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A high-profile case involving the poaching of a black panther and other protected wildlife took place in Thailand in February 2018. It involved a group led by Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development—one of the country's largest construction firms—in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. Premchai and three associates were arrested by park rangers, who found them in possession of weapons and hunting equipment and the carcasses of a black leopard, a Kalij pheasant and a barking deer at a camp in the wildlife sanctuary on 4 February.
The case generated public pressure over accountability to the law of the wealthy and influential, amid concerns that Premchai might avoid punishment. After appeals, a final judgement by the Supreme Court in December 2021 found Premchai, his driver, and his hunting guide guilty of hunting and possessing wildlife carcasses. They were sentenced to jail terms ranging from three years and two months to three years and nine months, and ordered to pay two million baht (US$60,000) in damages.
See also
Death of Wichian Klanprasert, a 2012 hit-and-run involving a wealthy suspect who avoided facing justice
References
2018 in Thailand
Crime in Thailand
Poaching
2018 in the environment
Wildlife conservation in Thailand
Environmental issues in Thailand
Animal cruelty incidents |
Tak Yuet Lau () is a village in the Lo Wu area of North District, Hong Kong.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Tak Yuet Lau (Ta Kwu Ling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
North District, Hong Kong |
The following is a list of districts and sub-districts in Buleleng Regency. Buleleng Regency has 9 district, 19 sub-district, and 129 villages. In 2017, the population estimated 814.356 with area 1.364,73 km² and density 598 people/km².
List of districts and sub-districts in Buleleng Regency as follows:
Reference
See also
List of districts of Indonesia
List of districts of Bali
Subdivisions of Indonesia
External links
Official Website Statistical Bureau of Buleleng Regency
Official Website Bali Province
Official Website Buleleng Regency
Buleleng Regency
Buleleng Regency |
François Goyet (born 4 November 1994) is a field hockey player from France.
Career
Club level
In club competition, Goyet plays for Gantoise in the Belgian Hockey League.
Under–21
François Goyet debuted for the French U–21 team in 2014 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in Waterloo.
Senior national team
Following his junior debut, Goyet made his first appearance for Les Bleus in 2014 during a test series against Ireland in Wattignies.
In 2018, Goyet was a member of the national team at the FIH World Cup in Bhubaneswar.
Goyet won his first major medal with the senior team in 2019 at the FIH Series Finals in Le Touquet, taking home a gold medal.
He was named in the French squad for season three of the FIH Pro League.
References
External links
François Goyet at the European Hockey Federation
1994 births
Living people
French male field hockey players
Male field hockey midfielders
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Men's Belgian Hockey League players |
Cyperus chaetophyllus is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of Somalia.
See also
List of Cyperus species
References
chaetophyllus
Plants described in 1936
Flora of Somalia
Taxa named by Georg Kükenthal |
This list includes the defunct media since the passage of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. Some of these media were prosecuted by the NS department police for the “crime of conspiring to publish seditious publications”, and some media announced that they suspended publication due to security concerns.
Media List
The closed media are listed below. This list may be updated any time, as long as the media related to the national security law in Hong Kong or suspected of being jointly affected will be included.
2020
2021
2022
Ref
Hong Kong national security law
Censorship in Hong Kong |
Milford Galleries are among New Zealand's leading dealer art galleries, with their headquarters in the city of Dunedin. There are two physical art spaces, in Dunedin and Queenstown, and there was also formerly a gallery in Auckland.
The galleries focus solely on New Zealand contemporary art (painting, photography, sculpture, and glassworks) and represent many of the country's leading artists, among them Graham Bennett, Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Brown, Neil Dawson, Paul Dibble, Dick Frizzell, Darryn George, Jeffrey Harris, Michael Hight, Yuki Kihara, Andy Leleisi'uao, John Parker, J. S. Parker, Lisa Reihana, and Terry Stringer.
The galleries are run by the husband and wife team of Stephen Higginson and Niki Stewart.
Dunedin
Milford's main gallery space – the largest dealer gallery in Dunedin – has operated from the historic former Hallenstein Brothers clothing factory in Dowling Street,between Princes Street and Queens Gardens, since 1989. The gallery comprises three art spaces, and often has more than one exhibition in progress at any one time. New exhibitions are hosted every four weeks.
The gallery space also contains one of New Zealand's larger art store rooms, containing works by many of the artists represented by the gallery.
Queenstown
Milford's Queenstown gallery comprises two art spaces in a central Queenstown building in Earl Street. It has been operating since 2004.
Auckland
Milford Galleries opened an Auckland branch in 1999, and curated touring shows by New Zealand contemporary artists until 2009.
References
External links
Official website
New Zealand art dealers
Art galleries in New Zealand
Companies based in Dunedin
Art galleries established in 1989
1989 establishments in New Zealand |
8th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2016 (BIFFES 2016) was inaugurated by Jaya Bachchan on 28 January 2016 in Mysuru. chief guests for the ceremony Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Venkatesh, Ashok Amritraj and Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah were present during the inauguration.
The film festival is shown 17 Languages 170 films from 61 countries screened in four different venues across the city from 28 January to 4 February 2016.
Asian cinema competition
Indian cinema competition
Kannada competition
International Jury Prize for Kannada Cinema
Special Jury Award
References
External links
of BIFFes 2016.
Bangalore International Film Festival
2016 film festivals
2016 festivals in Asia |
The is a Kofun period keyhole-shaped burial mound, located in the Otake neighborhood of the city of Yao, Osaka in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1966 with the area under protection expanded in 1978.
Overview
The Shionjiyama Kofun is a , which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. It is located on a slope at an elevation of 30 meters, in the fan-shaped land at the western foot of the Ikoma Mountains, which runs north and south as a watershed between Yamato and Kawachi Provinces. The tumulus has a total length of 160 meters, with a 92-meter diameter posterior circular portion, and is orientated to the south. Since it was built along the contour lines of a natural slope, the surrounding moat was divided into two embankments on the south and north sides, making it a rare structure with different water levels in the east and west. It was once covered in fukiishi and had rows of over 3000 haniwa, which included figurative, pot-shaped and "morning-glory-shaped" versions as well as the more common cylindrical haniwa. There was a protrusion on the west side of the central construction, forming a ceremonial platform.
At the top of the posterior circle, there are three burial chambers of different lengths, of which the remains of a clay-covered wooden coffin was confirmed in the west side. Various burial items such as bronze mirrors, magatama, armor, iron swords, and iron spearheads were excavated from the surrounding area. Judging from these grave goods and the construction method, the tumulus was compiled in the middle Kofun period, or around the 5th century. During the Asuka period a Buddhist temple called Shingo-ji was constructed on the western side of the tumulus. The temple eventually disappeared, with its place name becoming distorted over time to become "Shinonji". The tumulus was first excavated in 1993, with further excavations occurring annually until 2003.
The tumulus and its surroundings are now maintained as an archaeological park and replicas of haniwa have been placed on the tumulus. Artifacts excavated from the tumulus are displayed at the Yao City Shionjiyama Kofun Learning Center, located next to the tumulus. The tumulus is about a five-minute walk from the "Otake" bus stop on the Kintetsu Bus from Kawachi-Yamamoto Station on the Kintetsu Osaka Line.
Total length 160 meters:
Anterior rectangular portion 90 meters wide x 12 meters high, 3-tier
Posterior circular portion 92 meter diameter x 13 meters high, 3-tiers
Gallery
See also
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Osaka)
References
External links
Yao City home page
Yao City Shionjiyama Kofun Site Museum
Yao City Tourist Information
History of Osaka Prefecture
Yao, Osaka
Historic Sites of Japan
Archaeological sites in Japan
Kofun |
The Sons of Neptune are an environmental campaign group in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. They were founded in 1983 by a group of local residents and sea swimmers who noted a decline in water quality and biodiversity. They campaigned against the disposal of sewage at sea by Yorkshire Water.
Formation
The Sons of Neptune was formed from a group of middle-aged men who regularly swam in the sea off Scarborough. The seas here have been held to have therapeutic properties for more than 300 years. During the late 1970s they noticed a decline in the clarity of the water and in marine biodiversity, which they attributed to the presence of sewage in the water. The group formed in 1983 and consisted of solicitor Frankie Drabble, chiropodist and rock and roll historian Charles White, accountant Chris Found, teacher Geoff Nunn, bookmaker Cecil Ridley and Pilkington Glass marketing manager Bryan Dew. The group's name was inspired by Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, and the Sons of the Desert, the Laurel and Hardy fan club (which takes its name from the 1933 film Sons of the Desert) of which White was a member. Drabble was the group's leader; a seventh person, Olsen's Fisherman's Nautical Almanac editor Sydney Smith, was considered an unofficial or honorary seventh member.
Campaign
The Sons of Neptune campaigned for better water quality in Scarborough throughout the 1980s. They opposed a sewage outfall proposed by Yorkshire Water to discharge into the North Bay. Yorkshire Water contended that the outfall was long enough that any bacteria would be killed by the cold water before it could wash ahore. The campaign contended that the bacteria could revive upon reaching the beach. The group's protests included dressing as undertakers and hooded figures to chase holidaymakers along the beach and gatecrashing other events, carrying jars of murky seawater. They also appeared on the BBC's Newsnight programme. The Sons of Neptune were opposed by Scarborough Borough Council and local tourism businesses as they thought the publicity about sewage was bad for trade. The Sons of Neptune's most famous stunt was the "Thatcherloo", a dinghy resembling a giant toilet that was piloted down the River Thames past the Houses of Parliament. The protest came after the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, stated that sewage discharged into the sea was treated, while the Sons of Neptune stated it was only macerated. The Thatcherloo was piloted by octogenarian Smith and Drabble was a passenger; both men were arrested by the Metropolitan Police.
The protest and others, such as South-West England's Surfers Against Sewage reflected a changing political climate on the treatment of sewage waste. From 1991 the European Union introduced water quality targets through the measures such as the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive and Bathing Waters Directive. Yorkshire Water subsequently built new ultra-violet sewage treatment plants at Scarborough, Whitby, Bridlington and Filey. The water in North Bay was given a three star quality rating in 2021 and has been described by Drabble as "excellent". He says "Yorkshire Water has come on board and are now friends with us", but the group is still hated by some Scarborough residents.
Smith remained an honorary member until his death in 2000. Nunn moved to the Lake District and has been replaced by local resident Stuart Carlisle. In 2011 White wrote a book about the campaign, The Adventures of the Sons of Neptune. In 2021 it was announced the story of the group would be made into a film.
References
Borough of Scarborough
Environmental organisations based in England
1983 establishments in England |
Babu Rash Bihari Lal Mandal (1866-1918) was a zamindar, philanthropist and a leader of Indian Independence Movement. He wrote a book named 'Bharat Mata Ka Sandesh' during Bang Bhang movement.
Biography
Rash Bihari Lal was born in 1866 as the only son of Raghubar Dayal Mandal, a Ahir Zamindar of Murho Estate. He was only a few years old when his parents died. After which he was brought up by his maternal grandmother in Ranipatti.
Rash Behari Babu studied till 11th standard and had knowledge of Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, Sanskrit, Persian, English and French languages. At young age, he took control of the zamindari estate of Murho.
Rash Bihari Lal Mandal is one of the founding members of Congress in Bihar and He had been an elected member of the Bihar Provincial Congress Committee and the All India Congress Committee from 1908 to 1918. He was one of the delegates of Bihar to the 25th Session of Indian National Congress at Allahabad in 1910.
Rashbihari Lal was one of the few zamindar of Bihar to launch an attack on British. He participated in many agitations against the British, due to which more than 120 cases were filed against him by the British. Despite being anti-British, In 1911, Rash Bihari Lal Mandal was given a prestigious place in the Delhi Durbar of Emperor George V's coronation in India.
In 1911, Rashbihari Lal founded the Gop Jatiya Mahasabha. Later, the All-India Yadav Mahasabha was formed by merging the Gop Jatiye Mahasabha and Ahir Kshatriya Mahasabha.
Babu Rash Bihari Lal died of illness on 26 August 1918 in Banaras, at the age of 52.
References
1866 births
1918 deaths
Zamindars of Madhepura
History of Bihar
Mithila
People from Bihar |
Ha Shan Kai Wat () is a village in Ta Kwu Ling, North District, Hong Kong.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Ha Shan Kai Wat (Ta Kwu Ling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
North District, Hong Kong |
Footpad (foaled 27 February 2012) is a French thoroughbred racehorse who won multiple Grade 1 races in Great Britain, Ireland and France.
Career
Footpad was bred in France and began his racing career with Robert Collet with two runs at Auteuil.
In 2015 he was sold and transerred to training with Willie Mullins in Ireland. His first run in Ireland at Gowran Park was success in a Maiden. He would go on to win two more races in Ireland, before finishing third in the 2016 JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham.
After a fall at Aintree in the Betfred Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle, Footpad won twice in France at Auteuil including the Grade 1 Prix Alain du Breil.
Mixed form followed with placed finishes in the Ryanair Hurdle and Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown and a fourth place in the 2017 Champion Hurdle.
After the summer break, Footpad returned at Navan in a beginners chase winning by 11 lengths. This started a four Grade 1 race victory sequence including the Racing Post Novice Chase, Arkle Novice Chase
, Arkle Challenge Trophy and the Ryanair Novice Chase
.
Going into late 2018, Footpad returned to racing at Naas but struggled to find form and had an extended break after an eighth-place finish in the 2019 Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham. A further win would follow in November 2019 at Thurles,
before two final runs in the colours of Simon Munir & Isaac Souede.
In February 2020, Footpad was sold to race in America. His first run came at Percy Warner Park in the Iroquois Steeplechase where he fell.
References
2012 racehorse births
Cheltenham Festival winners
National Hunt racehorses
Racehorses trained in Ireland
Racehorses bred in France |
The Shohimardonsoy (, ) is a river in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. It is formed at the confluence of the rivers Aksuu and Köksuu, that run from the Alay Range, near the village Shohimardon. Its lower course, between Vodil and the city Fergana, is known as Margʻilonsoy. It discharges into the Great Fergana Canal near Margilan. The river is long, and the watershed covers . The main settlements along the river Shohimardonsoy are the cities Margilan, Fergana and Kadamjay, and the town Vodil. Its annual average flow rate is .
References
Rivers of Kyrgyzstan
Rivers of Uzbekistan |
Gate Mudaliyar Abraham Christopher Gregory Sooriyarachchi Amarasekara (2 March 1883 – 29 March 1983) was a Sri Lankan painter. He is considered one the important Sri Lanka artists of the Ceylon Society of Arts of the mid 20th century.
Born on 2 March 1883 in Dodanduwa, the son of Rev. Abraham Sooriyarachchi Amarasekera, an Anglican priest, he was educated at the Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa and at the St. Thomas' College, Mutwal, where he was the cartoonist for the hostel magazine “The Dormitory” edited by Francis Molamure. He won first prize at the Ceylon Society of Arts’ annual exhibition in 1903.
After completing his schooling, Amarasekera joined H. W. Cave and Company to study commercial art, then worked at the Survey General's Department as a draughtsman for six years from 1907 and finally joined the staff of the Ceylon Technical College, Maradana as a lecturer in fine arts. Later he founded his own art school, the "Atelier School of Art", which produced many notable artists such as Harry Peiris and Justin Pieris Deraniyagala. He was known for his portraits of the Ceylonese leaders of his time. His works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In 1919, Amarasekera became the secretary of the Ceylon Society of Arts, its vice-president in 1926 and President in 1959. He was appointed Chairman of the Panel on Painting and Sculpture of Arts Council of Ceylon in 1954. He was an amateur magician with the stage name “Gay Deceiver” and was a founder president of the Association of Ceylon Magicians until his death in 1983. He was responsible for designing the National Art Gallery.
He gained the fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition and was awarded the titular honor of Mudaliyar by the Governor of Ceylon in 1924. Amarasekara was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1939 Birthday Honours for his services for the arts in Ceylon. The Government of Ceylon awarded the titular honor of Gate Mudaliyar in 1952 and appointed him the Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee of the Colombo Plan Exhibition. In 1983, Dawson Road in Colombo was renamed "Amarasekara Mawatha" in his honour by President J. R. Jayewardene.
He married Mable Beatrice Pereira in 1908 and they had one son, D. V. A. S. Amarasekara.
References
External links
Art UK - A. C. G. S. Amarasekara 1883–1983
Who Is The Lady In Red?
1883 births
1983 deaths
20th-century Sri Lankan painters
Sinhalese artists
People of British Ceylon
Sri Lankan Anglicans
Ceylonese Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Gate Mudaliyars
Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia |
The 2022 Nur-Sultan International Tournament was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the women's tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan between 21 and 27 February 2022.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings are as of 14 February 2022.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Gozal Ainitdinova
Yekaterina Dmitrichenko
Zhibek Kulambayeva
Aruzhan Sagandikova
The following player received entry using a protected ranking:
Kathinka von Deichmann
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Berfu Cengiz
Nagi Hanatani
Anzhelika Isaeva
Martyna Kubka
Polina Kudermetova
Ekaterina Reyngold
Maria Timofeeva
Ekaterina Yashina
Champions
Singles
Anzhelika Isaeva def. Greet Minnen, 6–4, 0–0, ret.
Doubles
Ekaterina Makarova / Linda Nosková def. Anna Sisková / Maria Timofeeva, 6–2, 6–3
References
External links
2022 Nur-Sultan International Tournament at ITFtennis.com
Official website
2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
2022 in Kazakhstani sport
February 2022 sports events in Asia |
Sheung Shan Kai Wat () is a village in Ta Kwu Ling, North District, Hong Kong.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Sheung Shan Kai Wat (Ta Kwu Ling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
North District, Hong Kong |
Umswai is a Tehsil in Amri block of Karbi Anglong district in the Indian state of Assam. Apart from being home to an exclusive tribal culture, Umswai also possesses extraordinary natural beauty. Previously it was known as Lalung Hills/Tiwa Hills during Tiwa Gobha Raja's period.
Geography
Umswai is located at the borders of the states of Assam and Meghalaya in Northest India. It is known for its scenic beauty and natural environment. It's geographical coordinates is 25.9472°N 92.2404°E.
Etymology
The word Umswai is originally derived from the Austroasiatic language of the Khasi people 'Umswai' which loosely translated means 'Water and Sand' referring to the geography of Umswai Valley.
Educational institutions
Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Umswai
Green Valley Academy, Umswai
Martha Memorial School, Umswai
References
West Karbi Anglong district
Cities and towns in West Karbi Anglong district |
Tai Po Tin () is a village in Ta Kwu Ling, North District, Hong Kong.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Tai Po Tin (Ta Kwu Ling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
North District, Hong Kong |
Wo Keng Shan () is a village in Ta Kwu Ling, North District, Hong Kong.
See also
List of planning areas in Hong Kong
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Wo Keng Shan (Ta Kwu Ling) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
North District, Hong Kong |
Alexander T. Sack (born October 9, 1972) is a German neuroscientist and cognitive psychologist. He is currently appointed as a full professor and chair of applied cognitive neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. He is also co-founder and board member of the Dutch-Flemish Brain Stimulation Foundation, director of the International Clinical TMS Certification Course, co-director of the Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) and the Scientific Director of the Transcranial Brain Stimulation Policlinic at Maastricht University Medical Centre.
Sack's research interests mainly surround brain stimulation and applied cognitive neuroscience. He specializes in noninvasive brain stimulation, fundamental and applied cognitive neuroscience, and clinical brain research.
Sack was Fellow of The German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a Fellow of the Alzheimer Research Initiative. He has been a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and The Young Academy of Europe (YAE).
Education
He studied Psychology and Neuroscience and completed his bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1995 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he also received his master's degree in 2000. He received his PhD in Natural Sciences in 2003.
Career
Sack was admitted to the doctoral program at Frankfurt University in 2000, supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (The German Academic Scholarship Foundation). He completed his PhD in Neuroscience in 2003. He has been the Principal Investigator and Head of Research Section "Brain Stimulation and Cognition" at the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC) since 2005. In 2009, he was appointed chairman and program director of the international and interfaculty Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at Maastricht University. In 2015, he co-founded and chaired the Dutch-Flemish Brain Stimulation Foundation. He served as the Head of Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University from 2015 to 2016, after which he was appointed as Vice Dean Research at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University from 2016 to 2020. Since 2017, he has also been co-director of the Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) there.
Sack's academic appointments at Maastricht University include his Assistant Professorship at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience from 2005 to 2008, after which he was appointed as an Associate Professor of Cognition and Brain Plasticity until 2011. Since then, he has been a Full Professor of Brain Stimulation and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. Apart from Maastricht University, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Palermo University, Italy since 2015.
Research
Sack is a pioneer and influential leader in brain stimulation and cognitive neuroscience research. He contributed to uncovering the brain dynamics underlying human cognition by combining and developing noninvasive brain imaging and brain stimulation techniques. As a principal investigator of "Brain Stimulation and Cognition” at the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, his research mainly focusses on the neurobiological and psychological principles underlying attention, learning, memory, and cognitive control. His scientific approach is characterized by combining various brain research techniques, including psychophysics, eye-tracking, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Electroencephalography (EEG), and Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS), especially Transcranial Magnetic (TMS) and Electric Brain Stimulation (TES, including TDCS and TACS). Along with his team, he spearheaded the development of simultaneously implemented TMS-fMRI-EEG during cognitive behavior allowing the application of brain-stimulation while recording the individual brain network responses (fMRI) and oscillatory brain states (EEG) of cognitively engaged participants.
Multimodal brain stimulation and brain imaging
Sack showed that direct and precise monitoring of casual dependencies among oscillatory states and signal propagation throughout cortico-subcortical networks is enabled by concurrent TMS-EEG-fMRI which provides a promising noninvasive avenue of subject-specific network research into dynamic cognitive circuits and their dysfunction. His innovative approach enables the direct and noninvasive probing of brain-state dependent signal propagation within specific brain-wide functional networks and to study how temporal (oscillations) and spatial (brain-wide networks) coding dynamics interrelate. In an earlier combined TMS-fMRI study, he applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to parietal cortices during concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and while participants were executing different visuospatial tasks. The results support the idea that visuospatial deficits following parietal damage are caused by a perturbation of activity across a specific frontoparietal network with right hemispheric dominance. The research also shows that concurrent fMRI and magnetic brain stimulation during task execution allows to identify and visualize networks of brain areas that are functionally related to specific cognitive processes
In a related theoretical contribution, Sack describes different approaches of combining TMS with functional neuroimaging techniques along with shortcoming of TMS. After a critical analysis of the resulting conceptual and methodological limitations that the investigation of functional brain behavior relationships still must face, he argued that some, but not all of the methodological limitations of TMS could be overcome by combination with functional neuroimaging.
Flexible cognition and neural oscillations
Sack proposed that oscillations underlie communication between cognitive brain regions, enabling the flexible configuration of meaningful brain networks depending on cognitive demands. He also revised the functional role of the dorsal attention network (DAN), proposing that this specific network supports a very basic cognitive mechanism, being the neural source of attentional biasing signals that enhance, maintain and reactivate representations in (especially perceptual) brain modules to enable these various cognitive processes. The DAN thus acts as a critical hub in the flexible cognitive systems of the brain, indicating its overarching role in cognition.
Cognitive enhancement
Sack revealed that selective attention can be enhanced in healthy volunteers by applying personalized oscillatory-based transcranial brain stimulation. Sack and his team combined EEG with transcranial alternating current stimulation (EEG-tACS) to entrain the individual power (amplitude) of alpha oscillatory activity in one hemisphere of the brain. Importantly, this EEG-based tACS intervention not only significantly increased lateralized alpha oscillations as validated by EEG, but also significantly improved the ability of healthy participants to focus, detect, and discriminate stimuli in one specific hemifield, boosting selective spatial attention. The cognitive performance was significantly better as compared to no brain stimulation, showing that transcranial electric brain stimulation can lead to cognitive enhancements.
In the field of memory, Sack discovered that storing multiple items in working memory is brought about by clustering these different items along different oscillatory phases. Sack could show that this type of oscillatory sorting scheme within working memory is indeed functionally relevant for behavioral performances.Sack further showed that theta and alpha phase biases near-boundary item categorization responses to one category or the other and that participants with stronger oscillatory clustering in the theta range showed a sharper discrimination performance between item categories. These findings of behaviorally-relevant functional phase-ordering represented a milestone in unravelling the behavioral relevance of so far primarily theoretical accounts of phase-coded oscillatory ordering. The repetitive nature of oscillations ensures that each item can be refreshed at its own phase and thereby maintained.
Sack also decoded distributed occipito-parietal EEG signals with a linear classifier during a working memory retention interval, while using a sensory impulse stimulus to boost the read-out of distributed neural activity related to the content held in working memory. This allowed Sack and his team to reveal that the content of memorized information during retention is modulated by the phase of ongoing oscillations in the theta/alpha range, and, importantly, that memory performance is modulated by the phase at which the impulse stimulus was presented. He discovered that the intervention of presenting the impulse stimulus during phases of high memory content enhanced working memory performance in healthy volunteers. These studies of his lab show that the information held in memory is represented cyclically in posterior cortical regions and that modulation of this memory content influences memory performance.
Collectively, these results represent empirical evidence in humans that working memory information is maximized within limited phase ranges, and that phase-selective stimulation can improve working memory, even in healthy young volunteers.
Brain plasticity
In a seminal Science publication, Sack introduced a novel TMS procedure that combines the respective advantages of creating a temporary virtual lesion through rTMS with the precise chronometric study offered by event-related triple-pulse TMS. This study showed that TMS-induced virtual lesions can evoke functional reorganizations, during which one part of the brain immediately compensates for activity disruptions in another brain region by taking over its specific cognitive function during task execution, revealing the highly dynamic properties of the human brain. This showed the enormous capacity, adaptivity, and flexibility of the human brain to compensate for any malfunction and to reorganize neural networks to maintain or regain functionality.
Awards and honors
Fellow, The German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Fellow, Alzheimer Research Initiative
2012 – Member, DJA within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
2013 – Member, The Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
Fulbright Scholar
Bibliography
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Duecker, F., Formisano, E., & Sack, A. T. (2013). Hemispheric differences in the voluntary control of spatial attention: direct evidence for a right-hemispheric dominance within frontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(8), 1332–1342.
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Ten Oever, S., De Weerd, P., & Sack, A. T. (2020). Phase-dependent amplification of working memory content and performance. Nature communications, 11(1), 1–8.
Peters, J. C., Reithler, J., Graaf, T. A. D., Schuhmann, T., Goebel, R., & Sack, A. T. (2020). Concurrent human TMS-EEG-fMRI enables monitoring of oscillatory brain state-dependent gating of cortico-subcortical network activity. Communications biology, 3(1), 1–11.
Gallotto, S., Duecker, F., Ten Oever, S., Schuhmann, T., De Graaf, T. A., & Sack, A. T. (2020). Relating alpha power modulations to competing visuospatial attention theories. NeuroImage, 207, 116429.
Ten Oever, S., Sack, A. T., Oehrn, C. R., & Axmacher, N. (2021). An engram of intentionally forgotten information. Nature communications, 12(1), 1–14.
Veniero, D., Gross, J., Morand, S., Duecker, F., Sack, A. T., & Thut, G. (2021). Top-down control of visual cortex by the frontal eye fields through oscillatory realignment. Nature communications, 12(1), 1–13.
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Living people
1972 births
German neuroscientists
German academics
Maastricht University faculty |
Chak 47 Fateh (Urdu:) also known as Chak No 047/Fateh, is a small village of Chishtian Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
References
Populated places in Bahawalnagar District
Populated places in Chishtian Tehsil |
Catarina Sarmento e Castro (born 1970) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in the January 2022 Portuguese legislative election, representing the Leiria District. Between 2019 and 2022 she served as Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants. A professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra, she has also served as a judge in the Constitutional Court.
Early life and education
Catarina Teresa Rola Sarmento e Castro was born in Coimbra on 16 May 1970. Her father was Osvaldo Alberto do Rosário Sarmento e Castro, a former Socialist Party deputy in the Assembly of the Republic. She obtained undergraduate and master's degrees, as well as a PhD, from the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra and also studied for a postgraduate diploma at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, with a dissertation entitled The notion of victim in the European Convention of the Rights of Man.
Career
Sarmento e Castro has been teaching at the University of Coimbra since 1999 and is now an assistant professor. Courses she has taught have included constitutional law and political science; police law; human rights; database protection; administrative courts; public procurement; and labour law. She has addressed these issues in various publications. She has also taught at the NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Lisbon and the Catholic University of Portugal.
Among her other roles, Sarmento e Castro has been a member of the advisory board of the Attorney General's Office and a member of the Superior Council of Administrative and Fiscal Courts. In 2010 she was elected to be a judge at the Constitutional Court, for a term of nine years. She has also been a member of the National Data Protection Commission. On 26 October 2019, she became the new Secretary of State for Human Resources and Former Combatants in the Ministry of National Defence.
Sarmento e Castro was elected to the Portuguese National Assembly in the January 2022 election. Standing for the Socialist Party (PS) she was third on the list of PS candidates for the Leiria District, in which the PS won five seats. Nationally, the PS won an overall majority of seats.
References
1970 births
Living people
Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Portuguese socialists
Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
University of Coimbra alumni
University of Coimbra faculty
Portuguese jurists |
Chak 48 Fateh (Urdu:) also known as Chak No 048/Fateh, is a small village of Chishtian Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
References
Populated places in Bahawalnagar District
Populated places in Chishtian Tehsil |
Azerbaijan Computer Emergency Response Team, officially known as Azerbaijan Government CERT (), is a computer emergency response team of the Republic of Azerbaijan responsible for cybersecurity and gathering data concerning information technology. It operates under the Special Communication and Information Security State Service of the government of Azerbaijan. It collectes data within its framework from relevant sources, including internet users, computer engineering groups, individuals or organizations and software developers. It coordinates with the foreign countries for gathering and analysing data from cybersecurity incidents involving both software and hardware tools designed for the prevention of internet and computer security.
Azerbaijan CERT develope framework for suggesting recommendations for software designed to maintain software and hardware tools entrusted with preventing unauthorised access to devices consisting personally identifiable information of the users. It operates within the scope of generalization and issues advisory in addition to providing technical support to users in the country. It also prevents cyberterrorism by spreading cybersecurity awareness. As national computer security agency, it provides assistance to the state governments concerning investigation of the computer incidents.
Duties and responsibilities
Headquartered in Special Communication & Information Security State Service of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Computer Emergency Response Team is entrusted with issuing advisory on specific software and hardware tools in collaboration with public and private vendors. It also coordinates with foreign CERTs in information technology sector, including cybercrimes. It also conduct research in collaboration with state authorities for obtaining data on cybersecurity incidents and assist them in preventing cyberattacks and malicious softwares and disruption of IT network system. The agency is also tasked with preventing denial-of-service attack within the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan.
References
Further reading
2008 establishments in Azerbaijan
Organizations based in Baku
Government agencies of Azerbaijan
Computer emergency response teams |
Christoph Hafer (born 14 April 1992) is a German bobsledder.
Career
Hafer started with the sport of luge on the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track at the age of nine. In 2010, he switched to bobsleigh and has been part of the German national team since 2014. Hafer starts for BC Bad Feilnbach and Eintracht Wiesbaden. He is coached by Thomas Prange. Since 2014, he has been in the top-level sport promotion with the Bavarian State Police where he holds the rank of Polizeimeister (Constable) since 2018.
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
Olympic bobsledders of Germany
People from Rosenheim (district)
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
German male bobsledders |
Chak 49 Fateh (Urdu:) also known as Chak No 049/Fateh, is a small village of Chishtian Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
References
Populated places in Bahawalnagar District
Populated places in Chishtian Tehsil |
The John Curtin Hotel, better known as The Curtin, is a pub, bar, and live music venue located in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
Founded c1860, the pub was first named The Lygon Hotel and was renamed The John Curtin Hotel in 1971 after Australia's 14th prime minister, John Curtin. It is known as a meeting place for the Labor party, and remained popular among members of the labour movement due to the Victorian Trades Hall building being across the road.
In 1975 the Australian Council of Trades Unions announced plans to buy the building for approximately $500,000 and redevelop it.
The venue was nominated in the Music Victoria Awards category for Best Venue (Under 500 Capacity) in 2016 and 2017.
The building features an upstairs 300 person capacity bandroom, and is currently home to Sonny's Fried Chicken and Burgers, serving American-style food.
In 2020, the pub's owner Ben Russell was forced to close the bandroom and cancel all upcoming gigs due to government restrictions around the COVID-19 pandemic. They continued to serve food and drinks, but he said business had suffered.
In February 2022 the pub's managers announced their lease would expire in November after the owner had decided to sell the building. Beat noted The Curtin's closure and uncertain future was part of an ongoing trend in Melbourne, with many live music venues forced to close.
Following the pub's announcement, unions once again discussed purchasing the building. The sale is being managed by commercial real estate agency CBRE.
The building is protected by the City of Melbourne’s heritage overlay so that it can't be demolished completely. But it can be partially demolished, leaving the original façade and allowing new apartments to be built.
References
External links
Official Website
The John Curtin Hotel on Discogs
The Curtin's owner Bruno Coruzzi's obituary (2010).
Photograph of bar c2010
Organisations based in Melbourne
Music venues in Melbourne |
Ng Uk Tsuen () is a village in Sheung Shui, North District, Hong Kong.
See also
Yu Tai (constituency)
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Ng Uk Tsuen (Sheung Shui) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. No. 5 Ng Uk Tsuen Pictures
Villages in Hong Kong
Sheung Shui |
The International Convention on the Protection of Birds (French: Convention internationale sur la protection (des) oiseaux) is an animal welfare treaty signed in Paris on 18 October 1950, ratified in 1953 by Austria, France, Greece and Monaco, and entered into effect on 17 January 1963 for 13 European countries. It followed the International Convention for the Protection of Birds that are Useful for Agriculture that was signed in Paris on 19 March 1902 (which remains effective, but has been rendered completely obsolete by later treaties), to extend to all species of birds. The text of the treaty was modified for the first time on 1 September 1973, and a second time on 30 March 2016.
The Convention established the principle that all birds, except for a small number of species, must be protected. It does not contain a list of species entitled to protection. Parties are required to maintain closed seasons for game birds (mostly during the spring migration), comply with certain hunting method regulations, and encouraged to establish bird reservers.
According to the then-Governor of the International Council of Environmental Law Cyril de Klemm (1989), the Convention 'has been largely ineffective', mostly due to the relatively small number of countries that have ratified it. Instead, the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (signed in 1979, effective in 1982) had become the 'main international instrument for the protection for European birds'.
See also
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
Animal rights by country or territory
Bird conservation
List of international animal welfare conventions
Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States
External links
Convention internationale sur la protection des oiseaux, French text of the 2016 version (PDF)
English translation of the French text of the 1950 version
Convention internationale sur la protection des oiseaux, French text of the 1950 version
References
1950 in France
Animal treaties
Animal welfare and rights legislation
Bird conservation
Council of Europe treaties
Environmental treaties
Fauna of Europe
Treaties concluded in 1950
Treaties entered into force in 1963
Treaties of Austria
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Bulgaria
Treaties of France
Treaties of Greece
Treaties of Iceland
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Luxembourg
Treaties of Monaco
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Serbia
Treaties of Spain
Treaties of Sweden
Treaties of Switzerland
Treaties of Turkey |
Anna Menon is an American astronaut. Menon was selected as a commercial astronaut on the Polaris Dawn mission, scheduled for the end of 2022. Menon worked for NASA for seven years before joining SpaceX, where she serves as chief engineer of space operations.
Education
Menon earned a Bachelor of mathematics and Spanish degree from Texas Christian University and a Masters of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University.
Career
NASA
Menon was a NASA biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station, assisting ISS crews from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and leading biomedical operations for Soyuz MS-01.
SpaceX
Menon is a Mission Director at SpaceX, where she helps the development of SpaceX manned spaceflight missions and works at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. She manages the execution of Dragon manufacturing and operates as Crew Communications Operator.
Menon was selected to be a mission specialist and chief medical officer for the Polaris Dawn mission, by spacecraft commander and billionaire Jared Isaacman. The mission is expected to launch from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A by the end of 2022.
Personal life
Menon is married to Anil Menon, lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, NASA astronaut candidate and a former SpaceX Medical Director. They have two children. She appeared in the final episode of the five-episode docuseries entitled Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, released on Netflix in September 2021.
References
See also
Polaris program
Living people
American astronauts
Commercial astronauts
SpaceX astronauts
SpaceX people
NASA people
Inspiration4 |
Charles Masson (1800–1853) is a British East India Company soldier, explorer and amateur archaeologist.
Charles Masson may also refer to:
Charles Masson (ice hockey) (1884–1954), Canadian ice hockey player
Charles Masson (field hockey), (born 1992), French field hockey player
Charles Masson Fox, (1866–1935), Cornish businessman |
Timofey Bazhenov (; born January 25, 1976, Moscow) is a Russian political figure, former TV host, and deputy of the 8th State Duma convocation.
Starting from 1994, Timofey Bazhenov began to work on the NTV channel, and in 1998 he was officially hired as a reporter. Since then, he has hosted many entertainment TV shows. Bazhenov's political career started in 2015 when he was appointed the head of the press office of Magas city. Since September 2021, he has served as a deputy of the 8th State Duma convocation. He ran with the United Russia.
He is also a founder of the environmental movement that shares his name.
References
1976 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
History and description
The Decoration of the Hungarian Red Cross (Magyar Vöröskereszt Díszjelvénye) was a Hungarian award instituted on 30 March 1922 by Regent Miklós Horthy to mark the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention. It was intended to honour individuals who had worked in the voluntary emergency services of the Red Cross, either in peacetime or in war.
In 7. January 1938 the original 3 decorations were augmented with 2 medals, the Silver and the bronze medal. Because war was inevitable all classes received a war decoration sub-class.
The order consists of three classes, as well as an associated medal in two classes:
1st: Star, with and without war decoration
2nd: Merit Cross, with and without war decoration
3rd: Merit Medal, with and without war decoration
4th: Silver Medal, with and without war decoration
5th: Bronze Medal, with and without war decoration
References
Medals of the World
Awards for military services was augmented with a war decoration for the ceremony.
Medals of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Awards established in 1922 |
The Brightside World Tour is the fourth concert tour by American folk rock band The Lumineers, in support of their fourth studio album, Brightside (2022). The tour is set to begin on February 24, 2022, in Nottingham, and is set to conclude on September 6, 2022, in Grand Rapids.
Background
On May 20, 2021, the band first announced tour dates in Europe for early 2022. These dates were originally announced as a standalone leg before Brightside was first announced. On February 8, 2022, the band then officially announced the Brightside World Tour, making the European leg now part of the tour, along with announcing North American dates for summer 2022. The tour was set to begin on February 1, 2022, in Prague, but is now scheduled to begin on February 24, 2022, in Nottingham due to ongoing concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several shows from this tour were rescheduled from III: The World Tour back in 2020. Tickets from the postponed III: The World Tour dates will be honored at the new dates for this tour.
Tour dates
Notes
References
2022 concert tours
The Lumineers |
Kai Leng () is a village in Sheung Shui, North District, Hong Kong.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Kai Leng (Sheung Shui) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Hong Kong
Sheung Shui |
Chak 50 Fateh (Urdu:) also known as Chak No 050/Fateh, is a small village of Chishtian Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
References
Populated places in Bahawalnagar District
Populated places in Chishtian Tehsil |
Live in Colorado is an album by Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros. It was recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on June 8 and 9, 2021, and at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, Colorado on June 11 and 12, 2021. It was released as a CD and as a two-disc LP on February 18, 2022.
Critical reception
On Pitchfork Jonathan Willinger said, "There have been previous stints where Weir assumed center stage, rather than looking for someone to fill the space left by Garcia, but Wolf Bros have lasted long enough to establish its own rugged and spacious approach to the music. It feels like a tacit acknowledgement of the need to move on, implying that if Weir is to fully embody the legacy he helped build, part of that is finding other ways to live inside it."
In Glide Magazine Dave Goodwich wrote, "Wolf Bros have gone on to perform nearly eighty shows and have seen their catalog rapidly grow as they continually find ways to reinvent the timeless material of the Grateful Dead in a unique stripped-down fashion that offers up a welcome counterpoint to the bells and whistles that accompany Weir's main project, Dead & Company.... While their laid back style may not be for everyone, Wolf Bros has already proven to be a formidable addition to the Grateful Dead family."
Track listing
"New Speedway Boogie" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 10:27
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan) – 9:45
"Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 6:45
"West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:44
"My Brother Esau" (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 5:40
"Only a River" (Weir, Josh Ritter, Josh Kaufman) – 6:43
"Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 9:53
"Lost Sailor" / "Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow) – 17:49
Personnel
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros
Bobby Weir – guitar, vocals
Don Was – double bass
Jay Lane – drums
Jeff Chimenti – piano
Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
The Wolfpack
Sheldon Brown – tenor saxophone
Alex Kelly – cello
Brian Switzer – trumpet
Adam Theis – trombone
Mads Tolling – violin
Production
Produced by Bobby Weir, Don Was, Jay Lane
Executive producers: Bernie Cahill, Matt Busch
Recording engineers: Derek Featherstone, Michal Kacunel, Vadim Canby
Mixing: Derek Feathersone, Chenao Wang
Mastering: Warren DeFever
Design, layout: Darryl Norsen
Photography: Chris Phelps, Dave Vann
Charts
References
Bob Weir albums
2022 live albums |
Daniil Bessarabov (; born 9 July 1976, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Duma convocations.
In 1999 Bessarabov graduated from the Altai State University. In 2006, he was awarded a Doctor of Juridical Science degree. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as a lawyer in Barnaul. In 2004, he was elected a deputy of the Altai Regional Council of People's Deputies, running from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Later he joined the United Russia. On September 17, 2010, he was appointed the Deputy Governor of the Altai Territory. Since 2016 he has served as deputy of the 7th (2016-2021) and 8th State Duma (2021-) convocations.
Daniil Bessarabov is married and has two daughters.
References
1976 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
Artyom Bichayev (; born April 4, 1990, Roslavl, Roslavlsky District) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma convocation.
While studying at the Saratov State Academy of Law, he started to be actively involved in the work of the Young Guard of United Russia. Later he was appointed deputy regional director of the organization. From 2013 to 2019, he was the head of the All-Russia People's Front's department on the work with regions.
Since 2021 he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma.
References
1990 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
Sergey Bidonko (; born August 18, 1975, Karpinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian political figure, deputy of the 7th and 8th State Duma convocations.
In 1993 he graduated from the Krasnotur'inskiy Industrial'nyy Kolledzh. Later he continued his education at the Ural State Technical University (2000) and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (2011). Bidonko started his political career in 2009 when he was elected the head of Karpinsk (nominated by the United Russia). In 2013 he was re-elected for the same position. On December 15, 2014, Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast appointed Bidonko Deputy Minister of Construction and Architecture of the region.
In 2016 he was elected deputy of the 7th State Duma convocation. On January 10, 2019, his deputy powers were terminated ahead of schedule as Bidonko was appointed vice-governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Since 2021 he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma.
References
1975 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
Lavender Lounge was a public access television show in San Francisco that aired from 1991 to 1995, one of the first of its kind in the United States. Mark Kliem was the creator and executive producer of Lavender Lounge, nicknamed "The Queer American Bandstand". In addition to dancers invited from the general public, Lavender Lounge frequently featured LGBTQ+ artists, drag queens and performers such as the queer punk band Pansy Division, Elvis Herselvis, and the Acid Housewives, the latter of whom the New York Times, reviewing Lavender Lounge, described as " three men in psychedelic-colored housedresses".
The format of the show was a "TV Dance Party for Gay Boys and Girls", with members of the public invited to dance in the studio to recorded music interspersed with guest performers. It was patterned after Dick Clark's American Bandstand and John Waters's Hairspray, but aimed at a gay and lesbian audience.
Sixty episodes of the Lavender Lounge television show were created, including being named "Official Video" of GLBTQ Pride Parade" in 1993 and 1994, plus "Official Video" of Halloween In The Castro 1992 and 1993.
Segments of Lavender Lounge were screened at the Los Angeles Gay Film Festival and the Fresno Gay Film Festival. During a six-month period in 1994, episodes of the show were broadcast on satellite reaching from Alaska to Puerto Rico.
In 1994 and 1995, Lavender Lounge was aired on both the Public-access television channel and the leased access channel in San Francisco. It was one of the most popular Public-access television shows ever aired in San Francisco.
References
1990s American LGBT-related television series
Local television programming in the United States
1991 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings |
Alice Sant'Anna (born May 24, 1988, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian poet, best known for her poetry books Dobradura (2007), Pingue-pongue (2012), Rabo de baleia (2013), and Pé do ouvido (2016). She was awarded the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte award in 2013.
References
1988 births
Living people
Brazilian poets |
The 10th Edition of Asian Kabaddi Championship was held at Gorgan, Iran from 22 November to 26 November 2017. India continued their dominance winning both men's and women's tournament.
Tournament
This was overall the 10th edition (10th for men's and 5th for women's). 1st ever to be held(and to be held outside India) in Iran, 20 teams (11 countries) participated at the tournament. This was regarded as the best edition of Asian Kabaddi Championship. India continued their dominance by winning both men and women competitions.
Draw
9 Countries(Afghanistan only in men's and Chinese Taipei only in women's) participated in both men's and women's team competitions. They were divided into 2 Pools of 5 teams each in both men and women competition.
Men
Pool A
Pool B
Women
Pool A
Pool B
Medalists
Medal Table
Controversies and Criticism
Thailand Head Coach Headscarf Incident
the head coach of the Thailand women's kabaddi team was reportedly caught with a headscarf over his head in order to gain entry into one of the matches that the Iranian women's team was taking part in. Reports suggest that the coach entered the premises of the match and wore two different colours of headscarves in order to blend in with the other women around. The act has been strongly condemned by the local sports authority and the Iranian Federation, who considered it a gross violation of the rules of the host country. Laws in Iran are still very strong when it comes to men and women's sports competitions and no man is allowed entry into one of the matches that the women are a part of.
Indian Players Slamms Organizers for No Broadcast
Many Indian stars after winning the tournament slammed the organizers for not broadcasting the tournament. "It is a sad thing that there was not telecast at all on TV," said Puneri Paltan star Deepak Niwas Hooda, "Such events should certainly be broadcasted. We really liked it when everyone across India watched us play in the Pro Kabaddi League and even we could also see ourselves on TV, The organizers authorities should have certainly made an arrangement to telecast the matches in India. It means a lot to us if we know people back home are seeing us play and it gives us an extra boost." he added. Indian Captain Ajay Thakur said "We got to know that there is no telecast of the tournament in India and that you (fans) are unable to watch the matches. It as a very sad thing that there is no coverage of the Championships and we were very disappointed when we got to know this fact. However, we are trying to make as many videos as possible and take pictures so that we can share them with you,"
References
Kabaddi competitions
Kabaddi in Iran
2017 in Iranian sport |
Chak 51 Fateh (Urdu:) also known as Chak No 051/Fateh, is a small village of Chishtian Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
References
Populated places in Bahawalnagar District
Populated places in Chishtian Tehsil |
Svetlana Bessarab (; born 7 December 1970, Krasnodar) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Duma convocations.
In 1999 Bessarab graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, and in 2001 she received an MA degree from the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Jurisprudence). She started her political career in 2012 when she ran for the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Krai. In 2013 was appointed the chairman of the Kuban branch of the All-Russia People's Front.
Since 2016 she has served as deputy of the 7th (2016-2021) and 8th State Duma (since 2021) convocations. She represents the Krasnodar Krai.
She was one of the initiators of the law on life imprisonment for pedophiles, adopted by the State Duma and signed by Vladimir Putin at the beginning of 2022.
References
1970 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
Perry Carpenter is an American cybersecurity focusing on security awareness, security behavior, and security culture. He currently serves as the "Chief Evangelist" & Strategy Officer for security vendor KnowBe4.
Education
Perry holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University in Vermont and is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).
Career
Perry's early career was as a computer programmer for J.B. Hunt Transportation and Walmart, both in his home state of Arkansas. He later workd for Alltel Telecommunications (acquired by Verzion) where his primary responsibility was coauthored by Kai Roercybersecurity program management and security awareness. He later moved to Gartner Research (NYSE:IT), where he led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. Carpenter also served as Head of Communications in the security department of Fidelity Information Services.
Carpenter is the author of two books focusing on the human factors of cybersecurity:
Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors (Wiley, 2019).The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer (coauthored with Kai Roer) (Wiley, 2022).
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The 2021–22 P. League+ season is the inaugural season of the P. League+ (PLG). The league launched with 4 teams playing a 24-game schedule. The regular season began on December 19, 2020, and was scheduled to end on April 10, 2021. The playoffs began on April 23 and was early ended on May 15 due to the Taiwanese pandemic restrictions after Game 4 of the 2021 P. League+ Finals. The Taipei Fubon Braves, leading 3–1 in the Finals, was declared the champion after the remaining Finals games were cancelled.
Transactions
Retirement
On February 19, 2021, Chi Sung-Yu announced his retirement from professional basketball.
Coaching changes
Off-season
On August 3, 2020, the Hsinchu JKO Lioneers hired Lin Kuan-Lun as their head coach.
On October 13, 2020, the Taoyuan hired Liu I-Hsiang as their head coach.
In-season
On December 22, 2020, the Taoyuan and head coach Liu I-Hsiang mutually agreed to part ways without playing any games with the team.
Preseason
The preseason began on October 17, and ended on November 22.
Regular season
The regular season began on December 19, 2020, and ended on April 10, 2021.
Playoffs
Bracket
Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage
Statistics
Individual statistic leaders
Individual game highs
Team statistic leaders
Awards
Yearly awards
All-PLG Team:
Chang Tsung-Hsien, Taipei Fubon Braves
Chieng Li-Huan, Hsinchu JKO Lioneers
Shih Chin-Yao, Taoyuan Pilots
Yang Chin-Min, Formosa Taishin Dreamers
Ihor Zaytsev, Taipei Fubon Braves
All-Defensive Team:
Chieng Li-Huan, Hsinchu JKO Lioneers
Kao Kuo-Hao, Hsinchu JKO Lioneers
Chang Tsung-Hsien, Taipei Fubon Braves
Lee Te-Wei, Formosa Taishin Dreamers
Hasheem Thabeet, Hsinchu JKO Lioneers
Statistical awards
Finals
Players of the Week
Preseason
Regular Season
Players of the Month
Arenas
The Hsinchu Lioneers announced on September 8, 2020, that they would play their home games at Hsinchu County Stadium.
The Taoyuan announced on November 14, 2020, that they would play their home games at Taoyuan Arena.
The Formosa Dreamers scheduled last four of their home games at National Taiwan University of Sport Gymnasium. On March 15, the Dreamers resumed their last two home games back to Changhua County Stadium for Tien Lei's retiring weekend.
Media
The games will be aired on television via FTV One and MOMOTV, and will be broadcast online on YouTube Official Channel and 4gTV.
References
External links
Basketball events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Old Russian ornament is a general designation for ornamental patterns characteristic of the culture of ancient Russia, and partially rooted in its pre-Christian period. There was also influence outside the Old Russian state, in particular in Poland, Moravia and Scandinavia (see “”).
Definition
Ornament in the works of ancient Russian art was rarely the subject of special study in the works of historians and culturologists. Interest in ornamental patterns and the peculiarities of their manifestation in ancient Russian culture appeared only towards the end of the 19th century. The paleographer Vyacheslav Shchepkin developed the methodological foundations for the study of ancient Russian ornament. He laid the foundations for the genetic analysis of the ornament, revealing its original element and the nature of its changes (doubling, dividing the ornamental pattern, etc.). Also, Schepkin formulated a mechanism for creating compositions from individual elements, in which the combination of motifs in the ornament occurs on the basis of the instincts of symmetry and rhythm. Finally, he gave a description of the ornament as a whole, determining that the ornaments differ from each other:
according to the content of their motives,
according to the way they are combined and
by the nature of its frame» (meaning the edges of the ornamental pattern).
By species, one can clearly distinguish the distribution of animal and plant ornaments in Ancient Russia; according to Shchepkin, the latter manifested itself primarily in the ornamentation of the most ancient Russian chronicle books, emphasizing that the floral ornament is based on only one simple motif - a branch.
On metal
Melee weapons
Edged weapons in Ancient Russia were not ornamented so often; Basically, the pattern was applied to captured weapons. The big exception is swords, the hilts of which were often inlaid. Among these swords, the following stand out:
a sword from Karabichev with a handle of the European-Russian type and a Byzantine type ornament (1st half of the 11th century);
a sword from Foshchevata (forger Ludota) with an Old Russian type hilt (X century);
a sword from the burial of a combatant in Kiev (X century);
sword of the Scandinavian (Viking) type from the Dnieper rapids (X century);
a fragment of a nominal sword with the inscription "слав" (XI century).
Since the 12th century, sabers have become widespread, which were forged from carburized iron blanks, after which they were repeatedly hardened using a particularly complex technology, resulting in a product with the hardest blade. As with swords, the hilts of some sabers also show traces of silver inlay.
Of the ornamented axes, the so-called “Adrey Bogolyubsky’s hatchet” attracts the most attention, which is, in fact, a chased hatchet (an ax with a hammer on a yard-long handle) inlaid close to the animal style. On the front side of the ax there is an image of a pierced snake in the form of the Cyrillic letter “a”, according to Kirpichnikov, corresponding to the content of ancient Russian bylines. On the reverse side is an image of two birds. The hatchet itself dates from the period of the 11th-13th centuries.
Decoration arts
Among the decorations of the personal attire of the Old Russian population, the ornamental pattern was present more often than on weapons, eventually evolving into the so-called animal style. Some decorated household items could be distributed both among the nobility and among ordinary citizens.
Old Russian bronze thick-plastic rings are also distinguished from personal attire, differing from simple rings in a cast ornament of three to five hallmarks, each of which contains an element of a complex ornamental pattern. This type of rings was first singled out in 1959 by Mikhail Zhitomirskaya and named cellular in his thesis “Ornamented rings and bracelets of the Vyatichi”. The greatest width of the ring is 9 mm, the length in the pattern is 60–65 mm. The relation of the rings to the culture of the Vyatichi is not in doubt among archaeologists. Most of the rings were found only in burials, however, analogues of some types are also found in the cultural strata of the population. Casting molds for making this type of rings have not been found. Most of the rings date back to the 11th century, only a few belong to an earlier period.
On 14 copies of the rings, the remains of enamel were seen: red (8 copies), green (2 copies) and lost color (4 copies). In addition to them, the so-called "knyazely" rings with shields and seals are known, but they are not ornamented in such detail.
Especially valuable are the finds from the hoard found in Staraya Ryazan in 1970, among which a silver colt and a silver bracelet with a distinct ornament in the animal style stand out. A fantastic beast is depicted on a silver colt in the twists of a ribbon braid with vegetable curls. Similar monsters, characteristic of the animal style of the XII-XIII centuries, can be found on Chernihiv kolts. On a wide bracelet, animal-like creatures are also depicted next to the ornament; it is possible that during its manufacture there was an influence of Slavic mythology. The stylistic similarity with the bracelet of the Staraya Ryazan treasure of 1966 indicates that they were made in the same workshop. The relation of this bracelet to women's attire is indisputable. The matte black background sets off with the brilliance of the figures left in silver and the soft gilding of the borders. Apparently, when applying when drawing drawings, sets of openwork metal stencils were used, which made it possible to repeat images and give them a mirror image. Thanks to hand engraving, identical patterns vary in detail.
In addition to these two specimens, ornamental elements also appear on other finds, including kolts, pendants, and necklaces. In total, there are more than 40 artifacts in the Old Ryazan treasure.
On wood (applied art)
In manuscripts
The Russian paleographer Vyacheslav Shchepkin was the first to combine the ornamentation of ancient Russian handwritten collections (marginal and capital decorations, capital letters of the first page of the “letter cap”) with the term floral ornament, the main element of which is a branch. Later it was believed that this element underlies the floral ornament of the oldest ancient Russian books: Ostromir Gospels (1056-1057), Svyatoslav's Izbornik (1073), the Mstislav Gospel (until 1117), the Missal of Varlaam Khutynsky (XII century), the Yuryevsky Gospel (1119-1128).
Even at the beginning of the 20th century, Nikodim Kondakov noted the similarity of the ornamentation of the most ancient Russian miniatures with cloisonné enamel. The same circumstance prompted Boris Rybakov to attribute manuscripts with floral ornaments to a separate category of ornamental art. Both in miniatures and on cloisonne enamel, the pattern of the drawing is the same: in the simplest version, it is a three-petal flower.
Outside Russian lands
Some elements of Old Russian culture were found in the Polish burial grounds in Lutomiersk, many of which have analogues in late Varangian-Russian burials. All objects, both from the field of ritual customs and material culture, are associated mainly with Russia, mainly with Kievan Rus, and through it with the culture of the peoples living in the Black Sea and Ural steppes, as well as with the Scandinavian and Baltic cultures. Scientists conduct several more remote anologies to the antiquities of Lutomersk with ancient Russian burials: distributors for belts with an ornament of bear heads, similar to those found in the village of Spasskoye, Kaminsky province, over the Omiya River (between the upper reaches of the Ob and Irtysh), as well as in the village of Kynovska and in the Perm region above the upper Kama.
The complex of features that distinguish these foreign, non-Polish burials is directly related to Russia, namely, to the burials and the cremation ritual characteristic of the Varangian-Russian burial grounds (extensive burial pits and stone lining, in many cases the presence of a horse team). According to the assumption of Konrad Yazhzhevsky, which arose in the North Slavic environment and later spread among the Varangians-Rus, this burial rite came to Poland during the time of Boleslav the Brave, during the years of military clashes (1013, 1018 or 1019), when a small group of influential political emigrants (outcasts) from Kievan Rus, together with a group of warriors, among whom were the Slavized Varangians, found refuge here, and was planted "for fodder" away from the borders of the state. Partially Christianized, they left traces of their own culture in the local environment, but disappeared among the local population.
In the Baltic, many material and artistic values coming from Russia were not only involved in the exchange between the inhabitants of the Baltic coasts and Scandinavia, but were also reproduced in local workshops. Numerous things fall into this category, such as carved bone ornamented combs, specific ceramics (perhaps even the production of pottery forms of Slavic origin in Sweden); certain types of weapons are made.
Particularly indicative is the distribution of richly decorated swords in the Baltic, later called swords of the Baltic-Scandinavian and Baltic-Slavic types; moreover, only the painted handle is original for most swords - the blades themselves are clearly of Roman production and date back to the period of the 4th-5th centuries. Presumably, some specimens of swords came to the Baltic lands in the 5th - first half of the 6th century from the former provinces of the Roman Empire after its fall. Such swords became more widespread in Scandinavia and Kievan Rus, where, presumably, they were produced. No local (Scandinavian) centers of production are known. But such production is definitely established in some other areas, on the roads and in the shopping centers of Great Moravia and Kievan Rus. In Ancient Russia, the production of hatchet hatchets (with a hammer on a yard-long handle) with a distinctive large blade was also established, from where they already got to Northern and Eastern Europe.
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"" (; ) is a song by Lithuanian singer Monika Liu. It will represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy, after winning the pre-selection competition 2022. This marks the first time since that Lithuania has sent a song fully performed in Lithuanian and the first since in a domestic language.
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Charts
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Ma Mei Ha () is a village in Fanling, in the North District of the New Territories of Hong Kong.
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Danica Grujičić (; born 30 August 1959) is a Serbian doctor, neurosurgeon specialist, politician, current head of the Center for Neurooncology of the Nuerosurgical Clinic of the Clinical Centre of Serbia and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.
A member of the Democratic Party (DS) from 2004 to 2011, she left DS in 2011 and was elected vice president of the Social Democratic Alliance (SDS). Grujičić participated in the 2012 Serbian presidential election, finishing last with 0.78% of the votes. In February 2022, she became affiliated with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and it was announced that she will be the ballor carrier of the SNS-led coalition's "Together We Can Do Everything" ballot list in the upcoming parliamentary election.
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Dipak Adhikari (Nepali: दिपक अधिकारी) is a Nepali politician, and the member of Central Policy Research and Training Academy (CPRTA) of Nepali Congress, Nepal's largest democratic party. Adhikari is from Sarlahi and began his political career with the Nepal Student Union, the student wing of Nepali Congress. He was a member of the party's Central Policy Research and Training Academy (CPRTA), accepting the invitation from former Home Minister Bimalendra Nidhi on 12th April 2019.
Biography
Adhikari started his political life from Ratna Rajya (RR Campus) as a Nepal Student Union leader. He was the campus president of RR Campus from the Nepal Student Union. Between 2000 and 2002, Adhikari served on the central committee of the Nepal Student Union under the presidency of Bishwa Prakash Sharma.
Following King Gyanendra's dismissal of Parliament and proclamation of emergency, Adhikari was one of many Student Leaders who spoke out against the royal regime and urged for the establishment of a republic. He called for more youth involvement in the movement and for students to take to the streets to start a decisive movement for democracy restoration. In 2004, he was imprisoned on various allegations of sedition. He and other NSU Activists were detained but were released after the Supreme Court ruled that their incarceration was unlawful.
He was the vice president of the Nepal Student Union central committee during the People's Movement after which he lost the battle of preference to Ranjit Karna to become the President of the Nepal Student Union in 2013. The then-party president Sushil Koirala preferred Karna over Adhikari.
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Papilionanthe pedunculata is a species of epiphytic orchid native to Cambodia, and Vietnam. This species is a floristic component of the South Annamese endemism center, which is characterised by isolated, uplifted plateaux and high mountain systems. They are also found in dry lowland Dipterocarp forests in southern Vietnam. The plant has obvious xeromorphic features and is adapted to these dry conditions. The cool-growing plant occurs at 1200 to 1300 m. The plants are large and terete.
Conservation
This species is included in the CITES appendix II and international trade is regulated to protect wild populations.
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Sonia Jackson Myles is the Founder/CEO of The Accord Group LLC and the President, CEO & Treasurer, of The Sister Accord® Foundation.
Education
Myles holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Florida A&M University (FAMU) and graduated summa cum laude.
Career
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Myles launched The Sister Accord Africa – The Winners Circle to help meet her goal of having one billion girls and women learn how to love themselves and each other. The first Sister Accord Chapter was established in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is frequently quoted in notable newspaper such as CNN, Huffpost, Business Insider, Forbes etc
Myles is also the author of The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister and 51 Ways to Love Your Children.
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Lucia & The Best Boys are a Scottish indie rock band.
History
The band members met in Glasgow while performing in other bands. They were formerly known as LUCIA.
Discography
Extended Plays
Best Boy (2017)
Cheap Talk (2 November 2018)
Eternity (31 January 2020)
The State of Things (9 October 2020)
Singles
Melted Ice Cream (2017)
Good Girls Do Bad Things (October 2019)
City Of Angels (31 January 2020)
Let Go (22 May 2020)
Perfectly Untrue (September 2020)
Forever Forget (January 2021)
References
External links
Official website
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Scottish indie rock groups |
"Veyyon Silli" () is the 2020 Tamil-language song featured in the soundtrack of the Tamil film Soorarai Pottru. Directed by Sudha Kongara, and produced by Suriya under his 2D Entertainment banner, starring himself in the lead role. The song is composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar, and sung by Harish Sivaramakrishnan and written by Vivek. It is a fusion of melody, folk and progressive rock, and was picturised on Suriya and Aparna Balamurali. The track was launched on 13 February 2020 at a special Boeing 737 aircraft flying on mid-air, the first time in Tamil cinema to do so.
Development
The recording of the song took place during October 2019, with Harish Sivaramakrishnan, playback singer and frontman of the Bangalore-based contemporary Carnatic progressive rock band Agam, sung the track. According to Prakash, it is a melody number fused with Indian folk and progressive rock, that renders a "new genre in sounding". The track was written by Vivek, in his maiden collaboration with Suriya, and was the first song he had wrote for the film. According to Vivek, the title "Veyyon Silli" served as a colloquial meaning to "suriyanin thundu" (a piece of the sun), where "Veyyon" means it as 'sun' and is considered to be "a beautiful word in the Tamil literature". In an interview with Avinash Ramachandran of The New Indian Express, Vivek had said that "when a song is featured in a film that has such a big star like Suriya, people will surely pay more attention to the lyrics".
Release and reception
The song was released on 13 February 2020, coinciding the eve of Valentine's Day. The release coincided with a special launching ceremony that was held at Chennai International Airport where the team planned to launch the single inside the Boeing 737 aircraft flying on mid-air, which is the first in Tamil cinema, to hold a film's song launch during mid-air flight. The team collaborated with SpiceJet as the official aviation partner and had launched a special Boeing 737 passenger jet with the film's poster being branded on it. 100 first-time fliers including 70 school children are invited to the single track launch which was held during mid-air flight. The song was simultaneously launched on all streaming platforms, the same day, along with the Telugu-version of the track "Pilla Puli".
Antara Chakraborty of The Indian Express called the song as "an earworm as the beats are catchy". Critic-based at Behindwoods called it as an "enjoyable track" similar to "Othayadi Pathayile" from Kanaa (2018) and said "The song is well composed as it clearly makes you want to get from your sedentary position and tap your foot. The song has a rural background in its instrumental arrangement in the second layer if you pay attention and also employs good percussion to suit the current trends." Vipin Nair of Music Aloud chose "Veyyon Silli" as one of his favourite picks and stated it as "the track has smattering of rock elements in it as well, making for a heady combo". Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog in his weekly review, wrote "GVP gets many things perfectly right in the song. His own captivating tune and the jaunty rhythms is one. Vivek’s lyrics, full of interesting wordplay is another. The best part is the choice of Agam’s lead singer, Harish Sivaramakrishnan. Harish is stunningly good in his rendition of this high-pitched melody."
Commercial performance
For the digital news platform The News Minute, Anjana Shekar listed the song, along with "Kaattu Payale" (another track from the film) in the year-ender review 7 Tamil Songs That Needed in Your Playlist. Spotify chose "Veyyon Silli" and five other tracks from the film's album in their Top Tamil Tracks of 2020. It was the most streamed Tamil song on JioSaavn in 2020. As of February 2022, the song garnered about 66 million views, with the lyrical version gained more views (41 million views) than the video song.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from YouTube.
G. V. Prakash Kumar – composer
Harish Sivaramakrishnan – playback singer
Vivek – lyrics
Rajkumar Amal – music producer
Balaji – solo violin
KC Balasarangan – backing vocals
Sarath Santhosh – backing vocals
Ala B Bala – backing vocals
Sanjay Chandrashekhar – recording and supervision (Divine Labs, Chennai)
Jehovahson Alghar – mixing and mastering (Divine Labs, Chennai)
Shadab Rayeen – iTunes mastering (New Edge Studios, Mumbai)
Abhishek Sortey – mastering assistance
Dhanunjey Kapekar – mastering assistance
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Erica Fischer (born January 1, 1943, in St. Albans) is an Austrian writer, translator, and women's rights activist. She is best known for her book Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 (1994), about Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim, which was adapted into the 1999 film Aimée & Jaguar. The book won Fischer a Lambda Literary Award in 1996. In 2009, Fischer was the recipient of the Hedwig Dohm certificate from the Association of Women Journalists.
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Papilionanthe cylindrica is a species of epiphytic orchid native to India, and Sri Lanka. This species has been recorded in intermediate zones with dry grasslands on hilltops and upper slopes of isolated hills. Flowering occurs from February to June and flowers are very showy, fragrant and white. The three-lobed labellum is yellow at the tip and pink with white spots below.
Conservation
This species is included in the CITES appendix II and international trade is regulated to protect wild populations.
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John William Merryweather (25 May 1932 – 24 September 2019) was an Aruban landscape architect and politician. He served as the first Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba from 1986 until 1989.
Biography
Merryweather was born on 25 May 1932 in Aruba, as the son of British father and an Aruban mother. He went to high school in Jamaica and the United States. He studied at the Loughborough University in England, and specialised in landscape architecture in the United States.
In 1952, Merryweather started to work in the oil industry. In 1961, he became head of the park service in Aruba. In 1962, he became the Aruban representative of the newly formed National Park Agency (then STINAPA, nowadays CARMABI). In 1969, he became head of the Curaçaoan park service. In 1978, he became head of the Aruban tourism agency.
In 1983, Merryweather became a member of the Aruban Patriotic Party (PPA), and was elected to the island council of Aruba. In April 1984, he resigned from the island council, and was appointed to the cabinet of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands Antilles in The Hague, Netherlands.
On 1 January 1986, the Status aparte of Aruba came into effect, which made Aruba a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country was to be represented by a Minister Plenipotentiary in the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On 10 January, Merryweather was appointed first Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba, and served until 11 February 1989.
After his tenure as minister, Merryweather served as head of the European tourism agency for Aruba. In 1990, Merryweather became president of Nationaal Fonds Sports Gehandicapten (NFSG), a charitable fund for handicapped sports in the Netherlands. During his lifetime, Merryweather had been active in several sport organisations, and served as football manager of SV Racing Club Aruba on multiple occasions.
On 24 September 2019, Merryweather died in Aruba, at the age of 87.
Honours and legacy
Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
On Koningsdag, the "Merryweatherbeker" is awarded to the winner of the Aruban youth football tournament.
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The 1982 Orkney Islands Council election, the third election to Orkney Islands Council, was held on 4 May 1982 as part of the wider 1982 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Independents take all save one of the seats on the council as the Orkney Movement contested its first election, winning one seat.
Results
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis. The team is one of the members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in Division I.
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Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney) was a South Korean pay television channel amid for children 1 to 8 years old. Which is owned by Disney Channel Korea Co. Ltd.
History
Disney Junior began broadcasting on June 1, 2004, in the form of broadcasting with Korean subtitles on the screen of Disney Junior Asia (Playhouse Disney Asia). Then, in June 2010, Disney Channel Worldwide, which owns Disney Junior, and SK Telecom joined hands to establish Television Media Korea (now Disney Channel Korea Co. Ltd. in 2016), a joint venture, and from July 11, 2011, Dubbing and voice multi-service broadcasting began.
On November 2, 2011, SK Telecom physically spin-off its platform business, including TV Media Korea, into its new subsidiary, SK Planet. After that, SK Planet sold all of its stock in TV Media Korea to The Walt Disney Company Korea, a Korean corporation of The Walt Disney Company, on September 30, 2015. As a result, Disney was able to directly operate Disney Junior and its sister channel, the Disney Channel, in Korea.
Disney Junior along with Disney Channel on both Korea, Southeast Asia & Hong Kong was shut down on October 1, 2021, while it's content was replaced instead on Disney+.
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Leonardo Buta (born 5 June 2002) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Braga.
Club career
Having grown through the youth ranks and reserve team of SC Braga, Leonardo Buta made his professional debut for the club on the 12 February 2022, replacing Bruno Rodrigues at the 56th minute of a 2–1 home Primeira Liga win against Paços de Ferreira.
International career
Buta is a youth international for Portugal, playing with the under-17 during the 2018–19 season.
Personal life
Born in a family of Angolan descent, Leonardo is the younger brother of professional footballer Aurélio Buta.
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Living people
Portuguese footballers
Portugal youth international footballers
Association football defenders
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Adlercreutzia hattorii is a Gram-positive, obligately anaerobic and Rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Adlercreutzia which has been isolated from human faeces.
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Beverly Weintraub is an American journalist. She shared the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing with Arthur Browne and Heidi Evans of The New York Daily News for their editorials on Ground Zero workers’ health problems.
Biography
Weintraub graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a B.A. in linguistics and a minor in political science in 1982. She also wrote for, and edited the Columbia Daily Spectator. She worked at the New York Daily News for 23 years, winning a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2007 for investigating into the illness affecting first responders during 9/11.
She left the Daily News to become New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's chief speech writer in 2013.
She made her author debut with Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators, published in 2021.
Weintraub is currently an executive editor at The 74.
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Youhanna Kamal Golta (27 January 1937 – 15 February 2022) was an Egyptian Coptic Catholic hierarch.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Golta was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. He served as auxiliary and curial bishop of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria, Egypt, from 1986 until his retirement in 2020. Gotta died on 15 February 2022, at the age of 85.
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The 2021 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series is the twenty-first season of D1 Grand Prix started on April 24 at Okuibuki Motopark and ended on November 21 at Ebisu Circuit.
Masanori Kohashi is the defending champions.
Teams and Drivers
Source : 2021 D1GP Drivers
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Note : Round 5 and 6 supposed to be held on August 21 and 22 were postponed due to the rasing COVID-19 case in Japan the event was moved to November 20 and 21 but the event wasn't renamed
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Drivers' Ranking
Note :
Bold : Tsuiso (Dual-run) Winner
Italic : Tanso (Single-run) WInner
† - Due to time limit expired Akinori Utsumi was declared winner as he qualified higher than Yukio Matsui but both driver gets 21 points (Average point between first and second place)
Tanso series Ranking
Note :
Bold : Tanso (Single-run) Winner
Teams' Ranking
Source : 2021 D1GP Series ranking
External link
Official Website (In Japanese)
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Tamaz Mechiauri (1 December 1954 – 15 February 2022) was a Georgian politician, engineer, and economist.
Early life and education
Mechiauri was born on 1 December 1954, in the village of Zhebota, in the Tianeti district of the Georgian SSR. He graduated from Tbilisi Komarov Physics and Mathematics Boarding School, then Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Engineering and Economics.
Career
In 1995, Mechiauri was elected as a member of the Parliament of Georgia and served until 2004. He was later elected again to the Parliament of Georgia, for Georgian Dream, and served from 2012 till 2016.
Mechiauri left Georgian Dream in 2016 due to disagreements, and founded the party "For United Georgia", which he led before death.
In 2017, he was elected Mayor of Tianeti., but later resigned due to his participation in the parliamentary elections in 2020.
He died from complications of COVID-19 on 15 February 2022, at the age of 67.
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Tuproqqalʼa District () is a district of Xorazm Region in Uzbekistan. The seat lies at the city Pitnak. It was created in March 2020 out of the larger, eastern part of Hazorasp District. Its area is , and it had 54,400 inhabitants in 2021.
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Saratou Traoré (born 27 September 2002) is a Malian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Fatih Karagümrük in the Turkish Women's Super League and the Mali women's national team.
Club career
Traoré played as attacking midfielder for Super Lionnes d’Hamdallay in her country. She enjoyed her team's runners-up rank in the Mali Women's National Football Championship and the champions title in the 2020-21 Mali w,Women's Football Cup.
By December 2021, she moved to Turkey, and signed with the newly established Women's Super League club Fatih Karagümrük in Istanbul.
International career
She is a member of the Mali women's national team.
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Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey
Turkish Women's Football Super League players
Fatih Karagümrük S.K. (women's football) players |
Aliishimia is a Gram-negative, aerobic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family Rhodobacteraceae with one known species (Aliishimia ponticola). Aliishimia ponticola has been isolated from seawater from the Jeju island.
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Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2019
Monotypic bacteria genera |
Gillian Alexandra Hawker (born 1959) is a Canadian clinician-scientist. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of Medicine at Women's College Hospital. Hawker's research focuses on causes and treatments for osteoarthritis.
Early life and education
Hawker was born in 1959. Growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Hawker attended Havergal College, an independent day and boarding school for girls. Upon graduating, she enrolled at the University of Toronto (U of T) for her medical degree and Master of Science degree in clinical epidemiology and health care research. While completing her education, residency, and fellowship, Hawker gave birth to three children.
Career
Upon completing her residency and fellowship, Hawker joined U of T's Faculty of Medicine in 1993 as a clinician-scientist at Women's College Hospital (WCH). She eventually became the director of WCH's osteoporosis research program, where she focused on osteoporosis (OA). One of her studies into OA included developing alternatives to hormone replacement for bone loss during menopause. She also helped establish one of the first doctoral programs in clinical epidemiology in North America. In 2003, Hawker was awarded the F.M. Hill Chair in Academic Women's Medicine by WCH and was appointed their chief of medicine two years later. In this role, Hawker received a five-year Senior Distinguished Research Investigator Award from the Arthritis Society of Canada. As a result of her research and academic accomplishments, Hawker was the recipient of the Robert Hyland Award for Excellence in Mentorship and Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013.
Following these awards, Hawker was appointed chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto for a five-year term starting in July 2014. While serving in this role, she was elected as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for her work on improving access to care and outcomes for people with osteoarthritis. Two years later, Hawker was the recipient of the 2017 Canadian Medical Association May Cohen Award for Women Mentors.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawker was awarded a Clinical Research Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International.
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Living people
1959 births
21st-century Canadian women scientists
20th-century Canadian women scientists
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University of Toronto faculty
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Mohammad Akbar is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress. He is the current Cabinet Minister of Chhattisgarh. He is a member of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly representing Kawardha.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Members of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly |
Sir John Burgh (1562 – 1594) was an English military and naval commander and privateer.
Life
John Burgh, a lineal descendant of Hubert de Burgh, was a younger son of William, 4th Lord Burgh of Gainsborough, and brother of Thomas, 5th Lord Burgh, Lord-Deputy in Ireland. The first mention of him that has been reserved is in 1585, when he raised a body of men in Lincolnshire for service beyond the sea, embarked with them at Hull on 25 August, and commanded them in the campaigns in the Netherlands, under the Earl of Leicester, and afterwards under Lord Willoughby. He was knighted by Leicester and appointed Governor of Doesburg; in the early months of 1588 he was for some little time Governor of the Briel, possibly as his brother's deputy, at which time he wrote to Lord Willoughby, imploring his favourable consideration, as he had had no pay for nineteen months, and was in extreme need. In September 1589 he commanded one of the regiments which went to France with Lord Willoughby to the support of Henry IV, from whom, although already knighted, he received the honour of knighthood on the field of Ivry, in recognition of his distinguished conduct in the battle.
On his return to England he became associated with Sir Walter Raleigh, and was in 1592 appointed by him to command his ship the Roebuck, one of a squadron fitted out by the Queen, Raleigh, the Earl of Cumberland, and others, to intercept the Spanish treasure ships. The little squadron put to sea under the command of Burgh, another squadron being detached under Sir Martin Frobisher. On 3 August Burgh (near the Azores) fell in with the Madre de Dios, or, as she was then called, the Great Carrack, and captured her after a running fight of some sixteen hours' duration. Her value, with her freight, was estimated at something like 500,000l., and after a great deal of irregular plundering it did actually amount to more than 140,000l. The disputes as to the shares of what remained ran exceedingly high. Of irregular plunder Sir John's share was but small, and was declared by the commissioners to be within reason; but the disappointed men refused to accept this decision, and much recrimination followed. Out of this probably arose a quarrel with Mr. John Gilbert, whose name suggests some relationship to Raleigh. The quarrel resulted in a challenge sent by Burgh, in which he desired his antagonist not to use boyish excuses, or he would beat him like a boy. Gilbert accepted the challenge, claiming the choice of weapons and choosing single rapiers. In default of exact evidence the agreement of dates leads to the conclusion that the duel took place, and that Burgh was killed. He was buried in St. Andrew's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, where, in the following year, a tablet was erected to his memory. This has now disappeared; but, according to a copy of the inscription preserved by Croll, Burgh is said to have been taken away morte immaturâ ("untimely dead") in the thirty-second year of his age, on 7 March 1594. The inscription seems to imply, and – by Croll and others, including Dean Stanley – has been understood to imply, that Burgh was slain in boarding the Great Carrack. It distinctly states, however, that he brought the Carrack to England, and was most honourably received. The bold and crafty enemy whom Burgh despised, and at whose hands he fell, may very well have been Mr. Gilbert. Burke, giving an English version of this inscription, renders it "he fell by an untimely death in the fifty-third year of his age"; and it is so repeated in later editions. This evidently is a mistake. The age of fifty-three seems incompatible with the morte immaturâ præreptus, as well as with the known age of William, Lord Burgh, born in or about 1525, of whom Sir John was the third son. Burgh's name has been spelt in different ways. Mr. Edwards, who in most points is scrupulously accurate, gives it as Borough, and that while immediately referring to a holograph letter with a clear and legible signature, Jo. Burgh. It may therefore be well to say that if John Burgh was a distinct person from that William Burroughs, the comptroller of the navy, who commanded the Lion in Drake's expedition to Cadiz in 1587.
Sources
Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, 1585–1594;
British Library Lansdowne MS. 70, many of the papers of which are abstracted in Edwards's Life of Raleigh, ii. et seq.
References
Bibliography
Stevens, M. A. (2004). "Burgh, Sir John". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. n.p.
External links
"Sir John and Lord Thomas Burgh", westminster-abbey.org. © 2022. Accessed 16 February 2022.
1562 births
1594 deaths
Privateers |
The John Williams House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 17 West Jones Street and was constructed in 1883.
The building is part of the Savannah Historic District, and in a survey by the Historic Savannah Foundation, the building was found to be of significant status.
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
Houses in Savannah, Georgia
Houses completed in 1883
Savannah Historic District |
Nithya Mammen is a Kerala State Award-winning playback singer from Kerala, India, who predominantly works in the Malayalam movie industry.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Malayalam playback singers
Indian women playback singers
Singers from Kerala
Kerala State Film Award winners |
Mu (subtitled Super Mystery Magazine) is a Japanese fanzine that features information on supernatural phenomena, the occult and various conspiracy theories. Frequent topics include: Freemasonry, Ufology, ancient civilisations and various forms of esotericism. Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult behind the Matsumoto sarin attack of 1994 and the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, appeared in the magazine before the cult's dangerous nature became known.
It is produced by Gakushu Kenkyusha (aka Gakken), and its current editor is , who has edited the magazine since 2005. The magazine began in 1979, said to be influenced by an increased interest in occultism in the 1970s, including the popularity of books by Erich von Däniken in Japan.
See also
List of magazines in Japan
References |
Hosayellapur is a Locality in Dharwad City in Karnataka State, India. It is one of the oldest localities in Dharwad. It belongs to Belgaum Division. Hebballi Agasi, Kamanakai , Khb Colyy , Shivpuri Colo and , Maratha Colony are some nearby localities to Hosayellapur.
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Cities and towns in Dharwad district |
Hallam Henry is a Barbadian politician and diplomat. He is the Barbadian ambassador to China.
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Living people
Barbadian politicians
Ambassadors of Barbados to China
Barbadian diplomats |
Roman Paul Alois Koch (born 4 February 1958 in Munich) is a sailor from Germany, who as helmsman, together with his teammates Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann, became twice World Champion in the Soling.
Sailing life
Koch switched, with his brother Maxl Koch, after a good run in the Flying Dutchman in 1977 to the Soling. Koch as helmsmen won his first Soling World Championship 20–27 May 2005 of the Tyrrhenian sea in front of Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy with Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann. The second time took place five years later 5–13 February on the Guaiba river off the coast of Porto Alegre, Brasil. After the Championship in Castellione the Koch team earned the nickname "The Maremma boys". In 2009 the Koch team took the silver at the Soling Worlds in Etobicoke, Canada.
Furthermore, Koch won two gold and five silver medals at Soling European Championships between 2003 and 2013 all as helmsman and with the same team members. Koch holds many national Championships in several countries.
Awards
Bearer of the “Golden Badge of Honor” from the Bavarian Sailing Federation 1995, 2005-2011
Bearer of the “Letter of Honor” from the City of Starnberg 2008-2011
Bearer of the “Deed of Honor” from the City of Berlin 2006, 2008-2010
“Sailor of the Year 2010” in the Yacht-Club-Berlin-Grünau
Honorary member of the CVCP, Castiglione della Pescaia
Personal life
Koch lives in Munich and works in the marine industry as sailmaking consultant, sailing coach and consultant for tracking and trace.
References
1958 births
Living people
German male sailors (sport)
Flying Dutchman class sailors
Dragon class sailors
Sportspeople from Munich
Soling class world champions
European Champions Soling |
Papilionanthe sillemiana is a species of epiphytic orchid endemic to Myanmar.
Conservation
This species is included in the CITES appendix II and international trade is regulated to protect wild populations. It is considered endangered (EN) by the IUCN.
References
sillemiana
Orchids of Myanmar
Aeridinae |
Osney Lock Hydro is a micro hydroelectric scheme in Oxford, England. It is located on the River Thames, using the head of water provided by the weir at Osney Lock. It can generate of electricity with its archimedes screw turbine. Between 2015 and 2020 the scheme generated an average of a year of electricity, which is enough to power around 60 homes.
The scheme is owned and operated by Osney Lock Hydro, an industrial and provident society for the benefit of the community. The idea for the project was first raised in 2002, with construction work starting in the summer of 2013, and the first electricity was generated in May 2015.
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External links
Osney Lock Hydro web site
Buildings and structures in Oxford
Hydroelectric power stations in England
Organisations based in Oxford
Power stations in South East England |
Pietro Paolo Drei (Petro Pauolo Dreio or Pietro Paulo Dreo) (c.1600 – 1656) worked for the Fabbrica of St Peter's Basilica, first as a fattore (under supervisor) and later as a soprastante (foreman and architect's assistant). He was the son of Benedetto (c.1580 – 1637), also a fattore of the Fabbrica, whom he assisted with flower mosaics on the floor of St Peter's Basilica for 13 years – from approximately 1620. This involved creating imagery by arranging vibrant flower petals. In the works, whole flowers, individual petals, and petals which had been cut into smaller pieces made up the composition.
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17th-century Italian artists
1600 births
Italian mosaic
1656 deaths |
Shootin' Straight is a live album by the American musician Dan Hicks, released in 1994. Hicks was backed by the Acoustic Warriors. It was Hicks's first major album since 1978.
Production
Produced by Joel Moss, the album was recorded over two nights at McCabe's Guitar Shop, in Santa Monica, California. Hicks had been playing McCabe's for more than 12 years. Shootin' Straight is made up of previously unrecorded songs.
Bette Midler and Asleep at the Wheel had covered Hicks's "Up! Up! Up!"
Critical reception
The Washington Post wrote that the album "proves that his off-beat sense of humor and his dead-on sense of swing are intact ... Hicks sings about barflies, bank robbers and flying-saucer pilots in a small, dry voice that drifts easily over the crisp swing below." The Knoxville News Sentinel noted that "Hicks sounds charmingly confused in his stage patter."
The Indianapolis Star called the album full of "quirky humor and acoustic tunes that draw on influences ranging from jazz accordion to Texas swing slide guitar." The Los Angeles Times thought that "the zesty interplay of guitars, fiddles and mandolins looks back to Django Reinhardt." The Commercial Appeal stated: "Instrumentally, this is a group to reckon with, as Paul Robinson's lightning lead acoustic guitar intertwines with Stevie Blacke's mandolin and Jim Boggio provides atmospheric accordion."
AllMusic wrote that "the material owes a lot to pre-bebop jazz, but it also owes a lot to country, rock, folk, and blues." Elijah Wald, of The Boston Globe, listed it as one of 1994's best albums.
Track listing
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1994 live albums |
The Joseph Johnston Property is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 11 West Jones Street and was constructed in 1854.
The building is part of the Savannah Historic District, and in a survey for the Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.
The house was built for Joseph E. Johnston, general officer in the Confederate Army, and sold to fellow Confederate officer Algernon Sydney Hartridge in 1860.
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
Houses in Savannah, Georgia
Houses completed in 1854
Savannah Historic District |
Ben Casselman is an American journalist. He previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, and is currently a business reporter for The New York Times.
Biography
Casselman graduated from Columbia University in 2003. He started his journalism career at The Salem News before joining The Wall Street Journal, where he worked as a reporter from 2006 to 2013. He was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and shared a Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In 2013, Casselman joined FiveThirtyEight as the chief economics writer and senior editor. He joined The New York Times business news desk in 2017. He was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting in 2021 for his work on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the American economy.
He is an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where he teaches economic reporting.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The New York Times people
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers
City University of New York faculty
Columbia College (New York) alumni |
This is the discography of British doo-wop revival band Darts.
Albums
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Box sets
Singles
References
Discographies of British artists
Pop music group discographies
Rock music group discographies |
Let's Say for Instance is the upcoming fourth studio album by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé, scheduled to be released on 6 May 2022 through Chrysalis Records. It is Sandé's first release with Chrysalis, and first album on an independent record label. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Family", "Look What You've Done" (with Jaykae) and "Brighter Days". Sandé will tour the UK and Europe in support of the album from May 2022.
Background and musical style
Sandé explained that she "felt free to express [her]self more naturally both lyrically and musically in this album and [her] wish is that it will be an uplifting experience for each listener and that they will get to know [her] on a much deeper level". Upon release in September 2021, lead single "Family" was called a departure from Sandé's previous soul sound "more towards pop", while a press release accompanying the album announcement claimed Sandé "explor[es] new sonic territory through shades of classical, disco, [and] nostalgic R&B".
Promotion
Lead single "Family" was released on 15 September 2021, followed by the Jaykae duet "Look What You've Done" the next month, and "Brighter Days" in January 2022. The album was announced on 15 February 2022. Sandé will promote the album on the Brighter Days Tour, which will visit the UK and Europe across May and June 2022.
Track listing
References
2022 albums
Chrysalis Records albums
Emeli Sandé albums
Upcoming albums |
Piercy Augustus "Percy" Haynes (1911 – 24 July 1992) was a Canadian musician.
Haynes was born in British Guiana and emigrated to Canada at an early age. He was a strong all-around athlete, winning local championships in track and field, basketball (as a member of the Winnipeg Stellars), and softball. He was the Winnipeg amateur welterweight boxing champion in 1933 and 1934. During the Second World War he was refused enlistment because of his race, but appealed this rule and became the first Black Canadian naval serviceman of the modern era. In 1943 he married jazz singer Zena Bradshaw.
After his naval service he became a night porter with the Canadian Pacific Railway while also performing as a pianist. His wife opened Haynes Chicken Shack in 1952; in addition to Haynes, other performers at the venue included Billy Daniels, Oscar Peterson, and Harry Belafonte. He ran as a candidate in the 1977 provincial and 1980 municipal elections. He died on 24 July 1992.
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External links
Archival photograph of Haynes and his wife
1911 births
1992 deaths
Royal Canadian Navy personnel
20th-century Canadian pianists |
Robert Henry King (1845 - April 10, 1865) was an American sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor who earned the award for his actions during the American Civil War.
Biography
King was born in New York in 1845. He served as a Landsman aboard Picket Boat No. 1 during the American Civil War. He earned his medal in action on October 27, 1864, aboard Picket Boat No. 1. His medal was issued on December 31, 1864. He died in Albany, New York on April 10, 1865, and is now buried in Albany Rural Cemetery.
Medal of Honor Citation
King served on board the U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, in action, 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram, CSS Albemarle, which had resisted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her.
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1845 births
1865 deaths |
Charles Négrier, born in Angers on July 14, 1792, and died on January 31, 1862, in the same city, was a French doctor. He began his career in the military and later became a corresponding member of the Académie nationale de médecine and of the Societies of Angers and Nantes.
He is, with Félix Archimède Pouchet, one of the first two researchers to have scientifically described the mechanism of ovulation in the human species and in other mammals.
Biography
Charles Négrier, son of the doctor Jacques Négrier, was born in Angers on July 14, 1792. He began in 1810 to study medicine in Paris when he was called up for military service. During the Napoleonic Wars and for five years he practiced medicine in the Imperial army. At the age of 19 he received a third class surgeon's commission at the hospitals of Belle-Île-en-Mer. After six months, he passed with the same rank to the 82e Regiment of Infantry, which was then garrisoned in Portugal. Thereafter, on June 22, 1813, he was assigned to the 3rd Regiment of Guards of Honor, with which in 1813 he carried out the German campaign of 1813 and in 1814 the French campaign. On May 17, 1815, during the Hundred Days, he was attached as an aide-major to the 6th Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment. This regiment took part in the Belgian campaign and fought in the Battle of Ligny and Battle of Waterloo. Like the whole Imperial army, he was dismissed on July 16, 1815, during the Second Restoration.
Released from the army, Charles Négrier returned to study medicine in Paris. On February 2, 1817, he took the rank of doctor, and returned to settle in Angers, where he married on February 28, 1821, Rose Adèle Clarisse Saillard, born in Nantes. In 1827 he was appointed assistant to the childbirth course given by :fr:Michel Chevreul at the École secondaire de Médecine et de pharmacie (Secondary School of Medicine and Pharmacy) in Angers.
Charles Négrier succeeded Michel Chevreul as holder of the course on April 20, 1838. In 1845, he was called to the very direction of the Secondary School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Angers. This charge remained entrusted to him by two successive renewals in 1850 and 1854.
In September 1859, he lost his eldest daughter. After two years of insanity, he died on January 31, 1862, at the age of 69.
Charles Négrier published widely and was a much appreciated administrator and teacher.
Awards and Recognition
In 1846, the Royal Academy of Medicine awarded Charles Négrier the title of correspondent. In 1859 the French Academy of Sciences awarded him one of the Monthyon prizes for his studies on the ovaries.
Since April 8, 1881, a street in Angers, in the district of Doutre Saint-Jacques Nazareth, bears the name of Négrier. It begins on Boulevard Daviers and ends on Place de la Paix.
Publications
Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires dans l'espèce humaine, considérés spécialement sous le rapport de leur influence dans la menstruation par C. Négrier,... ; avec onze planches lithographiées par M. Beau, d'après les dessins de M. Lebiez, Paris : Béchet Je. and Labé, Paris 1840, 1 vol. (XIX-131-11 p.-XIX f. de pl.) ; in-8.
Recherches et considérations sur la constitution et les fonctions du col de l'utérus, dans le but d'éclairer l'étiologie des insertions placentaires sur cette région, et de conduire à un choix de moyens propres à combattre les hémorrhagies qui en sont les conséquences, par C. Négrier,..., Imprimerie de Cosnier et Lachèse, Angers 1846, In-8° , 172 p.
Bibliography
Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire, Paris, 1878, art. Négrier (Charles), online.
Notes and references
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19th-century French people
19th-century physicians
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1792 births
1862 deaths |
The 2022 Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship will be the thirteenth edition of the Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with the Federation of Volleyball of Uzbekistan for the girls' under-17 national teams of Asia. The tournament is scheduled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 6 to 13 June 2022.
Qualified teams
References
External links
Asian Volleyball Confederation
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Asian U17 Championship
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Asian Girls' U17 Volleyball Championship |
Issa Shanan Alharrasi (born 19 August 1999) is a Qatari tennis player.
Alharrasi has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1829 achieved on 25 October 2021.
Alharrasi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Qatar ExxonMobil Open after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Illya Marchenko. He also represents Qatar at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–2.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Qatari male tennis players |
The Tsergo Ri landslide was a prehistoric landslide in the Nepalese Himalaya, which took place around 51,000±13,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period. During the collapse, a mass of rock of about detached from a previous mountain or ridge and descended with a speed of about ; later, glaciers eroded almost the entire landslide mass. Previously weakened rocks may have contributed to the collapse, which was probably started by an earthquake.
Geomorphology and geology
The Tsergo Ri collapse took place in Nepal's Langtang valley, perpendicular to the Himalaya and about north of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The small settlement of Kyangjin Kharka lies at the foot of the landslide deposit. With a volume of , it is one of the largest known mass movements on Earth and perhaps the largest known landslide in crystalline bedrock.
Causes and trigger
The collapse affected Himalayan gneiss rocks, which also contain migmatites and granites; they also include older pseudotachylite and ultramylonite rocks (both of which can be formed by collapses) and which acted as a sliding plane for the Tsergo Ri collapse. Rocks formed by deformation, intrusions of granite, and layers of pyrrhotite ore, which are unstable under mechanical load and neotectonic faults, may have been weak structures that facilitated the collapse.
The Tsergo Ri region is one of the fastest uplifting parts of the Himalaya. The Tsergo Ri landslide was probably triggered by seismic activity, perhaps on the Himalayan Main Central Thrust; a water level drop in the Paleo Kathmandu Lake took place at the same time and may have been caused by the same earthquake. The collapse occurred during a time of increased monsoon strength, which may have played a role in the collapse.
Pre-landslide topography and landslide
Based on reconstructions of the pre-landslide topography, there may have been a high trilateral mountain in the area, or a set of ridges. The landslide detached in a southwest-westsouthwest direction, with the sliding mass breaking apart into blocks. Owing to its fast speed of , rocks at the base of the slide melted. The landslide impacted other mountains and ridges, sometimes destroying them or triggering secondary collapses, and may have mixed with glacier ice.
It was eventually halted by topography such as the flanks of Pangshungtramo mountain before it could become a debris avalanche. The landslide debris consists of individual compact blocks on top of a basal breccia and originally may have reached a thickness of . Deformed structures inside the collapse debris indicate that small-scale movements occurred within the landslide. The slide obstructed several glacial valleys.
Timing and aftermath
The collapse took place about 51,000±13,000 years ago, between two phases of the Würm glaciation.
After the collapse, landslide debris was subject to glacial erosion and was largely removed in the process. About of debris is still present; it is found around Tsergo Ri mountain, which is formed by landslide debris and its location is in the central sector of the former landslide. Yala Peak and Dragpoche are in the area of the detachment, east of the seven-thousander Langtang Lirung. The glaciers that had had their valleys cut by the landslide readvanced during the youngest phase of the Würm glaciation and partially restored the valleys. Landslides take place to this day in the area, including during the 2015 Nepal earthquake when a landslide detached from Langtang Lirung peak and killed over 350 people in the Langtang valley. Slow mass movements into valleys and weather/monsoon-controlled mudflows also occur, and there is evidence that the debris from the Tsergo Ri landslide is especially unstable.
Research history
Molten rocks formed during the collapse were initially referred to by native people as "yak bones", while early researchers interpreted the rocks as a product of the Himalayan Main Central Thrust fault. In 1984 Heuberger et al. identified their actual origin in a giant landslide. The structure of the landslide body has been mapped using radon emissions and groundwater flows, and the most recent date estimates were obtained with fission track dating on pseudotachylites formed by the collapse.
References
Sources
Landslides in Nepal |
Geophilus pusillus is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Algeria. It grows up to 11 millimeters in length. Records from the Alpstein mountains indicate that G. pusillus is a soil-dwelling species (burrowing as deep as 30cm) that prefers humus-rich soil, but these records deserve confirmation.
References
Geophilomorpha |
Matthias Sommer (born 3 December 1991) is a German bobsledder. He won a bronze medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsled.
References
Living people
1991 births
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders of Germany
German male bobsledders
People from Witten
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh |
Cool City Production Vol. 2 "Mai-K's Re-Mix" is a remix video album by Japanese singer and songwriter Mai Kuraki and Japanese production team Cool City Production. It was released on August 18, 2001, by Tent House.
Track listing
Release history
References
2001 remix albums
Mai Kuraki albums
Being Inc. albums |
Aciphylla anomala is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It was formally described by botanist Harry Allan in his 1961 work Flora of New Zealand. The type was collected on Mount Peel.
The plant grows as tall spikey leaves that are surrounded by rosettes of stiff, pointed leaves lacking stipules, with a variable number of leaflets per leaf. When flowering, the plant reaches heights of up to . It occurs in tussock grasslands and has been recorded growing at elevations ranging between . It disperses its seeds via winged schizocarps. Aciphylla polita is somewhat similar in appearance, but can be distinguished by its more dense inflorescence. The specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek anōmalía, meaning "unusual".
References
Apioideae
Endemic flora of New Zealand
Plants described in 1961
Taxa named by Harry Allan |
Jesca Wilfredy Macha is a Tanzanian model, businesswoman, and entrepreneur in the fashion and clothing industry. She is the owner and CEO of fashion company Black Chagga Fashion.
Biography
Wilfredy was born on 9 September 1997 in Arusha, Tanzania. She studied Library and Information Science and graduated from the Moshi Co-operative University in 2020.
After graduating, Wilfredy sold clothes and cosmetics at a small business owned by her sister in Moshi. She would go on to found the clothing company Black Chagga Fashion which is based in Dar es Salaam. Her focus was on using the internet, specifically social media, as a means to market her business and advertise its products.. Using her status as an established social media influencer, Wilfredy was able to reach a larger audience of consumers.
More recently, Wilfredy announced that she would begin to invest in the music industry, especially in younger artists who lack the resources to establish their careers. While no investments were made as of 2021, Wilfredy stated that it was her intention to begin a record label as soon as she was able.
References
External links
Tanzanian women in business
Tanzanian female models
1997 births
Living people |
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