title: Polesinesuchus

text:
Polesinesuchus is an extinct genus of stagonolepidid aetosaur known from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil. Fossils have been found from the Santa Maria Supersequence of the late Carnian and early Norian stages, making Polesinesuchus one of the oldest aetosaurs. It contains a single species, Polesinesuchus aurelioi, the fifth aetosaur species known from South America to date. Anatomical evidence suggests that Polesinesuchus likely represents a juvenile individual of the contemporary Aetosauroides.

Discovery
Polesinesuchus was first named by Lúcio Roberto-da-Silva, Julia B. Desojo, Sérgio F. Cabreira, Alex S. S. Aires, Rodrigo T. Müller, Cristian P. Pacheco and Sérgio Dias-da-Silva in 2014 and the type species is Polesinesuchus aurelioi. It is known solely from its holotype specimen, a partially articulated partial skeleton. It is composed of the parietal bone and the braincase as well as postcranial elements including cervical, dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, both scapulae, a humerus, the ilium, pubis, ischium and tibia, a partial right pes, and anterior and mid-dorsal paramedian osteoderms. It was collected from the Santa Maria Formation which dates back to the late Carnian and earliest Norian stages of the Late Triassic.

Description
Polesinesuchus is known from a relatively small-sized individual with an estimated length of , probably a two-year-old juvenile based on the incomplete fusion of neural arches to their centra in the whole vertebral column. Polesinesuchus can be distinguished from all other aetosaurs by a unique combination of characters not controlled by ontogeny, most of which are found in its vertebrae. Its cervical vertebrae show prezygapophyses that widely extend laterally through most of the anterior edge of the diapophyses. In Polesinesuchus, hyposphene articulations are absent in both cervical and mid-dorsal vertebrae. A ventral keel is present in the cervical vertebrae. The centra of the anterior and mid-dorsal vertebrae lack a lateral fossa. The proximal end of the scapula is greatly expanded, while the medial portion of scapular blade is expanded anteroposteriorly. Polesinesuchus possess a short humerus with a robust shaft, and a dorsoventral and very low iliac blade with a long anterior process, exceeding slightly the pubic peduncle. Yet, in 2021, it was found that many of these features fall within the range of variation present in juvenile specimens of Aetosauroides. One example is the lateral fossa, which becomes more apparent in individuals of Aetosauroides longer than ). Furthermore, a braincase of Aetosauroides had a remarkably similar structure of the basioccipital bone to Polesinesuchus. For these reasons, Polesinesuchus was suggested as a junior synonym of Aetosauroides.

Classification
A phylogenetic analysis was conducted in the first description of Polesinesuchus based on a slightly updated data matrix from previous analyses, resulting in a matrix that includes 19 aetosaurs and two outgroup taxa which are scored based on 37 morphological traits. Polesinesuchus was recovered as the sister taxon of Aetobarbakinoides, known from the same geological formation. Close relatives of this clade included Aetosauroides and Neoaetosauroides, both of which are also from South America. However, Aetosaurinae is found to be paraphyletic representing a grade of early aetosaurs that developed into desmatosuchines and typothoracisines later in the Triassic. Although this clade is placed in a relatively basal phylogenetic position among stagonolepidid aetosaurs, it is closely related to both desmatosuchines and typothoracisines, two derived clades of stagonolepidids. Below is a cladogram modified from this analysis.

See also

 Buriolestes
 Ixalerpeton

References

Aetosaurs
Late Triassic reptiles of South America
Santa Maria Formation
Fossils of Brazil
Fossil taxa described in 2014
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Taxa named by Rodrigo T. Müller


title: Eugnosta erigeronana

text:
Eugnosta erigeronana, the fleabane cochylid moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from Texas and Oklahoma, east to Florida, north to North Carolina and west to Illinois.

The wingspan is 11–13 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from February to October.

The larvae are associated with fly (Cecidomyiidae) galls on Erigeron species.

References

Moths described in 1881
Eugnosta


title: Roztoky (disambiguation)

text:
Roztoky is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

Roztoky may also refer to places:

Czech Republic
Roztoky (Rakovník District), a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region
Roztoky, a village and part of Povrly in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Roztoky, a village and part of Šestajovice (Náchod District) in the Hradec Králové Region
Roztoky u Jilemnice, a municipality and village in the Liberec Region
Roztoky u Semil, a municipality and village in the Liberec Region

Slovakia
Roztoky, Svidník District, a municipality and village in the Prešov Region


title: Eugnosta falarica

text:
Eugnosta falarica is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mongolia.

Distribution
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Trans-Baikal.

References

Moths described in 1970
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta hysterosiana

text:
Eugnosta hysterosiana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Argentina.

References

Moths described in 1967
Eugnosta


title: Kukule Ganga Dam

text:
The Kukule Ganga Dam is a  gravity dam built across the Kukule River in Kalawana, Sri Lanka. The run-of-river-type dam feeds an underground hydroelectric power station located approximately  away, via tunnel.

Dam and reservoir
The gravity dam is built across the Kukule River, which is a major mid-basin tributary of the Kalu River. The dam measures  and  in length and height respectively, with four spillways, and a sand trap on the left-bank. Each spillway gate measures  high and  wide, and uses the same automated technology as the Victoria Dam.

The dam creates the Kukule Ganga Reservoir, which has a capacity and catchment area of  and  respectively. After passing through the dam and sand traps, water from the reservoir is fed into a  long tunnel, which leads to the underground power station. The tunnel from the dam to the power station, with an internal diameter of , creates a gross head of .

Power station
Water from the tunnel is fed into the  underground power station, consisting of two  units. This capacity was intentionally limited to  due to load issues. The power station generates an average of  annually.

Two transformers step up the voltage of the power generated to , which is then transferred to the national grid at the Mathugama Substation, via a  long  double-circuit transmission line.

See also

 Electricity in Sri Lanka
 List of dams and reservoirs in Sri Lanka
 List of power stations in Sri Lanka

References

Dams completed in 2005
Dams in Sri Lanka
Hydroelectric power stations in Sri Lanka
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Buildings and structures in Sabaragamuwa Province
Gravity dams


title: Muthassi (novel)

text:
Muthassi is a historical Malayalam novel written by Cherukad, published in 1957. The novel describes the social and cultural backgrounds of Malayalis from the period from 1930 to 1950. It explains about the life of teachers, the harassments they had to face by the managers, it describes the unjust actions and orders the managers forcefully imposed on their dependent teachers. The story uses the colloquial language which was used by the people in the villages so that the novel is presented in a natural way.

The narration is made by the heroine Nani, she is a bold and a very strong character in the story. The novel is explained as Nani's point of view. Still, the title is dedicated for her grandmother. Nani's grandmother is yet another powerful character in the story. She represents a typical old generation woman, strictly holding ethics and certain orthodox conventions. But Nani struggles with her grandmother for moving on with the pace of the contemporary society, the situation symbolically illustrates the struggle made by the new generation ideas with the old generation concepts and finally the conventional concepts being replaced by the most modern ideas.

Nani is an educated woman who worked as a teacher. She worked in the teachers' union and made many developments in the field of education. However, some political issues made her jobless. She was attracted towards the socialist ideas which were spreading fast in many places of India at the time of independence. The main reason for her dismissal was her strong belief on socialist ideas and because of the support she offered for the Communist Party.  Her brother, husband and many dearer and nearer peoples worked hard for promoting socialistic ideas and were sent to jail. Gradually, her grandmother was also interested in such democratic concepts and she finally accepted that socialism is the best way to implement the righteousness and social equality of all class of people. Grandma firmly believed in communism and in a particular point of the story, she was even sent to jail. But the extraordinary boldness of the heroine made her strong enough to endure all such hardships.

See also
 Cherukad#Novel

References

External links
 http://www.chinthapublishers.com/en/index.php?page=bookDescription&bid=249

2008 novels
Malayalam novels
Novels set in Kerala
Novels by Cherukad
2008 Indian novels


title: Popular Fighters Group

text:
The Popular Fighters Group, also referred to as Group of Popular Rebels (Greek: Ομάδα Λαϊκών Αγωνιστών), is a Greek left-wing terrorist group that is anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist. Formed as a response to the Greek Government-debt crisis the group has carried out attacks primarily targeting the Government of Greece and German organizations in Greece.

Attacks

2013
January 14, 2013 - Gunmen attacked the headquarters of the governing New Democracy party in Athens. No one was injured.
December 30, 2013 - Gunmen fired on the residence of the German ambassador, Wolfgang Dold. No one was injured.

2014
January 12, 2014 - The group claimed to have fired rocket at the Greek headquarters of Mercedes-Benz in Athens. Greek investigators had not noted such an attack; however, they later discovered evidence that a rocket had indeed been fired but missed its target, instead landing in a nearby field.
April 10, 2014 - The group is believed to be responsible for a car bombing outside of the headquarters of the Bank of Greece in Athens. No one was hurt in the attack.

2017
In December 2017, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing against the Court of Appeals in Athens. The group press release stated that "Justice is like a snake. It will only bite those barefoot" as justification for the attack.

References

Left-wing militant groups in Greece
Organizations established in 2013
Terrorism in Greece
Anti-German sentiment in Europe


title: Eugnosta mexicana

text:
Eugnosta mexicana is a species of moth of the  family Tortricidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

The wingspan is 17–20 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from June to August.

References

Moths described in 1907
Eugnosta


title: Malti Devi

text:
Malti Devi (5 August 1968 – 6 September 1999) was a political and social worker and a Member of Parliament elected from the Nawada constituency in the Indian  state of Bihar on  the Rashtriya Janata Dal party ticket.

Early life
Malti Devi was born on 5 August 1968 in the Manglagori village in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. She was married to Bhubaneshwar Prasad on 4 February 1984 and has two sons. She left her school education in 1980.

Politics and activism
She led the Farmers Movement and was a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). She advocated for women, landless farmers and tribals in central and south Bihar. She left the C.P.I. (ML) in 1995. She was a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 1998 and was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998. She was also a member of Committee on Urban and Rural Development and its Sub-Committee-I on Urban Affairs and Employment and a member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Health and Family welfare.

Death
Devi died on 6 September 1999 at her Delhi residence due to cancer.

References

Lok Sabha members from Bihar
India MPs 1998–1999
Women members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
People from Nawada district
Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014
People from Gaya district
1968 births
1999 deaths
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation politicians
Rashtriya Janata Dal politicians
20th-century Indian women politicians
20th-century Indian politicians


title: GEA World

text:
GEA World S.p.A. is a consultancy company with offices in Rome, Dubai and London, operating in sports business industry. Alessandro Moggi is its president in partnership with Franco Zavaglia, Riccardo Calleri and Ivan Vecchietti. In January 2013, after several years of athlete management, Gea World S.p.A. dramatically changed direction. It does not manage players, instead offering consultations within sport systems, event organization, image management, marketing and corporate social responsibility. Within a short period of time, Gea World has earned a high importance role being a top consultant of international corporations and star football clubs. Gea World has also developed projects in co-operation with scientific associations. On January 22, 2014, at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Gea World launched Gea Tutor, a mentoring support service for athletes with the goal of helping them to transition in both their personal and professional lives as their public careers comes to a close. Since may 2022 helping the continuing of gea world alessandro moggi’s son, Luciano Lorenzo Moggi , nephew of former juventus sporting director Luciano Moggi started working in the agency as well.

References

External links

Sports management companies
Sports event promotion companies


title: André Esterhuizen

text:
Adriaan Pieter 'André' Esterhuizen (born 30 March 1994 in Klerksdorp) is a South African professional rugby union player for the South Africa national team and Harlequins in the English Premiership. His regular position is centre or full-back.

Career

Youth

Esterhuizen represented his local side  at the Under-13 Craven Week competition in 2007, at the Under-16 Grant Khomo Week in 2010 and at the Under-18 Craven Week in 2011.

In 2013, he moved to Durban to join the . He started twelve of the  side's matches during the 2013 Under-21 Provincial Championship competition, finishing as the joint top try scorer in Division A of that competition with 9 tries.

He was included in the South Africa Under-20 side for the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship.

Senior career

His first taste of first class rugby came for the  during the 2013 Vodacom Cup competition. He made his debut in a 72–6 victory against the , coming on as a substitute in the second half. Further substitute appearances followed that season in matches against the  and .

Esterhuizen was included in the  wider training squad prior to the 2014 Super Rugby season, scoring a try for them in their warm-up match against Saracens and was subsequently selected in the final Super Rugby squad for 2014.

He joined Premiership Rugby side Harlequins ahead of the 2020–21 season.

He won his first Premiership title and started as Harlequins won the game 40–38 in the highest scoring Premiership final ever on 26 June 2021.

References

External links

South African rugby union players
Living people
1994 births
Rugby union players from Klerksdorp
Sharks (Currie Cup) players
Sharks (rugby union) players
Rugby union centres
South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players
South Africa international rugby union players
Munakata Sanix Blues players
Harlequin F.C. players
Rugby union players from Potchefstroom
2023 Rugby World Cup players


title: Eugnosta willettana

text:
Eugnosta willettana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from southern California and southern Arizona, as well as Mexico.

The wingspan is 24–27 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from January to February.

The larvae feed within galls found on Encelia farinosa. Full-grown larvae reach a length of about 12 mm.

Etymology
The species is named in honour of Dr. George Willett, curator of Entomology and Chair at the American Museum of Natural History.

References

Moths described in 1939
Eugnosta


title: 2014 Peshawar cinema bombings

text:
The 2014 Peshawar cinema bombings refers to a series of back-to-back bombings that took place in Shama Cinema and Picture House between 2 and 11 February where 20 people were killed and 54 others were injured.

2 February bombings
During the February second bombings there was from 90 to 100 people inside the Picture House movie theatre who were watching Ziddi Pakhtun at Qissa Khawani Bazaar. The attackers threw two grenades after the movie was paused while still sitting in the back of the cinema. The grenades killed five which was followed by a stampede during which 31 were injured. The wounded were transported to Lady Reading Hospital where two of them died.

11 February bombings
The 11 February explosion happened during the Pashto language film called Yarana at Shama Cinema. According to Ejaz Ahmed, the Capital City Police Officer, the cinema contained 80 people (50 under other sources) and that three grenades were used by the attackers. After the blasts there was blood on caps and shoes as well as human remains scattered around. It was followed by a stampede soon after, which caused majority of injuries. The injured were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital.

No group have claimed responsibility but the cinema received warnings prior to the attacks. It was believed that the attack happened because the theatre used to show pornographic films. The blasts were later condemned by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and mentioned that it will hinder peace talks as well. Some hours later, the attack was also condemned by the Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain, as well as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain.

Suspects
It was suspected that Taliban was behind the second attack.

References

External links
News broadcast from the site on YouTube

2014 murders in Pakistan
21st-century mass murder in Pakistan
Attacks in Pakistan in 2014
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2014
History of Peshawar
Mass murder in 2014
Massacres in Pakistan
Terrorist incidents in Peshawar
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attacks
Attacks on cinemas
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2014
Building bombings in Pakistan


title: Leg mechanism

text:
A leg mechanism (walking mechanism) is a mechanical system designed to provide a propulsive force by intermittent frictional contact with the ground.  This is in contrast with wheels or continuous tracks which are intended to maintain continuous frictional contact with the ground.  Mechanical legs are linkages that can have one or more actuators, and can perform simple planar or complex motion.  Compared to a wheel, a leg mechanism is potentially better fitted to uneven terrain, as it can step over obstacles.

An early design for a leg mechanism called the Plantigrade Machine by Pafnuty Chebyshev was shown at the Exposition Universelle (1878).  The original engravings for this leg mechanism are available. The design of the leg mechanism for the Ohio State Adaptive Suspension Vehicle (ASV) is presented in the 1988 book Machines that Walk.  In 1996, W-B. Shieh presented a design methodology for leg mechanisms.

The artwork of Theo Jansen, see Jansen's linkage, has been particularly inspiring for the design of leg mechanisms, as well as the Klann patent, which is the basis for the leg mechanism of the Mondo Spider.

Design goals
 horizontal speed as constant as possible while touching the ground (support phase)
 while the foot is not touching the ground, it should move as fast as possible
 constant torque/force input (or at least no extreme spikes/changes)
 stride height (enough for clearance, not too much to conserve energy)
 the foot has to touch the ground for at least half of the cycle for a two/four leg mechanism or respectively, a third of the cycle for a three/six leg mechanism
 minimized moving mass
 vertical center of mass always inside the base of support
 the speed of each leg or group of legs should be separately controllable for steering
 the leg mechanism should allow forward and backward walking

Another design goal can be, that stride height and length etc. can be controlled by the operator. This can relatively easily be achieved with a hydraulic leg mechanism, but is not practicable with a crank-based leg mechanism.

The optimization has to be done for the whole vehicle – ideally the force/torque variation during a rotation should cancel each other out.

History
Richard Lovell Edgeworth tried in 1770 to construct a machine he called a "Wooden Horse", but was not successful.

Patents
Patents for leg mechanism designs range from rotating cranks to four-bar and six-bar linkages.  See for example the following patents:

 U.S. Patent No. 469,169 Figure Toy, F. O. Norton (1892).
 U.S. Patent No. 1,146,700, Animated Toy, A. Gund (1915).  A leg mechanism formed by an inverted slider-crank.
 U.S. Patent No. 1,363,460, Walking Toy, J. A. Ekelund (1920).  A leg mechanism formed by a rotating crank with extensions that contact the ground.
 U.S. Patent No. 1,576,956, Quadruped Walking Mechanism, E. Dunshee (1926).  A four-bar leg mechanism that shows the coupler curve forms the foot trajectory.
 U.S. Patent No. 1,803,197, Walking Toy, P. C. Marie (1931).  Another rotating crank leg mechanism.
 U.S. Patent No. 1,819,029, Mechanical Toy Horse, J. St. C. King (1931).  A crank-rocker leg mechanism with a one-way friction mechanisms in the foot.
 U.S. Patent No. 2,591,469, Animated Mechanical Toy, H. Saito (1952).  An inverted slider crank mechanism for the front foot and crank-rocker for the back foot.
 U.S. Patent No. 4095661, Walking Work Vehicle, J. R. Sturges (1978).  A lambda mechanism combined with a parallelogram linkage to form a translating leg that follows the coupler curve.
 U.S. Patent No. 6,260,862, Walking Device, J. C. Klann (2001).  The coupler curve of a four-bar linkage guides the lower link of an RR serial chain to form a leg mechanism, known as the Klann linkage.
 U.S. Patent No. 6,481,513, Single Actuator per Leg Robotic Hexapod, M. Buehler et al. (2002).  A leg mechanism that consists of a single rotating crank.
 U.S. Patent No. 6,488,560, Walking Apparatus, Y. Nishikawa (2002).  Another rotating crank leg mechanism.

Gallery

Stationary

Walking

Complex mechanism
Shown above are only planar mechanisms, but there are also more complex mechanisms:

See also
 Hexapod (robotics)
 Jansen's linkage
 Kinematics
 Kinematic pairs
 Klann linkage
 Chebyshev's Lambda Mechanism
 Linkage (mechanical)
 Machine
 Mecha
 Mobile robot

References

External links

Linkages (mechanical)


title: The Black Wheel

text:
The Black Wheel is a fantasy novel  by American writers A. Merritt and Hannes Bok. Merritt had completed the first seven chapters, roughly 20,000 words, before his death in 1943. Bok wrote the remainder of the novel, twenty chapters of more than 60,000 words, working from "a sketchy plot outline" left by Merritt. The story concerns the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck, complete with the preserved bodies of its crew, and the consequences for the passengers and crew of the cruise ship that comes across it.

Publication history

The Black Wheel was originally published in 1947, by the specialty publisher New Collectors Group, in a stated hardcover edition of 1000 copies (although more were reportedly printed). According to Robert Weinberg: "The New Collectors Group was the joint effort of Paul Dennis O'Connor, Stanley Mullen and Martin Greenberg (not to be confused with Martin H. Greenberg). Their first two hardcovers were The Fox Woman and Blue Pagoda and The Black Wheel, both by A. Merritt and Hannes Bok. Bok was a science fiction artist and a lifelong fan of Merritt's work. The two books were short novels begun but never finished by Merritt. Bok finished both novels and provided the illustrations for the books as well. Both books did reasonably well considering that neither story was very good. The company broke up early in 1948 when the other partners grew disillusioned with O'Connor's business practices. Greenberg withdrew from the press and with another fan, David Kyle, formed Gnome Press."<ref>Robert Weinberg, Science Fiction Specialty Publishers in Hall, Hal W. (ed) Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales. Haworth Press, 1983, p. 123</ref>

In 1976, The Black Wheel was included in an omnibus collection of Merritt-Bok collaborations issued by Arno Press. A mass market paperback was released by Avon Books in 1981.

Reception

Sam Moskowitz, reviewing the original edition, noted that the Merritt sections were unlike most of his other work, particularly since "The introduction of characters and the initial build-up is almost leisurely," concluding that "Bok has done a commendable job of completing the novel." E. F. Bleiler, however, found Bok's effort "not a very good job" (although he praised Bok's illustrations). Thrilling Wonder Stories'' reviewed the novel tepidly, describing it as "an entertaining oddity" even though the characters were undeveloped, the supernatural events too numerous and too repetitive, and the story "so fantastic that it stretches credibility close to the snapping point". Baird Searles, reviewing the 1981 reissue, declared the novel "years ahead of its time", although noting that some aspects of the writing had dated badly. and concluded that Bok had captured "the dreamlike -- or nightmarish -- quality that Merritt often achieved, though he never attains the extravagant, baroque splendor of Merritt at his best".

References

1947 American novels
1947 fantasy novels


title: Odontotrochus poppei

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

References

poppei
Gastropods described in 1991


title: Elohekhem

text:
Elohekhem () is a genre of piyyut, which arose among Jews in 12th-century Germany, to be inserted in the Qedusha of the Musaf prayer. Several dozen poems of this genre were written over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

This name of this genre, meaning “your God”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “...to be your God; I am the Lord your God.” A quote from the end of this verse appears in the Qedusha liturgy of Musaf in most Jewish prayer rites, including the Ashkenazic Rite. The poets of Medieval Western Ashkenaz composed the Elohekhem piyyutim to be inserted in the liturgy immediately after this Biblical quote. These poems all begin with the word “Elohekhem”, thus creating an anadiplosis with the last word of the Biblical quote. The Elohekhem genre is miniaturistic; the poems average a length of six to seven lines (though some are as short as four, and some as long as eighteen).

Of the several dozen piyyutim of this genre that were written in the Middle Ages, eight of them survived into the printed Western Ashkenazic rite, and most or all of them are still recited in synagogues of that rite even today. These are: "Elohekhem Shofeṭ Ẓedeq" (), for Shabbat Shuva; "Elohekhem Yashiv Be-shalem" (), for the Sabbath in the middle of Sukkoth; "Elohekhem Yazriaḥ Shimsho" (), for a Sabbath that falls on Rosh Ḥodesh; "Elohekhem Yaskil `Avdo" (), for Shabbat Bereshit (the Sabbath on which the annual reading of the Torah is begun, with the Torah-portion Bereshit); "Elohekhem Yishlaḥ Meshiḥo" (), for the Sabbath that falls during Hanukkah; "Elohekhem Yosif Yado" (), for Shabbat Naḥamu; "Elohekhem Shikhno Sam" (), for the Sabbath on which a wedding is being celebrated in the community; and "Elohekhem Ani Zokher Ha-berit" (), for the Sabbath on which a berit mila, circumcision, is performed. Each of these poems is signed either Judah () or Samuel () in the acrostic, presumably the names of the authors, but it is unclear who these authors are, for both of these names were popular in medieval Ashkenaz.

References

Jewish liturgical poems


title: Emily CoBabe-Ammann

text:
Emily CoBabe-Ammann is an earth scientist who specializes in strategies for science and education initiatives. She is currently the director of strategic projects at the University of Colorado, at Boulder. In addition, she is a partner at the Climate Strategies Group.  Previously, she served as the director of the UCAR Community Programs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

Education
CoBabe-Ammann did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and went on to get her Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University in 1991. She did postdoctoral work at the University of Bristol in England, the University of North Carolina, and Indiana University.

Career
After her postdoctoral positions, CoBabe-Ammann spent five years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a member of the faculty in the geosciences department. She then joined the science and math team at Mid-Continent Research on Education and Learning (McREL), then she began consulting work with science education centers, including the Science Education Center at the Medical Center of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. From 2003 to 2009, she was the head of communications and outreach at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics where she helped build the third largest education and public outreach program, outside of NASA centers. From 2009 to 2013, she was the executive director of Emily A. CoBabe & Associates, Inc., a science and STEM education planning, management, and research company located in Boulder, Colorado. From 2013 to 2015, she was the director of  UCAR Community Programs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)., where she managed a $45M portfolio of education, training, data, and satellite programs.  She is a partner at the Climate Strategies Group, working on models for collective impact frameworks and participatory monitoring and evaluation for regional and national climate service efforts.

In October 2015, she took on the role of director of strategic projects at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she leads the university's Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future., designed to translate earth and space science data and technologies into actionable knowledge.  Working with the new Earth Science data synthesis center (Earth Lab), and the new UAV and small satellite group (IRISS), Emily works to help the campus diversify its extramural funding profile, increase opportunities for the university to work with industry partners, and work strategically across the campus to effectively implement large scale STEM research and education initiatives.

References

External links
CU-Boulder Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future.
UCAR Community Programs
Mid-Continent Research on Education and Learning
Science Education Center at the Medical Center of Wisconsin

Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Kukule Ganga

text:
Kukule Ganga is a river in Sabaragamuwa Province in southwestern Sri Lanka. The Kukule Ganga Dam and reservoir lies along the river. The Kukule Ganga Dam has been built to generate electricity by using this river and has basin area of 120 miles², an annual average rainfall of 150in and annual water yield of 735,000 acre feet.

References

Rivers of Sri Lanka
Bodies of water of Sabaragamuwa Province


title: 30th Battalion, CEF

text:
The 30th Battalion, CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

History
The 30th Battalion was authorized on 27 October 1914 and embarked for Britain on 23 February 1915. It was redesignated as the 30th Reserve Battalion, CEF on 18 April 1915 to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field. On 4 January 1917 its personnel were absorbed by the 1st Reserve Battalion, CEF. The battalion was subsequently disbanded on 1 September 1917.

The 30th Battalion recruited in British Columbia and was mobilized at Victoria.
The 30th battalion had three Officers Commanding:

Lt.-Col. J.A. Hall, 26 February 1915 – 9 June 1915
Lt.-Col. C.F. De Salis, 10 June 1915 – 6 November 1915
Lt.-Col. S. Booth, 7 November 1915 – 2 January 1917

The 30th Battalion was awarded the battle honour THE GREAT WAR 1915-1917.

Perpetuation
The 30th Battalion, CEF, is perpetuated by The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own).

See also
 List of infantry battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

References

Sources

Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Col. G. W. L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962

030
Military units and formations of British Columbia
British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
Irish Fusiliers of Canada (The Vancouver Regiment)


title: 2006–07 FK Khazar Lankaran season

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The Khazar Lankaran 2006–07 season was Khazar Lankaran's second Azerbaijan Premier League season. It was their first season under the management of Agaselim Mirjavadov. They completed a League and Cup double, winning both competitions for the first time.

Squad

Transfers

Summer

In:

Out:

Winter

In:

Out:

Competitions

Azerbaijan Premier League

Results
Source:

Table

Azerbaijan Cup

Source:

Final

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

Notes
Qarabağ have played their home games at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium since 1993 due to the ongoing situation in Quzanlı.

References

Cup Results

External links
 Khazar Lankaran at Soccerway.com

Khazar Lankaran FK seasons
Khazar Lankaran


title: Marie Jonas de la Motte

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Marie Jonas de la Motte (14 November 1627, Delft – after 1683) was a Dutch art model, prostitute and procurer. She is known as the model of the artist Dirck Bleker. A prostitute from at least 1652, she was a procurer and the madam of a brothel from 1665 onward.

Life
She was one of at last seven children born to the soldier Jehan de la Motte and Elisabeth Habert. Because of the poverty and many children of her parents, she was forced to move to Amsterdam to support herself at an early age. She married Robbert Joris Toonszoon (1629-ca 1652) in 1651, Meijndert Pieterszoon (1627-?) in 1653, and finally NN van Beeck. Not much is known of her spouses, however.

She is confirmed as a prostitute in 1652, when she was warned by the authorities that she would be imprisoned if she should be arrested for prostitution again. During the 1650s, she also worked as an artist model. She is known as the model for at least two paintings of Dirck Bleker.
In 1659, she was arrested for involvement in a knife fight, but the outcome is unknown. In 1665, she was arrested for having hosted prostitutes and their clients in her home; that is, for keeping a brothel. She was fined and exiled from the city for two years. In 1673 and 1683 she was again arrested for keeping a brothel. In 1680 she was apparently a madam of some repute. She was given light sentences and is not mentioned in any documents after 1683.

References

 Lotte C. van de Pol, Het Amsterdams hoerdom. Prostitutie in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw (Amsterdam 1996) bijlage II, 360, noot 2.

1627 births
1683 deaths
Dutch prostitutes
17th-century Dutch businesspeople
Dutch brothel owners and madams
People from Delft
Dutch artists' models


The 2011 Lichfield District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Lichfield District Council in Staffordshire, England. The whole council - 56 members - was up for election and the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.

Campaign
Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Independent and Independent Labour candidates stood in the election. The wards elected from one to three members of the council depending on the electorate's size. candidates in  wards were elected unopposed.

Election result
The Conservatives maintained control of the council. They gained 2 seats and Labour gained 5. The Liberal Democrats and the two Independent councillors were eliminated from the council and no other party is represented.

Results by ward
Elected candidates in bold: defending candidates marked with "*".

This poll was uncontested

This poll was uncontested

This poll was uncontested

This poll was uncontested

References

2011 English local elections
2011
2010s in Staffordshire


title: Baseball (poker)

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Baseball is a variant of stud poker based on the American sport of the same name. Unlike traditional versions of poker, 3's, 4's and 9's hold special value because of their significance in the rules of baseball - three strikes, three outs, four balls, and nine innings.

Rules
Play of the hand, including betting rounds, is the same as seven-card stud, with the added provisions that:
 Any 9 is wild.
 Any 3 dealt as a hole card is wild.
 Any 3 dealt in the open presents the recipient with a choice: they can either buy the 3 by matching the number of chips in the pot, in which case the 3 becomes wild; or they can consider themselves struck out and fold immediately.
 Any 4 dealt in the open results in that player receiving an additional hole card.

As poker author Irwin Steig noted, Baseball is a form of stud "scorned by purists and avoided by those whose tastes run to more peaceful games ... [it] is the choice of dealers who want sparkling action and big pots."

With a reasonably large number of players, it typically takes four of a kind of more to win a Baseball hand, and going for straights and flushes is usually futile.  When Baseball is played high-low, perfect lows (equating to 6 4 3 2 A) become common and anything less in that direction is likely to lose.

Variations
Any number of variations of Baseball are possible. Limits may be put on the cost of matching the pot.  Or the buy-the-pot rule may only be in effect for the first person to receive an open 3; if bought, all open 3's received by anyone from that point on are wild with no further requirements.   Or the pot-matching requirement can be omitted altogether and any open 3 is simply wild.

The extra card for getting a 4 can be dealt face up rather than face down.  Another version of the game also makes face down 4's entitled to an additional card. There are variations as to when the player must announce they have a face down 4, and also whether the additional card should also be face down as a result. Still another variation on the face-down 4's requires the player to "buy" the additional card by putting an additional sum into the pot (often a multiple of the minimum bet). In this case, if the player declines to make the additional bet, they do not have to fold, but they do not get the additional card.  And yet another flavor has an open 4 not getting an extra card, but rather a replacement for the 4 if the recipient so chooses.

If a card is mistakenly dealt before a player has made a decision about a 3 (or, in a variant, a 4), then such a card is considered out of play.

Football is an alternative version of Baseball Poker where 3's and 6's are wild and an additional card is drawn if a player is dealt a 2.

Woolworth is another variant, this time with 5's and 10's being wild, with an additional card awarded for players dealt a 2.

Blind Baseball is played the same as Baseball Poker, but with nine cards in total instead of seven.

Another variant is "Rainy Day Baseball." In this variant, if the Queen of Spades is dealt face-up to any player, then the game is "rained out." All cards are collected and the hand is re-dealt. The pot from the "rained out" game carries forward to the winner of the first hand that is not rained out.

References

Sources
 Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith (eds.), Hoyle's Rules of Games (New York: Signet, 1958, 1963).
 Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker (New York: Cornerstone Library, 1963).

External links
Night Baseball variant at oinc.net

Stud poker


title: Club dei Venti all'Ora

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The "Club dei Venti all'Ora" is an Italian club of historic vehicle enthusiasts, founded in Triest, Italy on March 5, 1961. A small and close-knit group of enthusiasts felt the need for uniting like-minded individual who had in common their love for "antique jewelry on four wheels". On January 8, 1966 "Club dei Venti all'Ora” was one of the first similar associations being affiliated to the newborn Italian Veteran Car Club (which subsequently became ASI, Automotoclub Storico Italiano).

Objectives

The Club is a non-profit organization and its goals are to promote love and interest for historic vehicles among the present and future generations, fostering research and encouraging the proper preservation and/or restoration of vintage vehicles.

Above all, the Club aims to support all its Members when using their vehicles or the purpose they were built for. Events and meetings are therefore planned and organized, favoring the social aspects of the sport and including lesser-known but highly interesting itineraries on mostly uncrowded roads of the Friuli Venezia Giulia and Istria regions. The Club also has a section dedicated to International Events.

Activity
Meetings, raids, cultural itineraries and visits, conferences and regularity events or mild road competition. The Club was the organizational force behind seven editions of the Concours d’elegance "Castello di Miramare" and is now internationally known thanks to the historical re-enactment of the Trieste–Opicina Hillclimb–race, originally staged in Triest between 1911 and 1971. The Club is now the only keeper of the flame and custodian of the spirit of the now-defunct road race.

References

External links
 official website
 Automotoclub Storico Italiano
 Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens

Clubs and societies in Italy


title: John W. Farley

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John William Farley (February 7, 1948June 3, 2022) was an American atomic physicist and an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as the Southern Nevada district's representative to the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Education
Farley received his PhD from Columbia University in 1977. His doctoral advisor was William Happer. He taught physics at the University of Oregon until 1987 when he left Oregon to join the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). At UNLV, he was also involved in the installation of Laser spectroscopy equipments with fellow physicist, Victor Kwong, in the 1980s.

Research
Farley's primary research interest was the corrosion of steel by exposure to lead-bismuth eutectic. He also conducted some research into molecular ions, and presented on this research at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in 1999.

Views

Global warming
Farley frequently spoke out about the need for society to take action to avoid dangerous climate change, such as by investing in renewable energy.

Power lines
Farley contended that the proposed link between proximity to power lines and cancer is not supported by the preponderance of scientific evidence. He also contended that magnetic fields in general have little, if any, effect on human health.

Personal life
In the early 1980s, Farley married his partner Linda. They had two children together.

Death
Farley died on June 3, 2022 at the age of 74 from complications of Parkinson's Disease.

References

External links
Rabett Run, Farley's blog

21st-century American physicists
Columbia University alumni
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
Environmental bloggers
American nuclear physicists
American environmentalists


title: Jovan Lučić

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Jovan Lučić (born 26 May 1987) is a football goalkeeper, holding both Canadian and Serbian citizenship, who plays for Budućnost Dobanovci.

Career
Born in Vancouver, he played with the Serbian White Eagles in Vancouver.

During the second half of the 2013–14 season he played with FK Gorni Lisiče in the Macedonian First League.

In summer 2014 he joined Serbian SuperLiga side FK Rad, and during the winter break of the 2014–15 season he was loaned to FK Hajduk Beograd.

In winter 2016 he joined Vršac, played 14 games and saved the club from relegation. In summer 2016 he joined Serbian First League side Bežanija,

In winter 2017 he joined Radnički Beograd, and won the 2017 Belgrade Football Association Cup which was decided on penalties, and Lučić was decisive by stopping two, and subsequently was named the Man of the Match.

Personal life
Lučić's father, Dobrivoje, had been a soccer player in Yugoslavia, and his brother is NHL ice hockey player Milan Lucic.

Honours
Radnički Beograd
Belgrade FA Cup: 2016–17

Ice hockey

Lučić played Ice Hockey as well. He played for Burnaby based club White Eagles in the Adult Safe Hockey League. Lučić has played as a professional in the Serbian Hockey League, 2013 to 2015 for HK Beostar during his football winter breaks.

References

1987 births
Living people
Serbian men's footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Soccer players from Vancouver
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian men's soccer players
Canadian people of Serbian descent
Canadian expatriate men's soccer players
Ice hockey people from British Columbia
Serb diaspora sportspeople
Men's association football goalkeepers
FK Bežanija players
FK Brodarac players
FK BSK Batajnica players
FK Gorno Lisiče players
FK Hajduk Beograd players
FK Rad players
FK Radnički Beograd players
FK Vršac players
FK Zvezdara players
POFC Botev Vratsa players
FC Arda Kardzhali players
FK Budućnost Dobanovci players
Serbian First League players
Serbian White Eagles FC players
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia
Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria


title: Triathlon Australia

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AusTriathlon (formerly Triathlon Australia) is the governing body responsible for the management of sports such as duathlon, aquathlon and triathlon within Australia.

History

Triathlon came to Australia in the early 1980s but the first state Associations arrived 4 year later. In 1986, the Triathlon Federation of Australia (what is now known as Triathlon Australia) was founded with the support of Dr. Jim Hazel from Sydney and Geoff Frost from Melbourne. In 1991, the name was changed to what is now known as Triathlon Australia.

In 1989, the first International Triathlon Union's Triathlon World Championships was (or ITU  for short) held there in Australia. The distances for the short course triathlon was also selected that year. The distances for the short distance are (1.5 km swim 40 km cycle and 10 km run.)

Success
In 1990, just one year after the first World Triathlon Series, Greg Welch (born 1964) had won the Elite Male World Championship for Triathlon in Florida. The race was also called the Grand Slam
Just following Greg Welch's success came Miles Stewart's success the following year again in the ITU. He had won gold and just 2 seconds faster than Rick Wells, another Australian Triathlete.
Australia's first women success came again 1 year after in the women race. During the 1992 ITU Triathlon World Championships, Michellie Jones had won gold. She won gold again one year later in 1993.
As of March 2014, Australia is the current leading nation in the sport of Triathlon. The nation currently has 19 senior World Champion Titles.

In September 2023, Triathlon Australia rebranded as AusTriathlon, announced as a renewed focus on growing and celebrating triathlon in Australia.

State and Territory Triathlon Associations (STTA)
The national body has eight state and territory triathlon associations which act as voting members.

As of 2022, five of the eight STTA's adopted the national bodies Future Operating Model, which serves to bring the operation of all entities closer together under a shared operational model. These five states are Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory. Western Australia, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory remain actively engaged with the aim to continue their close working association with the national and state bodies.

See also
Miles Stewart
Jackie Fairweather
Loretta Harrop
Michellie Jones
Brad Beven
Greg Welch
ITU Triathlon World Championships

References

Sports governing bodies in Australia
Triathlon in Australia
National members of the Oceania Triathlon Union


title: Torsor (algebraic geometry)

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In algebraic geometry, a torsor or a principal bundle is an analogue of a principal bundle in algebraic topology. Because there are few open sets in Zariski topology, it is more common to consider torsors in étale topology or some other flat topologies. The notion also generalizes a Galois extension in abstract algebra. Though other notions of torsors are known in more general context (e.g. over stacks) this article will focus on torsors over schemes, the original setting where torsors have been thought for. The word torsor comes from the French torseur. They are indeed widely discussed, for instance, in Michel Demazure's and Pierre Gabriel's famous book Groupes algébriques, Tome I.

Definition
Let  be a Grothendieck topology and  a scheme. Moreover let  be a group scheme over , a -torsor (or principal -bundle) over  is the data of a scheme  and a morphism  with a -invariant action on  that is locally trivial in  i.e. there exists a covering  in the sense that the base change  is isomorphic to the trivial torsor

First remarks

A line bundle can be seen as a -torsor, and, more in general, a vector bundle can be seen as a -torsor, for some .

It is common to consider a torsor for not just a group scheme but more generally for a group sheaf (e.g., fppf group sheaf).

The category of torsors over a fixed base forms a stack. Conversely, a prestack can be stackified by taking the category of torsors (over the prestack).

Examples and basic properties
Examples

 A -torsor on X is a principal -bundle on X.
If  is a finite Galois extension, then  is a -torsor (roughly because the Galois group acts simply transitively on the roots.) This fact is a basis for Galois descent. See integral extension for a generalization.

Remark: A G-torsor P over X is isomorphic to a trivial torsor if and only if  is nonempty. (Proof: if there is an , then  is an isomorphism.)

Let P be a G-torsor with a local trivialization  in étale topology. A trivial torsor admits a section: thus, there are elements . Fixing such sections , we can write uniquely  on  with . Different choices of  amount to 1-coboundaries in cohomology; that is, the  define a cohomology class in the sheaf cohomology (more precisely Čech cohomology with sheaf coefficient) group . A trivial torsor corresponds to the identity element. Conversely, it is easy to see any class in  defines a G-torsor on X, unique up to an isomorphism.

If G is a connected algebraic group over a finite field , then any G-bundle over  is trivial. (Lang's theorem.)

The universal torsor of a scheme X and the fundamental group scheme

In this context torsors have to be taken in the fpqc topology. Let  be a Dedekind scheme (e.g. the spectrum of a field) and  a faithfully flat morphism, locally of finite type. Assume  has a section . We say that  has a fundamental group scheme  if there exist a pro-finite and flat -torsor , called the universal torsor of , with a section  such that for any finite -torsor  with a section  there is a unique morphism of torsors  sending  to . Its existence has been proved by Madhav V. Nori for  the spectrum of a field and by Marco Antei, Michel Emsalem and Carlo Gasbarri when  is a Dedekind scheme of dimension 1.

Reduction of a structure group
Most of constructions and terminology regarding principal bundles in algebraic topology carry over in verbatim to G-bundles. For example, if  is a G-bundle and G acts from the left on a scheme F, then one can form the associated bundle  with fiber F. In particular, if H is a closed subgroup of G, then for any H-bundle P,  is a G-bundle called the induced bundle or contracted product (from the French produit contracté).

If P is a G-bundle that is isomorphic to the induced bundle  for some H-bundle P', then P is said to admit a reduction of structure group from G to H.

Let X be a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field k, G a semisimple algebraic group and P a G-bundle on a relative curve , R a finitely generated k-algebra. Then a theorem of Drinfeld and Simpson states that, if G is simply connected and split, there is an étale morphism  such that  admits a reduction of structure group to a Borel subgroup of G.

Invariants
If P is a parabolic subgroup of a smooth affine group scheme G with connected fibers, then its degree of instability, denoted by , is the degree of its Lie algebra  as a vector bundle on X. The degree of instability of G is then . If G is an algebraic group and E is a G-torsor, then the degree of instability of E is the degree of the inner form  of G induced by E (which is a group scheme over X); i.e., . E is said to be semi-stable if  and is stable if .

Examples of torsors in applied mathematics
According to John Baez, energy, voltage, position and the phase of a quantum-mechanical wavefunction are all examples of torsors in everyday physics; in each case, only relative comparisons can be measured, but a reference point must be chosen arbitrarily to make absolute values meaningful. However, the comparative values of relative energy, voltage difference, displacements and phase differences are not torsors, but can be represented by simpler structures such as real numbers, vectors or angles.

In basic calculus, he cites indefinite integrals as being examples of torsors.

See also
Beauville–Laszlo theorem
Moduli stack of principal bundles

Notes

References
Behrend, K. The Lefschetz Trace Formula for the Moduli Stack of Principal Bundles. PhD dissertation.

Further reading
Brian Conrad, Finiteness theorems for algebraic groups over function �fields

Algebraic geometry


title: Anna Smitshuizen

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Anna Smitshuizen (February 1751 in Alkmaar – 29 June 1775 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch prostitute and the victim of a cause célèbre murder. She was murdered by her former fiancé, the doctor and former ship's surgeon Johannes van Goch, who could not accept that she had terminated their engagement. The case became a subject of public debate and was frequently mentioned in literature as a moral example.

Bibliography
Anna Smitshuizen was the fourth child of German parents. Her father, wig maker Gerrit Smitshuizen, had been born in Xanten, and her mother, Jannetje Kluijt, was born in Meurs. Anna was born in February 1751 and baptised in the Reform Church of Alkmaar on 28 March that year. Whilst living in Alkmaar, she may have been acquainted with author Nicolaas Hoefnagel, who lived in the town for a time and Smitshuizen featured in his writings.

When Smitshuizen was about 19 she left Alkmaar and travelled to Amsterdam, where she became a prostitute. In 1774 she was working in the brothel of Geertruid van Kesteren (aka Zwarte Trui) on Oudezijds Achterburgwal, part of Amsterdam's De Wallen red-light district. The brothel women's medical needs were attended by an ex-ship's doctor, Johannes Bartholomeus Ferdinandus van Goch. Smitshuizen started to have an affair with the doctor.

Murder
Smitshuizen became engaged to van Goch. On 25 May 1775 they travelled to Ouderkerk to inform van Goch's mother. A week later, on 2 June, Smitshuizen broke off the engagement. She had begun to have doubts about van Goch as the city was talking about him following leaflets written by Hoefnagel discrediting van Goch.

Van Goch took the news badly. He threatened to kill himself and sent Smitshuizen a love letter written in his blood. Around 9pm on 29 June 1775 van Goch visited Smitshuizen and pleaded with her in front of her housemates. She told him it was all over and asked him to leave. He refused and around 10.30 the other women tried to get him to leave, but he stabbed Smitshuizen killing her.

He claimed that he had tried to commit suicide and that Smitshuizen was accidentally stabbed trying to stop him. His version of events was not believed, and he was sentenced to death on 16 January 1776. However legal challenges delayed the execution until April 1778. A scaffold was erected in front of the Town Hall and a large crowd gathered in Dam Square to see van Goch executed on the 4 April.

War of words
In late 1777 Nicolaas Hoefnagel published Merkwaardige en zonderlinge levensgevallen van Anna Smitshuizen, gewezene minnares van den thans gevangen zittende JBF van Gog, vervat in samenspraken (Strange and strange lives of Anna Smitshuizen, former mistress of the currently imprisoned JBF van Gog, contained in discussions). In it he portrayed Smitshuizen as being an innocent soul and victim of a godless killer. The book was also directed against fellow author Willem Ockers, an atheist and former employer of van Goch. Ockers responded with Waarachtig bericht, meerendeels getrokken uit echte brieven en geschriften van den thans op de Gevangen-Poort geconfineerde J.B.F. van Goch. Aan zyn famielje en goede vrienden geschreven, zynde een zaakelyk verhaal, van al't rampzalige dat ... is voorgevallen; benevens een waarachtige beschrijving van ... Anna Smitshuizen (True message, mostly drawn from real letters and writings of the JBF van Goch, who is currently reconstructed at the Prison Gate. Written to his family and close friends, a business-like story, of all the disastrous that ... has happened; in addition to a true description of ... Anna Smitshuizen). In which van Goch is the virtuous doctor who was seduced by the harlot. Although neither account can be viewed as reliable, the pieces give an insight into prostitution in 1770s Amsterdam.

References

Bibliography

1751 births
1775 deaths
18th-century Dutch people
Dutch murder victims
Dutch prostitutes
People from Alkmaar


title: Australian Weightlifting Federation

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The Australian Weightlifting Federation is the governing body for the sport of Weightlifting in Australia.

Structure
The national body has eight state member associations:
Weightlifting ACT
Northern Territory Weightlifting Assoc Inc
NSW Weightlifting Assoc Limited
Queensland Weightlifting Assoc Inc
South Australian Weightlifting Assoc Inc
Victorian Weightlifting Assoc Inc
Weightlifting Tasmania Inc
Weightlifting Western Australia Inc

External links

Sports governing bodies in Australia
Weightlifting in Australia
National members of the International Weightlifting Federation
1947 establishments in Australia
Sports organizations established in 1947


title: Snow Australia

text:
Snow Australia is the national governing body for the sports of Alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, Freestyle skiing, Snowboarding, Para-alpine and Para-snowboard in Australia.

The name of the organisation was changed from Ski & Snowboard Australia in 2019, coinciding with the unification of the sport in Australia.

It has the overarching responsibility for the entire national athlete pathway, from entry level through to elite, across all disciplines. To meet this responsibility, Snow Australia engages with many different organisations including ski resorts, Federal & State Governments, State Sporting Organisations, Clubs, sporting institutes and industry peak bodies.

Snow Australia has an interesting history that includes the blocking of athletes from competition, including blocking them from World Cup tours which are imperative for their success and continuation in ski and snowboard events.

References

External links

Sports governing bodies in Australia
Skiing in Australia
Snowboarding in Australia
Australia


title: Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations

text:
CFR Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 50 is the principal set of rules and regulations  issued by federal agencies of the United States regarding wildlife and fisheries. Maintained by the Office of the Federal Register, it is available in digital and printed form, and can be referenced online the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR).

Structure

The table of contents, as reflected in the e-CFR updated February 7, 2014, is as follows:

History
The CFR was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 11, 1938, as a means to organize and maintain the growing material published by federal agencies in the newly mandated Federal Register. The first volume of the CFR was published in 1939 with general applicability and legal effect in force June 1, 1938.

The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) began publishing yearly revisions for some titles in 1963 with legal effective dates of January 1 each year. By 1967 all 50 titles were updated annually and effective January 1.

The CFR was placed online in 1996. The OFR began updating the entire CFR online on a daily basis in 2001.

References

 50
United States Fish and Wildlife Service


title: Mullazai tribe

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Mullazai (ملازئی) is a Baloch tribe found in  Panjgur District (پنجگور) of Balochistan, Pakistan and Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Mullazai clan is a part of the Zehri Tribe.

See also
Khwajikhel

References

Baloch tribes


title: Niklaus Troxler

text:
Niklaus Troxler (born May 1, 1947) is a Swiss graphic designer. He was the organizer of the Willisau Jazz Festival from 1975 to 2009.

Biography
Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. He worked as an art director in Paris in 1972 and subsequently founded his own design practice in Willisau, Switzerland. He started organizing jazz concerts in Willisau in 1966 and initiated the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1975. He organized this internationally renowned yearly Festival until 2009 before passing the baton over to his nephew, Arno Troxler.
Troxler's graphic works (particularly his concert posters and record cover designs) won him several relevant international awards: the Toulouse-Lautrec Medal in Gold (1987 and 1994), design awards in Lahti (1993), Helsinki (1997), Hong Kong (2000), Hangzhou (2003), Ningbo (2006), Taiwan (2005), and Colorado (2006). He won the Innerschweizer Kulturpreis (Cultural award of Central Switzerland) in 1982.
Troxler is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. His posters are represented in the most renowned design collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Hamburg's Museum for Art and Industry, the German Poster Museum in Essen, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Troxler was professor for communication design at the State Academy for Art and Design in Stuttgart from 1998 to 2013.

Publications by Troxler
 Niklaus Troxler: "Jazz Blvd. – Niklaus Troxler Posters." Müller, Baden/Switzerland 1999, .
 Niklaus Troxler and Olivier Senn: "Willisau and All That Jazz." Till Schaap Edition, Berne 2013, .

Publications on Troxler
 Manfred Buholzer: "Jazz in Willisau – Wie Niklaus Troxler den Free Jazz nach Willisau brachte." Comenius Verlag, Lucerne 2004, .
 Jianping He (Ed.): "The Master of Design - Niklaus Troxler." Page One, Singapore 2006, .
 Roxane Jubert (Ed.): "Niklaus Troxler – Designer & Design." Pyramyd, Paris 2007, .
 Ginza Graphic Gallery (Ed.): "Niklaus Troxler." GGG Books, Tokyo 2007, .

Filmography
 Angelo A. Lüdin and Barbara Zürcher: "Niklaus Troxler - Jazz in Willisau - Ein Leben mit Jazz und Grafikdesign." (Documentary, point de vue, Basel 2011, 75 minutes).

References

External links
 Niklaus Troxler’s webpage
 The Willisau Jazz Archive
 Jazz Festival Willisau
 German Wikipedia article on Niklaus Troxler

Living people
1947 births
People from Willisau
Swiss graphic designers


title: 2014 Canary Wharf Squash Classic

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The Canary Wharf Squash Classic 2014 is the 2014's Canary Wharf Squash Classic, which is a tournament of the PSA World Tour event International (Prize money : 50 000 $). The event took place at the East Wintergarden in London in England from 24 March to 28 March. Nick Matthew won his fourth Canary Wharf Squash Classic trophy, beating James Willstrop in the final.

Prize money and ranking points
For 2014, the prize purse was $50,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows:

Seeds

Draw and results

See also
PSA World Tour 2014
Canary Wharf Squash Classic
2014 Men's British Open

References

External links
PSA Canary Wharf Squash Classic 2014 website
Canary Wharf Squash Classic 2014 official website

Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf Squash Classic
Canary Wharf Squash Classic
Canary Wharf Squash Classic
Squash competitions in London


title: Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations

text:
CFR Title 49 - Transportation is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 49 is the principal set of rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) issued by the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security, federal agencies of the United States regarding transportation and transportation-related security. This title is available in digital and printed form, and can be referenced online using the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR).

History
Publication of Title 49 began in 1938, at which point it was entitled Transportation and Railroads. It was renamed in 1949 to Transportation.

Current structure

The table of contents, as reflected in the e-CFR updated February 18, 2014, is as follows:

 49
Transportation in the United States


title: Ivers Riley

text:
Ivers Whitman Riley (September 28, 1932 in Los Angeles, California – February 17, 2015 in Savannah, Georgia) served as Chairman of the International Securities Exchange from 2002 to 2006, as well as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange from 1994 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2000. He has been recognized as a driving force behind the development of SPDR funds and in 2005 he was inducted into the Futures Industry Hall of Fame.

Background

Ivers Riley graduated from The University of California, Los Angeles in 1955 with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance. In 1986, Riley attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He served as Executive Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange from 1983 to 1986. From 1987 to 1993, Riley served as Senior Executive Vice President in charge of all derivatives activity at the American Stock Exchange, where he helped coordinate a plan to attract trading of SPDR funds.  From 1994 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2000, Riley served as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange and Charmain of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Clearing Corporation. From 2002 to 2006 he served as Chairman of the International Securities Exchange.

References

1932 births
2015 deaths
University of California, Los Angeles alumni


title: Team Spain (roller derby)

text:
Team Spain Roller Derby or the Spanish Roller Derby National Team represents Spain in international roller derby competitions such as the Roller Derby World Cup. It was created in 2013 with the goal of competing at the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup, which it did, December 4 to 7 in Dallas, Texas.

History
Team Spain was created in June 2013, through the initiative of the skaters themselves, who desired to create a national team to compete internationally with Spain's first-ever national roller derby squad. The project began with the creation of a work group who selected Daisy Dioxin and Ref Judge Fred as Bench Staff. Shortly after, a first round of tryouts was held in December 16 to 18, 2013 in Madrid, Tenerife and Barcelona, which was attended by a total of 52 skaters. Additionally, video applications were submitted. A total of 35 skaters were selected to comprise the initial squad.

Roster
This initial roster comprised 11 skaters from Barcelona Roller Derby, 10 from Tenerife Roller Derby, two from Black Thunders Derby Dames (Madrid), two from London Rollergirls, as well as one each from Alcoy Roller Derby, Dutchland Rollers, Garden State Rollergirls, Lisboa Roller Derby Troopers, Manchester Roller Derby, Rayo Dockers Valencia, Roller Derby Cáceres, Roller Derby Madrid, Toronto Roller Derby and Zaragoza Roller Derby.

2018 Roller Derby World Cup roster
The following skaters were on the final roster for the 2018 Roller Derby World Cup in Manchester, England:

In 2018, bench staff for Spain were La Justicia (Bench Coach), Lola Vulkano (Lineup Manager) and Elle Visse (Mirror Bench Coach).

2014 World Cup roster
The team were coached by Daisy Dioxin of London Rollergirls and Smarta of Crime City Rollers.

The following skaters were on the final roster for the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup in Dallas, Texas:

The following skaters made the initial training roster, but not the final roster which went to Dallas:

References

External links

 Website .
 Official Facebook page .

Spain
Women's national sports teams of Spain
Roller derby in Spain
2013 establishments in Spain
National sports teams established in 2013


The 1920–21 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Walter Meanwell, coaching his seventh season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Schedule

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References

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball seasons
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Badgers men's b
Wisconsin Badgers men's b


title: DeJay Lester

text:
DeJay Lester (born December 14, 1988) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Wyoming

College career
Lester began his college career at Snow College, as a defensive back and played a great deal as a true freshman on a National Champion-Runner Up team. Following his freshman season, he moved to wide receiver with the foreknowledge that he would need to redshirt based on the depth that was already in place at that position.
In 2009, DeJay was an outstanding player Snow College. He was a great leader at his position group and played with the attitude and toughness that any coach would desire. He was a full-time starter and a great player but maintained his humility and work ethic necessary to be great.
Lester's play at Snow lead him to earn a scholarship offer from the University of Wyoming.

Professional career

Green Bay Blizzard

Utah Blaze

Utah Stealth
Played 3 games for the Utah Stealth Semi-Pro team of the Rocky Mountain Football League. Finished third on team with 12-184-2 in receiving, 8-182 on kick returning, and 4-88-1 for punt returns. Had a 73-yard punt return for a td.

Bemidji Axemen
Lester signed with the Bemidji Axemen of the IFL for 2014. He only played in a single game for the Axemen on February 22. On February 24, 2014, Lester was released by the Axemen.

Iowa Barnstormers
On February 25, 2014, Lester was assigned to the Iowa Barnstormers. He was released by the Barnstormers on April 16, 2015.

New Orleans VooDoo
On April 15, 2015, Lester was assigned to the New Orleans VooDoo. He was placed on reassignment on April 30, 2015.

Tri-Cities Fever
On May 7, 2015, Lester was signed by the Tri-Cities Fever. On May 2, 2016, Lester was released.

Cedar Rapids Titans
On May 18, 2016, Lester signed with the Cedar Rapids Titans. On June 28, 2016, Lester was released.

Return to Iowa
On March 16, 2017, Lester signed with the Barnstormers.

References

Living people
1988 births
Wyoming Cowboys football players
Snow Badgers football players
Green Bay Blizzard players
Utah Blaze players
Bemidji Axemen players
Iowa Barnstormers players
New Orleans VooDoo players
Tri-Cities Fever players
Cedar Rapids River Kings players
Players of American football from Utah


title: Valentin Dujacquier

text:
Valentin Dujacquier (born 23 July 1989), is a Belgian futsal player who plays for FP Halle-Gooik and the Belgian national futsal team.

References

External links

 UEFA profile
 Futsalteam profile

1989 births
Living people
Belgian men's futsal players


title: Omar Rahou

text:
Omar Rahou (born 19 July 1992), is a Belgian futsal player who plays for Futsal Team Charleroi and the Belgian national futsal team.

References

External links

 UEFA profile
 Futsalteam profile

1992 births
Living people
Belgian men's futsal players


title: Mustapha Harram

text:
Mustapha Harram (born 29 April 1981), is a Belgian futsal player who plays for Gelko Hasselt and the Belgian national futsal team.

References

External links
UEFA profile

1981 births
Living people
Belgian men's futsal players


title: Acoustic Sessions (Shinedown EP)

text:
Acoustic Sessions is a duo of EPs by Brent Smith and Zach Myers of American rock band Shinedown, released on iTunes on January 28 and March 18, 2014. Videos of the recording sessions, directed by Darren Doane, were released on YouTube in the weeks prior to each album's release.

Production
Frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers asked fans to request songs on their Facebook page to be narrowed down to their top ten cover choices. Smith said of the album, "This is for the fans. They picked the songs and we recorded them. It’s as simple as that. And I must say that our audience has great taste."

The ten songs voted highest by the fans were planned to be released over ten days, along with YouTube videos of the recordings, directed by Darren Doane. However, some of the artists being covered (Adele, Phil Collins, Pearl Jam, and Bon Jovi) did not sign off in time for the video release. The extended play was reduced to six songs. The following recording videos were released on YouTube between January 22 and January 28:

"London Calling" (The Clash), January 22, 2014
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (Otis Redding), January 23, 2014
'"Black" (Pearl Jam), January 24, 2014
"Nothing Else Matters" (Metallica), January 25, 2014
"Blue on Black" (Kenny Wayne Shepherd), January 26, 2014
"Runaway Train" (Soul Asylum), January 27, 2014
"She Talks to Angels" (Black Crowes), January 28, 2014

Smith insisted on eventually releasing all of the videos on YouTube, saying, "It's not about money for us. We didn't write these songs. We did this for the audience and for the fans, and we know it's something they're gonna dig." Despite the fact that the band did not intend to sell the songs, the album (Acoustic Sessions) - EP was released for sale on iTunes under the name "Smith & Myers" on January 28, 2014.

The following videos were released on YouTube in March 2014:

"Someone Like You" (Adele), March 11, 2014
"In the Air Tonight" (Phil Collins), March 11, 2014
"Wanted Dead or Alive" (Bon Jovi), March 18, 2014

On March 18, 2014, (Acoustic Sessions, Pt. 2) - EP was released on iTunes with the previously omitted tracks.

Track listing

Personnel
Band
 Brent Smith - lead vocals
 Zach Myers - guitar
 Kenny Wayne Shepherd - guitar on "Blue on Black"

Production
 Darren Doane - director (video companion)

References

2014 EPs
Shinedown albums
Atlantic Records EPs


title: Prenk

text:
Prenk, also prënk, prek is Albanian language title of the chieftain of Catholic Mirdite clan and also a given name. In the 19th century it was hereditary position of the heads of Gjomarkaj family who had the official title of prenk paşa (). Members of this clan lived on the territory of the Sanjak of Shkoder and their chieftain was obliged to provide 5,000 troops to Ottomans upon notice. It is used by Catholic Albanians of all regions.

According to one 19th-century travel account Prenk was corruption of Peter that "from time immemorial has been the first baptismal name of nearly all chiefs of this tribe".

List of notable people with this title includes:
 Prenk Bib Doda, Mirdita clan leader, politician
 Prenk Doçi, Albanian Rilindas
 Prenk Pervizi, military figure of 20th century
 Prenk Cali, Kelmendi warlord

References

Albanian noble titles


title: Physaria lepidota

text:
Physaria lepidota, the Kane County twinpod, is a plant species endemic to Utah. It is known only from Kane, Washington, and Garfield Counties in the southern part of the state. It grows on rocky slopes and outcrops, and sometimes in disturbed areas.

Physaria lepidota is a perennial herb with most of the above-ground parts covered with a silvery pubescence. Stems branch at the base but rarely above, sometimes reaching a height of 20 cm (8 inches). Flowers are yellow, born in a dense raceme. Fruits are highly inflated, up to 20 mm (0.8 inches) across with purplish papery walls.

Subspecies
Despite the limited range of the species, two subspecies are generally recognized, differing in the shapes of the fruits and of the hairs in the pubescence:

Physaria lepidota subsp. lepidota

and

Physaria lepidota subsp. membranacea

The two subspecies also differ in chromosome number (2n=16 for subsp. lepidota, 2n=8 for subsp. membranacea).

References

lepidota
Flora of Utah
Endemic flora of the United States
Kane County, Utah
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Seven-Faceted Blessing

text:
The Seven-Faceted Blessing (, berakha aḥat me‘en sheva‘) is a blessing recited in the Jewish liturgy of Friday evenings. It is similar to the out-loud repetition of the Amidah, which is recited in each daytime prayer. On typical evenings, the Amidah is recited only silently, with no out-loud repetition, but on Friday nights, in honor of the Sabbath, the Seven-Faceted Blessing is recited as an abbreviated repetition.

As the normal Sabbath Amidah prayer contains seven blessings, the Seven-Faceted Blessing contains a condensed version of the themes in these seven blessings. The Seven-Faceted Blessing begins with the beginning of the text of the first blessing of the Amidah; continues with the paragraph “Magen Avot” (מגן אבות), which summarizes the themes of all seven blessings of the Sabbath Amidah; and concludes with a paragraph about the sanctity of the sabbath, and a concluding sentence: "Blessed are You, O Lord, who sanctifies the Sabbath."

The Seven-Faceted Blessing is recited every Friday evening of the year, even if it coincides with a festival or Yom Kippur. This is in contrast to most of the Sabbath liturgy, which is jettisoned if a particular Sabbath falls on a festival or on Yom Kippur.

In the Eastern Ashkenazic rite and in most Sephardic communities, this blessing is omitted on the first night of Passover, because that is considered a "time of protection"; in the Western Ashkenazic rite as well as many Chasidic communities, it is recited as normal.

The text of the Seven-Faceted Blessing (in accordance with the Ashkenazic version—other traditions have very similar versions) can be found in Seder Avodat Yisra’el on pp. 190–191. The text used in most Western Sephardic Communities can be found in "Seder Tefilah" of Mantua.

In medieval Europe, it was fairly common for congregations to insert special poems, called Magen Avot piyyutim, into the middle of this blessing; while this is less common today, some Western Ashkenazic communities (such as Khal Adath Jeshurun) recite such a piyyut when the second night of Shavuot falls on the Sabbath.

References

Jewish prayer and ritual texts
Jewish blessings
Maariv
Shabbat prayers


title: List of highways in Ponce, Puerto Rico

text:
This is a list of highways in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The list focuses on major, signed, roads in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The list shows local roads, that is, those with both terminuses within the municipality ("intra-municipal" roads), as well as inter-municipal roads.

List of highways

See also

 List of highways in Puerto Rico
 List of streets in Ponce, Puerto Rico

References

External links

History of Puerto Rico

Highways
Transportation in Ponce, Puerto Rico


title: Apollo of Gaza

text:
The Apollo of Gaza is a rare bronze sculpture of Magna Graecia of the Ancient Greek god Apollo found in the Gaza Strip in 2013. It was put for sale on eBay, and subsequently withdrawn and seized by police thanks to the publication of the story along with photographs by the Italian journalist Fabio Scuto on la Repubblica.

Discovery
The statue was claimed to have been recovered from the sea in August 2013 by Joudat Ghrab, a local Palestinian fisherman. Ghrab said that he saw the statue lying in shallow waters near the Gaza border with Egypt, and initially thought the statue was a badly burnt body. It took four hours to get the statue ashore. The statue was later put for sale on the internet auction site eBay for $500,000 by members of Ghrab's family. The sale price is believed to be significantly below its true value. Police appointed by Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, subsequently seized the statue and are investigating its provenance.

Design
The statue has not been examined by archaeologists, but a Reuters report published in The Guardian attests to "a few blurred photographs of the intact deity, who is laid out incongruously on a blanket emblazoned with Smurfs". The evidence dates the statue to between the 5th century BC and the 1st century BC. The statue depicts Apollo with curly hair and one eye possibly inlaid with a blue stone iris, standing upright with an outstretched arm, and with his palm held up.

Historians have suggested that the statue was found on land rather than at sea owing to its apparent good preservation, without signs of metal disfigurement or barnacles. Noting the green patina, Gaza archaeologist Fadel al-Utol said: "If it had spent time underwater, the bronze would be blackened." The obscure location of the statue's discovery could be used to avoid ownership arguments. Ghrab said he believed the statue had been "...gifted to [him] by God...My financial situation is very difficult and I am waiting for my reward."

Notes

References

External links
New York Times video - Greek Statue found in Gaza

2014 in the Gaza Strip
5th-century BC Greek sculptures
Ancient Greek bronze statues of the classical period
Archaeology of Palestine (region)
Art of Magna Graecia
Sculptures of Apollo


title: Emily Kane

text:
Emily A. Kane is an American politician who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 15 from January 15, 2013, through January 2015.

Early life
Kane was born on May 14, 1956, in Eugene, Oregon. She attended the Emergency Medical Services Academy at the University of New Mexico.

Career
With District 15 incumbent Democratic Representative Bill O'Neill running for New Mexico Senate, Kane ran in the three-way June 5, 2012, Democratic Primary, winning with 962 votes (44.5%) and won the November 6, 2012, General election with 6,850 votes (51.2%) against Republican nominee Christopher Saucedo.

Kane sought a second term but was defeated for re-election by attorney Sarah Maestas Barnes, who won with 7,358 votes (53.2%) to 6,467 (46.8%) for Kane. The New Mexico Supreme Court later ruled that city Albuquerque city government employees, including police and fire, would be barred from holding public office concurrently.

References

External links
 Official page at the New Mexico Legislature
 Campaign site

 Emily A. Kane at Ballotpedia
 Emily A. Kane at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

1956 births
Living people
21st-century American firefighters
Democratic Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Politicians from Eugene, Oregon
Women state legislators in New Mexico
21st-century American women


title: Rodolfo Villena Hernández

text:
Rodolfo Villena Hernández (born 1968) is a Mexican artisan who specializes in “cartonería” a type of hard paper mache used to sculpt piñatas, holiday decorations, Judas figures as well as the building of monumental works which have been exhibited in Puebla, Mexico City and Chicago. He has also been involved in theater. His work has been recognized with various awards over his career.

Life
Villena Hernández was born in Mexico City to parents who taught him to respect Mexican traditions and encouraged his interest in them. He began creating his own Day of the Dead altars when he was ten in the family garage. He studied history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, then moved to the city of Puebla when he was twenty three, where he still lives.

Cartonería career

He began his artisan career in 1990, after taking classes in cartonería, with a break for a year in 1996 when he went to New York to earn money selling chicharrones. Since then, he has been dedicated to cartonería full-time. His workshop is just outside the city of Puebla on the old highway linking this city to that of Tlaxcala, an old industrial corridor. The exterior in non-descript, distinguished only by his name on the door. Inside, there are two rooms filled with creations in various stages of completion as well as walls covered in various recognitions.

Villena Hernández makes most of the traditional cartonería objects such as piñatas, Lupita dolls, Judas figures, but he has become known for monumental works commissioned by government and cultural institutions in Puebla and Mexico City related to Holy Week, Christmas, Corpus Christi and Day of the Dead. Of these, his altars related to Day of the Dead are of particular note, especially the skeletal figures that adorn them. He has created altars in honor of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (2009) for the Puebla city hall, the Mexican Revolution for the Complejo Cultural Universitaria of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (2010), the China Poblana with various students for the Puebla city hall (2012) and one for José Guadalupe Posada for the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago (2013) . The artisan represents death as something happy, fun and irreverent, with the skeletal figures in movement. His works also show influence from José Guadalupe Posada in their sense of irony.

His work has been exhibited in various locations in Mexico as well as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Madrid, which included an invitation to the National Museum of Mexican Art for a month. His work can be found in public and private collections including that of Richard Harris’ collection of death memorabilia and at the Casa de Venados in Mérida, Yucatán. However, he says that his work is better appreciated outside of Mexico, with few in the country willing to pay what the creations are worth. He also finds it difficult to get government and non-governmental support to exhibit outside the country. To supplement his income from sales, he also gives classes as rents pieces for showings.

Villena Hernández’s cartonería work has won awards and recognitions in Puebla, other parts of Mexico and the United States. In 2001, he won first place at the Premio de Arte Popular of FONART, for a 3.4 meter train boarded by skeletal figures depicting the Mexico Revolution, which took six months and seven kilos of paper to make. He was named one of the 475 distinguished citizens of the state of Puebla. In 2013, he was named a “master of popular art” (maestro de arte popular) by the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City. He has also been interviewed for radio, television and newspapers for his work related to culture.

Theatrical career
In addition to his cartonería, Villena Hernández has also been involved with the theatre, directing and producing plays with his own company (Compañia Teatral de Rodolfo Villena) . He also wrote and produced a play called “La Gatita del Principal” as a tribute to María Conesa in 1994.

References

Mexican artists
1968 births
Living people
Paper artists
Papier-mâché
Artists from Mexico City


title: Alexander Grant (Massachusetts politician)

text:
Alexander Grant (1853–1935) was a Massachusetts machinist and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the sixth mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Personal life
Grant was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 26, 1853.  Grant was educated in the Lowell, Massachusetts public schools. In 1879 in Chicopee, he married Annie M. Vanzandt (1854–1934), original from Rome, New York. His wife preceded him in death by a few months.

Business career
Grant went to work in the cotton mills of Lowell while he was still young, and aside from two and a half years working in a Lowell machine shop, he spent his business career in the cotton business. In March 1878 Grant moved to Chicopee where he went to work for the Dwight Manufacturing Company.

Political career
Grant was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Chicopee Board of Aldermen, and in 1895 he was elected to represent the Fifth Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Notes

1853 births
1935 deaths
Mayors of Chicopee, Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Politicians from Lawrence, Massachusetts


title: Lake Caracocha

text:
Lake Caracocha or Lake Ccaraccocha (both possibly from Quechua q'ara naked, bald, unpopulated, qucha lake) is a lake in Peru located in the Huancavelica Region, Huaytará Province, Pilpichaca District. It is situated at a height of about . Caracocha lies south of the lakes named Choclococha and Orcococha.

The Caracocha dam was erected in 2000. It is  long and  tall. It is operated by INADE. The reservoir has a capacity of .

References

Lakes of Peru
Lakes of Huancavelica Region
Dams in Peru
Buildings and structures in Huancavelica Region


title: V. Mohini Giri

text:
Dr. V. Mohini Giri (born 1938) is an Indian Community service worker and activist, who has been Chairperson of the Guild of Service, a New Delhibased social service organization. Established in 1979, it provides advocacy for women's and children's rights for education, employment, and financial security. She founded War Widows Association, New Delhi in 1972. She has also remained Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (19951998).

In 2007, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, given by Government of India.

Early life and background
Born in Lucknow to scholar Dr. V. S. Ram, she graduated from Lucknow University, followed by post graduation in Ancient Indian history from University of Delhi, and a doctorate from G.B. Pant University.

Giri is the daughter-in-law of V. V. Giri, former President of India.

Career
Giri started her career as an academic and established the women's studies department at Lucknow University. Giri has been the Founder President of the War Widows Association which was formed in 1972 after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
 and in 2000 became the  Founder Trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia.

She is also a board member of The Hunger Project, a New York-based international charity.

Bibliography
 V. Mohini Giri (2006). Deprived Devis: Women's Unequal Status in Society. Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi.
 V. Mohini Giri; Meera Khanna (2021). Mantras For Positive Ageing. Pippa Rann Books and Media, UK.

References

1938 births
Living people
Indian women activists
Writers from Lucknow
Delhi University alumni
Widowhood in India
Indian women's rights activists
Indian social sciences writers
Women's studies academics
University of Lucknow alumni
Academic staff of the University of Lucknow
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in social work
Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Women in Uttar Pradesh politics
Women writers from Uttar Pradesh
Activists from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian educational theorists
20th-century Indian women educational theorists
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian non-fiction writers
Scholars from Lucknow
21st-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian non-fiction writers
Women educators from Uttar Pradesh
Educators from Uttar Pradesh
Social workers from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian women educators
20th-century Indian educators


title: 32nd Battalion, CEF

text:
The 32nd Battalion, CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

History
The battalion was authorized on 3 November 1914 and embarked for Britain on 23 February 1915. It was redesignated as the 32nd Reserve Battalion, CEF on 18 April 1915. It absorbed the 195th Battalion (City of Regina) (now perpetuated by the Royal Regina Rifles) in November 1916. On 4 January 1917 its personnel were absorbed by the 15th Reserve Battalion, CEF, to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field. The battalion disbanded on 1 September 1917.

The 32nd Battalion recruited in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and was mobilized at Winnipeg.

The 32nd Battalion had three Officers Commanding:

Lt.-Col. H.J. Cowan, 7 March 1915 – 15 September 1915
Lt.-Col. C.D. MacPherson, 15 September 1915 – 1 August 1916
Lt.-Col. F.J. Clarke, 2 August 1916 – 2 January 1917

In 1929, the 32nd Battalion was awarded the battle honour "The Great War, 1915–17".

Perpetuation
The 32nd Battalion, CEF, is perpetuated by The 12th Manitoba Dragoons, currently on the Supplementary Order of Battle.

See also

 List of infantry battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

References

Sources

Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962

032
Military units and formations of Manitoba
Military units and formations of Saskatchewan
12th Manitoba Dragoons


title: Niche (protein structural motif)

text:
In the area of protein structural motifs, niches are three or four amino acid residue features in which main-chain CO groups are bridged by positively charged or δ+ groups. The δ+ groups include groups with two hydrogen bond donor atoms such as NH2 groups and water molecules. In typical proteins, 7% of amino acid residues belong to niches bound to a δ+ group, while another 7% have the conformation but no single cationic bridging group is detected.

Niches are of two kinds, distinguished as niche3 (3 residues, i to i+2) and niche4 (4 residues, i to i+3). In a niche3 motif the δ+-binding carbonyl groups are from residues i and i+2 while in a niche4 motif they are from residues i and i+3.

A niche3 has the α conformation for residue i+1 and the β conformation for residue i+2; a niche4 has the α conformation for residues i+1 and i+2 and the β conformation for residue i+3.

A niche occurs commonly at the C-terminus of α-helices and especially of 310 helices.

Metal ions that occur bound to niches in proteins are Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+. Proteins with regulatory cations often employ niches for metal binding (e.g., thrombin, Na+; annexin, Ca2+; pyruvate dehydrogenase, K+).

A major cation transporter in cells is calcium ATPase. In the Ca2+-bound crystal structures the two calcium ions side-by-side within the transmembrane domain are thought to be at the halfway stage of being transported. As well as being bound by various side chain carbonyl groups, one of these calcium ions is bound by a niche3/niche4 (both in the one motif) at residues 304–307 at the C-terminus of an α-helix.

A lysine side chain in the nuclear export receptor CRM1 is recognised specifically by a niche conformation that has to be adopted as a key part of the nuclear export signal of proteins exiting the nucleus.

A sodium ion in the Fluc fluoride channel is situated at the dyad axis of the dimer, bound tetrahedrally by two niche4s, one from each subunit. A Sodium ion bound in similar ways at the domain interface is seen in several other Na+-coupled transporters.

The Hsp70 interdomain linker region of 10 residues enables allosteric communication between two folded domains. The N-terminal part of the linker has a niche4 structure that is water-bound.

In the scorpion toxin BeM9 the side chain of arginine 60 binds the carbonyls of residues 61 and 63 as a niche3. The motif, loss of which alters the specificity of the protein for voltage-gated sodium channels, is named "arginine hand". The slightly unusual dihedral angles for a niche3 are because this niche3 accommodates two separate NH groups from the arginine's guanidino group.

Another small tripeptide motif that binds cations or δ+ groups via main-chain CO groups is called the catgrip.

References

External links
 Motivated Proteins: ;
 PDBeMotif: ;

Protein structural motifs


title: Bedros Magakyan

text:
Bedros Magakyan (1826–1891), was an Ottoman-Armenian actor and theater director. He was the founder of the Armenian Oriental Theater.

Life

Bedros Magakyan founded a theater with actors of Armenian descent inspired by Europe and with permission from Sultan Abdülmecid I. The theater was founded in 1857 and originally performed classical European plays such as the works of Shakespeare.

References

 Raşit Çavaş, Bedros Magakyan, Dünden Bugüne İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, c. 5, s. 238, 1994. .

1826 births
1891 deaths
19th-century male actors from the Ottoman Empire
Ethnic Armenian male actors
Male stage actors from the Ottoman Empire
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
19th-century Armenian people
Theatre directors from the Ottoman Empire


title: Fairfax Township

text:
Fairfax Township may refer to the following townships in the United States:

 Fairfax Township, Linn County, Iowa
 Fairfax Township, Polk County, Minnesota