Meenakshi World School

Meenakshi World School (also known as MWS) is a primary and secondary International School situated in Sector 10 Gurgaon. l

History
This school was founded in the year 2008 in Gurgaon. It is affiliated to Cambridge International School and follows IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) curriculum.

Activities
The school conducts a wide variety of activities for students like Dance, Drama, Music, Debates, Outdoor and Indoor sports. School also organize Parent Orientation Program for parents.

See also
Education in India
Literacy in India
List of institutions of higher education in Haryana

References

External links

 Cambridge International School Website

Category:International schools in India
Category:Primary schools in India
Category:High schools and secondary schools in Haryana
Category:Private schools in Haryana
Category:Schools in Gurgaon
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Nora Aída Bicet

Nora Aída Bicet Juan (born 29 October 1977) is a female Spanish-Cuban javelin thrower.

Career

She finished seventh at the 2004 Olympic Games. Her personal best throw was 63.32 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Tallinn.

Achievements

External links

sports-reference
Picture of Nora Aída Bicet Juan

References

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Category:Living people
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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Category:Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Category:Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games


Posterolateral sulcus

Posterolateral sulcus can refer to:
 Posterolateral sulcus of medulla oblongata
Posterolateral sulcus of spinal cord


San Lorenzo, Loreto

San Lorenzo is a town in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru. It is the capital of both Datem del Marañón Province and Barranca District and has a population of 6,034 (2006).

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Battle of Manresa (1810)

The Battle of Manresa and Battle of Vilafranca from 21 March to 5 April 1810 saw a Spanish division led by Juan Caro and Luis González Torres de Navarra, Marquess of Campoverde attack an Imperial French brigade commanded by François Xavier de Schwarz. Caro's division first surprised the town of Vilafranca del Penedès in March and captured its 800-man garrison made up of troops from the Confederation of the Rhine. Vilafranca is located  west of Barcelona.

The Spanish troops remained at large and fell upon the town of Manresa at the beginning of April. After several days of sparring they drove Schwarz and his German soldiers out of the town with heavy losses. Caro was wounded on 2 April and was replaced by Campoverde. The Spanish force included 2,000 regulars, 2,300 local  miquelets (Catalan Militia), and Francesc Rovira i Sala's band of 3,000 miquelets. This minor disaster caused Marshal Pierre Augereau to call off Imperial troops which were threatening Tarragona. Schwarz's brigade belonged to Marie François Rouyer's division while Caro's division was part of Henry O'Donnell's Army of Catalonia. Manresa is located  northwest of Barcelona. The actions occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars.

References

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Rhipidoglossum

Rhipidoglossum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 20-30 species, all from sub-Saharan Africa.

See also
 List of Orchidaceae genera

References

External links
IOSPE orchid photos, Rhipidoglossum rutilum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
African Orchids, Rhipidoglossum (very detailed description)
Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz, Rhipidoglossum rutilum (Rchb. f.) Schltr.

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Category:Maxillarieae genera
Category:Angraecinae


Drummond Peak

Drummond Peak () is a low, isolated rock peak 19 nautical miles (35 km) southwest of La Gorce Peak, rising above the ice surface of Edward VII Peninsula. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955–59, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Glen N. Drummond, Jr., U.S. Navy, Assistant Aerologist on the staff of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1959–62.

References

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Loka Táttur

Loka Táttur or Lokka Táttur (tale, or þáttr of Loki) is a Faroese ballad (Corpus Carminum Færoensium 13D) which is a rare example of the occurrence of Norse gods in folklore.

The ballad probably dates back to the late Middle Ages. The Danish botanist and clergyman Hans Christian Lyngbye published the first edition of it and other Faroese ballads in 1822, in phonetically spelt Faroese with a facing-page translation into Danish (with the assistance of Jens Christian Svabo). A prose Danish translation was published by V.U. Hammershaimb in 1851 in Færöiske Kvæder.

In the ballad, a farmer loses a bet with a giant, called Skrymir in some verses, who demands his son. The farmer asks first Odin, then Hœnir, and finally Loki for assistance. Odin has a field of grain grow up overnight and conceals the boy as one grain on an axe in the middle of the field. The boy is afraid because the giant's hand is brushing against the particular grain, but Odin calls him to him and returns him to his parents, telling them he has fulfilled the task. Hœnir causes seven swans to fly over the sound; the boy is a feather in the middle of a swan's head. But the giant grabs one swan and wrenches its head from its body, and the boy is afraid because the particular feather is protruding from the giant's mouth. Hœnir calls him to him and brings him back, and his work is over. Loki instructs the farmer to build a boathouse with a wide opening and to affix an iron stake to it. Then he goes to the beach, where a boat is riding at anchor, rows out to sea, casts a weighted hook to the bottom, and catches a flounder. He has the boy be a grain in the middle of the fish's roe. The giant is waiting on the beach for Loki, asking him where he has been all night. He tells him he has had little rest, rowing all about the sea, and they go out together to fish. The giant casts his line and catches three flounders; the third is black, and Loki asks him to give him that fish. The giant refuses, and begins to count the roe, thinking to find the boy in one grain. The boy is afraid, because the particular grain is squeezing out of the giant's hand. Loki calls him to him and tells him to sit behind him and not let the giant see him and when they reach shore, to jump onto the beach so lightly that he does not make a mark in the sand. As the giant is pulling the boat onto the land, the boy jumps out and is standing before him; the giant pursues him but sinks in the sand up to his knees. The boy runs as fast as he can into his father's boathouse; the giant, in hot pursuit, sticks fast in the opening; the iron stake goes into his head. Loki cuts off one of his legs, but the wound grows together at once; he cuts off the other, this time throwing sticks and stones into the gap, and the wound does not grow together. Loki takes the boy home to his parents and says that he has done the job asked of him; the giant is dead.

The story is a fairytale, but features the same trio of gods, Odin, Hœnir and Loki, as in the story of Þjazi in the Prose Edda, the prose introduction to the Eddic poem Reginsmál, and also the late Icelandic Huldar saga, which has contributed to the argument that Loki is the same as Lóðurr, who appears elsewhere with Odin and Hœnir. It is also notable that Loki is a benevolent god in this story, although his slyness is in evidence as usual. Some scholars, including Hammershaimb, have pointed to the division of spheres between the three gods: Odin governing the skies and the crops they fertilise, Hœnir the seabirds and Loki the fishes, as reflecting the bases of Faroese life.

Lyngbye preceded Loka Táttur with Skrímsla (Corpus Carminum Færoensium 90C), which appears to tell the earlier part of the story. It calls the monster "skrímsli" and specifies that the bet was on a chess game.

References

External links
 Hans Christian Lyngbye, Færøiske Qvæder om Sigurd Fofnersbane og hans Æt, Copenhagen: Randers, 1822, online at GoogleBooks: "Lokka Thaattur/Lokes Sang" pp. 500–19.
 "Lokes Sang", in V.U. Hammershaimb, Færöiske Kvæder Volume 1, Det Nordiske Literatur-Samfund, Nordiske Oldskrifter 12, Copenhagen: Berlings, 1851, pp. 210–12, online at GoogleBooks
 Lokka táttur in modern Faroese orthography with parallel English translation at Boudicca's Bard (verse 1 omitted).

Category:Faroese literature
Category:Loki


National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, New York

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, New York.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".

There are 235 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. The city of Buffalo is the location of 161 of these properties and districts; they are listed separately, while the remaining 74 properties and districts are listed here.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in New York

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John W. Creighton Jr.

John W. Creighton Jr. (born 1933) is an American executive who has worked with many corporations, organizations, and universities.  These include Weyerhaeuser Company, United Airlines, the University of Puget Sound, civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army, and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Education
Creighton earned a B.S. from The Ohio State University in 1954, a LLB from Ohio State in 1957, and an MBA from the University of Miami.  Creighton is also a certified public accountant.

Career

Creighton served as president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser Company from 1988 through 1997.  He also served as the chairman and chief executive officer of UAL Corporation, parent company of United Airlines.

Civic work
Creighton earned the Eagle Scout award of the BSA in 1946 and as an adult was recognized for outstanding career and civic work by the BSA with their Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.  From about 1997 to 1998, he also served as the National president of the Boy Scouts of America. During this time he emphasized Scouting's traditional values and the need for the growth of the movement.  Creighton said "Scouting has always reflected the expectations of the American family. That so many American parents have chosen to involve their children in Scouting is a powerful testament to Scouting's effectiveness in building character in American youth.".

Personal
Creighton served in the United States Army, is married, has 3 children, and 2 grandchildren. Creighton serves on the board of directors of Saltchuck Resources.

Footnotes

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Distinguished Eagle Scouts
Category:University of Miami Business School alumni
Category:Ohio State University alumni
Category:Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni
Category:American chief executives
Category:Recipients of the Silver Buffalo Award


Centinela del Cóndor Canton

Centinela del Cóndor Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Zamora-Chinchipe Province.  Its capital is the town of Zumbi.  Its population at the 2001 census was 7,230.

References

Category:Cantons of Zamora-Chinchipe Province


Lise Bourgault

Lise Bourgault (born June 5, 1950) is a Canadian politician. Since 2003, she has been the mayor of Brownsburg-Chatham, Quebec.

Bourgault was born in St-Pamphile, Quebec. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau in the 1984 federal election. A Progressive Conservative, she was re-elected in the 1988 federal election before being defeated in the 1993 election. From 1987 to 1989, she was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. From 1989 to 1991, she was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Health and Welfare. In 1991, she was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply and Services. She ran in the 2000 federal election as a Liberal in the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel but lost by 542 votes to the Bloc Québécois candidate.

Electoral record (incomplete)

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Rowan (disambiguation)

Rowans are a genus (or subgenus) of deciduous trees.

Rowan may also refer to:

Places

Geography
Iran
 Rowan, Iran, a village in Hamadan Province

United States
 Rowan, Iowa, a city
 Rowan County, Kentucky
 Rowan County, North Carolina

Outer space
 4599 Rowan, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1985

People
 Rowan (name), a surname and personal name

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters
 Rowan Blackshaw, on The Returned (U.S. TV series)
 Rowan Mayfair, in the Anne Rice Lives of the Mayfair Witches series of novels
 the title character of Rowan of Rin, a series of five children's fantasy novels by Emily Rodda
 Rowan Freemaker, in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
 Rowan Whitethorn, a character in the Throne of Glass book series by Sarah J. Maas
 Rowan Damisch, one of the two main characters in the Scythe (novel) book series by Neal Shusterman

Literature
 The Rowan, a novel by Anne McCaffrey

Music
 The Rowans, also known as The Rowan Brothers, an American country-rock group
 The Rowans (album), a 1975 album by The Rowans
 Rowan, a 2006 album by Maggie Reilly

Businesses
 Rowan Companies, a defunct offshore drilling contractor, now part of Valaris plc
 Rowan Software, a British computer game development company

Schools
 Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
 Rowan College at Gloucester County, Sewell, New Jersey, United States

Ships
 , four US Navy vessels
 HMS Rowan, a First World War armed boarding steamer of the Royal Navy
 HMS Rowan, a Second World War Royal Navy Tree class trawler

Other uses
 Rowan steam railmotor, a steam railcar
 Rowan Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States

See also
 Rowan Museum, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
 Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi, United States


Eef Brouwers

Evert (Eef) Brouwers (9 March 1939 – 6 October 2018) was a Dutch journalist, director-general and spokesman.

Life
Brouwers started his career as journalist at the Nieuwe Provinciale Groninger Courant and then as news presenter at Regionale Omroep Noord en Oost, AVRO, NOS Studio Sport, NOS and NOS Journaal.

From 1977–1983 he was editor in chief of the Northern Dutch regional journal Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. Then he was head spokesman of the Philips concern, a position he held for ten years.  In 1995 he made a career move to become director-general of the Dutch information service Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst, a position he had until January 1, 2004. Brouwers was succeeded by Gerard van der Wulp. Brouwers was a member of different advisory boards.

References and sources
 Communication, Eef Brouwers
 De Volkskrant, personal about Eef Brouwers
 Interview with Eef Brouwers

Category:2018 deaths
Category:1939 births
Category:People from Zwolle
Category:Philips employees
Category:Dutch businesspeople
Category:Dutch television news presenters
Category:Dutch journalists


George Farwell (judge)

Sir George Farwell  (22 December 1845 – 30 September 1915) was an English judge, noted for trying the Taff Vale case at the first instance.

Biography
Farwell was born in Codsall, Staffordshire, the second son of Frederick Cooper Farwell, agent to the Duke of Cleveland, and of Louisa Whitbread, née Michell, daughter of Admiral Sir Frederick Michell. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first class honours in classical moderations and second class honours in literae humaniores.

He was called to the bar in 1871. In 1891 he became a QC and in 1895 a bencher of Lincoln's Inn, while in 1899 he was raised to the bench. In 1900 he came into prominence over the case known as the Taff Vale judgment. His decision, though reversed by the court of appeal, was upheld in 1901 by the House of Lords, and ultimately led to the passing of the Trade Disputes Act (1906). In 1906 Farwell was made a Lord of Appeal, but resigned this position in 1913. He published Concise Treatise on the Law of Powers (1874).

His son Sir Christopher John Wickens Farwell was also a High Court judge.

Notable Cases
Whittington v Seale-Hayne (1900) 82 LT 49
Borland’s Trustee v Steel Brothers & Co Ltd [1901] 1 Ch 279

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Jerry Harvey (inventor)

Jerry Harvey (born 1961) is an American sound engineer best known for inventing, along with Karl Cartwright, a series of customized dual-speaker in-ear monitors in 1995. He founded Ultimate Ears that same year, and, in 2007, founded JH Audio. He has served as the sound engineer for artists as varied as Van Halen, Kiss, Morrissey, the Cult, the Knack, David Lee Roth, Mötley Crüe, k.d. lang, and Linkin Park.

Early life
Jerry Harvey was born in 1961 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His first break in the music business occurred in 1980, when the Gland Slam Superjam rock tour starring April Wine, Judas Priest, and Sammy Hagar was performing at the St. Louis Busch Stadium. While Harvey was tinkering on his 1978 red Pontiac Trans Am, Hagar's people approached him on the street and asked to borrow his car in exchange for free tickets. They then used Harvey's car to drive on stage during Hagar's anthem "Trans Am (Highway Wonderland)."

The show's promoter gave Harvey a job as a gofer, which led to Harvey working as a roadie for the local band The Agents. He soon became the light, and ultimately, the sound guy for the band, even though he was still underage at most of their venues. Harvey soon began traveling the world mixing sound for performers such as Kiss, Morrissey and The Cult.

In 1986 Harvey met David Lee Roth at a bar, and soon began mixing sound for Roth, and then Van Halen, on tour. According to Inc. magazine, "From his perch on the left side of the stage behind a black drop, Harvey's job, essentially, was to make sure the band members liked what they heard (as opposed to the person behind the big board out in the crowd, who only has to please the drunken audience)."

Ultimate Ears

Invention
In 1995, Alex Van Halen told Harvey during the band's rehearsals for their Balance tour that the noise on stage was too much. The massive volume from the stage monitors and speakers were damaging his ears and making it difficult for the band members to hear one another. Harvey began tinkering and looking for components to solve the problem; in Japan he found tiny electrical components, and in the United States he found a tiny speaker designed for a pacemaker. He created a tiny in-ear speaker system that connected to a small receiver on Alex's belt via thin cables. The receiver then picked up the wireless signal from Harvey's mixing board. The in-ear monitors had two small speakers to separate output volume into low and high frequencies for bass and treble, and they fit into shells that were impressions of Alex's ears. The in-ear monitors also blocked out ambient noise, and according to Alex Van Halen, "It was like night and day."

Founding
Sebastian Bach and other members of Skid Row, who were opening for Van Halen on tour, soon wanted their own monitors, and paid $3000 cash for six pairs. After his third client Engelbert Humperdinck requested one, Harvey decided to create the company Ultimate Ears, and word began spreading through the rock community. His former wife Mindy left her job working as a sales manager for an office equipment supplier in St. Louis to handle the new business, as Harvey himself had no interest in leaving his job as a touring sound mixer. That year the couple amicably separated, and they both separately moved to Las Vegas to run Ultimate Ears out of Mindy's house.

Harvey continued to tour, finishing up the Balance tour with Van Halen and then mixing for k.d. lang on the All You Can Eat tour and Mötley Crüe on their Generation Swine tour. He marketed Ultimate Ears while doing so, though he often had to convince artists that they wouldn't look like hearing aids on stage. A custom pair went for $700 to $900.

Westone
Ultimate Ears contracted Westone, a Colorado Springs manufacturer of custom-fit earpieces, to create the shell casings for the musicians' commissions. Westone also began assembling the monitors.

Profits jumped in 1998 when Harvey introduced the fifth-generation model the UE-5. By 2000, Ultimate Ears was becoming a fixture among rock artists, and Harvey's pieces were used by the Rolling Stones, Faith Hill, Enrique Iglesias, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Near the end of 2001 Ultimate Ears had added some 200 artists including Cirque du Soleil, the Late Show with David Letterman, and various megachurches.

In 2001, however, the relationship with Ultimate Ears and Westone began to fall apart. While on tour Harvey heard from sources that Westone was claiming ownership to his custom designs, as well as trying to set up a separate European distribution. An attorney informed Mindy that Westone owned all the trademarks and patents associated with Ultimate Ears, and that Harvey had no patent protection. Harvey decided to retake control of the business. However, while he had designed the interior circuitry of the monitors, he didn't know how to make the acrylic shells. Westone also had all the rock star ear impressions.

Expansion
Harvey decided to travel to Florida to research hearing aid manufacturing so they could create their own manufacturing lab. While at a two-week hearing aid course in Orlando, he befriended instructor Chomphorn "Noy" Soudaly, a hearing aid technician from Laos. He hired Noy at double his own salary to help create the lab he planned on setting up in Las Vegas. Noy and Harvey spent "100 days of hell" in research and development on a new upgrade to ship by April 4, 2002.

With Ultimate Ears again running, Harvey eventually settled with Westone out of court with the brand intact. Ultimate Ears had to recollect ear impressions from their long-term customers, and about 90% remained loyal to Harvey over Westone. By 2003 Ultimate Ears had five employees and about a million dollars in revenue, and the company estimated it had about 80% of the professional market. Noy handled the lab and Harvey continued to work on custom model design.

With the company stabilized, in 2003 Harvey went back on tour, this time mixing for Linkin Park. However, after a member of the band's production staff introduced Harvey to the iPod, he left the tour early to begin designing a less expensive version of Ultimate Ears. By January 2004 he debuted the UE-5c model at $550, which featured dual drivers tuned for digital devices. The model was a success and doubled company revenue.

In 2005 Harvey moved the company to Irvine, California. In order to secure outside capital to develop lower-cost custom earpieces, Harvey contacted Bob Allison of the investment holding company Innovate Partners. Allison convinced Harvey to create a Super.fi line of Ultimate Ears for the mass consumer market for $250, and helped them open a manufacturing operation in China. The Super.fi 5 Pro was released in April 2005, and by 2006 revenue was in excess of $10 million.

Allison became CEO of Ultimate Ears, with Mindy as president and Harvey as Chief Technical Officer. By June 2007 the company had 30 employees. After the launch of the UE-11 model, and in August 2007, Ultimate Ears was acquired by Logitech International for $34 million. Harvey left Ultimate Ears ten months prior to the acquisition.

JH Audio

In 2007 Harvey and his wife Brittany moved to Lake of the Ozarks, where they discovered their newborn daughter Katie had a rare genetic disease. They relocated to Harvey's hometown to be close to the local children's hospital, and then in 2008 to Orlando, in order to find trained hearing aid technicians to assist in manufacturing new products he had designed for aviators.

Harvey was not allowed to return immediately to the pro audio business because of a signed non-compete clause, and stated "I knew I couldn’t live on my old products, I had to come out and push the technology forward."

In late 2007 Harvey and his wife Brittany co-founded Jerry Harvey Audio LLC, or JH Audio,  and began marketing and manufacturing custom aviation headsets. The company made $300,000 its first year of operation. By mid-2009, however, Harvey began supplementing the income by launching the JH Audio music line, including the JH13 Pro model, which features dual lows, mids, and highs joined by an integrated 3-way crossover. Previously Harvey's inventions were prone to reverse engineering by competitors, but Harvey has stated about his new models that "They can mimic them, but they can’t get the components. We’re the only ones who have access to them."

By May of that year he had 300 custom orders after an audio show in Los Angeles, and in ten days there was more than $250,000 worth of orders. The company, which is based in Apopka, Florida, had a revenue of $1 million in 2009. Though Harvey is a pilot, the aviation headset department was discontinued in January 2011. Harvey's wife, Brittany, was President and CEO in 2011. The company had 16 employees, and Harvey's daughter Jaime Harvey was chief operating officer.

Harvey continues to mix live concert sound about eight to twelve weeks a year, partly to beta test new models under real stage conditions. In January 2013, Steve Thomas was promoted from CFO to CEO of JH Audio.

Harvey divorced again, and at end of 2013 he became sole owner of JHAudio. Harvey hired veteran roadie and sales executive Andy Regan to serve as president in 2014. JHAudio launched a line of universal earphones for consumers.

Personal life
Harvey's first marriage to Shelley Harvey produced a daughter, Jaime Harvey. He and Shelley divorced. Harvey married Melinda L. "Mindy" Harvey,  who became his business partner with Ultimate Ears. Their divorce became final in June 1996. After meeting Brittany Gale at a David Lee Roth concert, Harvey married her in 2003; they had two children, Katie Harvey and Jerry Junior Harvey III. They divorced in 2013. Jerry married Amy Thomas in 2016.

References

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Wolbromów

Wolbromów  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gryfów Śląski, within Lwówek Śląski County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

It lies approximately  north of Gryfów Śląski,  west of Lwówek Śląski, and  west of the regional capital Wrocław.

References

Category:Villages in Lwówek Śląski County


Terror Island

Terror Island is a 1920 American silent adventure film produced by Jesse Lasky and directed by James Cruze. It is a starring vehicle for illusionist Harry Houdini here costarring with Lila Lee. This film listed as 7 reels by the AFI but two reels are lost/missing with only 5 reels remaining. The film had the working title of Salvage.

Plot
Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possesses. Also desirous of the pearl is Job Mourdant, Beverly's guardian, who kidnaps his ward and heads out to sea. Harry follows and saves Beverly when Mourdant throws her overboard.

After the two parties arrive on the island, Harry is captured but escapes in time to see the natives thrust Beverly into an iron safe and throw her into the sea. Once again, Harry saves the girl, and finally procures the gems after struggling with a man in a diving suit. Harry then so impresses the natives with his magic that they release Beverly and her father and the three set sail for home.

Cast
Harry Houdini as Harry Harper
Lila Lee as Beverly West, niece of Job Mordaunt
Jack Brammall as Ensign Tom Starkey
Wilton Taylor as Job Mordaunt
Eugene Pallette as Guy Mordaunt
Edward Brady as Captin Marsh
Frank Bonner as Chief Bakaida
Ted E. Duncan  as First Officer Murphy
Fred Turner as Mr. West
Rosemary Theby as Sheila Mourdant, Guy Mordaunt's wife

References

External links

Terror Island at afi.com

Terror Island available for free download at Internet Archive

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Inch Fort

Inch Fort, Lough Swilly, Inishowen, County Donegal was built between 1812 and 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars. It had positions for nine guns, six in an open battery and a further three in a blockhouse. Following the peace in 1815, the defences of Lough Swilly were neglected.

During the 1880s a scheme to strengthen the defences in Lough Swilly was put into effect. By 1893 Inch Fort had been rearmed with two 6-inch guns on hydropneumatic carriages. A small barrack complex was added at the same time. Following recommendations of the Owen Committee in 1905, the guns were deemed surplus and the fort was disarmed and abandoned.

Today the site includes the two 6-inch gun positions and associated magazines, but the Napoleonic blockhouse was mostly demolished during the 1890s remodelling.

References

Further reading
 Col. K. W. Maurice-Jones (1959). The History of Coast Artillery in the British Army. London: Royal Artillery Institution.

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Rob Evans (writer)

Rob Evans (also known as Robert Evans and Robert Alan Evans) born 14 March 1978 is a playwright.

Early life
Born in Oxford, UK, he grew up in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. He studied for an MA in English Literature and History at the University of Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow in 2000 where he began writing professionally for theatre.

Play writing
After working as Assistant Director at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke and Iron by Rona Munro, Evans was sent to Townsville, Australia by the Traverse to take part in World Interplay, a worldwide conference for young playwrights. There his first play A Girl in a Car with a Man was picked up by playwright Simon Stephens and subsequently produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004 for which actor Andrew Scott subsequently received the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for his portrayal of Alex.

His work with People Can Run theatre company led to the writing of Aruba which, after a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival went on to tour the UK and play off Broadway.

His work for young people includes Pinocchio (Northampton Theatre Royal); Kappa, an adaptation of Ben Rice's short story Pobby and Dingan, an adaptation of Barry Hines’ Kes and The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk for Catherine Wheels Theatre Company; Peter Pan for the Sherman Cymru; Mikey and Addie for London 2012 Festival.

Radio
His radio play The Cracks was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 6 September 2010.
His abridgement of A Patriot for Us by John Helpern was broadcast on 8 May 2006.

Awards
He was nominated for the Brian Way Award for The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk.
He is the winner of the 2010 TMA Award for Best show for Children and Young people for Pobby and Dingan.

Publication
His work in the UK is published by Faber and Faber, Samuel French and Oberon and in France by L'Arche (éditeur).

External links
 Website: http://www.nationaltheatreofrob.co.uk
 Agent: http://www.casarotto.co.uk/client/rob-evans-12614
 Theatre Scotland: http://www.theatrescotland.com/Scottish-theatre-artists/Playwrights/E.html
 Doolee: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsE/evans-rob.html#146604

Sources
 TMA Award: http://www.tmauk.org/newsandpress/Article.aspx?article=421
 Faber and Faber: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/a-girl-in-a-car-with-a-man/9780571227174
 Samuel French: https://samuelfrench-london.co.uk/frenchs-acting-editions/titles-come
 l'Arche (editeur): http://www.arche-editeur.com/publications-catalogue.php?livre=597
 London 2012 Festival: http://www.imaginate.org.uk/FESTIVAL/shows/mikeyandaddie.php
 Brian Way Award nomination: http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/education/2011/04/keith-sahas-ghost-boy-wins-top-award/
 http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage-visual-arts/kes-soars-on-stage-1.1124318
 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3632661/Tantalising-journey-through-a-nightmare.html
 http://www.schaubuehne.de/de_DE/program/repertoire/9142
 Swedish production of Pondlife McGurk http://www.mittiprickteatern.se/show.php?showId=83
 German agent: http://www.rowohlt-theaterverlag.de/theater/magazin/335105
 http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/p/pa/patriot_for_us__a.html
 http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/22115/honest-john/
 http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/37815/peter-pan

References

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Penalty (Mormonism)

In Mormonism, a penalty was an oath made by participants of the original Nauvoo Endowment instituted by Joseph Smith in 1843 and further developed by Brigham Young after Smith's death. Mormon critics refer to the penalty as a "blood oath," because it required the participant to swear never to reveal certain key symbols of the endowment ceremony, including the penalty itself, while symbolically enacting ways in which a person may be executed. The penalties were similar to oaths made as part of a particular rite of Freemasonry practiced in western New York at the time the endowment was developed.

During the 20th century, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gradually softened the graphic nature of the penalties and, in 1990, removed them altogether from their version of the ceremony.

Original oaths
On May 4, 1842, Joseph Smith instituted the endowment ritual in Nauvoo, Illinois. At three different stages of the endowment, participants were asked to take an oath of secrecy regarding the ceremony . The participants promised that -rather than reveal the content of the ceremony- they would suffer the following:

Stage 1 : "my throat ... be cut from ear to ear, and my tongue torn out by its roots;"
Stage 2 : "our breasts ... be torn open, our hearts and vitals torn out and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field;"
Stage 3 : "our body ... be cut asunder and all your bowels gush out."

each of the penalties accompanied by gestures known as the "execution of the penalty" which simulated the actions described in the oath .
Stage 1: The participant placed his or her right hand palm-down with the thumb extended and the tip of the thumb just under the left ear. The gesture was made by drawing the tip of the thumb swiftly across the throat until the thumb was just under the right ear then dropping the hand and arm quickly to the side of the participant's body.
Stage 2: The participant placed his or her hand in a cup form over the left breast. The gesture was made by pulling the hand swiftly across the breast then quickly dropping the hand and arm to the side of the participant's body.
Stage 3: The participant placed his or her right hand palm-down with the thumb extended and the tip of the thumb on the left of the torso just above the left hip. The gesture was made by drawing the thumb swiftly across the stomach until the thumb was just above the right hip and the hand and arm were quickly dropped to the side of the participant's body.

The oaths and their accompanying gestures resembled certain oaths performed in a particular Freemasonry tradition in western New York at the time, in which participants promised:
Oath of an "Entered Apprentice Mason": "I will … never reveal any part or parts, art or arts, point or points of the secret arts and mysteries of ancient Freemasonry. . . binding myself under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots" .  "This is given by drawing your right hand across your throat, the thumb next to your throat." .
Oath of a "Fellow Craft Mason": "I … most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will not give the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason to anyone of an inferior degree nor to any other being in the known world … binding myself under no less penalty than to have my left breast torn open and my heart and vitals taken from thence … to become a prey to the wild beasts of the field and vulture of the air" . "The sign is given by drawing your right hand-flat with the palm of it next to your breast across your breast from the left to the right side with some quickness and dropping it down by your side." .
Oath of a "Master Mason": "I … most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear in addition to my former obligations that I will not give the degree of a Master Mason to any of an inferior degree nor to any other being in the known world … binding myself under no less penalty than to have my body severed in two in the midst and divided to the north and south, my bowels burnt to ashes" .  "The Penal Sign is given by putting the right hand to the left side of the bowels, the hand open with the thumb next to the belly and drawing it across the belly and letting it fall; this is done tolerably quick. This alludes to the penalty of the obligation: 'Having my body severed in twain,' etc." .

Changes
Beginning in 1919, church president Heber J. Grant appointed a committee charged with revising the endowment ceremony which was done under the direction of apostle George F. Richards from 1921 to 1927. Among the changes instituted was a modification of the oaths. While the gestures remained unchanged, the church clarified the verbal description of the oath with the phrase, "rather than do so, I would suffer my life to be taken."

Elimination
In April 1990, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints eliminated the oaths and the gestures from the endowment. During the period when these oaths were used, there was no documented instance in which a person was killed or committed suicide for having violated the oaths of secrecy of the endowment..

Confusion with other doctrines
These penalty oaths and the oath of vengeance are often confused. The oath of vengeance to pray for justice for the murders of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum was removed from the endowment in 1927 as part of the church's "Good Neighbor" policy, and the penalty oaths were removed in 1990. The penalty oaths are also frequently confused with the concept of blood atonement.

Continuation by Mormon fundamentalists
Some groups within the Mormon fundamentalist movement continue to practice the endowment without modification. These groups still participate in these oaths when performing the endowment. Some of the denominations that continue to perform the original endowment include the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Apostolic United Brethren, and the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days.

See also
 Mormonism and violence
 Criticism of Mormonism

References

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External links
Old Testament oaths and temple rites, by W. John Walsh

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Săliște (Crișul Negru)

The Săliște is a right tributary of the river Crișul Negru in Romania. It discharges into the Crișul Negru in Urviș de Beiuș. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

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Global Poverty Act

The Global Poverty Act was a bill in the U.S. Congress co-sponsored by 84 Representatives and 30 Senators.

The Global Poverty Act would have required the U.S. President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day. This would require the United States to add 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product (23 billion to 98 billion a year) to its overall spending on Humanitarian Aid. This bill has been endorsed by Habitat for Humanity, Bread for the World, RESULTS and CARE.

The bill passed the Foreign Affairs Committee in July 2008. It was never scheduled for a vote on the Senate floor, however, and died at the end of the session.

Timeline

March 1, 2007: Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA).
Jul 31, 2007: Scheduled for debate in the House.
September 25, 2007: Passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote.
September 26, 2007: Received in the Senate and read twice; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
December 7, 2007: Introduced and sponsored in the US Senate by Sen. Barack Obama(D-IL) as S.2433.
February 13, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
 April 24, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Joseph Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.  Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders.

External links
 Read H.R. 1302
 View Cosponsors - H.R. 1302

References

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Lluís Maria Xirinacs

Lluís Maria Xirinacs i Damians (; 6 August 1932 – 11 August 2007) was a Catalan politician, writer, catholic cleric and advocate for the independence of Catalonia.

Biography
He was born in Barcelona in 1932, and he became a priest when he was 22.  In 1990 he abandoned the priesthood.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted several hunger strikes, the first a long one against the relationship between church and state in Francoist Spain. He was imprisoned twice (1972 and 1974–75). He declared himself a follower of Gandhi's ideals and employed non-violence in his struggles. For example, he spent twelve hours a day for a year and nine months standing in front of a Barcelona prison until the approval of an amnesty law for political prisoners. As a result of all these actions, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 1975 to 1977.

In 1977, in the first Spanish elections after the end of Francoist Spain, he became senator for Barcelona as an independent candidate. In 1979, he was a candidate for the Spanish Congress of Deputies in a coalition known as Left Bloc of National Freedom (Bloc d'Esquerra d'Alliberament Nacional or BEAN). This reinvigorated the spirit of the former Assembly of Catalonia, of which he also was one of the main promoters. Later on, BEAN presented candidates in the 1980 Catalan Parliament elections; but, in both cases, it did not obtain any representation.

«Fundació Tercera Via" (Third-Way Foundation), currently "Fundació Randa-Lluís M. Xirinacs" (Randa-Lluís Maria Xirinacs Foundation) was founded on 27 October 1987, by Xirinacs and a group of his friends.

By 1980, he left active party politics. In 1984, along with Agustí Chalaux, he founded the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina, where he wanted to explore deeper into a new economical, political and social model.

In 1990 he abandoned his priesthood vows. In 2000, he started to protest again, sitting in Plaça Sant Jaume daily for the independence of the Catalan Countries.

When he was 65, he was awarded a PhD in philosophy.

In 2005 he was sentenced to 2 years in prison for glorifying terrorism.

Trial
On 11 September 2002, within the National Day of Catalonia reivindicative speeches in Fossar de les Moreres, he declared:

After this, Xirinacs was sentenced to two years of prison and four years of incapacitation by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional, accused of ennobling terrorism.

On 17 December 2002, he stated to the jury in his defence:

"No crec que sigui delicte fer feina d'historiador (de la qual es pot discrepar): -de descriure una guerra d'alliberament nacional que dura ja quaranta anys, -i de comparar-la amb altres guerres.»
"I don't think that working as a historian is any crime (though some may disagree): -describing a war for national freedom that has lasted now for 40 years, -and comparing it with other wars."

And he also added:
«Són els tancs espanyols que ocupen el País Basc. Cap arma basca no vol conquerir Espanya.»
"It is the Spanish tanks that are occupying the Basque Country. No Basque weapon wants to conquer Spain".

Madrid's National Court tried him in absentia (Xirinacs failed to appear) and sentenced him to two years in prison for glorifying terrorism. On 25 October 2005, when he was 74, he was arrested by Spanish Police when he visited Ciutat Vella commissary in order to renew his identity document. Two days later, he was sent to prison, but in the very same afternoon, the Attorney General decided to free him, invoking humanitarian reasons due to his age.

In 2004, Catalan Summer University awarded him the Canigó prize. During that time, he continued his political commitment within Fundació Randa.

Randa-Lluís Maria Xirinacs Foundation is continuing his legacy and tries to disseminate Xirinacs proposals for personal and collective liberation, which include a philosophical model: Globàlium, short model and great model.

Death
On 11 August 2007, he was found dead in the woods Ogassa, Ripollès, having committed suicide according to some sources., even if the autopsy confirmed it was not. He left a note in his workplace explaining his decision, where he criticized the cowardice of Catalan politicians:

Act of sovereignty

I have lived 75 years in the Catalan Countriesoccupied by Spain, France – and Italy- for centuriesfighting against this slavery during all of my adult life.A slave nation, a slave human being,shame for Humanity and the Universe.But a Nation will never be freeif her sons do not want to risktheir lives in her defence and liberation.My friends, accept this final victorious endof my combat  to stress  the fearfulnessof our leaders, who make masses out of People.Today, my Nation becomes absolute sovereign in me.They have lost a slaveshe is a little more freebecause I am in you, my friends!Lluís M. Xirinacs i Damians, Barcelona, August 6, 2007News about the death, at the Avui

Discography
 Carlo Forlivesi, En la Soledat i el Silenci (2007–2008), a musical composition in three movements for koto and guitar. The title "En la Soledat i el Silenci" (In Solitude and in Silence) is a quotation from the last writing of Lluís Maria Xirinacs. The piece is included in the CD album Silenziosa Luna – 沈黙の月 (ALCD 76).

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Vimuttimagga

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The Vimuttimagga ("Path of Freedom") is a Buddhist practice manual, traditionally attributed to the Arahant Upatissa (c. 1st or 2nd century). It was translated into Chinese in the sixth century as the Jietuo dao lun 解脫道論 by Sanghapala. The original text (possibly Pali or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit) is no longer extant, but the work has survived in Chinese. The book was probably written in India and then later brought to Sri Lanka. Some doctrines of the Vimuttimagga have been associated with those attributed to the Abhayagiri monastery by Dhammapāla, but this has been disputed in recent scholarship.

Contents
The Vimuttimagga recommends various meditation practices such as Anapanasati, Kasina meditation and Buddha-anussati - recollection of the virtues of the Buddha. Its chapters are (based on the translation by Ehara, Soma & Kheminda):
 Introductory Discourse (referencing the three trainings and ultimate freedom)
 On Distinguishing Virtue
 On Austerities
 On Distinguishing Concentration
 On Approaching a Good Friend
 The Distinguishing of Behavior
 The Distinguishing of the Subjects of Meditation
 Entrance into the Subject of Meditation
 The Five Forms of Higher Knowledge
 On Distinguishing Wisdom
 The Five Methods (aggregates, sense organs, elements, conditioned arising, truth)
 On Discerning Truth

Relationship to the Visuddhimagga
The Vimuttimagga bears a striking similarity to the Visuddhimagga by Buddhagosa, and it is highly probable that it had an influence on Buddhagosa. While the Visuddhimagga is a much longer work, both texts differ on several points. According to Bhikkhu Analayo, the Chinese version of the Vimuttimagga states that ascetic practices (dhutanga) can be unwholesome and wholesome while the Visuddhimagga denies that they can be unwholesome, although he notes that the Tibetan Vimuktimārga classifies ascetic practices as "wholesome". A similar difference can be seen with regards to concentration (samādhi) which the Vimuttimagga states can be wholesome or unwholesome (micchā samādhi/邪定) while the Visuddhimagga disagrees that it can be unwholesome. Another major difference is in the scheme of the progress of insight, which the Vimuttimagga arranges based on the four noble truths and the Visuddhimagga arranges based on the seven purifications which stem from the Rathavinīta-sutta.

Minor differences can also be seen in the particular schemes of practice. Upatissa gives four categories of Śīla while Buddhagosa gives five. Upatissa gives four ways of cultivating Anapanasati, while Buddhagosa gives eight. In addition, the Visuddhimagga identifies forty subjects of meditation (kammatthana) while the Vimuttimagga identifies thirty-eight.

See also
 Buddhaghosa
 Visuddhimagga
 Patisambhidamagga
 Samatha
 Vipassana

Notes

References

External links

English translations
The Path Of Freedom (Vimuttimagga) of Arahant Upatissa Translated from the Chinese by Rev. N. R. M. Ehara, Soma Thera, Kheminda Thera. Buddhist Publication Society. Kandy, Ceylon

Category:Pali Buddhist texts


Astragalus bicristatus

Astragalus bicristatus is a species of milkvetch known by the common names crested milkvetch and two-crested milkvetch. It is endemic to southern California, where it grows in the coniferous forests of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains of the Transverse Ranges.

Description
Astragalus bicristatus is a perennial herb sprawling outwards with stems to a maximum length approaching half a meter. The leaves are up to 14 centimeters long and are made up of very widely spaced narrow linear leaflets. The stems and foliage have sparse grayish hairs, giving them a rough texture. The inflorescence is a loose array of up to 20 pealike flowers. Each flower is between 1 and 2 centimeters long and is purple-tinted white to light greenish yellow.

The fruit is a hanging capsule 2 to 4 centimeters long and curved or crescent-shaped. It is fleshy when immature and leathery to woody when dried.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment — Astragalus bicristatus
The Nature Conservancy
USDA Plants Profile
Astragalus bicristatus — U.C. Photo gallery

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After Sex (2000 film)

After Sex is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Cameron Thor and starring Dan Cortese, Virginia Madsen and Brooke Shields.

Premise
A group of attractive women get together for a weekend of bonding, hoping to relax and get away from the anxiety of their boyfriends. The women travel out of town, which leads them to picking up men of questionable integrity. The next problem is what they will tell their boyfriends when they get back home.

Main cast
 Dan Cortese - John
 Virginia Madsen - Traci
 Brooke Shields - Kate
 Maria Pitillo - Vicki
 Johnathon Schaech - Matt
 D. B. Sweeney - Tony

Footnotes

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Hornsby Shire

Hornsby Shire is a local government area situated on the Upper North Shore and Northern Suburbs of Sydney, as well as parts of the Hills District, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The shire stretches from the M2 Hills Motorway in the south to the Hawkesbury River town of Wisemans Ferry, some  to the north, making it the largest local government council in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region by total area. As of the  the shire had an estimated population of .

The Mayor of Hornsby Shire is Cr Philip Ruddock, a member of the Liberal Party, who was elected on 9 September 2017.

Suburbs, towns and localities in the local government area
Suburbs in the Hornsby Shire include:

Towns and localities in the Hornsby Shire are:

Demographics
At the , there were  people in the Hornsby local government area, of these 48.8 per cent were male and 51.2 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.5 per cent of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the Hornsby Shire was 40 years; slightly higher than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 19.5 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.2 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 58.8 per cent were married and 8.2 per cent were either divorced or separated.

Population growth in the Hornsby Shire between the  and the  was 4.58 per cent and in the subsequent five years to the , population growth was 3.65 per cent. At the 2016 census, the population in the Shire decreased by 9.04 per cent brought about predominately by an adjustment in local government boundaries. The median weekly income for residents within the Hornsby Shire was higher than the national average.

Council

Current composition and election method
Hornsby Shire Council is composed of ten Councillors, including the Mayor, for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is directly elected while the nine other Councillors are elected proportionally as three separate wards, each electing three Councillors. The most recent election was held on 9 September 2017, and the makeup of the Council, including the Mayor, is as follows:

The current Council, elected in 2017, in order of election by ward, is:

Past mayors and shire presidents

History

Hornsby Shire is the traditional lands occupied by the Darug and Kuringgai peoples of indigenous Australians. While the northern part of the Shire via the Hawkesbury River was visited by the first European settlers in late 1788, due to the Shire's rugged landscape permanent European settlement did not begin until almost half a century later.

Hornsby Shire got its name from the town of Hornsby at the eastern end of the Shire, is derived from convict-turned-Constable Samuel Horne, who earned distinction by capturing bushrangers Dalton and MacNamara on 22 June 1830. In return he was granted land in the locality known as "Hornsby Place".

Hornsby Shire has remained largely rural for many decades. The construction of the Main North railway line in the 1880s opened up the Shire to the rest of Sydney and also to Newcastle, but it was not until motor vehicles became commonplace in the 1950s that the southern part of the Shire truly became part of Sydney's suburbia. The Shire was incorporated as a local government authority on 6 March 1906.

A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that Hornsby Shire merge with adjoining councils. The government considered two proposals. The first proposed a merger of part of Hornsby with the Ku-ring-gai Council to form a new council with an area of  and support a population of approximately 270,000. The second proposed a merger of parts of Parramatta, Auburn, The Hills, Hornsby, and Holroyd to form a new council with an area of  and support a population of approximately 215,725. The outcome of the review was that the suburbs of Hornsby Shire Council south of the M2 joined an expanded Parramatta City Council. The NSW Government also gave in principle support for the Hornsby Shire suburbs north of the M2 to amalgamate with Ku-ring-gai Council. In July 2017, the Berejiklian government decided to abandon the forced merger of the Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai local government areas, along with several other proposed forced mergers. This failed merger resulted in the council losing lucrative area south of the M2 including Epping and Carlingford.

Heritage listings
The Hornsby Shire has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 Brooklyn, Main Northern railway: Hawkesbury River railway station
 Cheltenham, 67 Cobran Road:  Ahimsa, Cheltenham
 Galston, 161 Main Road: Tunks Creek bridge, Galston
 Galston, 11 School Road: Galston Congregational Church Pipe Organ
 Hornsby, 2a Manor Road (Rosamond Street): Mount Wilga House
 Hornsby, Old Man's Valley, off Quarry Road: Old Man's Valley Cemetery
 Normanhurst, 82-84 Pennant Hills Road: Gilligaloola
 Wahroonga, 9 Highlands Avenue: Highlands

Geography

Hornsby calls itself the 'Bushland Shire'. This is in reference to its location on a high ridge separating two expansive areas of natural bushland which consists of up to 70% of the total area: The Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on the eastern side and the Berowra Valley Regional Park on the western side. These provide large areas of natural parkland that form a green belt running from Sydney at the south to the Hawkesbury River at the Shire's northern end. These parks are extremely popular with day-trippers from all areas of Sydney and provides diverse recreations such as bushwalking and boating.

The northern half of Hornsby Shire remains a semi-rural area, retaining a number of farmlands and market gardens. This area consists of small village settlements such as Mount Colah and Hornsby Heights. The village of Galston is the centre of this rural area.

The western part of the shire shares a  border with The Hills Shire and is separated from the rest of the Shire by national parks and the Galston Gorge.

The southern half of the Shire is urban, forming part of Sydney's suburbia on the North Shore and Northern Suburbs. Traditionally most of the Shire's residents live in free-standing houses, but in recent years a number of semi-detached housings as well as high-density apartments have appeared around Hornsby's central business district.

The Shire has several areas with industrial activity including Hornsby, Asquith and Thornleigh. The major commercial centres of the Shire, apart from Hornsby's central business district, are the suburbs of Pennant Hills and North Epping.

Local attractions in the Hornsby Shire include its easily accessible wilderness areas including part of the Great North Walk, parkland recreational facilities such as Fagan Park at Galston, Pennant Hills Park, Koala Park Sanctuary in West Pennant Hills, and the village of Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River.

Hornsby Shire has four public libraries (at Hornsby, Pennant Hills, Berowra and Galston, two public swimming pools ("Aquatic Centres"), and a range of other sporting and community facilities.

See also

 Local government areas of New South Wales

References

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Dragon's Gate (novel)

Dragon's Gate is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by HarperCollins in 1995. It inaugurated the Golden Mountain Chronicles below and it is the third chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012.

Yep and Dragon's Gate won the Newbery Medal award, 1994.

Plot
Otter, a fourteen-year-old Chinese boy growing up during the opium wars and the oppression of the Manchu dynasty. Otter wishes to travel to America, to the Land of the Golden Mountain called California. He longs to travel to California, so he can assist his uncle and father, in the doing of the Great Work, in order to take back their country, yet he decides with much disdain to remain in Three Willows to be with his mother. After accidentally killing a Manchu, Otter's life is in danger, so he was sent to America to join his father and uncle. Otter enthusiastically left for America, only to find that the reality of being a Chinese immigrant meant working in the brutal cold and other awful conditions. Otter is filled with disgust and undertakes the seemingly impossible
task of climbing the Tiger, the mountain which for so long has kept his people working in bitter conditions, ascending above the cloud layer to prevent an avalanche. Which results in the loss of his beloved Uncle. Taken aback by his loss, Otter is determined to finish what his Uncle started, even if it means withstanding the bitter cold for the rest of his life.

Golden Mountain Chronicles

The family saga follows the Young family, initially in China. Dragons of Silk (2011) spans a few generations and brings the story to the present; nine previous novels have been dated 1849 to 1995.

 The Serpent's Children, set in 1849 (1984)
 Mountain Light, 1855 (1985)
 Dragon's Gate, 1867 (1993)
 The Traitor, 1885 (2003)
 Dragonwings, 1903 (1975)
 Dragon Road, 1939 (2007); originally The Red Warrior
 Child of the Owl, 1960 (1977)
 Sea Glass, 1970 (1979)
 Thief of Hearts, 1995 (1995)
 Dragons of Silk, 1835-2011 (2011)

Four of the ten historical novels are among Yep's five works most widely held in WorldCat libraries.

References

Category:1995 novels


Xue Huaiyi

Huaiyi (懷義; died December 25, 694), né Feng Xiaobao (馮小寶), also referred to as Xue Huaiyi (薛懷義), was a Buddhist monk who was known for being the lover of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in the history of China.

Background
Huaiyi, whose birth name was Feng Xiaobao, was from Hu County (鄠縣, in modern Xi'an, Shaanxi).  He was making a living by selling medicines on the streets of Tang Dynasty's eastern capital Luoyang, when he was spotted by Princess Qianjin, a daughter of Tang's founder Emperor Gaozu, and in or before 685, she recommended him to Empress Dowager Wu (later known as Wu Zetian), then regent over her son Emperor Ruizong.  Empress Dowager Wu favored him greatly, and in order to facilitate his being able to come in and out of the palace, had him undertake tonsure to become a Buddhist monk with the name Huaiyi.  Because Huaiyi came from a lowly household, in order to elevate his status, Empress Dowager Wu had him adopted into the clan of her son-in-law Xue Shao (薛紹) (the husband of her daughter Princess Taiping) and had Xue Shao treat Huaiyi as an uncle.

As Wu Zetian's lover
It was said that when Huaiyi entered and exited the palace, he would ride on an imperial steed and have some 10 eunuchs attend to him.  Whenever people saw him, they avoided him—because he was accustomed to batter those who came near him and toss them aside.  He was particularly hateful of Taoist monks, and whenever he encountered them, he would batter them severely, sometimes cutting their hair off.  Even the most honored governmental officials, including Empress Dowager Wu's powerful nephews Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi prostrated themselves before him.  He gathered a group of young thugs and had them also undertake tonsure but serve as his followers.  When these followers carried out unlawful deeds, few officials dared to speak about this.  One exception was the assistant censor Feng Sixu (馮思勗), who punished them according to their deeds, and on one occasion, when Huaiyi encountered Feng Sixu on the road, he had Feng Sixu battered so severely that Feng Sixu nearly died.  In or around 686, however, there was an incident when Huaiyi encountered the chancellor Su Liangsi.  Huaiyi did not greet Su and displayed himself arrogantly.  In anger, Su ordered his guards to seize Huaiyi and slap him.  When Huaiyi complained to Empress Dowager Wu, she responded semi-jocularly, "Your Eminence should enter through the North Gate [(i.e., directly into the palace without going through the governmental buildings to the south of the palace)].  The Southern Palace is where chancellors gather; do not violate it."

In 688, Empress Dowager Wu tore down Qianyuan Hall (乾元殿), and commissioned the construction of the imperial meeting hall (明堂, MIng Tang) over the same location.  She commissioned Huaiyi to oversee the project and conscripted several tens of thousands of men to serve as construction workers.  After the imperial meeting hall was completed later that year, for his contributions, she gave him a general title and created him the Duke of Liang.

In 689, Empress Dowager Wu commissioned Huaiyi to serve as the commander of an army against Eastern Tujue.  He advanced to Zi River (紫河, a tributary of the Yellow River) but did not encounter Eastern Tujue forces.  He erected a monument at Chanyu Tower (單于臺, in modern Hohhot, Inner Mongolia) before withdrawing.

In 690, Empress Dowager Wu changed Huaiyi's title to Duke of E.  Later that year, she took the throne from Emperor Ruizong, establishing a new Zhou Dynasty with herself as "emperor."

In 694, Eastern Tujue's khan Ashina Mochuo attacked Ling Prefecture (靈州, roughly modern Yinchuan, Ningxia), and Wu Zetian commissioned Huaiyi, assisted by the chancellors Li Zhaode and Su Weidao, to defend against Ashina Mochuo's attack, but before the army could set out, Ashina Mochuo withdrew, and therefore Huaiyi's army never launched.

Death
In late 694, Wu Zetian held a grand Buddhist gathering at the imperial meeting hall, and she commissioned a giant painting of Buddha drawn with cattle blood, but claimed that it was miraculous drawn with just the blood from Huaiyi's knee, and she hung the portrait at one of the bridges entering Luoyang, Tianjin Bridge (天津橋).  However, at that time, she had another lover, the imperial physician Shen Nanqiu (沈南璆), and this drew jealousy from Huaiyi.  Huaiyi secretly set fire to the Heavenly Hall (天堂), north of the imperial meeting hall, and the fire burned both halls to the ground.  However, when Wu Zetian subsequently ordered the reconstruction of both halls, she still put Huaiyi in charge of the construction.

After this incident, however, Huaiyi grew increasingly arrogant and unreasonable, and Wu Zetian began to despise him.  To guard herself, she selected a group of strong ladies in waiting.  She then had Wu Youning the Prince of Jianchang (the grandson of her uncle Wu Shirang (武士讓)) lead a group of strong soldiers to set an ambush at Yaoguang Hall (瑤光殿), and when Huaiyi went to Yaoguang Hall, Wu Youning and his soldiers overpowered him and battered him to death.  Huaiyi's body was taken to White Horse Temple and cremated, and then mixed into mud that was set to be used to construct a pagoda.

In popular culture
A portrait of Huaiyi as supervillain appears in the quasi-historical novel Deception (also titled Iron Empress), by Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 183.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 76.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols, 203, 204, 205.

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Peter Joseph Gnalian

Peter Joseph Gnalian (born 16 December 1960) is an Indian professional bodybuilder and internationally acclaimed bodybuilder( Mr world bronze medalist) from Kochi Angamaly.

He won a bronze from the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) in the over 50s category.

Career-wise, he got into Indian Railways, and continued as an accountant until he sought voluntary retirement from service in March, 2017. Not feeling it was too late, he was fully into body building at 42. Prior to that, in 2009, he gave contesting in world championship a try to emerge fifth in Poland. The years that followed were his, as if victory kept waiting for him. The first was a silver medal at the Asian Masters in 2012. He won a bronze at the 2012 World Masters in Bangkok, silver in Asian Masters’ in China, 2013, as well as fourth place in the World Masters’ 2014 and 2016 held in Mumbai and Pattaya respectively.

References

External links
Official YouTube page
Official Leehans Gym site
Fb page

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Jūlijs Daniševskis

Jūlijs Kārlis Daniševskis (, Karl Yuri Hristianovich Danishevsky; 15 May 1884, Doblen County – 8 January 1938, Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast), alias Hermanis, was a Latvian Marxist and professional revolutionary. He was a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory and also of the Revolutionary War Council of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918). Daniševskis was the deputy leader of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic  under Pēteris Stučka's leadership.

Arrest and death
During the Great Purge, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation", he was arrested by the NKVD on 16 July 1937. After being convicted by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 8 January 1938, on charges of "participation in the counterrevolutionary terrorist organisation". Daniševskis was shot on 8 January 1938, at the Kommunarka shooting ground, near Moscow. He was rehabilitated on 18 July 1956 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

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Mark Owuya

Mark Aloysius Opoya Owuya (born 18 July 1989) is a professional Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for the Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL. He formerly played for KHL Medveščak Zagreb, a member of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Playing career
Owuya began playing junior hockey with Djurgårdens IF in the 2005–06 season when he began playing with the U18 team. The following season Owuya played with both Djurgården's U18 and J20 team and also played most of the games with the Djurgården's J20 team in the 2007–08 season. While Stefan Ridderwall joined team Sweden for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Owuya made his Elitserien debut on 3 January 2008, against Brynäs IF. He was loaned out to Mälarhöjden/Bredängs IK during the 2007–08 winter, and was also later loaned out to Almtuna IS for the entire 2008–09 season.

Owuya was also on loan during the 2009–10 season, first to Örebro HK and later Mora IK. In the 2010 pre-season, Owuya was moved up to Djurgården's senior team, to compete with goaltender Stefan Ridderwall to be the first choice in the goal. Ultimately, Owuya played in 32 out of 55 games in the 2010–11 Elitserien season, with a 2.18 goals against average and league-best save percentage of .927. He also played in all of Djurgården's seven playoff games, with a 1.66 goals against average and a .924 save percentage.

International play

Owuya represented Sweden at the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Personal
His father is from Uganda and his mother is from Russia. Mark's brother Sebastian was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2010. Owuya is also known in Sweden for rapping on popular talent show Idol as "Mark In Da Park".

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Pavsekakiy Bogdanov

Viktor Konstantinovich Bogdanov (; born 17 July 1981), more commonly known as Pavsekakiy Bogdanov () is a Russian broadcaster, journalist, producer, healer, astrologer and magician.

He became a resident expert on spirituality and astrology in the major Russian TV channel (TV-3, REN TV, Channel One, Domashny, NTV, Rossiya 1).

Early life and education
Pavsekakiy Bogdanov was born on 17 July 1981 in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, USSR.

In September 1998, he began going to school in his home city. Due to the First Chechen War, however, his family moved to Kursk (Russian Federation) in 1993, where Bogdanov finished high school. In 1997, he studied College of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Business at the Kursk State Medical University, and he successfully completed in 2003.

Career
Bogdanov began working in 2002, when he became a broadcaster in the local TV Company (TNT-Kursk, TV-6).

During this time, Bogdanov revealed in one of the local newspapers that he belongs to the hereditary Caucasian healers and almost all his ancestors in male line engaged in healing and sorcery. In fact, he had been engaged in sorcery since school years. Back then, he called himself Pavsekakiy, or "to stop evil", which originated from the Old Greek words παῦσις (pavsis) which means "to stop, to cease", and κακία (kakia) which means "evil, misfortune". It was also the name of St. Pavikakiy of Sinnada, Bogdanov's patron saint.

For many years, Bogdanov combined his work as a journalist and a producer in the media, and worked as an astrologist where he came in contact with Russian TV stars such as Irina Allegrova, Alla Pugacheva, Larisa Dolina, Nikolai Baskov and Phillip Kirkorov, who are all believed to be his regular customers.

Predictions
According to media reports made in July 2012, Pavsekakiy predicted that members of feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot, which organized their unauthorized performance in The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and were accused in hooliganism, would be convicted and get real jail time.

In December 2012, Bogdanov predicted that the end of the world will not be on 21 December, but on the night of 14 to 15 February 2013 during which a small meteorite would fall to Earth. Although the end of the world did not happen, the meteorite really did fall in Chelyabinsk the night of 14 to 15 February.

He also predicted the future of Prince George of Cambridge the newborn heir and son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, that he will become the last king of Great Britain. In his prediction, the heir will go in for sports, particularly football, he will finish two education, and at 30, he will become a king. He stated: "He will reign about 32–35 years and in this time the structure of the world will drastically change. The fact is that revolutionist has been born what will change the history of Great Britain"

See also
 Magic
 Astrology
 Alternative medicine

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Durihana

Durihana Mission is a defector aid Christian organization based in South Korea.

History
Chinese police arrested founder Pastor Chun Ki-won in 2002  on the Mongolian border, on the escape route he pioneered. His arrest and eight month imprisonment caused a stir in South Korea, exposing the plight of North Korean defectors.

In 1995, as a missionary in the Yanji region, Chun met his first North Koreans in hiding. "These people had lost all their rights," he said. "The most important thing I could do was revive their humanity." Chun orchestrated the escapes of more than 1,200 North Koreans with only a handful of failures.

References

External links
History of Durihana
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Constituency PP-157 (Lahore-XXI)

PP-157 (Lahore-XXI) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.

General elections 2008
Rana Tajamul Hussain won the elections for the seat of MPA from PP 157 in 2013 Elections.

General elections 2002
By the general elections of 2002 Mr.Naveed Ashiq Diyal won the seat of MPA.

See also

 Constituency of NA 130

 Diyal

 Punjab, Pakistan

References

External links
 Election commission Pakistan's official website
 Awazoday.com check result
 Official Website of Government of Punjab

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Anne Guimard

Anne Guimard is a Certified Financial Analyst, she holds a PhD in international finance. Anne Guimard has over 15 years of experience as a Chief Investor Relations Officer. Anne Guimard is founder and CEO of FINEO Investor Relations Advisors and the School of Investor Relations.

Publications
 La communication financière (Economica)
 Investor Relations (Palgrave Macmillan)

References

 https://web.archive.org/web/20150424231928/http://www.niri.org/other-content/Board-of-Directors-Anne-Guimard.aspx

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Vitellariopsis cuneata

Vitellariopsis cuneata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania.

References

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Coopes

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

 Jenny Coopes (born 1945), Australian political cartoonist, illustrator and painter
 Rachael Coopes, Australian actress

See also
 Coops (disambiguation)
 Coop (surname)


Osiny

Osiny may refer to:

Osiny, Bełchatów County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Osiny, Brzeziny County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Osiny, Łask County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Osiny, Łowicz County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Osiny, Łuków County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Osiny, Gmina Chodel in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Osiny, Puławy County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Osiny, Kielce County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Osiny, Starachowice County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Osiny, Włoszczowa County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Osiny, Gostynin County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Grodzisk Mazowiecki County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Grójec County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Mińsk County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Siedlce County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Wyszków County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Zwoleń County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Osiny, Kępno County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Osiny, Słupca County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Osiny, Częstochowa County in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland)
Osiny, Gmina Mykanów in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland)
Osiny, Wodzisław County in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland)
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Angoulême Film Festival

The Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (FFA) is an annual film festival held in Angoulême, France. It was founded by Dominique Besnehard in 2008 and has been held every year in December. It was launched as a showcase for all kind of francophone works. The festival includes a retrospective of films that were released during the year as well as a series of premieres and other special screenings.

Since its foundation, it has played host to Ursula Meier, Philippe Falardeau, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Michel Leclerc, Valérie Donzelli, Philippe Van Leeuw, Guillaume Gallienne, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Nabil Ayouch, Mohamed Ben Attia, among others.

See also
 Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur

References

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Rama Kant (author)

Rama Kant (2 December 1931 – 6 September 1991) was an Indian fiction writer in Hindi language, best known for his writing on the struggles of the lower and middle-classes.

Early life
RamaKant was born in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. He dropped out of Allahabad University in 1951 where he had been selected for the hockey nationals as standby. He migrated to Kolkata and joined Indian Airlines leveraging his hockey skills. He switched to journalism as his profession where he could expose the loopholes in Indian sports bodies.

Career
As a journalist he worked with Aaj newspaper in Banaras, Maya in Allahabad. He came to Delhi to work with Janyug newspaper and settled there. Afterwards, he worked with the Soviet Information Centre as joint editor of Soviet Bhumi, the Hindi magazine published by the Soviet embassy. He worked with Soviet Bhumi until 1983, when he took a voluntary retirement to write full time. He also intended to publish a weekly newspaper from Sadatpur on the outskirts of Delhi. The newspaper Krasaad came out in 1987.

Writings
He main genre of writing was the political and social fiction, but he wrote some detective novels as well.

He also wrote successful 'laghu katha's' [mini stories] from the 50s, through the 80s. His short stories of 60's, 70's and even 80's became immensely popular and received a dedicated readership.  His writings got translated into various languages including English, Urdu, Punjabi and Kannada. An important story of Ramakant 'Karlo Habshi ka Sandook' was presented to South African President Nelson Mandela during his Indian visit after its translation in English by Bhisham Sahni.

In 1969, Ramakant received the Soviet Nehru Prize for his contribution to the comparative analysis of Hindi and Russian literature. Ramakant was a regular Diary Writer as well and he wrote many volumes which are yet to be published.

Ramakant was also an avid and serious reader of world literature .

Legacy
He died in Delhi on 6 September 1991. In his memory, Ramakant Smriti Kahani Puraskar is being  organized annually in Delhi since 1998 by some close friends of Ramakant led by Mahesh Darpan and Ramakant's family.

Bibliography
The important literary contributions of Ramakant are:

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Opinion polling for the 2019 Belgian federal election

In the run up to the 2019 Belgian federal election, various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Belgium. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.

The date range for these opinion polls are from the previous federal election, held on 25 May 2014, to the present day. The results of the opinion polls conducted on a nationwide basis are usually split into separate numbers for the three Belgian regions. They are therefore split across the tables in the sections below, but seat projections for the Belgian Chamber are presented together.

Graphs

Flanders
The graph and the table below show the results for the opinion polls conducted in the Flemish Region, and for polls conducted nationwide the part of the results related to the Flemish Region. In the graph, the squares mark the election results, the stars the individual opinion poll results, and the trend line the floating average for the opinion poll results with a window of plus/minus three months.

Wallonia

The graph and the table below show the results for the opinion polls conducted in the Walloon Region, and for polls conducted nationwide the part of the results related to the Walloon Region. In the graph, the squares mark the election results, the stars the individual opinion poll results, and the trend line the floating average for the opinion poll results with a window of plus/minus three months.

Brussels

The table below shows the results for the opinion polls conducted in the Brussels Region, and for polls conducted nationwide the part of the results related to the Brussels Region.

Seat projections

The table below shows seat projections for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives when given by the reporting newspaper or polling firm.

By party

By political family
Tallies for each ideology and probable coalitions. In bold on dark grey, if the coalition commands an absolute majority, in italic on light grey, if the coalition needs DéFI's support (which implies it does not include the N-VA).

Note that "asymetrical" coalitions are now frequent: between 2007 and 2011, PS was part of each cabinet but not sp.a; and between 2014 and 2018, the Michel Government included CD&V but not cdH, as well as the N-VA, of which there is no equivalent in Wallonia.

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