Those who had no belief in his words and had drunk the water became unconscious. People rushed to the Lord and narrated the incident. Lord asked them to sprinkle the holy water on those who were unconscious. They got up as if from sleep.

Then on 17 September 1994, the first Sunday of the Tamil Month, Puratasi, poison was mixed up in the sacred water of Muthirikkinaru for the second time.

Some miscreants immersed a 5-kilogram packet of Phorate, a highly poisonous chemical, into the well. There was a smell of this chemical everywhere around the well. Some advised the devotees not to bathe in the well. But, nobody heeded it; thousands of people bathed in and drank the water. Even six-month-old babies were bathed here, but nobody was affected. The empty packet of the chemical was later retrieved and destroyed.

As a ritual and religious symbol
This well is treated with more importance because it is attached to the incarnational activities of Vaikundar. To overcome the three diversities, Anava, Kanma, and Maya, one should achieve spiritual cleanliness, and it is believed that this cleanliness is obtained when one bathes from this sacred well. This well is said to be sealed by Vaikundar and will remain as an icon for the destruction of Kali.

Even today the well is too crowded to bathe. People drink this water as Patham. It is believed that the holy water from this well will process one for the life of Dharma Yukam. It is also believed that lunatics and patients, having no cure even after prolonged medical treatment and a stay in the temple, can take a bath in muthirikinaru and be cured.

Daily worship
The Muthirikkinaru is addressed in Akilam as Muthal Thalam (the primary place in ritual importance). The Payyans start their daily routine only after the religious bathing in this well. After the ceremonial bath, they used to drink the sacred water (Patham) of the Muthirikkinaru for five times and give it so for the followers for five times. Then the Payyan circumambulate the Muthirikkinaru for five times and others follow him. Chanting "Ayya Siva-siva Siva-siva Ara-hara Ara-hara", all proceed to the Pathi. This is practiced thrice a day during the morning, noon, and evening Panividais.

Also one of the important ritual actions performed by the devotees of Ayyavazhi is to take this ritual bath, drawing water from the well. This has become a ritual necessity to be gone through, before one worships at the Pathi. It is overwhelming to see the devotees throng the well to get a few buckets of water on to them and drink a few drops ceremoniously for five times and then proceed to the Pathi. This practice of bathing at the well is being addressed as Patham viduthal.

During festivals

Apart from this daily ritual, this Muthirikkinaru earns a religious significance during the eighth day of the Kodiyettru Thirunal festival. At that day, Lord Vaikundar is carried to muthirikinaru on a horse (vahana). It is believed that the God hunts kali. The ceremonial hunting of kali is done with a bow and arrow. Here, thousands of people assemble to drink the holy patham. Patham viduthal is the word used by the devotees for bathing in Muthirikinaru. There is a heavy rush to take a bath in the well on the first Sunday of the Tamil months.

Arul Nool, the secondary holy book, advises to do Dharma near this well.

During the Car festivals and during the Ayya Vaikunda Avataram celebrations, the worshippers are not allowed to draw water from Muthirikkinaru due to the limited size of the well and extent of the crowds that attend to worship. During those days, one or two Panividaiyalars are used to draw water from the well and to throw it onto the crowd. In this way the everyone in the crowd gets a few drops poured on their heads.

See also

 History of Ayyavazhi
 Ayyavazhi religious practices
 Swamithope pathi

References
 G. Patrick, Religion and Subaltern Agency, University of Madras, 2003.
 R. Ponnu, Sri Vaikunda Swamigal and Struggle for Social Equality in South India, Ram Publishers, 2000.
 Amalan, Ayya Vaikundar Punitha Varalaru, Akilam Publications, 2000.

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Islamic Heritage of Hyderabad

Hyderabad, is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh. It was established by Qutb Shahi sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 AD to expand their capital beyond the Golconda fort. The Charminar Masjid was constructed upon the inception of Hyderabad, the iconic mosques of Mecca Masjid and Hayat Bakshi Mosque were constructed during this dynasty and these style of architecture is known as Qutb Shahi Masajid—(Qutb Shahi Mosques). In 1769 AD when the city became capital of the Nizams of Hyderabad—(also known as Asaf Jahi dynasty), they had constructed many mosques in the process to expand the city, Afzal Gunj Masjid and Shahi Masjid are the resemblance of Asaf Jahi Masajid—(Asaf Jahi Mosques). Some of the iconic mosques in Hyderabad such as Toli Masjid, Mian Mishk Masjid, Spanish Mosque and Paigah Mosque were constructed by the prominent nobles of the former rulers of Hyderabad state.

References
The Spanish mosque: Moorish architecture in the heart of Hyderabad, The News Minute
Islamic Heritage of Hyderabad, The Telangana Tourism
Mecca Masjid, The times of India
Architectural marvels of spirituality, Telangana Today
Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, page-112, Andrew Petersen, 2002 Routledge
The heritage of the Qutb Shahis of Golconda and Hyderabad, M. A. Nayeem, 2006, The University of Michigan
The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad Golconda Fort, Qutb Shahi Tombs, Charminar. 2010, UNESCO

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Tinje

Tinje  is a village development committee in Dolpa District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1013 persons living in 215 individual households.

References

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Hunter Passage 42

The Hunter Passage 42 is an American sailboat that was designed by the Hunter Design Team as a cruiser and first built in 1989.

The Passage 42 may be confused with the unrelated 2016 42-foot sailboat design, the Marlow-Hunter 42SS.

Production
The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States from 1989 to 1997, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Hunter Passage 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a B&R masthead sloop rig, a center cockpit, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed wing keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard wing keel fitted.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 4JH2TE diesel engine of . The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

Factory standard equipment included a 130% roller furling genoa, dual two-speed self tailing winches, marine VHF radio, knotmeter, depth sounder, AM/FM radio and CD player with eight speakers, anchor teak and holly cabin sole, fully enclosed head with shower, private forward and aft cabins, with bedding, a dinette table that converts to a berth, microwave oven, dual sinks, three-burner gimbaled liquid petroleum gas stove and oven and life jackets. Factory options included in mast mainsail furling, air conditioning, electric halyard winch and leather cushions. It has  of below-decks headroom.

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 2010 review, yacht broker Richard Jordan noted the design and space below decks, "down below showcases the strengths of Hunter. The interior layout with centerline queen aft and a saloon you could yoga in is what every cruiser lusts for." In addressing detractors, he stated, "some stuffy sailors will without thought disparage these yachts despite their advantages."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
C&C 42 Custom
C&C 131
Marlow-Hunter 42SS

References

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Putty Armein

Putty Insavilla Armein (born 24 October 1981 in Palembang, South Sumatra) is an Indonesian ten-pin bowler. She finished in 8th position of the combined rankings at the 2006 AMF World Cup. During the final round she finished in 8th position as well. Her father name is Haji Armein Yuspar and her mother name is Irma Alfat. She won two gold and two bronze medals for Indonesia bowling national team in  2005 Southeast Asian Games in Manila.

She won two gold medals and two silver medals in Asian Bowling Cup in 2006. Additionally, she won a silver medal in the Asian Games 2006 in Doha, Qatar.

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Nelson (1918 film)

Nelson is a 1918 British historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Donald Calthrop, Malvina Longfellow and Ivy Close. It was based on the biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson by Robert Southey.

Cast
 Donald Calthrop - Horatio Nelson
 Malvina Longfellow - Lady Hamilton
 Ivy Close - Mrs. Nesbit
 Ernest Thesiger - Wiliam Pitt
 Allan Jeayes - Sir William Hamilton
 Edward O'Neill - King of Naples
 Teddy Arundell - Capt. Berry
 Eric Barker - Nelson as a child

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John Lucas (painter)

John Lindsay Lucas (1807–1874) was an English portrait painter.

Life
Born in London on 4 July 1807, he was son of William Lucas, from a King's Lynn family, originally in the Royal Navy, then a writer and journalist; his mother was a Miss Callcott. He was apprenticed to Samuel William Reynolds, the mezzotint engraver, where Samuel Cousins was his fellow-pupil. At the end of his apprenticeship he set up as a portrait-painter.

Lucas was a member of the Clipstone Street academy, where he worked with William Etty and other artists. One of his earliest patrons and sitters was Henry Milton, who introduced him to Mary Russell Mitford, whose portrait he painted, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829. He then substituted a portrait of her father. A further portrait of her, he kept in his studio, and it was purchased after his death for the National Portrait Gallery.

One of the fashionable portrait-painters of his time, Lucas had a successful career. He died at his residence in St John's Wood, London, on 30 April 1874. Works in his possession at his death went to auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson, & Wood's, on 25 February 1875.

Works

Lucas exhibited 96 portraits at the Royal Academy, 13 at the British Institution, and eight at the Suffolk Street Gallery, between 1828 and his death. Those sat who sat for him included Queen Adelaide, Albert, Prince Consort (four times), the Princess Royal, the Duke of Wellington (eight times), Lord and Lady Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord and Lady Mahon, and many court beauties. He contributed to Sir Robert Peel's gallery of contemporary portraits.

Many of Lucas's portraits were engraved, some, like that of Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, by himself in mezzotint. He also engraved a few portraits after Sir Thomas Lawrence, including one of the Queen of Portugal.

Family
Lucas married early in life Miss Milborough Morgan, and left three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, John Templeton Lucas (1836–1880), was an artist; William Lucas became a water-colour painter; and Arthur Lucas became an art publisher in New Bond Street, London. John Seymour Lucas was a nephew and pupil.

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1974 Kentucky Wildcats football team

The 1974 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The Wildcats scored 248 points while allowing 194 points, finishing 6–5 overall and 3–3 in the SEC.

Season
Mike Fanuzzi and Tom Ehlers were chosen as team captains.

Kentucky opened with a 38–7 win at Virginia Tech, followed by a 16–3 road loss at West Virginia.  A 28-22 home win against Indiana was next, then a 14–10 loss to Miami (Ohio).

Kentucky lost its SEC opener on the road at Auburn, 31–13, but followed with a 20–13 home win against LSU.  A 24-20 home loss to Georgia was followed by a 30–7 win at Tulane.  Kentucky then won two conference games at home, 38–12 against Vanderbilt and 41–24 against #9-ranked Florida (7–2).  Florida already received an invitation to the Sugar Bowl, while Kentucky, at 5–4, was looking to clinch its first winning season since 1965.  Florida jumped out to a 17–6 lead but Kentucky outscored the Gators 35–7 the rest of the way, causing three Florida fumbles, intercepting two passes and blocking two punts.  Kentucky closed its season with a 24–7 loss at Tennessee for a final mark of 6–5 overall and 3–3 in the SEC.

Schedule

Roster
RB Sonny Collins, Jr.

Team players in the 1975 NFL Draft

References

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Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven

Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven (23 October 1625 – 30 June 1698) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698.

Life
Cheyne was the son of Francis Cheyne of Chesham Bois and his wife Anne Fleetwood, daughter of Sir William Fleetwood of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 29 January 1640, aged 14 and  was of Lincoln's Inn in 1642, (as Cheney). He inherited Cogenho, Northamptonshire in 1644 and purchased the manor of Chelsea and its main house, Chelsea Place, with the dowry of his wife, Lady Jane Cavendish, 1657. He paid for the house in installments beginning in 1657 with £1,900 and made the final payment for whole estate in 1661 at a total cost of £13,626.

In 1660, Cheyne was elected Member of Parliament for Amersham in the Convention Parliament.  He was elected MP for Great Marlow in March 1669 to the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.  He was created Viscount Newhaven (in Scotland) on 17 May 1681. In 1690 he was elected MP for Harwich and Newport (Cornwall) and chose to sit for Harwich until 1695. In 1695 he was elected MP for Newport and sat until his death.

Cheyne died at the age of 72 and was buried at Chelsea Old Church on 13 July 1698, where a monument on the north wall commemorated him and his wife Lady Jane Cheyne who was a considerable benefactress of the building.

Family
Cheyne married Lady Jane Cavendish, daughter of the first Duke of Newcastle and had a son, William Cheyne, who became 2nd Viscount Newhaven, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine. His second wife was Isabella, Countess of Radnor widow of Johh Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, and daughter of Sir John Smyth of Bidborough, Kent.

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Claire McLean

Claire McLean (born 4 July 1973)  is an Australian Paralympic cyclist and paratriathlete. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics when paratriathlon made its debut at the Paralympics.

Career
McLean was born in Cottesloe, Western Australia in 1973. She damaged her arm in a motor cycle accident when she was nineteen.

She won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Women's Bicycle Time Trial LC1-4/CP 3/4 event. She has since won several Paracycling World Championship and World Cup medals in the C5 classification.

As a TRI-4 (arm impaired) paratriathlete, she placed 3rd in her first International paratriathlon race, the 2012 ITU Paratriathlon World Championships. At the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series Final in Edmonton, Canada, she finished seventh in the Women's PT4. In January 2015, McLean won the Oceania Paratriathlon Championships PT4 event at th Penrith, New South Wales. McLean finished eighth at the 2015 World Triathlon Series Women's P4 Final in Chicago.

McLean failed to be selected for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and decided to switch to the new triathlete sport. She did represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics when paratriathlon made its debut at the Paralympics.

McLean finished ninth in PT4 at the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games. In reflection on her performance throughout the Paralympics McLean says "Without that big goal I feel a little bit lost. I think everyone needs to have something to aim towards, to seek some sort of personal improvement, whether it’s physically, spiritually, psychologically or just being a good person on a day to day basis. It’s what keeps me going."

References

External links
Australian Paralympic Profile
McLean Conquering Phobias

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Sorgenfreispira

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}}Sorgenfreispira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Species
Species within the genus Sorgenfreispira include:
 Sorgenfreispira africana (Ardovini, 2004)
 Sorgenfreispira ardovinii (Mariottini & Oliverio, 2008)
 Sorgenfreispira brachystoma (Philippi, 1844)
 Sorgenfreispira exilis (Ardovini, 2004)
 † Sorgenfreispira moronii (Venzo & Pelosio, 1964)
 † Sorgenfreispira scalariformis (Brugnone, 1862)

References

 Ardovini R., 2004. Due nuove specie e una nuova sottospecie di Turridae dal Senegal, West Africa. Malacologia,43: 7–9.
 Moroni, M.A. (1979) Sorgenfreispira, nuovo genere di Turridae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) del Miocene europeo.'' Lavori Dell’Istituto di Geologia della Università di Palermo, 16, 1–11.

External links
 Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
 Worldwide Mollusk Data base : Mangeliidae
 Mariottini P., Di Giulio A., Smriglio C. & Oliverio M. (2015). Additional notes on the systematics and new records of East Atlantic species of the genus Sorgenfreispira Moroni, 1979 (Gastropoda Mangeliidae). Biodiversity Journal. 6(1): 431-440

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Jeffrey Robinson

Jeffrey Robinson (born 1945) is an American author of 29 books.

Early life
Born in Long Beach, New York, Robinson is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia (1967). While still at school, he wrote for television and radio, including a weekly children's show, and was on the writing staff of The Mike Douglas Show, a nationally televised daily talk show. He continued working in the media during his four-year stint as an officer in the United States Air Force. Charged with running a press and public relations office for five generals at the height of the Vietnam War, he hosted a weekly talk show, scripted and directed several film projects, wrote short stories for national magazines and moonlighted as a disc jockey on local radio.

His magazine credits include Playboy, McCalls, Barron's, Gourmet, Ambassador, True, Mademoiselle, Reader's Digest and TV Guide; his newspaper credits include The New York Times;The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune (for which he was a major contributor of features during the 1970s). In Britain his feature journalism has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday, among others.

He moved to the UK in 1982, with more than 600 published stories and articles to his credit, to concentrate on writing books. In 2007, he returned to New York and now divides his time between the US and the UK.

Non-fiction
Considered "one of world's leading experts on international financial crime" Robinson wrote his 1995 investigative tour de force, The Laundrymen,  in which he uncovered the true extent of global money laundering. The book reveals how hundreds of billions of dirty dollars are derived mainly from the drug trade, then reinvested throughout the world by otherwise legitimate businessmen, lawyers, accountants and bankers. Business Week described it as "[a]n indictment of governments and banks".

Robinson scripted and hosted several television documentaries, including one for the BBC, and another for Arte in France and Germany. Both have been shown in the United States.

In 1998, he published a sequel to The Laundrymen, titled The Merger – How Organized Crime is Taking Over The World. In it, Robinson described the disturbing lengths that transnational organized criminals go in order to build multi-national corporations; explained why organized crime is the major beneficiary of globalization; and claimed that transnational organized criminals have become the most powerful special interest group on the planet.

Five years later he published another book in this series: The Sink, about crime, terrorism and dirty money.

Between 1986–1994, he published three biographies: Yamani – The Inside Story, about Saudi Arabia's former Minister of Oil Ahmed Zaki Yamani; Rainier & Grace, written about and with the cooperation of Monaco’s sovereign family and reissued in 2014 as Grace of Monaco after the fictionalized 2014 French biopic of Grace Kelly's life; and Bardot – Two Lives, also written with the cooperation of Brigitte Bardot.

His other non-fiction titles include: The Risk Takers (his first UK best seller) which highlighted the high-fliers of City finance, recounting their tales of money, ego and power; The Minus Millionaires, a sequel to The Risk Takers, in which he wrote about ‘risk takers’ who had lost fortunes; The End of the American Century, for which Robinson gained access to secret archives in the former Soviet Union to reveal hidden agendas of the Cold War; The Hotel, stories gathered over five months as a fly on the wall in what is, arguably, the best hotel in the world; The Manipulators – A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy, exposing the marketing world’s "hidden persuaders" 40 years after Vance Packard; and Prescription Games, an insider’s view of the global pharmaceutical industry, where science and marketing are deliberately kept apart and where, all too often, profit dictates who lives and who dies.

In 2005, he wrote his first "as told to" with an old college friend, Joseph Petro: Petro's autobiography, Standing Next to History – An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service. In 2007, Robinson co-authored Ronnie Wood's autobiography, documenting Wood's years as a rock star and member of the most famous band in the world, The Rolling Stones. In 2009, he published his third "as told to": Leading From The Front, co-written with British entrepreneur, Gerald Ronson.

His treatise on fraud, There's a Sucker Born Every Minute – A Revelation Of Audacious Frauds, Scams, And Cons – How To Spot Them, How To Stop Them was published in 2010.

The Takedown, subtitled "A Suburban Mom, A Coal Miner's Son and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel", was released in August 2011.

Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – Following The Money, the first in a series of eBooks on dirty money, crime, fraud and corruption was published in 2012.

The second book in this series, Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – The Swiss Wash Whiter was published in 2013.

Fiction
Jeffrey Robinson has written six novels: Pietrov and Other Games; The Ginger Jar; The Margin of the Bulls; The Monk’s Disciples; A True and Perfect Knight (under film option); and Trump Tower.

Radio and television
Robinson has appeared on NBC News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Newsnight, ITN, Channel 4 News, CBC, CNBC, Sky News, BBC World, NBC's The Today Show and Bloomberg Television. He has scripted and narrated various series for BBC Radio, including one on radio stars Amos and Andy, and one on American soap operas, "Tomorrow at the Same Time". He also wrote the BBC Scotland's Radio Three Drama of the Week, "Rossum’s Cyber Cafe", based on the Karel Čapek play "RUR".

He conceived and wrote the pilot for the British crime drama series, Tightrope, for Yorkshire Television. He also wrote the pilot episode for a new British series on financial crime called Follow The Money. Other television scripts include Sister Banjo and Notice of Claim. He wrote and presented a training film for financial investigators for the Metropolitan Police in London England titled "The Common Factor". He has scripted a film version of his biography of Brigitte Bardot, called Bardot; and a made-for-television movie version of Standing Next to History, a dramatic re-telling of the special relationship between the president of the United States (Ronald Reagan) and his Secret Service agent (Joseph Petro), called Ronnie & Joe.

Robinson won the 1990 Benedictine Award as "After-Dinner Speaker of the Year".

Bibliography

Non-fiction
BitCon – The Naked Truth About Bitcoin (Amazon original Kindle eBook) (2014)
Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – The Swiss Wash Whiter (eBook original) (2013)
Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – Following The Money (eBook original) (2012)
The Takedown – A Suburban Mom, A Coal Miner's Son and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel (2011)
There's a Sucker Born Every Minute (2010)
The Sink – Crime, Terror And Dirty Money in the Offshore World (2003)
Prescription Games – Money, Ego and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry (2001)
The Merger – The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime (1998)
The Manipulators – A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy (1997)
The Hotel – Upstairs, Downstairs in a Secret World (1996)
The Laundrymen (1995)
Bardot – Two Lives (1994)
The End of the American Century (1992)
The Risk Takers – Five Years On (1991)
Rainier & Grace (1988) Reissued in 2014 as Grace of Monaco
Yamani – The Inside Story (1987)
Minus Millionaires (1986)
The Risk Takers – Portraits of Money, Ego and Power (1985)
Teamwork – Comedy Teams in the Movies (1983)
Bette Davis – A Filmography (1982)
With Gerald Ronson: Leading from the Front – My Story (2009)
With Ronnie Wood: Ronnie – The Autobiography" (Life as a Rolling Stone) (2007)
With Joseph Petro: Standing Next to History – An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service  (2005)

FictionTrump Tower (2012)A True and Perfect Knight (1999)The Monk's Disciples (1997)The Margin of the Bulls (1995)The Ginger Jar (1986)Pietrov and Other Games (1985)

Screenplays, teleplays and radio playsI Je t'Aime You (2008)The Wake (short film) (2008)Other Arrangements (short film) (2007)The Confession (2007)Notice of Claim (2005)Bardot (2005)Sister Banjo (2002)Tightrope (2002) Yorkshire TelevisionRossum's Cyber Café BBC Radio 3 (2000)
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Boulange

Boulange  () is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Population

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References
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2017 BRD Bucharest Open

The 2017 BRD Bucharest Open was a professional tennis tournament played on red clay courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 WTA Tour. It took place at Arenele BNR in Bucharest, Romania between 17 and 24 July 2017.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings as of 3 July 2017.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards  into the main draw:
  Irina Bara
  Jaqueline Cristian
  Elena-Gabriela Ruse

The following players received entry using a protected ranking:
  Alexa Glatch
  Polona Hercog

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Alexandra Dulgheru
  Magdalena Fręch
  Sesil Karatantcheva
  Arantxa Rus

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  Lesley Kerkhove

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
 Anna Blinkova →replaced by  Nadia Podoroska
 Océane Dodin →replaced by  Çağla Büyükakçay
 Ons Jabeur →replaced by  Quirine Lemoine
 Kristína Kučová →replaced by  Polona Hercog
 Varvara Lepchenko →replaced by  Alexa Glatch
 Christina McHale →replaced by  Kateryna Kozlova
 Monica Niculescu →replaced by  Lesley Kerkhove
 Yulia Putintseva →replaced by  Barbora Krejčíková

Retirements
 Nadia Podoroska

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings as of July 3, 2017.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:
  Georgia Crăciun /  Alexandra Dulgheru
  Jaqueline Cristian /  Cristina Dinu

The following pair received entry as alternates:
  Nicoleta Dascălu /  Isabella Shinikova

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Fanny Stollár

Champions

Singles

  Irina-Camelia Begu def.  Julia Görges, 6–3, 7–5

Doubles

  Irina-Camelia Begu /  Raluca Olaru def.  Elise Mertens /  Demi Schuurs, 6–3, 6–3

References

External links

BRD Bucharest Open
Category:BRD Bucharest Open
Category:2017 in Romanian sport


Kiritanpo

is a Japanese dish particularly in Akita Prefecture. Freshly cooked rice is pounded until somewhat mashed, then formed into cylinders around Japanese cedar skewers, and toasted over an open hearth. It can then be served with sweet miso or cooked as dumplings with meat and vegetables in soups.

See also
Chikuwa
 List of Japanese soups and stews

Notes

Category:Culture in Akita Prefecture
Category:Japanese soups and stews


Flavor masker

In the beverage, food, and pharmaceutical industries, a flavor masker is a chemical interaction that causes the absence of taste. This is known as the Farish effect, a phenomenon noted by 18th-century chemist William Farish. Contrary to popular belief, a flavor masker is not one chemical component; rather, it is two components that interact with the vallate papillae on the tongue with little or no reaction. Each component, individually, stimulates the vallate papillae.

References

External links
Flavor Mask-erade
Human Taste: Peripheral Anatomy, TasteTransduction, and Coding

Category:Food additives