Mirotic

Mirotic is the fourth Korean studio album (seventh overall) by South Korean pop group TVXQ, released on September 26, 2008 by S.M. Entertainment. This is the group's last Korean album to feature members Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu.

The album was a major commercial breakthrough and is TVXQ's most critically successful album to date. The best-selling album of 2008, Mirotic debuted atop the Hanteo charts and sold 110,000 albums in one week, setting the record for one-week sales in South Korea on that chart. Version A of the album sold over 208,000 copies in a month, and cumulative sales surpassed 500,000 copies 109 days after its release. Mirotic is the first Korean album in four years to break 500,000 sales, a number which was last achieved by Seo Taiji's 2004 album 7th Issue. Mirotic sold over 541,000 copies by 2014.

Background
The album had been in production since 2007, but the title was not decided upon until January 2008. TVXQ members Xiah Junsu and Max Changmin participated directly in the making of the album, penning the lyrics for "노을.. 바라보다 (Picture of You)" and "Love in the Ice", respectively. In addition, members  Hero Jaejoong and Micky Yoochun composed and wrote the lyrics to "사랑아 울지마 (Don't Cry My Lover)" and "사랑 안녕 사랑 (Love Bye Love)", respectively, for version C of the album.

TVXQ had two promotional singles from the album. The title single "Mirotic" won a total of nine number-one trophies on Korean music programs The Music Trend, Music Bank, and M! Countdown, and is touted by critics as a staple song of K-pop. Though succeeding single "Wrong Number" was unable to meet the success of its predecessor, it was an acclaimed K-pop hit.

Mirotic won the Disk Daesang (equivalent to Album of the Year) at the 23rd Golden Disk Awards and Album of the Year at the 2008 Mnet KM Music Festival (MKMF). It is currently the best-selling album among Korea's second-generation idols, earning the name "Album of the Decade."

The choreography of "주문-Mirotic," the title track of the album, was done in a collaboration between Korean choreographers and Kenny Wormald, who had also worked with pop stars Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown and Christina Aguilera. The song features a "reverse beat" track, meaning that the bass beat is either a half beat or a whole beat late in coming into a new phrase. While in most genres of music, the bass note comes in directly on the first beat of the measure in setting the chord of the phrase, reverse beat songs alter this usual method. In doing so, the reverse beat genre is said to have an effect of "growing on" the listener, having an addictive sound.

"Mirotic" is a newly coined term, created by member Hero Jaejoong, that combines the Korean miro (미로), meaning "maze", and the English suffix "-tic".

The title song was composed by the Danish producers, Remee, Lucas Secon and Thomas Troelsen. The German singer, Sarah Connor, also bought the copyright to the song (not specified when). Despite the fact that the two original songs were the same composed piece, they have musical differences (TVXQ's version has a rap and multi-layered harmonies while Connor's has a bridge; the melodies in the chorus also differ). "Mirotic" is one of the most successful singles ever in South Korea, in 2008 the song was downloaded 2,337,864 times. By the end of 2011 the song was officially downloaded 4,173,225 times.

Critical reception

Mirotic has received positive acclaim from music critics. Hwang Seon-eop of online magazine IZM rated the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, putting Mirotic as TVXQ's most critically successful album to date.

Controversy

In November 2008, the Korean Commission of Youth Protection ruled that Mirotic was detrimental to youths and declared that the lyrics were provocative and overly sexual. As a result, the album was labeled with stickers indicating that it was unsuitable for people under 19 years old and any performances of the song would have to be broadcast after 10 PM. In response to the ruling, SM Entertainment agreed to make a clean version but also had filed an injunction to overrule the commission's decision

After the Commission of Youth Protection released their statement regarding the ban on the album, SM Entertainment said,

TVXQ performed the clean version at the 23rd Annual Golden Disk Awards. The lyrics were changed from "I got you" to "I chose you" and "I got you under my skin" to "I got you under my sky."

In March 2009, the Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of SM Entertainment, stating:

On April 9, 2009, the Commission of Youth Protection announced they would appeal the ruling to a high court after having an emergency meeting and deeming that the phrase, "I got you under my skin", was inappropriate for minors.

Track listing

Version A

Version B

Version C

Taiwanese version

Japanese version

Release history

Sales

Korea albums & singles chart

Taiwanese chart

G-Music Jpop Yearly Sale Chart

Awards

Footnotes

References

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Paul Meng Zhuyou

Paul Meng Zhuyou (; born January 8, 1963) is a Chinese Catholic clergyman and Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taiyuan from 2013.

Biography
He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1991. He accepted the episcopacy with a papal mandate on September 16, 2010. On November 24, 2013, he became Archbishop of Taiyuan Metropolitan, replacing his predecessor Bishop Sylvester Li Jian-tang. His appointment was endorsed by the Holy See and the Chinese government.

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Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C.

The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. is an Athenian legislation passed somewhere between the years 374 and 373 B.C. which ordered the grain and barley imported from the islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Skyros to be transported at a specific time to Piraeus, from there brought up to the city, stored in the temple of Aiakos, and sold in the Agora by public officials newly appointed for the purpose. Furthermore, the law allocated the proceeds from the sale of that grain to the military fund.

Origin
The legislation for the Grain-Tax Law was inscribed on a marble stele. This monument was found on July 21, 1986, by John Camp. The monument was found built into a repair of the east wall of the Great Drain where it passes the northeast corner of the Stoa Basileios. It is on this slab that the Athenian legislation is inscribed and although the slab itself has undergone some noticeable water damage and corrosion, the inscription is easily visible.

Size
The stele measures as follows: Height, 1.105 m.; at molding, 0.45m., below molding (level of line 2), 0.422 m., at level of line 61, 0.437m., at bottom, 0.44m.; thickness, 0.115m. The letters measure as follows: Height, lines 1,3-61, 0.007m., line 2, 0.01m.

Inscription
A translated inscription:

Gods.
In the archonship of Sokratides.
Law concerning the 8 1/3% tax (dodekate) on the grain of the islands.
(Line 5) Agyrrhios moved: In order that there may be grain for the people (demos) in the public domain, sell the 8 1/3% tax (dodekate) (which originates) in Lemnos, Imbros, and Skyros, and the 2% tax (pentekoste) in terms of grain.  (8) Each portion will consist of 500 measures (medimno), 100 of wheat and 400 of barley.  (10) The buyer of the tax (priamenos) will convey the grain to the Peiraieus at his own risk and he will transport the grain up to the city at his own expense and he will heap up the grain in the Aiakeion.   (15) The state (polis) will make available the Aiakeion in watertight condition and provided with a door.   The buyer of the tax (priamenos) is to weigh out the grain for the state (polis) within thirty days, whenever he has conveyed it up to the city at his own expense. (19) Whenever he has conveyed it up to the city, the state (polis) will not exact rent from the buyers of the tax (priamenoz).  (21) The buyer of the tax (priamenos) will weigh out the wheat at a weight of a talent for five sixths (hekteis) and the barley at a weight of a talent per measure (medimno), dry and free from darnel, filling up the measuring table (sekoma) to the  [rim?], just as the other merchants (emporoz). (27)  The buyer of the tax (priamenos) will not make a down payment but (he will pay) sales taxes (eponia) and herald’s fees (kerykeia) of twenty drachmai per portion.  (29) The buyer of the tax (priamenos) will provide per portion two solvent guarantors, whomever the Council (Boule) has approved.  (31) The portion held by a group of six men (symmoria) will consist of 3,000 measures (medimno). (33) The state (polis) will exact the grain from the group (symmoria), both from one man and from all who are in the group, until it recovers what belongs to it.
(36) Let the Assembly (demos) elect ten men from all the Athenians in the meeting (ekklesia) at which they elect the generals (strategoi), who are to take care of the grain.    (40) After these men have seen to the weighing out of the grain in accordance with the written instructions, let them sell it in the marketplace (agora) at whatever time seems best to the Assembly (demos), but it is not permitted to put the sale of the grain to a vote before the month of Anthesterion.  (44) Let the Assembly (demos) set the price at which the elected men must sell the wheat and barley.  Let the buyers (priamenoi) of the 8 1/3% tax (dodekate) transport the grain (to the Aiakeion) before the month of Maimakterion.  (48) Let the men elected by the Assembly (demos) make sure that the grain is transported in the specified time. (51) When the men who have been elected have sold the grain, let them  render  their  accounts  in the Assembly (demos) and let 'them come into the Assembly (demos) carrying the money, and  let the amount  that  is realized  from  the (sale of the) grain  be assigned to the military fund (stratiotika). (55) Let the Receivers (apodektai) allocate  the down payment  from the islands and of the 2% tax (pentekoste) exactly as much as was fetched last year from the two tenths (dekatoia). (59) For the present it is to belong to the financial administration (dioikesis), and in the future let them not take the two tenths (dekatoia) away from the money that is being paid in.

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Indian softshell turtle

The Indian softshell turtle (Nilssonia gangetica), or Ganges softshell turtle is a species of softshell turtle found in South Asia in rivers such as the Ganges, Indus and Mahanadi. This vulnerable turtle reaches a carapace length of up to . It feeds mostly on fish, amphibians, carrion and other animal matter, but also takes aquatic plants.

Description
The species is identified on the basis of the structure of the carapace and plastron. There are eight pairs of costal plates, the last well developed and in contact throughout on the median line; two neurals between the first pair of costals; plates coarsely pitted and vermiculate. Epiplastra narrowly separated from each other in front of the ontoplastron, which forms an obtuse or a right angle; plastral callosities very large, hyo-hypoplastral, xiphiplastral, and, in old specimens, ento-plastral. Dorsal skin of young with longitudinal ridges of small tubercles. Head moderate; snout (on the skull) about as long as the diameter of the orbit; interorbital region, in the adult, considerably narrower than the nasal fossa; postorbital arch one third to one half the greatest diameter of the orbit; mandible with the inner edge strongly raised, forming a sharp ridge, which sends off a short perpendicular process at the symphysis; the diameter of the mandible at the symphysis does not exceed the diameter of the orbit. Olive above; back of young vermiculated with fine black lines, but without ocelli; head with a black longitudinal streak from between the eyes to the nape, intersected by two or three inverted-V shaped black streaks; lower parts yellowish.
Length of dorsal disk 2 feet.

In culture
These turtles are often maintained in the temple ponds of Orissa where they are considered sacred.

Gallery

References

 Anderson,J. 1872 Note on Trionyx gangeticus, and Trionyx hurum, B. Hamilton. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 382-383
 Anderson,J. 1872 On Trionyx gangeticus, Cuvier, Trionyx hurum, B.H. and Dr. Gray. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 10: 219-222
 Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1825 Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l'on rétablit les caractères du plusieurs espèces d'animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris. ed. 3, 5 vols. (Parts of this 5 volume edition are cited as appearing from 1821 to 1824; volume 5 appeared in 1825. It consists mostly of articles reprinted from Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See also Cuvier 1812.)
 Webb, R.G. 2004 Trionychid turtle miscellany. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 119-121

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C Max

C Max is the maximum security division of Pretoria Central Prison (or as it is now known, the Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area), located within the City of Tshwane in central Pretoria, in South Africa. It is run by the South African Department of Correctional Services.

Description
The division is specifically designed for violent and disruptive prisoners who have been classified as dangerous in terms of the South African Criminal Procedure Act. Prisoners are kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours of each day out and specialized equipment, such as electric shields, are used by the prison guards. It consists of two rows of fifty cells each.

Prison escape
In November 2006, Annanias Mathe became the first person to escape from C Max. Mathe, who had extensive military training gained during the Mozambique civil war, is reported to have escaped by covering his body in Vaseline and squeezing through his tiny cell window . Mathe had been detained on more than 50 charges, including murder, rape, armed robbery and hijacking. He was recaptured two weeks after his escape following a large manhunt.

Notable inmates

Moses Sithole - Serial killer and rapist
Sipho Thwala - Serial killer
Annanias Mathe - Notorious serial rapist and robber
Eugene de Kock - Torturer and assassin
Clive Derby-Lewis - Assassin
Janusz Waluś - Assassin
Radovan Krejčíř - Organized crime boss

See also

Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area
Supermax prison

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Jen Ponton

Jennifer Ponton (born June 27, 1984) is an American actress, screenwriter and producer, best known for portraying Rubi in the AMC series Dietland.

Early life
Ponton is an only child raised in Bloomsbury, New Jersey; there she was a 2002 graduate of Phillipsburg High School, where she was active in the New Jersey Speech and Debate Forensics League, as well as drama club and musical groups. She is a 2006 graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she earned her BA in Theatre.

Career
Ponton began her career in 2010 with a guest role on the episode "Reaganing" on 30 Rock opposite Kelsey Grammer. She went on to make recurring appearances on Law & Order: SVU, The Heart She Holler, and The Slap, as well as guest appearances on Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Blue Bloods, Deadbeat and The Blacklist. In 2018 she portrayed body positive activist Rubi on the AMC drama Dietland. Ponton also starred in the 2016 film Love on the Run opposite Steve Howey and Frances Fisher, and she has narrated Jennifer Weiner's The Littlest Bigfoot audiobook series. On stage, she originated the role of Dorrie in Halley Feiffer's How to Make Friends and then Kill Them at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. She is a member of the Television Academy.

She is a body positivity and fat acceptance activist, having spoken at length about the importance of size inclusion in entertainment. She was also a featured activist and speaker at the 2018 TCF Style Expo and the 2018 CurvyCon.

Ponton is also the co-creator and star of the puppet-led web series The Weirdos Next Door.

Personal life
Ponton and her husband have been residents of the Budd Lake section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey.

Filmography

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John R. Taylor

John Robert Taylor is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his B.A. in mathematics at Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with thesis advisor Geoffrey Chew. Taylor has written several college-level physics textbooks. His bestselling book is An Introduction to Error Analysis, which has been translated into six languages. Taylor was designated a Presidential Teaching Scholar  in 1991. He has also received an Emmy Award for his television series Physics 4 Fun (1988–1990).

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Nikos Xanthopoulos

Nikos Xanthopoulos () (born 14 March 1934) is a Greek actor, known for his roles in the 1960s era Greek Drama Cinema. He was also a singer of Greek folk bouzouki, having released many albums and singles. He is known as "the child of the folk" (παιδί του λαού) mainly for playing roles depicting men from the lower working classes. He usually portrayed a poor man, hit hard by fate, seeking justice or one struggling against wealthy and evil men. In other cases, he played the role of an immigrant in Germany working hard to provide for his wife and child. Other times he played an unknown poor bouzouki player and singer working his way up to stardom.  From the late 1960s until the early 1970s, these roles helped him become a star in Greece during the dictatorship of the Junta.

Biography
Xanthopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1934. He was a stage actor from 1957 to 1963, but he soon devoted himself exclusively to cinema. His film debut was in 1958 with a small role in Η Ζωή Μου Αρχίζει Με Σένα (My Life Starts With You). At 1964 he started collaborating with director-producer Apostolos Tegopoulos and the film company KLAK Film. That's when he became most famous for his roles - a golden period that lasted until 1971. It was his roles portraying him as a singer and bouzouki player that dictated that he needed to learn how to sing. Apostolos Kaldaras, a famous Greek musician and composer, taught Xanthopoulos to sing. Xanthopoulos sang over 300 songs in 30 movies, but his singing talent was not confined to movies. He recorded 9 Albums and 55 singles.

Success
His most successful films were produced by KLAK Film, a film production company who specialized in Greek drama films, called μελό or σπαραξικάρδια. Film titles included,  Mάνα Γιατί Με Γέννησες (Mother, why did you birth me?) and Είμαι μια δυστυχισμένη (I am a miserable girl). Movies of that kind were successful.

Collaborations
Xanthopoulos collaborated with many young actresses of his time, including Martha Vourtsi. Martha Vourtsi and  Xanthopoulos, quickly became a duo, starring in 7 films, their most notable being "Περιφρόνα με γλυκιά μου"  (Contempt me, my dear). Other actresses that played the love interest of Nikos Xanthopoulos were: Angela Zilia, Afroditi Grigoriadou, Kakia Analyti, Katerina Vasilakou, Mairoula Evangelou, Dora Sitzani & Kaiti Papanika.

Filmography
Xanthopoulos starred in 48 movies from 1958 to 1971:

Antres xeroun na agapoun, Oi (1971)
Zousa monahos horis agapi (1971)
Aetos ton sklavomenon, O (1970)
Esena mono agapo (1970)
Giakoumis, mia romeiki kardia (1970)
Enas antras me syneidisi (1969)
Ftohogeitonia agapi mou (1969)
Gia tin timi kai ton erota (1969)
Odysseia enos xerizomenou, I (1969)
Sfragida toy Theou, I (1969)
Kardia enos aliti, I (1968)
Psihoula tou kosmou, Ta (1968)
Tapeinos kai katafronemenos (1968)
Xerizomeni geneia (1968)
Adiki katara (1967)
Kapote klaine kai oi dynatoi (1967)
Anthropos pou gyrise apo ton pono, O (1966)
Eho dikaioma na s'agapo (1966)
Katatregmenos, O (1966)
Sklavoi tis moiras (1966)
Apokliroi tis koinonias (1965)
Kardia mou papse na ponas (1965)
Me pono, me dakry (1965)
Perifrona me, glykia mou (1965)
Eimai mia dystyhismeni (1964)
Einai megalos o kaimos (1964)
Epikindinoi, Oi (1964)
Zitianos mias agapis (1964)
Zoi gemati pono (1964)
Agapisa kai ponesa (1963)
Amartola heria (1963)
Dipsa gia zoi (1963)
Gia tin agapi tou paidiou mou (1963)
Lenio i voskopoula (1963)
Misos (1963)
Pligomenes kardies (1963)
Den gnorisa mitera (1962)
Ekdikisi tou kavalari, H (1962)
Katrakilisma sto vourko (1962)
Pallikaras, O (1961)
Spiti tis idonis, To (1961)
Dervisopaida, Ta (1960)
Idoni kai pathos (1960)
Koritsi tou dromou, To (1960)
Mitros kai o Mitrousis stin Athina, O (1960)
Stahtobouta, I (1960)
Pos pernoun oi padremenoi (1959)
Zoi mou arkizei me sena, I (1958)

His most notable films are: Adiki Katara, Kapote Klaine Kai Oi Dynatoi, I Kardia Enos Aliti, O Katatregmenos, I Odysseia Enos Xerizomenou, Sklavoi Tis Moiras, Tapeinos Kai Katafronemenos, Ftohogeitonia Agapi Mou and Perifrona me Glykeia Mou.

External links
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Hetty Feather (TV series)

Hetty Feather is a British children's drama, which focuses on the life of the title character, who was abandoned as a baby and lives in a Foundling Hospital in London. It is based on the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. The first series aired from 11 May 2015 to 6 July 2015. Series 2 was first aired on 10 May 2016. Series 3 started airing on 8 May 2017 and finished airing on 10 July 2017. The fourth series started on 7 May 2018. The series was recommissioned for a fifth series in 2018. It has been confirmed by Isabel Clifton on Twitter that there will be a sixth series airing sometime in 2020, along with a Christmas special.

In the United States, the series airs on BYUtv. Series 1 and 2 began airing March 18, 2018 at 6 p.m. MDT. Series 3 and 4 aired on BYUtv in Autumn 2018 followed by season 5 in Autumn 2019. The Christmas Special premiered worldwide on BYUtv, 4 days before CBBC premiered it in the UK.

Premise
The premise of the series revolves around Hetty Feather, who was abandoned as a baby. She was fostered by Peg with Gideon Smeed, her foster brother and when they turned 5, they had to return to the Foundling Hospital. The series is set during 1887 and filmed at Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent and The Maidstone Studios as their production base. During series 3, filming moved to Belmont House in Faversham, Kent.

Characters

Main characters

Guest and recurring characters

Key
† marks that the character is now deceased/dead.

Past characters

Episodes

Series 1 (2015)

Special (2016)

After the end of the episode, The End Of It All in series 4, a five-minute crossover between The Dumping Ground and Hetty Feather aired on CBBC, titled A Special Dumping Ground Adventure. Its official title (according to CBBC Online) is Floss The Foundling and has instead used this title online and in subsequent TV airings.

Series 2 (2016)

Series 3 (2017)

Series 4 (2018)

Series 5 (2019)

Christmas Special (2019)

DVD releases
The first series of Hetty Feather was released on DVD on 27 July 2015. The first season was given a U (Universal) and a PG rating by the BBFC for mild bad language, mild scenes of threat and peril, and mild adult themes (specifically scenes centred on death and bereavement). The second series of Hetty Feather was released on DVD on 18 July 2016.

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Kneeland, Wisconsin

Kneeland is an unincorporated community located in the town of Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Magnan

Magnan may refer to:

Magnan (surname)
Magnan, Gers, a commune in Gers department, France
Magnan (river), a river in Alpes-Maritimes department, France


Christian Thum

Christian Thum also known as även von Thum, Thumb, Theun and Thun (d. 1655), was a Swedish (originally German) actor and theater director. He belongs to the earliest identifiable professional actors active in Sweden, was the leader of the theater of the Swedish royal court in 1628-1645, and the founder of the likely first theater in Sweden and Scandinavia, Björngårdsteatern  (1640).

Life
Christian Thum was from Germany, but it is unknown from where. He himself stated that he had been active in Sweden since 1615, but he is confirmed as such for the first time in Kalmar in 1624. He performed a theater play for queen Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg in 1628, and was from that point until 1637 engaged at her court as an actor, though not much is known of his activity. In 1637, he was transferred to the court of queen Christina of Sweden and is explicitly named director of the royal court theater: the regency government regarded a theater as a useful pedagogic method for the child monarch, and Thum had the monopoly of theater performances at the royal court. Only fragments is known of the activity of Thum. It is assumed that he performed English style theater, which was still the dominating theater in Germany at the time, though often performed in the German language. The Thum court theater acted on temporary stages and was an all-male theater company: the actors of the theater is unknown, but assumed to have been members of the Hovkapellet, as well as craftsmen from the guild of craftsmen, which traditionally staged theater performances.

Christian Thum bought the tavern Björngårdsteatern in 1640 and was given permission to stage theater there, though nothing is known of this activity either. The last theater performance staged at the royal court by Thum was in 1645: three years later, three foreign theater companies performed in Stockholm, followed by a number of English, German, Dutch and Italian companies, and the monopoly of Thum is estimated to have been discontinued.

References
 Gunilla Dahlberg: Komediantteatern i 1600-talets Stockholm (1992)

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First Lady of Bangladesh

First Lady of Bangladesh is the unofficial title given to the spouse of the president of Bangladesh. Prominent former first ladies include former prime minister Khaleda Zia and former opposition leader Rowshan Ershad.
The incumbent first lady is Rashida Hamid.

The title should not be confused with the husband or wife of the prime minister of Bangladesh.

Duties
Duties of the first lady are receiving foreign leaders along with the president, conversing with the spouse of the foreign leader, being a role model for the people of the nation, promoting of policies by the government urging public support of policies, and advocating for socio-economic change. An example of this is Rowshan Ershad who called for improvements in women's rights.

Appointment
The first lady takes up her role and office after the inauguration of the president of Bangladesh who is appointed by the Jatiya Sangsad. After the inauguration she resides with her husband at Bangabhaban.

List of first ladies

References

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Ambrosia cheiranthifolia

Ambrosia cheiranthifolia is a rare species of flowering plant known by the common names South Texas ambrosia and Rio Grande ragweed. It is native to the coast of South Texas and the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Coahuila. It occurs in coastal prairie, grassland, and mesquite shrubland habitat. It has declined because its native habitat has been cleared for development, with remaining open savanna invaded by non-native grasses such as buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris). Today there are perhaps 20 populations remaining, but some of these may have very few genetic individuals because the species is clonal, with many cloned plants attached by one rhizome. It is not certain that the plant still exists in Mexico. This is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.

Ambrosia cheiranthifolia is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing erect to a maximum height around 40 centimeters. Several clones usually grow in a dense patch. The stems and herbage are silvery green with a coating of rough gray hairs. The oblong leaves are 3 to 7 centimeters long and oppositely arranged on the lower plant but alternate on the upper stems. The inflorescence contains staminate flower heads in clusters with a few pistillate heads in leaf axils below the clusters.

This plant sometimes occurs alongside slender rush-pea (Hoffmannseggia tenella), another endangered species.

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Bela W. Jenks (born 1824)

Bela Whipple Jenks (June 6, 1824October 29, 1897) was a Michigan politician.

Early life
Jenks was born on June 6, 1824 in Crown Point, New York.

Career
Jenks was a farmer. On November 3, 1868, Jenks was elected to the Michigan Senate where he represented the 24th district from January 6, 1869 to 1872. In 1881, Jenks was appointed by Governor David Jerome to the Michigan Board of Education where he served until 1888.

Personal life
Jenks married Sarah Carleton on November 3, 1853. Together they had at least four children.

Death
Jenks died due to diabetes on October 29, 1897 in St. Clair, Michigan. Jenks was interred at Hillside Cemetery in St. Clair, Michigan.

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Carl Sferrazza Anthony is an author and commentator in the United States. He has written several books on American First Ladies. He was a speechwriter for Nancy Reagan. He is a historian for the National First Ladies' Library and has made dozens of appearances on C-SPAN. He lives in Los Angeles and has also written screenplays.

He was a contributing editor at George and a producer for the television movies Reagans (2003). He has written for several publications and his books have been reviewed in various magazines and periodicals.

Bibliography
First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power published by William Morrow, New York, New York Volume 1: 1789–1961 (1990) Volume 2: 1961–1990 (1991)
America's Most Influential First Ladies, Oliver Press in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1992)
As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the Words of Her Family and Friends, HarperCollins in New York, New York (1997)
Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President,  William Morrow in New York, New York (1998)
America's First Families: An Inside View of Two Hundred Years of Private Life in the White House, Touchstone in New York, New York (2000)
The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961–1963, Simon & Schuster in New York (2001)
Heads of State, Bloomsbury in New York (2004)
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era, William Morrow in New York (2005)
Edith Wilson: The First, First Lady President

References

External links

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William Sweet (American football)

William Sweet (born April 29, 1997) is an American football offensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Carolina.

Professional career
After going undrafted in the 2019 NFL Draft Sweet was signed by the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was placed on injured reserve on August 31, 2019, missing the entire season.

References

External links
North Carolina bio

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1961 Western Samoan referendum

A double referendum on a new constitution and independence took place in Western Samoa on 10 May 1961. A Constitutional Assembly of Matai and associated groups had been elected the previous year to draw up a proposed constitution. It reflected the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, but restricted both standing and voting in elections to the Matai. The referendums were supervised by the United Nations, and with both approved, the country gained independence on 1 January the following year.

Results

New constitution

Independence

References

Western Samoa
Referendum
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Kuntur Qaqa (Ancash)

Kuntur Qaqa (Quechua kuntur condor, qaqa rock, "condor rock", hispanicized spelling Condorgaga) is a mountain in the Cordillera Negra in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Recuay Province, Marca District.

References

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Category:Mountains of Ancash Region


Red Circle (law firms)

The Red Circle ("红圈" in Chinese) is an informal term for leading law firms in China.

The term was first used by The Lawyer magazine in a report in March 2014, which used the term to define eight top-tier law firms in China. The eight firms include: Commerce & Finance (通商), Global Law Office (环球), Haiwen & Partners (海问), Jingtian & Gongcheng (竞天公诚), Jun He Law Offices (君合), King & Wood Mallesons (金杜), Zhong Lun (中伦), in Beijing; and Fangda (方达) in Shanghai. The list was later repeated by The Lawyer in its 2014 issue of a China-focused legal market report. Since then, the term and the list have been adopted in China by other media.

See also
List of largest Chinese law firms
Magic Circle (law)
White shoe firm
Big Four law firms (Japan)

References

Category:Law firms of China
Category:Neologisms


Bloomberg Aptitude Test

The Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) is an aptitude test owned, published, and developed by Bloomberg Institute - an educational division of Bloomberg LP. It is used by employers in the business world to evaluate employment candidates. The exam tests individuals on their ability to think critically on financial topics and the results are used to measure their level of readiness for a career in business related fields. The exam is administered in 58 countries on university campuses and reaches out to employers on a global scale. It was first introduced as the Bloomberg Assessment Test, then changed into the Bloomberg Aptitude Test in 2013 as to reflect its ability in measuring innate financial potential and career skills rather than technical know-how and learned knowledge. It is now discontinued and replaced by a paid service called Bloomberg Market Concepts

Background and Scoring

The BAT was first introduced in 2010 as a three-hour-long exam. In 2013, the test kept the same scoring format but was shortened into a 2 hour long, 100 multiple choice question test that is tailored with a focus on analytical reasoning rather than terminology. The current test is scored from a scale of 200-800 points. Scoring also include percentile ranking which compares test takers globally for the same exam. All BAT scores are integrated into the Bloomberg Terminal. The BAT currently has these eight sections: [News Analysis (12 questions), Economics (12 questions), Math Skills (14 questions), Analytical Reasoning (12 questions), Financial Statements Analysis (12 questions), Investment Banking (12 questions), Global Markets (14 questions), and Chart and Graph Analysis (12 questions)].

Campus Proctoring

The Bloomberg Aptitude Test can be taken on university campuses through the Bloomberg Ambassador program. The ambassador program recruits student ambassadors from their university as the representatives responsible for proctoring and holding test sessions. Sessions held on campus may be requested by the university staff or their students. Sessions are also available at the Bloomberg office locations. All physical sessions can be taken at no charge for the first time.

E-Proctoring

E-Proctoring allows for the exam to be taken in a webcam proctored environment.

References

Aptitude Test


Aung Thu

Aung Thu is a Burmese name which may refer to:

Aung Thu (MP) (born 1966), Burmese politician
Aung Thu (activist) (born 1968), Burmese member of the 88 Generation Student Group
Aung Thu (footballer) (born 1996), Burmese striker
Aung Thu (minister) (born 1955), Burmese cabinet minister
Aung Thu (volleyball) (born 1993), Burmese volleyball player


Project Billboard

Project Billboard is a United States non-profit Democratic/progressive political advocacy group that seeks to utilize media outlets, such as outdoor billboard spaces, around the country to raise issues which concern the nation

In the news
In 2004, Project Billboard filed a breach of contract suit against Clear Channel for the rejection by its outdoor advertising division of a billboard ad against the war in Iraq. The ad, intended for a 40-foot billboard Clear Channel manages in Times Square, was to have the slogan, "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war," along with a red, white and blue cartoon image of a bomb. Clear Channel's contract with Project Billboard only allowed the company to reject ads that were illegal or contrary to public morals; Clear Channel claimed that the image of the bomb was insensitive in New York City, the site of the most devastating of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Project Billboard claimed that Clear Channel's rejection was instead for purely political reasons. Clear Channel settled the suit by agreeing to an alternative featuring an image of a peace dove instead of a bomb.

See also
Clear Channel Communications

External links
Official website

Category:Political advocacy groups in the United States


Jibe (band)

JIBE is an alternative rock band from Dallas, Texas best known for their song "Yesterday’s Gone" from their 2003 album Uprising.  Initially active from 1994 to 2004, they reformed in 2015 and released their fourth studio album Epic Tales of Human Nature in 2017.

Band history
Jibe began in late 1993 after friends Joe Grah and Toby Bittenbender met bassist Sean Robinson while working at Guitar Center in Dallas, Texas.  Drummer Ben Jeffries joined the other members upon moving to Dallas in February 1994. Jibe played their first show at a club called “The Basement” in Dallas in April 1994.  The group soon became known for their energetic and intense live shows and relentless touring schedule, playing well over a thousand concerts in their first five years.
Jibe released their first album, a live concert recorded at Trees in Dallas, in 1994.  The self-titled LP Jibe followed in 1996.

The band received their first taste of success in 2000 with their single "I’ll Meet You Halfway" from their second studio album In My Head, which reached the #1 spot on college radio stations in Texas and Louisiana.  Although compared by the press to classic rock acts such as James Gang and Led Zeppelin, the band cited contemporaries such as U2, Pearl Jam, and Jane’s Addiction as the primary influences on their developing sound.

In 2003 Jibe released their third album Uprising.  The single "Yesterday’s Gone" received significant national airplay and spent nine weeks in the top 30 on the national rock chart, peaking at #26.  The song soared to #1 at radio stations in Dallas, Austin, and Shreveport, and reached the top 10 at dozens of stations across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana and made the top 20 in several other markets nationwide. "Yesterday’s Gone" charted at #71 on Radio & Records year-end list of the top 100 rock tracks of 2003 and was chosen by the Dallas Cowboys as the music bed for their 2003 season. The song "Hypocrite" was also featured in an episode of the tv series One Tree Hill. Uprising was also a critical success, earning awards for alternative album of the year, male vocalist of the year, producer of the year, and song of the year at the 2003 KEGL local show awards.

Jibe quickly found themselves in high demand as an opening act for popular nationally touring post-grunge rock acts of the day such as Creed, Staind, Sevendust, Shinedown, Seether, Saliva, Ours, Oleander, Lit, Blue October, and Our Lady Peace.  Jibe toured with Nickelback, Jerry Cantrell, Josh Todd, Kings of Leon and Marilyn Manson and established themselves as one of the premier rock bands in the Dallas scene.

Breakup and hiatus
After playing over 2,500 concerts, Jibe suddenly broke up in June 2004, much to the dismay of their fans.  According to the Dallas Observer, the band seemed to be “perpetually perched on fame’s doorstep” and after the success of their most recent album, by all accounts were “on their way up”.  According to Jibe frontman Joe Grah, one night he simply got in his car and drove to Los Angeles and didn’t tell anyone for three days.   During his time in Jibe, Grah had become addicted to drugs and alcohol and believes that if he hadn’t left Dallas and broken up the band, he probably would have died.

After leaving Jibe, singer Joe Grah joined the band Loser in Los Angeles, which also featured guitarist John 5.  Loser was signed to Island Records and released the album Just Like You in 2006.  Following the dissolution of Loser, Grah fronted the bands South of Earth and I Am The Wolf.  He also formed the electronic rock project Dead Girls Don’t Lie.

Ben Jeffries drummed for the band The Feds from 2004 to 2008 before leaving the band to attend college.

Toby Bittenbender joined  Zayra Alvarez’s backing band and played on her 2006 album Ruleta. Later he played with Dallas rock band Overscene.

Corey Tatro played bass in the metal band DownLo, and also plays lead guitar in the Whiskey River Ramblers.

Legacy
Jibe’s reputation in the Dallas scene has become legendary. The legacy of the band is inextricably tied to the pinnacle of the Deep Ellum music scene of the 1990s and early 2000s.  Along with other prominent Dallas bands such as Tripping Daisy, The Toadies, Drowning Pool, Flickerstick, Edgewater, Old 97's, Slow Roosevelt and Reverend Horton Heat, Jibe are revered as standard-bearers of a bygone era when rock fans packed the clubs of Deep Ellum.

Reunion
Jibe played their first concert in eleven years on September 25, 2015 at Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill in Dallas.  The show was free, but required tickets which could be reserved at Dallas rock radio station KDGE’s website.  The tickets sold out in less than ten hours, and the concert was moved to a larger venue, where tickets again sold out.  In 2016 the band wrote and recorded a new album, Epic Tales of Human Nature with producer Matt Noveskey and mixer Toby Wright.  The first single from the album ,"We've Only Just Begun", was released November 8, 2016. The full album was released to fans who pre-ordered on June 9, 2017 and had a wider release on October 6, 2017. Along with the new album, Jibe also released a collection of B-sides and rarities. The second single from the album, "Release" soon followed, and proved to be a radio hit, peaking at #42 on the mediabase active rock chart in March of 2018. With Jibe's resurgence in full swing, the band joined Theory of a Deadman on a gulf coast tour in the summer of 2018, and headlined their own west coast tour in August. On September 26, Jibe opened for Slash at the House of Blues in Houston. Jibe was invited to join Candlebox's Fall 2018 tour, but had to cancel after Joe Grah was seriously injured in a head-on collision while riding his motorcycle in Hollywood on October 8, 2018. Grah made a full recovery, and wrote new songs throughout 2019, but Jibe has not played a live show since the accident.

Band members
Current
 Joe Grah – lead vocals (1993–2004, 2015-present)
 Toby Bittenbender – guitars (1993–2004, 2015-present)
 Corey Tatro – bass (1998–2004, 2015-present)
 Todd Harwell – drums (2017–present)

Former
 Sean Robinson – bass (1993-1998)
 Ben Jeffries  –  drums (1993-2004, 2015-2017)

Discography

Studio albums
 Jibe (1996)
 In My Head (2000)
 Uprising (2003)
 Epic Tales of Human Nature (2017)

Live albums
 Live at Trees (1994)

External links
Official website

References

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Dāya-Tattva

The Dāya-Tattva is a Hindu law treatise written by Raghunandana regarding the proper procedure for inheritance following the death of the father.  It is considered by many to be a follow up text to Jīmūtavāhana's digest, the Dāyabhāga.  Raghunandana is considered to be a "disciple" of Jīmūtavāhana, and his texts subsequently differ only slightly from the Dāyabhāga.

Translation
 The Dāya-Tattva was translated by the famous Hindu jurist, Golapcandra Sarkar.

Topics covered in the digest
 Partitions made by the father
 Partition among brother's after their father's death
 Persons not entitled to a share
 Property not eligible for partition
 Inheritance procedure for one who dies without a son

Location

The Dāya-Tattva is followed in the Bengal region of India.  Raghunandana is considered by many to be one of Bengal's greatest jurists.

References

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Farmer's Daughters

Farmer's Daughters is a 1976 American pornographic film directed by Zebedy Colt, who also starred in the film.

Premise
The film is about a farm in which the farmer's daughters gang-rape the farm hand Fred while the parents have sex. Soon thereafter, escaped convicts arrive and rape both the mother and her daughters in a twisted game of Simon says. Fred eventually returns and beats the convicts, only to continue the game himself and forcing the entire family to engage in incest due to how the daughters humiliated him earlier.

Plot
Shep (Colt) and Kate (Gloria Leonard) run a farm. Their daughters, Martha (Susan McBain), Jane (Nancy Dare) and Beth (Marlene Willoughby) also live on the farm as well as a farmhand named Fred (Bill Cort). The film starts as Fred ridicules the three daughters for peeping on their parents having sex. In return, the three daughters join up to carry him off. Their parents notice the commotion, but think their daughters just want to toy with him. Alas, the daughters push him into a bed and proceed to mount and gang rape him, which includes subjecting him to facesitting. After they are done, Martha spits his own ejaculation on his face. They then warn him not to tell their parents what they did. To stress the point, Beth whips his bottom with a flyswatter while Jane scratches him painfully. After they all urinate on him, they start gang raping him once again – at this point three escaped convicts walk by and see them.

The convicts (with their leader, George, played by Spalding Gray who would later become famous for his mainstream acting and monologue work) continue on to the parents' house and stop them in mid-intercourse. One of the convicts rapes Kate while another makes Shep watch and the third goes back to get the daughters. The first two convicts then knock out Shep and gang rape Kate together.

The daughters walk by the house and see their parents tied up naked and gagged. After they remove his gag, Shep tells them to run away, but outside they stumble into the convict who was sent to bring them earlier.
The three convicts then rape the three daughters in front of their nude parents in a twisted game of Simon says, until a returning Fred steals the convicts' sole shotgun.

Fred holds the convicts at gunpoint, but does the same to the family, telling them they have to pay for what the daughters did to him earlier. The convicts don't take him seriously and so he fatally shoots one of them. Turning back to the family, Fred orders the daughters' mother Kate to give him fellatio.

Interested to punish the family by making them engage in incest, Fred orders Martha to give a likewise fellatio to her own father Shep. After this, Fred makes the three daughters have sex with their mother Kate and orders the remaining convicts to urinate on the women. As Fred does the same, Shep is able to get hold of the shotgun and kill Fred.

The entire plot is then fast forwarded in reverse chronology, until it is revealed this was all a daydream that Fred was having while he was being urinated on by the farmer's daughters after they finished gang-raping him. The film ends as they splash water on him to "clean him up".

Cast
 Gloria Leonard as Kate
 Susan McBain as Martha
 Nancy Dare as Jane
 Marlene Willoughby as Beth
 Bill Cort as Fred
 Zebedy Colt as Shep
 Spalding Gray as George
 Jon Black as Butch
 Philip Marlowe as Pat

Reception
AVN's Mike Desert gave a triple feature containing Farmer's Daughters and fellow Zebedy Colt films Virgin Dreams and Sharon a 4 out of 5, and wrote that it was "chockfull of enough rough sex, rape, murder and incest for those who forget 'golden age' isn't always synonymous with 'tame'."

Ian Jane of Rock! Shock! Pop! called Farmer's Daughters a "grizzly pornographic take on the home invasion/Last House on the Left style of horror film" that was an uncomfortable viewing due to its sleazy and socially irredeemable content, and "rough, primal and at times almost amateurish feel". Jason Christopher of Film Dick deemed Farmer's Daughters a "puke-inducing" parade of bad taste that "sullies the good name of porn" and could only be arousing to the most askew of viewers.

See also
List of films featuring home invasions

References

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Arizona State Sun Devils men's ice hockey

The Arizona State Sun Devils ice hockey team is the second of only two NCAA Division I ice hockey programs in the United States Sun Belt (the other being Alabama–Huntsville).

The Sun Devils are former National Champions in 2014 ACHA Tournament. They played a hybrid schedule their first season in the NCAA (2015-16), playing games against club programs, NCAA Division III and NCAA Division I squads. Since then, they have played exclusively against Division I rivals.  They have always been an independent program, not affiliated with any conference. The Big Ten Conference, National Collegiate Hockey Conference, and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (though not Hockey East, ECAC Hockey, or Atlantic Hockey) have been seen as potential landing spots for Arizona State.  The Sun Devils will continue as an independent in 2019-20. The Sun Devils reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 2019.

History

Hockey began as a sport at Arizona State in the fall of 1973 with ASU students gathering at Tower Ice Plaza in Central Phoenix to play pick up hockey amongst each other. As collegiate club hockey evolved throughout the country, so did hockey at Arizona State.  By the late 80's ASU was fielding a full-fledged ice hockey team competing in Division II of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. In 1993, General Manager Mike Hoffarth led the program to achieving ACHA Division I status propelling the Sun Devil hockey program into the national spotlight by qualifying for the ACHA Division I National Tournament just two years later in the 1995–96 season. Then Head Coach, Gene Hammett would lead the program to three straight National Tournament appearances from 1995–1998. ASU has qualified for 10 ACHA Division I National Tournaments since competing at the Division I level in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, and developed 12 ACHA Division I All-Americans. In the 2013–2014 season the team won its first ACHA National Championship, defeating Robert Morris University-Illinois. In the 2015-2016 NCAA hockey season ASU played their first split schedule between ACHA Division 1 and NCAA Division 1 teams, marking their first transition year to become a full-time NCAA Division 1 hockey team.  In March of 2019 ASU became that fastest team to transition to NCAA Division 1 and make the NCAA Tournament, doing it in just 3 seasons.

Player Hall of Fame Inductees

Steve Hammett, Forward 1994–1998: Inducted 2009

Greg Powers, Goaltender 1995–1999: Inducted 2009

Adam Blossey, Defense 2001–2005: Inducted 2009

Tony Bonacorso, Defense 2004–2008, Inducted 2010

Ian Smith, Forward 1999–2003, Inducted 2010

Executive Hall of Fame Inductees

Gene Hammett, Head Coach 1992–2000: Inducted 2008

Mike Hoffarth, General Manager 1988–1999: Inducted 2008

Don Mullet, Donor: Inducted 2008

John Wold, Head Coach, General Manager, Oversight Committee 2001–present: Inducted 2009

Wayne Reid, Assistant Coach, Director of Hockey Ops, Oversight Committee 1992–present: Inducted 2009

Doug Maire, Video Coach, Projects Manager Executive Hall of Fame Inducted 2013, Lifetime Service Award 2014

National Tournament Appearances

1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98*, 2000–01*, 2003–2004, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–15

Final Four appearances: 2013, 2014, 2015

Awards and honors

NCAA

All-Americans
AHCA Second Team All-Americans

2018–19: Joey Daccord, G

ACHA Division I All-Americans

Steve Hammett, Forward: 1997–98

Greg Powers, Goaltender: 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99

Ian Smith, Forward: 2000–01, 2001–02 (Team USA, World University Games 2002)

Nils Satterstom, Forward: 2000–01

Adam Blossey, Defense: 2003–04, 2004–05 (Team USA, World University Games 2005)

Tony Bonacorso, Defense: 2006–07, 2007–08 (Team USA, World University Games 2008)

Joe Schweiger, Forward: 2008–09 (Eastern Michigan), 2009–10, 2010–11

Mark Schacker, Goaltender: 2010–11, 2011–12

Kale Dolinski, Forward: 2012–13

Colin Hekle, Forward: 2012–13

Ryan Clark, Defense: 2012–13

Joe D’Elia, Goaltender: 2012–13

Arena
The Sun Devils have continued play most of their home games at the Oceanside Ice Arena, though they play a few games each season at Glendale's Gila River Arena, home of the NHL's Arizona Coyotes. Following the Sun Devils' move to the NCAA, Oceanside underwent extensive renovations that expanded the capacity to 840 and gave the facility a facelift in ASU colors.

Arizona State University is building a new Multi-Purpose Arena that they plan to open in 2021 or 2022.  The 5,000 seat, 175K SF multi-purpose arena will be attached to the Wells Fargo Arena. It will be an integrated indoor sports complex, housing the Sun Devil Ice Hockey team, gymnastics, wrestling, and other sports.

Season-by-season results

All-time coaching records
As of April 1, 2019

Team

2019–20 roster
As of December 20, 2019.

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Coaches

Head coach
Coach Powers has been on the Sun Devil Coaching Staff for 12 years, and enters his fifth year as Head Coach of ASU's NCAA Division 1 Hockey Program.  Coach Powers was a finalist for the 2019 Spencer Penrose Award, which is awarded to the NCAA Division 1 Coach Of The Year.

Prior to becoming a NCAA Division 1 hockey team, Coach Powers helped guide the Sun Devils to their first ACHA Division 1 National Championship.

During the 2018-2019 hockey season, Coach Powers and his staff led the Sun Devils to become the fastest start-up program to qualify for the NCAA Division 1 Tournament in NCAA History.   The Sun Devils finished the season ranked 10th in the Pairwise rankings.

Coach Powers was a three time ACHA Division 1 All-American Goaltender while playing hockey for the Sun Devils, and graduated from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in 1999.  Powers was also inducted into the ASU Hockey Player Hall Of Fame in 2009.

Assistants and staff
 Alex Hicks - Assistant Coach  (former 15-year professional career including 5 years in the NHL with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, and the Florida Panthers)

 Mike Field - Associate Head Coach  (former Assistant Coach Division I and United States Hockey League)

 Eddie Lack - Volunteer Coach  (former 9-year professional career including 5 years in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks, Carolina Hurricanes, Calgary Flames, and the New Jersey Devils).

 Andrew Matheson - Director of Hockey Operations

 Jon Laughner - Coordinator, Equipment Operations

 Liane Blyn - Head Coach, Olympic Sports

 CJ Clarizio - Assistant Athletic Trainer

 Chase Drieberg - Equipment Student Manager

References

External links

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Engines of Creation

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with a foreword by Marvin Minsky. An updated version was released in 2007.   The book has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.

Synopsis
The book features nanotechnology, which Richard Feynman had discussed in his 1959 speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.  Drexler imagines a world where the entire Library of Congress can fit on a chip the size of a sugar cube and where universal assemblers, tiny machines that can build objects atom by atom, will be used for everything from medicinal robots that help clear capillaries to environmental scrubbers that clear pollutants from the air.  In the book, Drexler proposes the gray goo scenario—one prediction of what might happen if molecular nanotechnology were used to build uncontrollable self-replicating machines.

Topics also include hypertext as developed by Project Xanadu and life extension. Drexler takes a Malthusian view of exponential growth within limits to growth. He also promotes space advocacy arguing that, because the universe is essentially infinite, life can escape the limits to growth defined by Earth.  Drexler supports a form of the Fermi paradox, arguing that as there is no evidence of alien civilizations, "Thus for now, and perhaps forever, we can make plans for our future without concern for limits imposed by other civilizations."

Nanosystems (1992)
Drexler's 1992 book, Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation is a technical treatment of similar material. Nanosystems addresses chemical, thermodynamic, and other constraints on nanotechnology and manufacturing.

Engines of Creation 2.0 (2007)
An updated version of the book, Engines of Creation 2.0, which includes more recent papers and publications, was published as a free ebook on February 8, 2007.

Reception
The book and the theories it presents have been the subject of some controversy. Scientists such as Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley and renowned chemist George M. Whitesides have been particularly critical. Smalley has engaged in open debate with Drexler, attacking the views presented for what he considered both the dubious nature of the science behind them, and the misleading effect on the public's view of nanotechnology.

See also
The Limits to Growth, 1972 report
 Planetary boundaries

References

External links
Full text of version 1.0 (1986)
Full text in Italian: MOTORI DI CREAZIONE - L'era prossima della nanotecnologia
Full text in Chinese: 创造的发动机
Drexler's personal website and digital archive
Biography of K. Eric Drexler
"Engines of Creation – Nanotechnology Will Save Us" Synopsis by Dan Geddes

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Category:1986 in the environment
Category:Nanotechnology books
Category:Futurology books


Elisa e Claudio

Elisa e Claudio, ossia L'amore protetto dall'amicizia (Elisa and Claudio, or Love Protected by Friendship) is a two-act melodramma semiseria by the 19th Century Italian composer Saverio Mercadante from a libretto by Luigi Romanelli based on the play, Rosella by Filipo Casari.  It received its premiere performance at La Scala in Milan on 30 October 1821.

Mercadante began to compose operas in 1819, and Elisa was his seventh.  It "was his first great success, and his only comedy to maintain its place alongside the serious works of his later years.

Performance history
Initially successful, the opera was given at His Majesty's Theatre in London in April 1823, followed a month later at the then-named Théâtre royal Italien in Paris on 22 November. The US premiere occurred on 18 October 1832 in New York City.

Elisa is the only Mercadante comic opera to have been presented in recent years.  In fact, very few revivals of any of the composer's operas have taken place in the 20th century, but those of Elisa e Claudio include a 1971 presentation at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and 1973 performances at the occasional "Festival Mercadantiano" in the composer's home town, Altamura in Southern Italy, in which Salvatore Fisichella sang the role of Claudio. The Wexford Festival in Ireland has been instrumental in featuring Mercadante's work, and Elisa was given in October 1988.

Roles

Synopsis

Place: Tuscany
Time: early nineteenth century

Act 1
Scene 1: Inside Count Arnoldo's villa

The Marquis Tricotazio and his daughter Silvia have arrived to visit the Count a day earlier than expected.  The Marquis is looking forward to Silvia's marriage with the Count's son Claudio, but Silvia is in love with Celso, a former fellow-student of Claudio who has joined the Marquis's retinue.  The Count suspects that Claudio wishes to marry someone else, and has confined him to his room for a year, but Claudio, to the Count's surprise, agrees to the marriage.  This is a ruse which allows him to move more freely and, in particular, to visit Elisa, whom he has secretly married.  However, the Count's servant, Luca, has discovered the existence of Elisa and the two children that she has borne to Claudio.

Scene 2: Carlotta's cottage

Elisa and the children are staying with her friend Carlotta.  She is longing to be reunited with Claudio.  Carlotta arrives, indignant that Claudio is apparently to marry Silvia.  Claudio appears and is reproached by the women, but he convinces them that his consent to the marriage is a pretence.  After he has left, Luca and a gang of ruffians arrive and carry off the children, to the great distress of Elisa and Carlotta.

Scene 3: The gallery in the Count's villa

Silvia and Celso plan to elope, but suddenly Claudio and Carlotta arrive with the news that the children have been kidnapped.  The Marquis appears, but gets angry when no-one tells him what is going on.  The arrival of Luca and the servants does not improve his temper.

Scene 4: The Count's garden

The bewildered Marquis is taking the air when he is confronted by a furious Elisa, who accuses him of ordering the kidnapping.  He has no idea who she is or what she is talking about, and, assuming her to be mad, rushes off, pursued by Elisa.  Carlotta arrives, distressed because she has been unable to find Elisa, but the servants cannot help.

Scene 5: Inside the villa

Luca and the Count are discussing what to do with the children when the Marquis, still pursued by Elisa, arrives.  Silvia, Claudio, Carlotta and Celso now appear, and when the Count orders the servants to throw Elisa out, she realises that he, and not the Marquis, is her enemy.  The others plead with the Count, but he is adamant.

Act 2
Scene 1: The Count's garden

Luca refuses to tell the servants exactly what is going on and sends them away.  The Count reveals that he plans to offer Elisa a dowry if she finds someone to marry.  The Marquis tries to persuade the Count to abandon the marriage of Silvia and Claudio, but the Count will not listen.  Celso tells Silvia and Carlotta that he has acquired a key to a secret door through which Elisa and Claudio can escape.  He has also had an idea about how to find where the children are being kept.  Carlotta reflects that love has its sorrows as well as its enchantments.

Scene 2: Inside the villa

The Count tries to persuade Elisa to accept the dowry and the husband that he has selected for her.  She rejects both.  Celso, who had put his own name forward to the Count, offers Luca a share of the dowry if he will reveal the children's whereabouts.  Luca has no hesitation in accepting.

Scene 3: Night-time in the garden

Elisa, Claudio and Carlotta have escaped through the secret door.  They encounter the Marquis and then the Count, who has Luca's armed ruffians with him.  The Count and Claudio shout at each other until he gives the order for Elisa to be taken away and locked up.  After a scene of general confusion, Claudio meets Celso, who has freed the two children, and they hymn the power of friendship.

Scene 4: A room in the villa

Elisa is visited in her prison by Claudio and the children, and is overjoyed at their reunion.  Celso, Carlotta and the Marquis join the rejoicing.  The Count, still furious, is not impressed by Elisa's pleading with him, nor with the Marquis's support for her.  The Marquis is disconcerted to find that Silvia is in love with Celso, a servant, but recovers and agrees to their union.  Elisa offers to renounce her claim to Claudio if the Count will forgive his son, and finally the Count gives way and accepts their marriage, to general rejoicing.

Recordings

References
Notes

Cited sources
Rose, Michael (1998), "Elisa e Claudio" in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. Two.  London: MacMillan Publishers, Inc. 1998
Rose, Michael (2001), in Holden, Amanda (ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc.

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Albert D. Friesen

Albert "Bert" D. Friesen,  (born May 19, 1947) is a Canadian involved in biotechnology, innovation. and community service. His biotechnology career began as the first full-time employee and became the President CEO of The Winnipeg Rh Institute where he led the development of WinRho, one of Canada's first successful biotech products. He has also started numerous other biotech companies including a life science accelerator.

Friesen has been actively involved in a variety of community interests; Board of Directors Chair of Mennonite Economic Development Associates; an Executive member of the Premier's Economic Advisory Council and a member of the board of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) chairing the  Finance and Audit Committee.  He has led a Linden Woods senior housing initiative, Winnipeg Mennonite Seniors Care Inc. serving as Board Chair for thirteen years and led the development of an innovative personal care home, Bridgwater Mennonite Personal Care Home, a subsidiary of the Winnipeg Mennonite Seniors Care Inc.; Founding Director and Chair, the Canadian Industry Biotech Association, known as BIOTECanada; Friesen presently serves as Board Chair, President and CEO of Medicure Inc.

Early life
Friesen was born in the small village of Kane, Manitoba, Canada in a Mennonite farm community, where he was nurtured in his faith and love of the farm and science.

Biotech career
Friesen began his biotech career as the first full-time employee, May 1971, of The Winnipeg Rh Institute becoming the President and CEO, where he led the development of WinRho. In 1984 he started ABI Biotechnology Inc., one of the first biotech companies in Canada and the first to become profitable, 1990. The Winnipeg Rh Institute and ABI Biotechnology were merged in 1990. In 1991 The Winnipeg Rh Institute and ABI Biotechnology Inc. became under the control of Apotex Inc., and subsequently the 2 organizations became Cangene Corporation and Apotex Fermentation Inc.

In 1991, Friesen started Novopharm Biotech (became Viventia Biotech), as a division of Novopharm Ltd., and Genesys Pharma Inc. Other biotech companies started were, Genesys Venture Inc., Mantex Biotech (acquired by Myogen), DiaMedica Inc., Miraculins Inc., Kane Biotech Inc., CanAm Bioresearch Inc., Medicure Inc., GVI Clinical Development Solutions Inc., Marsala Biotech Inc., Koff Pharma Inc., Waverley Pharma Inc., etc.

Other biotech activities, include being founding Board Chair, in 1988, of the biotech association in Canada, now known as BIOTECanada.

Community service
Friesen is actively involved in a variety of community interests; an Executive member of the Premier's Economic Advisory Council and a member of the Board of Directors Canadian Foundation for Innovation Board (CFI) where he started in 1997. Was founding Board Chair of the Industrial Association of Biotech Canada (now known as BIOTECanada); served as a Director on the Advisory Board on SMEs to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; served a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee to the Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal. He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies; Co-Chair for the Manitoba Innovation Council, Friesen has an extensive network within the international biotechnology and corporate finance communities.  He has led the Lindenwoods Senior Housing initiative for thirteen years as past Board Chair of the Winnipeg Mennonite Senior Care Inc.

A strong advocate for "Business Solutions to Poverty", Friesen also chaired the international board of MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) from 2014 to 2017.

He is active in his Church and the father of three daughters and has nine grandchildren.

Awards
 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Manitoba – 2003
 Order of Manitoba – 2005
 Life Science Award - Individual Contribution to the Industry - Life Science Association of Manitoba - 2007
 The Industry Leadership Gold Leaf Award by BIOTECanada – 2013
 Faculty of Science Alumni Award, University of Manitoba, 2019, https://news.umanitoba.ca/celebrating-outstanding-faculty-of-science-alumni/

References

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Category:People from Pembina Valley Region, Manitoba
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Category:Members of the Order of Manitoba


Ermir Rezi

Ermir Zyber Rezi (born 12 May 1994) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a secondary striker for Albanian club Erzeni Shijak in the Albanian First Division.

Club career

Early career
Rezi began his career with KF Tirana at the age of 13 in 2007, where he would travel from his hometown Maminas in Durrës to Tirana for training under former Albanian international footballer Skënder Hodja. At the age of 15 he enrolled at the national sports school Bernardina Qerraxhia, where the school's football team was Shkëndija Durrës. As he had done at KF Tirana, he competed with age group two years older than himself, meaning he joined the under-17 team at Shkëndija, where he scored 19 goals before progressing to the under-19 side.

He became the best goalscorer in Albania at under-19 level, scoring 36 goals in 29 games to help his team finish 6th in the U-19 championship. The following season, he scored 7 goals in the first half of the campaign before transferring to the club he supported throughout his life, Teuta Durrës. During his time with Shkëndija he scored 62 goals in 65 games for both the U-17s and U-19s. At Teuta he initially joined the under-19s and scored 13 goals in the second half of the season and narrowly missed out on the national U-19 championship to Shkëndija Tiranë.

Teuta Durrës
He made his senior professional debut in an Albanian Cup match against Laçi on 20 February 2013, shortly after joining the club and scoring on his debut with the under-19s. On his debut he came on as a 55th-minute substitute for Alfred Deliallisi in the 1–0 win for his side. He made his first Albanian Superliga appearance once again in a 1–0 home win over Laçi, on 3 May 2013, coming on in the 76th minute for Ansi Nika.

He made 1 league appearance and 4 Albanian Cup appearances in the first half of the season before being loaned out to Albanian First Division side Elbasani in January 2014 for the remainder of the 2013–14 campaign. He made 9 league appearances, 6 of those from the starting lineup, as Elbasani won the First Division and achieved promotion to the Albanian Superliga.

Dinamo Tirana
On 2 September 2014, Rezi completed a transfer to fellow First Division side Dinamo Tirana by penning a one-year contract. He played his first match for the new club in the opening matchday against Luftëtari Gjirokastër, contributing with a goal in the injury time in an eventual 2–0 away win. He made 22 appearances throughout the year, scoring two goals, as Dinamo finished 6th in Group B. He left the club once his contract run out.

International career

Albania U20
Rezi was called up at Albania national under-20 football team by coach Skënder Gega to participate in the 2013 Mediterranean Games football tournament which began on 19 June 2013 in Mersin, Turkey. Rezi played in 4 out 5 Albania U20s matches in which 3 of them were full 90-minutes and 1 as a substitute. Albania U20 was ranked in the last place out of 8 teams.

Albania U21
Rezi debuted with Albania national under-21 football team on 6 May 2014 against Italy U21 under the coach Skënder Gega coming on as a substitute in the 51st minute in place of Maldin Ymeraj as the match ended in the 1–0 loss.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club
Elbasani
Albanian First Division: 2013–14

Kamza
Albanian First Division: 2016–17

Individual
Albania Championship U-19 top scorer: 2011-12

References

External links

FSHF profile

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Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Durrës
Category:Association football forwards
Category:Association football midfielders
Category:Albanian footballers
Category:Albania youth international footballers
Category:Albania under-21 international footballers
Category:KF Teuta Durrës players
Category:KF Elbasani players
Category:FK Dinamo Tirana players
Category:KF Erzeni players
Category:FC Kamza players
Category:Albanian Superliga players
Category:Albanian First Division players


Khoshkrud Rural District

Khoshkrud Rural District or Khoshk Rud Rural District () may refer to:
 Khoshkrud Rural District (Markazi Province)
 Khoshk Rud Rural District (Mazandaran Province)