Menge, Ethiopia

Menge is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Asosa Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Menge has a latitude and longitude of  with an elevation of 1123 meters above sea level.

Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Menge in 1968. In 1970, a group of three German travelers travelling down the Abay River describe Menge as a settlement with masonry houses, and record that it had a police station.

Demographics
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency (CSA), in 2005 this town has an estimated total population of 318, of whom 176 were males and 142 were females. It is the largest settlement in Menge woreda.

The 1994 national census reported its total population was 185, of whom 102 were males and 83 were females. The three largest ethnic groups reported in Menge were: the Berta 118, Oromo 27, and Amhara 27. Berta is spoken as a first language by 117 inhabitants, Oromiffa by 39, and Amharic by 28. 139 of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, 39 practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and seven were Protestant. The CSA categorized 103 of the inhabitants as being part of the labor pool (four of whom were unemployed), and 45 as not part of it.

Details about the housing in Menge provide a sense of the quality of the life of its inhabitants. All of the 52 housing units in the town were permanent, with an average of 3.5 persons per house; 45 sheltered one household, while 7 sheltered two, while 47 housing structures had one room and 5 had two. Concerning water supply and sanitation, residents of only 48 units obtained water from a protected well, and 48 had no toilet while the remaining 4 shared the use of a pit toilet with others. None of these houses were provided for bathing. Lighting for 48 units was furnished by kerosene lanterns; four had no lighting. The average rent for housing in Menge was reported to be 22.77 Birr a month, less than both the average reported for the Region of 26.64 Birr and the average reported for the Zone of 36.19 Birr.

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At the Ballet

"At the Ballet" is a song from the musical A Chorus Line.

Production
Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical noted:

Synopsis
The dancers explain their experiences with attending dance school, as well as family-related trauma. No matter how dark the rest of their world seems, they always feel happy and engaged "at the ballet".

Musicals101 explains "At The Ballet" as a poignant tribute to the escape Sheila, Bebe, and Maggie found in the beauty of ballet."

Analysis
Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical explains: "Sheila, Bebe, and Maggie sing the same wistful melody; then their harmonies grow and build, one layering on the other".

Critical reception
AussieTheatre.com described it as a "poignant song".

References

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Fordy Wood Copse

Fordy Wood Copse is a woodland in Devon, England, near Sandford. It covers a total area of  and overlooks the River Creedy. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 331

United Nations Security Council Resolution 331, adopted on April 20, 1973, requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Council detailing the efforts undertaken by the UN pertaining to the Middle East since June 1967 and decided to meet following the submission of the report to examine the situation.  The Council also requested the Secretary-General invite Mr. Gunnar Jarring, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, to be available during the meeting in order to render assistance to the course of the deliberations.

The President of the Council stated that in the absence of any objections, the resolution was adopted unanimously.

See also
 List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 301 to 400 (1971–1976)

References
Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

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Max Pruss

Max Pruss (also Prüß; 13 September 1891 – 28 November 1960) was the commanding Captain of the zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster.

Biography
Max Pruss was born in 1891 in Sgonn, East Prussia (now Zgon, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland). He joined the German Navy in 1906 and completed airship training during World War I, serving as an elevatorman on the German Zeppelins. Pruss became part of the Hindenburg crew in 1936 on the third flight to Rio de Janeiro. During his career, he flew 171 times over the Atlantic. The final flight of the Hindenburg was May 3–6, 1937, and it was Pruss' first flight as commanding Captain of the Hindenburg. According to Airships.net he was a member of the NSDAP.

Hindenburg disaster

Pruss was commander of the airship during the Hindenburg disaster of 6 May 1937. This was his first time commanding a trip to Lakehurst. Pruss and several crew members rode the Hindenburg down to the ground as it burned, then ordered everybody out.  He carried radio operator Willy Speck out of the wreckage, then looked for survivors until rescuers were forced to restrain him.  Pruss, however, suffered extensive burns and had to be taken out by ambulance to Paul Kimball Hospital in Lakehurst.  The burns were so extensive that he was given last rites, but although his face was disfigured for the rest of his life, his condition improved over the next few months.  Pruss was unable to testify at investigative committees, but officially he was not held responsible.

Pruss, along with other airship crewmen, maintained that the disaster was caused by sabotage, and dismissed the possibility that it was sparked by lightning or static electricity. Although Hugo Eckener did not rule out other causes, he criticized Pruss' decision to carry out the landing in poor weather conditions, expressing his belief that sharp turns ordered by Pruss during the landing approach may have caused gas to leak, which could have been ignited by static electricity. Pruss insisted that such turns were normal procedure, and that the stern heaviness experienced during the approach was normal due to rainwater being displaced at the tail. However, it has been suggested that Pruss maintained his belief of sabotage because of guilt or to maintain the credibility of himself and the airship business.

After the Hindenburg
Pruss returned to Germany around October 1937, where he served as commandant of Frankfurt Airport as World War II broke out.  By this time he was already urging the modernization of Germany's remaining Zeppelin fleet, and during a 1940 visit of Hermann Göring to Frankfurt Airport this was the subject of an alleged quarrel between Pruss and Göring.  In the 1950s Pruss tried to raise money for new Zeppelin construction, citing the comfort and luxury of this mode of transportation.  He died in 1960 of pneumonia after a stomach operation.  Pruss would not see his dream realized as his death was over 30 years before the construction of a new airship at the Friedrichshafen complex by Zeppelin Neue Technologie (NT).

Portrayals
In the 1975 film, The Hindenburg, Pruss was portrayed by Charles Durning. This portrayal is inaccurate because Pruss is portrayed as ignoring the advice of the 2nd Captain Ernst Lehmann, who only traveled as an observer, saying "I'll do the worrying on this trip". In the docudrama Hindenburg: The Untold Story he was portrayed by Albert Welling. In the 2011 RTL television movie he is portrayed by Jürgen Schornagel.

The Hindenburg is featured in the series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as the setting of a story in which a married couple ride on the airship while recounting to friends of theirs how years ago they escaped certain death when they missed a trip on the doomed Passenger Liner RMS Lusitania.

In the pilot episode of the TV series Timeless Pruss was featured but not mentioned by name.

Bibliography

References
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St Katherine Westway

St Katherine Westway is a Church of England parish church in Hammersmith, west London. Its original dedication was St Catherine Coleman, named after the church of St Katherine Coleman in the City of London, whose sale funded its construction in 1922, to a design by Robert Atkinson - it was assigned a parish in 1929. Westway refers to Westway, the road beside which it stands. The original church was destroyed by bombing on 14 September 1940 and the foundation stone for the present one was laid on 25 October 1958.

References

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 Official website

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Geoff Hill (South African journalist)

Geoffrey Rex Alexander Middleton Hill is a journalist and author working in London, Nairobi and Johannesburg.

Biography
Hill spent his childhood in Malawi, Rhodesia, and South Africa.

His father, Hugh Middleton Hill, was federal water engineer for Nyasaland, during the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and went on to establish water projects across southern Africa. Geoff went to a total of 12 schools before completing his education at Northlands Boys' High School in Durban.

His early writing for biology journals and poetry magazines was encouraged by his mother, Zaeta (pronounced "zeeta"). After school, he studied zoology at the University of Natal.

In 1982 he moved to Australia and worked on various newspapers including the Townsville Bulletin and The Australian. In 1984, he founded Rhodesians Worldwide, a quarterly magazine. In 1992, with Nick Russell, he co-founded African Safari Magazine which ceased publication in 2000. He married Hope Kleoudis in Sydney in 1995 and they moved to Zimbabwe in 1997.

From 2002 until 2010, Hill worked as East and Southern Africa bureau chief for The Washington Times.

Published works
 The Battle for Zimbabwe (Zebra Press, 2003)
 What Happens After Mugabe? (2005) ()

Awards
 2000: John Steinbeck Short Story Award

References

External links
 What Happens After Mugabe?
 The Battle for Zimbabwe

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Phenylisobutylamine

Phenylisobutylamine, also known as α-ethylphenethylamine, Butanphenamine, B or AEPEA, is a stimulant drug of the phenethylamine class. It is a higher homologue of amphetamine, differing from amphetamine's molecular structure only by the substitution of the methyl group at the alpha position of the side chain with an ethyl group. Compared to amphetamine, phenylisobutylamine has strongly reduced dopaminergic effects, and instead acts as a selective norepinephrine releasing agent. The dextroisomer of phenylisobutylamine partially substitutes for dextroamphetamine in rats.

A number of derivatives of phenylisobutylamine are known, including BDB, MBDB, EBDB, butylone (bk-MBDB), eutylone (bk-EBDB), Ariadne (α-Et-DOM), 4-CAB, and 4-MAB.

"Phenylisobutylamine" is in fact a chemical misnomer because isobutylamine itself contains a branched chain. The correct name after this style for this class of compound would be "phenylsecbutylamine".

See also
 Phenethylamine
 Amphetamine
 N,alpha-diethylphenylethylamine

References

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Rülzheim station

Rülzheim station is a station in the town of Rülzheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The original station was opened on 25 July 1876 with the commissioning of the Germersheim–Wörth section of Schifferstadt–Wörth railway. The address of the old entrance building, which is heritage listed, is Bahnhofstraße 6.

In the course of the integration of the Germersheim–Wörth section of the line into the network of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn, it was replaced by a halt (Haltepunkt) called Rülzheim Bahnhof some 300 metres further north. Deutsche Bahn classifies the halt as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. It is located on the network of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) and belongs to fare zone 575. Since 2001, the station has also been part of the area where the fares of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) are accepted at a transitional rate.

Location
The former station was on the northern edge of the built-up area of Rülzheim. The local Bahnhofstraße (station street), runs parallel to and to the east of the tracks, which run in this section from northeast to southwest; it also forms part of the route of state road 493. To the west and north, agricultural land abuts the station. The railway itself comes from the north and passes through the municipality in an elongated S-curve, in the middle of which both the former station and the modern halt are located. The latter is about 300 metres further north-east directly next to state road 540 to Bellheim.

History

Railway initiatives around Rülzheim
Originally the administration of the Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis), which was part of Bavaria, planned that its first railway line would be first in the north-south direction from Rheinschanze via Lauterbourg to Strasbourg, which would compete with the Mannheim–Basel railway proposed by Baden. However, instead it was decided to build the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, Ludwigshafen–Bexbach), which was opened in the period from 1847 to 1849. In the meantime, discussions took place as to whether a line from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg or a line along the Rhine via Speyer, Germersheim and Wörth was more urgent and desirable. Since the military preferred a route on the edge of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald), this was built in the form of the Maximilian Railway between Neustadt and Wissembourg.

In the course of the endeavours to link the Maximilian Railway to the capital of Baden, several individuals from Rheinzabern and its neighbours campaigned for a route via Offenbach, Herxheim, Leimersheim and Leopoldshafen. This would have met an extension of the Schifferstadt–Speyer branch line, which was opened at the same time as the Ludwig Railway, near Rülzheim and they would have been connected accordingly. These plans, however, were in competition with the proposed Winden–Karlsruhe railway, which was finally preferred and opened in 1864. In the same year, the Speyer line was extended to Germersheim.

Also in 1864, a local committee from Rülzheim supported an extension of the line now ending in Germersheim to Wörth, which soon resulted in a first draft route plan. The location of the Rülzheim station was however disputed. One option placed it to the east of the community, while another put it to the west. The neighbouring communities, which wanted to have it near them, also interfered in the debate. The committee itself called for the location in the west on 30 March 1872, which was finally accepted on 7 July 1872. The line to Wörth, including Rülzheim station, was opened on 25 July 1876.

Further development
The station became part of the area of the Reichsbahndirektion (Reichsbahn railway division) of Ludwigshafen after the founding of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1922.  During the dissolution of the railway division of Ludwigshafen, responsibility for it was transferred to the railway division of Mainz on 1 May 1937.

Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB), which was responsible for railway operations from 1949, assigned the station to the railway division of Mainz, which was responsible for all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the staged dissolution of the railway division of Mainz from 1 August 1971, its counterpart in Karlsruhe took responsibility for the station. The station had been downgraded to a halt in the 1990s. The station became part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn in December 2010.

Entrance building

The former entrance building is built of brick with elements of the Neoclassical and Romanesque Revival styles. The heritage-listed building also has a three-storey tower. It is no longer used for railway operations. In the 1980s, it was renovated by a local association and part of it is used as a restaurant. The former freight shed also still exists and was restored in the 2000s.

Operations
The new halt is served at 30-minute intervals. Lines S 51 and S 52 of Karlsruhe Stadtbahn run once an hour, beginning in Germersheim station and running to the Karlsruhe inner city. The former follows the Winden–Karlsruhe railway until shortly before Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, where it runs over the ramp to the Albtalbahnhof to connect with the tram network. The S 52 leaves the Winden–Karlsruhe railway east of Maxau, then runs over tram lines through the Karlsruhe district of Knielingen and from there to the inner city.

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Xbox Entertainment Studios

Xbox Entertainment Studios was an American television and movie studio based in Santa Monica, California created internally by Microsoft Studios in 2012, in order to create "interactive television content" for Xbox Live.

On July 17, 2014, Microsoft confirmed that the studio would be closing. On October 29, 2014, both the vice president and the president of the company departed, and the company was officially closed.

Video content
At time of closure, Xbox Entertainment Studios was developing their first projects: a documentary about the video game crash of 1983, a science-fiction drama titled Humans and a live action television series based on the Halo franchise in collaboration with film producer Steven Spielberg. Future projects were to have included a remake of the BBC sci-fi series Blake's 7, a reboot of the Canadian children's hospital documentary series Little Miracles, and an autobiographical series about rapper Nas. The studio also intended to co-produce certain live events for Xbox Live, including future editions of the Call of Duty Championship, the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant and the VGX.

Before the closure was announced, the studio released a street soccer focused reality series titled Every Street United to coincide with the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Before closing, it intends to release the video game documentary (provisionally titled Atari: Game Over), and the series spun off from Halo.

In September 2014 The Hollywood Reporter reported that AMC was in talks to acquire the rights to revive Humans and that casting was underway.

Content

Xbox Entertainment Studios offered original films and series that were produced in collaboration between professional studios.

References

External links
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Sui Baoku

Sui Baoku (born 25 April 1986) is a Chinese short track speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metre relay event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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François de Souillac

François, Vicomte de Souillac was born on 2 July 1732 in Périgord. He was Governor of Réunion, Governor General of the Mascarene Islands and Pondichéry. He entered the navy in 1749 and he was named governor of Bourbon (modern Réunion) on 23 December 1775. On 15 October 1776 the Governor De Souillac created by ordinance, the "Quartier du Repos de Laleu". The ordinance of 8 March 1777 tried to moralise the hunt for the runaway slaves.

On 1 May 1779 he became Governor General by interim of the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. On 30 January 1780 he was confirmed in that post. As Governor General, the interests of the Isle de France (now Mauritius) became his first concern. Thus in Bourbon he requisitioned the 200 best blacks of the King's Workshops for the needs of Mauritius. He left the area in 1787 and died in 1803.

Today a village of Mauritius is named after him. There is a street named after him in Pondicherry. A small beach in the Port Glaud district of Mahé, Seychelles is named "Anse Souillac" after him.

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Jim Fitzpatrick (actor)

Jim Fitzpatrick (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. He has appeared in over 58 feature films and television series. He also is the founder and president of Five Star Studios (established in 1992) and PacAtlantic Pictures, LLC (established in 2005).

Early life
Fitzpatrick is from Seminole, Florida. He began acting at age 13 when he appeared in his first school play, A Thousand Clowns, at Seminole High School in Florida. He accepted a football scholarship to Illinois State University, where he was a theater major. While living in Illinois, he became involved with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, founded by Gary Sinise and John Malkovich.

Athletic career
Fitzpatrick pursued a career in professional football. He was a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 1981. Thereafter he played for short stints with the National Football League (NFL) Chicago Bears (1982) and the Baltimore Colts (1982). He retired from pro football in 1985, after spending three seasons with the Tampa Bay Bandits in the USFL (1983–85).

Acting career
Before moving to Los Angeles, he landed supporting roles in the feature films Cocoon, D.A.R.Y.L., Puttin On The Ritz. His first television acting credit was on Miami Vice.

Filmography
 Do You See Me (2017) ... Detective Jimmy Nichols
 Divorce Texas Style (2016) ... Ozzie Partington
 Gangster Squad (2013) ... Terry McMurray
 Eden 2 (2013) ... Captain Stevens
 A Fonder Heart (2013) ... Dr. Evans
 Dolphin Tale (2011) .... Max
 The Adventure Scouts (2010) .... Allen Daniels
 The Belly of the Beast (2008) .... Adam Simeon
 Hallow's Point (2007) ... Detective Frank Cates
 The Indian (2006) .... Doctor Vince
 Blood Ranch (2006) .... Spider
 Distortion (2005) .... Frank
 Elizabethtown (2005) .... Rusty
 Supernatural (TV) (Pilot) (2004) .... Calvin Gordon
 The Code Conspiracy (2004).... John Davis
 Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005) (7 episodes)... Commander Williams
 The District (2003) (2 episodes) ... Weston Buell
 Threat Matrix (2003) .... Robert Burkehart
 An American Reunion (2002).... Jamie
 ER (2002) ... Lt. Col. McGruen
 The Agency (2002) ... CIA Gus Allman
 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (2002)... Coach Hardgrave
 Unreel: A Hollywood Story (2002) .... Tommy
 U.S. Seals (2001) ... Mike Bradley
 JAG (1997-2001).... Major Warren; Commander Douglas
 Delta Force Clear Target (1999) ... Skip Lang
 Armageddon (1998) ... NORAD Tech, Lt. Trev Tavis
 The Little Ghost (1997) .... Tony
 Pacific Blue (1997) .... Captain Frank Hawkins
 All My Children 168 episodes (1995-1996) ... Pierce Riley
 Curse of the Starving Class (1994) .... Emerson
 The Glass Shield (1994) ... Officer Jim Ryan
 Renegade (1993) ... Brett Quinn
 Sweating Bullets (7 episodes) (1993) ... Rip Chase
 South of Sunset (1993) ... Tony Dinato
 Stand by Your Man (1992) ... Kyle
 Anything but Love (1991) ... Sexy Guy
 Sporting Chance (TV movie) (1990)... Davis
 Ski Patrol (1990) ... Young Father
 Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989) ... Sgt. Major Collins
 Tour of Duty (1989) ... Captain Pescow
 The New Gidget (5 episodes) (1986-1988) ... Tom Wilson
 Days of Our Lives (4 episodes) (1985–87) ... Dr. Robinson
 Designing Women (1987) ... Garret Jackson
 The Last Fling (1987) ... Bud
 Shelter in the Storm (1987)... River
 When the Bough Breaks (1986) ... Reporter #3
 Band of the Hand (1986) ... Young Street Thug
 Santa Barbara (1986) ... Raz
 Miami Vice (1986) ... Teddy Lake
 Cocoon (1985) ... Dock Worker
 D.A.R.Y.L. (1984) ... T.A.S.C.O.M. Security Guard
 Glory Days'' (1979) ... Steve Street

References

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Nikola Sudová

Nikola Sudová (born 17 March 1982 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czech freestyle skier known for moguls. She has two World Cup victories and competed for the Czech Republic at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is set to compete in ladies moguls for the Czech Republic at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

She is the older sister of Šárka Sudová.

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1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee

The 1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic Party candidate, former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter won the state of Tennessee with 56% of the vote against Republican Party candidate, President Gerald Ford, carrying the state’s 10 electoral votes.

Carter, a native Southerner from neighboring Georgia, carried Tennessee with a 13 point margin of victory against incumbent Ford. The Watergate scandal had severely damaged Ford's predecessor, Richard Nixon, who had resigned in 1974 as a result, and the Republican Party as a whole. The relatively unknown Carter campaigned as a Washington outsider free of the corruption of Watergate, and thus appealed to many voters in the country, including Tennessee.

As was normal during this era, Carter carried Western Tennessee and Middle Tennessee, the most Democratic regions in the state, by landslide margins, which included the major cities of Memphis and Nashville, the state capital. Carter even made inroads in traditionally Republican East Tennessee, though Ford kept the region in his column with his wins in the major cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville. Carter even outperformed by 0.44% Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 result during that President’s national landslide.

This was the first occasion since Oklahoma became a state in 1907 that Tennessee and Oklahoma produced a different popular vote winner, an occurrence replicated only in 1992 and 1996. , this is the last presidential election in which the Democratic candidate won Tennessee with a majority of the popular vote. Bill Clinton would carry the state in both his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, though with pluralities, even with Tennessee native Al Gore on the tickets. This is also the last election in which Williamson County, Sullivan County, Madison County, Hamblen County, Cumberland County, McMinn County, Loudon County, Monroe County, Rhea County, and Chester County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.

Results

Results by county

References

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Thiruppu Munai

Thiruppu Munai () is a 1989 Tamil language crime film directed by Kalaivanan Kannadasan. The film features Karthik and Chitra in lead roles. The film, produced by B. Kandaswami, had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 3 November 1989.

Plot

Sathyamoorthy (J. V. Somayajulu), an honest politician, becomes the new Minister of Justice. Chakravarthy (Vinu Chakravarthy), a corrupted politician, who wants to be a minister feels ridiculous and tries to kill Sathyamoorthy but Chakravarthy fails each time.

Rajaram (Karthik), a jobless graduate, comes to the city to find a job. He has a mother in his village and he has a lot of debts. There, he becomes friend with Pichandi (Janagaraj), who is also a jobless graduate, and Chidambaram (Vagai Chandrasekhar), a disabled family man. Sangeetha, Chakravarthy's niece, (Silk Smitha) interviewed Rajaram for a job and he passes it well. Rajaram is hired by Chakravarthy but Chakravarthy asks him to first charm Chitra (Chitra), Sathyamoorthy's daughter. Rajaram tries to charm her and Chitra falls in love with him. Sathyamoorthy wants to see, his daughter's lover, Rajaram, so Chakravarthy gives him a flower bouquet with a bomb inside. Sathyamoorthy appreciates Rajaram and he gives the flower bouquet to Sathyamoorthy. Sathyamoorthy dies in the bomb blast. Rajaram is sentenced to life imprisonment and Pichandi to five years in prison.

Chakravarthy has succeeded to the minister post and he decides to kill the witnesses. Anand (Thyagu), the jailer, because of his corrupted services, becomes the sub-jailer. Vanchinathan (Also Karthik), who looks exactly like Rajaram, is the new jailer. Manimudi (Ajay Ratnam), Chakravarthy's henchman, kills Pichandi under the command of Chakravarthy and Vanchinathan is sentenced to life imprisonment. Vanchinathan then escapes from the jail and with Chitra, they try to flee the innocent Rajaram. Later, Chidambaram and his wife (Sabitha Anand) were murdered by Chakravarthy's henchmen.

Finally, Rajaram and Vanchinathan kill Chakravarthy's henchmen. Chakravarthy is sentenced to life imprisonment, Rajaram and Chitra get married and Vanchinathan decides to bring up Chidambaram's son.

Cast

Karthik as Rajaram / Vanchinathan
Chitra as Chitra
Janagaraj as Pichandi
Vagai Chandrasekhar as Chidambaram
Vinu Chakravarthy as Chakravarthy
J. V. Somayajulu as Sathyamoorthy
Silk Smitha as Sangeetha
Sabitha Anand as Chidambaram's wife
Thyagu as Anand
Ajay Rathnam as Manimudi
Jaiganesh in a guest appearance

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1989, 4 features tracks with lyrics written by Pulamaipithan, Ilaiyaraaja, Gangai Amaran and Kalaivanan Kannadasan.

References

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Journal of International Money and Finance

The Journal of International Money and Finance is a peer-reviewed academic journal in economics that was established in 1982 . It was originally published by Butterworth–Heinemann, then by Pergamon, which is now incorporated into Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is J.R. Lothian (Fordham University).

History
According to its first editor, Michael R. Darby, the journal was established to cope with the explosive growth of research on international finance. In its focus on this field, the journal used a broad definition encompassing, among others, topics such as optimum currency area, international financial institutions, open economy macroeconomics, and international asset pricing models.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/Inform, Journal of Economic Literature, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.090.

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1889 Wake Forest Baptists football team

The 1889 Wake Forest Baptists football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest College during the 1889 college football season.

Schedule

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Jerry Davie

Gerald Lee Davie (born 10 February 1933) is a retired American professional baseball player.  He was a right-handed pitcher who appeared in one season (1959) and 11 games pitched in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers.  A Detroit native, he stood  tall and weighed  during his pro career.

Davie signed with the Tigers in 1952, but it would take him seven years (including two in military service) to reach the big league level.  He made the 1959 Tiger roster out of spring training and pitched effectively in relief during April, earning him his first starting pitcher assignment on May 2 against the Washington Senators at Briggs Stadium. He was treated roughly, allowing five hits and four runs, all earned, in two innings of work. He took the loss in what would be a 15–3 thrashing at the hands of the Senators—the Tigers' 15th loss in 17 games. The catastrophic beginning of their season caused the dismissal of manager Bill Norman later that day.

The Tigers and Davie both rebounded after that defeat.  Detroit rallied under new skipper Jimmy Dykes to finish fourth in the eight-team American League.  Davie, meanwhile, won back-to-back starts on May 25 and 31, against the Kansas City Athletics and Cleveland Indians, working 8 innings on May 25 and throwing a complete game in his start six days later against Cleveland. But after a poor start against the Boston Red Sox on June 9, Davie was sent back to the Triple-A Charleston Senators and never returned to the Tigers. For his MLB career, he compiled a 2–2 record, with a 4.17 earned run average and 20 strikeouts in 36⅔ innings pitched. He allowed 40 hits and 17 bases on balls.

Davie retired after the 1960 minor-league season.

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Turkey national futsal team

The Turkey national futsal team represents Turkey in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and the European Championships and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation, which founded the national team in 2006.

Tournament records

FIFA Futsal World Cup

FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification

UEFA European Futsal Championship

Minor tournament
this table consist of only senior A team Results (not include Youth and club match results)

All time general statistics record/Overview of results
 As a 15 Nov 2016

 one match not record in futsal planet (TUR 1-1 FIN 2014 - Turkey win 3-1 in penalty - in total 4-2)
 Source:http://www.futsalplanet.com/matches/index.asp

Coaching staff
Ömer Kaner - Head Coach
Sinan Turhan - Assistant Coach
Reşat Kartal- Assistant Coach
Cüneyt Yalınkılıç - Director

Current squad
The current squad. All match statistics are updated up to 16 February 2008.
Goalkeepers
Hüseyin Yıldız
Cüneyt Vicil
Players
Sami Bayraktar
Mahmut Demir
Serkan Demirel
Abdullah Doğan
Mesut Doğan
Yasin Erdal
Abdullah İçel
Ersan Keleş
Cihan Özcan
Aziz Sağlam
Samet Ersöz
Ertan Uyanık
Okan Soykan
Hakan Soykan

Notable players
Erol Bulut
Tayfun Korkut

See also
Turkey national football team
Turkey national youth football team
Turkey national under-21 football team

References

External links
Futsal page on TFF.org

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Canavanine

L-(+)-(S)-Canavanine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid found in certain leguminous plants. It is structurally related to the proteinogenic α-amino acid L-arginine, the sole difference being the replacement of a methylene bridge (-- unit) in arginine with an oxa group (i.e., an oxygen atom) in canavanine. Canavanine is accumulated primarily in the seeds of the organisms which produce it, where it serves both as a highly deleterious defensive compound against herbivores and a vital source of nitrogen for the growing embryo (see also L-canaline). The mechanism of canavanine's toxicity is that organisms that consume it typically mistakenly incorporate it into their own proteins in place of L-arginine, thereby producing structurally aberrant proteins that may not function properly.

Some specialized herbivores tolerate L-canavanine either because they metabolize it efficiently (cf. L-canaline) or avoid its incorporation into their own nascent proteins. An example of this ability can be found in the larvae of the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens, which can tolerate massive amounts of dietary canavanine. These larvae fastidiously avoid incorporation of L-canavanine into their nascent proteins (presumably by virtue of highly discriminatory Arginine—tRNA ligase, the enzyme responsible for the first step in the incorporation of arginine into proteins). In contrast, larvae of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta can only tolerate tiny amounts (1.0 microgram per kilogram of fresh body weight) of dietary canavanine because their arginine-tRNA ligase has little, if any, discriminatory capacity. No one has examined experimentally the arginine-tRNA synthetase of these organisms. But comparative studies of the incorporation of radiolabeled L-arginine and L-canavanine have shown that in Manduca sexta, the ratio of incorporation is about 3 to 1.

Dioclea megacarpa seeds contain high levels of canavanine. The beetle Caryedes brasiliensis is able to tolerate this however as it has the most highly discriminatory arginine-tRNA ligase known. In this insect, the level of radiolabeled L-canavanine incorporated into newly synthesized proteins is barely measurable. Moreover, this beetle uses canavanine as a nitrogen source to synthesize its other amino acids to allow it to develop.

NZB/W F1, NZB, and DBA/2 mice fed L-canavanine develop a syndrome similar to systemic lupus erythematosus, while BALB/c mice fed a steady diet of protein containing 1% canavanine showed no change in lifespan. The toxicity of canavanine may be enhanced under conditions of protein starvation, and canavanine toxicity resulting from consumption of Hedysarum alpinum seeds, which contain quantities of canavanine around 1%, has been implicated in the death of Christopher McCandless.

Alfalfa seeds and sprouts contain L-canavanine. The L-canavanine in alfalfa has been linked to lupus-like symptoms in primates, including humans, and other auto-immune diseases. Often stopping consumption reverses the problem.

See also
 Canaline
 Arginine

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Minsk Voivodeship

Minsk Voivodeship (, , ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1566 and later in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, until the partitions of the Commonwealth in 1793. Centred on the city of Minsk and subordinate to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the region continued the traditions – and shared the borders – of several previously existing units of administrative division, notably a separate Duchy of Minsk, annexed by Lithuania in the 13th century. It was replaced with Minsk Governorate in 1793.

Geography

The voivodeship was stretched along the Berezina and Dneper rivers, with the earlier river having both its source and its estuary within the limits of the voivodeship, as well as most of its basin. To the north east it bordered Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mscislaw voivodeships. To the east it bordered with the lands of Chernigov (on both sides of the Dneper and Sozh rivers), while to the south-east it was delimited by the river Snov. Further southwards the voivodeship was bordering the land of Kiev. Across the basin of the Pripyat river the land of Minsk was bordering the Brześć Voivodeship (across Ubort river) and Nowogródek Voivodeship (across Ptsich river). Further northwards it was bordering the capital of the Grand Duchy, the Vilnius Voivodeship.

History

Minsk had been a capital of a semi-independent duchy at least since 1067. Raided on a yearly basis by Lithuanian tribes, by the 12th century it was made a fief and in the 14th century it was directly incorporated into the Grand Duchy.  In 1441 the city of Minsk was granted with a city charter, by the king Casimir IV Jagiellon. His son, Alexander Jagiellon extended the privilege in 1496 and granted the town with Magdeburg Laws. Since then, the entire region shared the fate of its capital city. In 1773 a post-Jesuit academy had been founded in Minsk by the Commission of National Education.

Politics

All voivodeships played an important role within the Polish political system, extended to Lithuania by the Polish-Lithuanian unions. Following the final Union of Lublin of 1569, the Minsk Voivodeship received two seats within the Senate. The seats were held ex officio by the voivod and the castellan of Minsk. Each of the three powiats organized its own Sejmik, which had a right to elect two members of Sejm each, and two deputies to the Lithuanian Tribunal.

The three cities were also entitled to house local courts. Since 1599, the Tribunal of Lithuania did also held sessions in Minsk (every three years, other cities it visited were Vilnius and Navahrudak). The court held there served the role of the highest juridical authority for all of Ruthenian voivodeships, that is Minsk, Nowogródek, Vitebsk, Mstislav and Kiev. Following the first partition of Poland in 1775, the tribunal abandoned Minsk and held its sessions in Hrodna.

Notable voivodes of Minsk include Balcer Strawiński (1631–33), Aleksander Suszka (1633–38) and Mikołaj Sapieha (since 1638).

Voivodes of Minsk Voivodeship

 Gabriel Hornostaj (1566–76)
 Mikołaj Sapieha (Elder) (1576–88)
 Bohdan Sapieha (1588–93)
 Jan Abramowicz (1593–96)
 Andriusz Zawisza (1596–98)
 Jan Pac (1600–11)
 Mikołaj Sapieha (1611–18)
 Piotr Tyszkiewicz (1618–31)
 Balcer Strawiński (1631–33)
 Aleksander Suszka (1633–38)
 Mikołaj Sapieha (1638)
 Aleksander Massalski (1638–43)
 Andriusz Massalski (1643–45)
 Aleksander Ogiński (1645–49)
 Gideon Rajecké (1649–54)
 Krzysztof Ciechanowiecki (1654–55)
 Krzysztof Rudomina-Dusiacki (1655)
 Jan Sebastian Kęsztort (1656–67)
 Kazimierz Białłozor (1667–80)
 Michael Siasickis (1680–98)
 Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1699–1709)
 Krzysztof Zenovicz (1709–17)
 Krzysztof Stanisław Zawisza (1720–21)
 Jan Kazimierz Toad (1721–54)
 Jan August Hylzen (1754–67)
 Józef Jerzy Hylzen (1767–70)
 Tadeusz Burzyński (1770–73)
 Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (1773–84)
 Adam Chmara (1784–93)

Colours

Much like other Ruthenian lands, the Minsk voivodeship signed its documents with the Pogoń (Chase) coat of arms. The flag was Or, in field Gules a chase Carnation. The official uniform was a crimson kontusz and żupan, with a navy blue collar. The powiat of Rechytsa adopted a white żupan with white collar.

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Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures

Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures is a 1996 adventure video game. Desktop Adventures was made to run in a windowed form on the desktop to limit memory use and allow the player to perform other tasks. This game was the first Desktop Adventures game, and was followed by Star Wars: Yoda Stories in 1997.

Plot
The game is set in mid-1930s Middle America with a variety of characters, puzzles, and outcomes.  The plot, size, and direction of each game are randomly generated at the start, with locations and items being different every time, though each storyline has a pre-scripted resolution.

Gameplay

The playing area is displayed from an overhead perspective.  The player-controlled Indiana Jones is limited to orthogonal movement, which is controlled with the arrow keys or with the mouse. The mouse is also used for other actions, such as managing inventory and using weapons. Each scenario is randomly generated by selecting each element (such as the item Indiana Jones must collect at each stage of the adventure) from a set of possibilities. After winning, the player can continue to explore the setting.

Reception

Trent Ward of GameSpot reviewed the game as having low-quality visuals and audio but being possibly useful for passing time. Billboard magazine mentioned the game's randomly generated environment and its target audience of "gamers on the go", and deemed it "An unambitious title that will rope you in." A Next Generation reviewer noted that the randomly generated scenarios are essentially repetitive, and complained at the fact that the player character cannot shoot diagonally but enemies can. He concluded, "All this said, however, the game only costs around 12 bucks and if you don't expect too much, it is pretty fun. The underlying idea is sound, and if you don't mind repetition, check it out."

Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World wrote, "For a genius, George Lucas sure has a lot of bad ideas. [...] Some time ago, someone from his computer game division must have come to him and said, 'Hey, let's put out a really simple, randomly generated RPG-style adventure game, stick a whip in the hand of the main character, use the Indiana Jones nameand make it look really ugly.' And Lucas must have said, 'Sounds good to me.'" Ardai wrote that Indiana Jones fans may enjoy the theme music featured in the game, but concluded that the game was, "Embarrassingly retro," with its "overly simplistic gameplay; crude visuals and sound" and "ludicrous ethnic stereotypes."

Rob Tribe of PC Zone called it "very, very addictive," though like Next Generation, he criticized the fact that the player character cannot shoot diagonally but enemies can.

In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Indy's Desktop Adventures the 15th-worst computer game ever released.

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Winameg, Ohio

Winameg is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Pike Township maintains its government and maintenance facilities in Winameg.

History
The community is named after a Potawatomi Indian chief, named Winameg. The chief became friends with a white pioneer. They first met under a large white oak tree that stood until 1992 in Winameg. The tree is referred to as the Council Oak. A historical plaque marks where it once stood. Chief Winameg is buried in Winameg, alongside his friend Dresden Howard. Chief Winameg and Howard are remembered in Fulton County with life-size depiction of both figures, carved from the wood of a historical tree in Winameg under which the two first met, and displayed at Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio.

A post office called Winameg was established in 1856, and remained in operation until 1902.

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Vossloh G2000 BB

The Vossloh G 2000 BB is a four axle heavy shunting and mainline locomotive built at the former MaK plant in Kiel. At the time of its introduction in 2000 it was the most powerful hydraulic transmission locomotive in Vossloh's range.

The Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) reporting number for this loco is 253.

History and Design

The locomotive was unveiled at Innotrans in 2000. The initial model had an asymmetric cab (see image) with a walkway; the asymmetric cab design allows the walkway to extend all the way to each end of the locomotive; coupled with remote control operation this means that shunting can be done from an external viewpoint whilst still riding on the locomotive.

The design is modular with various components (engine, drive etc.) coming from different suppliers. External styling was by Tricon-Design.

A second variant was produced, this time with a symmetrical cab; two different versions of this model were produced - one for the Italian market (G 2000-2 BB) with left hand drive (trains in Italy generally keep to the left) and another (G 2000-3 BB) with right hand drive for Germany. The new cabs had seating for two operators, in other respects apart from the cab these two models are identical to the initial asymmetric offering.

Starting in 2004 two further sub designs were made: G 2000-4 BB with a MTU engine which increase the power to 2700 kW. This variant also included a hydrodynamic retarder (a type of braking system) as part of the Voith supplied transmission package.

The last variant is G 2000-5 BB which has the same upgrades as the fourth offering, it is designed for the Scandinavian market and as such has anti wheel slip technology, and can be equipped for service down to .

Operators and Use

The locomotives are certified for use on the railways of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden, Denmark and Poland.

The locomotives are operated by many companies, many of them on lease. Angel Trains and MRCE both act as leasing companies, with Angel Trains providing the vast majority of the leased locomotives. Other owners include Azienda Consorziale Trasporti (ACT) and SBB Cargo (as class SBB Am 840)

The machines find use in northern Italy and in the German Ruhr region as well as being used for cross border traffic in the Benelux region. Railion, Euro Cargo Rail, Rail4chem and others all use this locomotive. The locomotives are used for freight. In Italy, these are notably owned by TPER, which uses them in some.of its cargo services under the operations of Dinazzano Po

The Swedish rail company Hector Rail operates a G 2000-4 and a 2000-5 machine.

See also
List of Deutsche Bahn AG locomotives and railbuses

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Rafael Valls

Rafael Valls Ferri (born 25 June 1987) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career
Born in Cocentaina, Valls left  at the end of the 2013 season, and joined  for the 2014 season. In 2015, Valls had his biggest victory to date by winning the Tour of Oman and its fourth stage. In September 2015 it was announced that Valls would join  from 2016 on a two-year deal.

Major results

2008
 9th Overall Grand Prix du Portugal
2009
 4th Overall Circuito Montañés
 10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2010
 2nd Trofeo Inca
 3rd Overall Tour de San Luis
1st  Mountains classification
1st Stage 2
 9th Trofeo Deia
2014
 8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2015
 1st Overall  Tour of Oman
1st Stage 4
 8th Overall Paris–Nice
 8th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2016
 8th Overall Tour Down Under
2017
 7th Overall Tour Down Under
 10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
2019
 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Rigers Dushku

Rigers Dushku (born 8 September 1991, in Tiranë) is an Albanian professional footballer who currently plays for Tërbuni Pukë in the Albanian First Division.

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Bart McDade

Herbert "Bart" H. McDade III was the President and COO of Lehman Brothers at the time of its bankruptcy.  During the end of Lehman's existence, McDade was tasked with largely running the firm and saving it as the then CEO, Richard Fuld was largely sidelined.

Early life
McDade received a BA from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.  McDade was also a member of Alpha Tau Omega during his time at Duke University.

Career
McDade joined Lehman in 1983 in corporate bond trading. He was named head of the firm's corporate bond department in 1991. In 1998, he was named global head of Debt Capital Markets and a member of the Investment Banking division's group head committee. In 2000, in addition to being appointed co-head of the firm's Global Fixed Income division, McDade was named to the firm's Operating Committee. McDade served as co-head of the Fixed Income division from 2000 to 2002 and as global head of the Fixed Income division from 2002 to 2005.  He then served as global head of the Equities division from June 2005.

On June 12, 2008, Lehman chief operating officer Joseph M. Gregory was removed from his position shortly after it was announced Lehman would post an unexpectedly large second-quarter loss of nearly $3 billion. As part of the reshuffling, McDade was named COO and President.  Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection three months later, on September 15, 2008.

McDade was one of a handful of top Lehman executives offered a job at Barclays after the British bank bought Lehman's U.S. operations when Lehman declared bankruptcy in September 2008. However, he stepped down from his position at Barclays in November 2008, after less than two months helping Barclays integrate Lehman Brothers' investment banking arm into its operations.

Personal life
He is married to Martha McDade.

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Melbeta, Nebraska

Melbeta is a village in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Scottsbluff, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 112 at the 2010 census.

History
Melbeta was established as a town in 1911 when the railroad was extended to that point. Melbeta is said to be derived from a German word meaning "sugar beet".

Geography
Melbeta is located at  (41.781984, -103.517287).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 112 people, 46 households, and 30 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 58 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 98.2% White and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.5% of the population.

There were 46 households of which 39.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.8% were non-families. 32.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.10.

The median age in the village was 37 years. 31.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.4% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 16.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 51.8% male and 48.2% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 138 people, 57 households, and 44 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,452.2 people per square mile (532.8/km²). There were 65 housing units at an average density of 684.0 per square mile (251.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.97% of the population.

There were 57 households out of which 21.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.2% were married couples living together, 7.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.1% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.76.

In the village, the population was spread out with 20.3% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 22.5% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 22.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 112.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.7 males.

As of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $33,750, and the median income for a family was $36,875. Males had a median income of $26,389 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the village was $15,268. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.

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Donald Dickie

Donald Dickie (born 8 May 1972 in New Zealand) is a former professional Australian rules footballer notable for his brief appearance in the Australian Football League for the Port Adelaide Football Club. Dickie was born in New Zealand  of a Māori heritage, he is one of few Maori Australians in the history of the VFL/AFL. His family emigrated to South Australia where he played with the Norwood Football Club.

AFL career

Port Adelaide career (1997 - 2000)
Dickie was taken at Pick #19 in the pre-season AFL draft as a zone selection.

The wingman became a cult player at Port Adelaide known for his exciting dashing play and hard tackles. At the end of the 1998 AFL season he earned runner up in the John Cahill Medal.

After inconsistent form and complications with ankle injuries Dickie was delisted by the power at the end of 2000 having played a total of 55 games.

SANFL career

Coaching career
Dickie is now an assistant coach with the Sturt Football Club in the SANFL. No longer an assistant at Sturt

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Seongsu-dong

Seongsu-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Seongdong-gu in Seoul, South Korea.

See also
Administrative divisions of South Korea

References

External links
 Seongdong-gu Official site in English
 Seongdong-gu Official website
 Map of Seongdong-gu
 Seongsu 1ga-dong Resident office

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Rehman Goth

Rehman Goth is a neighbourhood of Keamari Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

See also

Category:Neighbourhoods of Karachi


Port Vell Aerial Tramway

The Port Vell Aerial Tramway (, ) is an aerial tramway in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It crosses Port Vell, Barcelona's old harbour, connecting the Montjuïc hill with the seaside suburb of Barceloneta.

The aerial tramway first opened in 1931 and is principally a tourist attraction, used on account of its excellent views of the city and its port. It is operated by Teleféricos de Barcelona S.A. and is not part of Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM) integrated fare network. Separate tickets must be purchased prior to boarding.

The aerial tramway should not be confused with the Montjuïc Cable Car, a gondola lift that links the upper terminus of the Montjuïc funicular with Montjuïc Castle.

Route
The tramway starts at Miramar station halfway down the hill of Montjuïc at an altitude of , passes through the peak of Torre Jaume I which is  high and ends at the top of Torre Sant Sebastià at , from where an elevator descends to the streets of Barceloneta.

The ride offers a fine view over Barcelona, the nearby Plaça del Portal de la Pau with the Columbus Monument, Port Vell with its Balearic ferries and the World Trade Centre, and Barceloneta with its Mediterranean beaches. The tower Torre Jaume I was the world's highest aerial lift pylon until 1966, when the Glacial Aerial Tramway Kaprun III opened.

History
The tramway was intended to be an attraction at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, a World's fair. The Air Rail San Sebastian-Miramar, S.A. was incorporated and obtained the royal licence to build and operate the tramway. The manager of the project was Juan Rodriguez Roda. The towers were designed by the architect Carles Buigas and built by Material para Ferrocarriles y Construcciones S.A.. The tramway was built by Bleichert, at that time a company with a worldwide reputation, which had just completed the Aeri de Montserrat. However, the size of the project was underestimated and the tramway did not open until 12 September 1931.

Initially, the tramway consisted of two sections with two cars each. The cabins travelled from the terminal stations to Torre Jaume I and back, with one haul rope for the total length to move all four cabins.

All hopes for a commercial success of the venture were annihilated in the Great Depression and in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Torre Jaume I was used as a look-out and a machine gun post. The tramway was heavily damaged and reduced to the rusting towers. One of the two surviving cabins was transferred to Aeri de Montserrat, which started to operate again in 1940. There were discussions to demolish the installation completely. Eventually, Friedrich Gründel, Bleichert's chief engineer during construction, succeeded in establishing Teleféricos de Barcelona, S.A.. In 1960, Torre Sebastià reopened with a new restaurant at its top, followed two years later by Torre Jaume I. In 1963 the tramway reopened with only two cabins, which travelled along the total length and through the top of Torre Jaume I. After Gründel's death ownership changed several times, commercial returns diminished and the technical status deteriorated. The authorities had decided to close it, when, in 1996, Barcelona decided to redevelop Port Vell and to build the World Trade Centre. The tramway was also renovated and it reopened in 2000.

Technical details

The line is  long, with sections of  and . The original cabins, which are still in use, take 20 passengers each plus the cabin attendant, and have an empty weight of .

The tramway was built by Bleichert on the Bleichert-Zuegg system with track ropes of  and a haul rope of . There was also an auxiliary rope of  for a small open service vehicle, which could be used to evacuate the cabins. The cable speed is , driven by an electric motor in Miramar station, with tension weights in the Torre Sant Sebastià.

Tower names
Jaume I is the Catalan name of James I of Aragon (1208–1276), King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona. Sant Sebastià is the Catalan name of San Sebastián, the Spanish town where in 1907, Leonardo Torres Quevedo had opened his first public aerial tramway on Monte Ulia.

References

External links

 Official web site of the aerial tramway

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Category:Transport in Barcelona
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Category:1931 establishments in Spain


Quintus Futius Lusius Saturninus

Quintus Futius Lusius Saturninus was a Roman senator, who lived during the reign of Claudius. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of September-October 41 with Marcus Seius Varanus as his colleague. Tacitus lists Saturninus as one of the victims of the notorious Publius Suillius Rufus, whose prosecution on behalf of the emperor Claudius or his wives led to the deaths of a number of Senators and equites. Seneca the Younger mentions him in his Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii as one of his consular friends who confront Claudius in the afterworld as being responsible for their deaths.

These literary sources from the Principate refer to him by his last two names, Lusius Saturninus; his full name is known from an inscription found in Dalmatia dated to his consulate. Based on this evidence, Olli Salomies argues in his monograph on the naming practices of the Early Empire that his name indicates that he was born in the gens Lusia, but later adopted by a Quintus Futius. An inscription attests to the existence of a Quintus Futius, suffect consul with a Publius Calvisius in a nundinium in one of the years from AD 49 through 54.

References

Category:1st-century Romans
Category:Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome
Category:Lusii
Category:40s deaths


Raymond Windsor

Raymond Thomas Albert Windsor (born 9 February 1943) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1969. He was born at Wellington, Somerset.

Windsor was a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler who made a lot of runs in club cricket for Wellington and Taunton. In August 1969, playing for Somerset's second eleven in a Minor Counties Championship match against Cornwall he hit 140 out of 225 in Somerset's first innings. That earned him a fairly instant call-up into Somerset's first team for a List A Sunday League match against Yorkshire, but Somerset won easily by nine wickets, and he was not required to bat or to bowl. Later in the same month, he was picked for a single County Championship match against Sussex; he batted at No 7 and was out, bowled by Tony Greig, without scoring in the first innings, and the second Somerset innings finished at 220 for four wickets, so he did not bat a second time. He was not picked for the first team again, though he continued to appear in sporadic second eleven games to 1978.

References

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Category:Living people
Category:English cricketers
Category:Somerset cricketers


Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)

The Democratic Republican Party (DRP) was a conservative and broadly state corporatist or nationalist political party in South Korea, ruling from shortly after its formation on February 2, 1963, to its dissolution under Chun Doo-hwan in 1980.

History
Under the control of Park Chung Hee, President of South Korea from his military coup d'état of 1961 until his assassination in 1979, the party oversaw a period of accelerated, state-directed industrialization and socio-economic modernization known as the "Miracle of the Han River", where a predominantly poor and agrarian country was transformed into an industrial "tiger economy". The combination of state and corporate chaebol power pioneered by the party continues to be deeply built into the foundations of the South Korean economic system.

Following the promulgation in October 1972 of the Yushin Constitution, which implemented numerous authoritarian centralizing measures such as the direct appointment of a third of the National Assembly by the President, the DRP assumed an unprecedented level of political power.  For the next eight years, South Korea was essentially a one-party state ruled by the DRP.

After Park's assassination on 26 October 1979 and the seizure of power by Chun Doo-hwan in the coup d'état of December Twelfth, the DRP was dissolved in 1980, and nominally superseded by the Korean National Party. However, leadership of the state was assumed by the Democratic Justice Party, which may be seen as a spiritual successor of the DRP in terms of its constitutional vision and mimicking of Park's leadership style. Through this evolution, the Grand National Party may be seen as the modern heir of the DRP, though the policies advocated by Korean conservatives have changed significantly since South Korea's democratization in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Election results

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

References

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Category:Fourth Republic of South Korea
Category:Conservative parties in South Korea
Category:Far-right politics in South Korea
Category:Korean nationalist parties
Category:Political parties established in 1963
Category:Political parties disestablished in 1980
Category:Liberty Korea Party


WBUZ (FM)

WBUZ (102.9 FM, "The Buzz") is a commercial radio station located in La Vergne, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee, area .  WBUZ airs an active rock music format, with elements of alternative rock. The station was assigned the WBUZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on October 16, 2001.  The station's studios are located in southeast Nashville along the Murfreesboro Pike, and the transmitter is near Eagleville, Tennessee.

Originally licensed to (and based in) Shelbyville, Tennessee, the station signed on as WYCQ and operated for several years under the "Q102" banner. After a power increase and move into the Nashville market, the station flipped to a hybrid country/Southern Rock format known as "Rockin' Country 102.9". The station's mascot was an anthropomorphic cow playing an electric guitar, and the station eventually changed its name to "Moo 102" (WMMU) to match its mascot. 102.9 then shifted toward a mainstream country format and became known as "PC103" and "Power Country 103", before settling on "Power Country 102.9" (WZPC) until April 2, 1999. On that date, WZPC flipped to a Rock format, essentially "trading" formats with WKDF, which had changed formats from new rock to country the day prior. The call letters were changed to WBUZ in 2001.

In September 2010, WBUZ was named the new flagship station for the NHL's Nashville Predators, but after one season yielded this position to sister station WPRT-FM.

Programming
Current on-air staff at The Buzz include Dagwood, Zigz, Roman Haviland, Eric Steele, Hayley St. John, and Rebecca Blake.
WBUZ is also an affiliate of The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show which replaced The Bob & Tom Show on November 22, 2006.

WBUZ was the call sign of a former AM rock station in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1993–2000 (see WBOW (1230 AM)), and prior to that, an AM station in Fredonia, New York.

WBUZ broadcasts in the HD radio format.

Coverage Area
WBUZ covers most of the Nashville metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located south of Interstate 840 in College Grove, about  south of Nashville.

Translators

W235BW relays WBUZ-HD3.

History of call letters
The call letters WBUZ-FM were originally assigned to a station in Bradbury Heights, Maryland. It began broadcasting January 1, 1948.

See also
List of Nashville media

References

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External links
WBUZ official website

BUZ
Category:Active rock radio stations in the United States


Kalasipalyam

Kalasipalyam (also spelled Kalasipalya) is a locality in the central part of Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and one of the older and most congested places in the city. The locality is home to landmarks such as Bangalore Fort and Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace. The area is known for its high traffic congestion and unhygienic conditions of roads.

History
Kalasipalyam is said to have been created in the latter half of the 18th century during Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan's rule over Bangalore during which period the city was expanded. The expansion to the east of the fort came to be known as Kalasipalyam; kalasi means "tent-pitchers and organizers of military camps" and palya means an area of land ruled by a chieftain.

Transportation system
The area has become a transport hub in recent years, with the Kalasipalyam Bus Station serving thousands of intra-city and outstation buses, and an estimated 800,000 passengers per day. Apart from the state-run KSRTC and BMTC buses, hundreds of private buses to southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu originate at the station. The station was said to have been constructed in the 1920s. The bus station is infamous for its garbage dumping, open urinals and muddy ground. In 2016, it was announced that the BMTC would replace the existing bus station, which was plagued by craters and filth, with a new terminal at a cost of 60 crore and ready for operation in two years.

In June 2017, the K. R. Market station of Namma Metro's Green Line was opened for operation. The station serves the Kalasipalyam area and was labelled as the "gateway to Pete areas". Apart from the fort and the palace, the station is surrounded by Bangalore Medical College, Victoria Hospital, Vanivilas Hospital, Minto Eye Hospital, Kalasipalyam Bus Station and K. R. Market.

Markets and religious sites
Kalasipalyam is also a market hub with K. R. Market located in the area and the Pete area located in close proximity. The locality is said to have been of religious importance to Hindus and Muslims who believed it to be the place where saints walked. The Kote Venkataramana Temple and the Kote Jalakantheshwara temple are situated on the Krishnarajendra Road in Kalasipalyam.

See also
 History of Bangalore

References

Category:Neighbourhoods in Bangalore


Melphina maximiliani

Melphina maximiliani, the Maximiliano's forest swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are on wing in July and August.

References

Category:Butterflies described in 2005
Category:Erionotini


Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and prior to post-graduate education. It typically includes all the academic programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-level university student is known as an undergraduate, while students of higher degrees are known as graduate students. In some other educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a master's degree; this is the case for some science courses in Britain and some medicine courses in Europe.

Programs

Africa

Nigerian system

In Nigeria, undergraduate degrees (excluding Medicine, Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing, Engineering, Law and Architecture) are four-year-based courses. Medicine (MBBS) and Architecture normally take six years to complete studies while Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing, Law and Engineering courses take five years to complete studies, usually, all six years are taken to improve their chances. Undergraduate nursing degrees or diplomas usually take two to four years and sometimes 5 years to complete, whereas graduate degrees are an additional two years or more.

South African system

The South African system usually has a three-year undergraduate bachelor's degree, with two or three majors. (There are exceptions, such as the medical qualification (MBChB), which is six years.) A fourth year, known as an Honours year, is considered a post-graduate degree. It is usually course-driven, although may include a project or thesis.

Americas

Brazilian system

Brazil follows the major traits of the continental European system; free public schools are available from kindergarten up to postgraduation, both as a right established in Article 6, caput of the Brazilian Constitution and as a duty of the State in Article 208, Items I, IV and V, of the Brazilian Constitution. Students choose their specific course of studies before joining the university. Admission to university is obtained by means of a competitive entrance exam known as Vestibular (a concept somewhat similar to the Baccalauréat in France). There's a new system, adopted by most federal universities, that uses the high school national examination (ENEM) result as part or a replacement of the Vestibular grade. Depending on the chosen course, upon graduating the student shall be granted: a technologist diploma, 3 years to complete, a bachelor's degree's diploma, which usually takes 4 or, in the case of Law, Veterinary, Geology and Engineering, 5 years to complete; or a professional diploma, which normally require 5 or, in the case of medicine, 6 years to complete.

United States system
In the United States, undergraduate refers to a student who is studying for a bachelor's degree. The most common bachelor's degrees are Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB) and Bachelor of Science (BS or SB), but other degrees such as Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Music (BM), Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) are also possible.

Unlike in the British model, degrees in law and medicine are not offered at the undergraduate level and instead are completed at a graduate level after earning a bachelor's degree. Neither field specifies or prefers any undergraduate major, though medical schools require a set of courses that must be taken before enrollment.

Students can also choose to attend a community college prior to further study at another college or university. In most states, community colleges are operated either by a division of the state university or by local special districts subject to guidance from a state agency. Community colleges award associate degrees of different types, some intended to prepare students to transfer to universities (e.g. Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS)), and others intended to provide vocational skills and training for students wishing to enter into or advance in a profession. Those seeking to continue their education may transfer to a university after applying through a similar admissions process as those applying directly to the four-year institution called articulation. Some community colleges have automatic enrollment agreements with a local college or university, where the community college provides the first two years of study and the university provides the remaining years of study, sometimes all on one campus. The community colleges award associate degrees, while universities and colleges award the bachelor's. However, some community colleges, such as Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas offer bachelor's degrees along with associate degrees. Conversely, some universities such as the University of Delaware also award associate degrees.

Asia

Hong Kong system

In Hong Kong, the English system is followed. Students sit for the Certificate of Education examinations at around sixteen years of age, and the Advanced-level, or A-level examinations at around eighteen, then follow by three years of undergraduate education, except for a few specific fields, such as medicine, nursing and law. This is due to be changed, with five-year secondary education and two-year matriculation examination combined and shortened to six years matriculation, and undergraduate education lengthened to four years. Students may be able to receive general education in their first years in universities, more akin to the North American system. The first batch of students under the new system will enter universities in 2012.

Alternatives are undergraduate certificates or diplomas, with some equivalent to associate degree in educational level.

Indian system
In India the Graduation system is classified into two parts: Undergraduation (UG) and Postgraduation (PG). It takes three or four years to complete an "undergraduate" degree. The three-year undergraduate programs are mostly in the fields of arts, commerce, science etc., and the four-year programs are mostly in the fields of technology, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, agriculture etc. However, for medicine, law and architecture, the period has been five years. The possessor of the first UG is referred to as graduate and that of the PG degree as post-graduate. Other than UG and PG there are various 1 to 2 year diploma courses available.

Pakistani system

In Pakistan, it generally requires four years to complete a Bachelor's degree in Arts, Sciences, Dentistry, Engineering or Business Administration such as BA, BS, BDS, BE/BS/BSc Engineering or BBA and five years for bachelor's degrees in Medicine (MBBS), Physiotherapy (DPT), Pharmacy (Pharm.D) and Architecture (B.Arch) after successfully completing 12 years of schooling. 4 years bachelor's degree is offered in various universities of Pakistan such as COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore), University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila (UET Taxila), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NU).

The modern educational system comprises the following five stages: The Primary school lasting five years for children 5–10 years old in grades one to five; a Middle school of three years for children 10 to 13 years old, covering grades six through eight; a two-year secondary, or Matriculation consists of grades nine and ten, for children 13 to 15 years old; a two-year higher secondary, or Intermediate college, leading to an F.A. in arts or F.Sc. in science; and a fifth stage covering college and university programs leading to baccalaureate, professional, master's and doctorate degrees. The pre-primary or preparatory classes, called kachi (literally, unripe) or Nursery school, were formally integrated into the education system in 1988.

Europe

English, Welsh, and Northern Irish system

Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland may usually enter university from the age of eighteen, often having studied A-levels and thus having had thirteen to fifteen years of schooling. Occasionally students who finish A Level or equivalent qualifications early (after skipping a year in school on the grounds of academic giftedness) may enter below this age but large universities are now setting minimum age limits of 16 or 17 after a number of well publicised "child prodigies" were found to be emotionally and mentally unprepared for university life.

Applications for undergraduate courses in UK higher education are made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

For their first degree, most students read for the degree of bachelor, which usually takes three years, however in the sciences and engineering integrated courses covering both undergraduate level and advanced degree level leading to the degree of master, usually taking four years and including a research project or dissertation are popular. Given the integrated nature of these programs someone who gains a master's degree via an integrated program is not usually admitted to the degree of bachelor.

Master's degrees conferred after extended programs are not to be conflated with the degree of Master of Arts conferred at Oxbridge and Dublin, which is not a substantive qualification, but reflects the ancient practice of those three universities of promoting Bachelors of Arts to Masters of Arts (and thus full membership of the University) six or seven years after matriculation.

Honours degrees and integrated master's degrees are awarded with 1st, upper 2nd, lower 2nd or 3rd class honours. If a student passes the course but fails to do so sufficiently well for third class honours to be awarded he will be awarded with an ordinary degree. It is possible to use the abbreviation "Hons" after the degree postnominals to indicate that the degree has been passed with honours and is not an ordinary degree.

Many universities offer sandwich courses or an extramural year, which offer work placements for a short period of time in a relevant industry before students complete their studies. Taking a sandwich course may make the course last a year longer than it would otherwise.

With very few exceptions, nearly all universities with the power to award degrees are heavily state financed. However, they also rely on tuition fees set by the government at a maximum index-linked level, repayable after graduation contingent on attaining a certain level of income, and with the state paying all fees for students from the poorest backgrounds. UK students are generally entitled to student loans for maintenance with repayment contingent on income. Unlike in other European countries, the British government does not own the universities' assets and university staff are not civil servants. United Kingdom universities are therefore better described as autonomous, intellectually-independent institutions with public funding, rather than public universities per se. The crown does not control syllabi, with the exception of teacher training. The crown restricts the power to award degrees to those with a royal charter, in the case of traditional universities, or authorization from the Secretary of State for Universities, in the case of modern universities. Universities accredited in foreign countries, such as Richmond University are, however, free to operate.

European Bologna process systems
In many countries, the English distinction between a bachelor's and master's degree is being introduced by the Bologna process. Under the new Bologna reform, universities in Europe are introducing the Bachelor level (BA or BS) degree, often by dividing a 5-year Master-level program into two parts (3-year Bachelor's + 2-year Master's), where students are not obligated to continue with the second Master's-degree part. These new bachelor's degrees are similar in structure to British bachelor's degrees.

If there is a separate undergraduate degree, higher degrees (License, Master, Doctorat) can be gained after completing the undergraduate degree. In the traditional German system, there were no undergraduate degrees in some fields, such as engineering: students continued to Master's level education without any administrative breakpoints, and employers would not consider half-finished master's degrees.

The Bachelor's phase in The Netherlands can be fulfilled either at university or at the University of Applied Sciences. Except for some specific exceptions, only at universities students are able to graduate for their masters or be promoted. These two institutions differ from each other in the level students learn abstract concepts. Whereas theories are created at the university, at the University of Applied Sciences theories are taught to be applied correctly.

Scottish system
Students in Scotland usually enter university in the year they turn eighteen (with many still being seventeen upon starting), hence courses take an extra year compared to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

At the older universities the degree of Master of Arts is conferred in the arts subjects after four years while the newer universities instead confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The degree of Master of Arts conferred by the Ancient Scottish Universities is equivalent to the degree of Bachelor of Arts at other universities and does not require the level of study necessitated for the other degrees of master awarded by these universities. The degree instead reflects the ancient traditions of these universities.

In the sciences, students usually read for the degree of bachelor, which usually takes four years. However, as with the rest of the UK, integrated master's degrees are popular in science and engineering, although in Scotland they last for five years. Degree classification is the same as that of the rest of UK.

Other European systems
In many other, particularly continental European systems, an "undergraduate" degree in the American sense does not exist. Because students are expected to have received a sound general education at the secondary level, in a school such as a gymnasium or lycee, students in Europe enroll in a specific course of studies they wish to pursue upon entry into a University. In the US, students only specialize in a "major" during the last years of college. Specializing in a field of study upon entry into a university means most students graduate after four to five years of study. The fields available include those only taught as graduate degrees in the US, such as law or medicine.

In the traditional German system, there is a vocational degree (Diploma FH) that is similar in length, and is also considered an academic degree. Though it is designed as a specialist degree, in contrast to the Diplom degree at University, which claims to be more generalist. Germany itself, however, is currently abolishing the legal distinction between Fachhochschule and University. They are both translated as university and they both provide bologna-compliant and equivalent postgraduate degrees.

Not obligatory and sometimes applied at universities in the Netherlands are the propaedeutic exams. The entire curriculum of the first two semesters of the bachelor's programme is part of the propaedeutic exams. In most bachelor's studies, students are required to obtain their propaedeutic certificate within three semesters after starting the course. A propaedeutic certificate also counts as a requirement for participating in a university level bachelor's study. The propaedeutic exams have the purpose of assessing whether a student has the appropriate capacities in order to complete the course.

At some Swedish universities (such as the Royal Institute of Technology), PhD courses are sometimes referred to as "graduate courses", whereas courses for other students (up to master level) sometimes are referred to as "undergraduate courses". The system at many Finnish universities is similar.

In the French system, the first degree of tertiary education was reached two years after the baccalauréat. Amongst these degrees the university-delivered DEUG has disappeared, whereas Diplôme universitaire de technologie, Brevet de Technicien Supérieur or classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles still exist. According to the Bologna process, this two-year curriculum will be replaced by the three-year licence, yet existing.

See also

References

Category:Undergraduate education


List of noodles

This is a list of notable noodles. Noodles are a type of staple food made from some type of unleavened dough which is rolled flat and cut into long strips or strings. Noodles are usually cooked in boiling water, sometimes with cooking oil or salt added.  They are often pan-fried or deep-fried. Noodles are often served with an accompanying sauce or in a soup. Noodles can be refrigerated for short-term storage, or dried and stored for future use.

Noodles

  Cup Noodles
  Fideo
  Fried noodles
  Frozen noodles
  Instant noodle
  Mohnnudel
  Rice noodles
  Rice vermicelli
  Schupfnudel

Chinese noodles

There is a great variety of Chinese noodles, which vary according to their region of production, ingredients, shape or width, and manner of preparation. They are an important part of most regional cuisines within China, as well as in Taiwan, Singapore, and other Southeast Asian nations with sizable overseas Chinese populations.
  Biangbiang noodles
  Cellophane noodles
  Chinkiang pot cover noodles
  Cumian
  Daoxiao noodles
  Dragon beard noodles
  Henan braised noodles
  Hot dry noodles
  Jook-sing noodles
  Kaomianjin
  Lai fun
  Lamian
 Liangpi
  Migan
  Misua
  Mixian
  Mung bean sheets
  Oil noodles
  Paomo
  Ramen
  Rice vermicelli
  Saang mein
  Shahe fen
  Shrimp roe noodles
  Silver needle noodles
  Yi mein
  Youmian

Hong Kong
 Gong Zai Mian
 Wonton noodles

Indian
 Noolputtu
 Sevai

Indonesian
 Bakmi
 Mi Goreng
 Mi Balap

Italian
Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, which comes in many forms. Typically, pasta is a noodle made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. However, it is often disputed whether or not pasta classifies as a noodle in common speech, or if there is a distinction.
 List of pasta

Japanese

Japanese noodles are a staple part of Japanese cuisine. They are often served chilled with dipping sauces, or in soups or hot dishes.
 Hiyamugi
  Ramen
  Sanuki udon
  Shirataki noodles
  Soba
  Sōmen
  Udon
  Wanko soba
  Yakisoba

Korean
Korean noodles are noodles or noodle dishes in Korean cuisine, and are collectively referred to as guksu in native Korean or myeon (cf. mien) in Sino-Korean vocabulary.
  Cellophane noodles
  Cheonsachae
  Dotori guksu
  Garak guksu
  Jjolmyeon

Malaysian

  Pan mee
  Wonton noodles

Thai
 Khanom chin
 Rice noodles

Vietnamese

Vietnamese noodles are available in either fresh (tươi) or dried (khô) form.
 Cellophane noodles (Miến)
 Rice noodles (bánh phở, bánh đa, bánh canh)
 Rice vermicelli (Bún)
 Shahe fen

See also
 List of noodle dishes
 List of noodle restaurants
 List of instant noodle brands
 Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum

References

External links

Category:Noodles
Noodle
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2012 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo

The 2012 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 25th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place in Palermo, Italy between 9 and 15 July 2012. Sara Errani won the singles title.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of June 25, 2012

Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Nastassja Burnett
  Maria Elena Camerin
  Anastasia Grymalska

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Estrella Cabeza Candela
  Dia Evtimova
  Katalin Marosi
  Valentyna Ivakhnenko

The following players received entry as lucky loser:
  Sacha Jones

Withdrawals
  Kaia Kanepi (heels)
  Michaëlla Krajicek
  Alexandra Panova
  Shahar Peer
  Agnieszka Radwańska (upper respiratory illness)
  Francesca Schiavone (bronchitis)
  Galina Voskoboeva
  Klára Zakopalová

Retirements
  Katalin Marosi
  Anna Tatishvili

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings are as of June 25, 2012

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Nastassja Burnett /  Anastasia Grymalska
  Claudia Giovine /  Mădălina Gojnea

Retirements
  Anna Tatishvili (right thigh strain)

Champions

Singles

 Sara Errani def.  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, 6–1, 6–3

Doubles

 Renata Voráčová /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová def.  Darija Jurak /  Katalin Marosi, 7–6(7–5), 6–4

References

External links
Official Website

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo
Category:Internazionali Femminili di Palermo
Category:2012 in Italian women's sport


Sebastian Karlsson (singer)

Sebastian Karlsson (born 2 January 1985), known professionally as Sebastian, is a Swedish singer and performer, best known for his participation in Idol 2005, where he came in second place after Agnes Carlsson. He got a radio hit in Sweden with his first single "Do what you're told" in 2006.

Karlsson was born in Morgongåva.  He competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007 with the song "When the Night Comes Falling" for the opportunity to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland, finished 8th in the final. He returned to Melodifestivalen in 2011 with the song "No One Else Could", finishing 5th in the third semi-final.

Discography

Albums

Singles

External links

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Jim Millner

James Sinclair Millner  (29 November 1919 – 24 January 2007) was an Australian corporate executive. He was head of many large organisations including chairman of the NRMA, chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson,  New Hope Coal, Brickworks Limited, Choiseul Investments, Queensland Mines Limited and NBN Television.

Biography

Millner was born in Sydney on 29 November 1919. His father Thomas George Millner  was a Colonel in the Australian Army and his mother Mary was the daughter of businessman Lewy Pattinson. Millner grew up in Cheltenham, New South Wales, and attended Newington College before studying pharmacy at The University of Sydney. At the breakout of World War II Millner enlisted in the Army Service Corps Officer Training School and was posted to Malaya. When Singapore fell, he became a prisoner of war in Changi Prison Singapore, then later Sandakan, Borneo. He was released at the cessation of hostilities in 1945, shipping out to Morotai and then Balikpapan. Jim Millner married Jean Purdie in 1948. On his return, Millner completed a Materia Medica (Pharmacy) course in 1947 at the University of Sydney, and joined the family company, Washington H. Soul Pattinson, where he rose to be director in 1957. Millner was Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson from 1969 to 1998, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Robert Millner.

Philanthropy and community
Millner supported financially the Australian War Memorial, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney and served on the council of Newington College. His widow, Jean Millner, endowed the Jim Millner Bursary at Newington giving a boy the opportunity to attend the College from Year 7 until the completion of Year 12. In the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours, Millner was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "Service to industry and the community".

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