title: Betty Go-Belmonte

text:
Billie Mary "Betty" Chua Go-Belmonte (; December 31, 1933 – January 28, 1994) was a Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher. She established the STAR Group of Publications which publishes the national newspaper, The Philippine Star and The Freeman, the tabloids Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang-Masa, and Banat, as well as the magazines Starweek, People Asia, and The Fookien Times Yearbook.

A  street as well as a Manila LRT Line 2 station  was named after her.

Early life
Belmonte was the eldest child of Jaime Go Puan Seng (1906–1987), founder of the Filipino-Chinese newspaper The Fookien Times and Felisa Velasco Chua (1911–2002), the daughter of a merchant family, both of Chinese descent. She had four younger sisters namely Cecile (1936–2004), Dorcy (1938–1999), Elsie (1941–2009) and Gracie (1946–) as well as an only younger brother, Andrew (1951–). She grew up with a devout Protestant upbringing in the Santa Mesa district of Manila as well as in the Kamias district of Quezon City. When she was eight years old, her family moved to the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, near Ipo Dam to escape persecution from advancing Japanese forces during World War II, where they lived in poverty.

Education
After the war, Billie Mary Go and her siblings took their elementary studies at Kamuning Public School and Hope Christian High School, and their high school studies at the Philippine Christian Colleges and UP High School. She was often teased at school for having a boy's name, so her father started calling her Betty. When she was 19, she wanted to become a Protestant missionary and stay single. This upset her grandmother, who wanted her to marry. In college, she wanted to be a painter and pursue a course in Fine Arts but her father thought she would not be able to make a living as a painter and enrolled her in an English degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman instead.

In UP, Betty Go experienced prejudice for being a Filipino of Chinese ancestry. Despite being born in the Philippines and having a local-born mother, because of her father's dual citizenship and emigrant status, she was treated a dual citizen unfairly as well by (native) Filipino students. Henceforth, she decided to join student organizations and activities, as well as, ran and won in the student elections to prove that a person of Filipino of Chinese ancestry can run and hold office.

After finishing college, Go attended Claremont Graduate School for her master's degree in English and American literature.

Career
Betty Go's father, Jaime Go Puan Seng, founded The Fookien Times in 1927, which was once the biggest Filipino-Chinese newspaper in the Philippines. During the 1930s, the newspaper was known for exposing government anomalies and corruption, which led to libel lawsuits being filed against his father. He was acquitted and his case became the basis for the establishment of Philippine libel laws.

Her father saw her as his heir in managing the newspaper. After finishing her master's degree abroad, she was employed at the company as an assistant to the editor. She proofread articles and proved herself to be a very capable newspaper manager and publisher, with a deep sense of commitment and ethics.

Martial law
During the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, The Fookien Times was one of newspapers critical of the government. After Marcos' declaration of Martial Law in 1972, the newspaper was one of several newspapers forced to close by the government. Go Puan Seng went on a self-imposed exile in Canada after the newspaper ceased publication. Belmonte, who was by then already married to Feliciano Belmonte, Jr., remained in the Philippines despite threats from Imelda Marcos that she will kick them out of the country. She continued writing through her weekly Dear Billie advice column in the Daily Express newspaper.

In the early '80s, when Marcos eased restrictions on publications, Belmonte started a small monthly magazine called The Star, a predecessor of The Philippine STAR. It was one of several opposition magazines and tabloids, like Mr & Ms Special Edition, Panorama, We Forum, and Tempo, that were critical of the Marcos administration, dubbed the mosquito press.

On 9 December 1985, following the demand for a credible and independent broadsheet, Belmonte, together with Mr & Ms publisher, Eugenia Apostol, and columnist Maximo Soliven, founded the Philippine Daily Inquirer which would become the leading Philippine broadsheet at that time.

The Philippine STAR

After the EDSA Revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines, questions finances and divergence of priorities caused a rift among Inquirer's publishers that led Belmonte and Soliven to leave the newspaper and to establish their own broadsheet. Belmonte was perceived as affecting the newspaper's credibility and was asked to leave. She left the newspaper even as its publishers owed her money which was used to put up Inquirer.

On March 17, 1986, Belmonte established her own Filipino tabloid newspaper, Ang Pilipino Ngayon. It would grow in circulation to become the leading Filipino tabloid in the Philippines. A few months later, on July 28, 1986, Belmonte, Soliven, and Art Borjal established the national broadsheet The Philippine STAR that would compete against Inquirer and Manila Bulletin. Under Belmonte's chairmanship, STAR would later on surpass the two broadsheets to become the most widely circulated newspaper in the Philippines, distinguished for its balanced, objective, and fair reporting.

Philanthropy
As chairman of STAR, Belmonte was active in various corporate social responsibility activities. In the STAR's maiden issue, the day's biggest news was the death of 23-year-old Stephen Salcedo at the hands of Marcos loyalists, just because he was wearing yellow. The headline screamed, "Wear yellow and die," and was accompanied by photos of the mob beating Salcedo to death. For several days, the paper closely followed the story and, through photos, those responsible were eventually caught.

The story touched Belmonte so much that she extended financial (from donations solicited through her column "Pebbles") and emotional support to Salcedo's widow and children. This laid the foundation of Operation Damayan, the STAR's corporate social responsibility arm, which was formed in 1989 and would help thousands of communities in the Philippines during natural disasters and calamities.

Belmonte was also involved in other civic associations. She was president of the Quezon City Associated Ladies Foundation, Inc., governor of the Philippine National Red Cross, director of the UP Alumni Association, and trustee of the UP Foundation and the Sigma Delta Phi Foundation, Inc. In 1993, Belmonte was awarded the Gintong Ina award for her contributions to media and journalism.

Personal life and death
Belmonte was married to Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. from 1959 until her death. The couple had four children, namely Isaac, Kevin, Miguel, and Joy. Their three sons hold editorial and managerial positions at The Philippine STAR, and its sister at publications like Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang Masa, and The Freeman. Her daughter Joy is the incumbent mayor of Quezon City.

Belmonte was a devout Protestant, instructing the staff of The Philippine Star to forfeit the Sunday issue in its first two years of existence as they should not work on the Sabbath day.

She died in Quezon City on January 28, 1994 due to cancer, 27 days after her 60th birthday.

See also

References

1933 births
1994 deaths
Burials at the Loyola Memorial Park
Claremont Graduate University alumni
Filipino journalists
Filipino newspaper publishers (people)
Filipino people of Chinese descent
Filipino politicians of Chinese descent
Filipino Protestants
Filipino women journalists
Filipino women writers
Filipino writers
People from Santa Mesa
People from Quezon City
The Philippine Star people
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
Writers from Metro Manila
20th-century journalists


title: Centriscus cristatus

text:
Centriscus cristatus, also known as the smooth razorfish or wafer shrimpfish, is the largest member of the family Centriscidae of the order Syngnathiformes. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Description
The smooth razorfish possesses a body at the same time very stretched and compressed laterally, it can reach a size of maximum . Its snout is long and tubular. Its fins are translucent and the dorsal spine is rigid. Its body coloration is bright silver with a dusky to yellow middle line and with bluish streaks perpendicular to the median line.

Distribution and habitat
Centriscus cristatus is found in the central Indo-Pacific area between in the west the western Indonesia until the Marshall Islands to the east, and the Australian shore (west, north and east) New Caledonia included for the southern limit to the south Japan in the northern limit. This is a benthic coastal species which occurs in estuarine brackish waters, gorgonian fields, and seagrass beds. It can be found in waters of less than .

Biology
It occurs solitary or in small groups, swimming head down but can adopt a horizontal fast swimming posture in case of danger. It feeds on small planktonic crustaceans, particularly amphipoda and mysids. Its breeding biology is little known and requires more study but it is oviparous with planktonic eggs and larvae.

Conservation
Centriscus cristatus has a widespread distribution but the species may be in decline due to habitat loss as seagrass beds are destroyed or degraded. Although this threat has not been measured throughout its range and the IUCN list the species as Data Deficient. Both species of Centriscus are sought after by the aquarium hobby but the effects of this trade are unknown.

References

External links

Centriscidae
Taxa named by Charles Walter De Vis
Fish described in 1885


title: Stimme der Orthodoxie

text:
Stimme der Orthodoxie ( means Voice of the Orthodoxy) was a Russian orthodox magazine, published in Berlin by the Berlin diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate. In the years 1952-1954 it was published in the Russian language, then in German from 1961 till ceasing publication in 2004.

History
Founded in 1952 as the Russian magazine "Голос Православия". The journal issued monthly (first number issue was published in January). Edited collectively (editorial secretary in 1952-1953 was Alexander Shishkin).

The order of the material was basically the same as in the "Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate". Each issue begins with the official part. In the official part of the printed messages and treatment of Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow and Archbishop Boris (Wik) of Berlin, as well as orders, award lists and other documents on the Western Europe Exarchate, information about the episcopal church services, inter-Orthodox and ecumenical contacts, news of various Local Churches, mainly from Albania, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The journal mostly copied articles from other Russian Orthodox magazines, both pre-revolutionary and contemporary such as the "Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate", "One Church", etc. Some issues has rubrics, containing original materials of local church history, e.g. "From the Life of the Orthodox parishes of the Diocese of Germany", "Church Chronicle", "The Church Life". For each issue were attached pages of the church calendar. In 1954, the publication of the magazine was ceased.

Since May 1961 edition has been renewed for a German language under the title «Stimme der Orthodoxie» already as an organ of Middle Europe Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in order to "acquaint readers with some moments in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church, and in the first place - with the church life of the Orthodox parishes in Germany, as well as the life and work of the Exarchate". At the same time the task was "to strengthen contacts with all Christian churches and religious organizations".

A significant part of the publications of both the official section containing documents of Church-wide and local significance, and other sections (Theological, Church-historical, Preaching, "Theological schools", "From the life of the Central European Exarchate", "Christians and protection of the Peace", "Chronicle") was translated from the "Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate", "Bulletin of the Russian West European Patriarchal Exarchate" and other periodicals, including pre-revolutionary ones. Moreover translations from patristic works, ascetic works and sermons of revered Russian ascetics, theologians, including theologians of the XX century and representatives of the Russian Diaspora were published.

In 1987-1991 there was a "Russian column" (Русская рубрика), where the messages of the ruling Bishop, poems, small edifying texts were printed in Russian.

Since March 1990, after the abolition of the Central European Exarchate, the journal was published by the Diocese of Berlin. Since 1993 it has been published quarterly. Two issues were released in 2004. After the publication of the magazine was discontinued.

Editors-in-chief
 edited collectively (1952-1954)
 Mikhail Dobrynin (1961-1962)
 hegumen Juvenal (Poyarkov) (1962-1963)
 German Troitsky (1963-1966)
 Konstantin Komarov (1966-1971)
 Archpriest Evgeny Misseyuk (1971)
 Priest Mikhail Turchin (1971-1976)
 priest Vasily Fonchenkov (1976-1977)
 Archpriest Gennady Yablonsky (1977-1986)
 Archpriest Mikhail Turchin (1986-1987)
 Archpriest Vladimir Ivanov (1987-2004).

Literature
 «Голос Православия» (орган православной Германской епархии Московской Патриархии) 1952 г., №№ 1, 2 и 3. // Журнал Московской Патриархии, 1952
 Stimme der Orthodoxie — Берлин: изд. Среднеевропейского экзархата МП, 1961. — № 1—3.
 Соболева Н. «Stimme der Orthodoxie» // за 1-е полугодие 1962. — Берлин: изд. Среднеевропейского экзархата МП, 1962.
 Соболева Н. «Stimme der Orthodoxie» — Берлин: изд. Среднеевропейского экзархата МП, 1963. — № 3. — С. 75—77.
 Сводный каталог русских зарубежных периодических и продолжающихся изданий в библиотеках С.-Петербурга. — СПб., 1996. — № 105.
 Сводный каталог периодических и продолжающихся изданий русского зарубежья в библиотеках Москвы. — М., 1999. — № 262.
 Прот. Александр Троицкий «ГОЛОС ПРАВОСЛАВИЯ» // Православная энциклопедия : энциклопедия. — 12 апреля 2011. — Т. 11. — С. 713—714.

German-language magazines
Magazines established in 1952
Magazines disestablished in 2004
Religious magazines
Russian-language magazines
Magazines published in Berlin
Defunct magazines published in Germany
Monthly magazines published in Germany


title: Eddie Nartey

text:
Eddie Nartey (born 6 November 1984) is a Ghanaian actor, director, and film producer. His supporting role in Frank Rajah's Somewhere In Africa earned him a nomination at the Nollywood and African Film Critics Awardsf, and Ghana movie awards. He was nominated in the best actor category for Kiss Me If You Can., He got his first opportunity to do his directorial debut entitled Could This Be Love where he co-wrote the movie with Evelyn, which cast Actors like Majid Michel, Kwadwo Nkansah (Lil Win), Nana Ama Mcbrown, Fred Amugi, and Gloria Sarfo.

He collaborated with Juliet Ibrahim on the movie Shattered Romance. He also wrote and directed the movie Royal Diadem.

He is related to British Actor / Director  Danny Erskine.

Early life
Eddie attended Korle Gonno Methodist primary and JSS in Accra for basic education. His secondary education came at Holy Trinity Cathedral Secondary School (HOTCASS). He attended the University of Ghana, Legon where he studied directing and earned a BFA in Fine Arts.

Personal life
His wife died in January 2021 after two years of marriage.

Filmography
He has acted in several films, including:

He has directed and produced:

 Could This Be Love
 Shattered Romance
 Royal Diadem
 She Prayed
Beautiful Ruins
In April
Samai
Criss Cross
That Night
The Corner TV Series
Conversation
The New Adabraka
Frema
Woman At War
Kofi Abebrese
Okada

Awards

References

1984 births
Living people
Ghanaian male film actors
Actors from Accra
20th-century Ghanaian male actors
21st-century Ghanaian male actors
Ghanaian film directors
Ghanaian male child actors


title: Solar Submillimeter Telescope

text:
The Solar Submillimeter Telescope (SST) is a solar dedicated instrument with the aim to study the radiation produced by high-energy particles during solar flares.  Observing at 212 and 405 GHz with a focal array since 2001, it is a unique instrument that has produced a wealth of new information. Some of its discoveries are still unexplained by current theories. SST construction started in 1995, and it saw the first light in April 1999; since April 2001 it operates on a daily basis.  It is installed at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (San Juan Province, Argentina) under agreement between the Argentinian National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and the Brazilian Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.

References

Radio telescopes
Solar telescopes


title: A. Jagannathan

text:
A. Jagannathan (26 November 19357 October 2012) was an Indian film director who worked in the Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi film industries and he was introduced by R.M. Veerappan in his Sathya Movies banner for Manipayal. He directed nearly 50 films in Tamil.

Film career
He made his debut as director in Manipayal in 1973 after working as an assistant to T. Prakash Rao and P. Neelakantan for almost 15 films, most of them being MGR movies. He directed the MGR film Idhayakkani, under the tutleage of R.M.Veerappan and went on to direct five other blockbuster films for RMV's Sathya Movies including Moondru Mugam with Rajinikanth and Kadhal Parisu with Kamal Hasaan.  He also directed  some television serials.

He directed Sivaji Ganesan's Vellai Roja which won awards including the Filmfare Award. Another successful venture in his career was Moondru Mugam.

Partial filmography

Death
He suffered from breathing ailments and was hospitalized in Coimbatore for a fortnight. He died on 7 October 2012, and was cremated at Tiruppur. He was survived by his wife Rajamani, daughters Usha Devi and Pavithra Devi and son Arun Kumar.

References

External links

Tamil film directors
Telugu film directors
Kannada film directors
People from Tiruppur
Filmfare Awards South winners
1935 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Indian film directors
Film directors from Tamil Nadu


title: Thomas Arundell (1454–1485)

text:
Sir Thomas Arundell (1454–1485) was an English nobleman. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Richard III in 1483. Two years later, when Richard III was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth (1485), he was attainted for rebelling against the King. Arundell then gave his support to Henry Tudor in his claim to the throne. His marriage to the heiress, Katherine Dynham, brought great wealth to the Arundell family. She was one of the four sisters and coheirs of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham.

Marriage and issue
Thomas married Katherine Dynham in December 1473. She was the daughter of Sir John Dinham (1406–1458) and Jane de Arches. This marriage brought great possessions into the Arundell family.
Eleanor Arundell (1472–1516), married Nicholas Saintlo (Nicholas St. Lowe) of Chewe
Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) married Lady Eleanor Grey
Elizabeth Arundell (1476–1513), married Sir Edward Stradling of St Donats, Glamorganshire, Wales.
Alice Arundell (fl. 1478), married Sir John Speke of White Lackington
Thomas Arundell (c. 1480 – c. 1513)
Humphrey Arundell, married Phillipa or Philipa Grenville, daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville,  Kt. (1454–1513) and first wife Isabel Gilbert
Roger Arundell, married Johanna Calwoodleigh
Edward Arundell

Career
Sir Thomas, like his father, may also have fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Tewkesbury, but was granted a pardon after paying heavy fines. He had a brief and troubled career. In the 1484 Parliament of Richard III, he was attainted and deprived of his estates, which were bestowed on his stepsister Anne's husband, Sir James Tyrell, the suspected murderer of the two young princes in the Tower. Anne was the only child of Sir John's first marriage to Elizabeth Morley, daughter of Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley. Katherine, Thomas' wife was granted an annuity of £100 from the forfeited estates, originally belonging to the Dynham family. On the ascension of Henry VII, the attainder was reversed and the estates restored but the restitution was too late for Thomas who died 11 October 1485, just a few weeks after the Battle of Bosworth.
In addition to the Cornish properties and other inherited from Sir John Chideock in Dorset, he held four manors in Devon.

References

1454 births
1485 deaths
15th-century English nobility
People of the Tudor period
Members of the Privy Council of England
English knights
Knights of the Bath
Thomas (1454)


title: Orculella diensis

text:
Orculella diensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Orculidae.

Geographic distribution
O. diensis is endemic to Greece, where it is restricted to the eastern part of the island of Dia, north of Crete.

See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

References

Orculella
Molluscs of Europe
Endemic fauna of Greece
Gastropods described in 2004


title: Calvin Stiller

text:
Calvin Ralph Stiller, OC, OOnt, MD, FRCP(C), FCAHS, DSc(hon), LLD(hon), (born February 12, 1941), is a highly esteemed Canadian physician, scientist, and entrepreneur. Although retired from a long and distinguished career as a member of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in London, Ontario, Stiller's impact on the Canadian health care system remains profound. His work in the area of organ transplantation and immunology, especially, was path-breaking in Canada and elsewhere, as was his creation of and support for various streams of top-level medical research, innovation, investment, and market application.

Early Life and Education

Stiller hails from the tiny prairie town of Naicam, Saskatchewan. He was the third of five children born to the Rev’d Hilmer Stiller, a minister ordained by the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, and his wife Mildred (née Parsons). Stiller spent his childhood years in Naicam, the kind of town that Wallace Stegner would write about later evocatively in his celebrated prairie memoir, Wolf Willow. Stiller's lifelong love of horses – of which the Ontario farm where he resides today is a reflection – began here. Later, the family would move to Tisdale, and then finally in 1947 to the much larger Saskatoon. Here, Stiller would complete his schooling, which included graduating from Bedford Road Collegiate, followed by two years of undergraduate pre-medical studies in Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. At the age of 20 in 1961, Stiller entered the medical faculty at the U of S, just as the then Premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas, was leading the controversial campaign to bring about a comprehensive, national system of health care in Canada. Always interested in science and medicine, Stiller had aspired from an early age to be a physician, in large part because of the inspiring example of a local doctor, Abe Dick, who had given outstanding care to his father who suffered from severe complications in kidney function owing to Bright's Disease. ‘I want to be him’, he told his mother at the age of 12 referencing Dr. Dick, ‘and I never varied’.1

	As well as hoping to achieve the high bar of attending medical school, during his childhood and youth Stiller demonstrated a pronounced entrepreneurial bent, which would come to fruition many years later. When they were growing up, the Rev’d Stiller had encouraged his children to think always about how to serve others, and there were three professions especially that readily exemplified the virtue: minister, teacher, and doctor. This paternal ideal from a man whom he ‘loved dearly’ left an indelible mark on the young Stiller.2  But in the meantime, in order to save money, and already ‘being a little entrepreneur at heart’, as he recalls, Stiller set up a milk bar at school (the first such initiative to provide food in the local school system), delivered newspapers along the longest route in Saskatoon, co-owned and serviced pen vending machines distributed throughout the city, and, later, opened Skateland Roller Rink, which offered a venue for teenagers to burn off energy during the North American roller-skating craze of the late 1950s.3

Career

	Following the completion of his MD degree in 1965, Stiller set off to pursue five years of post-graduate fellowship studies at what was then called the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., followed by a year spent at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. During these years of advanced training under leaders in the field such as Dr. Ramsay Gunton and Dr. John Dossetor, Stiller developed a specialization in what was an obvious natural interest in kidney disease, as well as in the related areas of transplantation – a growing field – immunology, and infection. Returning to Western in 1971, and having gained by then his fellowship designation of FRCP(C), he embarked on a long tenure at University Hospital, London. Beginning in 1972, he was appointed Chief of Nephrology and Transplantation, and later, Director of Immunology at the John P. Robarts Institute.

	From those early years in the 1970s through to the first decade of the twenty-first century, Stiller would set a hectic pace for himself of work, research, advocacy and medical-based entrepreneurship. His name can be found on some 265 peer-reviewed scientific papers, which is an astonishing level of published research for a physician who, along the way, had married the former Angie Apolinario, had a family of six children, a full case-load of patients, and held numerous administrative responsibilities. Additionally, Stiller had found the time to be an early adopter of computerized patient records, as well as to co-create a telephone-based medical service, which he would take public. This service became the first form of Telemedicine offered by the Government of Ontario.4  These foundational years of his career, especially the pioneering days of organ transplantation, were very exciting, he says, but also hard-going emotionally because a large number of transplant recipients died. Still, ‘some of my best memories’, he recalls, ‘are of driving home at two in the morning from the ICU after a family had agreed to donate a loved one’s organs, and knowing that someone facing imminent death was being prepped for the OR’.5  A deep and abiding commitment to the eventual widespread success of organ transplantation led to Stiller's establishing the Multi-Organ Transplant Service and the Canadian Centre for Transplantation in London, over which he acted as chief from 1984 until 1996. Organ rejection was (and remains) a major challenge in the field and Stiller's key involvement as principal investigator in the early 1980s in the clinical trials and market development of the drug Cyclosporine for use as a first-line therapy for transplant rejection stands as a towering achievement in revolutionizing the success rate of organ transplants worldwide. In 1990, he published the book, Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplantation, in which he, along with his brother, the Rev’d Brian Stiller, recounts this remarkable history.6  In a similar way, Stiller's leading role amongst a team of researchers had proved in 1984 that human Type I Diabetes was an autoimmune disorder and therefore amenable to a regime of immunosuppressant or immunomodulant treatment. It was a singular breakthrough that was much-praised by the medical community, as well as by many others, including the late Professor Michael Bliss, the renowned University of Toronto medical historian and biographer of the Nobel prize-winning co-discoverer of insulin, Sir Frederick Banting.7

	At the same time that Stiller was carrying out his multi-faceted hospital and laboratory work, he was helping also to enlarge steadily the capacity for advanced medical research and development in Canada. The list in this regard is long. Of especial importance is the Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, which he founded, the largest venture capital fund in Canadian medical history, which since its inception has raised and managed over half a billion dollars in assets. In addition, Stiller's participation on medical-related boards and foundations is equally extensive. For example, he served as founder and chair of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, as well as the chair of Genome Canada. Along with Dr. John Evans, a former president of the University of Toronto, and Ken Knox, Stiller catalyzed the founding of the Medical and Related Science (MaRS) Discovery District in downtown Toronto, and then served as its director. Launched in 2000, and created to bring publicly funded medical and related sciences research to Canadian and global markets, as of today, the MaRS ‘ecosystem’ has created tens of thousands of jobs and raised in excess of one billion dollars in capital investments.8  To Stiller, MaRS is one of the chief ways of pushing the results of Canadian science to be an end-product, ready for market export. That's happening already, but he's confident that even more of it is in store. ‘It will occur in all its glory and potential’, he says, ‘You can take this to the bank’.9  Meanwhile, around the same time, Stiller was invited by the then Premier of Ontario, Mike Harris, to chair the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, which, together with the Ontario Innovation Trust, would provide over $1.2-billion in R&D support during the following decade to Ontario universities in a unique alliance with research-intensive businesses.

Awards and Distinctions

‘If you want to see the monuments to Cal Stiller’, observes Dr. Henry Friesen, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Manitoba, a former president of the Medical Research Council of Canada, and himself a giant of Canadian medicine, ‘it’s like they said about Sir Christopher Wren, ‘look all around – they’re everywhere’.10  Stiller's outsized and highly influential imprint on Canadian medicine, medical research, and health care has been recognized through a passel of awards ranging from business-based, to medical, to university, to signal honours bestowed upon him by both the Province of Ontario and the country. For example, he was named Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996. In 1999, Western University established the Novartis/Calvin Stiller Chair in Xenotransplantation. The next year, he was named a Member of the Order of Ontario, to go along with having been made a member of the Order of Canada a few years earlier (he has since been raised to the level of Officer). In 2002, the namesake Stiller Centre for Technology Commercialization was opened in London. He has been given honorary degrees by a number of Canadian universities, as well as included by his alma mater, the University of Saskatchewan, in its '100 Graduates of Influence’, an all-time list celebrated to mark the university's centenary in 2007.

Finally, a few years later in 2010, Stiller was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Back in 1994, at the suggestion of his son, Tim, during a visit to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Stiller had begun to think about creating a medical hall of fame for Canada in order to honour the great achievements of national luminaries in the field such as Banting, Charles Best, Emily Stowe, Wilder Penfield, and many others. Soon thereafter, and with the help of J. Allyn Taylor, a leading banker and the Chancellor of Western University, the CMHF in London came into being, the only one of its kind in the world. Stiller's own election to it later, at the hands of an autonomous committee, would move him deeply. In 2010 also, he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (one of only ten allowed), and won the highly prestigious Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, the preeminent medical prize in the country, in recognition of a lifetime's work in organ transplantation and the immunology of Type I Diabetes. In 2011, Stiller was named to give the annual Killam Address. In so doing, he recalled the Canadian Olympic team-inspired title: ‘Can we “Own the Podium” in Science and Technology?’. Clearly, the long ago words of his minister-father enjoining him ‘to serve’ have been the lodestar of Calvin Stiller's life. He is, as the Globe and Mail called him upon his retirement in 2010, a true Canadian ‘nation builder’.11  A nation of -- Stiller hopes in echoing the words of Canada's former Governor General, David Johnston -- ‘keener minds and kinder hearts’.12

Selected External Sites and Further Reading

https://gairdner.org/award_winners/calvin-stiller/

https://cahs-acss.ca/distinguished fellows/

http://www.usask.ca/100/alumni/calvin_stiller.php

http://killamlaureates.ca/doc/2011KillamLecture.pdf

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rftpYJ5ecfk

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1693714?seq=1

Stiller, Calvin. Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplantation (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990).

References
  1. Interview with the subject, April 24, 2020.
  2. Ibid.
  3. The Globe and Mail, December 28, 2010.
  4. The Canadian Sportsman, April 29, 2010.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Calvin Stiller, Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplantation (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990).
  7. Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982); Banting: a Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984).
  8. Alex Philipiddis, ‘Incubators Blossom along with their Startups’, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (June 15, 2014), 34 (12). See, also, http://marsdd.com
  9. The Canadian Sportsman, op cit.
 10. The Globe and Mail, op cit.
 11. Ibid.
 12. http://www.canada.com (January 6, 2013).

1941 births
Living people
Canadian transplant surgeons

Officers of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
University of Saskatchewan alumni


title: Villers-Perwin

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Villers-Perwin () is a village in Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Villers-Perwin was a municipality in its own right until the fusion of the municipalities in Belgium in 1977.

History
Villers-Perwin was part of the Duchy of Brabant for 1,000 years (802–1802) and is now located in the province of Hainaut. The first lords of the village were the Villers-Perwin, then passed successively to the de Walhain (13th century), the de Berghes (15th century) and the de Ligne (16th century). Albert de Ligne sold the seigniory in 1618 to Gérard de Villers, counselor of Archduke Albert and Isabelle. In 1670 it became property of Christophe Hannosset, counselor and receiver general of the province of Brabant. The last lords were the Castro y Toledo and finally the de Renette that built the Chapelle Saint-Hubert in 1760 for the protector of the hunters, celebrated on 3 November and the Chapelle Saint-Jacques in that same year for the protector of the travellers, celebrated on 25 July.
The village is also known for the Battle of Fleurus (1622) fought on its territory with more than 1500 casualties.
This little village possessed a windmill and a brewery. Only a few enterprises were present: a construction atelier, a woodwork assembly firm and a factory of chicory that lasted until just after World War II.
Today it is a residential village with more than 1,300 inhabitants.

Heritage
A section of the Roman road between Bavay and Cologne crossing the road between Villers-Perwin and Mellet.
Saint Martin's Church, built in 1872, with some artistic treasures, the painting Adoration of the Magi (Adoration des mages) by Simon de Ruys de la Haye from the 17th century, and a Christ and gothic cross from the 16th century.
L'arbre de la Bruyère, the highest point of the region (167 m) with the view of the 15 bell towers.
The castle owned by a Dumont de Chassart built in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Etymology

Villers
The name Villers is from the word villae, and means 'farm, building'. The name Villari means 'outbuilding from the villa' and is commonly used across Gaul. It is therefore believed that the village was part of a villa in Roman times, which is now the actual village.

Perwin
Various origins are possible for the word Perwin. It is believed that it is referring to the owner of the villa. However, in old French, the P was sometimes replaced by a B, and Perwin would then be Berwin, and Ber means 'bear', which could be referring to the presence of bears in the region when it was covered with forests. Ber means also 'baron', which would be the adviser of the sovereign.

Win could originate from the word wez, which means 'pond' in Walloon. The conclusion would then be a pond where bears came for water.

A second possibility for the origin of the word is from Latin, when the village was called Villers-le-Perwin, Villers-le-Pewyn,or Villers-le-Perwez. Perwin would be derived from the word pervium coming itself from per viam 'near the road'.

Personalities
The well-known violinist Arthur Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin in one of the houses of the Place Commandant Bultot.

References

Former municipalities of Hainaut (province)


The 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1968.  The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1968 College World Series.  The College World Series, held for the twenty second time in 1968, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament.  Southern California claimed the championship.

Realignment
Texas Tech joined the Southwest Conference, leaving the ranks of independents.

Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1968 season.  Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA tournament.  10 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 17 teams earned at-large selections.

Conference standings
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

College World Series

The 1968 season marked the twenty second NCAA baseball tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series.  The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska.  The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their fifth championship with a 4–3 win over Southern Illinois in the final.

Award winners

All-America team

References


title: Varduhi Vardanyan

text:
Varduhi Ruben Vardanyan (; June 26, 1976 – October 15, 2006) was an Armenian singer. She participated in many international song contests and won many awards and was awarded best singer of Armenia.

Early life
Varduhi Vardanyan was born on June 26, 1976, in Yerevan, Armenia. She is one of three children in the family.

Since her early childhood, she had a passion towards singing. She used everything similar to microphone to sing. Eventually it became unique way of self-education for her. She had a 96-page copybook containing her favorite pioneer songs.

In 1983, a music group was established at her school, where she started to take classes. Later on the music group was named after Ashot Bznuni.

In 1986, Vardanyan started to attend Naira Gyurjinyan's vocal group to improve her skills. Afterwards she studied at the musical school named after Alexandr Spendiaryan. During these years she developed her very own musical taste. Her dream was to sing with Whitney Houston.

Education
1992 – graduated from the 8th high school named after Alexander Pushkin.
1993 – graduated from musical school
1993 – entered Linguistic University named after Valery Bryusov at the section of English language and politics.
1994 – entered State Song Theatre and since 1995 she has worked there,
1994-1999 – after studying at university, she started to work as a teacher of the English language.
2003 – graduated from Yerevan State Conservatory named after Komitas.

Career
1994 – together with the group "Jazz-Pop" participated in international contest held in Sverdlovsk and got Grand Prix.
1995 – started to work at Armenian state music theatre.
1996 – participated to the contest of young singers "Yalta - Moscow" transit, where she got a prize for the best performance.
1999 – she was awarded best singer of Armenia.
2000 – in the contest "Discovery" held in Bulgaria she got Grand Prix and an additional Audience Choice Award.
2000 – in Macedonia she again got Grand Prix.
2000 – participated in International Festival of Arts “Slavianski Bazaar" and got second prize.
2001 – participated in international festival "Море друзей 2001" in Yalta and got second prize.

Death
She died on October 15, 2006, in a car accident at Sevan - Martuni highway. She is buried at the Tokhmakh cemetery. After her death, many Armenian programs were dedicated to her, including Benefis, Half-Opened Windows, and The Mechanics of Happiness.

Family
 Husband: Aram Avoyan
 Child: Ruben Avoyan, born in 1998

Discography

Studio albums
 Disarray (2003), (2006)

Posthumous
 Only you () (2007)
 13 songs dedicated to Varduhi Vardanyan (2008)
 You are mine () (2011)

Links

References

1976 births
2006 deaths
21st-century Armenian women singers
Musicians from Yerevan
Road incident deaths in Armenia


title: Hanno Kitshoff

text:
Johannes Jakobus Kitshoff (born 25 January 1984 in George, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player, that played first class rugby with the  between 2012 and 2016. He was a utility forward that could play as a lock, flanker or number eight.

He announced his retirement at the end of the 2016 season.

Career

Youth and amateur rugby

At school level, he played for Worcester Gymnasium and he represented Boland at various underage levels, including playing in the 2004 Under-20 Provincial Championship. He was also part of the  side that played in the Under-21 Provincial Championship in 2005.

He then spent years playing club rugby for Rawsonville in the Boland club leagues. He joined Durbanville-Bellville in the Western Province Super League for 2011 before returning to Boland to play for Ceres.

Boland Cavaliers

Kitshoff finally got a chance to play at provincial level when he joined the  for the 2012 Currie Cup First Division season. He started their opening match of the season against the  in Nelspruit on 7 July 2012 to make his first class debut, aged 28, eventually making seven appearances in the competition.

In 2013, he made eight appearances in the Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup competitions and he played in all seven of their matches in the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition. He also started five of their six matches in the 2014 Currie Cup qualification tournament, where they finished fifth to progress to the 2014 Currie Cup First Division.

References

South African rugby union players
Living people
1984 births
George
Rugby union locks
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
Boland Cavaliers players


title: 1809 in Scotland

text:
Events from the year 1809 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers
 Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
 Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle

Judiciary
 Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun
 Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
 Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton

Events
  – the General Association of Operative Weavers is formed.
 May – a construction railway at the site of Bell Rock Lighthouse is completed.
 August – Crinan Canal declared "finally complete".
 16 August – Meikle Ferry disaster: An overloaded ferry crossing the Dornoch Firth to Tain market sinks, drowning 99.
 November – Thomas Telford certifies completion of his Dunkeld–Birnam bridge. His bridges at Ballater and Conon Bridge are also completed this year.
 11 November – the North British and Mercantile Insurance company commences business as a fire insurance office in Edinburgh.
 9 December – the Dumfries Courier is established as a weekly newspaper in Annan by Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan as The Dumfries and Galloway Courier.
 Highland Clearances – first commissioner for clearance of the Leveson-Gower family estates in Scotland for sheep farming, William Young, is appointed.
 The Tally Toor, a Martello tower, is erected off Leith.
 A bridge over the River Cart is washed away in a flood.
 Blackie and Son, publishers, are established in Glasgow by John Blackie as Blackie, Fullarton and Company.
 The Scottish Bible Society is established as the Edinburgh Bible Society, a missionary organization, by Christopher Anderson.
 The Caledonian Horticultural Society is established in Edinburgh.
 Arthur Edmondston's A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands is published.

Births
 16 February – John Laing, bibliographer and Free Church minister (died 1880)
 20 April – James David Forbes, physicist, glaciologist and seismologist (died 1868 in Bristol)
 7 June – William Forbes Skene, historian (died 1892)
 22 August – John Hill Burton, historian (died 1881)
 27 August – John West, pioneer of food canning (died 1888 in the United States)
 8 September – Robert Reid Kalley, physician and Presbyterian missionary to the lusophone countries (died 1888)
 21 October – John Stenhouse, chemist (died 1880 in London)
 24 October – John Barr, poet (died 1889 in New Zealand)
 29 December – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in Liverpool; died 1898 in Wales)
 Alexander Allan, locomotive engineer (died 1891 in England)
 Archibald Campbell, born Douglas, laird (died 1868)

Deaths
 14 January – Robert Anstruther, British Army general (born 1768; died on active service at Corunna)
 16 January – John Moore, British Army general (born 1761; killed in Battle of Corunna)
 24 January – James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (born 1729; died in London)
 25 February – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, colonial governor (born 1730; died in Ramsgate)
 10 May – Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1726)
 3 August – Andrew Mackay, mathematician (born 1760; died in London)
 29 August – Robert Melvill, British Army general and antiquary (born 1723)
 8 October – James Elphinston, philologist (born 1721; died in London)
 18 December – Alexander Adam, classical scholar (born 1741)
 Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet, landowner and industrialist

See also
 1809 in Ireland

References

Years of the 19th century in Scotland
1800s in Scotland


title: Douglas Trojans

text:
The Douglas Trojans were a minor league baseball team, based in Douglas, Georgia that played from 1948 until 1956. The team played in the Class D Georgia State League and won three of the league's titles during their brief existence.

The team was first formed in 1948 as the Douglas Rebels, however the team name changed to the Trojans the following year. In 1954, the team became an affiliate of the Cincinnati Redlegs. During their final year in existence the team was renamed the Douglas Reds.

Notable alumni

 Joe Azcue (1956) MLB All-Star

 Johnny Humphries (1948)

Johnny Vander Meer (1956) 4 x MLB All-Star

References
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, editors: The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997.
Baseball Reference -Douglas, Georgia

Coffee County, Georgia
Baseball teams established in 1948
Baseball teams disestablished in 1956
1948 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1956 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Defunct Georgia State League teams
Professional baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)
Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates
Defunct baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)


title: Gypsonoma attrita

text:
Gypsonoma attrita is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Taiwan, Japan and the Russian Far East.

References

Moths described in 1965
Eucosmini


title: Rigenis Street

text:
Rigenis Street (· Rigainis Street) is a shopping street in central Nicosia that runs from Ledra Street to Solomos Square. It was the busiest street in Nicosia during the British Colonial period in Cyprus after Hermes Street and Ledra Street.  Rigenis Street is 0.3 km long. One publication stated that "mention of 'Rigenis Street' does not call into mind the glorious queen who used to rule Cyprus but rather the cabaret joints for which it is notorious".

Landmarks
At 70 Rigenis Street is the Japanese restaurant Bonsa, and at 94 Rigenis Street is The Classic Hotel, a boutique hotel.

References

Streets in Nicosia


title: Gypsonoma bifasciata

text:
Gypsonoma bifasciata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China, Korea, Japan and Russia.

The wingspan is 9–13 mm.

The larvae feed on Salix species.

References

Moths described in 1966
Eucosmini


The Northern Mariana Islands national under-18 football team are the national under-18 football team of the Northern Mariana Islands. They play in the EAFF U-18 Youth Tournament and the M*League Division 1.

Current squad
Selected for 2013 EAFF U-18 Youth Tournament.

National under-18 association football teams
u18
Asian national under-19 association football teams

2017 fixtures


title: 2014 Ladies Tour of Norway

text:
The 2014 Ladies Tour of Norway was the first edition of the Ladies Tour of Norway, a women's cycling stage race in Norway. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.2 race. It was won by Anna van der Breggen of .

Stages

Prologue
15 August 2014 – Halden to Halden,

Stage 1
16 August 2014 – Strømstad to Halden,

Stage 2
17 August 2014 – Fredriksten Fortress to Fredriksten Fortress,

Classification progress

References

Women's road bicycle races
2014 in women's road cycling
2014 in Norwegian sport


title: Strafford Union Academy

text:
The Strafford Union Academy is a historic school building at the junction of New Hampshire Routes 202A and 126 in Center Strafford, New Hampshire. Built in 1833, it is one of the best-preserved early 19th-century academy buildings in the state. The building, now maintained by the local historical society, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Description and history
The Strafford Union Academy building is located on the east side of the village of Center Strafford, on the north side of the junction New Hampshire Routes 202A and 126. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboarded exterior. A short tower rises from the front of the roof, with a square first section and octagonal belfry capped by a domed cupola. The front facade is three bays wide and symmetrically organized, with a center entrance. Trim on this facade is a vernacular version of Greek Revival styling, with flat moulding and corner blocks. The gable above is fully pedimented, with a half-round louvered fan at the center. The interior consists of large classroom chambers on each floor, with an entry vestibule that has a staircase on one side. Original plaster walls have in part been covered by modern materials, and the vestibule area has been finished in pine.

The academy was established in 1833, as a combination of a private secondary school and as a seminary for the Free Will Baptist denomination, which was founded in nearby New Durham. It served both of these roles during the 19th century, with its affiliation with the Free Will Baptists ending in 1881.It continued as a private secondary school until 1902, when Strafford Academy moved to new quarters. The building later housed the Austin Cate Academy, and now houses the Strafford Historical Society museum.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire

References

School buildings completed in 1833
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Federal architecture in New Hampshire
Greek Revival architecture in New Hampshire
Museums in Strafford County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Strafford, New Hampshire


title: Hippie Sabotage

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Hippie Sabotage are an electronic dance music duo from Sacramento, California, consisting of brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer. They are well known for their remix of "Habits (Stay High)".

History
The brothers began working on music at the age of 12, focusing on hip-hop and creating beats for local artists such as Yukmouth. The name Hippie Sabotage was inspired by their fathers' initials H.S. They initially started in the indie genre in 2005 and gradually entered the electronica genre. They continued to venture into creating hip-hop musical beats for Chicago artists like Alex Wiley and C Plus. They progressed into making electronic music, appearing at several music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo Music Festival and Electric Zoo.

Hippie Sabotage released their own material in 2013 with their EP Vacants followed by The Sunny Album in 2014. Ellie Goulding posted the remix "Habits (Stay High)" with the brothers and Swedish singer Tove Lo, which resulted in world-wide attention, hitting number one that year on Billboards Next Big Sound chart. They later released their third EP Providence in 2016 followed by their EP Options. In 2018, they announced their national tour, Legends of Fall.

Festival violence
The duo was seen in a physical fight with a security guard in Portland, Oregon, at What The Festival in 2016, strangling the guard in a chokehold until event production crew members intervened. Videos of the altercation went viral. EDM concertgoers were reported still angry about the incident three years later, protesting the inclusion of Hippie Sabotage on a festival lineup in 2019.

Discography

Albums
 The Sunny Album (2014)
 Providence (2016)
 Vibes (2016)
 Drifter (2017)
 Red Moon Rising (2020)
 Overdrive (2020)
 Floating Palace (2021)
 Trailblazer (2023)

Extended plays
 Vacants (2013)
 Johnny Long Chord (2014)
 Devil Eyes (2016)
 Options (2016)
 ''Hentai (2018) with Azizi Gibson

References

External links
 Official website

Club DJs
Living people
Musical duos from California
Musical groups from Sacramento, California
Musical groups established in 2005
2005 establishments in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: 2014 Erondegemse Pijl

text:
The 2014 Erondegemse Pijl (Erpe-Mere) was a one-day women's cycle race held in Belgium, from Erpe to Erondegem. on August 2 2014. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.2.

Results

References

2014 in Belgian sport
2014 in women's road cycling
Erondegemse Pijl


title: Internal loop

text:
Internal-loops (also termed interior loops) in RNA are found where the double stranded RNA separates due to no Watson-Crick-Franklin base pairing between the nucleotides. Internal-loops differ from Stem-loops as they occur in middle of a stretch of double stranded RNA. The non-canonicoal residues result in the double helix becoming distorted due to unwinding, unstacking and kinking.

Internal-loops can be classified as either symmetrical or asymmetrical, with some asymmetrical internal-loops, also known as bulges. Many important structural motifs are composed of internal loops such as
the C-loop,
the docking-elbow,
kink-turns (k-turn),
the right-angle,
the sarcin/ricin loops (also called bulged-G motifs),
the twist-up motif
and the UAA/GAN internal loop motif.

See also
Stem-loop
Nucleic acid secondary structure

References

RNA splicing


title: Alexey Bugaev

text:
Alexey Sergeyevich Bugaev (, also transliterated Aleksei; born 30 March 1997) is a Russian para-alpine skier who competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, winning five medals. He won the International Sports Prize World Athlete of the Year award in 2018.

Early life
Bugaev was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. He was born missing four fingers and the top of his thumb on his right hand. he took up skiing after his parents took him to a ski resort to help him integrate better into society.

Career
Bugaev competes in the LW6/8 para-alpine skiing classification, for athletes with an impairment in one arm, using two skis and a single ski pole.

At the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships held in La Molina, Spain, he broke his arm whilst finishing 5th in the slalom. Competing with his arm in plaster he won silver medals in the standing super combined and giant slalom events. He also placed 6th in the super-G and 11th in the downhill.

He was selected to compete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics held in Sochi, Russia. In his first event, the standing downhill, he won a silver medal behind Markus Salcher of Austria. He won a second medal a day later, taking the bronze in the standing super-G as Salcher again won the gold medal. Bugaev won his first Paralympic gold medal in his third event of the Games, the standing slalom. He led the field after the first run and extended his lead on the second to take the gold medal in a combined time of 1 minute 38.97 seconds, 1.27 seconds of second placed Vincent Gauthier-Manuel. He won a second gold medal in the super-combined; he completed the course in 50.30 seconds to lead the field after the slalom portio of the competition and eventually won the event by 1.10 seconds over Matthias Lanzinger following the super-G portion. Bugaev won his second silver medal, and fifth medal overall, in the giant slalom, finishing 1.43 seconds behind gold medalist Gauthier-Manuel on the first run and 0.57 seconds behind him on the second run.

Awards and decorations
 Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (17 March 2014) – for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi
 Merited Master of Sports of Russia (11 March 2014)
 "Disabled Male Athlete of the Year" in the nomination "Overcoming" by the Ministry of Sport of Russia
 International Sports Prize World Athlete of the Year (2018)

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic alpine skiers for Russia
Paralympic bronze medalists for Russia
Paralympic gold medalists for Russia
Paralympic silver medalists for Russia
Sportspeople from Krasnoyarsk
Russian male alpine skiers
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing


title: Strafford County Farm

text:
The Strafford County Farm is a complex of buildings in Dover, New Hampshire, historically associated with the management of the poor and criminals of Strafford County. A significant portion of the farm is now taken up by the modern Strafford County Jail, but several historic buildings survive on the campus, which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. These include the 1881 almshouse and the 1907 county jail.

Description and history
The Strafford County Farm was established in 1867, after the state of New Hampshire passed legislation authorizing the creation of such facilities for dealing with a county's indigent, criminal, and insane populations.  Strafford County purchased two farms totaling , on which it established facilities to care and provide work for these groups.  The once-extensive facilities included the main almshouse, as well as a blacksmith's shop, carpenter shop, slaughterhouse, and other agricultural facilities.  Able-bodied individuals housed there were expected to work in the farm's facilities, and eventually provided as much as 90% of its labor.  The almshouse that stands today was built in 1881, along with laundry and boiler houses that also survive nearby.  These buildings were designed by F.N. Footman of Somersworth.  The almshouse originally housed convicted criminals in its basement.  The county jail was built in 1907 adjacent to the almshouse, to a design by G. Lord.  The farm operation was terminated in 1971, and the new county jail was opened in 2004.

The county farm complex is located in northwestern Dover, with the building complex bounded on the north by County Farm Road and the south and west by the Cocheco River.   The historic buildings are on the west side of the complex, which is now dominated by the 2004 jail.  The almshouse is a large three-story brick structure originally designed to house up to 300 individuals. This building's once-impressive facade is somewhat obscured by the presence of the 1970 nursing home which stands in front of it, and to which it is now connected. The county jail is a 2-1/2 story brick building just south of the almshouse.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire

References

Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures completed in 1881
Buildings and structures in Dover, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
1867 establishments in New Hampshire


title: Ernst Plassmann

text:
Ernst Plassmann (14 June 1823 – 28 November 1877; alternate spelling, Plassman) was a German-American sculptor and carver.

Biography
Born in Sondern, Kingdom of Prussia, Plassmann began to study art under Munstermann, then continued his studies in Aachen, Cologne, and finally in Paris, where he spent about four years in the studio of Michel Liénard. He moved to New York City in 1853, and in 1854 established "Plassmann's School of Art", which he ran the rest of his life. In 1858 he founded the "Verein fur Kunst und Wissenschaft" (Association for Art and Science). In New York he became known for his statue of Benjamin Franklin (1870–1) in Printing House Square, depicted as a printer by including an issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette in his left hand. Plassmann spent months researching Franklin busts, portraits, and costumes, and he "labored conscientiously for several months" on the "colossal" clay statue, which was inaugurated on 17 January 1872.

His figures of Franklin and Guttenberg are located on the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung building (c.1873). The heroic statue of Chief Tammany, a legendary Delaware Indian chief, was part of the façade of Tammany Hall on 14th Street (1868/9), while the 1869  bronze statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Commodore Vanderbilt, is located at the south façade of Midtown Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. A Plassmann sculpture stands in the freight depot of the New York Central Railroad (1870), aside from various metal works, including medals. In 1875, he published Modern Gothic Ornaments with 83 plates. He began publishing Designs for Furniture in 1877, and had completed three parts by the time of his death (in New York City).

Selected works
 (1875) A collection of modern Gothic ornaments for architects, sculptors, modelers, designers, painters, &c., &c.
 (1877) Designs for furnitures and development,

References

Further reading
 McCormick, Heather Jane (1998), Ernst Plassmann, 1822–1877: A New York Carver, Sculptor, Designer and Teacher
 A bust of Plassmann was sculpted by US artist Caspar Buberl (1834–1899).

German sculptors
German male sculptors
19th-century American sculptors
19th-century American male artists
American male sculptors
Artists from New York City
1823 births
1877 deaths
Emigrants from the Kingdom of Prussia
Immigrants to the United States
People from Olpe (district)
American architectural sculptors
Sculptors from New York (state)


title: Abtouyour

text:
Abtouyour () is one of four departments of Chad in Guéra, a region of Chad. Its capital is Bitkine.

Abtouyour Department has a population of 177,850 (2016 survey) and 197 villages.

References

Departments of Chad
Guéra Region


title: Sart-Dames-Avelines

text:
Sart-Dames-Avelines () is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Villers-la-Ville, located in the south of the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

Notes

References

External links

  — Etymology of the names of villages and place-names in Villers-la-Ville

Former municipalities of Walloon Brabant
Sub-municipalities of Villers-la-Ville


title: San Sebastian Parish Church (Lumban)

text:
The San Sebastian Parish Church, informally known as Lumban Church, is the only Roman Catholic Church in Lumban, Laguna, Philippines. Its titular is St. Sebastian and its feast is celebrated every January 20. The first tabernacle outside Manila was inaugurated in Lumban including the first Eucharistic Procession outside of Manila. The Franciscans established the first School for Church Music in the country in this town under Juan de Santa Maria. Today, the church is under the pastoral care of the Clerical Congregation of the Missionaries of Faith.

History
When the Franciscans first arrived in the Philippines in 1578, Father Juán Portocarrero de Plasencia and Father Diego de Oropesa de San José started the evangelization of the province of Laguna. Lumban, together with Pila became the first Spanish town of the province and heart of the Franciscan missionary activities in Laguna. Father Juán de Plasencia served as parish priest of Lumban in 1578 with St. Francis of Assisi as its original patron. A church made of nipa and bamboo was first built in a site called Entablado, in the northern portion of the town. The first church was destroyed by flood and later rebuilt in wood.  However, the wooden church was burned in 1586. Lumban became the first Franciscan mission settlement in the country. The government allowed San Pedro Bautista to build the church and convent in stone on that same year.

The church of Lumban was finished in 1600. It became the first stone church in Laguna and the first Franciscan building outside Manila made out of stone.

In this church, the first tabernacle outside Manila was built including the first Eucharistic Procession outside of Manila on October 9, 1600. On October 8, prior to the eucharistic procession, choirs from Santa Ana de Sapa, Pangil, Nagcarlan, Pila and Lumban sang in a mass officiated by Father Juan Montes de Oca, provincial of the Augustinians. Based on the records of Felix Huerta, the parish has two chapels dedicated to Saint Sebastian and the Holy Cross. Adjacent to the church is the church convent (convento) built under the term of Father Francisco de Cañaveras.

The first School for Church Music in the country was established by the Franciscans in Lumban under Father Juan de Santa Maria, OFM on 1606. Around 400 boys were taught liturgical hymns and use of musical instruments. The church also served as infirmary or hospital of the male Franciscan religious from 1606 to 1618 before it was transferred to Pila.

In the 18th century, the town adopted Saint Sebastian Martyr as its patron saint. It was seriously damaged during the 1880 Luzon earthquakes. and was restored by Father Manuel Rodriguez in 1889. The massive church of Lumban was completed in its original form during the American occupation and was dubbed as the biggest stone church in Laguna. It was again heavily damaged during the Japanese occupation in 1941 and a storm in 1947.

Architecture
The church has a three-story facade. To its right is a square based three level octagonal bell tower with the statue of San Sebastian, its patron saint on top.

Media
The church appears in the ABS-CBN television series Huwag Kang Mangamba, depicted as Hermoso church that was later burned down.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

San Sebastian Parish-Lumban
San Sebastian Parish - Lumban, Laguna Official Facebook page

1600 establishments in the Philippines
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1600
Roman Catholic churches in Laguna (province)
Marked Historical Structures of the Philippines
16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Philippines
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo


The National Party for Democracy and Development (, PNDD) was a political party in Benin.

History
The PNDD was established in 1989 by former President Hubert Maga. It contested the 1991 parliamentary election in an alliance with the Democratic Renewal Party. The alliance won nine seats, of which four were taken by the PNDD.

The party joined the Impulse to Progress and Democracy alliance for the 1995 parliamentary elections, alongside the Alliance for Civic Renewal and the Party for Democracy and Progress. The alliance won three seats.

Prior to the 1999 elections the party joined the Star Alliance. The alliance received 4% of the vote, winning four seats.

References

Political parties established in 1989
Defunct political parties in Benin


title: Omroep Brabant

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Omroep Brabant is the Netherlands Public Broadcasting regional television and radio broadcaster in the North Brabant Province in the Netherlands. It has its headquarters in Eindhoven and also a building in Breda. It commenced broadcasting on 1 September 1976.

History

The start
Omroep Brabant's first broadcast was on 1 September 1976. Initially, Omroep Brabant was meant to cover news in Eindhoven and around it.

New edition systems
In March 1989 started Omroep Brabant with an edition system in Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg. The studio in Tilburg is divested and the studio in 's-Hertogenbosch is moved to the Provinciehuis. The studio in Breda currently houses the West-Brabant editorial office, that the area from Tilburg covers. The radio branch is 24 hour per day in the ether. On workdays from 6 am to 8 pm and in the weekends from 9 am to 6 pm are there programs, and in the intermediate hours you can listen to non-stop music. There are 8 presenters.

Nowadays
Omroep Brabant makes television since September 1997. The transmitter makes every day news broadcasts and background programs from her studio in Son.

References

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omroep_Brabant_(Nederland) (in Dutch)

https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/over-omroep-brabant (in Dutch)

External links

Mass media in Eindhoven
Television in the Netherlands
Mass media companies established in 1976
Radio stations established in 1976
1976 establishments in the Netherlands


title: Wildeye

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Wildeye (), also known as Finland 1944, is a 2015 Finnish romantic war drama film directed by Antti Jokinen. It is an adaptation of Finnish author Katja Kettu's bestselling 2011 novel The Midwife (Kätilö) set before and during Lapland War. The film stars Krista Kosonen and Lauri Tilkanen with Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Leea Klemola, Seppo Pääkkönen, Elina Knihtilä, Tommi Korpela, and Johannes Brotherus in supporting roles. The film tells the story about a love affair between a Lapp midwife and a SS officer set against the backdrop of the Lapland War, which opposed Finnish and German armies in 1944–45. The film won the Best Film and the Best Actress awards at the 2015 Waterloo International Historical Film Festival and the Best Actress award at the 2015 Shanghai International Film Festival.

Cast
 Krista Kosonen as Helena
 Lauri Tilkanen as Johannes
 Pirkka-Pekka Petelius as Jouni
 Leea Klemola as Aune
 Seppo Pääkkönen as Björne
 Elina Knihtilä as Heta
 Tommi Korpela as a Nazi SS officer Gödel
 Johannes Brotherus as Aleksei

Production
Principal photography began in Lithuania on 13 May 2014. Krista Kosonen who plays female lead, Helena, cut her hair on camera for the role. She also learned Finnish dialect from Katja Kettu's novel. Many cast members change their physical appearances; Tommi Korpela lost 44 pounds for his role as a SS officer; Elina Knihtilä lost 22 pounds for her character Heta, prisoner of war. On 10 April 2015 Jokinen informed in an interview that the production of the film was finished and that the film was complete.

Accolades

References

External links

2015 films
2010s Finnish-language films
Finnish war drama films
Finnish historical films
Finnish drama films
2015 war drama films
Films based on Finnish novels
Films set in 1944
Films set in 1945
Films about Nazi Germany
Films set in Finland
Films shot in Lithuania
Films shot in Norway
Finnish World War II films
Films directed by Antti Jokinen
2015 drama films


title: The Soil (band)

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The Soil is a South African a cappella group from Soweto founded in 2003, consisting  of the lead singer Ntsika Ngxanga, beatboxer Luphindo, and vocalist Theo Matshoba.

The band eponymous debut LP The Soil (2011), which  became certified Platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA).

History

2003-2010: Formation
Its inception came about in 2003 when all the members met in  Tikelo Secondary School during jam sessions. Back then the group was known as 'Particles of the Soil' and consisted of more than 4 members. As years passed, some members departed due to other engagements. In 2010, the group was down to four members: Buhlebendalo Mda (vocalist), Ntsika Ngxanga (main composer and vocalist), Luphindo (beatboxer and vocalist) & Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba, commonly known by his stage name, Samthing Soweto. Mdolomba was involved during the recording process of the group's first album, however, due to contractual disputes and creative differences, Samkelo decided to leave and form the contemporary jazz group The Fridge where he served as the lead vocalist.

2010-2017: The Soil, Reflections: (Live In Joburg) , Nostalgic Moments, Echoes of Kofifi

In 2011, The Soil released their self-titled debut LP The Soil which achieved platinum status, selling over 50,000 copies. On October 7, 2013, their debut live album Reflections: (Live In Joburg) was released and won Best R&B/Soul/Reggae Album at 2014 South African Music Awards.  Their second album Nostalgic Moments was released digitally on iTunes on 15 September 2014. It was made available for hard copy purchase on 22 September 2014. Nostalgic Moments received positive review from music critics. The album includes guest appearances by  Ladysmith Black Mambazo and  hip hop artist Khuli Chana. At the 14th ceremony of Metro FM Awards, the band won Best Produced Album  (Nostalgic Moments) and Best Duo/Group. In 2015, the band was nominated for Best International Act: Africa at BET Awards 2015.

On October 21, 2016, their third studio album titled Echoes of Kofifi was released in South Africa and met positive review from music critics.  The album was nominated at South African Music Awards in the Best Engineered Album, Best duo/group of the Year and Best Afro-pop Album categories. The band further promoted album with Nostalgic Moments Tour in July 2014 at Emalahleni.

In June 2020, the band made their decision to take an indefinite hiatus to pursue solo projects.

2021-present: Upcoming album, concert tour
In November 2021, the band was reportedly working on an album.

The band embarked on A Decade With The Soil Tour on December 3, the tour included two dates that ran through December 2021.

In early September 2023, band vocalist Buhlebendalo Mda was reportedly left the group, replaced by Theo Matshoba.

Members
The Soil currently consists of four members: Buhlebendalo "Soil Sister" Mda, Ntsika "Fana-tastic" Ngxanga, Luphindo "Master P" Ngxanga and Theo "Songstress" Matshoba. Theo joined the group in February 2016 as an occasional replacement for Buhlebendalo Mda. Ntsika and Luphindo are biological brothers. During interviews, The Soil usually refers to God as the first member of the group.

Musical style and influence
The Soil musical style has mainly been described as Jazz, Hip hop, Afro-pop, and Afro-soul.

The band cited Miriam Makeba, Busi Mhlongo, Brenda Fassie, and Simphiwe Dana as their music influence.

Discography
The Soil (2011)
Nostalgic Moments (2014)
Echoes of Kofifi (2016)

Awards and nominations

Metro FM Awards

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References

External links

South African musical groups
Musical groups established in 2003
A cappella musical groups


title: Shah Khail Garhi

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Shah Khail Garhi is the village located in Mansehra,  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

See also
 Peeran
 Maira Amjad Ali

References

Populated places in Mansehra District


title: Whiskyville, Ohio

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Whiskyville is an unincorporated community in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.

History
Whiskyville was so named in the 19th century on account of there being many distilleries located in the town. The community was named Whiskyville after a still was built there in 1838 by Elias Mann.  Whiskyville is located at the crossing of state route 113 and state route 58.

References

Unincorporated communities in Lorain County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio


title: Smith Chapel (Durham, New Hampshire)

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Smith Chapel is a historic memorial chapel at 45 Mill Pond Road in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1900 in the family cemetery of the locally prominent Smith family, it is a prominent local example of Late Gothic Revival architecture. It is now part of a small municipal park. The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 2013, and the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in April 2013.

Description and history
Smith Chapel is located in a small park about  in size, overlooking the Oyster River. Its setting was originally near the rear of the  summer estate of the Smith family, which has since been subdivided into a residential area. It is a single-story rectangular structure, built out of rusticate granite stone blocks quarried locally. It is covered by a steeply pitched gable roof, and has buttressed corners. The sides of the chapel each have two Gothic windows, while one of the gable ends houses the entrance, also topped by a lancet window.  The opposite gable has a larger window.  All of the windows have stained glass designs by Redding and Baird of Boston, Massachusetts.  The interior continues the Gothic features, with scissor trusses supporting the roof, and a shallow altar.

The chapel was built on the site of the family cemetery of the locally prominent Smith family by Alice Smith in 1900 as a memorial to her recently deceased husband, Hamilton Smith, a wealthy mining engineer.  Its architect is unknown.  The property, including the small cemetery in which both family members and pets are interred, remained in the family until 1979, when it was donated to the town.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire

References

Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Gothic Revival church buildings in New Hampshire
Churches completed in 1900
Churches in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Buildings and structures in Durham, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places
Chapels in the United States


title: Wethenoc

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Wethenoc or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc was a 5th-century Breton saint.

Life
A son of Prince Fragan of Dumnonia and Saint Gwen the Three-Breasted, he grew up at Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc (in northwestern France) with his brothers, Winwaloe and Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on the Île Lavret near Paimpol.

References

Medieval Welsh saints
5th-century Christian saints
5th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown


title: Alton Lemon

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Alton Toussaint Lemon (19 October 1928 – 4 May 2013) was a social worker and civil rights activist best known as named lead plaintiff in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on the separation of church and state. His was a recipient of the "First Amendment Hero" award and was the first African American head of the Philadelphia Ethical Society.

Early life and education
Lemon was born on October 19, 1928, in McDonough, Georgia. He was the second of three children. His father owned a tailor shop in McDonough. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, attending public schools there through the tenth grade. He later graduated from a private high school in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1950 from Morehouse College. In 1951, he married Augusta Ramsey, a nurse, in Birmingham, Alabama. The couple then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she had obtained work. They had a son, Anthony George and two grandchildren, Ayanna and Athena. In 1965, he received a master's degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career and views
Lemon served for two years in the US Army and worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground as a civilian for the Department of Defense. As a social worker Lemon had a long career in public service and community organizing. Lemon was a lifetime member of the ACLU and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He worked for local community organizations, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Energy (as an equal opportunity and training officer), retiring in 1987. He remained active in retirement serving as the first African American head of the Philadelphia Ethical Society and president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Morehouse College Alumni Association.

Lemon described his philosophy as, "'ethical humanism'—reliance on reason in conducting human affairs." He received the "First Amendment Hero" award in 2003 from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which also recognized him as an "honorary officer".

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Lemon was the named lead plaintiff in Lemon v. Kurtzman a 1971 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Pennsylvania law allowing public tax funds to be paid to parochial schools violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It is one of the most highly cited Supreme Court decisions. The decision established the Lemon Test a three-pronged evaluation of legislation related to religion. The Lemon Test has been applied in Supreme Court cases involving prayer at graduations and other school functions, public displays of religious symbols and the notable case on teaching intelligent design in schools, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

Lemon was asked to join the case after criticizing the Pennsylvania law at a Philadelphia meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Lemon had standing as a tax-paying citizen of Pennsylvania with a child attending public school there. Newspapers in Philadelphia called Lemon a "First Amendment hero" at the time of case for volunteering to be a named plaintiff. Lemon expressed surprise at having a leading piece of First Amendment jurisprudence bear his name. In 2003 he said, "I still don't know why my name came out first on this case." Law professor Douglas Laycock offers the explanation that choosing an African American was related to the background of a push back against school desegregation at the time. Thirty years after the decision Lemon was displeased at the erosion of the precedent stating, "separation of church and state is gradually losing ground, I regret to say." While he never sought public recognition for his involvement with the Supreme Court case, in 2004 he expressed satisfaction with the decision and pride in his participation.

Death
Lemon died of Alzheimer's disease on May 4, 2013, in Rydal Park, near Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He donated his body to science.

See also
 Ethical movement
 Humanism

References

1928 births
2013 deaths
People from McDonough, Georgia
Morehouse College alumni
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice alumni
American civil rights activists
American humanists


title: Malaysia at the 2003 SEA Games

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Malaysia competed in the 2003 Southeast Asian Games held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 5 to 13 December 2003.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medallists

Aquatics

Diving

Men

Women

Swimming

Men

Football

Men's tournament
Group B

Semifinal

Bronze medal match

Women's tournament
Group A

Semifinal

Bronze medal match

References

2003
Nations at the 2003 SEA Games


title: Antonio Narcisse

text:
Antonio Narcisse (born August 4, 1982) is an American football center who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Portland State. He has been a member of the New Orleans VooDoo, Cleveland Gladiators, Spokane Shock, Utah Blaze, Iowa Barnstormers, Portland Thunder, Pittsburgh Power, Jacksonville Sharks and San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League (AFL).

College career
Narcisse attended Sarah T. Reed High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He first played college football at the College of San Mateo.

Narcisse then transferred to play for the Portland State Vikings of Portland State University, earning All-Big Sky honorable mention honors his senior year in 2005 and First Team All-Big Sky honors in 2004.

Professional career
Narcisse was rated the 15th best center in the 2006 NFL Draft by NFLDraftScout.com.

Narcisse was signed by the New Orleans VooDoo of the AFL on February 15, 2007. He signed with the AFL's Cleveland Gladiators on November 21, 2007. He was assigned to the Spokane Shock of the AFL on September 17, 2010. Narcisse was traded to the Utah Blaze with Khreem Smith for Erik Meyer and Raymond McNeil on May 29, 2011. He was assigned to the AFL's Iowa Barnstormers on September 6, 2013. He was traded to the Portland Thunder on March 11, 2014. Narcisse was traded to the Pittsburgh Power on March 26, 2014. He was named First Team All-Arena in 2014. The Power folded in November 2014. On March 14, 2015, he was assigned to the Jacksonville Sharks of the AFL. On March 25, 2015, Narcisse was placed on reassignment. On July 30, 2015, he was assigned to the AFL's San Jose SaberCats. The Sabercats won ArenaBowl XXVIII against the Jacksonville Sharks on August 29, 2015.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Arenafootball.com profile

Living people
1982 births
Players of American football from New Orleans
American football centers
African-American players of American football
San Mateo Bulldogs football players
Portland State Vikings football players
New Orleans VooDoo players
Cleveland Gladiators players
Spokane Shock players
Utah Blaze players
Iowa Barnstormers players
Portland Thunder players
Pittsburgh Power players
Jacksonville Sharks players
San Jose SaberCats players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people


title: Arisaema quinatum

text:
Arisaema quinatum is a species of flowering plant in the arum family Araceae. It is a member of the Arisaema triphyllum complex, a group of closely related taxa in eastern North America. The specific name quinatum means "divided into five lobes", a reference to its characteristic leaves. It is commonly known as the southern Jack-in-the-pulpit (or southern Jack) but some refer to it as Preacher John.

Description
Arisaema quinatum is a herbaceous, perennial, flowering plant growing from a corm. Like other members of the Arisaema triphyllum complex, it has three leaflets per leaf, but typically the lateral leaflets are two-parted or lobed, giving the appearance of five leaflets per leaf. The spathe hood is elliptic to orbicular, with an abruptly apiculate tip. Its spadix appendix is thin, cylindrical, and curved outward whereas the appendix of other members of the complex is thicker, sometimes club-shaped, and straight. The shape of the spathe hood and the curved spadix appendix make this taxon easily recognizable, usually even as a herbarium specimen.

Taxonomy
Arisaema quinatum was first described as Arum quinatum by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1818. Its type specimen was collected in Georgia by "Dr. Baldwyn", apparently a reference to American physician and botanist William Baldwin. The Austrian botanist Heinrich Wilhelm Schott placed Arum quinatum  in genus Arisaema in 1856. The name Arisaema quinatum  is widely used today but Nuttall's contribution is sometimes overlooked.

Arum polymorphum was described by Samuel Botsford Buckley in 1843. Its type specimen was collected on the banks of the French Broad River in eastern Tennessee. Alvan Wentworth Chapman placed the taxon in genus Arisaema in 1860. In his description, Buckley suggested that the specimen might be Arum quinatum , but in 1981, Huttleston argued that Arisaema polymorphum  was of hybrid origin, with parents Arisaema quinatum and Arisaema pusillum. Today, most authorities consider Arisaema polymorphum to be a synonym for Arisaema quinatum.

Arisaema quinatum is a member of the Arisaema triphyllum complex, a group of closely related taxa that also includes Arisaema acuminatum, Arisaema pusillum, Arisaema stewardsonii, and Arisaema triphyllum. , some authorities consider Arisaema quinatum to be a synonym for Arisaema triphyllum or A. triphyllum subsp. quinatum. However, most authorities accept Arisaema quinatum and the other species-level members of the complex.

Distribution and habitat
Arisaema quinatum is narrowly endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging from North Carolina to east Texas. It is known (but rare) as far north as West Virginia. A disjunct population occurs in the central portion of the Florida Panhandle, in Walton, Liberty, Leon, and Jefferson counties, where the species is commonly known as Prester John.

Conservation
The global conservation status of Arisaema quinatum is unknown. It is uncommon (S3) in North Carolina, and rare in Florida.

References

Bibliography

External links

quinatum
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Flora of Texas
Plants described in 1818
Taxa named by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Frederique Derkx

text:
Frederique Derkx (born 20 February 1994, Heeze) is a Dutch field hockey player.

Life
Derkx started her hockey career at Hockey Heeze. She later played for HC Den Bosch, where she won two national championships, before moving to Oranje Zwart in 2012. In 2015 she moved to SCHC, where she still plays.

Derkx was a member of the junior Netherlands women's national field hockey team that won the field hockey tournament at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

She was a member of the Netherlands team that won the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup.

In 2016 Derkx did not make the final squad for the Olympics. Following this, she announced her retirement from the Dutch national team, having suffered the second hernia in her career. She played a total of 56 caps for the Dutch national squad.

In February 2018 Derkx was surprised to find that she had returned to fitness. She had stopped playing and had been concentrating on her job of coaching at a specialist sports school in Eindhoven. However in August 2017 she had undergone surgery on her back. She gave up playing and in December 2018 she had started training. Her specialists believe that she has a few years left at the top level.

Derkx' sister, Charlotte Derkx, played hockey for Oranje Zwart in the top Dutch league, and for KHC Dragons in Belgium. Their cousin, Valerie Magis, plays for HC Oranje-Rood and has also played for the national squad.

References

External links
 Frederique Derkx profile at hockey.nl

1994 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Sportspeople from Heeze-Leende
Field hockey players from North Brabant
LGBT field hockey players
HC Den Bosch players
Youth Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands


title: List of Oricon number-one singles of 1981

text:
The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1981.

Oricon Weekly Singles Chart

References

1981 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1981


title: Gypsonoma contorta

text:
Gypsonoma contorta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Shanghai) and the Russian Far East.

The larvae feed on Populus maximowiczii.

References

Moths described in 1966
Eucosmini


title: Arasuri Maa Ambe

text:
Arasuri Maa Ambe (also spelled as Arasari Maa Ambe) is a 2014 Indian short film that was shot in 3D and directed by Shiv Sagar, who is the grandson of Indian film director Ramanand Sagar. The movie was narrated by Amitabh Bachchan, starred Tej Sapru and Tarun Khanna, and chronicles the history of the Ambaji temple.

Plot
The story of Arasuri Maa Ambe is based on the mythical history of the Ambaji Temple, which is located close to the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The temple is one of the 51 Shakti peethas in India. It is believed that the Shakti Peethas were formed in the regions where the body parts of goddess Shakti or Sati fell, when Lord Shiva was carrying her corpse and performing the Tāṇḍava nṛtya, the dance of destruction, after the death of his beloved, Sati. The film tells the story of Shiva and Sati, the daughter of Daksha. The son of Lord Brahma, Daksh, was against his daughter's wish to marry Shiva. However, Sati disobeyed her father and married Shiva. The story of the film goes on to follow the myths surrounding the rivalry between Daksha and Shiva. It explores how Daksha insulted Shiva, Sati immolated herself, and Shiva performed the dance of destruction.

References

External links
  Eastern Motion Pictures sheet

2014 films
Indian short films
Films based on mythology
2010s Hindi-language films


title: Gypsonoma distincta

text:
Gypsonoma distincta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu).

References

Moths described in 1971
Eucosmini


title: Eric LeCompte (non-profit)

text:
Eric LeCompte is an American commentator on politics, finance and religion. He serves on a working group with the UN Conference on Trade and Development. He is the current executive director of Jubilee USA Network. Prior to working with Jubilee USA, he served as the event coordinator at School of the Americas Watch.

Early life and career
LeCompte holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. LeCompte is the former national council chair of Pax Christi USA. He also previously worked for the School of the Americas Watch, Catholic Worker and Fellowship of Reconciliation.

He is currently the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, a coalition of religious organizations that works for reforms to the international finance system that it argues will reduce poverty.

LeCompte supports a global bankruptcy system for countries as well as greater transparency in the international financial system. LeCompte advised the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to create a guide for global bankruptcy: "Sovereign Debt Workouts: Going Forward, Roadmap and Guide." After the United Nations General Assembly voted to create a global bankruptcy process for sovereign countries, LeCompte presented to the United Nations on initial steps to create a working process. He has presented on a potential global bankruptcy process to the International Bar Association insolvency section.

After Grenada defaulted on its debt, LeCompte advised religious leaders in Grenada and met with creditors, government officials and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure a debt restructuring that limit austerity plans.

LeCompte has been active in Puerto Rico’s ongoing debt crisis. He worked with Puerto Rico's religious leaders, the Puerto Rican government and the White House and Congress on solutions to the crisis. LeCompte testified on solutions to the crisis before a sub-committee of the House Natural Resources Committee on February 2, 2016. He supported the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act to address the crisis and worked with Puerto Rico's religious leaders to convene a debt dialogue between Puerto Rico's Governor and a representative group of Puerto Rico's creditors.

LeCompte advocates for a global finance system inspired by religious and Biblical teachings that he believes would protect the poor. He comments regularly in religious and mainstream media.

In fall of 2020, LeCompte served as a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American activists


title: Carlos D. Bustamante

text:
Carlos D. Bustamante is an American population geneticist and a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Early life and education
Bustamante is a native of Venezuela who immigrated to the United States at age seven. He attended Harvard University, from which he graduated with a bachelor's and later a doctorate in biology, along with a M.S. in statistics. After completing his Doctoral studies, Bustamante went on to study at Oxford University, focusing in Mathematical Genetics in 2001. From 2002 to 2009, Bustamante was a faculty member at Cornell University, publishing numerous works during this time.

Professional career
He has published over 100 works in peer-reviewed journals. For his contributions to population genetics he was awarded, in 2010, a MacArthur Fellowship grant, for "mining DNA sequence data to address fundamental questions about the mechanisms of evolution, the complex origins of human genetic diversity, and patterns of population migration."

Bustamante has said that he does not consider race to be a "meaningful way to characterize people", commenting that "In a global context there is no model of three, or five, or even 10 human races. There is a broad continuum of genetic variation that is structured, and there are pockets of isolated populations. Three, five, or 10 human races is just not an accurate model; it is far more of a continuum model." He observed, "If I walk from Cape Horn all the way to the top of Finland, every village looks like the village next to it, but at the extremes people are different."

In 2013, Bustamante found a link between the most recent common ancestor for both males and females in Homo sapiens. He found that there may be a link to the same time period and even the same region for both Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. This study rejected the idea that Mitochondrial Eve may have lived well before Y-chromosomal Adam. The study concludes, however, that not all the genetic material comes from these two ancestors and that the two never met and that most of the genome comes from numerous other ancestors.

In 2018, Bustamante carried out DNA testing of United States Senator Elizabeth Warren that concluded that "the vast majority" of Warren's ancestry is European, but that "the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor six to ten generations ago."

References

External links
Full Transcript: Dr. Carlos Bustamante, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Genetics at Stanford, on Sequenced

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