title: Wrongchilde

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Wrongchilde is the solo project of Mat Devine, lead singer of Kill Hannah.  The project was started in 2013 and they released their first album Gold Blooded on August 19, 2014. The album was self-released through PledgeMusic.

History
Wrongchilde started when Mat Devine moved to Los Angeles to work on the project and begin his first solo album Gold Blooded.  The name came to him in a dream while he was in high school, and he began scratching it on books and things, not knowing why.

Gold Blooded
Gold Blooded is Wrongchilde's first album, and was released on August 19, 2014.  The album features duets with Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Morgan Kibby of White Sea and M83, and Sierra Kusterbeck of VersaEmerge.

The project was completely self-financed through PledgeMusic. Wrongchilde's first single, "Falling In Love Will Kill You", featuring Gerard Way received over 85k streams on SoundCloud in the first few weeks.

Discography

External links
Official Website

References

Musical groups established in 2013
Alternative rock groups from California
American electronic rock musical groups
2013 establishments in California


title: Agricultural Bank of Iceland

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The Agricultural Bank of Iceland (Icelandic: Búnaðarbanki Íslands, or simply Búnaðarbankinn) was an Icelandic bank. It was promulgated by the Icelandic Parliament in 1929 and started operation a year later. In 2002 it was privatized and merged with Kaupthing Bank the following year.

References

Banks of Iceland
Banks established in 1930


title: Three Beauties of the Present Day

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is a  colour woodblock print from  by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro (–1806).  The triangular composition depicts the profiles of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina, and teahouse waitresses Naniwaya Kita and Takashima Hisa.  The print is also known under the titles  and .

Utamaro was the leading ukiyo-e artist in the 1790s in the  genre of pictures of female beauties.  He was known for his , which focus on the heads.  The three models in Three Beauties of the Present Day were frequent subjects of Utamaro's portraiture.  Each figure in the work is adorned with an identifying family crest.  The portraits are idealized, and at first glance their faces seem similar, but subtle differences in their features and expressions can be detected—a level of realism at the time unusual in ukiyo-e, and a contrast with the stereotyped beauties in earlier masters such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga. The luxurious print was published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō and made with multiple woodblocks—one for each colour—and the background was dusted with muscovite to produce a glimmering effect.  It is believed to have been quite popular, and the triangular positioning became a vogue in the 1790s.  Utamaro produced several other pictures with the same arrangement of the same three beauties, and all three appeared in numerous other portraits by Utamaro and other artists.

Background

Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts.  Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre.  In the mid-18th century full-colour  prints became common, printed using a large number of woodblocks, one for each colour.  Towards the close of the 18th century there was a peak in both the quality and quantity of work.  A prominent genre was  ("pictures of beauties"), which depicted most often courtesans and geisha at leisure, and promoted the entertainments to be found in the pleasure districts.

Katsukawa Shunshō introduced the  "large-headed picture" in the 1760s; he and other members of the Katsukawa school such as Shunkō popularized the form for  actor prints, as well as the dusting of mica in the backgrounds to produce a glittering effect.  Kiyonaga was the pre-eminent portraitist of beauties in the 1780s, and the tall, graceful beauties in his work had a great influence on Kitagawa Utamaro (–1806), who was to succeed him in fame.  Utamaro studied under Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788), who had trained in the Kanō school of painting.  Around 1782, Utamaro came to work for the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō.

In 1791, Tsutaya published three books by Santō Kyōden in the  genre of humorous tales of adventures in the pleasure quarters; deeming them too frivolous, the military government punished the author with fifty days in manacles and fined the publisher half his property.  His luck was reversed shortly after with a new success: Utamaro began producing the first  portraits, adapting  to the  genre.  Their popularity restored Tsutaya's fortunes and made Utamaro's in the 1790s.

Description and analysis

Three Beauties of the Present Day is considered one of Utamaro's representative early works.  It depicts the profiles of three celebrity beauties of 1790s Edo (modern Tokyo).  Utamaro's subjects were not courtesans, as was expected in ukiyo-e, but young women known around Edo for their beauty.  These three were frequent subjects of Utamaro's art, and often appeared together.  Each is identified with an associated family crest.

In the centre poses Tomimoto Toyohina, a famed geisha of the Tamamuraya house in the Yoshiwara pleasure district.  She was dubbed "Tomimoto" having made her name playing Tomimoto-bushi music on the shamisen.  Like the other two models, she has her hair up in the fashionable Shimada style that was popular at the time.  Contrasted with the homelier teahouse-girl garments of the other two models, she is dressed in the showier geisha style.  The Tomimoto crest's Japanese primrose design adorns the sleeve of her kimono.  Toyohina's birthdate is unknown.

To the right Naniwaya Kita, also known as "O-Kita", well-known daughter of the owner of a teahouse in Asakusa near the temple Sensō-ji.  She is said to have been fifteen in the portrait, in which she wears a patterned black kimono and holds an  hand fan printed with her family emblem, a paulownia crest.

At left is Takashima Hisa, also called "O-Hisa", from  in Ryōgoku.  She was the eldest daughter of Takashima Chōbei, the owner of a roadside teahouse at his home called Senbeiya in which Hisa worked attracting customers.  Tradition places her age at sixteen when the portrait was made, and there is a subtly discernible difference in maturity in the faces of the two teahouse girls.  Hisa holds a hand towel over her left shoulder and an identifying three-leaved daimyo oak crest decorates her kimono.

Rather than attempting to capture a realistic portrayal of the three, Utamaro idealizes their likenesses.  To many viewers, the faces in this and other portraits of the time seem little individuated, or perhaps not at all. Others emphasize the subtle differences that distinguish the three in the shapes of the mouths, noses, and eyes:  Kita has plump cheeks and an innocent expression; her eyes are almond-shaped, and the bridge of her nose high;  Hisa has a stiffer, proud expression, and the bridge of Hisa's nose is lower and her eyes rounder than Kita's;  Toyohina's features fall in between, and she has an air of being older and more intellectual.

The print is a vertical ōban of , and is a —a full-colour ukiyo-e print made from multiple woodblocks, one for each colour; the inked blocks are pressed on Japanese handmade paper.  To produce a glittering effect the background is dusted with muscovite, a variety of mica.  The image falls under the genres of  ("portraits of beauties") and  ("big-headed pictures"), the latter a genre Utamaro pioneered and was strongly associated with.

The composition of the three figures is triangular, a traditional arrangement Tadashi Kobayashi compares to The Three Vinegar Tasters, in which Confucius, Gautama Buddha, and Laozi  symbolize the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism; similarly, Kobayashi says, Utamaro demonstrates the unity of the three competing celebrity beauties in the print.

Publication and legacy

The print was designed by Utamaro and published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō in the fourth or fifth year of the Kansei era of the traditional Japanese era divisions ().  Tsutaya's publisher's seal is printed on the left above Hisa's head, and a round censor's seal appears above it.  Utamaro's signature is printed in the bottom left.

Fumito Kondō considered the print revolutionary; such expressive, individualized faces are not seen in the stereotyped figures in the works of Utamaro's predecessors such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga, and it was the first time in ukiyo-e history that the beauties were drawn from the general urban population rather than the pleasure quarters.

Records indicate Kita was rated highly in teahouse rankings, and that curious fans flooded her father's teahouse; it is said this caused her to become arrogant and cease to serve tea unless called for.  Hisa ranked lower, though still appears to have been quite popular—a wealthy merchant offered 1500  for her, but her parents refused and she continued to work at the teahouse.  Utamaro took advantage of this rivalry in his art, going as far as to portray the two tearoom beauties in tug-of-war and other competitions, with deities associated with their neighbourhoods supporting them: Buddhist guardian deity Acala was associated with Yagenbori, and supported Hisa; Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, was associated with the temple Sensō-ji in Asakusa, and supported Kita.

The triangular positioning of three figures became something of a vogue in prints of the mid-1790s.  The "Three Beauties of the Kansei Era" normally refer to the three who appear in this print; on occasion, Utamaro replaced Toyohina with Kikumoto O-Han.  Utamaro placed the three beauties in the same composition three or four years later in a print called Three Beauties, in which Hisa holds a teacup saucer in her left hand rather than a handkerchief, and Kita holds her fan in both hands.  To Eiji Yoshida, the figures in this print lack the personalities that were the charm of the earlier.  Yoshida thought less of the further undifferentiated personalities of a later print with the same triangular composition, Three Beauties Holding Bags of Snacks, published by Yamaguchiya.  As testimony to their popularity, the three models often appeared in the works of other artists, and Utamaro continued to use them in other prints, individually or in pairs.

There are no records of sales figures of ukiyo-e from the era in which the print was made.  Determining the popularity of a print requires indirect means, one of which is to compare the differences in surviving copies.  For example, the more copies printed, the more the woodblocks wore down, resulting in loss of line clarity and details.  Another example is that publishers often made changes to the blocks in later print runs.  Researchers use clues such as these to determine whether prints were frequently reprinted—a sign of their popularity.  The original printing of Three Beauties of the Present Day had the title in a bookmark-shape in the top right corner with the names of the three beauties to its left. Only two copies of this state are believed to have survived; they are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Art Museum in Tokyo.  Later printings lack the title, the names of the beauties, or both, and the position of the publisher's and censor's seals varies slightly.  The reasons for the changes are subject to speculation, such as that the beauties may have moved away, or their fame may have fallen.  Based on clues such as these changes, researchers believe this print was a popular hit for Utamaro and Tsutaya.

Notes

References

Works cited

18th-century portraits
1793 prints
Works by Kitagawa Utamaro


title: No One Knows (Dion and The Belmonts song)

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"No One Knows" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and Ken Hechet and performed by Dion and the Belmonts.  The song reached number 12 on the R&B chart and number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958.  It was featured on their 1958 album, Presenting Dion and the Belmonts.

Other versions
Marty Wilde released a version of the song as a single in November 1958.
Mike LeRoy released a version of the song as the B-side to his single "I Forgot What It Was Like" in October 1964.

In media
Dion and the Belmonts version was featured in the 1997 movie, The Butcher Boy, and featured on the soundtrack.

References

1958 songs
1958 singles
Songs written by Ernie Maresca
Dion DiMucci songs
Philips Records singles
Columbia Records singles
Laurie Records singles


title: Laurie Taitt

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John Lawrence Taitt (28 March 1934 – 18 October 2006) was a British sprint hurdler. He was born in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, British Guiana (present day Guyana).

Taitt first competed internationally at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. Representing British Guiana, he reached the semi-finals of the 120 yards hurdles. Four years later, now representing Great Britain, Taitt reached the semi-finals of the 110 metres hurdles at the 1962 European Athletics Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Two months later representing England, Taitt won the bronze medal in the 120 yards hurdles at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia in a time of 14.7 seconds. He was also due to compete in the high jump but pulled out to focus on the hurdles. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Taitt in the 110 metres hurdles finished fourth in his heat after crossing the line in 14.5 seconds. This was not enough for him to advance to the semi-finals. Two years later at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, Taitt finished fifth in the final of the 120 yards hurdles in a time of 14.3 seconds. At his final major meet, the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Taitt was unable to make the final of the 110 metres hurdles.

Taitt died on 18 October 2006 in Croydon, Greater London, England at the age of 72.

References

1934 births
2006 deaths
Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana
Guyanese emigrants to England
English male hurdlers
Guyanese male hurdlers
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Commonwealth Games competitors for British Guiana
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games


title: Military Academy of the Bolivarian National Guard

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The National Guard Military Academy (in Spanish Academia Militar de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana''), opened in 1936, is a military academy training future officers of the Venezuelan National Guard. It shares its campus in Caracas's Fort Tiuna with the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army.

Mission
The missions of the Military Academy of the National Guard are the following:

Love of country, duty, ethical, moral, spiritual and historical values of Venezuelan society.
Leaders possessing a high level of performance as the official future.
To fulfill tasks related to the National Guard, military defense cooperation, maintaining internal order and actively participate in the development of the nation.

Vision Statement
The Academy is envisioned to be:

A military higher educational institution of national and international prestige, that is oriented towards the training of the officers with moral and ethnic values, shaped by a process of investigation training that is excellent and effective, that is aimed towards the defense and compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the law, and human rights.

Curriculum and academic programs
Just like so many military academies in the world, the NGMA is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, four-year undergraduate program that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with no graduate program, preparing men and women to take on the challenge of being commissioned officers of the Venezuelan National Guard. The academy is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education.

Academic program
The academic program consists of a structured core of subjects depending on the cadet's chosen specialty as a future National Guard officer, balanced between the arts and sciences, plus additional emphasis in law enforcement. Regardless of major, all cadets graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Military curriculum
As all cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation, military and leadership education is nested with academic instruction. Military training and discipline fall under the purview of the Office of the Commandant of Cadets. Entering freshmen, or 4th class cadets, are referred to as New Cadets, and enter the academy on Reception Day (in September or October ) to start off their military service training as future officers in Fort Tiuna, and are recognized as full cadets in a ceremony in November. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of study, aside from the usual academic work, also involve specialty training in the specialty branches of the National Guard in their respective branch training schools, public relations activities and advanced training in law enforcement. Selected cadets are also selected for foreign exchange studies in the military and police academies of Belarus, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Argentina.

The Academy also has links with military and police academies in Latin America and thus also has a sizable number of foreign exchange cadets who graduate as Second Lieutenants or equivalents and with a bachelor's degree and thus return to their countries of origin to serve in their police forces.

As the Corps of Cadets is structured into a Regiment, command of the Battalions and Companies fall under the responsibility of active duty officers in the rank of captain or major, unlike the academies in the US and UK and therefore following Prussian practice. There is also one senior Non-Commissioned Officer who acts as an assistant.

References

Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela


title: Nørre Broby

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Nørre Broby, or simply Broby, is a small town in southwest-central Funen, Denmark, to the northeast of Haarby. It was the seat of Broby Municipality between 1970 and 2006 until the municipality was dissolved and merged with Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality. 1 January 2023 it had a population of 1,479. Nørre Broby Church (kirke), dated to around 1100, is located in the town. It also contains the Broby Library.
It has a history of clover production, and farmers in the Nørre Broby area were already cultivating it in 1785.

Notable people
 Maja Jager (born 1991 in Nørre Broby) a Danish female archer, competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics

References

Populated places in Funen
Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality


title: Siberian lynx

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The Siberian lynx (Lynx lynx wrangeli), also known as the East Siberian lynx, is a subspecies of Eurasian lynx living in the Russian Far East, Korea, Mongolia, and China (Machuria and eastern Inner Mongolia). It lives in the Stanovoy Range and east of the Yenisei River. There were 5,890 mature individuals in the Russian Far East as of 2013. Prey include the Siberian roe deer. The Siberian lynx is the second most common subspecies of the Eurasian lynx. According to a study done on the mortality of Eurasian lynx, the Siberian lynx lives to an average age of 15 years.

See also
 Caucasian lynx

References

Eurasian lynx subspecies
Mammals described in 1928
Mammals of Asia
Mammals of Russia
Fauna of Siberia


title: Bolivarian Military Technical Academy

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The Bolivarian Military Technical Academy COL Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte (in Spanish Academia Técnica Militar Bolivariana), is an academy to train officers of technical and administrative services in the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.

Formerly the Armed Forces Basic School, it was given its current charter and was renamed to its present name in 2010, with its main campus in Maracay with branches in Caracas, Michelena and Caita La Mar.

Brief History
In 1991, the Federal Government established the Armed Forces Basic School (Escuela Basica de la FF. AA. Nacionales, ESCUBAFAN, later on ESCUBAFANB) which served as a College-preparatory school preparing male and female graduates of high schools, public, private and military, for studies in the military academies after 2 years of education.

As part of the modernization and expansion of the armed forces to meet the challenges of the 21st century, then president Hugo Chávez transformed the Basic School to become the Technical Officers' Military Institute (Instituto de Formación de Oficiales Técnicos de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana), with a four-year course for officers of the technical and administrative services of the National Armed Forces, in accordance with amendments to the Armed Forces Law made on 31 July 2008. This new institution merged the Basic School with the warrant officer schools which had then been closed as part of the transformation of the warrant officer corps to become the then brand new technical officer corps of the NBAF.

On 10 March 2009, the academy was granted a new charter, renamed as the Technical Officer's School (Escuela de Formación de Oficiales Técnicos, EFOTEC). Its current name and charter was given in 2010 when the Military University was founded.

Each of the schools under the BMTA system have long and distinguished histories of their own.

Organization of the BMTA system

In 2019–2020, the BMTA was reorganized into four service-specialty and two occupational specialty schools:

 Army Technical Academy, Air Force Technical Academy, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics College, Health Sciences Academy and HQ Military Technical Academy - Maracay
 Naval Technical Academy - Caita La Mar
 National Guard Technical Academy - Michelena
 Health Sciences Academy - Caracas

Curriculum
The BMTA is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, four-year undergraduate program (five years for medical officers, 3 years for civilians in the communications courses) that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with no graduate program.

As all its military cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants and ensigns in the technical services upon graduation, military and leadership education is nested with academic instruction in the following specialties and subjects:

 Navigation
 Hydrology
 Geography
 Industrial production and manufacture
 Military security and sciences
 Air power
 Logistics
 Information technology and electronics
 Finance
 Transport
 Health and Medicine
 Engineering
 Electrical engineering
 Environmental studies

All the military officer cadets of the academy, aside from their officer's commission, receive a Bachelor of Science degree upon graduation regardless of their major. The academy is accredited as a public education institution by the Ministry of Higher Education.

The civilian students in the communications course receive an associate degree in Electronics and Communications after three years' study.

Controversies

Javier Toro Blanco Case

On July 11, a event shook the facilities of the Army Technical Military School in Maracay, Aragua state. Cadet Javier Toro Blanco, 17 years old and in his second year at the academy, was fatally wounded in the abdomen with a dagger. Toro Blanco was the son of Inspector Francisco Toro, an active officer in the Aragua state police. The official report issued by the Integral Defense Operational Zone number 44 in Aragua, under the direction of G/D Edward Stevens Betancourt Gudiño, states that the cadet suffered an abdominal wound and was immediately transported to the Cnel. Elbano Paredes Vivas Military Hospital in Maracay. After undergoing an exploratory laparotomy, doctors found injuries to the infrarenal aorta, the abdominal aorta, and a right renal injury. Despite medical efforts, Toro Blanco died from grade IV hypovolemic shock at approximately 9:30 p.m. on the same day.
The alleged aggressor, identified as Johan Alberto Torrealba Seco, 19, and also a cadet at the institution, is said to have wounded Toro Blanco with a dagger during an argument in the academy's dormitory. After the incident, members of the National Armed Force, assigned to the Army Technical Military Academy, reported the incident to both higher authorities and the deceased's family. The General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) and the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc) were involved in the investigation of the event. Inquiries to determine the exact circumstances of the murder within a military institution are under the responsibility of Military Prosecutor 13. Cadet Torrealba Seco has been arrested, although his place of detention has not been disclosed. Local press reports indicate that Javier Toro Blanco came from sector 13 de Junio in Santa Rita in the Francisco Linares Alcántara municipality and was the older brother in a two-child family.

Sexual Abuse Incident at the Bolivarian Technical Military Academy
On October 28, 2022, a incident that took place at the Bolivarian Technical Military Academy in 2021 came to light. The Public Ministry sentenced a captain and a first lieutenant of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) to 23 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a 17-year-old female student, by two superior officers. Captain Cristóbal Rafael Orozco and First Lieutenant Edicvani José Díaz Lozano, both 32, were found guilty of abusing the young woman who was studying Mechanical Engineering at the Bolivarian Technical Military Academy.
The incident occurred on March 23, 2021. The student was on her way to a friend's room when she was intercepted by Captain Cristóbal Rafael Orozco at 7 a.m. While on her way to her friend's dormitory, the officer forcibly took her to his room, where he proceeded to undress and threaten her with obscene words. Shortly thereafter, First Lieutenant Edicvani José Díaz Lozano also participated in the abuse. Following these events, the young woman, affected by health problems related to the attack, was transferred to the academy's infirmary, where, regrettably, the two officers abused her again.
The young woman's family filed a formal complaint, leading to an investigation coordinated by the Public Ministry. As a result, both officers, Orozco and Díaz Lozano, were arrested and subsequently convicted for "continued penetrative sexual abuse and threats". The sentence ruled that they serve their sentence at the National Center for Military Defendants in Ramo Verde, Miranda state.

Lieutenant José Gregorio León Sevilla Case
Lieutenant José Gregorio León Sevilla, who trained and served in the Bolivarian National Armed Forces for over seven years, faced significant repercussions because of his opposing views to the government of Nicolás Maduro. His story is a testament to the internal tensions and challenges members of the Bolivarian Technical Military Academy (BTMA) might face when dissenting from the government administration. During his service, León Sevilla attended numerous ideological meetings, where he regularly expressed his disagreement with the guidelines and opinions presented. Moreover, he spoke out against acts of corruption he had perceived. These actions put him on the radar of high-ranking military officials.
It was the ATMB's brigadier general, Pablo Beltrán Pérez Villamizar, who made the decision to detain León Sevilla. Under his custody, the lieutenant faced restrictions that denied him contact with his family and limited his freedom of movement.
In a surprising turn of events, his release was facilitated by a BTMA colleague responsible for the psychological evaluation of the military. This colleague issued a diagnosis stating that León Sevilla had mental health issues, which gave him an opportunity to visit his family. It was during this time that he made the decision to flee Venezuela.
Despite the gravity of his situation, the lieutenant made the decisive action to leave his homeland without his family, fearing potential retaliation and the well-known tortures he might endure if arrested again. From his position abroad, León Sevilla has urged Juan Guaidó to adopt stronger measures and to unify efforts with other exiled military personnel in Colombia.

References

External links
 Official webpage

Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela


title: Results of the 1979 South Australian state election (House of Assembly)

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This is a list of House of Assembly results for the 1979 South Australian state election.

Results by electoral district

Adelaide

Albert Park

Alexandra

Ascot Park

Baudin

Bragg

Brighton

Chaffey

Coles

Davenport

Elizabeth

Eyre

Fisher

Flinders

Florey

Gilles

Glenelg

Goyder

Hanson

Hartley

Henley Beach

Kavel

Light

Mallee

Mawson

Mitcham

Mitchell

Morphett

Mount Gambier

Murray

Napier

Newland

Norwood

One of the seats lost to the Liberals had been Don Dunstan's old seat of Norwood. However, in 1980, a court overturned Liberal Frank Webster's victory, triggering a by-election. Greg Crafter regained the seat for Labor, reducing the Liberal government to 24 seats, a one-seat majority.

Peake

Playford

Price

Rocky River

Ross Smith

Salisbury

Semaphore

Spence

Stuart

Todd

Torrens

Unley

Victoria

Whyalla

See also
 Candidates of the 1979 South Australian state election
 Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1979–1982

References

1979
1979 elections in Australia
1970s in South Australia


title: Now hear this (nautical command)

text:
"Now hear this" is a phrase used, particularly in the United States Navy, to instruct personnel to give "attention to an order or command about to follow".

The phrase was also heard in nautical use in the Star Trek science fiction series. The phrase was used on USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and on USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) in the Star Trek:The Next Generation episodes "Encounter at Farpoint" and "Yesterday's Enterprise"and on Starfleet Academy in the video-game Star Trek Online.

This phrase was also used in the Star Wars: Battlefront II video game, for announcements on board Galactic Empire starships.

External links
 "NOW HEAR THIS: NAVY ABANDONS ALL CAPS. Official Communications, Long Written Large, Can Use Mixed Case; No Shouting" Julian E. Barnes The Wall Street Journal, Updated June 13, 2013
 "Now Hear This: Navy Won't Invade Duluth" Associated Press The New York Times, June 8, 1989

References

Nautical terminology
Star Trek sayings


title: Lonely Teenager (song)

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"Lonely Teenager" is a song written by Alfred DiPaola, Silvio Faraci, and Salvatore Pippa and performed by Dion.  It is Dion's first solo single.  The song reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 47 in the UK in 1960.  It was featured on his 1961 album, Alone with Dion.

The song was arranged by Bob Mersey.

References

1960 songs
1960 singles
Dion DiMucci songs
Laurie Records singles


title: Helnæs

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Helnæs is an island on the southwestern coast of Funen, Denmark, southwest of Haarby and northwest of Faaborg. It belongs administratively to Assens Municipality and is connected to the town of Assens by road to the north.

Geography
Between Helnæs and the main island of Funen is Helnæs Bay, which contains the sprawling islands of Illumø, Horsehoved and Vigø to the southeast. The principal settlement of Helnæs lies on the southeast coast, and contains the camping site Helnæs Camping to the north of it, although the historical village of Helnæs By is further to the north, inland. The highest point of the island is Galgebakke, at .

Landmarks
There is a runestone on the island, known as the Helnæs Runestone. The  high Helnæs Lighthouse was completed in 1901.

References

Islands of Denmark
Geography of Assens Municipality


title: Democratic Union (Czech Republic)

text:
Democratic Union (abbreviated DEU) was a liberal political party in the Czech Republic. It existed since 1994 and was dissolved in 2001 when it merged with
Freedom Union.

History
The party first participated in 1996 legislative election but failed to reach 5% threshold. The party later joined Four-Coalition.

DEU merged with Freedom Union in 2000, and Freedom Union changed its name to Freedom Union – Democratic Union. Members of DEU founded a relatively independent platform, whose members later tried, unsuccessfully, to take over the leadership. Platform then left the party and established Democratic Union of the Czech Republic (DEU ČR).

Election results

Chamber of deputies of the Czech Republic

References

1994 establishments in the Czech Republic
2001 disestablishments in the Czech Republic
Defunct political parties in the Czech Republic

Liberal conservative parties in the Czech Republic
Liberal parties in the Czech Republic
Political parties disestablished in 2001
Political parties established in 1994
Right-wing parties in the Czech Republic


title: Susanne Erichsen

text:
Susanne Erichsen (born Susanne Firle; 30 December 1925, in Berlin-Steglitz – 13 January 2002, in Berlin) was a German beauty queen, model and entrepreneur.

Labor camp
On 15 June 1945 she married the Norwegian Sven Erichsen. Nineteen at the time, she and her new husband were deported, separated, and sent to Soviet forced labor camps. After five months, her husband was returned to Norway, and she never saw him again. Conscripted to rebuild Stalinogorsk, she did two years of hard labor, including slave labour in a coal mine in Siberia. She was not sent home to Berlin until 1947, when, due to starvation and abuse, she was too sick to be of further use.

Fashion and modelling career
Back in Germany, she was discovered by a female fashion journalist and worked in the following years as a model and photo model. While vacationing on the island of Sylt in the early summer of 1950 she took part in Miss Schleswig-Holstein beauty contest, and won.

On 2 September 1950 she was crowned Miss Germany at the Kurhaus of Baden-Baden. Berlin fashion designers such as Heinz Oestergard and Gehringer & GLUPP participated. The award ceremony was almost a scandal; five of the seven judges protested because the fact Erichsen had been married once before violated the rules. However, because Erichsen's marriage had been officially annulled after a few months, she went on to win. Five days later, on September 9, she participated in the Miss Europe pageant at Rimini.

In 1952, she traveled as an "Ambassador of German Fashion" in the United States. Life magazine devoted a three-page article to Erichsen. At the New York agency Frances Gill models of her caliber received nearly 100 dollars an hour (then 420 dollars), more than half as much as German industrial workers in a month.

After her stay in the USA, Erichsen started to design her own fashions. She founded the Susanne Erichsen GmbH teen models, with a retail space on the Kurfürstendamm and production facilities in Berlin-Tempelhof. She is credited with having introduced the concept of the 'teenager' into the German vernacular.

In 1967, she founded in Berlin a mannequin and model school, which she headed for many years.

Death
In early 2002 Erichsen died of the effects of a stroke. Her autobiography was completed by a co-author and editor, Dorothée Hansen.

References

1925 births
2002 deaths
German female models
Models from Berlin
German women fashion designers
German beauty pageant winners
People from Steglitz-Zehlendorf


title: James Oldham

text:
James Oldham (23 June 1801 – 10 June 1890) was a British civil engineer, involved in the reclamation of Sunk Island in the East Riding of Yorkshire, as well as a number of dock and other civil engineering schemes in and around Kingston upon Hull.

Biography

James Oldham was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, on 23 June 1801. At the age of 14, he went to sea, spending time on ships in the Baltic; however, the life of a seaman prove too much for him and he later returned to England, and joined his father, a millwright, as apprentice, learning mechanical engineering.

One of Oldham's first contracts for was for the upgrade of the North Bridge on the River Hull in 1832, for the Hull Corporation, on which he acted as superintending engineer.

In 1835, he prepared a plan for the conversion of the Old Harbour, Hull, in 1835, a design for a West Dock for Thomas Thompson, published in 1836; and a plan for a dock in the east of Hull for the Queen's Dock Company in 1838. He also was engineer for a number of proposed railways : the Hull and Gainsborough (New Holland to Gainsborough) of 1844, the 1845 Hull and Barnsley Junction scheme, the 1866 Hull and West Yorkshire and Lancashire, and the 1884 Hull and Lincoln railway. He also was an engineer on the Hull and Leeds (1835) (Hull to Selby), and Hull and Hornsea Railways.

In 1850, he was employed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to reclaim the land a Sunk Island on the north bank of the Humber Estuary, and undertook surveys for reclamation of a larger area to the east of . In 1874, he entered into partnership with George Bohn; the firm acted under James Abernethy during the construction of the Alexandra Dock of the Hull and Barnsley Railway in the 1880s.

Oldhan was a founder of the Hull Mechanic's Institute, and a regular and reliable witness to Committees of the Houses of Parliament.

He died on 10 June 1890, of congestion of the lungs.

Published works

References

Sources

1801 births
1890 deaths
English civil engineers
Engineers from Kingston upon Hull
Institution of Civil Engineers


title: Peter Gavin (Australian politician)

text:
Peter Murray Gavin (born 27 February 1949) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Melbourne to James Murray Gavin and Amy Gullock, both public servants. He attended Catholic schools in Melbourne before studying at La Trobe University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration. He joined the Labor Party in 1967, and in that capacity was involved in student politics on La Trobe University's Student Representative Council. He worked for the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service from 1971, and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations from 1973. From 1973 to 1974 he was secretary of the Pascoe Vale-West Coburg branch of the Labor Party, and from 1975 to 1978 was founding secretary of the North Coburg-Merlynston branch, becoming its president in 1979. In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Coburg. For the 1992 election, Gavin was forced to move to contest the seat of Tullamarine after Tom Roper, whose seat had been abolished, laid claim to Coburg, which was initially called Brunswick when the new electoral boundaries were released on 19 November 1990 and the Labor Party preselection nominations had to be submitted by the end of February 1991. The seat of Brunswick was renamed Coburg in late March 1991. Gavin was defeated in the election held on 3 October 1992.

References

1949 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Politicians from Melbourne
La Trobe University alumni


title: Military Academy of Health Sciences

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The Military Academy of Health Sciences (in Spanish Academia Militar de Medicina (AMMED)), is an academy to train medical sciences to the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela (FANB).

Mission
The mission of the Military Academy of Health Sciences is:

Be a top-level military academy composed of the professional and military field, health oriented training for medics, military surgeons and nurses, military excellence through scientific, humanist principals of medical education, military doctrine and efficient performance for all levels of FANB medical care; with emphasis on active participation in the development of a culture of health and comprehensive prevention.

References

Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela


title: Automatic Lover (Call for Love)

text:
"Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" is a song by German Eurodance/pop music project Real McCoy (also known as M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy), released in 1994 as the second single from their album Another Night (1995), which is the US version of the project's second album, Space Invaders. The song was produced by music producers Juergen Wind (aka J. Wind) and Frank Hassas (aka Quickmix) under the producer team name Freshline, and borrows the melody from Bronski Beat's 1984 song, "Smalltown Boy". It was a top-20 hit in a number of countries, including Australia, Denmark, Germany and Sweden.

Critical reception
Bradley Torreano from AllMusic felt the song "was more club-friendly and found its audience among the young dance crowds before moving to radio." Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Look for this Euro-NRG trio to once again steamroll toward the upper regions of the Hot 100 with this catchy dance/pop ditty. The formula is solidly in place: Throaty Romeo-style male rapping is balanced by charming female vamping during the chorus and underscored with frenetic, butt-shaking beats. The hook is as sticky as they come. A no-brainer hit."

Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report commented, "Tally up the spins that O-Jay, Patsy and Vanessa have logged in the States since the release of "Another Night" and it's nothing short of staggering. That figure is certain to grow thanks to this high-energy production." Another editor, Annette M. Lai, felt it has "hit potential". Howard Cohen from Herald-Journal described the track as "club-ready". Daisy and Havoc from Music Weeks RM Dance Update declared it as a "amusing piece of pop". Another editor, James Hamilton, called it a "archetypal gruffy muttered and sweetly cooed Euro romp". A reviewer from People Magazine felt that songs like this "pack so many beats into 4 minutes that just listening to them is thoroughly exhausting."

Chart performance
"Automatic Lover" reached number two in Finland and the top 20 in Australia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number 58 during its first week at the UK Singles Chart, on 5 November 1995. On the UK Dance Chart, it peaked at number 20. The song also reached number nine on Canada's RPM Dance chart. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it reached number 44 in March 1994.

Music video
There were made two different music videos for "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)". The European version was directed by Angel in 1994.

Track listings
 CD single (Hansa – 74321 18487 2) "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Radio Mix) – 3:47
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Extended 12" Mix) – 5:30
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Trans Euro Mix) – 5:27
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Automatic Trance Mix) – 5:47

 The Remixes (Hansa – 74321 20460 2) "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Airplay Remix) – 3:58
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Maximum Mix) – 4:53
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (B & B Mix) – 5:48
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Party Rave Mix) – 5:34
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Garage Mix) – 5:40
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Call For Hardcore Mix) – 5:34

 Dutch maxi single (Hansa – 74321 32574 1)'
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Lenny's House Mix Edit) – 7:56
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Trans Euro Mix) – 5:27
 "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" (Armand's NYC-Miami Mix) – 9:37

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

1993 songs
1994 singles
Bertelsmann Music Group singles
Logic Records singles
Music videos directed by Angel (director)
Real McCoy (band) songs
Songs written by Jürgen Wind


Gelatinase biosynthesis-activating pheromone abbreviated as GBAP is a cyclic peptide produced by pathogenic bacteria such as Enterococcus faecalis. GAP is part of the quorum sensing system of certain bacteria where it positively regulates the expression of gelatinase and serine proteases that are under the control of the gelE-sprE operon.

GBAP is an 11-amino-acid-residue cyclic peptide containing a lactone linkage between the C-terminal carboxylic acid group and a serine side chain hydroxyl group.

References

Pheromones


title: Rob Jolly

text:
Robert Allen Jolly (born 27 January 1945) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Box Hill to Athol Percival Jolly, a store manager, and Marjorie Melba. He attended local state schools and then Monash University, from which he received a Bachelor of Economics (Honours), a Diploma of Education and a Master of Economics. He joined the Labor Party in 1966. From 1968 to 1970 he was a senior teaching fellow at Monash University's economics department, and in 1971 was employed as a senior research officer with the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service's social policy section. He lectured in economics at Swinburne Institute of Technology in 1972, after which he worked as a research officer and industrial advocate for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Dandenong, moving to Doveton in 1985. From 1982 to 1990 he was Treasurer of Victoria. In 1992 he moved to contest the seat of Berwick, but he was defeated.

References

1945 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Treasurers of Victoria
Monash University alumni
Academic staff of Monash University
People from Box Hill, Victoria
Politicians from Melbourne


title: GBAP

text:
Gbap is a town in Sierra Leone.

GBAP may refer to:

Gelatinase biosynthesis-activating pheromone, a bacterial peptide
Glucosidase, beta; acid, pseudogene, a human (pseudo)gene


title: Military Academy Commander in Chief Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías

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The Military Academy of Troop Officers Commander in Chief Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (in Spanish Academia Militar de Oficiales de Tropa Comandante en Jefe Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías), is a military academy to train officers of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela within basic command echelons. It is also one of the two youngest component academies of the Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela, opened on June 1, 2012. Unlike the rest of the academies, the TOMC is a joint service academy, only serving experienced corporals and junior ranked NCOs with a potential to become officers of the Armed Forces. Also, up until 2019 it had a three year study term instead of the four of the other academies.

History

The youngest service academy in northern Latin America was established by the late President Hugo Chávez, in his duty as Commander in Chief of the National Armed Forces, thru Ministry Decree 022797 of the Ministry of Defense in June 2012 as a training institution for the commissioning of officers from the ranks of the rising number of experienced non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. In 2019, the College was granted his honorific in memory of its founder.

In 2013, what was then the Troop Officers' School became the Troop Officers Academy, which moved from Fort Tiuna to its current facilities in Santa Teresa del Tuy, Miranda, which were built to house its growing student population.

Mission statement
The mission of the Troop Officers Military College is:

To educate integrally with ethical values, spiritual morals and socialists, the official future that the Venezuelan society of the 21st Century requires, through a process that is humanistic, scientific, technical and interdisciplinary to accomplish tasks inherent to the functions as a commander of basic NBAF units, security missions and comprehensive defense of the Nation.

Curriculum and academic programs
Just like so many military academies in the world, the MATO is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, four-year undergraduate program that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with no graduate program, preparing men and women who are by the time of their admission already serving as section and squad leaders in the enlisted ranks to take on the challenge of being commissioned officers at the troop (squad/detail, platoon/flight, company/troop/squadron or battalion/squadron/group) level in the NBAF. The academy is accredited by the ministry of higher education.

The academic program consists of a structured core of subjects depending on the cadet's chosen specialty as a future troop officer, balanced between the arts and sciences, plus additional emphasis in the service branch he/she will enter upon commissioning. Regardless of major, all cadets graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.

References

Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela


title: 2014–15 Hapoel Nazareth Illit F.C. season

text:
The 2014–15 season was Hapoel Nazareth Illit's 52nd football season since its establishment, and the sixth consecutive season in Liga Leumit.

Review and events

 In early May 2014, coach Shimon Edri signed with the club for one season.
 On 13 October 2014, the match away against Hapoel Ramat Gan was abandoned due to power failure. The Israel Football Association initially awarded the match to Nazareth Illit, but, after a successful appeal by Ramat Gan, the decision was overturned and the match was ordered to be replayed.
 On 28 January 2015, with the team at the 15th position in the league, Coach Shimon Edri was fired and replaced by Ofer Talker.
 On 22 May 2015, in the last match of the season, the club had beaten Hapoel Rishon LeZion 2–1 to finish the season in the 14th place and avoid relegation. The club's place meant it had to play a relegation/promotion play-off match against Ironi Nesher from Liga Alef.

Matches

League

Regular season

Relegation group

Hapoel Nazareth Illit finished 14th and had to face a Liga Alef opponent for a promotion/relegation play-off.

Promotion/relegation play-off

Hapoel Nazareth Illit won 5–1 on aggregate and remained in Liga Leumit.

State Cup

League Cup

Hapoel Nazareth Illit finished fourth and was eliminated.

Player details
List of squad players, including number of appearances by competition

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Transfers

In:

Out:

References

External links
 2014–15 Hapoel Nazareth Illit Season at IFA

Hapoel Nof HaGalil F.C. seasons
Hapoel Nazareth Illit F.C.


title: Max McDonald

text:
Maxwell John McDonald (18 April 1927 – 28 August 2019) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Essendon, to RAAF officer Ewen McColl McDonald and Hilda Ferguson. He attended state and technical schools before becoming an electrical operations officer and electrician. He joined the Labor Party in 1952, and was three times president of the Eildon-Alexandra branch. In 1982 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Evelyn, moving to Whittlesea in 1985. His seat was abolished in 1992 and he retired.

References

1927 births
2019 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Politicians from Melbourne
People from Essendon, Victoria


title: Barry Rowe

text:
Barry John Rowe (born 15 October 1945) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Melbourne, and attended St Bernard's College in Moonee Ponds and then Monash University, where he received a Bachelor of Economics, and Hawthorn State College, where he received a Diploma of Education. He worked as a personnel officer, and joined the Labor Party in 1969, becoming president of the Moonee Ponds and Strathmore branches. He served on Essendon City Council from 1973 to 1979 and as mayor from 1976 to 1977; he also worked as an economics lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1976 to 1979. In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Essendon. He was Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs from 1989 to 1991 and Minister for Small Business from January to April 1991. In 1992, following a redistribution, he contested Gisborne, but was defeated.

References

1945 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Monash University alumni
Academic staff of RMIT University
Mayors of places in Victoria (state)
Politicians from Melbourne
Ministers for Agriculture (Victoria)
Ministers for Small Business (Victoria)


title: Surpura

text:
Surpura is a village in Jodhpur taluk of the Jodhpur district, Rajasthan, India. This village was adopted by the Legal Aid and Awareness Committee (LAAC) of National Law University, Jodhpur in the year 2016. The village has a dam named Surpura Dam. Surpura post office with the pincode 342304 serves Surpura.

References

External links
Google Map link

Villages in Jodhpur district


title: Bilal Erdoğan

text:
Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan (born 23 April 1981) is a Turkish businessman, the second-born child of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey.

Early life
Necmettin Bilal was born on 23 April 1981, the second child of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emine Erdoğan. He has an older brother, Ahmet Burak, and two younger sisters, Esra Erdoğan and Sümeyye Erdoğan. After finishing secondary school at Kartal Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi in 1999, Erdoğan moved to the United States, and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. He then earned a master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004.

Career
After graduation, he served at the World Bank as an intern for a while. He returned to Turkey in 2006 and started his business life. Erdoğan is one of the three equal shareholders of BMZ Group Denizcilik ve İnşaat Sanayi Anonym Şirketi, a marine transportation corporation. He is also on the governing board of the Turkish Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) which is exempt of paying taxes by decree of the Turkish president, Bilals father.

Personal life
Erdoğan married Reyyan Uzuner in 2003. The couple have two sons, Ömer Tayyip and Ali Tahir, and a daughter, Fatıma Serra.

In October 2015, Today's Zaman reported that Erdoğan and his family had moved to Bologna, Italy, after his father's AK Party lost its parliamentary majority in June. It is stated that he will finish his PhD at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center there, but that all he has to do is complete his thesis, which does not require his permanent presence in Bologna, but does enable him to obtain a two-year residence permit.

In February 2016 the prosecuting attorney of Bologna started a lawsuit for money laundering against him.

Corruption scandal

Erdoğan came under accusations of corruption during the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey that extended to other top members of TÜRGEV, for which he gave testimony.

References

1981 births
Living people
Bilal
Turkish people of Georgian descent
Turkish people of Arab descent
Businesspeople from Istanbul
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Children of presidents of Turkey
Children of prime ministers of Turkey
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni


title: Frank Sheehan (Australian politician)

text:
Francis Patrick Sheehan  (17 August 1937 – 5 May 2021) was an Australian politician and community advocate from Ballarat.

Sheehan was born in Ballarat to farmer Cornelius Joseph Sheehan and Kathleen Veronica O'Donohue. He attended local Catholic schools and became a motor trades instructor, with a Trained Trade Instructors Certificate and Diploma of Technical Education from Hawthorn State College. From 1964 to 1966 he was national president of Young Christian Workers; in 1967 he joined the Labor Party. In 1982 he was elected to the  Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Ballarat South. He served until 1992, when his seat was abolished and he was defeated in Ballarat East.

After losing his seat he continued working for the Overseas Service Bureau (now Australian Volunteers International). He was active in the Ballarat Diocesan Ecological Sustainability Group. Sheehan was also an outspoken advocate for victims of historical sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, founding the Moving Towards Justice support group.

In 2018 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the Ballarat community, he cited the creation of workplace laws as one of his greatest achievements.

Sheehan died in May 2021, aged 83.

References

1937 births
2021 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Politicians from Ballarat
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
University of Melbourne alumni


title: Clearwater Hearings

text:
The Clearwater Hearings were a 1982 Clearwater, Florida commission that investigated the Church of Scientology and Project Normandy.

Among the witnesses who testified were Ron DeWolf, Edward Walter, Lori Taverna, Casey Kelly, Rosie Pace, David Ray, Ernest and Adelle Hartwell, George Meister, Lavenda Van Schaick, Janie Peterson, Sharon McKee, Scott Mayer, Robert Dardino, John Clark, Paulette Cooper, and Brown McKee.

The commission uncovered a number of illegal activities committed by the church, including:

 murder of Susan Meister
 having Tonja Burden, as a minor, sign promissory notes to the church
 negligence and abuse of children
 theft of government documents
 forging of government ID cards
 giving money to its founder, L. Ron Hubbard
 harassment of reporters and alleged attackers
 harboring of fugitive Mike Meisner
 perjury in federal courts

The commission likewise found unethical activities committed by the church, including:

 lying about the ends and benefits of auditing
 fabrication of L. Ron Hubbard's life
 forging of evidence for Hubbard's life
 unsanitary living conditions for Scientologists
 abortions by beating women in the stomach
 using a front to buy Fort Harrison
 false witness against alleged attackers
 "widespread, intercontinental espionage"
 justifying all the aforementioned as religion

Finally, the commission found the following about L. Ron Hubbard:
 had suicidal thoughts after leaving the Navy
 continuously wrote to the FBI about alleged Communist plots against him
 refused to get help for his mental illness
 wrote to a magazine posing as a woman
 married three times, and one time practiced polygamy
 abused and performed pseudoscientific experiments on Sara Hubbard
 performed abortions by beating women in their stomachs
 surrounded himself with very young girls who did his every whim
 founded Scientology to make money for himself
 made extravagant purchases and lacked personal management
 was obsessed with blood while making movies

References

Scientology and law


title: Jim Simmonds

text:
James Lionel Simmonds (9 October 1926 – 3 March 2007) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Melbourne to salesman Lionel William Simmonds and Myrtle Evelyn. He attended local state schools and became a toolmaker, with education from Melbourne Technical College. He was also involved in the union movement as a shop steward and branch secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. A member of the Labor Party, he was secretary of the Heidelberg West branch and campaign director for the federal seat of Scullin. In 1969 he was elected in a by-election to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Reservoir. He was Labor spokesman on labour and industry from 1970 to 1982 and on consumer affairs from 1973 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1982. From 1982 to 1985 he was Minister for Employment and Training, moving to Local Government in 1985. He stepped down from the front bench in 1988 and retired from politics in 1992.

References

1926 births
2007 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Politicians from Melbourne
RMIT University alumni
20th-century Australian politicians
Ministers for Employment (Victoria)


title: Anime Midwest

text:
Anime Midwest is an annual three-day anime convention held during July at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare and Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The convention is held in the same location as Anime Central.

Programming
The convention typically offers anime screenings, artist room, concerts, cosplay masquerade contest, date auction, dealers room, fan panels, formal dance, guest autographs, karaoke, Maid Cafe, rave dances, tabletop gaming, video game tournaments, and workshops. The convention hosts a free ConSweet with free ramen noodles, rice, oatmeal, and soda for attendees.

History
Anime Midwest moved to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois, for 2013. The convention in 2015 had long registration line waits. Guests Deadlift Lolita, FEMM, Fuki, and Zwei could not attend Anime Midwest in 2019 due to visa issues. Anime Midwest 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the convention required masks, and had a reduced ConSweet due to the convention having a short amount of organization time.

Event history

Collaborations
In 2012 Anime Midwest sponsored a cosplay prom.

Controversies
Ryan Kopf, the organizer behind Anime Midwest and several other conventions, was banned from Anime Milwaukee during the 2018 convention due to a sexual assault allegation involving the Milwaukee Police Department. Kopf was at the convention as part of Anime Midwest and denies the allegations.

Gallery

References

External links
 Anime Midwest Website
 AnimeCon.org Website

Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2011
2011 establishments in Illinois
Annual events in Illinois
Festivals in Illinois
Tourist attractions in Cook County, Illinois
Conventions in Illinois


title: Peter Spyker

text:
Peter Cornelis Spyker  (born 7 June 1942) is a Dutch-born Australian politician.

He was born in Amersfoort to baker Peter Cornelis Spyker and Cornelia, a factory worker. He emigrated with his family to Australia in 1953, and attended Bentleigh High School and Sandringham Technical School before becoming a fitter and turner. He worked for Freighter Industries from 1959 to 1974 and Dormans Pty Ltd from 1974 to 1979. He joined the Labor Party in 1963 and was secretary of the Cheltenham branch from 1969 to 1979. He was also an office holder with the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Heatherton, switching to Mentone in 1985. From May to December 1982 he was Minister for Immigration, before holding the portfolios of Consumer Affairs (1982–87), Ethnic Affairs (1982–88), Property and Services (1987–88), Community Services (1988–90) and Transport (1990–92). His seat was abolished in 1992 and he contested Mordialloc, but he was defeated.

Spyker was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2006 Australia Day Honours for "service to the Victorian Parliament, particularly as a contributor to the development of multicultural affairs policies and as an advocate for consumer rights, health and welfare services, and migrant communities".

References

1942 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Dutch emigrants to Australia
People from Amersfoort
Members of the Order of Australia
Ministers for Consumer Affairs (Victoria)


title: Nirmalananda Swamiji

text:
Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri Dr. Nirmalanandanatha Mahaswamiji, the 72nd Pontiff of Sri Adichunchanagiri Mahasamsthana Math, Mandya District, Karnataka, the Chancellor of Adichunchanagiri University (Established under Karnataka Act No. 18 of 2013) and the President of Sri Adichunchanagiri Shikshana Trust (R.) that runs more than 500 institutions. He is an ordained disciple of Jagadguru Padmabhushan recipient Sri Sri Sri Dr. Balagangadharanatha Mahaswamiji. Sri Mahaswamiji was initiated into the holy lineage of ‘Sanyasa’ in the year 1998.

Sri Mahaswamiji is mastered in both modern scientific and technological knowledge and ancient wisdom. Under the guidance of Sri Guruji, he has established and served institutions ranging from Nursery to Graduation and Research Centers in the rural parts of Karnataka and beyond. The Trust is catering to the educational needs of more than 1,30,000 students through its 475 institutions including 50 of them in higher learning institutions.Around 5,000 students are being provided free education with boarding and lodging facilities.

As a part of the research culture, Sri Mahaswamiji believes in inculcating it among the students and faculty members of all Institutions of Higher Learning for which special grants are allotted for initiating research work and publication of research papers. One of the institutions, Cancer Research Institute started in 1995, attached to the Medical College (AIMS) at BG Nagara, has been planned to be upgraded to an international level – Translational Research Center, focusing on cancer related issues, diabetics, cardiology and various contagious diseases. Annually, Sri Math organizes free Medical Camps, Blood Donation Camps, Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate Camps in collaboration with Rotaplast USA.

Sri Mahaswamiji believes in living in harmony with the environment and under this category, Vanasamvardhana Programme is in place, through which five-crore saplings were planted in different parts of the State and are being maintained also. Sri Math, in addition to supply of saplings to the public, provides tree guards and tractors for watering the plants. Sri Math maintains Goshalas, purifies local pond water in villages and engages in desilting tanks, so as to improve the community ground water table. Towards relief for victims of natural calamities, Sri Math has given a lot of support in terms of supplying food articles, clothes & dress materials, besides constructing about 5,000 houses for the families of affected people in North Karnataka and Tamil Nadu during Tsunami & devastating floods.

A temple complex built by Sri Math, at a cost of about 100 crores of rupees, is the abode of Lord Kalabhyraveshwara Swamy at Sri Kshetra Adichunchanagiri was inaugurated in 2006 which is attracting lakhs of devotees from different parts of State and the country. Sri Math has established Shakha Maths’ not only in the 15 Districts of Karnataka State, but also at Varanasi & Naimisharanya (Uttar Pradesh), Chitrakoot & Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), Rameshwaram (Tamil Nadu), New Delhi and New Jersey (USA). Arrangements have been made for regular poojas, satsangs, festivals and spiritual discourses at all these places.

Sri Mahaswamiji is a Patron for Kumbh Mela programme held annually at T. Narasipur, Mysuru District. Also, he is the Convenor of Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha (HDAS) and Foundation for Unity of Religions and Enlightened Citizenship (FUREC). He has been constantly delivering discourses on Science, Religion and Spirituality in various Conferences both in India and abroad. He has visited many reputed Universities on invitation and delivered discourses to the Indian community at Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Penn State and in India, at IIT-Kharagpur, BHU-Varanasi, IISc-Bengaluru and other institutions / centers alike.

As a part of annual celebrations, Sri Math organizes programmes like Janapada Mela, Youth Festival, Jana / Mahila Jagruthi Programmes, Priesthood Training for all communities, Mass Marriage Ceremony, Sarva Dharma Sammelana and Jnana Vijnana Tantrajnana Mela (JVTM). In JVTM, Sri Math has introduced the concept of awarding “Vijnatham Award” for renowned Scientists, Technologists and Spiritual Leaders who have made substantial contribution at National / International arena.

By considering the yeoman services to society, University of Mysore conferred the Honorary Doctorate of D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) on April 30, 2016, at Sri Kshetra Adichunchanagiri.

References

1969 births
Living people
Indian Hindu monks
21st-century Hindu religious leaders
Religious leadership roles
Indian Hindus


title: Bunna Walsh

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Ronald William "Bunna" Walsh (20 June 1933 - 30 March 2022) was a former Australian politician.

He was born in Port Melbourne to labourer William John Joseph Walsh and Amy Lydia. He attended state schools and became a waterside worker in 1954. Having joined the Labor Party in 1960, he was an official with the Waterside Workers Federation from 1964 to 1979 and also served as president of the ALP's South Melbourne branch. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne West, but his election was declared void later that year because of an old criminal conviction in the Children's Court.

Walsh was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1979 as the member for Albert Park. He was government whip from 1982 to 1985 and then moved to the frontbench, holding the portfolios of Public Works (1985–87), Housing and Construction (1987–88), Property and Services (1988–90) and Water Resources (1988–90). In 1992 he attempted to return to the Legislative Council by contesting the seat of Monash, but he was defeated.

References

1933 births
2022 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Ministers for Public Works (Victoria)
Ministers for Water (Victoria)


title: Liis Windischmann

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Liis Windischmann is a Canadian plus-size model based in Toronto, Ontario.

Early years
Windischmann first modeled at the age of 16. She was told to lose weight, which she decided against. Four years later she was spotted by a talent scout in a mall and began to work as a plus-size model.

Career
Windischmann has worked with brands including Addition Elle, Reitman's and Laura. In 2006, she hosted a half-hour TV show for Canadian Learning Television on modelling. In 2007 she created the Fenomenal Calendar of plus size women and she created the Walk the Catwalk event where she encouraged the use of more sample sizes. She was the director of Ben Barry Agency.  She is also the Fashion Insider for LouLou Magazine's 14+.

In 2011, Windischmann was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. As a result of her illness, she lost nearly 50 pounds.

References

Female models from Ontario
People from Toronto
Plus-size models
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: CBSM

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CBSM as an abbreviation or initialism may stand for:

CBSM-FM, a radio station
Central Bank of San Marino
Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the ASA, a sociological organization
 Community-based social marketing, which fosters ecologically sustainable behavior; see section on applications


title: Afrikaans Protestant Church

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The Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk (APK; Afrikaans Protestant Church), also known as AP Kerk, is a South African conservative Reformed Church federation with about 35,000 adherents. The federation consists of 210-240 congregations, mostly in South Africa, although the APK also includes 7 congregations in Namibia and one in London, England.

Formation
In 1982 the World Alliance of Reformed Churches' General Council declared apartheid to be a sin and its theological justification a heresy, in the process expelling from its membership the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK), the major branch of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa and the traditional mother church of South Africa's Afrikaner population. The shock of this isolation from other branches of the Reformed Churches worldwide led to the adoption in 1986 of the Belhar Confession by some branches of the DRC; the NGK, while stopping short of adopting the Belhar Confession, retracted its 1976 defence of apartheid as a biblical imperative, instead releasing a "more nuanced" document called Church and Society that provided "qualified support for separate development."

However, the document "reflected the new majority consensus within the NGK which rejected the older, Kuyperian theology" and thus outraged the more conservative clergy within the NGK: as a "direct result" the Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk was founded in Pretoria on Saturday, 27 June 1987 by 3000 dissidents, together with conservative elements from other branches of the DRC in South Africa.

Members of the APK also cited the influence of Arminian and liberal theology in the NGK as a reason to split off. The new church opposed the use of the 1983 Afrikaans Bible translation during worship services, preferring to use older translations. The APK opposed reforms it considered as modernist and sought to preserve traditional Calvinism.

Growth
In 1988 the APK set up a seminary so its pastors could be trained independently, the Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie, which is based in Pretoria.

In 1990 Church and Society was revised by the NGK to indicate that "any attempt by a church to try to defend a system of separation, biblically and ethically must be seen as a serious errancy; that is to say, it is in conflict with the Bible." From the APK's point of view that was not acceptable; it continued its support of apartheid.  The decision of the NGK widened the schism and led to an increase in conservative NGK congregations that joined the APK.

Theology
The Church holds to the Bible as the infallible Word of God and the sole authority in all matters of faith. Like most offshoots of the DRC, the APK focuses its theology around the Three Forms of Unity and is Calvinist in doctrine. It believes the biblical faith to be accurately summarised in the ecumenical confessions (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed), the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dordt.

The church also holds to the traditional, pre-1986 views of the DRC in that it believes that the Bible not only condones, but actively prescribes, racial segregation.  Its foundation in 1987 was precisely to uphold the traditional, racist theology of the DRC.  It thus does not consider the 1986 Belhar Confession as a creed of the church.  This belief is traditionally justified on their interpretation of God's commandment to the Israelites in the Old Testament to separate themselves from the heathen nations.

Motto
The church's official motto is lig in duisternis (meaning light in the darkness) from 1 John 2:9-11

and also from John 12:35–36:

Church Publications
Die Boodskapper

Basuingeklank

Redakteursforum

7-Voor-7

Lig in Duisternis Produksies

References

External links

Protestantism in South Africa
Reformed denominations in Africa
1987 establishments in South Africa
Calvinist denominations established in the 20th century
Christian organizations established in 1987


title: Bill Schultz (rugby league, born 1891)

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Bill 'Changa' Schultz (1891-1975) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. An Australia national and New South Wales state representative prop forward, he played his club football in Sydney for Balmain, with whom he won six premierships between 1915 and 1924.

Playing career
Of German and Irish descent, Schultz was a Balmain junior who also played Australian Rules football at the local Christian Brothers with another future Balmain champion, Charles ‘Chook’ Fraser. Balmain went through the 1915 NSWRFL season undefeated, and Schultz tasted his first premiership success with the club. The following year he played for Balmain at prop forward in the 1916 NSWRFL season's premiership final victory against South Sydney. He again won the premiership with Balmain in the 1917 NSWRFL season.

Chang Schultz was first selected for the Australian national team in 1919, becoming Kangaroo No. 106, and winning another premiership with Balmain that year. He appeared in all three Tests in Australia's Ashes-winning series in 1920, and was again a premiership-winner with Balmain. He was selected to go on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, playing in the second Ashes series test victory against the Lions, and in the third test loss, which cost them the title. Schultz played for Balmain at prop forward in the 1924 NSWRFL season's premiership final victory against South Sydney.

References

1891 births
1975 deaths
Australian people of German descent
Australian rugby league players
Balmain Tigers players
Australia national rugby league team players
New South Wales rugby league team players
Rugby league props
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Sydney


title: Junior Ndagano

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Ndagano Junior (born 25 October 1985) is a Rwandan-born Belgian football player who is currently out of contract.

Ndagano is a versatile left-sided forward or defender.  He began his career at youth level with K.V. Turnhout before being signed by K.R.C. Genk as a 16-year-old.  After two seasons at Genk he moved to KV Mechelen but did not managed to break into the first team.  Since then he has played for a range of European clubs, including a spell with Paris FC, his most consistent period coming with Dessel Sport in the second division.

In 2011 Ndagano Junior was selected as part of a group of European players with Rwandan heritage to make a friendly tour of Rwanda.  This led to him eventually being called up to the Rwandan National team.

References

External links
http://www.stamnummer25.be/wp-content/upLoads/wedstrijdfiches-reserven-2004-2005.pdf
http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=14845&a=48278
http://www.kootazur.com/team-koot-azur/players/
http://www.ruhagoyacu.com/spip.php?page=impression_article&id_article=3277

1985 births
Living people
People from Kigali
Rwandan men's footballers
Rwanda men's international footballers
Belgian men's footballers
K.V. Mechelen players
Paris FC players

Men's association football wingers


title: Gozo Farmhouse

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A Gozo Farmhouse is a type of dwelling in Gozo, Malta. Because of the many foreign occupations that Maltese islands have been through, the trading roads that were opened across the Mediterranean Sea and its numerous original influences, Malta and Gozo earned a very rich architectural heritage.

Architecture and history
Two examples of this flourishing architecture are to be highlighted. Both are limestone vernacular-based, as this stone is the most used across the islands.

Giren

In the 5th millennium BC, neolithic farmers from Sicily brought a hut-building tradition with Asian origins. In the years 3800 BC, this transformed into a spectacular type of architecture. As in Stonehenge, megalithic constructions were sacred. According to Anthony Bonanno, they had medical or cosmic significance for the people. It is the next evolution of those huge rocks constructions that gave the giren we can find nowadays though Malta and Gozo.

The giren (singular: girna) were little constructions made for the mere needs of farmers and herdsmen. It has a double wall made of raw stone in order to protect the owner from hot summers, and its ceiling is usually dome-shaped. Though, we can find some square, rectangular or oval-shaped roofs (see Michel Rouvière's schemes).

The most beautiful and the largest circular giren are to be found in the stretch of fields and rocky ground between the Red Tower and Cirkewwa, while the largest square ones are to be found at Ix-Xaghra Il-Hamra, in the limits of Manikata.

Cubic architecture

Just as the previous giren type of construction, the cubic Maltese buildings find their roots in the islands' history and tradition. Back between 800 BC and AD 1200, Maltese islands were clearly part of the North African block, in opposition with what is stated nowadays with the European Union (2004). The Punic culture, which was settled since the control of Carthage in 400 BC, has never been abandoned through Roman occupation (between 218 B.C. and A.D. 455 ) and found its way until the 9th century with the Aghlabid Muslims of Tunisia who will remain in Malta archipelago during three centuries. At this state, the architecture was still humble. It is the European wars that begun in the 15th century that will change the shape of the buildings according to their taste, imprinted with the Renaissance and Baroque styles.

This is under those influences the primitive razzett - or farmhouse - began to take the shape we know nowadays and make them so famous among visitors and tourists.

In Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, Ben Farmer, Dr Hentie J. Louw, Hentie Louw and Adrian Napper linked the shapes of farmhouses of Malta and Gozo with cultural habits and needs from this period:
In about 1600, the introduction of the practice of living in closed settlements for security reasons in medieval Malta led to a reinterpretation of the basic cubic farmhouse layout. Community living, as opposed to extend family living, linked with the typically medieval Mediterranean tradition of walking to one's fields in the early morning and returning to the security of the village at sunset, let to the establishment of a typical village pattern of two distinct types. The earlier type consisted of a closely knit web of winding streets and alleys radiating from a central square, echoing the introverted central courtyard of the farmhouse building; the later type, most popular on Malta's sister island of Gozo, consisted of a sprawling pattern based on open-ended streets and alleys leading into the countryside, offering less security and introversion but infinitely more visual rapport with the terraced fields around the settlement.

Industry

Originally most farmhouses are inherited by parents of Gozitan ascendency. As more than one million tourists visit Maltese islands each year, houses of character were restored and instead of selling them, owners often converted them to fit the security and comfort requirements people on vacancy have. Usually a private swimming pool is added in the yard to ease the hot summers. Nowadays several agencies give easy access for tourists to rent those typical accommodations.

The Tourism Minister Dr. Edward Zammit Lewis, in a ceremony on June the 1st of 2014, presented Eco-certificates to the first 7 farmhouses in Gozo that reached the required criteria of the scheme, which was launched in Gozo last year and is an extension of the sustainability certification scheme for hotels.

The first group of farmhouses that have been Eco-certified are located all over Gozo, the island that is known to be aiming at becoming more sustainable. Proof that this type of scheme, is another link in the chain of the vision of the Government to create an ecological island of Gozo by 2020 – 'Eco-Gozo.'

Commerce

There are three main occasions for Maltese people: summer time, carnival and new year's. That is for the two last cases some farmhouses are equipped with an indoor pool, as otherwise it would be too cold for visitors to relax in water. Summer time is easiest to manage in terms of structure.

Maltese like to go to Gozo usually as groups, spending between 3 and 5 days as an escapade from usual routine. Generally speaking, they use this context to stay out of reach from the Internet, so they can evade the hassle of e-mails on mobile. Here in the farmhouse, they can remain by the pool all days, except to go for groceries, restaurants, and clubbing in the evening.

See also
 Malta
 Gozo
 Arabic architecture

References

Gozo
Architecture in Malta
Vernacular architecture in Malta
Farmhouses in Malta


title: 2014–15 Toto Cup Leumit

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The 2014–15 Toto Cup Leumit was the 24th season of the second tier League Cup (as a separate competition) since its introduction. It was held in two stages. First, sixteen Liga Leumit teams were divided into four regionalized groups. The winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals. Quarter-finals, semi-finals and the Final were held as one-legged matches. The final was played at the Ramat Gan Stadium on 9 December 2014, which saw Hapoel Bnei Lod defeat Bnei Yehuda with a score of 2–0.

The defending cup holders were Hapoel Rishon LeZion, having won the cup on its previous edition, but they were eliminated in the group stage.

Group stage
The draw took place on 30 June 2014.

The matches are due to be played from 2 August to 16 August 2014. However the opening date was postponed because of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. and the group stage matches were played between 12 August and 19 August 2014. The first round of group stage matches was played on 12 August 2014, and the second the following Friday, 15 August 2014.

Tiebreakers
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.
 Superior goal difference
 Higher number of victories achieved
 Higher number of goals scored
 Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question
 Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question
 Higher number of victories achieved in the group matches played among the teams in question
 Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question
 A deciding match, if needed to set which team qualifies to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout rounds

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

See also
 2014–15 Toto Cup Al
 2014–15 Liga Leumit
 2014–15 Israel State Cup

References

External links
 Official website

Leumit
Toto Cup Leumit
Toto Cup Leumit


title: Little Apple (song)

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"Little Apple" () is a single by Chopstick Brothers, a duo of Wang Taili () and Xiao Yang (), released as a promotional song for the movie Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon. Since its release, it has quickly attained great popularity in Chinese cyberspace, making it a widespread internet meme and a global hit, with parodies, flash mobs and covers from around the world.

Lyrics
The music and lyrics are written as two stanzas of ten verses each, with each stanza followed by an 8-verse refrain which repeats. The simple and intentionally sentimental lyrics for the first stanza translates as:

I planted a seed that finally bore fruit/ Today is a great day
I give the stars to you, I give the moon to you/ Raise the sun everyday for you
I'll turn into a candle and let myself burn/ Just to shine a light on you
I'll give everything I have to you/ As long as you're happy
You give me new meaning everyday/ Though life is short, I'll love you forever, never abandoning you.

The refrain which repeats after each of the two stanzas is translated as:

You are my little apple/ I can never love you too much
Your red face warms my heart/ Lighting the fire, fire, fire, fire, fire in my life
You are my little apple/ Like the most beautiful cloud in the sky
Spring arrives again, and flowers bloom all over the mountainside/ I reap the hopes that I sowed.

Music video

The music video of the song on Youku shows scenes of a square dance, interwoven with several short stories about love and romance resultant of a male partner's disapproval of his girlfriend's appearance, resulting in a failed attempt at plastic surgery. It contains elements from 1950s Korea and the legends of Adam and Eve and uses Chinglish in an expressive manner to portray the underlying tension of appearance. The square dance in the music video has also gained popularity in the public. Bae Seul-ki also starred in the video.

A video of the Korean-language cover of "Little Apple" by K-pop girl group T-ara, featuring Chopstick Brothers, exists.

Reception
The song became famous shortly after its release on 29 May 2014. Since release, its music video has been adapted into various parodies by the public. However, some critics have criticized the song for its low artistic value.

Chart performance
This song has also attained high positions in main online charts in China. It peaked at number one in the CCTV Global Chinese Music Chart () released every Saturday.

This song, referred to by one commentator as a "brainwashing song", also brings up the psychological factors that contribute to its success—its simple rhythm and lyrics cause the "earworm effect", forcing people to listen to it over and over again, and another reason that lied underneath is the "snowball effect", which means that people tend to follow others in a trend, suggesting that some people may not actually like the song, but just blindly following others.

Covers

Army recruitment video
China's Ministry of National Defense released a video with the song on 27 July 2014, as a part of their recruitment campaign for the Army. The video features footage of soldiers dancing the square dance in the original music video, plus some scenes from the Army's training sessions and some words of encouragement.

T-ara version
South Korean girl band T-ara released a Korean/Chinese cover of "Little Apple", featuring Chopstick Brothers, on 24 November 2014. The song was produced by Shinsadong Tiger and was released as a digital single by MBK Entertainment and distributed by KT Music. Chopstick Brothers were also featured in T-ara's music video.

This is the first time that a K-pop artist has released a cover version of a C-pop song.

Other versions
Strawberry, May Ng and Stella Chen of RED People, otherwise known as Amoi-Amoi, released a cover version of the song, including various Malaysian fruits. The video includes scenes of Chopstick Brothers' original music video as well as T-ara's music video.
Norwegian Power Metal artist PelleK uploaded a cover of this song on his YouTube channel Pellekofficial on January 14, 2015, in a metal style and has been both complimented and criticized for his pronunciation of Chinese words.

Awards
American Music Awards of 2014: International Song Award
Mnet Asian Music Awards 2014: Favorite Music in China

When "Little Apple" won the International Song Award at the November 2014 AMA's, the Chopstick Brothers along with 2 others actually gave a live lip-synched performance of it. However, American viewers didn't see it because it was done during a commercial break.

In video games
In 2015, Ubisoft from China have manufactured the music video game named 舞力全开2015 (Chinese version of Just Dance 2015), which the song appeared in video games has officially landed on Xbox One at the national profession version. The national profession version have added 5 Chinese songs for players in mainland China are: Little Apple (小苹果) by Chopstick Brothers, Dancing Diva (舞娘) by Jolin Tsai, We Under The Sunshine (阳光下的我们) by Wanting Qu, High Light High Life (娱乐天空) by Eason Chan, and Let It Go (随他吧) by Hu Wei Na. The national profession version have also released for the PlayStation 4, however, the video games manufactory have removed away 1 song track.

References

Chinese songs
2014 songs
T-ara songs
2014 singles
Korean-language songs
Internet memes introduced in 2014


title: Yujiro Hayami

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was a Japanese agricultural economist, widely considered to be an authority on the subject. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Iowa University, a winner of Purple Ribbon Medal and a Lifetime member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He is credited with the development Hayami Development Economics, an agricultural philosophy on the relationship of a community to the market and the state. He died on 24 December 2012.

Biography
Professor Yujiro Hayami was born on 26 November 1932 in Tokyo, Japan. His college education was at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, from where he graduated in 1956. He continued his education as a research associate at the National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ngoyo, Japan, but a year later, moved to the Department of Economics and Sociology, University of Iowa from where he obtained his PhD in 1960.

Career
Professor Hayami started his career in 1966, as an Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics at Tokyo Metropolitan University where he worked till 1986. In between, he was also a visiting associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1970 and Agricultural Economist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines from 1974 to 1976. In 1986, he joined the School of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo where he worked as the professor of Economics till 2000 when he was made the Director of the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) till his death on 24 December 2012. Professor Hayami was also a visiting T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs Chair, Cornell University from 1995 to 1996.

The major achievements credited to Yujiro Hayami are:
 A research conducted at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, that led to the Green Revolution on high yielding varieties of rice.
 Development of a new stream of academics called Hayami Development Economics which focusses on the relationship between the community, market and the state.

He is also credited with redefining the discipline of agricultural economics with special emphasis on economic development of the developing countries, focusing on the issues related to income distribution and the environmental problems faced by the developed countries.

Awards and recognitions
 Fukuoka Academic Prize – 2001
 Purple Ribbon Medal – 1999
 Honorary Lifetime Member from the International Association of Agricultural Economists – 1997
 Nikkei Prize for excellent books in Economic Science – 1996
 Honorary Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association – 1991
 NIRA Tohata Memorial award for policy studies, the National Institute for Research Advancement- 1987
 Nikkei Prize for excellent books in Economic Science – 1973
 Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Iowa

Books and publications

He has also written many articles and working papers, counting more than 70, which are in circulation worldwide.

References

External links
 Yujiro Hayami on Good Reads
 Yujiro Hayami on Amazon
 Yujiro Hayami on Economic and Political Weekly
 Extract on Oxford Journals
 Yujiro Hayami on Barnes & Noble
 on French Wikipedia
 on Research Gate

Agricultural economists
Japanese economists
University of Tokyo alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Academic staff of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
1932 births
2012 deaths


title: Yeni Mosque, Mytilene

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The Yeni Mosque (, from , "New Mosque") is a historical Ottoman mosque in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in Greece.

Location
The mosque is on Ermou street in Epano Skala, the old Turkish neighborhood of Mytilene, at the center of the old Turkish market. Epano Skala is located to the north of the modern city center and west of the old harbor.

History and architecture
Lesbos () was under Ottoman rule between 1462-1912 and had a considerable Muslim population. The mosque was commissioned by the local governor (nazır), Kulaksızzade Mustafa Ağa, ca. 1825. In addition, a medrese (Muslim monastery) commissioned by Hacı Muhammed was built in the yard of the mosque, while the mufti's residence was built on the northern side of the yard. The structure is built of stone, with a brick domed roof, combining elements of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture.

After the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s, the Turkish population left the city and the mosque lost its community. Although the mosque was neglected for the remaining years, 35 volunteers, members of Aeolistas civil initiative group, cleaned the mosque in 2011. Presently, mayor Spiros Galinos promises to restore the mosque by using EU funds.

See also
 Islam in Greece
 List of mosques in Greece

References

External links

19th-century mosques
19th-century architecture in Greece
Buildings and structures completed in 1825
Buildings and structures in Mytilene
Buildings and structures of the Ottoman Empire
Former mosques in Greece
Ottoman mosques in Greece


title: River Ranch, Queensland

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River Ranch is a rural locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the  River Ranch had a population of 357 people.

Geography
The Calliope River forms part of the western boundary before flowing through to form part of the eastern.

Road infrastructure
The Bruce Highway passes through the north of the locality.

History
In the  River Ranch had a population of 313 people.

In the  River Ranch had a population of 357 people.

Attractions
The Calliope River Historical Village is located on the Old Bruce Highway (adjacent to the current Bruce Highway) where it crosses the Calliope River.

References

Gladstone Region
Localities in Queensland