Acadie—Bathurst

Acadie—Bathurst (formerly Gloucester) is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1867.

Until 1997, the riding was largely held by the Liberal Party thanks to strong support from the francophone Acadian population.  There is also a notable Red Tory tendency in the riding that enabled the former Progressive Conservative Party to win on occasion. In the 1997 federal election, the New Democratic Party's  Yvon Godin won an unexpected victory over powerful Liberal cabinet minister Doug Young, mostly due to his Union connections and EI recipients' reaction to Liberal cuts to Employment Insurance.  Godin held the riding until his retirement as of the 2015 federal election, at which point the Liberals reclaimed the riding as part of their sweep of Atlantic Canada.

Geography
The district includes eastern Gloucester County, and the communities along Nepisiguit Bay. The neighbouring ridings are Miramichi (electoral district) and Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

History
The electoral district was created at confederation in 1867, and was known as "Gloucester" until its name was changed in 1990.

In 2004, there were some legal problems regarding the 2003 boundaries. The following is from the Elections Canada website:

"In May 2004, the Federal Court of Canada made its decision in Raîche v. Canada (Attorney General), concerning a portion of the electoral boundary between the ridings of Miramichi and Acadie–Bathurst. The Court held that, in transferring certain parts of parishes from the riding of Acadie–Bathurst to Miramichi, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for New Brunswick erred in its application of the rules governing the preparation of its recommendations. The new boundaries commission was created under Part I of the Inquiries Act in response to this court decision."

The current boundaries reverted to the ones used in the 1996 representation after the 2006 election. As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding gained a small territory from what was part of Miramichi.

MP Yvon Godin's personal popularity ensured dominance throughout the riding for the NDP in the 2011 election. His long-time experience as a Union organizer possibly helped since he was otherwise not well known in Bathurst before the election, having moved in from the Acadian Peninsula where he was from. The Conservatives won just two polls in the Bathurst area and while the Liberals won most of the mobile polls, they won just one non-mobile poll, in Inkerman.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Election results

Acadie—Bathurst

2019 general election

2015 general election

2011 general election

2008 general election

2006 general election

2004 general election

2000 general election

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| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|NDP hold
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +0.59
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1997 general election

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| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|NDP gain from Liberal
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +32.8
|align="right"|

1993 general election

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|Liberal hold
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +14.8
|align="right"|

Gloucester, 1867–1993

|align="left" colspan=2|Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative.
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +12.88
|align="right"|

|align="left" colspan=2|Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"|+30.40
|align="right"|

|align="left" colspan=2|Liberal hold
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +15.7%
|align="right"|

Change for Progressive Conservative candidate Albany Robichaud from 1945 are based on his results running as an Independent.

Change for Independent candidate Albany Robichaud from 1940 are based on his results running as a National Government candidate.

The "National Government" was the temporary name of the Conservative Party for the 1940 elections, and changes from 1935 are based on the results of the Conservative Party.

Note: Change in popular vote is calculated from popular vote in the 1935 general election.

Note: Change in popular vote is calculated from popular vote in the 1921 general election.

Note: Change in popular vote is calculated from popular vote in the 1891 general election.

Student Vote results

2011 election
In 2011, a Student Vote was conducted at participating Canadian schools to parallel the 2011 Canadian federal election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.

See also
 List of Canadian federal electoral districts
 Past Canadian electoral districts

References

Riding history for Gloucester from the Library of Parliament
Riding history for Acadie-Bathurst from the Library of Parliament
Campaign expenses from Elections Canada

Notes

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Teratocoris paludum

Teratocoris paludum is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.

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David Hughes (Hertfordshire cricketer)

David Hughes (born Nicholas David Hughes on 6 July 1978) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Hertfordshire. He was born in Dublin.

Hughes, who made a single appearance for Hampshire Second XI in 1997, and two appearances in 1999 for Surrey Second XI, made his only List A appearance during the 2000 NatWest Trophy, against Cambridgeshire. From the opening order, Hughes scored a duck with the bat, and took bowling figures of 0-34.

External links
David Hughes at Cricket Archive

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Downbeat

Downbeat, down beat or Down Beat may refer to:
Downbeat and upbeat, the first and last beats, respectively, of a measure in music
DownBeat, an American jazz magazine
Downtempo or downbeat, a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music
 Down Beat, the NATO reporting name of the Leninets PN radar carried by the Russian/Soviet Tupolev Tu-22K bomber
 Downbeat Jazz Club, a jazz club in New York City


Wall of Fire

Wall of Fire may refer to:

 Wall of Fire (album), the second solo album by Peter Elkas
 "Wall of Fire" (song), a song by The Kinks
 Wall of Fire (mountain), a 700 m cliff face of vertically displaced quartzite in the Swartberg mountain range in South Africa
 Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire, the fourth game in Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series
 The Wall of Fire, also known as Incident II, the traumatic memories associated with the ruler Xenu in Scientology

See also

 Firewall (disambiguation)
 Wall Fire, a 2017 wildfire near Bangor, Eastern Butte County, California
 Ring of Fire (disambiguation)


Jean-Yves Ferri

Jean-Yves Ferri () (born 20 April 1959) is a French writer, designer, and colourist of comics.

On 25 July 2011, he was chosen as the writer for the next installment of the Asterix series created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Uderzo personally mentored him and Didier Conrad, who was subsequently announced as the artist. The 35th Asterix volume, Asterix and the Picts was published on October 24, 2013. The next volume, the 36th Asterix volume, Asterix and the Missing Scroll, was released on October 22, 2015 and the 37th volume, Asterix and the Chariot Race, was released in October 2017.

Prizes
Prix de l'Humour noir Grandville in 2005 (Revoir Corfou)
Prix Jacques Lob in 2008
Prix Virgin 2005 (Le Vaste Monde)

Publications
 Fables autonomes, Audie

Tome 1, 1996
Tome 2, 1998

 Aimé Lacapelle, Audie

Je veille aux grains, 2000
Tonnerre sur le sud-ouest, 2001
Poules rebelles, 2003
Bêtes à bon diou, 2007

Le Retour à la terre, with Manu Larcenet

 La Vraie Vie, 2002.
 Les Projets, 2003.
 Le Vaste Monde, 2005.
 Le Déluge, 2006.
 Les Révolutions, 2008.

Revoir Corfou, le recueil des dessins hors-séries, collection Azote Liquide, Audie, 2004
Correspondances, with Manu Larcenet, Les Rêveurs, coll. « M'as-tu vu », 2006.
Le Sens de la vis, with Manu Larcenet, Les Rêveurs, coll. « M'as-tu vu »,

tome 1 : Le Sens de la vis (2007)
tome 2 : Tracer le cercle (2010)

De Gaulle à la plage, Dargaud, coll. « Poisson Pilote », 2007. Couleur Patrice Larcenet.
Asterix and the Picts - 2013
Asterix and the Missing Scroll - 2015
Asterix and the Chariot Race - 2017Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter - 2019

References

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Harisadhan Dasgupta

Harisadhan Dasgupta (1923-1996) was an Indian film director from Calcutta who was most prolific in the 1950s and 1960s. Dasgupta specialized in surveying subjects of fascination to the Bengali public.

Dasgutpa attended the University of Southern California and later the University of California, Los Angeles to study film-making. He studied for a time under Hollywood producer Irving Pichel. Upon completing an apprenticeship, he returned to Calcutta to produce documentaries.

Over a lengthy career, Dasgupta produced many documentaries, long and short. He was best known for his English language documentaries on the Bengali people's situation, including such works as Panchthupi: A Village in West Bengal (1955), Panorama of West Bengal (1961), Glimpses of India (1965), and The Automobile Industry in India (1969). He became most well known for his classic documentary commissioned by Tata Steel, India's largest private corporation, titled Tata: The Story of Steel. As with several of his films, this documentary was scripted by Satyajit Ray. Throughout his career, Dasgupta also worked with several other leading lights involved in Calcutta's film-making renaissance, including Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Claude Renoir, Jean Renoir, Ravi Shankar, Chidananda Dasgupta, and Asit Sen. In 1947, Dasgupta co-founded the Calcutta Film Society along with Satyajit Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, RP Gupta, Bansi Chandragupta and others.

Dasgupta was involved in a highly publicized incident when his wife Sonali left their marriage and their six-year-old son for Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. Their son Raja later expressed relief when she passed due to their estrangement.

References

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Latxa

The Latxa (; ) is a breed of domestic sheep native to the Basque Country of Spain. Mostly contained within the provinces of Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre, Latxa are dairy sheep whose unpasteurized milk is used to produce Idiazábal and Roncal cheeses. There are two sub-types of the breed, a dark-faced and a blonde.

The breed is a medium or small-sized sheep with long, coarse wool. Ewes are polled or have short horns, while rams always possess long, spiral horns. The name latxa itself refers to the rough quality of the wool, which is largely an agricultural byproduct today.

Traditionally, Laxta sheep have been managed by moving the flock to mountain pastures in summer when the ewes have finished lactating, with cheese-making taking place on the farm. Some flocks are moved while still lactating, with the animals being hand-milked on the high pastures. Since 1982, a breeding scheme has been introduced and new production methods tested. Artificial insemination is being used to provide earlier lambing and prolong the breeding season and machine milking is taking the place of hand milking. The mountain pasture is still used as a "free" resource, and the sheep do not compete with cattle and horses which graze the more level areas, because the sheep prefer herbaceous plants on more steeply sloping land.

Latxa have a seasonal lactation cycle which does not produce as great a volume of milk as other dairy breeds. Recently some Basque Country farmers have begun to use hybrid Assaf sheep, which some maintain does not meet the Denomination of Origin for the cheese.

See also
List of sheep breeds
Basque breeds and cultivars

References

Further reading

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Gudazran

Gudazran (, also Romanized as Gūdazrān; also known as Gūdarzān) is a village in Esfandaqeh Rural District, in the Central District of Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 87, in 20 families.

References

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Frosthardr

Frosthardr is a Norwegian Christian unblack metal band, formed in 1997. The band plays a rawer type of black metal music with occasional punk influences and lyrics from Christian point of view. The drummer Pål Daehlen (Savn) is a former member of the influential dark metal group Vaakevandring, and the vocalist/guitarist Jokull has played as a live member for the ground breaking act Antestor. Frosthardr has achieved some media notice: They appeared on the British 2007 documentary film Murder Music: A History of Black Metal, and are one of the featured bands on the 2008 documentary film, Light in Darkness – Nemesis Divina, focused on Christian black metal. Signed to Momentum Scandinavia, the band has released a demo and two EPs. In 2007, they played concerts at Cornerstone Festival, Bushnell, Illinois, USA.

A full-length album was released in late 2018 on Nordic Mission Productions.

History
In March 1997, the bass player Jokull formed Frosthardr and was joined by vocalist Dr. E. He switched from vocals to guitar and Jokull did vocals while still playing bass. After a while, Jokull started playing guitar along with vocals.

In 2001, a drummer known as Savn joined them. Frosthardr recorded a two-song demo titled Necrodisaster 2002 in the summer of 2001. They performed live as a three-piece band alongside the gothic metal band Grøde and Diamondog. In January 2002, Ozol joined Frosthardr on bass. Necrodisaster 2002 was released in March, and Frosthardr did their first real live performance at Askim Metal Night among with groups such as Drottnar, Mondo Revolver, Bleedience, and Questor. Later that summer they played at DP-Arts & Music festival in Blaker, Norway, alongside over 50 other groups and artists.

The band was a part of a sampler album for Tarantula Promotions, titled Arachnid Terror Sampler, which featured bands such as Soul Embraced, Tortured Conscience, Kekal and Frost Like Ashes.

In between writing new songs during 2003, Frosthardr played at Destructionfest in London, UK, and Nordicfest in Oslo, Norway before entering the studio to record their debut EP Maktesløs. The EP was recorded and mixed during the winter and released through Momentum Scandinavia in March 2004. During the same month Frosthardr and Drottnar did a small tour in Switzerland and Czech Republic, including a concert at the Elements of Rock festival in Switzerland. They also played Metalafton in Alingsås in April, and a couple of shows in December 2004. Jokull played bass in Antestor's live performances during Bobfest 2004. During early 2005 Frosthardr made a minitour with the Dutch band Slechtvalk.

Frosthardr recorded new material in 2006 and first released an EP, Varg, in 2007. In 2007 they played at Cornerstone Festival, appeared on the documentary film Murder Music: A History of Black Metal in which vocalist Ravn Furfjord reveals that "It is difficult to find people who are interested in this kind of music and share our point of view, the Christian point of view." The band was featured on the 2008 documentary, Light in Darkness – Nemesis Divina, which was shown at film and music festivals throughout the world and deals with the commonly viewed as 'paradoxal' concept of Christian black metal. The documentary was produced by Stefan Rydehed, whose previous works include a documentary on the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.

They released the self-titled album "Frosthardr" the 1st of December 2018 on physical formats, and the album was later released digitally the 21st of January 2019.

Members
Current
Ravn "Jokull" Furfjord - guitar, vocals (1997–present), bass (1997)
Dr. E - guitar, additional vocals (1997–present)
Oddmund "Ozol" - bass (2002–present)
Pål "Savn" Dæhlen - drums (2001–present)

Live
 Morten "Sygmoon" Sigmund - keyboards
 David "Djerv" Ryste - vocals (2015–present)

Discography
Necrodisaster (demo, 2002)
Maktesløs (EP, 2004)
Varg (EP, 2007)
Frosthardr (album, 2018)

References

External links

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KPBL

KPBL (1240 AM, Lakes Area Country Radio) was a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Hemphill, Texas, United States, the station served the Lufkin-Nacogdoches area.  The station was owned by Philburr.

The station's license expired on August 1, 2013, due to the station failing to file an application for renewal.

References

External links

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Who's da Man

"Who's da Man" (styled as "Who's da' man") is a Swedish song performed by Elias, featuring Swedish singer Frans. The song was released as a digital download in Sweden on 17 May 2006. The song is a praise of the football player Zlatan Ibrahimović. The song is sung in the Scanian dialect of Swedish. The song was the biggest summer Swedish hit of 2006, staying at the top of the charts for 10 consecutive weeks. Elias and Frans also performed the song at Allsång på Skansen.

During June 2006, the song was played by the carillon in the Fredrik Church in Karlskrona three times every evening until Sweden was knocked out of the tournament.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links
Music video for "Who's da Man"

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Jordanoleiopus zanzibaricus

Jordanoleiopus zanzibaricus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1967.

References

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Dipjol

Monowar Hossain Dipjol (; born 15 June 1958) is a Bangladeshi actor, businessman, and former ward commissioner. Dipjol is arguably the greatest and scariest villain in history. He has been convicted on numerous charges, including possessing illegal firearms and ammunition, and amassing and concealing illegal wealth. He has been proven innocent and released from jail due to lack of evidence.

Early life
He was born on 15 June 1958 at Bagbari, ward no. 9, Mirpur, Dhaka. He is married to Rumana Monowar.

Career
He is a Dhallywood film actor, and owns Dipjol Food Industries Limited. Dipjol is the most well-known villain in Bangladeshi cinema. He is best known for his style of dialogue and action. He is a supporter of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and was elected ward commissioner of Dhaka ward number 9 in 1994.

Criminal charges
He was sentenced to jail in 2007 on an arms charge. He was later convicted of numerous charges, including amassing and concealing illegal wealth, and was given a 41-year term. He was released after securing his bail from Bangladesh High court on 1 June 2009.

In September 2017 he fell ill and after being taken to hospital was diagnosed as having had a heart attack and suffering from water on the lungs. He underwent heart surgery at Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

Filmography

References

External links

 Dipjol on Bangla Movie Database

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Tianming (disambiguation)

Tianming may refer to:

Mandate of Heaven (天命), traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers
Tianming, Shaanxi (天明), a town in Chenggu County, Shaanxi, China

Historical eras
Tianming (天明; 623–624), era name used by Fu Gongshi, self-proclaimed emperor of Song during the Sui–Tang transition
Tianming (天命; 1616–1627), era name used by Nurhaci, Manchu chieftain and khan of the Later Jin

Film and TV
Daybreak (1933 film) (天明), 1933 Chinese silent film
Succession War (TV series) (天命), 2018 Hong Kong TV series


Cliff Thornton

Clifford "Cliff" W. Thornton, Jr. (born January 16, 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American drug policy reform advocate and Green politician who served as one of the seven co-chairs of the Green Party of the United States.

Career
In 1995, Thornton founded efficacy-online.org, a non-profit organization, to educate about drug policy reform.

Thornton retired from Southern New England Telephone Corporation, in Connecticut in 1997 where he was a middle-level manager.

From 2003 to 2008, Thornton spoke to over 400,000 people on drug reform in 750 venues around the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. Thornton appeared on over 400 radio shows and numerous television spots on drug policy reform as it relates to health, race/class and economics.  He is described as "America's foremost anti-Drug War African American activist" by Amherst College's online newspaper. Thornton also speaks on education, and health care.

In 2006, Thornton was the nominee of the Connecticut Green Party for Governor. He was the first African American candidate to appear on the general election ballot for Governor of Connecticut. In October 2006, Thornton was initially invited to a gubernatorial debate co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and The Day newspaper of New London, before being uninvited due. His campaign received 9,583 votes for just under one percent of the overall vote.

In 2007, Thornton received the Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action from the Drug Policy Alliance.

Thornton and his wife Margaret now live in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He has five daughters and two granddaughters.  Thornton, an Army veteran, earned a bachelor's degree in Marketing from Waterbury's Post University in 1986.

Notes

External links
Efficacy, Mr. Thornton's drug policy reform site.

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Gill Stadium

Gill Stadium is a sporting stadium located in Manchester, New Hampshire.  It is one of the oldest concrete-and-steel ballparks in the United States. The venue, which mainly hosts amateur baseball and football contests, has a capacity of 3,012.

Beech Street Grounds
Children and organized amateur teams had played baseball since at least 1880 in the area east of the Valley Cemetery, which was known as "the Plains."

A ballpark called the Beech Street Grounds was built on the site of Gill Stadium at the corner of Beech and Valley Streets, on land owned by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. The park had a wooden fence and two wooden grandstands. Its main entrance was located on Beech Street. This was near third base, and home plate was in the field's southwest corner. Baseball was played there between 1891 and 1894. In its first two years, the park was home to a minor-league baseball team, the Manchester Amoskeags of the New England League.

Varick Park
In 1894, local businessman Thomas Varick purchased an interest in the park, moved the two grandstands and designated one as men-only, constructed a 40-foot-wide, quarter-mile dirt bicycle and running track, and renamed the complex Varick Park. The baseball diamond was reoriented so that home plate was along the west (Beech Street) side of the field and the entrance was off Valley Street. As well as baseball, the park hosted track-and-field events, football and soccer games, and outdoor events for Amoskeag.

During the 1890s, control of Varick Park passed from Varick to William Freeman. The park was again home to several minor-league baseball teams in the New England League called the Manchester Amoskeags in 1891, the Manchesters in 1899, and the Manchester Textiles in 1906.

Textile Field
In June 1912, Amoskeag officials began negotiations with Freeman to take control of the park for use by the city manufacturers' baseball league. In December 1912, Amoskeag announced that the field had been renamed Textile Field and that it would be reoriented and completely rebuilt as a modern, brick-and-concrete baseball facility.

The current grandstand was built in 1913 at a cost of more than $30,000. It was designed by Amoskeag engineers using brick in the style and color of the mills in Amoskeag's millyard, and built by the Amoskeag Textile Club, which was funded by Amoskeag and whose members were Amoskeag employees.

A single, covered grandstand was built, gently curved to provide for watching either baseball or football. For safety, concrete ramps were constructed along the sides and rear of the grandstand. Steel trusses and posts supported the roof. Although portions of the roof, floor, and some of the posts supporting the seating platform were of wood, publications from the period of construction — including Amoskeag's employee newspaper, the Amoskeag Bulletin — considered it "fireproof", like those being built in major-league cities between 1909 and 1915.

Textile Field was one of the first concrete-and-steel stadiums in the United States, the first not in a major city.  Only Harvard Stadium in Allston, Massachusetts (1903), Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama (1910), and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts (1912) are older surviving examples.

The construction appears to have been part of Amoskeag's benevolence programs.  Amoskeag, which employed about 17,000 people in a city of 65,000, included among its workforce a large number of immigrants.  In the minds of Amoskeag managers, the most troublesome of this group were the most recent arrivals from Greece. Recent immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were being blamed for the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike in nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts, which resulted in much violence and the involvement of the radical Industrial Workers of the World union. Amoskeag, which was not unionized, wanted no such trouble, particularly in light of the fact that IWW operatives were seen in Manchester during the Lawrence strike. The company hoped to find a way to "Americanize" its workforce, thereby giving workers a stronger connection to the company and to the United States, and to find diversionary activities, like baseball, to keep them from unionizing in their free time.

Amoskeag, along with the McElwain Shoe Company and other industries in Manchester, organized the city Manufacturers' League in 1912. The league played at three locations in Manchester, of which Varick Park was the most important. Its reconstruction in 1913 as Textile Field made the league seem more professional. Textile Field made its debut over Memorial Day weekend of 1913, but the grandstand was not entirely completed until late July. The dedication game came on September 8, when the World Champion Boston Red Sox — playing its major-league lineup for nearly the entire game — defeated the Manufacturers' League All-Stars, 3-1. A year later, the World Champion Philadelphia Athletics defeated the All-Stars, 7-1. The score and the "vaudeville" act put on by the Athletics in the final inning — in which they changed positions and performed "trick" plays — made Amoskeag reconsider its commitment. Increased on- and off-field problems with players, who were hired ostensibly to work for the textile company but in reality were employed for their baseball skills, also led the Textile Club to withdraw its support for the Manufacturers League.

A team from the New England League moved from Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Textile Field in July 1914 as the Manchester Textiles. It played there in 1915 as well. Thereafter, Textile Field became the sole domain of the city's manufacturers and schools until 1926. In September 1923, Amoskeag brought in the National League's Brooklyn Robins (now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) to play against the company team.

Athletic Field
Textile Field was purchased by the City of Manchester in 1927 and, in a name-the-field contest conducted by the Manchester Union-Leader, renamed Athletic Field. Athletic Field hosted three professional teams of the New England League: The Manchester Blue Sox played there from 1926–1930, winning championships in 1926 and 1929, but the league folded in mid-1930. The Manchester Giants, affiliated with the New York Giants, made the post-season in 1946 and 1947; and the Manchester Yankees, affiliated with the New York Yankees, played there in 1948 but disbanded on July 19, 1949 for financial reasons.

Gill Stadium

In 1967, the stadium was renamed Gill Stadium, after former Parks and Recreation Director Ignace J. Gill, who served from 1935 to 1967. In 1971 and 1972, an Eastern League (class A) team, also called the Yankees, played there. Additionally, the Eastern League's Nashua Angels played a game at Gill Stadium in 1983.

The stadium was renovated extensively in preparation for the inaugural 2004 baseball season of the Eastern League's New Hampshire Fisher Cats (the class AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays), acquiring an aluminum floor and molded plastic chairs, new clubhouses adjacent to the grandstand, and dugouts in what was formerly the dirt track. An elevator provided handicapped access to the rooftop press box. The grass surface was replaced with FieldTurf and the ticket booth and lavatories were renovated.

The Fisher Cats brought the 2004 Eastern League title home to Gill. In 2005, a new municipal baseball stadium — now known as Northeast Delta Dental Stadium — was completed along the Merrimack River near downtown, and the Fisher Cats made their scheduled move there.

Over the years, Gill Stadium has served as the home field for city high-school and American Legion ball clubs. The stadium hosted the American Legion World Series on five occasions. Gill Stadium continues to host numerous amateur baseball teams, and Manchester's annual Thanksgiving football tournament, the Turkey Bowl, which pits two of the four city schools against each other each year based on their performance during the just-completed season.

On-site parking comprises 300 spaces, accessible from Beech Street. Additional parking may be available just north at the adjacent John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum, or on side streets.

References

External links
 Gill Stadium Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues
 Scott and Stephanie Roper, "The Battle for Textile Field." Outside the Lines 12:2 (Summer 2006)

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Hani al-Hassan

Hani al Hassan (Arabic: هاني الحسن; l939 – 6 July 2012), also known as (Abu Tariq, Abu-l-Hasan), was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council.

Early life
He was born in Haifa in northern modern-day Israel in 1939. He is the younger brother of Khaled al-Hassan, one of founding members of Fatah. He spent time as a refugee in Yarmouk camp, near Damascus, where he organized an Islamist slate, Shabab al Aqsa, to compete in student elections. He joined  the Muslim Brotherhood in early 1950s. He went on to study engineering in the late 1950-60s in West Germany (Darmstadt and Munich), where he worked through the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Europe, and acted as Fatah’s main Europe link after he merged his own commando group to Fatah in 1963 until 1967. He also served as President of GUPS from 1962. He pursued Ph.D. studies in media in USSR.

Political career
Al Hassan returned to Gaza in 1995 and began to act as the head of Foreign Relations in Fatah and a political adviser to Arafat. He served as regional head in Jordan briefly in early 1970, then as Salah Khalaf’s deputy in Rasd, along with being a central committee leader during this time period. Beginning in 1974, he acted as a political aide to Yasser Arafat, an ambassador to Tehran, and became an ambassador to Amman in 1982. He retains good ties to the Gulf States. He became a member of Fatah-Central Committee in May 1980. He was critical of the leadership's stance towards Iraq after August 1991, and at Oslo, but returned to Gaza Strip in November 1995, and became the chief political adviser to Arafat as well as PLO-CC member & head of the Palestinian National Council foreign relations committee. He was appointed Interior Minister on 29 October 2002.

Mahmoud Abbas attempted to drop him from the PA cabinet, and despite Arafat's resistance, he was replaced in April 2003. He is slated to act as Arafat's national security adviser. Al Hassan was head of Fatah's Bureau of Mobilisation and Organisation and (maktab at-ta`bia wat-tandhim) until April 2007, when he was replaced in that role by Ahmed Qurei. Al Hassan went on to become a National Security Adviser but was dropped by Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007, following his comments made on Al Jazeera.

Following Hamas' takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Hassan caused a major row in Fatah by giving an interview on Al-Jazeera in which he said that there had been no conflict between Hamas and Fatah but rather a conflict between loyal Palestinians in both camps and a small minority in Fatah who were preparing a coup to overthrow Hamas with American backing. He made it clear that he was referring essentially to the followers of Muhammad Dahlan. Hassan's statement was quickly rebutted by an official Fatah spokesman who portrayed Hassan as endorsing a Hamas coup.

References

External links
 "PA Interior Minister al-Hassan: Soldiers, settlers legitimate targets" - Jerusalem Post

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Dorrel Rock

Dorrel Rock () is a rock outcrop 11 nautical miles (20 km) southwest of the summit of Mount Murphy, protruding through the ice near the head of Pope Glacier, on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Leo E. Dorrel, U.S. Navy, a hospital corpsman with the Byrd Station winter party, 1966.

References

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Daphne Touw

Daphne Touw (born January 13, 1970 in Teteringen, North Brabant) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who played 68 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team. She made her debut on July 3, 1993 against Germany, and was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Galatasaray Kalamış Facilities

Galatasaray Kalamış Facilities is the training center of Galatasaray Sailing Team, Galatasaray Men's Water Polo Team and Galatasaray Women's Water Polo Team and a social complex with an indoor hall, a restaurant, a patisserie, olympic swimming pool and fitness center. It is located at Kalamış, İstanbul.

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Remote pickup unit

A remote pickup unit or RPU is a radio system using special radio frequencies set aside for electronic news gathering (ENG) and remote broadcasting.  It can also be used for other types of point-to-point radio links.

An RPU is used to send program material from a remote location to the broadcast station or network.  Usually these systems use specialized, high audio fidelity radio equipment.  One manufacturer, Marti, was best known for manufacturing remote pickup equipment, so much so that the name is usually used to refer to a remote pickup unit regardless of who the actual equipment manufacturer actually is.

Today much of the remote broadcast use digital audio system fed over ISDN telephone lines.  This method is favored because of reliability of telephone lines versus a radio link back to the station.  The radio RPU remains much more favored for ENG however, because of its flexibility.

Footnotes

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Dermatobotrys

Dermatobotrys is a rare plant genus endemic to coastal scarp forests in Madagascar and from southern Zululand to the Transkei in South Africa. It consists of a single species, Dermatobotrys saundersii, which is an epiphytic, deciduous shrub, of up to  in height, growing on trees or occasionally on the forest floor. Its flowers are tubular and deep red, followed by smooth, brownish fruit.

References
 Bolus, 1894 In: Hook. Icon. pl. 20: (1890) t. 1940, et in Bot. Mag. t. 7369
 The Plant List entry
 PlantZAfrica entry

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Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place in the Carrara Stadium on 9 and 10 April 2018.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:

Schedule
The schedule was as follows:

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Event results
Competitors contested a series of 10 events over two days, with their results being converted into points. The final standings were decided by their cumulative points tallies.

100 metres
Results after event 1 of 10:

Long jump
Results after event 2 of 10:

Shot put
Results after event 3 of 10:

High jump
Results after event 4 of 10:

400 metres
Results after event 5 of 10:

110 metres hurdles
Results after event 6 of 10:

Discus throw
Results after event 7 of 10:

Pole vault
Results after event 8 of 10:

Javelin throw
Results after event 9 of 10:

1500 metres
Results after event 10 of 10:

Standings
The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow with a diamond symbol.

The final standings were as follows:

References

Men's decathlon
2018


Jim Dickson (producer)

James Dickson (January 17, 1931 - April 19, 2011) was born in Los Angeles, California, son of a diesel engineer in the United States Navy. He was an avid sailor as a teenager, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 before he embarked on a career in the recording industry as a self-taught record producer and band manager.
Before producing the first Elektra Records Bluegrass records he produced his first record, an LP on his own label, Vaya. He eventually sold the rights of Lord Buckley's 1955 album Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes to Elektra and it was in print for another 25 years. Jim Dickson was the lone individual behind Elektra Records Los Angeles Bluegrass albums.  In 1962 he produced his first bluegrass record for Elektra called Dian and the Greenbriar Boys by the Greenbriar Boys and a Hollywood country singer, Dian James.
While working on the collaboration between Greenbriar Boys and Dian James, Dickson discovered the Dillards and with the help of Ralph Rinzler convinced Elektra Records that they were a good Bluegrass group. He went on to produce three of their records, 1963's Back Porch Bluegrass, 1964's Live!!!! Almost!!! and 1965's Pickin' and Fiddlin' which featured fiddler, Byron Berline. Rosenberg notes that Pickin' and Fiddlin''' "was unlike any previous bluegrass album; it was an LP of old-time fiddle music played to bluegrass backing." Dickson was behind was the first ever recording of a Bob Dylan song by a bluegrass band, The Dillards recording of Bob Dylan's "Walkin' Down the Line" on their 1964 album Live!!!! Almost!!!In addition to these three records he produced for the Dillards, Dickson, now working as an independent producer, produced two best-selling instrumental albums: 12 String Guitar! and 12 String Guitar! Vol. 2. These records featured Glen Campbell on the twelve string guitar along with the Dillards as the backing band to make up the Folkswingers. These records included traditionals as well as songs written by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Merle Travis, A.P. Carter, and Bob Dylan. Dickson was very adamant about the recording of Dylan tunes.

According to Neil Rosenberg Dickson was instrumental in bridging the gaps between folk, country, and bluegrass music. Rosenberg also notes that Dickson played an important role in the synthesis of folk and rock music. This began with his discovery of the Hillmen. He recorded and produced their only album, The Hillmen, in a three-month period at the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964. It was not officially released by Elektra Records until 1969. Chris Hillman would later go on to help form The Byrds, with whom Dickson worked closely as a manager. Dickson persuaded them to record Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" which reached number 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart, as well as becoming the title track of their first album, Mr. Tambourine Man. Four Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia By John Einarson

Jim Dickson would also go on to co-produce two albums by The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1970's Burrito Deluxe and 1971's The Flying Burrito Bros''; both records feature Bob Dylan songs.

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Uthumalai

Uthumalai, also known as Uttumalai, is a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies in Veerakeralampudur taluk, which itself is in Tenkasi district.

History
The village was once governed by what anthropologist Nicholas Dirks terms "little kings", who were polygars from the Maravar caste. Theirs was the largest in area, although not in population, of several Maravar-governed lands in what is now Tirunelveli district.

The lands formed a part of the 1803 Permanent Settlement in Madras Presidency and became recognised by the British East India Company (EIC) as a zamindari estate, with its palace at Veerakeralampudur. In 1823, it comprised , with a population of 14,612; administratively situated in Tenkasi taluk by 1917, it was the third-largest of all the zamindaris in the district, comprising 63 villages spread over an area of , with an estimated population of 51,246.

The zamindari estates of the area arose in the aftermath of the Polygar Wars, when the British conferred the status on those who they deemed not to have been subversive. Uthumalai had sided with them in opposition to Polygar rebels such as Veerapandiya Kattabomman. The little kings were now expected to be landlords who managed local agriculture and paid an annual tribute, although even the British authorities had doubts about their transplanting of the settled property concept from its origins in Bengal Presidency to that of Madras.

Despite its zamindari status, in the first half of the century the British East India Company often imposed direct rule, overarching the position of the zamindar. The family gained a period of relatively independent governance during the regency of Peryanayaki Nachiar, who acted on behalf of her underage son, Irudalaya Marudappa Taver, after the death of his father in 1850. As an adult ruler, Irudalaya married Annapurni Nachiar and Menakshi Sundra Nachiar, although only the latter initially joined him in his palace – Annapurni was around six years old at the time of her marriage and so at first lived with her relatives. Those relatives assisted Irudalaya in opposing the claims of his uncle, who lived and held a title at Chokkampatti. Irudalaya was succeeded as zamindar upon his death in 1891 by an adopted son, Navanithakrishna Marudappa Taver, but the Court of Wards stepped in to govern on his behalf because he, too, was a minor. When Navanithakrishna died, a few months after his father, a family squabble broke out as Annapurni and Menakshi laid claim to the estate, each arguing that they had the closer relationship to Irudalaya and Navanithakrishna.

A wide range of arguments were put forward during the legal proceedings, such as a claim that Irudalayar had been too ill in his last years to formally adopt Navanithakrishna, that he had divorced Annapurni and she had forced her way into the palace, and that Menakshi could not have taken part in any adoption process – and thus could not be the adoptive mother – because her menstrual cycle made her ritually polluted. The court concentrated on the divorce and ritual arguments and ruled in favour of Menakshi, a decision that was upheld by the Privy Council on appeal.

Demographics
The 2011 Census of India recorded Uthumalai as having 2168 households and a population of 7737, comprising 3788 males and 3949 females. Some of the population were categorised as members of Scheduled Castes; there were no members of Scheduled Tribes.

Infrastructure
Since 2012, the village has had a 700 kW wind turbine that feeds into the grid. , the nearest town was Surandai, over  distant. The village had several educational facilities at all levels from pre-school to senior secondary; facilities for higher education were some distance away, with the exception of a non-vocational training centre. There were some primary healthcare facilities in the village but the nearest hospital was over 10 km away. It had a veterinary hospital.

There was a sub-post office in the village, with a more major office less that 10 km away. Internet facilities were available, as was a bus service. The nearest railway station was over 10 km from the village and so too was the nearest market and ATM, although there were other banking facilities.

Economy
The area of the village in 2011 was , agriculture was the mainstay of the local economy and beedi was the main crop.

References
Notes

Citations

Further reading

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Linwood Shopping Center

Linwood Shopping Center is a shopping center located on the East Side of Kansas City, Missouri on 31st Street & Prospect Avenue across the street from Lucile H. Bluford Library. The location surrounds the area from 30th Street to Linwood Boulevard on the North/South and along Prospect Avenue on the West/East.

Tenants
 Sun Fresh Market (opened in June 2018)
 Arvest Bank
 Family Dollar
 Footaction USA
 H&R Block
 Gen X Clothing
 Popeyes Chicken
 Linwood Chinese Express
 Cricket Wireless
 Rainbow
 Pizza Hut

Competition
 Midtown Marketplace

References
 KC celebrates opening of new East Side grocery store  (June 18, 2018)
 East Side developer eyes TIF or shopping centers' rehab (2-24-2006)
 Community Development Corporation of Kansas City
 Community Stability and Community Ownership

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Louis Boullogne

Louis Boullogne (c.1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.

Life
After spending some years in Italy, Boullogne set up in Paris and made a major contribution to the organisation of the Académie de peinture, where he was a professor until his death.

He was a talented copyist and many anecdotes exist about this, which are more-or-less true. He painted Saint Simeón, St Paul's Miracle at Ephesus and The Beheading of St Paul as Mays for Notre Dame. He engraved copies of these himself and, in Rome in 1637, a copy of The Raising of Helena after Guido Reni.

All four of his children (Bon, Louis, Geneviève and Madeleine) became painters. Geneviève married the sculptor Jean-Jacques Clérion (c. 1640–1714).

Bibliography
 Amédée Caix de Saint-Aymour, Les Boullongne : une famille d’artistes et de financiers aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Ed. Henri Laurens, Paris, 1919.

Sources
 Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, vol. 7, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1857, p. 11.

External links

 Louis Boullogne on  base joconde.

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Marcel Tisserand

Marcel Jany Emile Tisserand (born 10 January 1993) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a defender for VfL Wolfsburg and DR Congo.

Club career

AS Monaco
Born in Meaux, France, Tisserand began his career at INF Clairefontaine before leaving for Monaco when he was thirteen.

In June 2013, he signed his first professional contract with Monaco, having spent four years at the reserve side. Following this, he was called up by the first team for the pre-season tour with Monaco by manager Claudio Ranieri. Ranieri was impressed with his ability in training and took him to the pre-season with the club. Tisserand made his professional debut at 10 August 2013 against Bordeaux in the first Ligue 1 game for AS Monaco in the 2013–14 season. On 5 October 2013, he made his first Monaco start, playing in the left–back position, in a 2–1 win over Saint-Étienne. On 19 December 2013, he signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2018. However, he struggled in the first team, being relegated to the substitutes bench due to competition from Layvin Kurzawa and making six appearances in the 2013–14 season.

After ending his two–year loan spell at Toulouse, Tisserand returned to Monaco and expressed desire to play in the Monaco’s first team in the 2016–17 season. In the 2016–17 season, he only made one appearance for the club, in a 1–0 win over Nantes on 20 August 2016.

Loan to RC Lens
After being told by the club’s management that he was allowed to leave the club in the winter transfer window, Tisserand joined Ligue 2 side Lens on loan for the rest of the season on 20 January 2014. Upon joining Lens, he expressed hope the move would help him earn a first-team chance at Monaco next season.

Tisserand made his Lens debut on 27 January 2014, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 win over Auxerre. On 8 March 2014, he scored his first professional goal in a 1–0 win over Metz. From that moment on, he became a first-team regular under Manager Antoine Kombouaré for the rest of the season going on to help the club achieve promotion to Ligue 2 (which was later invalidated). Despite setbacks from injury and suspension, Tisserand made a total of twelve appearances for the club, all of which were starts. At the end of the 2013–14 season, the club was keen on signing him on loan for a second time. However, they did not succeed in re-signing him citing financial problems.

Loan to Toulouse
Expecting to be loaned out again, Tisserand was loaned once again to fellow Ligue 1 side Toulouse in July 2014.

At the start of the season, he suffered an injury that ruled him out for several matches. In September, he returned to first-team training and made his Toulouse debut on 23 September 2014, starting in a 3–0 win over Rennes. At end of 2014, he suffered a further injury setback and at one point, was ineligible to play against his parent club, Monaco, despite request from Toulouse. After returning to the first team, Tisserand provided an assist for Aleksandar Pešić to score the only goal in 1–0 win against Reims on 31 January 2015. In a 3–2 loss against Metz on 4 April 2015, he was sent off for a second bookable offence and served one-match suspension as a result. Despite suffering setbacks towards the end of the season, Tisserand went on to make 22 appearances in all competitions in the 2014–15 season.

In the 2015–16 season, Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim stated he was keen on using Tisserand in the first team this season, due to his good performance in the previous season. On 21 July 2015, however, Tisserand was loaned out to Toulouse again for the season. He made his season debut in the opening game of the season, playing as a right–back in a 2–1 win over Saint-Étienne.  He was sent off for a second bookable offence in the second half of a 3–0 win over Troyes on 2 December 2015, and was suspended for two matches. On 24 January 2016, Tisserand started against his parent club, Monaco, where he played for 67 minutes, in a 4–0 loss. He scored his first Toulouse goal on 23 April 2016, in a 3–2 loss against Lyon. Having become a first team regular in his second season at the club, Tisserand went on to make 36 appearances scoring once in all competitions.

Reflecting on his time at Toulouse, Tisserand credited Manager Pascal Dupraz for helping the side avoid relegation, where they finished 17th place.

FC Ingolstadt 04
On 31 August 2016, Tisserand signed a four-year contract with Bundesliga side FC Ingolstadt 04. The transfer fee paid to Monaco was reported as €5.5 million.

Tisserand made his Ingolstadt debut on 10 September 2016, making his first start, in a 2–0 loss against Hertha BSC. Since then, he became a first team regular at Ingolstadt until he left for his international commitment. Following DR Congo’s elimination in the Africa Cup of Nation, he returned to the first team on 11 February 2017, in a 2–0 loss against Bayern Munich. Following this, Tisserand continued to regain his first team place for the rest of the season. However, FC Ingolstadt 04 was relegated to 2.Bundesliga after drawing 1–1 against SC Freiburg on 13 May 2017, which he set up a goal for Maximilian Philipp to score the opener in the game. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Tisserand went on to make twenty–nine appearances in all competitions.

VfL Wolfsburg
It was announced on 22 August 2017 that VfL Wolfsburg signed Tisserland on a season–long loan deal for the rest of the 2017–18 season. It came after when FC Ingolstadt 04 dropped both him and Florent Hadergjonaj from the first team until the end of August.

Tisserand made his VfL Wolfsburg debut, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on 26 August 2017. However, he suffered a thigh injury that kept him out for two matches and didn’t return until on 22 September 2017, starting the whole game, in a 2–2 draw against Bayern Munich. Since returning from injury, Tisserand regained his first team place, playing in the centre–back position under the management of Andries Jonker and performed impressively in a number of matches, especially in the left–back position. It was announced on 28 November 2017 that the club had taken up options to sign Tisserand on a permanent basis. Shortly after, Tisserand was sidelined with an illness and fitness that kept him out for three matches. It wasn’t until on 16 December 2017 when he returned from the sidelined, coming on as a substitute in the second half, as they lost 1–0 against 1. FC Köln. Since returning from injury, Tisserand regained his first team place, playing in either the centre–back and left–back position throughout January. However, he tore his tendon and had to be substituted during a 2–1 loss against FC Schalke 04 in the quarter–final of the DFB-Pokal, resulting in him being sidelined for two months. It wasn’t until on 20 April 2018 when Tisserand returned from injury, coming on as a substitute for John Brooks, in a 3–0 loss against Borussia Mönchengladbach. But his return was short–lived when he tore his tendon, ruling him out for the rest of the 2017–18 season. At the end of the season, he went on to make nineteen appearances in all competitions.

Tisserand remained on the sideline at the start of the 2018–19 season, as he continued to recover from his tendon injury. His first appearance of the season came on 5 October 2018, starting a match before coming off as a substitute in the 86th minutes, in a 2–0 loss against Werder Bremen. Tisserand appeared four matches between 27 October 2018 and 9 November 2018, playing in the centre–back position. However, he suffered a thigh injury that saw him sidelined for months. It wasn’t until on 13 April 2019 when Tisserand returned to the starting line-up, playing in the right–back position, as the club lost 2–0 against RB Leipzig. He regained his first team place, playing in the right–back position once before playing in the centre–back position for the remaining games of the 2018–19 season. Tisserand then scored his first goal for the club, in a 2–0 win over 1. FC Nürnberg on 4 May 2019. At the end of the 2018–19 season, he went on to make twelve appearances and scoring once in all competitions.

Ahead of the 2019–20 season, Tisserand was linked a move away from VfL Wolfsburg, as clubs, such as, Toulouse, FC Augsburg and RCD Espanyol interested in signing him. But in the end, he stayed at the club. Having missed the start of the 2019–20 season, due to injury, Tisserand’s first appearance of the season came on 13 September 2019, starting the whole game, in a 1–1 draw against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Since returning to the first team from injury, he quickly became a first team regular, playing in the centre–back position. Tisserand then scored his first goal of the season, in a 1–0 win over Mainz 05 on 28 September 2019.

International career
While born in France to a French father and a Congolese mother, Tisserand represented Congo DR U19 in 2012 and was the captain of Congo DR U20 in the 2013 Toulon Tournament.

In March 2016, he was called up to the provisional squad of the senior Congo national team before being dropped due to administrative issues. Tisserand subsequently stated that he desired to play for the DR Congo. The following month, he debuted for the DR Congo in a friendly 1–1 tie with Romania in May 2016. The following January, Tisserand was called up to the squad for the Africa Cup of Nations. He played on match day 1 of the group stage, in a 1–0 win over Morocco on 16 April 2017. He went on to make five appearance in the tournament, as DR Congo were eliminated in the quarter–finals by Ghana. Two years later, Tisserand was called up to the DR Congo squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. He played all the matches, including being a captain against the tournament host, Egypt on 26 June 2019. However, DR Congo were eliminated from the tournament after losing to Madagascar in the Round of 16 of the African Cup of Nations.

Career statistics

Personal life
Tisserand grew up in Meaux, France, and supported Paris Saint-Germain. He has an older brother, Patrick, who is also his agent, as well as two brothers, who are engineers, and a sister, who is an accountant.

In addition to speaking French, Tisserand speaks Lingala and understands Kongo language, something he learned from his grandmother. Since moving to Germany, he also speaks German, having taken lessons to learn the language.

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Duncan House (Harrison, Arkansas)

The Duncan House is a historic house in 610 West Central Avenue in Harrison, Arkansas.  It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and a busy roofline typical of the Queen Anne style.  Distinctive features include metal cresting on the ridge lines, and a wraparound porch with tapered columns and turned balustrade.  An octagonal cupola caps the roof.  The house was built in 1893 by William Duncan, a local builder, for his own use.  It is one of Harrison's few remaining houses of the period which has retained its Queen Anne features.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Boone County, Arkansas

References

External links
The Queen Anne House Bed and Breakfast

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KINC

KINC, virtual channel 15 (UHF digital channel 16), is a Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Laughlin-licensed Ion Plus affiliate KMCC (channel 34); it is also sister to low-powered, Las Vegas-licensed UniMás affiliate KELV-LD (channel 27). The three stations share studios on Pilot Road in the unincorporated community of Paradise (with a Las Vegas mailing address); KINC's transmitter is located on Mount Arden near Henderson. KINC is rebroadcast on two low-powered translators: KNTL-LD (digital channel 35) in Laughlin and KWWB-LP (analog channel 45) in Mesquite.

History

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit on May 22, 1992, to Tierra Alta Broadcasting, Inc., to build the Las Vegas area's newest full-service television station. Originally, the station was approved for 5,000 kW to broadcast on UHF channel 15 and acquired the call sign KZIR in November 1993. In 1995, Tierra Alta Broadcasting made several changes to its construction permit: moving its transmitter to the KFBT (now KVCW) tower, reducing its power to 1,145 kW, and changing its call sign to KINC. The station made its debut in January 1996 and was licensed the following November. The station's analog facilities would not change again until the analog shutdown in June 2009.

Tierra Alta Broadcasting announced the sale of the station to Entravision Holdings, LLC in December 1996. The FCC approved the license transfer in April 1997 and Entravision took over the station a month later.

Digital television

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
When the FCC released its initial DTV allocations on April 21, 1997, it assigned UHF channel 16 to KINC-DT as its digital companion channel. Although many allocations were adjusted when the FCC issued its revised final DTV allocations table on February 17, 1998, KINC's remained unchanged. It was the only UHF station in Las Vegas to retain its original allocation. KINC was granted a permit to construct its digital facilities on November 24, 2000. Supplier difficulties delayed construction of the full-power facilities, requiring extensions of the construction permit, and on February 24, 2003, KINC was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to construct a low-power facility in order to comply with the FCC deadline for commencing digital broadcasting while the full-power facilities were still being built. The station completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in June 2006, and was granted a license on March 8, 2007.

In 2006, the FCC required each station with a digital companion channel to select which station it would continue to use after the end of the transition period. KINC-DT elected channel 16 as its final digital channel and at analog shutdown on June 12, 2009, returned the channel 15 license to the FCC. Televisions still tune to KINC on channel 15 per the ATSC virtual channel standards.

KINC began broadcasting in high definition in June 2010, in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Programming offered in HD by the Univision network is broadcast. Local newscasts are also produced in HD.

Programming
The majority of the programming aired on this station comes from the national Univision network. However, KINC does have a news department which produces the highest rated Spanish newscasts in the Las Vegas Valley. In 2006, KINC has aired both the Nevada Republican and Democratic Gubernatorial Primary debates translated into the Spanish language.

Newscasts
KINC currently produces two live newscasts each weekday covering the State of Nevada.

Weekdays
Noticias Univision Nevada a Las Seis with Gabriel Preciado and Nathaly Alcala - 6–6:30 p.m.
Noticias Univision Nevada a Las Once with Benjamin Zamora and Nathaly Alcala - 11–11:35 p.m.

KINC's news department also creates thirty-second newsbriefs which air both on KINC and KELV-LP as well as news-related station identifications that air solely on KINC at the top of each hour from 3–5 p.m. and 8–10 p.m.

Photos

See also
List of Univision affiliates

External links
Las Vegas Sun: New voice calls on Hispanics
LV Business Press: Univision tops local newscasts
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Hispanics shake up local TV

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Nevzat Tandoğan

Abdullah Nevzat Tandoğan (1894 – July 9, 1946) was the fourth mayor and governor of Ankara serving between 1929 and 1946. He committed suicide upon a political scandal he was involved in.

Early life and career
Abdullah Nevzat was born into a wealthy family in 1894 at Istanbul, then Ottoman Empire. His father was from Sarajevo  and his mother from Belgrade.

He completed his education in Istanbul Law School, today Istanbul University Faculty of Law. After the Surname Law was enacted in Turkey in 1934, he adopted the family name Tandoğan. He was married, and had two children.

During World War I, he served as an intelligence officer in the Ottoman Army in Istanbul. In the later years of the war, he began a career as a school teacher in Istanbul. In 1918, he entered police service. After serving at leading posts in various police departments, he quit. He became Governor of Malatya in 1925 before he entered politics from the Republican People's Party) (CHP) and was elected into the Grand National Assembly as deputy of Konya in the 1927 general election.

Mayor and Governor of Ankara
On November 4, 1929, he resigned from his parliamentary seat to take office as Governor of Ankara. Serving also as the acting city mayor, he was uninterrupted 17 years long in this position . In that time, the office of a province governor was united with the post of the provincial chairman of a party, he served at the same time as the provincial chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP). His long-lasting office term is attributed to his close relation to İsmet İnönü (1884–1973), prime minister (1923–1924, 1925–1937), president (1938–1950) and leader of the CHP (1938–1972).

Tandoğan was a civil servant and politician of the single party era (1923–1945). The political philosophy of the era was understood so as "the government has the authority to determine and to do what is useful and best for the country, knowing better than everyone, especially the folk". Tandoğan's political attitude is described best with his words he said to a young man as "We constitute Communism in this country if it is necessary".

Tandoğan had a dissenting opinion to the 1929 Jansen Plan by German architect and urban planner Hermann Jansen(1869–1945). The plan proposed the integration of green belts and areas within the rapid-growing new capital of the newly established Republic for promoting a healthy urban environment. The realization of Ankara's master plan as different from the Jansn Plan is his practice.

During his term as governor, he initiated in 1932 a local celebration day on December 27 to commemorate the day of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's first arrival in Ankara in 1919 during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). He commissioned the building of the Güven Monument in Güvenpark, an expensive project at that time, which exceeded the annual budgets of some municipalities. It was wholly his idea to ban people from high streets in the city center, who were not adequately modern clothed. Nevertheless, there are still many cultural traditions of higher civilization in Ankara that were instated with Tandoğan's persistent efforts, such as residents' lining up at bus stops.

"Ankara Murder" and suicide
In 1945, a murder occurred in Ankara, which became known as the "Ankara Murder" (). Tandoğan was accused of intentionally and deliberately covering the murder case, in which Haşmet Orbay, the son of the then Chief of the General Staff Kâzım Orbay, was involved. Tandoğan was summoned to court to testify after the case was discussed in a question time in the parliament.

It was believed that calling a high-ranked civil servant or politician to the witness stand in a court trial was unthinkable during the single party era before 1945. The next day, on July 9, 1946, Nevzat Tandoğan committed suicide by shooting himself at home with a firearm. It was speculated that he felt his close friends gave the cold shoulder to him.

Legacy
A main square in Ankara, which hosted many political party rallies and protests, was named in his honor. In 2012, the city council of the metropolitan municipality changed the square's initial name from "Nevzat Tandoğan Square" to "Tandoğan Square". The major reason for the change was the argument, according to which the existence of such a name in the capital city of a country struggling for democracy is inappropriate and for the strict dress code enforced by Tandoğan during his mayorship. After around three years, on April 13, 2015, the name of the square was changed entirely and named "Anadolu Square" (for "Anatolia Square"). The naming of the square as Anatolia Square is argued to be due to the fact that Tandoğan insulted the people of Anatolia by calling them “louts” and considered the people of Anatolia seconatolia second-class citizens.

A public park in Batıkent neighborhood of Yenimahalle, Ankara as well as a street in Kavaklıdere neighbourhood of Çankaya, Ankara are also named after him.

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John Landseer

John Landseer ARA (1769 – 20 February 1852) was an English landscape engraver.

Biography
Landseer was born in Lincoln in 1769, according to Cosmo Monkhouse, or in London in 1761, according to his son Edwin's biographer, F.G. Stephens. However, according to the England and Wales Christening Index 1530-1980, he was born on 23 January 1765 and baptised on 3 February 1765 at Westminster. The son of a jeweller, he was apprenticed to the engraver William Byrne.

As a 16 year old apprentice he contributed the frame surrounding a Byrne engraving for the frontispiece of Antiquities of Great Britain: VOL.I., in 1785. A work published in 1786.

He then went to work for the publisher Thomas Macklin, noted for his illustrated edition of the Bible. He started  a series Views of the Isle of Wight after pictures by Ibbetson and Turner, but publication was halted when he had only executed three plates. His largest series of engravings was Twenty Views of the South of Scotland, after  James Moore. Others included one  after drawings of animals by Dutch artists, and another of Biblical subjects, after Raphael and others.

In 1806, he delivered a series of lectures on engraving at the Royal Institution, in which he defended engraving its status as an independent art, and criticised the issuing of inferior plates by commercially minded publishers. The series was  terminated after the sixth lecture, following protests by Josiah Boydell, who claimed that Landseer had unfairly criticised his uncle John Boydell, the leading publisher of engravings, who had died in 1804. He published the lectures in 1807, with added comments reinforcing his criticism of Boydell.

Also in 1806, he was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy despite his dispute with the institution over their failure to admit engravers as full members.  He had previously only exhibited there once, in 1792. Some leading engravers  – including Landseer's teacher, William Byrne – chose to boycott the academy completely over the issue, but Landseer hoped to challenge its rules from within. His protests, which included petitioning the Prince Regent, proved ineffective however, and the academy's policy was not changed until after his death.

In 1813, he lectured at the Surrey Institution on The Philosophy of Art. Henry Crabb Robinson, who heard Landseer speak there, described him as "animated in style, but his animation is produced by indulgence in sarcasms, and in emphatic diction." For a while he pursued an interest in archaeology, becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and publishing two books on Babylonian antiquities, before returning to engraving.  In 1826 he was appointed Engraver to the King, and in 1831 published a plate of Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller after a picture painted by his son Edwin eleven years earlier, at the age of eighteen.

Landseer died in London on 20 February 1852, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

Writings
Observations on the Engraved Gems brought from Babylon to England by Abraham Lockett Esq,  considered  with reference to Scripture History (1817).
Sabæan History (1823).
Description of Fifty of the Earliest Pictures in the National Gallery (1834; only the first volume was  published).

He published two short-lived periodicals: The Review of Publications in Art in 1808,  and The Probe, set up in opposition to the Art-Union's journal. in 1837.

He contributed articles on schools of engraving  to Rees's Cyclopædia  namely the French  school (Volume 15, 1810); the German (Volume 16, 1810), the Low Countries  (Volume 21, 1812)  and the Italian (Volume 19, 1811). He also engraved a series of plates, with monograms etc. of French, German, Low Countries and  Italian engravers. All his articles are of monograph length and may have re-cycled his Royal Institution material.

Family
On 15 December 1793, Landseer married Jane Potts, who he had met at the house of his employer, Thomas Macklin. She moved in artistic circles, and had modelled for a reaper in The Gleaners, painted for Macklin by Sir Joshua Reynolds .  They had fourteen children: seven  survived to reach adolescence,   and four of them Thomas, Edwin, Charles and Jessica, became notable in the art world.

References

Bibliography

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A letter to a member of the Society for Encouraging the Art of Engraving in objection to the scheme of patronage now under consideration, and written with a view to its improvement From the Collections at the Library of Congress

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Thomas Clayton (composer)

Thomas Clayton (16731725) was an English violinist and composer, and a member of The King's Musick at the court of William III. His is said to be the first to acclimatise legitimate opera in England.

Life
His father was William Clayton.
He studied in Italy, from about 1702 to about 1704, bringing with him (as was said at the time) a considerable quantity of Italian songs which he had collected abroad.
These he set to an adaptation by Peter Anthony Motteux of a drama by Stonzani, which had been performed at Bologna in 1677, and at Venice in 1678.

In association with Nicola Haym and Charles Dieupart, Clayton entered upon a series of opera performances at Drury Lane Theatre — the first venture of the kind in the annals of the English stage.
The first season began on Tuesday, 16 Jan. 1705, with Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, the work which Clayton had vamped up from his Italian gleanings.
It was announced as 'a new opera, after the Italian manner, all sung,' with recitatives instead of spoken dialogue.
It seems to have attained some success, though a contemporary writer (supposed to be Galliard) says 'there is nothing in it but a few sketches of antiquated Italian airs, so mangled and sophisticated, that instead of Arsinoe, it ought to be called the Hospital of the old Decrepid Italian Operas,' and Burney was inclined to acquit Clayton of plagiarism in its composition, for 'nothing so mean in melody and incorrect in counterpoint was likely to have been produced by any of the reigning composers of that time.'
It was sung by Richard Leveridge, Hughes, Ramondon, Good, Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Cross, and Mrs. Tofts, the last of whom made in it her first appearance on the stage.
On 6 February 1705, it was played at St. James's Palace before Queen Anne, at the celebration of her birthday ; according to Genest it was performed fifteen, or according to Burney twenty-four times in 1705, and thirteen times in 1706.  The opera has been described as the first English opera in the Italian style.

Encouraged by this success, Clayton tried his hand at another opera, and on Tuesday, 4 March 1707, produced at Drury Lane a setting of Addison's Rosamond, in which Holcomb, Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs. Tofts, Mrs. Lindsay, and Maria Gallia sang the principal parts.
This work was repeated on the 15th and 22nd of the same month, but its failure was so decided that it was never again performed.
The anonymous author already quoted opines that 'Rosamond 'mounted the stage on purpose to frighten all England with its abominable musick.'
Both Arsinoe and Rosamond were published, and posterity has thus been enabled to endorse the opinions of Clayton's contemporaries.

After the failure of 'Rosamond' the operatic venture continued until 1711. He was also the proprietor of a concert room at his house in the York Buildings of London (near The Strand), where he, Charles Dieupart, and Nicola Haym organized concert performances of his later works. They were advertised for subscription series in 1711 and 1712, but it is unclear how many of them were actually performed there.
On 24 May 1711, settings by Clayton of a version of Dryden's Alexander's Feast (altered by John Hughes), and of Harrison's Passion of Sappho, were performed, but both works failed, after which nothing is heard of the luckless composer.

He is said to have died about 1730.

Assessment
Clayton is of importance in the history of English music as the first to acclimatise legitimate opera in England, but as a composer his position is summed up in the words of his anonymous contemporary : 'If a reward was to be ordain'd for him that made the worst musick in all the world, the author of Rosamond wou'd have reason to say he had not lost his labour, since he wou'd have an undoubted title to the gratification.'

Works
In addition to his 1710 cantatas with text by John Hughes, Clayton's works include:
Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus – opera in three acts, libretto by Peter Motteux after Tomaso Stanzani (premiered London, 1705)
Rosamond – opera in three acts, libretto by Joseph Addison (premiered London, 1707)
A Pastoral Mask (1710)
If Wine and Music have the Power – text by Matthew Prior (London, 1711)
The Feast of Alexander – libretto by John Hughes after John Dryden (London, 1711)
The Passion of Sappho – text by William Harrison (London, 1711)
Ode for the Prince's Birthday (London, 1711)
Ode on the King (London, 1716)

Notes and references

Attribution

Sources
De Lafontaine, Henry Cart (1909). The King's Musick: A transcript of records relating to music and musicians (1460-1700). Novello and Company
McGeary, Thomas (1998). "Thomas Clayton and the Introduction of Italian Opera to England", Philological Quarterly, Vol. 77
Sadie, Julie Anne (1998) "Clayton, Thomas", Companion to Baroque Music. University of California Press.

External links
Score for the Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus arias at the University of North Texas Digital Library
Digitized images of Old English Songs, containing works by Clayton, housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center

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Callithoe

Callithoe or Kallithoe (Καλλιθόη) is a name in Greek mythology that may refer to:

Callithoe, a daughter of Celeus
Callithoe, same as Callithyia


Atul Kumar (ophthalmologist)

Atul Kumar is an Indian ophthalmologist who is currently the Chief & Professor of Ophthalmology at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences (RPC-AIIMS), the national apex ophthalmic centre at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Shri award in January 2007 for his services to the medical field. He specializes in vitreoretinal surgery and also heads the Vitreo-Retinal, Uvea and ROP services at RPC-AIIMS.

Early life and education
Born in September 1956, Kumar had a non-medical background. After finishing his schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba in Delhi, he graduated from the Maulana Azad Medical College. Later, he pursued his higher studies in Ophthalmology from Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS). He achieved the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD). He further completed his senior residency in vitreo-retina and uvea unit from the same institute and afterwards joined as Faculty at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences at AIIMS itself. In 1991, he went on to pursue fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Achievements and positions

Kumar is a specialist in diseases of the retina, vitreous and uvea and their management. His academic disciplines include Vitreoretinal surgery, Ophthalmic Lasers, Uveal diseases, Macular Hole surgery, anti-VEGF injections, Age Related Macular Degeneration, Retinal Detachment surgery, Myopic Traction Maculopathy, Pathological Myopia and Macular Hole Retinal Detachment.

He is presently the Chief and Professor of Ophthalmology at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, preceded in this post by Prof. Yog Raj Sharma. He is also commissioned as the Honorary Advisor in Ophthalmology to the Government of India (2016) and the Honorary Vitreo-Retinal Consultant to Armed Forces Medical Services from 2015-2018. Under his leadership, AIIMS doctors announced India as free of the eye infection Trachoma in March 2017. This announcement came as a part of golden jubilee celebration of the institute. Kumar is steering the national efforts towards elimination of blindness by heading the WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness in SEARO. Kumar has been associated with several organizations and holds positions of responsibilities with many of them.

Kumar is also a member of national and state ophthalmological societies in India and has held examiner positions in various medical examinations for graduates and postgraduates. He is presently the Chairman of the Advocacy Committee of All India Ophthalmological Society and the Honorary Editor of Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO) on whose editorial board, he has been working previously. He has been a Past Chairperson of the Scientific Committee of Vitreo-Retinal Society of India (VRSI), a scientific organization of posterior-segment eye surgeons of India.

Awards and recognitions

The Padma Shri award was awarded to Kumar in 2007 by the 13th President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee. It is the fourth highest civilian award in India, given for services in medicine. The President of India has also conferred Dr. B.C. Roy National award to him for excellence in field of medicine in the category of Eminent Medical Teacher. The University Grants Commission recognized his scientific work by giving Hari Om Ashram Trust Award for role as outstanding social scientist for interaction between science and society. Kumar is also a fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, 2006. The alumni body of his high school too has felicitated him with Modern School Old Student Association (MSOSA) Excellence Award. Very recently, in 2017, he has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons , Edinburgh FRCS (ad hominem) for his furtherance and excellence in vitreo-retinal surgical techniques.

Controversy
In April 2018, Kumar stirred up controversy by slapping a resident doctor at the RPC, eliciting major protests from the resident doctors of AIIMS.

Publications
Kumar has over 250 publications in medical journals, chapters in over 20 books, authored various books on diseases of the retina and vitreous and their management.

Selected books/chapters

 Ocular Tuberculosis
 Ocular Infections: Prophylaxis and Management
 Lasers in Ophthalmology
 Ophthalmology Clinics for Postgraduates
 Disorders of Retina and Vitreous
 "Angiogenic Agents and Photodynamic Therapy" in Pharmacology of Ocular Therapeutics
 'Retinal Laser Scanning and Digital Imaging' in 'Clinical Ophthalmology: Contemporary Perspectives'
 Contributions in Rashtriya Sahara (Volume 2, Issue 2), released by Sahara India Mass Communication, 1991

See also
 Vitreoretinal Surgery
 Macular Disorders
 Macular Hole
 Retinal Detachment
 Retinal Implant
 All India Institute of Medical Sciences
 Yog Raj Sharma

References

External links
 "Atul Kumar" Microsoft Academic Search. 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
 https://www.news18.com/news/india/aiims-strike-enters-day-2-resident-doctors-unhappy-with-kumar-going-on-leave-1732203.html
 https://m.timesofindia.com/videos/city/delhi/aiims-resident-doctors-go-on-indefinite-strike-after-professor-slaps-colleague/videoshow/63939550.
 https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/day-3-aiims-resident-doctors-continue-strike-1222186-2018-04-28
 http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/apr/28/senior-aiims-doctor-accused-of-slapping-colleague-submits-apology-healthcare-services-still-hit-as-1807324.html

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