title: Yuan Gong

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Yuan Gong (, born 1961 in Shanghai), is a Chinese contemporary artist. He has obtained a PhD degree in theory of art at the Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2012, but has immersed himself in different aspects of Chinese contemporary art since the 1990s. Being both creator and researcher, designer and planner, Yuan is a multiple facets artist playing at the interface of conceptual art, performance and fine arts. Using a large variety of media, his artworks address many philosophical questions, reflecting his concerns about the Chinese society and impugning the art system, the exhibition format and the status of the artwork.

Life and works

Yuan graduated from the Shanghai Printing Technical School with a specialization in artistic platemaking. He started his career as a designer before pursuing it as an artist. He held his first solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1997 and has participated in more than 20 group exhibitions around the world.

He has hold solo exhibitions in main art spaces in China such as the Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), the Tianrenheyi Art Center (Hangzhou), the Zendai Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai), Bund18 Ailing Foundation (Shanghai).

Major exhibitions in which he has participated in recent years include the Collateral event "Voice of the Unseen" of the 55th Venice Biennale, the thematic exhibition at the China Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale, the Copenhagen Art Festival, the 6th Prague Contemporary Art Festival, the inaugural Beijing 798 Biennale, the 4th China Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival and the 4th Chengdu Biennale.

Within the "3+X" exhibition pattern, promoted by Shaheen Merali, Jin Weihong, Ai Weiwei and Shen Qibin, Yuan has exhibited with artists such as Jin Feng, Qiu Zhijie, Xu Zhen, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Xi Jianjun, the Gao Brothers and Zhao Zhao. Within these exhibitions the artists present their work in different spaces, emphasizing the independence of the creation process, of the artworks and of the artists themselves.

In 2006 he launched the New Power China Biennale as a curator in order to promote young emerging Chinese artists. In 2007, he initiated the Tibet series Art Project "Transparent Scene" and organized artist residencies in Tibet for several months. After the 2008 Tibetan unrest (also known as"3.14 riots") he created China Size, an installation-performance using a 3.14 scale, shown at the 4th Songzhuang Art Festival.

The same year, following the Sichuan earthquake, he was volunteered researcher for one year in the disaster area, from which he produced some of his most iconic and controversial artworks, Sounding off 5.12 with Dong Feng and Red Curtains 5.12. During this year, he conducted a survey gathering local testimonies.  The testimonies produced photographs, videos, and installations made using materials collected from the disaster area.

In May 2009, after his stay at the Department of Archaeology of Peking University, he was involved as an artist in the archaeological excavation of Duke of Zhou temple in Shaanxi province. Allegedly breaking rules of conventional thinking, he collected the soil dug from the excavations and launched the Duke of Zhou Soil Collection Plan.

Since 2011 and his artwork the Scented Air 6000 m3 presented at the China Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale, Yuan uses fog media to pervade the exhibition space or to interfere with people. In his new productions, he has developed a variety of devices and different mechanisms to produce fog, invading public spaces and disrupting the established order (The Stroll, 2012; Air Strikes around the world, 2013).

In 2007, Yuan was awarded the Culture China Person of the Year Award. He received the ICS City Beat EDGE Artist of the Year Award in 2009. The same year, his work Sounding off 5.12 with Dong Feng was included in the book "60 Years of New China Art Interview 1949-2009", edited by the Chinese art theorist Shao Dazhen. His artworks have been collected by the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Hubei Museum of Art, the Arthur Sackler Museum of Peking University, and are part of the Sigg's collection of Chinese contemporary art.

Exhibitions

2014
China ARTE Brasil. Oca Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo, Brazil
WE-The Contemporary Painting Exhibition of 8 artists. Shanghai, China
The Armory Show focus : China. Tianrenheyi Art Center, Pier 94, New York, United States

2013

A New Kind of Individual - Release. Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai, China
Mechanism. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Butterflies fly once more. Bund18 Ailing Foundation, Shanghai, China
It's also good without a title. Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Beijing, China<
Reappearance. Tianrenheyi Art Center, Hangzhou, China
Individual Growth - The Momentum of Contemporary Art. Tianjin Museum of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Documenta – Contemporary Art and Process of the Society. Circle Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Voice of the Unseen – Collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy
Embark! Beyond The Horizon. Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre – Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, China<
Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money. Chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China

2012
RE-INK Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2010-2012. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China & Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China<
Copenhagen Art Festival. Kunstrad Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
JETLAG - Chinese Culture Year in Germany. Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
The 4th Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2011
The 4th Sino-European Cultural Dialogue. Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
The 6th Prague Contemporary Art Festival– TINA B. Prague, Czech Republic
Pervasion - 54th Venice Biennale. The China Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Unexpected issues. Art Channel, Beijing, China.

2010
3+X People And Things Around. China Art Archives and Warehouse CAAW, Beijing, China
The 6th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang - CROSSOVER 2010. China Art Archives and Warehouse CAAW, Beijing, China<
3+X Can Be More Poetic. Shandong Center of Contemporary Art, Shandong, China
3+1 Monolog. Arthur M. Sackler Museum Of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China

2009
Drifting Communities, 798 Biennale. 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Narrating China, 4th Chengdu Biennale. Chengdu, China
REFLECTION– New Art Invitational. West Lake Museum of Art, Zhejiang, China & Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China

2008
Through the Wild, 4th Songzhuang Art Festival. China
What is Art ? 798 Art Festival. 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Virtual City, New Power – China Contemporary Art Biennale, Yuan Gong Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2007
Transparent Scene. Tibet Museum, Lhasa, China

2006
New Power. Shanghai, China

2000
14th Asia International Watercolor Exhibition. Zhengzhou Museum, Henan, China
1990s The Popular Image. Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China

1997
Yuan Gong Solo Exhibition. Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China

References

External links
 http://www.yuangong-art.com/
 http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/yuan-gong-300789/profile.html
 http://www.aaa.org.hk/Home/Search?keyword=YUAN%20Gong(%E5%8E%9F%E5%BC%93)
 http://www.artlinkart.com/en/artist/overview/685hwut

Living people
1961 births
Chinese contemporary artists
Chinese performance artists
Artists from Shanghai


title: Ochthia, Aetolia-Acarnania

text:
Ochthia (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Agrinio municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Stratos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 506 residents in the village. The community of Ochthia covers an area of 12.4 km2.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Agrinio
Aromanian settlements in Greece


New Zealand  women's national softball team, nicknamed the White Sox, is the women's national softball team for New Zealand. The "White Sox" name is one of many national team nicknames (indirectly) related to the All Blacks as well as to the famous Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox baseball teams.

The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 8 wins and 1 loss. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished sixth. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished eleventh. The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished sixth.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished eleventh. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished twelfth.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2022

2023

Players

Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2024 Women's Softball World Cup group stage from 22–26 July 2023.

Lara Andrews (captain)
Amy Begg
Erin Blackmore
Rebecca Bromhead (vice-captain)
Meeki Cooper Nicola
Emma Francis
Shyah Hale
Tyneesha Houkamau
Nerissa McDowell
Tyla Morrison
Katrina Nukunuku
Loran Parker
Pallas Potter
Lace Tangianau
Otila Tavite
Brooke Whiteman

Competitive Record

Women's Softball World Cup

World Cup of Softball

Olympics

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Softball in New Zealand
Women's national softball teams


title: Nicolas Makelberge

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Nicolas Makelberge is a Swedish artist, designer and co-founder of Médecine interior design studio in Prague.

His artworks are represented in private collections in Sweden, USA, Mexico, Czech Republic and Germany, and featured in interior design publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE Decoration and Dolce Vita. Along with his wife he runs a gallery studio Médecine Interiors specializing in curating high-end antiques, modern art and artisanal design.
Art/ Website

Nicolas' music has been nominated for various music awards in his native Sweden including the national radio awards for the 2006 album "Dying in Africa", a collaboration with Johan Tuvesson from Swedish pop duo Karl x Johan.

Discography
 2018 – Confessions (EP, DEO Records)
 2013 – Born From The Sun (EP, Emotion)
 2010 – The Unforgettable Planet (Album, Emotion)
 2006 – Dying in Africa (Album, Rico)
 2006 – "Dying in Africa" (Single, Rico)
 2005 – South America (EP, Bedroom)

Remixes / Collabs
 2021 – Nicolas Makelberge & Kalle J - Phyllis
 2020 – Kalle J - Korn av guld (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2015 – Nina K - Air (Believe in Asians)
 2014 – Fimbria - Forgiveness (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2012 – Picture - Everything Time (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2011 – Lake Heartbeat - Watch The World Go By (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2010 – Nottee - Don't Waste Your Light On Me (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2009 – Loredana - Rain Rain (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
 2007 – Friday Bridge - It Girl (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)

Media / Awards
In 2019 Swedish music magazine Synth.nu referred to the Confessions EP as "instrumental, electronic music created with hardware and a lot of heart".

In 2014, The Guardian listed the single "Dying in Africa" (a collaboration with Johan Tuvesson form Karl x Johan) as one of 10 best dance tracks out of Scandinavia.

In 2013 NY lifestyle magazine Fader referred to Nicolas Makelberge as "Probably the planet's most underrated producer".

In 2011, the follow-up record to Dying in Africa, The Unforgettable Planet, mostly an instrumental album was once again nominated at independent music makers awards, Manifestgalan in Sweden.

In 2006, Makelberge's album Dying in Africa was nominated for the P3 Guld at Swedish national radio awards and Manifestgalan in the category of pop music.

Sonic Magazine listed Dying in Africa as one of the best of 2006.

Makelberge previously released records on Rico and Emotion.

References

Swedish musical groups


title: Henri Monnot

text:
Henri Monnot was a French sailor who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With crew Léon Tellier and Gaston Cailleux and himself as helmsman, he took 3rd place in the first race of the 0 to 0.5 ton and finished 4th in the second race.

References

Further reading

External links

French male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – 0 to .5 ton
Olympic sailors for France
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in sailing
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Open class


title: Cuba women's national softball team

text:
Cuba women's national softball team represents Cuba in international softball competitions.

The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 5 wins and 4 losses. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished tenth. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished ninth.

See also

Cuba men's national softball team

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Cuba


title: Holland, Nebraska

text:
Holland is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.

History
Holland was founded in about 1886. A large share of the early settlers being natives of Holland caused the name to be selected.

There was an ice cream parlor operated by two unmarried sisters. Holland was busier than Panama and Pella. Holland has a street light as well. There was also a Dutch Reformed Church in Holland.

References

Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Kramer, Nebraska

text:
Kramer is an unincorporated rural village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States. There is a grainary there, a restaurant, and a community hall, and no other businesses or services. The population was 26 at the 2020 census.

History
Kramer was founded in 1888. It was named for Mr. Kramer, the original owner of the town site.

A post office was established in Kramer in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1955.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Bahamas women's national softball team

text:
Bahamas women's national softball team is the national team for Bahamas.  The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 4 wins and 5 losses. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished fourteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in the Bahamas
Women's sport in the Bahamas


title: Gouriotissa

text:
Gouriotissa (; ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Agrinio municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Stratos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 395 residents in the village. The community of Gouriotissa covers an area of 15.774 km2.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Agrinio
Aromanian settlements in Greece


title: Inês Faria

text:
Inês Faria, (born Maria Inês Coutinho Faria, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese actress.

Biography

Early life
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, daughter of a Brazilian born father and a Portuguese mother, Inês showed an early interest in the artistic field. She ended up studying Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, but after obtaining her degree she chose to pursue a career in acting instead. She then left for Los Angeles, USA, where she studied film acting.

Career
Inês made her first appearance on Portuguese television in the soap opera "Meu Amor", TVI, in 2010. She returned to Portugal, after studying in Los Angeles, and starred as Carolina in the TV series "A Vida Também é Isto", broadcast on SIC Radical channel and in a major commercial for the famous brands Continente and Worten. Inês hosted the International Film Festival, FESTin, in 2013, where she also made her debut as an associate producer of the documentary "Sem Anos de Solidão". In 2014 she returned to Los Angeles in order to continue studying, this time at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio. Went back to Lisbon to host the International Film Festival, FESTin 2014, where she did a tribute to actor José Wilker and share the stage with the actress Regina Duarte. Inês also hosted the closing ceremony of the festival and handed the trophies to the winners. She is one of the Portuguese actresses that got cast in the international feature film, "Streaming", to debut in 2016.

Personal life
Inês speaks three languages fluently: Portuguese, English and Spanish. She is a vegetarian and an activist for animal rights.

References

External links

Living people
Portuguese actresses
Portuguese people of Brazilian descent
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Marco Pfiffner

text:
Marco Pfiffner (born 25 March 1994) is a Swiss born, professional alpine ski racer who represents Liechtenstein.  He has competed for Liechtenstein at three Winter Olympic Games in 2016, 2018, and 2022.

Early life
Pfiffner was born in Walenstadt in the Swiss canton of St Gallen. He lives in Mauren and represents the Unterland Winter Sports Club (UWV).

Career
Pfiffner began competing in FIS races aged 15. In 2011, he participated in the Junior World Championships in Crans Montana, securing 43rd and 54th place finishes in the slalom and grand slalom.  Weeks later, he took part in the World Championships at Garmisch Partenkirchen. He finished 72nd in the giant slalom and 53rd in the slalom events. He also competed in the 2013 World Championships in Schladming.

Pfiffner was part of the Liechtenstein Olympic Team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He scored a best finish of 24th place.

On 24 January 2016, he made his World Cup debut at Kitzbuhel. His early World Cup races were in the slalom and giant slalom disciplines.

In 2017, Pfiffner raced in all disciplines at the World Championships in St Moritz. Securing 36th in the Super-G, 42nd in the Downhill, and 34th in the Combined event. His best result was 26th in the slalom.  In January 2018, he won the European Cup Combined event in Saalbach-Hinterglemm.

Pfiffner was the designed flag bearer for his second Olympic Games, in PyeongChang.  He competed in four races and secured a best result of 25th place in the slalom.

In January 2020, Pfiffner scored his first FIS World Cup points with 29th place in the Labuerhorn Combination event in Wengen.  He took part in the 2021 World Championships in Cortina D'Ampezzo.

Pfiffner was once again part of the Liechtenstein Olympic Team for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. He finished 28th in both the Downhill and Super-G disciplines, and a career-high 11th place in the Combined.

Endorsements
Pfiffner is sponsored by the bank, LGT. He also utilises Salomon and Leki equipment.

References

Living people
Olympic alpine skiers for Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein male alpine skiers
1994 births
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
People from Walenstadt


title: Prairie Home, Nebraska

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Prairie Home is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.

History
In 1872, there was a post office at the location of the future town. In 1891, the village was platted by the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad. The town's name was derived from a farm located south of the village owned by a Mr. Waite called Prairie Home. The post office in the village stopped service in 1968.

Education
It is in the Waverly School District 145.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Princeton, Nebraska

text:
Princeton is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.

History
Princeton was founded in 1886. It was likely named after Princeton, New Jersey.

A post office was established in Princeton in 1886, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1959. Pat Rileys father was born here.Leon Francis Riley Sr.
During a playing career that stretched from 1927 to 1942 and 1944 to 1949, Riley appeared in 2,267 minor league games for 21 different teams, with a brief trial with the 1944 Philadelphia Phillies during the World War II manpower shortage. He was the father of Lee and Pat Riley.

Demographics

See also

References

External links

Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


Netherlands Antilles women's national softball team is the national team for the Netherlands Antilles.  The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 4 wins and 5 losses. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twelfth. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished tenth. The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished twelfth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in the Netherlands


title: Mexico women's national softball team

text:
Mexico women's national softball team is the national team for Mexico.  The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 2 wins and 7 losses.

The country's softball team finished fourth with a 3–2 loss to Canada in the bronze-medal game at The Tokyo Olympics. The games were Mexico's first foray into Olympic softball.

2020 Olympic roster

References

External links
Federación Mexicana de Softbol A.C. (Spanish)
International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Mexico


title: Aruba women's national softball team

text:
Aruba women's national softball team is the national team for Aruba.  The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 2 wins and 7 losses.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Aruba
Women's sport in Aruba


title: Bermuda women's national softball team

text:
Bermuda women's national softball team is the national team for Bermuda.  The team competed at the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished with 1 win and 8 losses.  The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-fourth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Women's sport in Bermuda
Softball in Bermuda


title: Network 10 Olympic broadcasts

text:
The broadcast network Network 10 has televised the Olympic Games three times in Australia. 10 first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 1984.

Overview
10 had exclusive Australian free-to-air, online and mobile telephony broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the live telecast of the XXII Olympiad.

On 14 May 2013, the International Olympic Committee announced that Network Ten had secured broadcasting rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics, for A$20 million. Its flagship nightly program was Sochi Tonight, and it marked the first time a network used a multichannel to air Olympic content, with ONE airing different content to the primary Ten channel.

Broadcast rights history

Staff and Commentators

2014 Winter Olympics
 Stephen Quartermain
 Mel McLaughlin
 Alisa Camplin
 Brad McEwan
 Greg Rust
 Nicole Livingstone
 Steven Bradbury
 Steven Lee
 David Culbert
 Steph Hickey
 Mitch Tomlinson
 Luke Kneller
 Michael Kennedy
 Lachie Reid
 Rob Waters
 Mark Howard
 Magdalena Roze
 Nuala Hafner
 Mazoe Ford
 Danielle Isdale
 Scott Mackinnon
 Matt Doran
 Melinda Nucifora
 Max Futcher
 Roy & H.G

See also
Olympics on Nine
Olympics on Seven
Olympics on Australian television
Australia at the Olympics

References

10
10 Sport
Network 10 original programming
1984 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
10


title: Meri Maa (Indian TV series)

text:
Meri Maa is an Indian television drama series which aired on Life OK from 18 December 2011 to 22 April 2012.

Plot

Young Jhilmil was lost at her young age in a festival, better to say she was abducted. Then she was raised in a slums with other kids. Jhilmil's real mother mourns for the loss of her daughter but her mother-in-law thinks she is responsible of this abduction and loss.

Cast
Sayantani Ghosh as Pratibha
Avneet Kaur as Jhilmil
Neena Kulkarni
Jatin Shah
Parikshit Sahni
Ketaki Kadam
Shahab Khan
Shivam Jagtap as Bhola

Adaptations

References

2011 Indian television series debuts
2012 Indian television series endings
Indian television series
Indian television soap operas
Indian drama television series
Life OK original programming


Soviet Union women's national softball team is the national team for the Soviet Union.  A representative for the team attended the 1990 ISF Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois in advance of plans to compete at the next World Championships.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in the Soviet Union
Women's sport in the Soviet Union


title: Palaiomanina

text:
Palaiomanina (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Xiromero municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Astakos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 754 residents in the village. The community of Palaiomanina covers an area of 26.82 km2.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Xiromero
Aromanian settlements in Greece


Busan–Gimhae Light Rail Transit Operation Corporation, also known as B&G Metro is a private corporation which was established in 2003 to operate the Busan–Gimhae Light Rail Transit in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea.

See also
 Busan–Gimhae Light Rail Transit

References

External links
 BGLRT Operation Co., Ltd. website

Busan Metro
Railway companies of South Korea
Transport operators of South Korea
Companies based in Gimhae
Railway companies established in 2003
South Korean companies established in 2003


title: Allan Zavod

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Allan Zavod  (16 October 1945 – 29 November 2016) was an Australian pianist, composer, jazz musician and occasional conductor whose career was mainly in America.

Zavod completed a music degree from the Melbourne Conservatorium, University of Melbourne in 1969. His talent as a pianist was recognised by Duke Ellington, who arranged for him to study at the Berklee College of Music, Boston – where Zavod was later a professor of music.

Zavod was based in the US for 20 years, where he played, toured and recorded. He scored more than 30 American and Australian films and television shows. His symphonic works have been performed by orchestras in Australia, Europe and the U.S. He composed the Environmental Symphony for orchestra, narrator and synchronized visuals which was performed at the 2010 Banksia Environmental Awards and narrated by Sir Richard Branson.

The University of Melbourne awarded Zavod the Degree of Doctor of Music in recognition of his international achievements as a composer.

Biography

Zavod was classically trained at University of Melbourne Conservatorium after being awarded the prestigious full Ormond scholarship. In the late 1960s he was discovered by Duke Ellington, who arranged for him to further his jazz studies at famed Berklee College of Music, Boston, where Zavod taught.

He spent the following 30 years in the US performing. He performed before the Queen and years later Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and recently Prince and Princess Norodom of Cambodia, heads of country and state, foreign dignitaries, government bodies, universities and charitable organizations in many countries. Zavod was also a studio musician with such artist as Jean Luc-Ponty, toured in Frank Zappa's band in 1984, and provided studio work on Zappa's release "Guitar".

As a film composer he wrote scores for more than 40 films, documentaries, television and theatre, including:
 Six Concertos: (for Piano, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Guitar, Oboe)
 Concertato for Orchestra: Works for Choir, Brass Band, Classical and Jazz Ensembles
 The International Red Cross, celebrating the centennial of the first Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations Geneva Switzerland featuring Australian violinist Rupert Guenther
 Work for The Olympic Games I.O.C. Performance and recording Sydney, Australia
 Hurricane Katrina commemoration, New Orleans, Louisiana
 Australian archive of Jewish Music
 Bi Centennial Australia Day celebrations Televised Nationally Opera House Sydney.
 Orchestrations of Traditional Folk songs for Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi, Vietnam
 2015 Anzac Gallipoli commemoration Zavod performed on board ship at a dawn service in Anzac Cove Gallipoli with New Zealand Opera Singer Dame Malvina Major: ‘Australia Remembers’ WW11 Gala tribute (arrangements)
 5-movement symphony ‘The Environmental Symphony for Orchestra, Narrator and Synchronized Visuals.’ Narration written by Scientist Dr Alan Finkel Chancellor of Monash University and narrated by Sir Richard Branson.

Awards
In 2009, he was awarded the Doctor of Music Degree by the University of Melbourne. Being one of only five recipients of an earned doctorate in composition over the history of the university, this higher doctorate is awarded to scholars who have “made an international contribution to music knowledge.”

Original compositions performed
 2015 Flurry A work for violin, clarinet and piano
 2015 Good Vibrations Concertato for Orchestra Queensland Youth Orchestra Conductor John Curro AM MBE World Premiere Q.PAC Concert Hall Qld. Aus.
 2011 Concerto for Oboe soloist Diana Doherty, Queensland Youth Symphony conductor John Curro AM MBE. World Premiere QPAC Qld.
 2010 Urban Concerto for Guitar, Jazz Ensemble and Orchestra soloist Slava Grigoryan with SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra. World premiere, Sydney Aus.
 2010 Environmental Symphony for Orchestra and Narrator to be performed Oct 15 at The Banksia Awards, Sydney, Narrator Sir Richard Branson Narrative written by Dr Alan Finkel AM World premier, Sydney.
 2010 The Super Jam Sessions- Nigel Kennedy violin, Zavod keyboards Abbotsford Convent Melb, Basement, Sydney.
 2008 Australian Concert Trio on tour with “Sting” Zavod piano, David Berlin cello, Slava Grigoryan guitar Sydney Opera House. Melb. Concert Hall. Festival Theatre Perth. Adelaide, Australia.
 2006 Force D’Esprit commissioned and performed by Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Klauspeter Seibel. World premiere New Orleans US.
 2003 Concerto for Jazz Trombone soloist James Morrison with the Munich Radio Orchestra conductor Gavin Sutherland. World premiere Munich, Germany.
 2003 Concerto for Trumpet, Jazz Trio and Orchestra soloist James Morrison with the Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland- Munich, Germany.
 2001 Concerto for Trumpet, Jazz Trio and Orchestra soloist James Morrison with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Opera House Sydney Aus.
 2000 Olympic Rhapsody Zavod solo piano: composed and performed for I.O.C. Sydney Olympics
 2000 Youth Suite for Classical Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles Wesley College, Melbourne
 2000-1985... Thirty US and Australian film scores including a movie with celebrated guitarist Eric Clapton, A Disney film and an award-winning Australian children's film for "Shines" director Scott Hicks.
 1996 The Hobbit scored for Australian live theatre nationally (Polyglot Theatre Company) Recording.
 1995 Concerto for Trumpet, Jazz Trio and Orchestra soloist James Morrison with the Adelaide Symphony Orch. World Premiere Adelaide Concert Hall.
 1989 Le Promenade for Symphonic Band Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band (Melbourne Youth Music Council).
 1988 Concerto Australiana A Piano Concerto for Jazz Trio and Orchestra. (Australia Council commission) Performed on Australia Day, Australian Bicentennial at the Sydney Opera House. Soloist/composer Allan Zavod with Australian Youth Orchestra- live national broadcast ABC TV. Released in association with ABC for audio recording and televised broadcast-World premiere
 1988 Rockin Along Commissioned by and for the Australian Girls Choir.
 1987 Winner Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Song Contest held in Kuala Lumpur, representing Australia sponsored by SBS Song Composer and music director.

Educator

 Speaker Composition Seminar Monash University for Dr Thomas Reiner.
 Monash University  Mannix Fellow and speaker Mannix College Fellowship Lecture.
 Tutor for Composition courses years 1-3 Victorian College of the Arts. Guest juror Victorian College of the Arts.
 Twice speaker for “Careers In Music”(Melbourne University).
 Artist in Residence Melbourne University
 Devised and taught an elective on Classical/Jazz Fusion in Composition and Performance.
 Twice Artist in Residence Wesley College Melbourne-
 Devised and taught courses in jazz improvisation.
 Composed and conducted a large orchestral work for Wesley College incorporating Symphonic Band, String Ensemble, Big Band and members of the Choir.
 Melbourne Youth Music Camp as head of the Jazz Choir-visited in 1988 by HRH. Prince of Wales and Princess Diana.
 Australian Musician Magazine writer -music lessons-15 years.
 Speaker Stonnington Council Mentors Program (Melbourne).
 Challenging youth through orchestral works in the classical/jazz genre.(e.g. Australian Youth Orchestra, SBS Youth Television and Radio Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony).

International and national tours

 2015 Europe Tour. Solo and trio
 2014 Asia Tour Vietnam, Cambodia Hong Kong
 2008 Aus Concert trio ZBG Australian ‘Sting’ Tour
 2004 Hardbite Northern European tour
 1973–1990s Allan Zavod Trio Australia wide
 1974-1986 Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, Glenn Miller Orchestra

Discography as primary and associate artist, and/or composer

 Concerto for Trumpet, Jazz Trio and Orchestra (broadcast ABC)
 Concerto for Jazz Trombone (broadcast Munich)
 Urban Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (broadcast SBS)
 Concerto for Oboe  and Orchestra Resilient Spirit - Oboe Soloist Dianna Doherty (DVD jvd video prod)
 Environmental symphony for Orchestra, Narrator and synchronised visuals (Five movement)Narration Dr Alan Finkel Narrator Sir Richard Branson (rec)
 Concertato for Orchestra  Good Vibrations (ABC Recording )(DVD)
 A work for Violin, Clarinet and Piano – Flurry(ABC Recording) Plexus Trio
 Force D'Esprit (broadcast Louisiana)
 What's New (Larrikin Records)
 Death of a Soldier- film soundtrack (Avante-Guard Records)
 The Hobbit -soundtrack (Zav Music/Fantasy Records)
 Classic Hymns Vol 1, Vol 11 (Brunson Brother Recordings)
 More Great Australian Film and TV Themes (ABC Records)
 w/Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, 3, 4 and 6, Guitar (Barking Pumpkin Records and Rykodisc)
 w/Maynard Ferguson “Chameleon” (Columbia)
 w/Jean-Luc Ponty: Jean-Luc Ponty Live, A Taste for Passion, Cosmic Messenger, Enigmatic Ocean, Imaginary Voyage (Atlantic Records)
 New York Mary (Geffen Records)
 Zavod, Berlin, Grigoryan “The Australian Concert Trio” (ZBG Records)
 Ballade For Annia  (Move Records)
 Live at BMW Edge “So Many Notes” (Jewish Museum of Australia/Gandel Centre of Judaica)
 w/Billy Cobham-John Scofield “Life and Times” WEA
 w/Gary Burton-Mike Gibbs  “In the Public Interest” Polydor Records
 Olympic Rhapsody (Zav Records)
 Humanity United (Zav Records), with Rupert Guenther (violin)
 The Anthony I. Ginnane Collection (1M1 Records)
 w/Australian Crawl “Between A Rock and a Hard Place” (EMI)
 w/Maurie Fields “Cheers”, “All The Best”, “Music of a Lifetime” (Virgin and CEL)
 Lil Elvis  (ABC Records)
 Australia Land of Today (Polygram)

Selected 20th-century work

 1972 American Tour with Glenn Miller Orchestra under Buddy De Franco
 1974 World Tour and recording with the Maynard Ferguson Big Band - "Chameleon" Available on Columbia
 1976 Recorded with the Billy Cobham Band, "Life and Times" Available on C.B.S
 1980 A.B.C Showband – Music Arranger
 1984 World Tours with Frank Zappa, including Live Video and Recording "Does Humour Belong in Music" produced by Frank Zappa, "Frank Zappa Guitar" Disc 1 and 2 Ryko Disc, US and "You Can’t Do That On Stage" 1-6 Barking Pumpkin Records, US
 1985 Guest Recording Artist with "Australian Crawl"
 1988 Winner W.R.O.K. Australian Bicentennial Songwriters Award
 1992 "All the Best" Maurie Fields – Virgin Records, (Producer)
 1992 "Cheers" Maurie Fields – Virgin Records, (Producer)
 1989 Winner Australian Writers and Art Directors Award
 1992 Conductor Judith Durham, M.C.G – Final World Cup Cricket
 1993 "Let me Find Love" Judith Durham (Co-Producer, music director, Arranger)
 1993 "Australia Land of Today" Judith Durham (Producer, music director, Arranger)
 1993 A.B.C Soundtrack C.D "More Great Australia Film and TV Themes" (Right hand Man Theme)
 1993 – 1995 Judge, Australian Film Institute Awards for Music
 1996 "Maurie Fields – Music of a Lifetime" CEL Records (Producer)
 1996 "Lil Elvis" Australian Children's Television Foundation (Songwriter)
 1997 Began Australian Musician magazine Music Educator.
 1997 Featured in Oxford Companion to Australian Music
 1999 JRR Tolkien "The Hobbit" Australia wide Theatre production
 2000 Australian composers Guild Award (Sandy Dennis), Government House Sydney
 1999-2001 Special guest lecturer Melbourne University "Careers in Music".
 2000 "Olympic Rhapsody 2000" CD – IOC Performance Olympic Games Sydney
 2001 Stonnington Council "Mentor program" guest speaker

References

1945 births
2016 deaths
People educated at Brighton Grammar School
Australian male composers
Australian composers
Australian jazz pianists
Musicians from Melbourne
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Male pianists
Male jazz musicians
Australian film score composers


title: Moderate Front

text:
The Moderate Front (also called the Moderate Islamist Front for Combating Violence and Extremism, the Islamic Alliance to Support Stability and Renounce Violence and the Movement of Moderation to Confront the Religious Extremism) is an alliance composed of former jihadis, ex-members of the Muslim Brotherhood and ex-al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya members. The leader of the alliance is Sabra al-Qasemy al-Wasateyya, who was a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The alliance was founded after the 30 June ouster of Mohamed Morsi and subsequent attacks on civilians. The coalition has supported Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for president in the Egyptian 2014 presidential election. The Muslim Brotherhood has been criticized by the group for its calling for protests on the anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud clashes; the members of the alliance want the Brotherhood to turn away from violence. One of the members of the organization, Amr Emara, is also the coordinator of the Dissident Brotherhood Youth Alliance. The leader of the Democratic Jihad Party (Yasser Saad) is currently a member of the front.

The organization worked on a book to combat takfir ideology; the book was published in October 2013 and distributed in Arish.

References

2013 establishments in Egypt


South Korea women's national softball team is the national team for South Korea. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished fifteenth. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished fourteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
Women's national sports teams of South Korea
Softball in South Korea


title: Sweden women's national softball team

text:
Sweden women's national softball team is the national team for Sweden. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished sixteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
S
Softball in Sweden


title: Colombia women's national softball team

text:
Colombia women's national softball team is the national team for Colombia. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished seventeenth. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished thirteenth.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished sixteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
softball
Softball in Colombia


title: Botswana women's national softball team

text:
Botswana women's national softball team is the national team for Botswana. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished eighteenth.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished fourteenth. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished sixteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
Women's national sports teams of Botswana
Softball in Botswana


The Czech Republic women's national softball team is the national softball team for Czech Republic. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished nineteenth. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished twelfth. The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished fifteenth. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished tenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in the Czech Republic


title: Spain women's national softball team

text:
Spain women's national softball team is the national team for Spain. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twentieth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Spain


title: France women's national softball team

text:
France women's national softball team is the national team for France. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-first.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
Women's national sports teams of France
Softball in France


Great Britain women's national softball team is the national team for Great Britain. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship where they finished twenty-third.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship where they finished tenth. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship where they finished eleventh. The team competed at the 2022 Women's Softball European Championship where they won a silver medal.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2022

2023

Medal record

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in the United Kingdom


title: Moldova women's national softball team

text:
Moldova women's national softball team is the national team for Moldova. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-fifth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Moldova
Women's sports clubs and teams in Moldova


title: Ukraine women's national softball team

text:
Ukraine women's national softball team is the national team for Ukraine. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-sixth. They have not qualified since.

The women's team competed at the 2019 Women's European Softball Championships, finishing 20th.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Ukraine


title: Austria women's national softball team

text:
Austria women's national softball team is the national team for Austria. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-seventh.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
Softball in Austria
Softball


title: Perrine Laffont

text:
Perrine Laffont (born 28 October 1998) is a French mogul skier and the 2017 Dual Moguls world champion and moguls silver medalist. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in the moguls event, and was back-to-back overall winner of the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons.

On 8 March 2021, Perrine Laffont won the single mogul skiing event at the world championships on the Almaty piste in Kazakhstan.

Olympic results
 1 medals – (1 gold)

World Championships results
 7 medals – (5 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze)

Junior World Championships results
 5 medals – (3 gold and 2 bronze)

See also
Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's moguls

References

External links

Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
French female freestyle skiers
1998 births
Olympic freestyle skiers for France
Living people
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
Université Savoie Mont Blanc alumni
Sportspeople from Ariège (department)
21st-century French women


title: Croatia women's national softball team

text:
Croatia women's national softball team is the national team for Croatia. The team competed at the 1994 ISF Women's World Championship in St. John's, Newfoundland where they finished twenty-eighth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Croatia


title: Agrampela, Aetolia-Acarnania

text:
Agrampela (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Xiromero municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Astakos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 87 residents in the village. The community of Agrampela covers an area of 8.726 km2.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Xiromero
Aromanian settlements in Greece


title: Espace

text:
Espace may refer to:
ESPACE, a complexity class in computational complexity theory
Espace musique, a Canadian radio service
Espace 2, a Swiss radio station
Radio Espace, a French radio station
Espace Group, a French media company
Group Espace, a concrete art group
Renault Espace, a multi-purpose-vehicle
eSpace, an Egyptian software company


title: Salmson S4

text:
The Salmson S4 is a mid-size executive-level car introduced as the Salmson S4 C by Société des Moteurs Salmson in Autumn 1932. It was the manufacturer's principal and often sole model for the next twenty years.

The car's 1465 cc four-cylinder engine initially placed it in the 8CV car tax band, which would have placed it alongside lower-priced cars such as the Peugeot 301 and the Renault Monaquatre, but the Salmson's levels of technical sophistication and equipment, as well as its price, indicated that it was intended for a more aspirational clientele than these comparably sized cars. Within a few years the S4's four-cylinder engine had in any event increased in size to a point where the car sat in the 10CV car tax band, which moved the S4 up half a class as well as providing customers with a more convincing level of performance.

The engines grew and the range widened. A 2.3-litre variant, the Salmson S4 E joined the less powerful car (by now itself having evolved into the Salmson S4 DA) in October 1937. The war disrupted production, which probably stopped completely after a major bomb attack conducted by the British on 3 March 1942. Post war production resumed (or continued), albeit at feeble levels, of the four-cylinder (10CV) Salmson S4-61 till April 1952, by which date production of the 13CV Salmson S4 E had already come to an end.

Origins
Salmson had emerged as an automobile manufacturer between 1919 and 1922, having already become well established in the aviation business, initially as an aircraft manufacturer and specialising more recently in aircraft engines. Moving quickly beyond the British designed cyclecars, with which the post-war automobile business had started, during the mid-1920s the manufacturer specialised in small cars with technically advanced features such as a twin overhead camshaft and overhead valves for the car engines.

In October 1928 the manufacturer had staged a surprise at the Motor Show, presenting the "Salmson Type S" with a small 6-cylinder 9 CV engine incorporating, as on Salmson's existing 4-cylinder engines, a twin overhead camshaft. From the outside the car could be distinguished from Salmson's existing 4-cylinder cars only by the "Six" logo in the centre of the front grill. The year before the Great Depression may not have been the best time for the manufacturer to push upmarket, and the "Type S" did not sell in huge numbers. It nevertheless can be seen as a precursor to the Salmson S4 that appeared (with a 4-cylinder engine) in 1932.

The Salmson S4 both inherited and reinforced the company's strong technical reputation.

Model evolution

Salmson S4-C 8CV (1932–1934?)

The car was launched in the autumn of 1932 with a 4-cylinder 1465 cc (8CV) engine for which a maximum output of  at 3,800 rpm was claimed, supporting a listed top speed of 110 km/h (68 mph). The unit was unusual, for the time, in that it incorporated a twin overhead camshaft. It also used a dual-direction magneto coil that doubled as a starter motor, as well as a 12-volt electrical system.

Power passed to the rear wheels using a classic 4-speed manual transmission. However, from May 1934 it became possible to specify, at extra cost, a "Cotal Preselector transmission". Suspension was based on rigid axles front and back with longitudinal leaf springs, semi-elliptic at the front and attached using demi-cantilevers at the back.

At the 27th Paris Motor show in October 1933 the car was priced by the manufacturer at 21,950 francs in bare chassis form. The manufacturer's inventiveness was more apparent under the bonnet than in respect of the body options, which were mostly at best conventional: the car incorporated a flat grill at the front, which by 1933 was perceived by some a little old fashioned. The  wheelbase chassis was also offered with a selection of standard bodies that included a "faux cabriolet" 2-door four seater body priced at 29,900 francs, a four seater "coach lumineux" at 30,950 francs, a four door "berline" (sedan/saloon) at 31,650 francs, a sports bodied "roadster" at 31,450 francs and a "cabriolet" at 33,500 francs. Also listed was a "berline alongė" (lengthened sedan/saloon) at 31,950 francs.

Salmson S4-D 10CV (1934?–1936)
With the Salmson S4 D, introduced in 1934(?), the engine size was increased to 1596 cc. The tax horsepower ratio went up from 8 to 10 CV.

Salmson S4-DA 10CV (1936–1938)
In October 1936, with several thousand "Salmson S4 "s sold over the previous two years, the manufacturer used the Motor Show to launch a further upgrade. The four-cylinder engine retained its twin overhead camshafts, and the length of the piston stroke was unchanged, but a further increase in cylinder bore (diameter) provided for a further increase in capacity, now to 1731 cc. The cylinder head now featured hemispherical piston heads and centrally positioned spark plugs, which gave the engine a level of responsiveness not normally associated with a 10CV engine. The car shared its place in the 10CV tax band with the recently introduced Peugeot 302. Where comparably bodied versions existed, however, the Salmson S4 DA was nevertheless priced approximately 50% higher than the Peugeot 302: there was evidently no need for Salmson to compete on price with the volume automakers.

By now the S4 had acquired independent front suspension, using a transverse leaf spring. The back wheels were, as before, attached to a rigid axle suspended with longitudinal leaf springs.

At the 30th Paris Motor show in October 1936 the car was offered in bare chassis form at 24,000 francs. A four seater 2-door "coupė" bodied car was priced at 31,500 francs while the sedan/saloon bodied car – now described not as a "berline" but with the more traditional term "conduite intėrieur" came in at 32,800 francs. As before, the saloon/sedan bodied car had a sedate old fashioned appearance that offered no hint of the modern technology underneath. The "roadster" was priced at 35,500 francs and the four seater cabriolet at 35,900 francs. In every case, the price included a four-speed manual transmission (brought in from Delahaye), but for an extra 1,500 francs customers could specify a "Cotal Preselector transmission".

In the immediate aftermath of the economic depression that hat hit western economies in the aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, price inflation had gone into reverse and the domestic purchasing power of the French currency had begun to increase. The mid 1930s saw renewed economic paralysis in France, however, and during the second half of the decade price inflation returned with a vengeance. The Salmson S4-DA which the manufacturer had adverstized in bare chassis form for 24,000 francs in October 1936 was priced, in January 1938, at 31,200 francs: there were equivalent price increases for cars with bodies fitted.

Salmson S4 E 13CV (1937–1951)
The star of the Salmson stand at the 31st Paris Motor Show in October 1937 could have been the Salmson S4-E. The car's four-cylinder 2312 cc power unit extended the S4 range upwards, into the 13CV category. In fact, the car was placed at the far end of the stand without fanfare and without any accompanying publicity campaign, so that many visitors to the show likely missed it completely.

The S4-E incorporated the technically advanced features of the S4 DA such as an engine with twin overhead camshaft, hemispherical piston heads with the centrally positioned spark plugs. The chassis featured rack and pinion steering, with independent suspension at the front. However, the front suspension was now refined through the addition of longitudinal torsion bars, an approach probably copied from the Citroën Traction that had appeared the year before. Commentators noted that the new engine and suspension enhancements gave rise to a combination of performance and road-holding that was among the best in class for the time. Another novelty for the S4-E was a hydraulically controlled brake circuit in place of the then conventional mechanical linkage.

The wheelbase was extended by . Three standard bodies were offered. The "faux-cabriolet" (rebaptised "coupé" in October 1938) 2-door four seater was listed in October 1937 at 49,800 francs. The Berline, still listed as a "conduite-interieure" bodied car was priced at 50,900 francs. The rear doors on this car were hinged at the back: when two doors on the same side were opened there was no central pillar to impede access. The four-seater cabriolet was priced at 54,800 francs. As on the 4-cylinder S4-DA, customers were able to choose between a classic 4-speed manual transmission and a “Cotal Preselector transmission", but whereas S4 DA customers were expected to pay an extra 2,000 francs for the Cotal option, the Cotal transmission was now offered at no additional cost to S4 E buyers.

Salmson S4-61 10CV (1938–1942, 1946–1952)
The Salmson S4-61 replaced the S4 DA for 1939. Technically very little changed.

Second World War
The technically sophisticated S4 was too complicated to interest the military and the manufacturer's Billancourt factory was too small to be listed for a switch-over to war production. Production seems to have been drastically scaled back, during the early years of the war, but sources are vague on the extent and nature of any manufacturing activity, which presumably was further inhibited by the British bombing of the plant on 3 March 1942. At the end of the war, however, it was single seater racing cars based on the chassis of the Salmson S4-61 that in 1945 were supplied for the activities of the "Union Sportif automobile" which launched a competition driving school in 1945. The venture did not endure beyond 1946, but the Salmson S4-61 was seen to have survived the war.

Postwar
Salmson S4 production 1946–1949 (S4-61 and S4-E combined totals):

1946          –     75
1947          –    143
1948          –    336
1949          –    835
In 1946 production of the S4 resumed, and it continued till 1952. Volumes were low, however, reflecting the dire state of the French economy. By 1950 volumes were beginning to recover, and even after the launch of a complementary model it is clear that many of the 817 Salmsons produced in 1951 will have been S4s. However, in 1951 the bank withdrew financial support from the company after which it was placed in a form of administration. Automobile production was run down, with the last S4s produced in April 1952.

British Salmson
The S4-C was also produced by British Salmson as a 12 HP model. Following the Great Depression Britain left the Gold Standard which for practical purposes involved a sudden and massive devaluation for the British currency. This boosted the British auto-industry, but it also meant that importing French cars to Britain was no longer profitable.

By the time of the Second World War the British Salmson affiliate had developed local versions of the S4-D as well as a 6-cylinder S6-D (of which there was no French equivalent).

Sources and further reading

Salmson. La belle mécanique française, par Claude et Laurent Chevalier, édition E.T.A.I., 2010.

Executive cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 1932
Salmson


title: The House That £100k Built

text:
The House That £100k Built is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 18 September 2013. The programme was commissioned for a second series as well as a new series - The House that £100k Built: Tricks of the Trade in January 2014.

Episode list

Series 1

Reception
Express & Star was disappointed by the series, saying the problem was that it was "obsessed with the budget, and cost cutting, and this made it a little depressing" and it "did not have the drama of some of the other house building programmes". Time Out gave the series two stars out of five.

Calor was concerned by a scene in the series showing how to recycle a gas cylinder as a light fitting. It warned of the dangerous nature of the activity and illegality. The scene was subsequently removed from the programme and BBC iPlayer. However the scene will be included on the Australian release, 7Two stating that it is common practice in Australia already.

International broadcast
 - On air promotions airing on 7Two from 9 January 2015 indicate the series will be airing on the channel in early 2015.
 - Netflix and Amazon Prime began streaming the program to the North American market in late 2019 early 2020.

References

External links

2013 British television series debuts
Television shows set in the United Kingdom
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol


Venezuela women's national softball team is the national team for Venezuela. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished eighth. The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished tenth. The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished seventh. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished fifth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Venezuela


title: Ada River (Baw Baw, Victoria)

text:
The Ada River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

Course and features
Ada River rises below Marney Hill, northeast of , in a state forestry area, and flows generally northeast, then south by east, before reaching its confluence with the Latrobe River, north of the Yarra Junction-Noojee Road, west of the locality of  in the Shire of Baw Baw. The river descends  over its  course.

The Ada River sub-catchment area is managed by the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority.

See also

 List of rivers of Australia

References

External links

West Gippsland catchment
Rivers of Gippsland (region)


The Moss Bay Hematite Iron Company was founded and owned by Charles James Valentine, in 1876 and was situated on the coast at Mossbay, Workington, Cumberland.

The Moss Bay Hematite Iron Company became the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company in 1881.

This company was liquidated in 1890 and reformed in 1891.

In 1909 it was amalgamated with other West Cumberland firms as part of the Workington Iron and Steel Company.

Transport
The works had North and South sidings connecting them to the local rail infrastructure and mines. Both the North and South sidings connected with the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway at Harrington Junction.

References

Mining companies of the United Kingdom


title: National Security Council (Taiwan)

text:
The National Security Council (NSC; ) is an organ of the Republic of China (Taiwan) directly under the chairmanship of the President to advise on issues related to national security.

Members of the NSC also consist of the Vice President, the Premier, the heads of key ministries, the Chief of the General Staff, the NSC Secretary-General and the Director-General of the National Security Bureau.

History
During the fourth meeting of the first session of the National Assembly in March 1966 in Taipei, the temporary provision effective during the Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of Communist Rebellion was revised.

The fourth clause of this amendment authorized the President to establish organs for mobilization to suppress the rebellion of the Chinese Communist Party, determine policies related to the period of mobilization and deal with war politics. President Chiang Kai-shek ordered Huang Shao-ku, Wang Yun-wu, Chang Chi-yun and Chiang Ching-kuo to organize a small preparatory committee to establish a National Security Council and to draft an organizational program.

In February 1967, President Chiang promulgated an organizational outline for a National Security Council during the mobilization period. Huang Shao-ku was chosen to be the first secretary general and Chiang Ching-kuo was placed in charge of the key works. This marked the establishment of the NSC.

Membership

Secretaries-General

National Defense Council
  (20 February 1951 – 26 May 1954)
 (July 1954 – August 1957)
Zhang Qun (August 1957 – June 1959)
Gu Zhutong (29 June 1959 – 1 February 1967)

National Security Council
Huang Shao-ku (1 February 1967 – 20 June 1979)
Shen Chang-huan (20 June 1979 – 28 March 1984)
 (28 May 1984 – 16 June 1986)
Chiang Wei-kuo (18 June 1986 – 28 February 1993)
Shih Chi-yang (2 March 1993 – 1 September 1994)
Ting Mao-shih (1 September 1994 – 31 January 1999)
 (1 February 1999 – 20 May 2000)
Chuang Ming-yao (20 May 2000 – 16 August 2001)
 (16 August 2001 – 7 March 2002)
 Chiou I-jen (7 March 2002 – 5 February 2003)
 Kang Ning-hsiang (5 February 2003 – 20 May 2004)
 Chiou I-jen (20 May 2004 – 6 February 2007)
 Mark Chen (6 February 2007 – 27 March 2008)
 Chen Chung-hsin (27 March 2008 – 20 May 2008) (acting)
 Su Chi (20 May 2008 – 23 February 2010)
 Hu Wei-jen (23 February 2010 – 25 September 2012)
 Jason Yuan (26 September 2012 – 24 March 2014)
 King Pu-tsung (25 March 2014 – 12 February 2015)
 Kao Hua-chu (12 February 2015 – 20 May 2016)
 Joseph Wu (20 May 2016 – 18 May 2017)
 Yen Teh-fa (18 May 2017 – 26 February 2018)
 David Lee (26 February 2018 – 19 May 2020)
 Wellington Koo (20 May 2020 – incumbent)

See also
 National security council

References

1951 establishments in Taiwan
Government of Taiwan
Taiwan


South Africa women's national softball team is the national team for South Africa administered by Softball South Africa. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished fifteenth. The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished fourteenth.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished fifteenth. The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship in Caracas, Venezuela where they finished fifteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in South Africa


title: Denmark women's national softball team

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Denmark women's national softball team is the national team for Denmark. The team competed at the 1998 ISF Women's World Championship in Fujinomiya City, Japan where they finished seventeenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Denmark


title: Milne McCooke

text:
Milne Norman McCooke (9 October 1934 – 23 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

McCooke, a Caulfield City recruit, made his debut for St Kilda in the 1955 VFL season. Used mostly as a follower or forward, McCooke kicked three goals for St Kilda in his second league game, a win over North Melbourne at Junction Oval, which ended a 12-game losing streak. He played seven games that season, then only seconds fixtures in 1956, followed by three senior appearances in 1957 and another three in 1958.

The next stage of his career was spent at Oakleigh in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), where he was a premiership player in 1960 and won a best and fairest award in 1962.

McCooke was coach of Wimmera Football League club Murtoa from 1964 to 1967, before spending a season at VFA club Caulfield, playing three games in an injury and suspension affected year.

In 1969 McCooke led a young Kooweerup side to a 25-point grand final victory over Longwarry at Cora Lynn football ground and coached the Caulfield reserves in 1975 and Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) club Ormond Amateurs in 1978. His son, Steve McCooke, was an Ormond Amateurs player, but is best known as a cricketer, with three Sheffield Shield appearances for Victoria.

References

Sources
 Holmesby, R. & Main, J. (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing.
 Piesse, K. (2010) The Bears Uncensored, Cricketbooks.com.au: Melbourne.

1934 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
St Kilda Football Club players
Oakleigh Football Club players
Caulfield Football Club players
2010 deaths


title: Russia women's national softball team

text:
Russia women's national softball team is the national team for Russia.  The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where they finished thirteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in Russia


title: 1954 Onslow by-election

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The 1954 Onslow by-election was a by-election for the electorate of Onslow during the 30th New Zealand Parliament. It resulted from the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Harry Combs on 12 June 1954.

Background
In February 1954 Combs announced he would retire at the general election later that year owing to ill health. As a result, Labour had already prepared to replace him in the electorate and at the time of Combs' death, Henry May, a member of the Petone Borough Council, had already been selected as the Labour candidate. May's selection had been something of a surprise as the former Labour Party president James Roberts was the other candidate. The National Party decided not to stand a candidate as it had already selected Wilfred Fortune (the sitting MP for Eden) to contest Onslow at the upcoming general election. National wanted to avoid confusion by putting up a proxy candidate and likewise did not wish to cause a by-election in Eden should Fortune be victorious. National had already faced selection difficulties with its expected candidate, Wellington City Council member Stewart Hardy, withdrawing before Fortune took his place. The newly created Social Credit Party also decided to not contest the by-election. The party head office issued a press statement that given the close proximity of the next general election there was little purpose contesting the seat.

The government intended it to coincide with the upcoming Patea by-election, even passing the Patea By-election Act 1954 to postpone it until the day of the Onslow by-election.

Result
As a general election was due towards the end of 1954 (and was held on 13 November), the nominated Labour candidate Henry May was not opposed, so was declared elected (from midday on 7 July 1954) when the writs closed for candidates. It marked the last time, to date, that a candidate for the House of Representatives has been returned unopposed. As May was declared elected when the writs closed on 7 July it rendered the government's attempt to have the Patea election held back until 31 July pointless.

May first learned of his default victory via a telegram from Petone MP Mick Moohan inviting him to attend that evening's session of parliament. May did so and was sworn in as an MP that very evening. At the general election in November May defeated Fortune by 519 votes, confirming him as the MP.

Notes

References

External links
Patea By-election Act 1954

Onslow
Onslow
Politics of the Wellington Region
Onslow by-election
1950s in Wellington


title: Lichtenstein Castle (Lower Franconia)

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Lichtenstein Castle () is a high to late medieval hill castle,  , about six kilometres north of Ebern in the Lower Franconian county of Haßberge in Bavaria. It is located in the municipality of Pfarrweisach.

Of the originally four sub-castles of this great joint-fief or Ganerbenburg only one, the South Castle, is still occupied. The North Castle only survives as ruins. On the site of the now vanished third castle the Protestant Church of the Eternal Flame (Zum Ewigen Licht) was built in the Baroque era. In the southwestern part of the site lie the ruins of a fourth joint-vassal castle seat.

Literature

Castle history
 Die Kunstdenkmäler des Königreichs Bayern III, 15, Bezirksamt Ebern. München 1916, S. 128–146.
 Joachim Zeune: Burg Lichtenstein. Schnell & Steiner Kunstführer 2364, Regensburg 1998.
 Joachim Zeune: Burgen im Eberner Land. Ebern 2003 (Eberner Heimatblätter, 2 Hefte).

Castle legends
 Ludwig Bechstein: Der Sagenschatz des Frankenlandes. Wurzburg, 1842.
 Ludwig Bechstein: Deutsches Sagenbuch. Leipzig, 1853 (Digitalisat).
 George Winter: Das Schneidersloch, Das verlorene Kind, Die Gründung des Klosters zu Fürstenfeldbruck… - Fünfzehn Sagen aus dem Bayernlande. Nuremberg, 1849 ( digitalized).

External links

Castles in Bavaria
Hill castles
Heritage sites in Bavaria


title: DFS Sperber Senior

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The DFS Sperber Senior () was a competition sailplane designed and built in Germany in 1936. During 1937 the sole example visited the United States and scored highest in the US National Soaring Competition.

Design and development

Although nominally a development of his earlier DFS Rhönsperber, Hans Jacobs' Sperber Senior was a completely new design intended to improve on the performance of its predecessor and to accommodate larger pilots.  It was a shoulder wing aircraft with a double straight tapered gull wing, built around two spars and fabric covered apart from the leading edge from the front spar forward and the wing roots, which were plywood skinned. The wing roots were carefully faired into the fuselage.  The inner panels, filling about one third of the span had only slight taper, the sweep entirely on the trailing edge, and about 10° of dihedral.  Outboard the taper was much stronger, with a taper ratio of 0.45. Here the leading edge was slightly swept but there was no dihedral.  Ailerons occupied the whole of the outer panels' trailing edges.

The Senior had a completely ply covered fuselage with a narrow ovoid cross section which was deep in the cockpit area but tapered progressively to the tail.  The cockpit was just ahead of the wing, covered by a multipart glazing which, attached to a small area of the upper forward fuselage, hinged to the right for access.  The rear of the canopy was above the fuselage line and a long, ply covered fairing reaching well behind the wing blended it in. A tapered, round tipped and largely fabric covered horizontal tail was mounted on top of the fuselage, far enough forward to place the trailing edges of its elevators at the rudder hinge line.  The latter was mounted on a narrow ply covered fin, carefully faired into the fuselage and extending below it to form a tail bumper.  The mostly fabric covered rudder was full, curved and slightly pointed, likewise extending below the fuselage.  A short skid from just behind the nose to beyond mid-chord completed the landing gear.

Operational history

The Sperber Senior first flew in 1936 and took part in the Rhön German National championships of that year but its pilot, Ludwig Hofmann retired for personal reasons midway through.  In 1937 Peter Riedel took it to the US to participate in the 8th American National Competitions at Elmira. He finished with the highest score but, not being a US citizen was denied the title of champion.  Whilst in the US he made a seven-hour flight over central New York. After he returned to Germany the Sperber Senior was retired.

Specifications

References

1930s German sailplanes
DFS aircraft
Glider aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936
Gull-wing aircraft


title: Lichtenstein Castle

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Lichtenstein Castle may refer to the following castles:

Austria
 Liechtenstein Castle (Maria Enzersdorf), near Maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria, bordering Vienna

Germany
 Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg) near Lichtenstein-Honau, Baden-Württemberg
 Lichtenstein Castle (Lower Franconia) in the municipality of Pfarrweisach, Lower Franconia, Bavaria
 Lichtenstein Castle (Greifenstein) in the municipality of Greifenstein, Hesse

Switzerland
 Lichtenstein Castle (Graubünden), in the municipality of Haldenstein, Canton of Graubünden

Estates of the House of Liechtenstein
 Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape in Czechia
 Stadtpalais Liechtenstein and Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna, Austria
 Vaduz Castle in Liechtenstein


title: Greece women's national softball team

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Greece women's national softball team is the national team for Greece.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished ninth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Women's national softball teams
Softball
Softball in Greece


North Korea women's national softball team is the national team for North Korea.  The team competed at the 2006 ISF Women's World Championship in Beijing, China where they finished thirteenth.

References

External links
 International Softball Federation

Softball
Women's national softball teams
Softball in North Korea


title: Along the Way (Mark McGuire album)

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Along the Way is a solo studio album by Mark McGuire, a former member of Emeralds. It was released on Dead Oceans on February 4, 2014. "The Instinct" was released as a single from the album.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Fred Thomas of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, commenting that "Along the Way represents the most ambitious material from McGuire to date, including deeper production and a plethora of various instruments that never made it into the laser-focused explorations of solo guitar that made up previous albums." He added: "It's an incredible feat for an artist to make something so enormous and unfolding without losing himself in the process, but McGuire has done just that, and as a result has turned in his most detailed and soul-searching work." Tom Fenwick of Under the Radar gave the album 7 stars out of 10, writing: "Carving out layers of sound from digital percussion, distant auto-tuned vocals, and washes of synthesized atmospherics, he surrounds them with his virtuosic playing of electric and acoustic guitar."

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

 Mark McGuire – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, santur, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, talkbox, percussion, drum machine, tape samples, electronics, effects, production, arrangement, mixing, photography, design, layout
 James Plotkin – mastering
 Daniel Murphy – design, layout

References

External links

2014 albums
Dead Oceans albums
Indie rock albums by American artists


title: Strongylovouni

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Strongylovouni (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village and a community of the Xiromero municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality Astakos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 156 residents in the village and 326 residents in the community. The community of Strongylovouni covers an area of 18.001 km2.

Administrative division
The community of Strongylovouni consists of two separate settlements:
Manina Vlizianon (population 170)
Strongylovouni (population 156)
The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.

History
Strongylovouni, together with the other Aromanian settlements of Aetolia-Acarnania,  was created in the midst of the 19th century, by people that fled the village of Mpitsikopoulo, in Epirus, after a string of assaults by Turkish and Albanian bandits.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Xiromero
Aromanian settlements in Greece


title: Monica Toft

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Monica Duffy Toft is an American international relations scholar. Her research interests include international security and strategy, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars, and the relationship between demography and national security. Among her researches, her theory of indivisible territory explains how certain conflicts turn violent while others not, and when it is likely for a conflict to become a violent.  Since 2017 she holds the position of Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Director of the Fletcher School's Center for Strategic Studies.

Life and career

Education
Toft graduated from the U.S. Army's Defense Language Institute in 1984 with highest honours. She then completed the Associate of Arts General Curriculum of the University of Maryland's European Division in 1987. In 1990 Toft graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science and Slavic languages and literature from the University of California Santa Barbara. She went on to the University of Chicago, where she completed both an M.A. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1998) in political science. The title of her doctoral dissertation was The Geography of Ethnic Conflict.

Career
Toft's professional career began in the U.S. Army where she worked as a Russian linguist from 1983 to 1987. After completing her education, Toft joined the faculty at Harvard University where she was a professor of international politics at the Kennedy School of Government and Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. When the Olin Institute closed in 2007, Toft then established and directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Kennedy School. In September 2012, Toft joined the faculty of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford as Professor of Government and Public Policy. During this period, she also spent four months as Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She left Oxford in 2017 to join Tufts University.

Toft is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Minorities at Risk Advisory Board, and the Political Instability Task Force. She is also Principal Investigator of the Commonwealth Initiative on Religious Freedom or Belief and a senior research scholar with the Modeling Religion Project, Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion, Boston University.

Her work has been recognised through numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including being named Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation of New York for her research on religion and violence in 2008, awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Norway in 2012, and granted Princeton's World Politics Fellowship in 2015 .

Personal life
Toft is married to Ivan Arreguín-Toft, also a scholar of international security and strategic studies and an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University.

Books
 Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (with Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann, Oxford, 2012)
 Rethinking Religion in World Affairs (with Alfred Stepan and Timothy Shah, Oxford, 2012)
 God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (with Daniel Philpott and Timothy Shah, Norton, 2011)
 Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton, 2010)
 The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty (with Talbot Imlay, Routledge, 2006)
 The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory (Princeton, 2003)

Other academic publications
 "Grounds for War: The Evolution of Territorial Conflict," International Security 38, issue 3, Winter 2013/2014.
 "Denial and Punishment in the North Caucasus: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Coercive Counterinsurgency," with Yuri Zhukov, Journal of Peace Research, November 2012.
 “Self-Determination, Secession and Civil War,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Summer 2012.
 “Demography and National Security: Population Shifts in Israel and the Implications for Policy,” International Area Studies Review, Vol. 15, No. 21 (March) 2012.
 “Correspondence on “Ending Civil Wars? A Case for Rebel Victory,”” International Security, Summer 2011.
 “Ending Civil Wars? A Case for Rebel Victory,” International Security, Spring 2010.
 “Promises and Pitfalls in the Spatial Prediction of Ethnic Violence: A Comment,” co-authored with Nils B. Wiedmann, Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2009.
 “Dynamics of Self-Determination,” with Stephen Saideman, Peace and Conflict 2010, Paradigm, 2009.
 “Power Shifts and Civil War: A Test of Power Transition Theory,” International Interactions, Vol. 33, No. 3 (July–September 2007).
 “Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War,” International Security, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Spring 2007).
 “The Myth of the Borderless World: Refugees and Repatriation Policy,” Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 24  (2007).
 “Religion, Civil War, and International Order,” Belfer Center Discussion Paper, August 2006.
 “Issue Divisibility and Time Horizons as Rationalist Explanations for War,” Security Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1 (January–March 2006).
 “The State of the Field: Demography and War,” ECSP Report, Issue 11, 2005.
 “Indivisible Territory, Geographic Concentration, and Ethnic War,” Security Studies, Winter 2002/03.
 “Differential Demographic Growth in Multinational States: The Case of Israel’s Two-Front War,” Review of International Affairs, Fall 2002.
 “Multinationality, Regions and State-Building: The Failed Transition in Georgia,” Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Autumn 2001).
 “The 1994 Russian Federal Budget Debate: Issues and Implications,” RAND Corporation, Policy Memorandum, September 1994.
 “Adoption as an Issue of Local Justice,” with David P. McIntyre, Archives Européennes de sociologie, Spring 1992.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women political scientists
American political scientists
Defense Language Institute alumni
International relations scholars
Harvard Kennedy School faculty
Academics of the University of Oxford
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University System of Maryland alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women


title: Lyrikal

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Jesse James Enoch (born 14 September 1983), known by his stage name Lyrikal, is a Nigerian rapper, record producer, and songwriter. He emerged onto the music scene in 2003 as part of the Port Harcourt-based record label Tuck Tyght. Throughout his career, Lyrikal has engaged with socio-political issues in Nigeria, contributing his voice to the matters concerning the gifted and oppressed.

Early life
Jesse James Enoch was born in Aba, Abia, and originates from Akwa Ibom state. His upbringing took place in Sokoto. As the second child of a retired civil servant, Enoch's family moved to Port Harcourt in 1989 due to his father's service posting. His primary and secondary education occurred in Port Harcourt. In 2005, he gained admission to the University of Lagos but left after a year due to financial constraints, returning to Port Harcourt.

Music career
Lyrikal's exposure to various music genres during his formative years, particularly reggae and disco, deeply influenced his inclination towards music. His early musical inspirations included icons like Madonna, Michael Jackson, MC Hammer, and Shabba Ranks. He developed an affinity for rap music upon watching the 1990 film House Party.

Early 90s – 2006
In the early 1990s, Lyrikal developed a passion for hip-hop and honed his skills in rapping, rhyming, and songwriting. His influences expanded to include Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Wu Tang Clan, and Nas. In 2003, he initiated his music career with Tuck Tyght, contributing to the album "Now Official," representing Port Harcourt City.

2006 – 2010
In 2006, Enoch embarked on a solo endeavor called "The Escalator Project," during which he recorded numerous songs and several singles.

2010 – 2013
Moving to Xcel Music in the late 2010s, Lyrikal's productivity soared as he recorded a substantial collection of over a hundred songs. His debut project, released in 2013, was titled "R.M.F.A.O (Rappin' My Fuckin' Ass Off)".

2014
Lyrikal continued his musical journey with the release of his second mixtape, "OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder," featuring collaborations with artists such as Mode 9, Eva Alordiah, KING STUNNA, and Korkomikor. He released his interpretation of tracks like "Pound Cake" by Drake, "Tom Ford" by Jay-Z, and "Rap God" by Eminem

Behind Bars Campaign
In January 2014, Lyrikal launched a campaign aimed at inspiring young Nigerians to become more engaged in personal and national development. He conveyed his message by releasing a photo series portraying himself behind prison bars, each image accompanied by thought-provoking quotes from figures like Nelson Mandela, William Glasser, and Henri Matisse. The photo campaign, shared across various African blogs, sparked discussions about social participation in national development and creative expression. Lyrikal explained that the metaphorical "bars" signified the challenges faced by Nigerian youth, encompassing physical oppression, mental captivity, and creative limitations

Discography
2013: RMFAO (mixtape)
2014: O.C.D (mixtape)

See also
List of Nigerian rappers

References

Rappers from Port Harcourt
Nigerian male rappers
Nigerian hip hop record producers
Nigerian male singer-songwriters
Nigerian singer-songwriters
21st-century Nigerian musicians
1983 births
Living people
Nigerian hip hop singers
Port Harcourt hip hop
Songwriters from Rivers State
21st-century male musicians


title: Robert Beasley (burgess)

text:
Robert Beasley was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house of the colonial Virginia General Assembly, from Isle of Wight County, in 1655 and 1656.

Upon the petition of Beasley and the other burgesses from Isle of Wight County (Major John Bond and Nicholas Smith), a Commission was established which resulted in Ragged Island and Terascoe Neck being transferred from Nansemond County (then Upper Norfolk County) to Isle of Wight County in 1656.

A descendant of Robert Beasley, Dr. Robert Sanford Beazley (1821–1910), was a member of the Virginia State Convention of 1867–1868, which adopted the Underwood Constitution following the American Civil War. Dr. Beazley also served as a Virginia state senator from Albemarle County and Greene County for four years in 1874–1877.

See also

 House of Burgesses
 List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses

Notes

References

 Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1973. .
 Brenaman, Jacob Neff. A History of Virginia Conventions, Volume 62. J.L. Hill Printing Company, 1902.
 Early, Ruth Hairston. The Family of Early: Which Settled Upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Its Connection with Other Families  Lynchburg, VA: Brown-Morrison, 1920. .
 Morrison, Col. E. M. History of Isle of Wight County 1608-1907. "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County". July 21, 2001. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
 Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902. , Retrieved July 15, 2011.
 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. 'Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. . Retrieved February 16, 2013.
 Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses, Henry Read McIlwaine, John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-[1776]. Richmond, VA: Colonial Press, E. Waddey Company, 1915. .
 Virginia State Library. Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 13-15. Richmond: Virginia State Library, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1917. .

People from Isle of Wight County, Virginia
Virginia colonial people
House of Burgesses members
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


title: 1971 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

text:
The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 1971, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from September 12 to December 22, 1971. The competition had 23 clubs. The tournament consisted in a fusion of the already existing Torneio Centro-Sul and the Copa Norte-Nordeste, with the champions of each tournament facing off in the finals.

Villa Nova beat Remo on the finals, and was declared 1971 Brazilian Série B champions. The relegation and promotion system hadn't been implemented yet, so no clubs were promoted.

Stages of the competition

First phase
Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Second phase
Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Semifinals

Finals

Sources
 http://www.rsssfbrasil.com/tablesae/br1971l2.htm

References

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B seasons
B


title: Manina Vlizianon

text:
Manina Vlizianon (, ) is an Aromanian (Vlach) village in Xiromero municipality, Greece. The 2011 census recorded 170 residents in the village. The community of Manina Vlizianon is a part of the community of Strongylovouni.

History
Manina Vlizianon, together with the other Vlach settlements of Aetolia-Acarnania,  was created in the midst of the 19th century, by people that fled the village of Bitsikopoulo, in Epirus, after a string of assaults by Turkish and Albanian bandits.

See also
 List of settlements in Aetolia-Acarnania

References

Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania
Xiromero
Aromanian settlements in Greece


title: Podtabor

text:
Podtabor may refer to:
Podtabor, Dobrepolje
Podtabor, Ilirska Bistrica
Šent Jurij, formerly known as  Podtabor pri Grosupljem


title: The Brits Who Built the Modern World

text:
The Brits Who Built the Modern World is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC Four from 13 to 27 February 2014. The three-part series tells the story of British architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell.

Production
The series was produced with the Open University and a Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition (which also included Lady Patty Hopkins). The exhibition was open between 13 February and 27 May 2014.

Episode list

Controversy
The series was the subject of controversy when the BBC were accused of removing Patty Hopkins from a photograph of the architects, used to illustrate the third programme of the series. Patty Hopkins had been a full partner in the Hopkins company from the outset. The BBC were accused of ignoring women architects, though the BBC responded by saying that at the start of making the series, the director met with both Michael and Patricia Hopkins to discuss their involvement in the series.

References

External links

2014 British television series debuts
2014 British television series endings
2010s British documentary television series
BBC television documentaries
Documentary television series about architecture
Documentary television series about technology
English-language television shows

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Richard Rogers
Television shows set in the United Kingdom
Television shows about British architecture
Television series about the history of the United Kingdom