title: Esmeralda Agoglia

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Esmeralda Agoglia (29 August 1923 - 24 October 2014) was a former Argentine prima ballerina, choreographer and director of Argentina's Ballet Estable.

Biography
Agoglia joined the Ballet Estable at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1942. From 1949 to 1976 she was the company's prima ballerina.

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1923 births
Argentine ballerinas
Prima ballerinas
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Argentine choreographers
Argentine women choreographers
2014 deaths


title: Lizzie Burns

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Lydia "Lizzie" Burns (6 August 1827 – 12 September 1878 in London) was a working-class Irish woman, the wife of Friedrich Engels.

Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. The family may have lived off Deansgate. Her mother died in 1835, and her father remarried a year later.

Lizzie had an elder sister Mary (1821–1863), a lifelong partner of Engels until her sudden death of a heart disease. Mary Burns and Engels considered marriage a bourgeois institution and never married. In the 1850s, when Mary Burns and Engels lived in Ardwick, Lizzie stayed with them as a housekeeper, and after her sister's death eventually became Engels' partner. In the 1870s they lived openly as a couple in London, with Lizzie's niece, Mary Ellen (known as Pumps), as a housekeeper.

Both Lizzie and her sister were known as formally illiterate yet intelligent women, with strong working-class ties. They showed Engels the actual conditions of the factory employees in Britain. Eleanor Marx wrote that

Rachel Holmes notes that "Like her sister,  Lizzie Burns was a dedicated player in the Irish Republican movement, and the house she shared with Engels at 86 Mornington Street was a meeting place and a safe house for Fenian activists. She was freedom-loving, uncorseted, fiercely political and sparkling with fun". Lizzie had considerable influence on the young Eleanor Marx, converting her to an enthusiastic supporter of Irish Nationalism and the Fenians (Rachel Holmes "Eleanor Marx - a life", London, 2014, p. 88.) While her father Karl Marx had some reservations about the Fenians' violent methods, Eleanor completely identified with them, regularly signing her letters to Lizzie as "Eleanor, F.S." (Fenian Sister).

In early September 1878 Burns fell seriously ill with some kind of tumor, and to please her religious beliefs, Engels married her. She died hours later. Her death made a strong impression on Engels. He later wrote about her:

Engels had Lydia buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green and wrote on the gravestone: ″LYDIA, Wife of Frederick Engels".

References

Karl Marx
1827 births
1878 deaths
Irish activists
Irish women activists
English activists
English women activists
British activists
People from Salford
English people of Irish descent
Burials at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
Friedrich Engels


title: Leptasterias muelleri

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Leptasterias muelleri, the northern starfish, is a species of starfish in the family Asteriidae. It is found in the Arctic Ocean and the northern Atlantic Ocean. It is a predator and scavenger and is unusual among starfish in that it broods its young.

Description
Leptasterias muelleri is a small starfish which is often about  in diameter but can grow to . It has a small disc and five broad, tapering arms that are clearly demarcated from the disc. The aboral (upper) surface is rough, being covered with longitudinally arranged, knob-shaped spines. These are surrounded by small pedicellariae (claw-shaped structures) and interspersed by papulae (respiratory projections). The oral (under) surface of the arms have four longitudinal rows of tube feet with suckers. The colour of this starfish may be pale purple, pink or green, with pale coloured tips to the arms. Green individuals have a symbiotic green alga living in the tissues and are normally found living in shallow water.

Distribution and habitat
Leptasterias muelleri has a wide distribution in the Arctic Ocean and northern Atlantic Ocean. Its range extends from the Gulf of Maine, Greenland and Iceland to the Barents Sea, Scandinavia, the North Sea and the British Isles. It occurs on the lower shore, where it hides under stones, and to depths of at least .

References

Leptasterias
Animals described in 1846
Taxa named by Michael Sars


title: SJW Group

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SJW Group ("SJW") is a water utility processing, distribution, wholesale and retail company based in San Jose, California. It serves 228,000 connections that serves over 1 million residents in regions of California, and approximately 17,000 connections, which serves about 60,000 people in Texas. The enterprise value () is $3.76 billion.

Operations
The company has four subsidiaries, comprising San Jose Water Company, SJWTX, Inc., SJW Land Company as well as Texas Water Alliance Limited (TWA). TWA is engaged in operating the essential water supply activities in Texas.  The company's diverse utility property include land held in fee, impounding reservoirs, diversion facilities, wells, distribution storage, and all water facilities, equipment, office buildings, etc. In 2012, the revenue generated by purchased water made up about 40% to 45% of the company’s annual revenue.

The company attended the industry’s conference, Water Utility Conference of 2013, as one of the largest water utility companies in the U.S.

In October 2018, it was announced that SJW was acquiring Connecticut Water Service, Inc., a water utility company serving communities in Connecticut and Maine, pending federal approval. The acquisition was completed in October 2019.

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Business services companies established in 1866
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1866 establishments in California
Companies based in San Jose, California
Water companies of the United States
American companies established in 1866


title: Antonio Dugoni

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Antonio Dugoni (1 June 1827 –9 June 1874) was an Italian painter.

Life and career
Antonio Dugoni was born in Cividale del Friuli into a poor family. He began to study painting in 1841 in Udine and then continued his studies at the Accdademia di Belle Arti in Venice with Ludovico Lipparini, Michelangelo Grigoletti and Odorico Politi. In 1845 he won a first prize for artistic invention which earned him an annual subsidy from the city of Cividale. After he completed his studies, he specialized as a painter of historical works, altarpieces and portraits.

Suffering from alcoholism and mental illness, Dugoni died at 47 years of age at the Hospice of St. Mary in Cividale. Many of his works were stored in the city and were destroyed during World War I.

Works
Selected works include:

David (1847), International Gallery of Modern Art, Ca' Pesaro, Venice
Our Lady of Sorrows (1848), St. Peter's
Portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele II (1866), Modern Art Gallery, Pitti Palace, Florence

References

1827 births
1874 deaths
People from Cividale del Friuli
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni
19th-century Italian male artists


title: Pitbull Studio

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Pitbull Studio Limited was a British video game developer based in Houghton-le-Spring, England, with additional offices in Guildford and Leamington Spa.

History
Pitbull Studio was formed in 2010, a year after the collapse of Midway Studios – Newcastle. Initially working on motion tracking games for the health sector, the studio later won a contract to develop Unreal Engine 4 with Epic Games.

On 5 August 2014, Epic Games announced that Pitbull Studios would effectively be merged into a new development entity, Epic Games UK.

Games developed

References

British companies established in 2010
British companies disestablished in 2014
Epic Games
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 2010
Video game companies disestablished in 2014
Video game development companies
Defunct companies based in Tyne and Wear
2010 establishments in England
2014 disestablishments in England


title: Jennifer Mayani

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Jennifer Mayani is an Indian-Mauritian model and Bollywood film actress. She made her career in 2005 with the Hindi film Dus. She is of Sindhi origin.

Filmography
2005 Dus
2007 Good Boy, Bad Boy as Jenny
2007 Heyy Babyy as Supermarket Girl
2007 Om Shanti Om
2007 Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
2008 Bhram as Model 3
2009 Victory
2010 Apartment as Item Girl
2010 Golmaal 3

References

External links

Actresses in Hindi cinema
Chilean people of Indian descent
Indian film actresses
Actresses from Mumbai
Living people
Chilean people of Sindhi descent
Sindhi people
1979 births


title: Ernst Huth

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Ernst Huth (27 December 1845, Potsdam – 5 August 1897) was a German naturalist and botanist.

He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin, later working as a secondary school teacher in Frankfurt an der Oder. Beginning in 1883 he published the Monatliche Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Regierungsbezirkes Frankfurt, in which he was the author of numerous scientific articles.

He is known for his treatment of the botanical family Ranunculaceae, of which he was the taxonomic author of many species, especially plants within the genus Delphinium. In 1908 August Brand named the genus Huthia (synonym Cantua, family Polemoniaceae) in his honor.

Selected works
 Ueber Geokarpe, Amphikarpe, und Heterokarpe Pflanzen, 1890 - On geocarp, amphicarp and heterocarp.
 Monographie der Gattung Caltha, 1891 - Monograph on the genus Caltha.
 Flora von Frankfurt a.Oder und Umgegend, 1895 - Flora of Frankfurt an der Oder and surrounding areas.
 Monographie Der Gattung Delphinium, 1895 - Monograph on the genus Delphinium.

References

1845 births
1897 deaths
Scientists from Potsdam
German naturalists
19th-century German botanists
People involved with the periodic table


title: Clem Captein

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Clem Captein (born 29 September 1957) is a New Zealand Commonwealth Games silver medalist.

Biography
He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand to Dutch parents.

Captein won a silver medal in track cycling at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in the 4000m team pursuit.

After retiring from competitive cycling he became a successful farmer in the Waikato region, winning sharemilker of the year in 1990/1991.

See also
New Zealand at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

References

External links
 Linkedin Profile
Industry Awards

1957 births
New Zealand male cyclists
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
Living people
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Cyclists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games


title: Nick Williams (baseball)

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Billy Nicholas Williams (born September 8, 1993), is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. He was drafted by the Texas Rangers, in the second round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox.

Early life
Williams was born and raised in Galveston, Texas. He went to Ball High School in Galveston, graduating in 2012.

Baseball career

Texas Rangers
Williams was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the second round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft out of high school. He had committed to Texas A&M University, but signed with the Rangers for a $500,000 signing bonus.

He made his professional debut in 2012 with the Arizona League Rangers, hitting .313/.375/.448 with two home runs in 201 at bats over 48 games. He played the 2013 season with the Hickory Crawdads. He played in 95 games during the season, hitting .293/.337/.543 with 17 home runs, 15 walks, and 110 strikeouts over 376 at bats.

Prior to the 2014 season, Williams was ranked by Baseball America as the Rangers fourth-best prospect, and the 97th-best overall in baseball. Playing for three minor league teams in 2014, he hit .283 with 22 walks and 140 strikeouts in 452 at bats. After the season he played for the Surprise Saguaros in the Arizona Fall League, and hit .277 with 1 walk and 32 strikeouts in 112 at bats.

Philadelphia Phillies
On July 31, 2015, Williams was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies along with Matt Harrison, Jorge Alfaro, Jake Thompson, Alec Asher, and Jerad Eickhoff in exchange for Cole Hamels and Jake Diekman.

In 2016, in 125 games for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the International League in  Triple A, Williams batted .258 with 13 home runs and 64 RBIs along with a .287 on-base percentage. He walked 19 times, and struck out 136 times in 497 at bats. That season, Manager Dave Brundage benched him a number of times, for disciplinary reasons ranging from him failing to hustle to him showing up opponents.  Williams reacted to his benching by his manager, saying: "That’s his decision. I can’t do anything about it." Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said he was concerned about Williams "because we’re trying to establish a culture of playing the game the right way and we want players who grind it out, we want players who show energy." The Phillies added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season.

In 2017, he batted .280/.328/.511 with 15 home runs and 44 RBIs for Lehigh Valley, and walked 16 times while striking out 90 times in 282 at bats.

In 2019 he batted .316/.381/.574 with 10 home runs and 25 RBIs for Lehigh Valley, and walked 14 times while striking out 52 times in 190 at bats.

Major Leagues
The Phillies promoted Williams to the major leagues on June 30, 2017, and Williams made his MLB debut that night. On July 9, Williams hit his first MLB home run off of Trevor Cahill of the Padres. Nine days later, on July 18 Williams hit his first career grand slam against the Brewers. As to his defense in the outfield and baserunning, beat writer Matt Gelb wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Progress is needed on defense and the bases. Williams has overcome bad reads in the outfield with his speed. But he’s shown cracks there. And, as a baserunner, Williams has committed mental mistakes. His instincts are not the sharpest. Sometimes, raw talent can rise above that." He batted .288/.338/.473 for the 2017 season with the Phillies with 12 home runs, one stolen base, and 55 RBIs, and walked 20 times while striking out 97 times in 313 at bats. On defense, he had a -9 Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) rating, the worst in the National League among right fielders.

In 2018 he batted .256/.330/.434, with 16 home runs, 3 stolen bases, 58 RBIs, and 111 strikeouts in 407 at bats. On defense, he had a -15 Defensive Runs Saved rating, the 2nd-worst in the National League among right fielders, behind Bryce Harper.

In 2019 he batted .151/.196/.245, with 2 home runs, 5 RBIs, and 43 strikeouts in 106 at bats (striking out 38.4% of the time). His batting average, on base percentage, and OPS (.442) were the lowest of all 219 NL batters who had 100 or more plate appearances, and his strikeout percentage was the highest.

On August 11, 2020, Williams was designated for assignment by the Phillies.

Cincinnati Reds
On August 15, 2020, Williams was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds and optioned to their alternate training site. On September 15, 2020, Williams was designated for assignment by the Reds without appearing in a game for the club. He became a free agent on November 2, 2020.

Chicago White Sox
On January 15, 2021, Williams signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox organization. He was selected to the major leagues on April 8, 2021, to fill in for the injured Billy Hamilton. That night he was the starting left fielder for the White Sox, playing in his first MLB game since 2019. On April 15, 2021, Williams was designated for assignment after going hitless in 13 plate appearances for the team. On April 17 he was outrighted to the alternate training site. He was released on August 3, 2021, in 126 at bats in AAA he hit .262 with 4 HR and 13 RBIs.

Toros de Tijuana
On April 11, 2022, Williams signed with the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League. In 84 games for Tijuana, he batted .370/.454/.718 with 29 home runs and 72 RBI.

In 2023, Williams made 44 appearances for the Toros, hitting .304/.389/.519 with 9 home runs and 28 RBI.

Hanwha Eagles
On June 18, 2023, Williams signed with the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League.

Personal life
Williams began dating Brianna Goodfriend, whom he later married, while playing for the Frisco RoughRiders. His father is African American and his mother is Mexican American.

References

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Living people
1993 births
American baseball players of Mexican descent
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Sportspeople from Galveston, Texas
Baseball players from Texas
Major League Baseball outfielders
Philadelphia Phillies players
Chicago White Sox players
Arizona League Rangers players
Hickory Crawdads players
Myrtle Beach Pelicans players
Frisco RoughRiders players
Surprise Saguaros players
Reading Fightin Phils players
Lehigh Valley IronPigs players
Charlotte Knights players
Toros de Tijuana players
African-American baseball players
21st-century African-American sportspeople


title: Steampunk HQ

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Steampunk HQ is an art collaboration and gallery in the historic Victorian precinct of Oamaru, New Zealand. Opened in November 2011, it celebrates its own industrial take on steampunk via an array of contraptions and sculptures, complemented by audiovisual installations. A yard also contains a collection of other industrial parts and projects in various stages of completion.

Steampunk HQ is located in the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a historic building registered with by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I structure.

Outside of the free-standing stone building, a coin-operated "steampunk" railway engine greets visitors. This NZR DS class diesel locomotive has been heavily modified with lights, engine, and train whistle noises, and fire breathing out of its chimney. The building's exterior walls are decorated with creations such as giant flies made from metal and industrial parts.

Inside, the gallery presents a theme of a dark post-apocalyptic vision of a future "as it might have been". Contraptions and machinery featuring heavy use of copper, gears, pipes, gas cylinders, as well as an ensemble of skeletal sculptures are lit by flickering lights and accompanied by projectors and background sounds. Two large darkened rooms and part of the building's basement house a variety of old industrial and medical machines remade into "aetheric" devices. The exhibits include some large machines, such as a steam tractor, periodically emitting steam, and a boat with a grim reaper.

A back door from the gallery leads to a yard containing further large machines in various stages of being "steampunked", for example a train carriage being converted to a fortified steam engine and an "Aethertractor", as well as a variety of junk waiting to become parts of yet more contraptions.

In 2012, Steampunk HQ was rated as one of New Zealand's best new tourist attractions. The annual Steampunk NZ Festival is held every Queen's Birthday Weekend in early June, with three days of activities, including a fashion show  and ball. The Libratory art gallery next door in the Woolstore displays and sells steampunk artwork and sculptures.

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Oamaru
Art museums and galleries in New Zealand
Steampunk


title: Christian Mithassel

text:
Christian Mithassel (born 29 September 1987) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. He was born in Oslo. He competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross.

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Skiers from Oslo
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Norwegian male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Norway


title: David Paver Mellor

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David Paver Mellor (19 March 1903 – 9 January 1980) was an Australian inorganic chemist, and was the Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of New South Wales from 1955 to 1969.

Publications
Mellor, D. P., 'The Development of Coordination Chemistry in Australia', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 3, no. 2, 1976.
Mellor, D.P., 'Obituary: Richard Thomas Baker', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 76, 1942.
Mellor, D.P., 'Founders of Australian Chemistry. Archibald Liversidge', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, vol. 24, August 1957,
Mellor, D.P., 'H. G. Smith. A Pioneer in Australian Phytochemistry', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, vol. 27, 1960.
Mellor, D.P., 'Ronald Sidney Nyholm (1917–1971): Obituary', Search, vol. 3, no. 11/12, 1972.

References

Livingstone, Stanley E., 'Mellor, David Paver (1903–1980), Professor of Chemistry', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 347–348. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150409b.htm.
Mellor, D. P., 'Liversidge, Archibald (1846–1927), scientist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 93–94.
Mellor, D. P., 'Challinor, Richard Westman (1874–1951), chemist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 601–602.

External links

Biography

1903 births
Australian chemists
University of Tasmania alumni
1980 deaths
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales


title: Duboce Park Landmark District

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Duboce Park Landmark District is a residential section in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood in San Francisco, California.  One of 12 Landmark Districts within San Francisco, it occupies 4 city blocks with 90 properties, as well as Duboce Park.  It features well-preserved, Victorian- and Edwardian-era homes, many in the Queen Anne style.  Most of the district was constructed between 1899 and 1905 by Fernando Nelson, a prolific builder known for his lively ornamentation.  The district is bordered by Duboce Avenue to the south, Waller Street to the north, Scott Street to the west, and Steiner Street to the east.

See also
 Duboce Park
 Duboce Triangle, San Francisco

References

External links
 Duboce Park Landmark District

Neighborhoods in San Francisco
Parks in San Francisco
San Francisco Designated Landmarks


title: Giuseppe Cederna

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Giuseppe Cederna (born 25 June 1957) is an Italian actor and author.

Life and career
Born in Rome, the son of the journalist and politician Antonio Cederna and nephew of the writer and journalist Camilla Cederna, from his youth Cederna was attracted by the profession of mime and clown, and after several theatrical experiences in 1977 he founded the company Anfeclown. Invited by the Teatro dell'Elfo for several collaborations, there Cederna met the director Gabriele Salvatores with whom he worked, on stage and later in films, including the Academy Award winner Mediterraneo.

After a minor role in the 1972 Marco Bellocchio's drama film Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, in the 1980s Cederna started a career as a film character actor, in both brilliant and dramatic roles.

Cederna is a passionate about mountaineering and is also a writer.

Partial filmography

 Dream of a Summer Night (1983)
 Mamma Ebe (1985) - Bruno Corradi
 Who Is Afraid Of Dracula? (1985)
 The American Bride (1986)
 Under the Chinese Restaurant (1987)
 Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It's Love (1989)
 Marrakech Express (1989)
 Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990)
 Italia-Germania 4-3 (1990)
 Mediterraneo (1991)
 Gangsters (1992)
 A Soul Split in Two (1993)
 Love Burns (1994)
 Porzûs (1997)
 You Laugh (1998)
 Excellent Cadavers (1999)
 Johnny the Partisan (2000)
 El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002)
 Ricordare Anna (2004)
 Different from Whom? (2009)
 Nine (2009)
 Men vs. Women (2010)
 Women vs. Men (2011)
 Garibaldi's Lovers (2012)
 Hammamet (2020)
 Marcel! (2022)

References

External links

1957 births
Male actors from Rome
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Living people
Writers from Rome
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors


title: Thomas Borge Lie

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Thomas Borge Lie (born 25 February 1985) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. He was born in Oslo. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross.

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Skiers from Oslo
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Norwegian male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Norway


title: All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama

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All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU;  ) is the apex religious body of Islamic theologians that provides religious and community leadership to the Sri Lankan Muslim Community, who are 9.6% of the population of the country.  It was established in 1924 and incorporated by Act No. 51 of 2000 of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. ACJU has established 25 districts and 102 divisional branches, and enrolled over 5000 theologians, most of whom are holders of doctorates, special degrees, master's degree or 1st degrees.

Primary Goals

Sub Divisions
The ACJU consists of: the Council for Cooperation and Coordination (CCC), Social Service Division, Education, Fatwa Division, Public relations, Hilal (Crescent) division, Research and publishing division, Youth affairs, Women's affairs, Ulama affairs, Division for branch organizing, Maktab, and Islamic economics and finance divisions.

As part of the Islamic economics and finance division, members also visit funeral houses to observe if assistance is needed to solve any legal issues arising from the death.

The Maktab project was launched In an environment where the madrasah education system and the remuneration of scholars was in disarray by the ACJU in 2011, with the objective of standardizing the process in all madrasahs enabling students to read the Al Qur'an with Tajweed, learn Islamic etiquettes & the foundations of Islam and gain familiarity of the Qur'anic Arabic Language within a short period of time. The curriculum and program structure was developed by Aalims who studied similar systems in India and South Africa, with them providing the knowledge transfer and initial training to get it underway. The project is now in place in Masjids around the island with classes currently conducted at three grade levels, which over the next two years will increase to 5.

Executive members

Controversies

Child Marriage and MMDA
In the past, the ACJU has justified and supported the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act which allows child marriage for Muslims and even minors under 12 can be married off with a special permission from an Islamic magistrate. Further all divorce issues are handled by quazi courts which frequently discriminate and abuse female victims of domestic abuse and the woman can't even choose to be represented by a lawyer. Further females are banned from becoming .
In January 2021, the ACJU published the Report on Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act by Union of Religious Scholars in which it supports the amendment of most of the controversial parts of the MMDA. For instance it proposes to raise the age of marriage to 18 years old for Muslim male and female.

Female Genital Mutilation
The ACJU has demanded that the Sri Lankan government legalize Female Circumcision claiming that it is different from Female Genital Mutilation despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) classifying FGM as "procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons"  and have claimed it as an "obligatory Islamic duty" and according to Al Jazeera victims of FGM are threatened if they speak out. Further the ACJU claim that the process provides numerous health benefits to women despite the WHO stating that the procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. Instead the WHO state the process is painful and traumatic and interferes with the natural functioning of the body causing several immediate and long-term health consequences such as excessive bleeding, swelling of genital tissue and problems urinating, and severe infections that can lead to shock and in some cases, death, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of perinatal deaths. Supporters of FGM have claimed it to be a mere  harmless "nick" to the clitoral hood and cannot be compared to other forms of FGM. However the process often carried out on infants may expose nerves making intercourse a painful and unpleasant experience. In 2017 Al Jazeera exposed the effects of FGM in Sri Lanka with the title "FGM in Sri Lanka: It's never 'just a nick'".

See also
 List of Deobandi organisations

References

External links
ACJU Official Website
ACJU to stop issuing halaal certificates
All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) Meets Muslim Ministers and MPs
All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama sets record straight over ill-informed misconceptions
ACJU CLEARS THE AIR ON HALAL CERTIFICATION
ACJU wants Govt. to issue halal certification
ACJU to remove Halal logo in SL
ACJU stops issuance of Halal certificates; separate company to take over operations

Islamic organisations based in Sri Lanka
Islamic organizations established in 1924
Deobandi organisations


title: Didrik Bastian Juell

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Didrik Bastian Juell (born 22 February 1990) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. He was born in Oslo. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross.

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Skiers from Oslo
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Norwegian male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Norway


title: Amiran Shkalim

text:
Amiran Shkalim (; born 23 March 1988) is an Israeli retired footballer.

Notes

1988 births
Living people
Israeli men's footballers
Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players
Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. players
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. players
Hapoel Rishon LeZion F.C. players
F.C. Ashdod players
Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C. players
Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
Liga Leumit players
Israeli Premier League players
Footballers from Ramat HaSharon
Israeli people of Iranian-Jewish descent
Men's association football defenders


title: Central Vermont Public Service

text:
Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CVPS) was the largest electricity supplier in Vermont. Its customer base covered 160,000 people in 163 towns, villages and cities in Vermont. The company generated revenue mainly though purchased electricity through its subsidiaries including C.V. Realty, Inc., East Barnet Hydroelectric, Inc., and Catamount Resources Corp.

History
In 1929, the company was founded by combining eight Vermont electric companies. The creator was Samuel Insull. The company was among the first companies to successfully use wind to generate electricity and organized Yankee Atomic Electric Company to make a trial in atomic power.

In 1990s and 2000s, CVPS struggled to maintain profitability  and was acquired by Quebec's Gaz Métro on June 27, 2012, merging into its Green Mountain Power subsidiary through Gaz Métro's American operations, Northern New England Energy Corporation. Gaz Métro purchased CVPS for $472 million, outbidding another Canadian company who sought CVPS, Fortis Inc.

References
Notes

External links
 Green Mountain Power
 Northern New England Energy

Electric power companies of the United States
American companies established in 1929
Energy companies established in 1929
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1929
Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 2012
2012 mergers and acquisitions


title: Francesc Homs Molist

text:
Francesc Homs Molist (born 5 September 1969, in Vic, Barcelona) is a Spanish politician and Minister of the Presidency and Spokesperson of the Government of Catalonia.

Early life and education

Francesc Homs was born in Vic in 1969 and holds a degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is married and father to two daughters. In his private life, he is a keen cyclist and a practising Roman Catholic.

Political career

He is Minister of the Presidency and Spokesperson of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). Previously, he was Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government of Catalonia (2010-2012) and Director General of Interdepartmental Affairs (2001-2003).

He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2003 to 2010. He was writer of the draft of the new Statute of Catalonia on behalf of Convergència i Unió (CiU), and speaker of the new Statute (2006).

He has worked in several private companies in the service and banking sectors.

He is Vice-Secretary General of Strategy of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) and member of the Executive National Board of Convergència i Unió (CiU). He was the Head of the Project Great House of Catalanism (Projecte de la Casa Gran del Catalanisme), which aimed to remodel and build on the political catalanism.

Publications

He is the author of the books: Catalunya a Judici, Edicions Ara llibres, 2008; Dret a decidir. Estació concert, Edició Base, 2010.

References

1969 births
Living people
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Convergence and Union politicians
Members of the 11th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the Parliament of Catalonia
People from Vic
Spanish Roman Catholics


title: Ramon Espadaler

text:
Ramon Espadaler Parcerisas (born 19 September 1963 in Vic, Catalonia, Spain), is a Spanish politician. He is married with three children.

Early life and education

He gained a BA in geography and history from the University of Barcelona. He also studied political science and sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Political career

Espadaler has been a member of the Catalan Parliament from 1992 to the present, except for a period between January 2000 and 2003. During that time, he held two government posts. He was first appointed director general for local government at the Ministry for Governmental Affairs and Institutional Relations. The following year he became minister for the environment, a post he held until 2003.

From 2010 to 2012, he was deputy spokesman for the CiU, Catalonia's current ruling coalition, at Catalonia's Parliament. The CiU was then the main opposition group. He sponsored bills 7/2011 (on financial and tax measures), 9/2011 (on the promotion of business activities), and 5/2012 (on financial, tax, and administrative measures, and setting up of a tax on hotel stays). He had previously served as deputy mayor of Vic (1999-2001), and as deputy mayor of Sant Quirze de Besora, a smaller nearby town (1991-1999).

Espadaler has been a Catalan representative at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He has authored a number of history papers, together with articles in the local and national press.

A member of the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) since 1988, Espadaler chairs its national council since 2003. The UDC is a Christian-Democrat party founded in 1931, and the CiU's junior partner. Past party posts include president of the Barcelona Province chapter, secretary for local government affairs at the ruling council, and secretary general of the ruling council in 2001–2002.

References

1963 births
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Catalan government spokespeople
Democratic Union of Catalonia politicians
Interior ministers of Catalonia
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Catalonia
Municipal councillors in the province of Barcelona
People from Vic
University of Barcelona alumni
Members of the 5th Parliament of Catalonia


title: 2014 Miami Life Awards

text:
The Miami Life Awards is an annual awards, where several actors television movies including category are nominated to be awarded a prize.

Awards and nominations for novela

Categories

Best Telenovela

Best Female Main Character Telenovela

Best Male Main Character Telenovela

Best Supporting Actress telenovela

Best Supporting Actor telenovela

Best First telenovela actress

Best First telenovela actor

Best young actress telenovela

Best young actor telenovela

Best Television Channel

Social

Print Magazine of the year

Newspaper of the Year

References

American television awards
Miami Life Awards


title: Sheehy Inquiry

text:
The Sheehy Inquiry, officially, the Inquiry into Police Responsibilities and Rewards, was commissioned in 1992 by the United Kingdom's then Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke (before being published in 1993), to "examine the rank structure, remuneration, and conditions of service of the police service of England and Wales, in Scotland and in Northern Ireland," and to present recommendations if found necessary. The inquiry committee was chaired by Sir Patrick Sheehy, with members John Bullock, Professors Eric Caines and Colin Campbell, and Sir Paul Fox among the committee. The committee released its report, commonly known as the Sheehy Report, in 1993, with recommendations for significant restructuring of ranks and remuneration, detailed in seven sections in over 200 pages.

Findings
The report, calling for restructuring of the ranks of UK police forces, listed seven sections related to ranking, pay, conditions, and budgeting of the police, offering implementation advice in one section. Detailing the need for change within police forces around the United Kingdom, also taking into account "the special and difficult circumstances of the Royal Ulster Constabulary", the inquiry raised the issues of ineffective resource management; a lack of accountability; a "top heavy" rank structure and management; a need for focus on frontline policing; a need for recognition of police efforts, and a need for employment of civilian staff within the police - referred to in the report as 'Civilianisation'.

The report called for the abolition of the ranks of chief inspector and chief superintendent, claiming that there were "significant overlaps between ranks", and also called for the abolition of the rank of deputy chief constable, intending to have them replaced by an assistant chief constable, claiming that the duties of a deputy can still be taken on by an assistant. It also called for responsibility reallocation of current serving officers, recommending ranks such as 'operational officer', 'team leader', 'policy formulator' and 'chief executive' should be created, while also offering the chief constable more responsibilities over their police forces, also finding the 'gold', 'silver' and 'bronze' command system, already in use by the Metropolitan Police at the time, an effective means of command by means of rank flexibility.

Reception
The report was widely condemned by the police in the UK, and most of its recommendations were rejected by the subsequent Home Secretary, Michael Howard.

References

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
1993 documents


title: Neus Munté

text:
Neus Munté Fernández (born 13 November 1970, in Barcelona) is a pro-Catalan independence Spanish politician.

Early life and education
Munté received a law degree from Barcelona University, and a master's degree in public law and administrative organisation from Pompeu Fabra University.

Career
As a lawyer, she worked for Catalonia's General Union of Workers (UGT), and from 1996 to 1999 served as a member of the National Executive Committee of its Public Services Federation. She was also the union's labour and education secretary, and institutional policy secretary, in the period from 2004 to 2010.

Political career
From 1999 to 2002, Munté served as chief of staff of the Education Ministry, and in 2002 she was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia, holding a seat until 2003. In 2010 she returned to Parliament, serving until 2013. During this period, she was the ruling CiU's education spokesperson and chaired the Personal Equality Committee.

Munte has been a member of CDC, the CiU's senior partner, since 1996.  In 1998 she was elected deputy secretary general of the JNC, the CDC's youth wing, a post she held until 2000. At the party conference in 2012, she was elected CDC executive secretary responsible for specialized policy committees. Since December 2012 she has served as Minister of Social Welfare and Family Affairs in the Generalitat of Catalonia, and since 2015 she is the vice president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

References

Living people
1970 births
University of Barcelona alumni
Pompeu Fabra University alumni
Members of the Parliament of Catalonia
Politicians from Barcelona
Convergence and Union politicians
Social affairs ministers of Catalonia
21st-century Spanish politicians
21st-century Spanish women politicians
Members of the 11th Parliament of Catalonia
Vice Presidents of Catalonia
Barcelona municipal councillors (2019–2023)
Barcelona municipal councillors (2023–2027)


title: Irene Rigau

text:
Irene Rigau i Oliver is a Catalan politician from Spain, born in Banyoles (Pla de l'Estany County) in 1951.

Early life and education

A teacher by profession, Rigau holds a psychology degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a diploma in public sector management from ESADE Business School.

In the education sector, Rigau has been a primary school teacher and a schools inspector. She also got licensed as secondary school teacher. Rigau has lectured on psycho-pedagogy at The University of Girona Education Department and on educational policy and schools legislation at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). From 1982 to 1999 she held a number of management posts in the Catalan administration.

Political career and conviction

Her political career includes four years as Catalan Minister for welfare and family issues (1999-2003). In December 2012 she was appointed education minister of the Government of Catalonia. From 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Catalan Parliament for Girona Province, and from 2006 to 2017 for Barcelona Province. She was Minister of Social Welfare and Family of the Government of Catalonia from 1999 to 2003 in the last government of Jordi Pujol, and Minister of Education from 2010 to 2016 with Artur Mas.

Rigau appeared in court in Barcelona on 13 October 2015, to face criminal charges of having assisted in the organisation of the 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum, which the Spanish courts deemed illegal. President Artur Mas and vice president Joana Ortega also faced charges. Large public protests took place in Barcelona the same day in support of the accused. In March 2017, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia condemned Artur Mas, Joana Ortega and Irene Rigau to fines and were barred from office between 18 and 24 months. Although they were acquitted of charges of misappropriation of public funds, The Court of Auditors has also been judging them as accounting officers for the referendum preparations and claims 5,2 million euros.

References

Living people
1961 births
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
ESADE alumni
Members of the Parliament of Catalonia
Education ministers of Catalonia
Convergence and Union politicians
Social affairs ministers of Catalonia
People from Pla de l'Estany
20th-century Spanish politicians
20th-century Spanish women politicians
21st-century Spanish politicians
21st-century Spanish women politicians
Members of the 11th Parliament of Catalonia
Women members of the Parliament of Catalonia
Spanish politicians convicted of crimes


The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (also known as the Screen Laurel Award) is a lifetime achievement award given by the Writers Guild of America. It is given "to that member of the Guild who, in the opinion of the current Board of Directors, has advanced the literature of the motion picture through the years, and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screen writer." With the exception of 2009 in which no award was given, it has been presented annually since the 6th Writers Guild of America Awards in 1953. Billy Wilder is the only person to win the award multiple times, winning in 1957 and 1980 (both as part of a partnership).

Recipients

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

External links
Official Description of the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement and list of recipients

Writers Guild of America Awards
Lifetime achievement awards


title: Deepavali (2000 film)

text:
Deepavali is a 2000 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film starring Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind, Chandini and Bhavana. The film is directed and written by Dinesh Babu. The film became a box-office failure.

Cast
 Vishnuvardhan as Ravi alias Ravindranath
 Ramesh Aravind as Hari alias Harichander
 Bhavana as Anu
 Chandini as Nandhini
 Ragasudha
 Ramesh Bhat
 Hema Choudhary
 K. R. Vijaya
 Sanketh Kashi
 Mandeep Roy
 Tennis Krishna
 Shivaram
 Deepa Bhaskar

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed and scored by M. M. Keeravani.

Reception
A critic from indiainfo.com wrote that "The film is certainly worth a dekho (watch) for those on the look out for clean entertainment".

References

External links
Movie preview at Online Bangalore

2000 films
2000s Kannada-language films
Films scored by M. M. Keeravani
Indian drama films
Films directed by Dinesh Baboo


title: Addicted (Bliss n Eso song)

text:
"Addicted" is a song by Australian hip hop trio Bliss n Eso. It was released 1 August 2010 through Illusive Sounds as the second single from the trio's fourth studio album Running On Air. It debuted at No. 93 on the ARIA Singles Chart, peaked at No. 38 and went on to spend a total of 33 weeks on the chart, making it one of 'Bliss n Eso's' biggest hits. "Addicted" finished at No. 23 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2010. The song's music video was created using stop motion animation with graffiti. "Addicted" received highly positive reviews and is regarded to be one of the best songs on "Running On Air".

An instrumental version is used as the theme song for seasons 2-4 of Hamish & Andy's Gap Year.

Music video
The song's accompanying music video was released on 2 November 2010. It runs for three minutes and ten seconds, and was directed by James Solomon. The film clip uses stop motion animation to animate graffiti as it moves along the walls of a warehouse and also features a man skateboarding in the warehouse. 2,200 photos were taken. The video was shot over the span of three months in a warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand. The artwork was done by graffiti artists 'Askew One' and 'Deus'. Over 300 cans of paint were used in the filming of the video. On YouTube one upload of the video has over 1.5 million views, and another upload has over 500,000 views.

Critical reception
The song received highly positive reviews. Thevine.com.au was positive, writing "The song opens with the simplest of piano chords for Eso to rap over before a rolling drum marks the beginning of an intricate amalgamation of live instrumentation and sample based production that crescendos into a song that soars. Both Bliss and Eso are at their lyrical sharpest, questioning the socio-political status quo in a manner that matches the uplifting nature of the music".

Chart performance
The song debuted No. 93 on the ARIA Singles Chart and climbed as high as No. 38. The song spent 33 weeks on the chart, charting from August 2010 to March 2011. The song also finished at No. 23 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2010, above "Down By The River" and "Reflections".

Charts

Certifications

References

Bliss n Eso songs
2010 songs
2010 singles
Illusive Sounds singles


title: Nida Civic Movement

text:
Nida Civic Movement (), commonly referred to as N!DA or simply Nida, is an Azerbaijani civic movement founded in early 2011 to achieve democratic and social changes in Azerbaijan. Currently it has over 350 members comprising mainly young individuals as well as well-known politicians and activists. The movement claims to have no affiliation with any of the political parties in the country. Nida means "exclamation" in Azerbaijani.

Principles
The stated purpose of the movement is to defend the constitutional and human rights of the society, and the preserval of democratic and republican values. N!DA also aims to attract citizens, especially, youth and students into the socio-political processes of the country in order to democratize Azerbaijan and increase their influence in the processes. The states that it's not a political party and it has no intention to be represented in the government.

Political prisoners
Seven activists of N!DA, including four board members, were kidnapped and arrested with different bogus accusations a few days after the protests held against the non-combat military deaths in March and April 2013 in Baku, Azerbaijan. One more member of the movement, Omar Mammadov was arrested in January 2014. Initially, a criminal case has been launched on articles 234.1 (illegally obtaining, keeping or selling drugs) and 228.1 (illegally obtaining, keeping, carrying weapons, explosives) of the Criminal Code. Later on during the investigation, they faced extra charge under Criminal Code's article 220.1 (the organization of mass disorders accompanied with violence, breaking, arson, destruction of property, application of fire-arms, explosives, and also rendering of armed resistance to representative of authority, or participation in such disorders). On 6 May 2014 the Baku Court of Grave Crimes sentenced all the young men to 6–8 years of imprisonment. International human rights organization, Amnesty International, recognized all the arrested young men as prisoners of conscience. Shahin Novruzlu and Bakhtiyar Guliyev were pardoned and released on 17 October 2014, while the later defected to the government right after his release. The next pardon came on 30 December 2014 when two more activists Uzeyir Mammadli and Zaur Gurbanli were released. The rest of the activists, Rashadat Akhundov, Rashad Hasanov, Mammad Azizov and Omar Mammadov were pardoned and released on 17 March 2016 ahead of Ilham Aliyev's Washington visit for the Nuclear Security Summit. The last imprisoned member of the movement Ilkin Rustamzade was pardoned and released from jail in March 2019.

References

2011 establishments in Azerbaijan
Advocacy groups
Human rights organizations based in Azerbaijan
Think tanks established in 2011
Youth movements
Civic and political organizations of Azerbaijan


title: Charactorama

text:
Charactorama is a teaching method that uses storytelling and drama to motivate learners and help them to pay attention and remember what is learnt.

Affective domain
Charactorama - a compound of ‘Character’ and ‘-orama’ - is an educational method aiming to reach the learner's affective domain, which is related to a person's interests, attitudes, values, emotions and beliefs.

‘Affective domain’ covers a wide range: from simply giving attention to something, to character and conscience which are complex and internally consistent. B.S. Bloom and others classified affective domain's goal as follows:
 Receiving: Learner tries to accept phenomenon and stimulation or gives attention and shows interest to them; Sensing, self-supervision and attention concentration are included in receiving.
 Responding: ‘Respond’ to something more than giving simple attention; Passive obedience are included.
 Valuing:
 Organizing: As learners internalize several values, they can systemize those values into one value and choose dominating value when they meet the situation that several values are related; Conceptualization of value and organization with value system are included in this stage.
 Characterization by a value or value complex: A domain which makes people act consistently by internalizing value; generalized action and personalization are included.

Design principle
Charactorama is a story telling and drama technique which is considered an effective way of stimulating learners’ emotion, changing attitude through shared learning experience and imagination, and creating new action. Students create and tell a story, in the following stages:

 Story composition - Compose a story based on story telling's 6 components and 3 plots to imagine specific future vividly and make people receive message deeply.
 Story reinforcement - Choose proper character toy based on characters’ personality and characteristics in the story.
 Story telling - Add narration to prepared story and show it on a big screen. Evaluate each other and choose the greatest story. Lastly share the lesson learned from storytelling.

Expected effects

Attention
Focus on learning process by having 4 elements which determine learning motivation: attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction.

Retention
Remember 90% of learning contents to express by speaking, writing and acting.

Learning aims
To understand abstract and ideological contents clearly.
To enhance will to achieve goal and set up specific future goal.
To give shape to one's dream and vision.

See also
 Instructional design

References

 Charactorama

Learning methods


title: 2014 Perak FA season

text:
The 2014 season was Perak's 11th consecutive season in the Malaysian Super League.

Players

First team squad

 PC = President Cup player
 Player names in bold denotes player that left mid-season

Competitions

Super League

League table

FA Cup

Malaysia Cup

Group stage

Statistics

Top scorers
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.
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!width=50|Super League
!width=50|FA Cup
!width=50|Malaysia Cup
!width=50|Total
|-
|rowspan="2"|1
|FW
|50
|align=left| Abdulafees Abdulsalam
|5||0||1||6
|-
|FW
|49
|align=left| Milan Purović
|5||0||1||6
|-
|3
|MF
|43
|align=left| Marco Tulio
|3||0||1||4
|-
|4
|MF
|35
|align=left| Norhakim Isa
|3||0||0||3
|-
|5
|FW
|9
|align=left| Eliel Da Cruz
|2||0||0||2
|-
|rowspan="9"|6
|DF
|42
|align=left| Hassan Daher
|1||0||0||1
|-
|MF
|16
|align=left| J. Partiban
|1||0||0||1
|-
|FW
|28
|align=left| Khairul Asyraf
|1||0||0||1
|-
|MF
|13
|align=left| Sukri Hamid
|1||0||0||1
|-
|MF
|7
|align=left| Kyaw Zayar Win
|0||1||0||1
|-
|DF
|10
|align=left| Hardi Jaafar
|0||1||0||1
|-
|MF
| –
|align=left| Hafiz Ramdan
|0||0||1||1
|-
|MF
|4
|align=left| Nasir Basharudin
|0||0||1||1
|-
|MF
|18
|align=left| Nazri Kamal
|0||0||1||1
|-
|#
|colspan="3"|Own goals
|0
|0
|1
|1
|-class="sortbottom"
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|2
|7
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Transfers
Second transfer window started on 8 April until 22 April.

In

First transfer window

Second transfer window

Out

First transfer window

Second transfer window

References

Perak F.C. seasons
Perak FA


title: 2014 North American cold wave

text:
2014 North American cold wave may refer to:

 Early 2014 North American cold wave - Persistent cold wave throughout the first three months of 2014, bringing extended cold into the Eastern and Central United States
 November 2014 North American cold wave - Cold wave that brought record cold November temperatures across parts of the nation


title: Panasapadu

text:
Panasapadu is a village adjacent to Samalkota-Kakinada Bypass Road situated in East Godavari district near Kakinada town, in Andhra Pradesh State.

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Ashwamedh Devi

text:
Ashwamedh Devi (born 18 September 1967) is a politician and a Member of Parliament  elected from the Ujiarpur constituency in the Indian state of Bihar being a Janata Dal (United) candidate. Devi has also served as Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from Kalyanpur, Samastipur Assembly constituency. In 2023, she was appointed as the Chairperson of Bihar State Commission for Women by Government of Bihar.

Early life
Ashwamedh was born on 18 September 1967 in Meyari, district Samastipur (Bihar). She married Pradip Mahto on 7 May 1979 and has four sons.

Education
Ashwamedh Devi is Matriculate, Bajitpur Meyari, Sarai Ranjan, Samastipur, Bihar.

Career
She was elected as a member of Bihar Vidhan Sabha in 2000 and 2005 from Kalyanpur, Samastipur Assembly constituency.
  She remained as a member till 2009. In the year 2009, she was elected as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. In 2023, She was appointed as the head of State Commission for Women for the state of Bihar. Besides her, there were seven members in the reconstituted commission, which was formed to look after the issues related to women in state.

References

Janata Dal (United) politicians
Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014
Living people
1967 births
India MPs 2009–2014
Lok Sabha members from Bihar
Women members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
21st-century Indian women politicians
21st-century Indian politicians
Women members of the Lok Sabha
Bihar MLAs 2000–2005
Bihar MLAs 2005–2010
20th-century Indian women
20th-century Indian people


title: Gayheart

text:
Gayheart is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Rebecca Gayheart (born 1971), American television and film actress

See also
 Lucy Gayheart, a 1935 novel by Willa Cather

Surnames of German origin


title: Pray (Sanctus Real song)

text:
"Pray" is a song by Christian rock band Sanctus Real from their sixth studio album, Run. It was released on April 30, 2013, as the second single from the album. This was the song used for the National Day of Prayer campaign.

Composition
"Pray" was written by Matt Hammitt, Chris Rohman and Christopher Stevens.

Release
The song "Pray" was digitally released as the lead single from Run on April 30, 2013.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2013 singles
Sanctus Real songs
Songs written by Christopher Stevens (musician)
2013 songs
Sparrow Records singles
Songs written by Matt Hammitt


title: Australia–Brunei relations

text:
Australia and Brunei established diplomatic relations in 1984. Australia has a high commission in Bandar Seri Begawan, and Brunei has a high commission in Canberra.

History
Relations between the two of the countries can be traced back during World War II when the Australian Army played a crucial role to liberating Brunei from Japanese occupation in 1945. While the present relations between the two countries were established since 1984 when Australia became one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with Brunei. Both countries had enjoyed a warm relationship before 1959 when Brunei achieved self-government. Now, the relations were mainly focused to defence and security, education, as well as on trade.

Economic relations

From 2012 to 2013, Brunei was ranked as Australia's 39th largest trading partner with the total bilateral trade between the two countries reached U$1.026 billion. Brunei crude petroleum comprising U$978 million of the total trade. There is also a number of Australian teachers and other professionals work in Brunei while Australia became one of the destination for Bruneian students.

Security relations
Both countries enjoys a defence relations particularly in military exercises and trainings.

References

Brunei
Bilateral relations of Brunei


title: Gandhipuram, East Godavari district

text:
Gandhipuram is a locality situated in East Godavari district within Rajahmundry town in Andhra Pradesh State.

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Ellenfény

text:
Ellenfény is an online Hungarian language art and theatre magazine published in Budapest, Hungary. It was a print publication between 1996 and 2007.

History and profile
Ellenfény was established in 1996. Új Színházért Alpítvány is the publisher of Ellenfény, which is based in Budapest. In December 2007 print edition of the magazine ceased publication, and it became an online magazine. Although magazine is published in Hungarian, it also provides English summaries of the articles. The magazine primarily focuses on contemporary dance and theatre.

Beja Margitházi, a film theoretician, is among the contributors of the magazine.

See also
 List of magazines in Hungary

References

External links

1996 establishments in Hungary
2007 disestablishments in Hungary
Dance magazines
Defunct magazines published in Hungary
Hungarian-language magazines
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Magazines published in Budapest
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Theatre magazines
Visual arts magazines


title: Aryapuram

text:
Aryapuram is a village situated in East Godavari district in Rajahmundry town, in Andhra Pradesh State, India.

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Michael Keating (public servant)

text:
Michael Stockton "Mike" Keating  (born 25 January 1940) is a retired Australian senior public servant.

Early life
Michael Keating was born in 1940. Keating graduated from the University of Melbourne with a first class honours degree in economics. He then studied at the Australian National University, attaining his PhD in 1967.

Career
Keating was appointed Secretary of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in May 1983. In 1986 Keating shifted to head the Department of Finance.

In 1991, Prime Minister Paul Keating (no relation) recommended that Michael Keating be appointed as Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Keating retired from the role and left the Australian Public Service in 1996.

Between 1997 and 2007, Keating was a visiting fellow in the Economics Program at the Australian National University. His two principal fields of interest were: integration of social and economic policy, particularly as it relates to improving labour market outcomes; and research into the factors which are affecting Australia's governance, and how governments, institutions and policies are responding, and how relations between the citizen and the state are changing.

In 2015 Keating was appointed as Chairman of The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes.

Awards and honours
In January 1990, Keating was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of his public service. Six years later he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, for service to social, economic and public sector reform, particularly as a leader in organizational and management reform.

In 2001, Keating was honoured with an honorary degree from Griffith University.

Works
With Stephen Bell:

With Geoff Dixon:

References

Companions of the Order of Australia
Australian National University alumni
University of Melbourne alumni
1940 births
Living people
Secretaries of the Australian Department of Finance


title: Kulachirai Nayanar

text:
Kulachirai Nayanar was a minister of the Pandyan king, Koon Pandyan, and one of the 63 Nayanars mentioned in the Periya Puranam.

Birth and Life
Kulachirai Nayanar was born into a noble family in Manamelkudi in the Pandyan Kingdom. He became the Prime Minister of the Pandyan King Koon Pandiyan. He was well known for being hospitable to Shaivite saints and poets.

Devotion to Lord Shiva
He was an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva and remained a staunch Shaivite in his country which was becoming increasingly influenced by Jainism. The Pandyan King converted to Jainism and became a Jain fanatic, forbidding his Queen Mangayarkkarasiyar to even wear Thiruneeru on her forehead. Having converted the king, the Jain monks started to wield greater power in the kingdom. Hindus in the kingdom suffered persecution and indignation. The Queen feared that if left unchecked, the spread of Jainism would wipe out Shaivism entirely from Madurai. He was the only solace of Mangayarkkarasiyar who still remained a staunch Shaivite. The Prime Minister sympathized with the Queen and they were both deeply concerned about the spread of Jainism and the atrocities committed by the Jain monks in Madurai.

The Queen and the Prime Minister were struggling to find a way to get rid of Jainism and bring Shaivism to its prior prominence in the kingdom. But their efforts were in vain because of the King's fanaticism. During this time, the queen heard news that Appar and Sambandar had committed a miracle in the Vedaranyeswarar Temple by opening and closing the temple doors with their devotional verses. Having failed in all her attempts, the Queen made up her mind to seek the help of Appar and Sambandar. She dispatched the Prime Minister to invite Appar and Sambandar to Madurai.

Appar and Sambandar accepted the Queen's request and came to Madurai. They faced a lot of obstacles from the Jain monks on their way but successfully overcame them. King Koon Pandiyan had been ailing from incurable boils for a long time and also had a hunchback. He got the name Koon Pandiyan because of his hunchback. The Jain monks tried their best to cure the King with their medicines but to little avail. Sambandar cured the king of his boils by singing hymns and applying Thiruneeru on the king's body. The king was also cured of his hunchback and came to be known as Ninra Seer Nedumaara Nayanar (meaning 'one who stands tall and erect' in Tamil).

Sambandar had earned the King's devotion and the King immediately reconverted to Shaivism. With the King's reconversion, Jainism's influence diminished considerably and Shaivism regained its prior prominence in the kingdom. For their role in the spread of Shaivism, the Queen, the Prime Minister and the King were each individually included in the list of Nayanmars and their tales were rendered in the hagiographic poem Periyapuranam compiled by Sekkizhar as well as in the Tiruthondar Thogai written by the poet-saint Sundarar.

See also
 Nayanmars
 Shivism

References

Nayanars
People from Madurai
Pandyan dynasty


title: List of text mining software

text:
Text mining computer programs are available from many commercial and open source companies and sources.

Commercial
 Angoss – Angoss Text Analytics provides entity and theme extraction, topic categorization, sentiment analysis and document summarization capabilities via the embedded
 AUTINDEX – is a commercial text mining software package based on sophisticated linguistics by IAI (Institute for Applied Information Sciences), Saarbrücken.
 DigitalMR – social media listening & text+image analytics tool for market research.
 DiscoverText - online tools for archiving, searching and sorting web-based text from sources, including social media and public comments from a wide range of sources.
 FICO Score – leading provider of  analytics.
 General Sentiment – Social Intelligence platform that uses natural language processing to discover affinities between the fans of brands with the fans of traditional television shows in social media.  Stand alone text analytics to capture social knowledge base on billions of topics stored to 2004.
 IBM LanguageWare  – the IBM suite for text analytics (tools and Runtime).
 IBM SPSS – provider of Modeler Premium (previously called IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Text Analytics), which contains advanced NLP-based text analysis capabilities (multi-lingual sentiment, event and fact extraction), that can be used in conjunction with Predictive Modeling. Text Analytics for Surveys provides the ability to categorize survey responses using NLP-based capabilities for further analysis or reporting.
 Inxight – provider of text analytics, search, and unstructured visualization technologies. (Inxight was bought by Business Objects that was bought by SAP AG in 2008).
 Language Computer Corporation – text extraction and analysis tools, available in multiple languages.
 Lexalytics –  provider of a text analytics engine used in Social Media Monitoring, Voice of Customer, Survey Analysis, and other applications. Salience Engine. The software provides the unique capability of merging the output of unstructured, text-based analysis with structured data to provide additional predictive variables for improved predictive models and association analysis.
 Linguamatics – provider of natural language processing (NLP) based enterprise text mining and text analytics software, I2E, for high-value knowledge discovery and decision support.
 Mathematica – provides built in tools for text alignment, pattern matching, clustering and semantic analysis. See Wolfram Language, the programming language of Mathematica.
MATLAB offers Text Analytics Toolbox for importing text data, converting it to numeric form for use in machine and deep learning, sentiment analysis and classification tasks.
 Medallia – offers one system of record for survey, social, text, written and online feedback.
 NetOwl – suite of multilingual text and entity analytics products, including entity extraction, link and event extraction, sentiment analysis, geotagging, name translation, name matching, and identity resolution, among others.
 PolyAnalyst - text analytics environment.
 PoolParty Semantic Suite - graph-based text mining platform.
 RapidMiner with its Text Processing Extension – data and text mining software.
SAS – SAS Text Miner and Teragram; commercial text analytics, natural language processing, and taxonomy software used for Information Management.
 Sketch Engine – a corpus manager and analysis software which providing creating text corpora from uploaded texts or the Web including part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization or detecting a particular website.
 Sysomos – provider social media analytics software platform, including text analytics and sentiment analysis on online consumer conversations.
 WordStat – Content analysis and text mining add-on module of QDA Miner for analyzing large amounts of text data.

Open source

 Carrot2 – text and search results clustering framework.
 GATE – general Architecture for Text Engineering, an open-source toolbox for natural language processing and language engineering.
 Gensim – large-scale topic modelling and extraction of semantic information from unstructured text (Python).
 Haystack by deepset – a framework for building search systems with document retrieval and question answering capabilities.
 KH Coder – for Quantitative Content Analysis or Text Mining
 The KNIME Text Processing extension.
 Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) – a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for the Python programming language.
 OpenNLP – natural language processing.
 Orange with its text mining add-on.
 The PLOS Text Mining Collection.
 The programming language R provides a framework for text mining applications in the package tm. The Natural Language Processing task view contains tm and other text mining library packages.
 spaCy – open-source Natural Language Processing library for Python
 Stanbol – an open source text mining engine targeted at semantic content management.
 Voyant Tools – a web-based text analysis environment, created as a scholarly project.

References

External links
Text Mining APIs on Mashape
 Text Mining APIs on Programmable Web
 Text Mining APIs at the Text Analysis Portal for Research

Data mining and machine learning software
Lists of software


title: Deva (1989 film)

text:
Deva is a 1989 Indian Kannada-language romantic action film, starring Vishnuvardhan and Rupini. The film was directed by Vijay and written by M. D. Sundar.

In the film, Vishnuvardhan played the role of Deva who seeks revenge from his younger brothers when they attempt to disrupt his peace after destroying his family in the past by taking advantage of his innocence.

This film was remade in Telugu as Maa Inti Katha (1990), in Tamil as Dharma Dorai (1991), and in Hindi as Tyagi  (1992), both starring Rajinikanth and the Telugu version Maa Inti Katha starring Mohan Babu.

Cast
 Vishnuvardhan as Devaraj (Deva)
 Rupini as Gowri
 Tara as Sujatha
 Devaraj as Mohanraj
 Vajramuni
 Vijayakashi as Ramraj
 Sundar Krishna Urs as Deva, Mohan and Ram’s Father
 Sudheer
 Avinash
 Bank Janardhan
 Mysore Lokesh
 Jyothi

Soundtrack

All the songs were composed and scored by Upendra Kumar.

Release

The film received an extremely good reception at the box office. The positive word of mouth helped in the movie's successful theatrical run. The movie ran for 15 weeks. The movie has become a cult film among Dr.Vishnuvardhan's fans. The movie is often considered to be one of the best action films in his career.

Home media
The movie was made available as VOD on Amazon Prime Video.
The VCDs and DVDs of the film were released by Sri Ganesh Video.

References

External links

Deva songs at Raaga

1989 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Indian action drama films
Kannada films remade in other languages
1980s action drama films
1989 crime drama films
Films directed by Vijay (director)


title: Mladen Ivančić

text:
Mladen Ivančić (born 8 February 1970) is a Croatian former professional football defender. As a player, he spent seven seasons with HNK Rijeka in Croatia’s Prva HNL. He also spent a season playing for Austria Wien. He retired from football in 2003 and has become a manager. He was Rijeka manager in 2008.

Career statistics

Player
Source:

Manager

References

External links

1970 births
Living people
Footballers from Rijeka
Men's association football central defenders
Croatian men's footballers
HNK Orijent players
HNK Rijeka players
FK Austria Wien players
First Football League (Croatia) players
Croatian Football League players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Croatian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Croatian football managers
HNK Rijeka managers
HNK Rijeka non-playing staff


title: Madhurapudi

text:
Madhurapudi is a locality of Rajamahendravaram City. It is a part of "Greater Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporation (GRMC)".

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Erland Broman

text:
Erland Carlsson Broman (1 November 1704 – 19 January 1757) was a Swedish official and noble, and a favorite of King Frederick I of Sweden.

Broman was from a lesser noble family and son of lagman Karl Broman and Eva Hök.

He became a courtier of King Frederick in 1722, and soon became a personal friend and trusted confidant of the monarch, who entrusted him with the task to organize his infidelities and love affairs. In 1731, he introduced Hedvig Taube to Frederick and managed to install her as an official royal mistress. The same year, he was made kammarherre, courtier. After the death of Hedvig Taube in 1744, he introduced her successor, Catharina Ebba Horn.
In return for this and similar favors, he was awarded with titles, money and offices: he became the chamberlain of the royal court in 1741 and president of commerce in 1747. Broman frequently used his favored position to accept bribes. Politically he was an ally of the Hats. Despite his great income, he became poor after the death of Frederick due to his gambling and business speculations.

He married Eva Johanna Drakenhielm (1704-1747) in 1726, and in 1747, the maid of honor Vilhelmina Magdalena Taube (1720-1757), sister of the royal mistress Hedvig Taube.

References
 Erland Carlsson Broman i Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av B. Boéthius)

1704 births
1757 deaths
18th-century Swedish people
Swedish royal favourites
Place of birth missing
Age of Liberty people
Swedish courtiers


title: Victor Öhling Norberg

text:
Victor Öhling Norberg (born 22 May 1990) is a Swedish freestyle skier. Born in Bruksvallarna, he competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics as well as at the 2018 Winter Olympics, in ski-cross.

He won a gold-medal during the  FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada.

On 23 April 2019, he announced his retirement from skicrossing.

World Cup results

Season titles

Wins

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Swedish male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Sweden
21st-century Swedish people


title: Michael Bergmann (philosopher)

text:
Michael Abram Bergmann (born 1964) is an American analytic philosopher teaching in the department of philosophy at Purdue University. His primary interests are epistemology and philosophy of religion. In epistemology, he writes mostly on externalism and, in philosophy of religion, he mostly writes on the epistemology of religious belief and the problem of evil.

Biography
Born in 1964, Bergmann received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in philosophy from the University of Waterloo and, in 1997, a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at Purdue University since 1997. Bergmann was the president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 2016 to 2019.

Philosophical work

In his early work, Bergmann wrote about Alvin Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism. He raised objections inspired by Thomas Reid's epistemology. In philosophy of religion, Bergmann, along with other philosophers, developed skeptical theism, a position which addresses the evidential argument from evil formulated by William L. Rowe. With Michael Rea and Michael Murray, he edited the book Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (Oxford University Press, 2010).

In epistemology, Bergmann defends externalism.

Works
 Justification Without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism, Oxford University Press, 2006.

References

1964 births
21st-century American philosophers
American Christian writers
Analytic philosophers
Christian philosophers
Christians from Indiana
Critics of atheism
Epistemologists
Living people
Metaphysicians
Philosophers from Indiana
Philosophers of religion
Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers
Purdue University faculty
University of Notre Dame alumni
University of Waterloo alumni


title: Virgen Blanca

text:
The Virgen Blanca (Basque: Andre Maria Zuria, English: White Virgin) is the patron saint of the Spanish city Vitoria-Gasteiz (a city in the north east part of Spain, capital of the Basque Autonomous Community). Its festivity is celebrated on 5 August, commonly known as Andre Maria Zuriaren jaiak or las fiestas de la Blanca.

History
The history of the White Virgin begins with the creation of the city by King Sancho VI of Navarre in 1181. In the 17th century the Virgen Blanca brotherhood was created in order to promote the devotion of the city's patron saint. In 1921 it officially became patron saint of the city and in 1954 it was crowned as the city's "queen".

The figure

The figure that it is located in San Miguel's Church in Virgen Blanca Square. San Miguel's Church is one of four churches from the Middle Ages in Vitoria. The figure was made by Alejandro Valdivieso in 1854. In 2008, a copy of it was made in order to protect the figure from the weather and from vandalism.

Fiestas De La Blanca

The Andre Maria Zuriaren Jaiak/Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca have been celebrated every year, since 1884. It is held on 5 August, but the celebrations begin the day before, on the 4th, and end on 9 August it honours the patron saint of the city, and features a programme of special events, activities and free open-air concerts.
Festivities begin at six o'clock in the afternoon with the txupinazo and Celedon's (a rag doll with an umbrella) descent. Once Celedón reaches a balcony in the square, it is replaced by a human Celedón who then crosses the square on foot with some difficulty amongst the crowds. On arriving to the balcony of the Church of San Miguel, Celedón greets the crowds below and wishes everyone a happy celebration. On the morning of 5 August, the Blusas and the Neskak offer flowers to the Virgen Blanca. On 7 August the Children's Day is celebrated. The little Celedón or Celedón txiki descends in the same square as the first day, and later, Celedón txiki and neska txiki wish a happy celebration to all the children in Vitoria, from the Town Hall. On 10 August at one o'clock in the morning Celedon ascends and this marks the end of the Virgen Blanca Festivities.

The Brotherhood of Nuestra Señora De La Virgen Blanca
It is said that the brotherhood was created in the 15th century, but according to its own chronicles it was officially created in the 17th century by a group of candle markers in order to protect The White Virgin and their own interests. After that other brotherhoods were created to protect and cult the patron saint of the city. In 1927 after the official become of the Virgin in patron saint all the brotherhoods were joined in one.

Other Virgen Blancas in Spain
Burgos
Consuegra
León
Castro Urdiales
Málaga
Sevilla
Soria
Toledo
Tudela
Zaragoza
Cerceda
Jaén
Lleida

References
http://www.petrarestauracion.com/otros-servicios/realizacion-de-reproducciones/virgen-blanca-del-portico-de-san-miguel
http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/128546
http://cofradiavirgenblanca.com/index.php?56

Culture of Spain
Vitoria-Gasteiz


title: Prothalotia porteri

text:
Prothalotia porteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Lord Howe Island.

References

 Iredale, T. 1940. Marine molluscs from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Australia, and New Caledonia. The Australian Zoologist 9(4): 429–443, pl. 32–34

porteri
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1940


title: John Eklund (skier)

text:
John Eklund (born 21 September 1993) is a Swedish freestyle skier. He competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross.

References

1993 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Swedish male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Sweden
21st-century Swedish people


title: Devara Gudi

text:
Devara Gudi is a 1975 Indian Kannada-language drama film starring Vishnuvardhan and Bharathi along with Leelavathi, Manjula and Rajesh. The film was directed and edited by R. Ramamurthy and written by A. S. Prakasham

The film was a remake of Tamil film  Puguntha Veedu (1972) which was earlier remade in Telugu as Puttinillu Mettinillu (1973) and later in Hindi as Teri Kasam (1982).

Cast
 Vishnuvardhan as Sundar
 Bharathi Vishnuvardhan as Suchitra
 Manjula as Vasanthi
 Leelavathi as Sundar and Vasanthi's mother
 Manorama
 Rajesh as Bhaskar
 K. S. Ashwath as Bhaskar and Suchitra's father
 Shivaram as Kitty
 B. Jaya

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed and scored by Rajan–Nagendra and written by Chi. Udaya Shankar. The album has five soundtracks. The songs are considered to be evergreen hits and are played frequently across all Kannada FM channels.

References

External links

Devara Gudi songs at Raaga

1975 films
1970s Kannada-language films
Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra
Kannada remakes of Tamil films
1975 action films
Films directed by R. Ramamurthy


title: Ivan Kurtović

text:
Ivan Kurtović (born 29 June 1968) is a retired Croatian football defender. As a player, he spent five seasons with HNK Rijeka and four seasons with NK Zagreb in Croatia’s Prva HNL. He retired from football in 2003 after spending several seasons playing in Croatia’s lower divisions.

References

External links

1968 births
Living people
Footballers from Pula
Men's association football central defenders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Croatian men's footballers
HNK Rijeka players
NK Zagreb players
NK Istra players
NK Jadran Poreč players
Yugoslav First League players
Croatian Football League players


title: Dau al set (magazine)

text:
Dau al set was a Catalan avant-garde magazine founded in September 1948 by Joan-Josep Tharrats and directed by Joan Ponç. The magazine was produced by the artistic group Dau al Set. It was the continuation of another magazine called Algol (magazine) published by the same group. The magazine had eight pages measuring . The texts were written in Catalan and Spanish. The magazine continued publishing numbers until December 1951.

Themes and collaborators
At the beginning, the magazine followed Dadaism and the authors expressed their hatred towards society. Later on, it evolved a new surrealistic attitude. Due to this variety and evolution, in 1950, the magazine became a space where everybody could follow innovative artists.

Dau al Set was a Catalan avant-garde group formed by poet Joan Brossa, the philosopher Arnau Puig and the painters Antoni Tàpies, Joan Pons, Modest Cuixart and Joan-Josep Tharrats.

Contributors to the magazine included Joan Brossa, Arnau Puig, J. E. Cirlot, A. Cirici Pellicer, Jean Cocteau, Àngel Ferrant, J. V. Foix, Francis Picabia, Cesàreo Rodríguez Aguilera, Enrique Sordo and Michel Tapié. The magazine offered drawings by Modest Cuixart, Joan Ponç, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Josep Tharrats.

The Museum of Modern Art rated the magazine as one of the 20 best avant-garde magazines from the 20th century.

See also
 List of avant-garde magazines

References

External links
Digitalization available in the ARCA Portal (archive of antique Catalan magazines)

1948 establishments in Spain
1951 disestablishments in Spain
Avant-garde magazines
Visual arts magazines
Magazines published in Catalonia
Catalan-language magazines
Defunct magazines published in Spain
Magazines established in 1948
Magazines disestablished in 1951
Spanish-language magazines


title: Anton Grimus

text:
Anton Grimus (born 27 December 1990) is an Australian freestyle skier. He was born in Mansfield. He competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in ski-cross.

References

1990 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Australian male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for Australia
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)


title: Flag of the president of Ukraine

text:
The flag (standard) of the president of Ukraine () is the official flag of the president of Ukraine.

The presidential flag of Ukraine was confirmed by the decree of the president of Ukraine as of November 29, 1999 and used during their inaugural ceremony, during which the chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine presents it to the president. On delivering his inaugural address, the president takes a special seat at the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada next to which the president's colour is placed.

Design
The president's colour represents a blue square cloth bearing the golden trident in the center – the Sign of Prince Volodymyr the Great's State, edged with gold vegetative ornament. Two-sided silken cloth was embroidered with the use of computer technologies. One side of the president's colour bears more than a million stitches of pure gold and yellow gold threads. The embroidered trident has volume due to a special lining. The flags of the British monarch and the US and French presidents are also made with the use of the same technology.

See also

 Flag of Ukraine
 State symbols of the president of Ukraine

References

External links

 Ukraine - Presidential Flag at Flags of the World
 Official website of the President of Ukraine

National symbols of Ukraine


title: Palacherla

text:
Palacherla is a village situated in East Godavari district in Rajahmundry region, in Andhra Pradesh State, India.

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Jacqueline Casey

text:
Jacqueline S. Casey (20 April 1927 – 18 May 1992) was a graphic designer best known for the posters and other graphic art she created for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While practicing a functional Modernism, Jacqueline S. Casey was a graphic designer in the Office of Publications (later retitled the Office of Design Services) from 1955 to 1989, and was appointed director in 1972. In discussing her design, Casey stated, "My work combines two cultures: The American interest in visual metaphor on the one hand, and the Swiss fascination with planning, fastidiousness, and control over technical execution on the other."

Early life and education
Casey was born Jacqueline Shepard in 1927 in Quincy, Massachusetts, the only child of a working-class couple.

She studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design and illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), graduating in 1949. After graduating, she had a number of jobs, including work in interior design and advertising, however she never obtained a job she was completely interested in; she stated, "I broke the negative cycle by traveling through Europe for three months" and came back "with the decision to focus my life on something related to the arts... to develop my visual sensitivity."

MIT
The professional quality and creative additions to design are what made the MIT's campus design group widely respected in the field. MIT is acknowledged as the first American college to employ graphic designers as part of the faculty, and Jacqueline Casey was one of the few who were hired. The prototype for the university's publisher (MIT Press) was implemented by the graphic designers, known for their meticulous and straightforward style of their typography. Campus projects, programs, cultural, and scientific events were advertised to society through the group designer's works.

In 1955, Jacqueline Shepard was recruited by fellow MassArt alumna Muriel Cooper to work at the Office of Publications at MIT. She later stated, “In my early days at MIT, a designer working on summer materials would interview faculty and have a mini-course in a subject such as radioisotopes from the professor in charge. There was an opportunity to learn something new every day.”

In 1972, Casey became Director, taking over this position as her colleague joined the MIT faculty. The two women were among the few working at this professional level at MIT of the time. During her tenure as Director, Casey became known for designing distinctive publicity posters for MIT events, working alongside Ralph Coburn and Dietmar Winkler. Casey's designs were influenced by the International Typographic Style recently developed in Switzerland, particularly designers such as Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann, and Josef Müller-Brockmann.

Casey's posters generally consisted of a striking image or bold typography, accompanied by informational details in smaller text. She often used typographic wordplay and visual puns in her work. Speaking of her designs in 1988, she said: "My job is to stop anyone I can with an arresting or puzzling image, and entice the viewer to read the message in small type and above all to attend the exhibition."

As well as being used for promotion of on-campus events and in MIT publications, Casey's work was exhibited at MIT, the Chelsea School of Art in London, and the London College of Printing.

Personal life
In 1958, Jacqueline Shepard married William "Bill" Casey, and changed her name to Jacqueline S Casey. Her spouse was a psychologist doing social work from a home office in their art-filled home in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1975, he died of cancer.

Jacqueline Casey herself was diagnosed with cancer in 1982, and struggled to handle the workload at MIT with assistance of her staff. In 1989 she was forced to retire, but her longtime colleague, neighbor, and friend Muriel Cooper arranged for her to continue work as a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Laboratory. Casey died of cancer on May 18, 1992.

Legacy
Casey's work is held in the permanent collections of the MIT Museum, Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

The MIT Museum mounted exhibitions of Casey's graphic work in 1992, 2012, and 2018. Her complete works for MIT are archived in the collection of the MIT Museum. In addition to the MIT holdings, the Rochester Institute of Technology has a collection of 99 posters, donated by the MIT Museum at the designer's request. Selected examples of these posters may be viewed online.

Works and exhibitions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Give Blood. 1983.

Arts on the Line. 1980.

Poster for Coffee Hour. 1979.

Ger Dekkers (New Dutch Landscape) Exhibition Poster. 1979.

Mediums of Language. 1977.

Art and Environment. Poster for MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 1972.

Poster for Octave of Prayer. 1972.

Goya: The Disasters of War. 1971.

Six Artists Exhibition Poster. 1970.

Poster for Open House. 1969.

Poster for The Moon Show. 1969.

Poster for Center for Space Research. 1968.

Light 7 Exhibition Poster. 1968.

Miscellaneous Motions of Kinetic Sculpture. 1967.

Poster for Boston Visual Arts Union. Hayden Gallery.

Poster for MIT Gospel Choir: God Is...

Poster for MIT Gospel Choir: There Is NoGreaterLove.

LincolnLab Recruitment Poster.

Walking in the Spirit: A Celebration of Gospel Music.

North Carolina State University

Furniture by Architects Exhibition Poster. 1981.

Two Views/Peter Berg, Two Sculptures/Ed Rothfarb. 1979.

MIT Symphony Orchestra Tour 1973. 1973.

Medicine of the Future. 1971.

Monuments to Malcolm X Poster. 1970.

Stop Oil Pollution. 1970.

Library Booklet Cover. 1967.

Ocean Engineering Recruitment Poster. 1967.

Humanities Series Concerts. 1966.

Corners Exhibition Poster.

Presidents' Ball Poster.

Technology and Policy Program at MIT.

Rochester Institute of Technology

Jacqueline Casey. 1990.

Academic Honesty: Are Our Standards Clear?. 1984.

Elijah: Felix Mendelssohn. 1984.

James Turrell: An Installation. Wallace Library. 1983.

Constructed Color: Sculpture by James Biederman, James Hoberman, Steve Keister, Lizbeth Marano, George Mayocole. Wallace Library. 1982.

Great Big Drawings. Wallace Library. 1982.

Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design. Wallace Library. 1982.

4 Painters. Wallace Library. 1981.

Body Language. Wallace Library. 1981.

The Computer: From Counting To Cognition. 1979.

Chemistry at MIT. 1978.

Cancer: Symposium on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Seeley G. Mudd Building. 1975.

Brassai, The Eye of Paris: An Exhibition of Photographs. 1974.

Fredrich St. Florian Projects. Wallace Library. 1973.

A Spring Festival of Music 1972 in Honor of Klaus Liepmann. 1972.

Poster for Faculty-Student Exchange Program. 1972.

Lift Equilibrium: An Outdoor Experiment. 1969.

Hans Haacke Exhibition Poster. Wallace Library. 1967.

Aesthetics of Progress.

Helène Aylon.

Seven Montreal Painters.

Other

Casey, Jacqueline S. & Small, David. Fives. Visible Language Workshop, October 1990.

Russia, USA Peace. 1985.

Judge at Creativity on Paper exhibition. Sponsored by Art Direction magazine, 1966.

Awards and honors
Casey has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including:
William J. Gunn Award, Creative Club of Boston. 1988.
Honorary doctorate of fine arts, Massachusetts College of Art. 1990.
Appointed by the late President Bartlett A. Giamatti of Yale University to the Visiting Committee of the Yale School of Graphic Design.
Member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Further reading
Posters: Jacqueline S. Casey, Thirty Years of Design at MIT. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Museum, 1992.

References

American graphic designers
American women graphic designers
1927 births
1992 deaths
Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff


title: Death Nurse

text:
Death Nurse is a 1987 slasher film written and directed by Nick Millard. It was followed by a 1988 sequel entitled Death Nurse 2.

Plot

From their suburban home, Doctor Gordon Mortley and his sister Nurse Edith run Shady Palms Clinic, a facility that takes in physically or mentally ill indigents sent to them by the county. In reality, the Mortleys are con artists who murder their patients (usually during "surgeries" performed on them by Gordon) and continue billing the state for their care afterward. The only permanent resident of the clinic is the alcoholic Louise Kagel. One day, a social services worker, Faith Chandler, drops off John Davis, a man afflicted with tuberculosis. Edith smothers John, and Gordon buries his body, though he is later forced to dig it up and crudely puppeteer it to create the illusion that Davis is still alive when Faith asks to check in on him after bringing Charles Bedowski, who has a heart condition, to Shady Palms.

After Faith's visit, Edith and Gordon kill Bedowski while attempting to replace his heart with a dead dog's. The procedure is interrupted by the Mortley family cat, who grabs the heart. Gordon and Edith chase the cat, and deem the transplant a failure. Bedowski's remains are buried by Gordon, and Edith feeds pieces of him to the rats that live in the garage. The infestation of vermin does not go unnoticed by the authorities, and when Mr. Smith, an environmental health officer, threatens to shut the clinic down, Edith stabs him to death.

Faith herself checks into Shady Palms, and grows suspicious of the facility, which causes Edith to knife her, after feeding the woman rats she had cooked her for lunch. Louise witnesses Faith's murder, so Edith kills her with a syringe, despite Gordon's fondness for her. Edith has Gordon place the bodies of Smith, Faith, and Louise in the garage, from which their smell attracts the attention of a police lieutenant who had stopped by to visit Charles Bedowski. Observing from a window as the lieutenant opens the garage and discovers what is inside it, a dejected Edith sits on a sofa with Gordon, and the film ends.

Cast

 Priscilla Alden as Nurse Edith Mortley
 Albert Eskinazi as Doctor Gordon Mortley
 Royal Farros as Mr. Powell/Charles Bedowski
 Frances Millard as Faith Chandler
 Irmgard Millard as Louise Kagel
 Nick Millard as John Davis
 Fred Sarra as Lieutenant Cal Bedowski

DVD release

Slasher // Video released Death Nurse and its sequel on DVD in 2012. Limited to 1000 copies, the DVD includes features such as a Q&A with Nick Millard, and a commentary provided by him, Irmgard Millard, and Slasher // Video founder Jesus Terán.

Reception

Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Ian Jane called the film "fascinatingly watchable" despite its horribleness, and wrote, "The acting is amateur hour in the best/worst way possible but say what you will, the movie is something. Exactly what, it's hard to say but as far as slashers go, this one ranks down there with the cheapest of the cheap, the worst of the worse. As such, it's easy to love if you're in the right frame of mind for it. You'd be foolish to take any of it seriously, it's obvious that those making the picture weren't". Slasherpool gave Death Nurse a 2 out of 5, finding some entertainment in Priscilla Alden's performance, the death scenes, and the film's ineptness and absurdity, concluding "The premise isn't a bad one... in fact, in more capable hands, this would make a pretty good black comedy... but you get what you get".

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American slasher films
1980s slasher films
1987 films
Camcorder films
1987 horror films
American exploitation films
American serial killer films
Medical-themed films
American comedy horror films
1980s English-language films
Films about alcoholism
Films about con artists
Films about health care
Films shot in California
1987 direct-to-video films
American independent films
American black comedy films
Direct-to-video horror films
Films set in San Francisco
Films about nurses
1987 independent films
1980s American films