title: Beasts of Burden (Defiance)

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"Beasts of Burden" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction series Defiance, and the series' sixteenth episode overall. It was aired on July 10, 2014. The episode was written by Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer and directed by Michael Nankin.

Plot
Niles (James Murray) and Berlin (Anna Hopkins) transfer some mining equipment to Defiance when their caravan is attacked by a group of masked raiders. The raiders kill everyone except them and before they leave with the equipment, one of them forces Niles to strip and then urinates on him.

As soon as they get back to Defiance, Niles meets Nolan (Grant Bowler) and Amanda (Julie Benz) and asks Nolan to find out who was behind the attack and the robbery. Nolan goes to Doc Yewll's (Trenna Keating) office to see if he can find any evidence on the bodies of the dead soldiers that will lead him to the raiders. There is a footprint on one of the bodies that indicates that the raiders were recently to the mines, but Nolan destroys the footprint while Tommy (Dewshane Williams) is watching. When Tommy asks why he did that, Nolan says that it was just a dirt and it would be useless to their research, but Tommy believes that Nolan tries to cover Rafe (Graham Greene).

Meanwhile, Rafe returns home to find Josef (Ryan Kennedy) and the mining equipment there. When Josef tells him what he did, Rafe gets furious with him reminding him that the E-Rep is watching him and to bring the equipment he just stole from them to his house is really stupid. Nolan arrives at Rafe's house to check if he knows anything about the incident but Rafe pretends that it is the first time he hears about it. While they are talking, Josef comes from behind and aims Nolan with a gun, but Nolan takes him down and arrests him. Rafe asks him to give him a chance and let him go as a favor to him for saving Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) in the past from E-Rep by killing some of their soldiers. Nolan agrees to let Josef go but asks him to head out of the town immediately and to tell him where the stolen equipment is. Nolan returns the equipment and lies that he found it in a cave but Niles struggles to believe him since Tommy already told him about Nolan destroying an evidence at Yewll's office.

Josef, instead of leaving Defiance, goes to find Berlin who has a tape from the attack and probably she will be able to see his face. When Berlin tries to fight him so he will not take the tape, she clearly sees him face and Josef kidnaps her and takes her hostage. Tommy informs Niles and Nolan that Berlin has disappeared and Nolan, with Rafe's help, find Josef before he hurts Berlin. Nolan gets shot at the leg and asks Rafe's to arrest Josef. Rafe arrests him but as soon as they get out, he uncuffs him telling him to run to save himself. Josef thanks him and runs but as soon as he gets few feet away, Rafe shoots him in the back killing him.

In the meantime, Amanda and Niles come closer; first Niles confesses to her about his difficult childhood and the abuse by the Votans during the Pale Wars and later, when Amanda goes to his office, she confesses to him that she was raped when she was working for the E-Rep in New York. She got pregnant but she never told her fiancé about her rape, making him believe that it was his baby. When she decided to abort the baby, that decision destroyed her relationship, making her move with her sister to Defiance. When a little bit later Niles finds out that Josef was behind the attack, Amanda tries to convince him not to go against Rafe since he was not involved but he does not listen to her and he evicts Rafe from his house.

At the Tarr house, Stahma (Jaime Murray) asks Datak (Tony Curran) to make her a partner in the business since she earned it but Datak declines her offer. She then hires some soldiers to provoke Datak and make him attack them so he will be sent back to prison, but Datak asks for their forgiveness for killing Colonel Marsh instead. Stahma is surprised by her husband's reaction but at the moment she can not do anything more.

Datak arranges a meeting with his men taking Alak (Jesse Rath) with him, where he express his disappointment to them for ignoring his orders and following the orders of a woman instead. As a punishment, one of them has to die to clean the shame and asks Alak to choose which one. Alak tells him to kill him since he was the one who was weak and he was not able to stop his mother. Even though Datak is impressed with Alak's response, he still kills one of the men in front of everyone's eyes. He then goes with Alak to his record pressing business, where he confesses to Alak that he was planning to burn it down but he changed his mind and instead, he scars Alak's hand.

Christie (Nicole Muñoz) tries to take care of Alak's hand while she says to him that his father is crazy but Alak makes excuses for him by saying that he is the only one responsible for his father actions. Stahma comes in the room and when she sees what Datak did to Alak she gets angry. The next day, Datak goes to his business tent only to find Stahma and Alak there with the rest of the men waiting for him. Stahma makes it clear that she is the one who is in control and has Datak beaten and thrown out of the tent. Then, she walks towards him, leans down to him and tells him "You should have made me a partner" and leaves.

Feature music
In the "Beasts of Burden" we can hear the songs:
 "Night Time Sound Desire" by Hot as Sun
 "Mad World" by Sara Hickman

Reception

Ratings
In its original American broadcast, "Beasts of Burden" was watched by 1.65 million; up by 0.16 from the previous episode.

Reviews
"Beasts of Burden" received positive reviews.

Rowan Kaiser from The A.V. Club gave the episode and B+ rating saying that it served its purpose to show how cruel the Pale Wars were, something that the show was struggling to do. "Mayor Pottinger’s monologue to Amanda about how, when he was a child, he was captured and sexually abused by Votan forces, is the heart of [the cruelty of Pale Wars]. [...] It also encourages Amanda to tell her story. She was raped as well, in New York, working for the E-Rep."

Katelyn Barners from Geeks Unleashed rated the episode with 8/10. "This week’s "Beasts of Burden" surprised me even more [than last week's episode] by grounding character developments firmly in history that the show has only recently begun to explore. [...] this week, violent actions drag the past “into the light” and it makes for interesting watching."

Abbey White of Screen Spy gave a good review to the episode saying that with this episode the show proved that the second season is awesome and at its 'best'. ""Beasts of Burden" proved that the series has evolved from its first season into a dramatic goldmine, effectively balancing shock and depth and showing us that what truly keeps audiences coming back is organic and timely character driven storylines."

Ricky Riley of The Celebrity Cafe gave a good review to the episode saying that it was a great one. "This episode was amazing primarily because we see the two most influential men from season one lose everything. Datak thought that things would return to normal after jail but it has not and people are not of his hard nose tactics anymore. Rafe has become a shell of himself. His family is gone, Christie is a Tarr now, and he has no more wealth."

Billy Grifter of Den of Geek also gave a good review to the episode saying that "after a very strong episode last week, it seemed inevitable that the pace might slow somewhat in Beasts Of Burden. And it did to a degree, but not so much that it took away what momentum the season two threads have been generating."

Andrew Santos from With an Accent gave a good review saying that it was another really good episode and that the second season has gotten off to a really strong start. "While a lot of attention has been put on Irisa and her arc recently, "Beasts of Burden" pulls back from that and gives us a great story concerning the E-Rep occupiers who have taken over Defiance, the rebels, and Rafe McCauley."

References

External links

2014 American television episodes
Defiance (season 2) episodes
Television episodes written by Todd Slavkin
Television episodes written by Darren Swimmer


title: Baja, Hama

text:
Al-Baja () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Baja had a population of 531 in the 2004 census.

References

Populated places in Hama District


title: Birin

text:
Birin () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Birin had a population of 2,597 in the 2004 census.

References

Populated places in Hama District


title: Taoufik Bouachrine

text:
Taoufik Bouachrine (; born 1969, Meknes) is a Moroccan journalist and editor.

In 2005 he was editor-in-chief of al-Jarida al-Oukhra which was founded by Ali Anouzla and was banned in 2006. In September 2006, he co-founded the popular daily al-Massae with Rachid Ninni.

Bouachrine holds a master's degree in political science from the Mohammed V University of Rabat, which he obtained in 1997.

See also
Ali Anouzla
Aboubakr Jamai

References

1969 births
People from Meknes
Moroccan male journalists
Moroccan newspaper editors
Mohammed V University alumni
Living people
Moroccan magazine editors


title: The Galapagos Affair

text:
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is a 2013 feature-length documentary directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It is about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time. The voice cast includes Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor and Gustaf Skarsgård.

It features the 1934 silent film The Empress of Floreana in its entirety, but the four-minute short is split into halves.

Cast (voices)
Cate Blanchett as Dore Strauch
Sebastian Koch as Heinz Wittmer
Thomas Kretschmann as Friedrich Ritter
Diane Kruger  as Margret Wittmer
Connie Nielsen as Baroness Von Wagner
Josh Radnor as John Garth
Gustaf Skarsgård as Rolf Blomberg

Release
The film premiered at the 40th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2013. It was an official selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 12, 2013, and Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014. It opened theatrically in the US on April 4, 2014.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.92/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "It doesn't quite live up to its marvelously lurid premise, but The Galapagos Affair is still stranger than fiction in a very entertaining way." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

References

External links

Q&A with directors at HamptonsFilmFest.org

2013 films
Films set on the Galápagos Islands
2013 documentary films
American documentary films
Documentary films about crime
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: 1964 12 Hours of Reims

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The 12 Hours of Reims (official name: 12 Heures internationales de Reims) were a sports car endurance racing series held from 1953 to 1967 at the circuit Reims (Gueux).

Race report

 Championnat du Monde des Constructeurs - Trophée France-Amérique, Les 12 Heures Internationales de Reims
 July 5, 1964,  Circuit Reims (France), 8.302 km,  World Sportscar Championship (round 10)
 Classes Prototypes: +3000 cc (P+3.0), 3000 cc (P3.0), 2000 cc (P2.0) 1300 cc (P1.3)
 Classes Grand Touring: +3000 cc (GT+3.0), 3000 cc (GT3.0), 2000 cc (GT2.0), 1300 cc (GT1.3)
 Pole Position overall:  #8 Ferrari 250 LM,  John Surtees, 2:19.2 - 214.681 km/h (133.396 mph)
 Fastest Lap overall:    #7 Ferrari 250 LM,  Graham Hill, 2:19.2 - 214.681 km/h (133.396 mph)

Results overall

Winners by class

References

12 Hours of Reims
12 Hours of Reims


title: In the Name of...

text:
In the Name of... is an album by guitarist James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble, featuring bass guitarist Amin Ali and drummer Cornell Rochester, with guest saxophonists Sam Rivers, Arthur Blythe and Hamiet Bluiett, recorded in 1993 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Bret Love wrote, "The extremely busy soloing and dissonant arrangements may prove taxing for casual jazz fans, but In the Name Of... is sure to please fans of the free jazz sound". Critic Robert Christgau awarded the album an "A−".

Track listing
All compositions by James Blood Ulmer
 "In Time" – 8:10
 "Non-Believer" – 10:38
 "The Dawn" – 8:09
 "Mankind" – 9:28
 "Help" – 8:37
 "Abundance" – 6:13
 "Purity" – 7:49

Personnel
James Blood Ulmer – guitar
Amin Ali – electric bass
Cornell Rochester – drums
Sam Rivers – soprano saxophone (track 1), tenor saxophone (track 5), flute (track 4)
Arthur Blythe – alto saxophone (tracks 2, 6 & 7)
Hamiet Bluiett – baritone saxophone (track 3)

References

1994 albums
James Blood Ulmer albums
DIW Records albums


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ontario

text:
This is a list of stratigraphic units in Ontario bearing fossils.

See also

References

Geology of Ontario
Ontario


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia, Canada.

References

British Columbia
Geology of British Columbia


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta, Canada.

References

 Glass, D.J. (editor) 1997. Lexicon of Canadian Stratigraphy, vol. 4, Western Canada including eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 1423 p. on CD-ROM. .

Alberta
Geology of Alberta
Stratigraphy of Alberta


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Saskatchewan

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Saskatchewan, Canada.

References

Saskatchewan
Geology of Saskatchewan


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Manitoba

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Manitoba, Canada.

References

Manitoba
Geology of Manitoba


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Quebec

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Quebec, Canada.

References

Quebec
Geology of Quebec


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New Brunswick

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New Brunswick, Canada.

See also

References

New Brunswick
Geology of New Brunswick
Stratigraphy of New Brunswick


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nova Scotia

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nova Scotia, Canada.

See also

References

Nova Scotia
Geology of Nova Scotia


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Prince Edward Island

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

References

Prince Edward Island
Geology of Prince Edward Island


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Newfoundland and Labrador

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Newfoundland and Labrador.

References

Newfoundland and Labrador
Geology of Newfoundland and Labrador
fossiliferous stratigraphic units


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Yukon

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Yukon, Canada.

References

Yukon
Geology of Yukon


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Northwest Territories

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

References

Northwest Territories
.fossiliferous


title: List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nunavut

text:
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nunavut, Canada.

References

Nunavut
Geology of Nunavut


title: Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking

text:
Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking is a British television programme which Scottish chef, Gordon Ramsay, "teaches viewers how to cook simple, tasty, amazing food every day". It aired for a single season of 20 episodes on Channel 4 in October and November 2013. Unlike Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course, the show's name implies his family getting involved, such as his wife Tana and daughter Tilly.

Episode Guide

References

External links

2013 British television series debuts
2013 British television series endings
Channel 4 original programming
British cooking television shows
Television series by All3Media
English-language television shows


title: Albert G. Lawrence

text:
Albert Gallatin Lawrence (April 14, 1836 – January 1, 1887) was an American diplomat and soldier.

Early life
Lawrence was born on April 14, 1836, in New York City.  He was the son of Esther Rogers Gracie (1801–1857) and William Beach Lawrence (1800–1881), who served as lieutenant governor, and acting Governor, of Rhode Island.

His siblings included William Lawrence, Isaac Lawrence, Esther Gracie Lawrence, who was married to Dr. W. L. Wheeler and, later, Count Felix von Voss-Giewitz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Cornelia Beach Lawrence, who married Baron von Klenck, and James Gracie King Lawrence, who married Catherine Augusta Le Roy.

His paternal grandparents were Isaac Lawrence (1768–1841) and Cornelia Ann (née Beach) Lawrence (1777–1857). His maternal grandparents were Esther (née Rogers) Gracie and Archibald Gracie (1755–1829), a Scottish-born shipping magnate and early American businessman and merchant in New York City.

Career

He was educated at Harvard College, and studied law at Harvard Law School, receiving his diploma as a lawyer in 1858.

Lawrence, who did not practice law, then served as the attaché for the United States at Vienna after he turned down the position of Secretary of the American Legation at Vienna.

Military career
At the start of the U.S. Civil War, he returned to serve in the Union Army and was commissioned a captain in the 54th New York Volunteer Infantry.  In 1864, he was promoted lieutenant colonel and commanded the 2nd Regiment Cavalry U.S. Colored Troops in actions through Virginia.

On August January 15, 1865, he led the assault on Fort Fisher in Virginia, which captured the Confederate post for the Union.  In the battle, he was severely wounded and lost his left arm.  For his gallantry in the battle of Fort Fisher, he was brevetted Brigadier-General of the U.S. Volunteers on March 25, 1865.  He was called the "Hero of Fort Fisher."

Diplomatic service
On October 2, 1866, he was appointed by President Andrew Johnson as the United States Minister to Costa Rica.  He presented his credentials on January 18, 1867, and served until his recall, around June 24, 1868.  During a visit to Washington, he engaged in a duel, fought in Belgium with Hon. Amédée Van den Nest, the former attaché of the Belgian legation, over words exchanged with Lawrence's wife in letters between Van den Nest and Eva.  The subsequent sensation caused Van den Nest to lose his position, forced Lawrence to resign his post, and effectively ended the marriage of Albert and Eva.  Eva and Van den Nest later married.

In 1880, Lawrence became a Republican and came out in favor of James A. Garfield and Chester Arthur in the presidential race of 1880. In his editorial, The New York Times stated that his endorsement meant that "The Democrats are mortified at the spectacle of a son of the sage of Ochre Point coming out so publicly for Garfield and Arthur."

Personal life
In September 1865, Lawrence was married to Eveline McLean "Eva" (née Taylor) Kingsbury (1845–1917), youngest daughter of Gen. Joseph Pannell Taylor and niece of the 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor.  She was the widow of Capt. Henry Walter Kingsbury of Chicago who was killed at the Battle of Antietam and was heir to the vast estate of Major Kingsbury.  Before their public divorce in 1879, they were the parents of:

 Esther Gracie Lawrence (b. 1872)

Lawrence died at the Everett House in New York City on January 1, 1887.  After a service at St. Mark's Church on Stuyvesant Street, he was buried at the Lawrence burying grounds in Astoria, Queens.  His daughter inherited his estate,
which was very small, and a share of her grandfather's estate, which was quite vast.

References

External links

1836 births
1887 deaths
Albert Gallatin Lawrence
Harvard Law School alumni
Union Army officers
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
American duellists
Harvard College alumni


title: John F. Martin Jr.

text:
John F. Martin Jr. was an American diplomat who served as Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1920 to 1921.

References

Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


title: Charles C. Eberhardt

text:
Charles Christopher Eberhardt (July 27, 1871 – February 22, 1965) was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to Costa Rica.

Biography

Charles Christopher Eberhardt was an American diplomat who was born in Salina, Kansas, on July 27, 1871. Eberhardt was educated in the local public schools before going to Wesleyan University. Eberhardt was a Republican with varied business interests, including lumber, insurance and oil, prior to serving in the diplomatic corps. He died February 22, 1965, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and is buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery in Salina, Kansas.

Diplomatic career
Eberhardt's most senior positions were between 1925 and 1933. During his early diplomatic career Eberhardt had served as a chargé d'affaires at various postings before he was promoted to minister to Nicaragua March 12, 1925. He left this post on May 10, 1929.

Following this, Eberhardt then went on to become the minister to Costa Rica on January 9, 1930 where he remained until September 24, 1933.

Earlier positions included:
 Clerk in the American Embassy in Mexico City, 1903
 U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Mexico City, 1904-06
 U.S. Consul in Iquitos, 1906-08
 U.S. Consul in Barranquilla, 1908-10
 U.S. Consul General at Large, 1910–18, 1919-24
 was assigned as U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro 1918-19, though he did not go
 U.S. Consul General at Large for Eastern Europe 1919
 U.S. Consul General for Eastern Europe 1922-25

References

Further reading
 Douglass, Paul 1939. The Story of German Methodism: Biography of an Immigrant Soul, page 268
 The Biographic Register 1957. U.S. Department of State, Foreign Affairs Document and Reference Center, Publishing and Reproduction Division, page 729
 U.S. Pan American Society 1930 page 66

1871 births
1965 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Nicaragua
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
People from Salina, Kansas
Kansas Republicans
Wesleyan University alumni


title: Stewart Johnson (diplomat)

text:
Stewart Johnson (1880 - 1926) was an American diplomat who served as the States Secretary of Legation in Costa Rica.

After Edward J. Hale was recalled in 1917, Johnson handled the department of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica. Johnson married Miss Catherine ReQua on November 17, 1917.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1907.

References

1880 births
1926 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Harvard Law School alumni


title: Walter C. Thurston

text:
Walter Clarence Thurston (1894–1974) was an American diplomat who served in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and the Soviet Union. He also served as ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico.

References

1894 births
1974 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Ambassadors of the United States to Mexico
Ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador
Ambassadors of the United States to Bolivia


title: Soy (Debi Nova album)

text:
Soy is the second studio album by Costa Rican singer-songwriter Debi Nova. The album began production in 2012, and was released in June 2014. The tracks "Un Día a la Vez", "Amor" and "Emergencia" were released as singles. The official music video for the latter song was filmed in Chile on July 13, 2014.

Release and promotion
The album was released in 2014 as Nova's second studio album. Three singles were released from the album onto mainstream radio. The album got Nova to receive her first Latin Grammy nomination. After this, Nova began touring with Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in order to promote the album. Nova said she wanted to back up her nomination by promoting her music as a fusion of pop with roots and dance hall like this album was especially in the song One Reason.

Commercial performance
The album had success in Latin America and received a nomination for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album at the 15th Latin Grammy Awards, making it the first time Nova was nominated for a Latin Grammy.

Track listing
 Revolución
 Amor
 Cupido (Feat. Ce'Cile)
 Un Día a la Vez
 La Tormenta
 Emergencia
 Por Última Vez (Feat. Franco De Vita)
 No Me Digas Nada
 Vámonos de Akí
 Hasta el Fin
 Soy
 Emergency (Emergencia English Version, Hidden Track)

Accolades
15th Latin Grammy Awards

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References

2014 albums


title: William L. Merry

text:
William Lawrence Merry (December 27, 1835 in New York– December 14, 1911) was an American ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Merry was the first U.S. Minister to be resident in San Jose.

References

External links

1835 births
1911 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Ambassadors of the United States to Nicaragua
Ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador


title: Roy T. Davis

text:
Roy Tasco Davis (June 4, 1889December 27, 1975) was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to Costa Rica, Haiti, Panama.

Born in Ewing, Missouri, on June 4, 1889, Davis received his education from the public schools of Missouri, and from Brown University, from which he graduated in 1910.

Nominated by President Warren G. Harding on February 7, 1922, to become minister to Costa Rica, he served in that position from 1922 to 1930.

After service abroad, Davis served as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1947 to 1951.

He later served as ambassador to Haiti during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Roy Tasco Davis died on December 27, 1975, in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 86.

References

1889 births
1975 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Panama
Ambassadors of the United States to Haiti
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Maryland state senators
Brown University alumni
People from Lewis County, Missouri
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American diplomats


title: Axel Sveinsson

text:
Axel Sveinsson (3 April 1896 - 12 August 1957) was an Icelandic civil engineer. He received his engineering degree in Copenhagen in 1927.
He is noted for having designed several lighthouses in Iceland; these include the lighthouses at Hólmsbergsviti, Garðskagi, Þrídrangaviti and Knarrarós. A postage stamp depicting the Vattarnes lighthouse at Reyðarfjörður, which was designed by Axel, was issued in 2013.

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1896 births
1957 deaths
Icelandic civil engineers
20th-century engineers


title: Edward J. Hale

text:
Edward Joseph Hale (December 25, 1839 – February 15, 1922) was an American diplomat and journalist. He was the Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1913-1917 and publisher of The Fayetteville Observer from the mid-1860s to 1919.

Biography

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he was youngest son of his parents. His parents were Margaret Walker and Edward Jones Hale, a newspaper editor and owner of the political newspaper The Carolina Observer.

He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a B.A. and an LL.D. While there, he was a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi (aka St. Anthony Hall).

During the civil war, he served in 5th North Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America. He was later appointed to the staff of General James Henry Lane as major. He was promoted to assistant adjunct and inspector general. At the end of the war he was recommended for promotion to brigadier general, but did not achieve the rank.

Career
General Sherman destroyed the Carolina Observer's building immediately on entering Fayetteville in 1865. After the war, Hale briefly has a publishing business in New York. He returned to Fayetteville and resuming publication of the Observer, renamed The Fayetteville Observer as its editor and publisher. Hale's four sons joined the business, and it remained in the family until sold in 1919.

His diplomatic career began when President Grover Cleveland appointed him as consul for Manchester, England. In 1913 he became ambassador to Costa Rica, under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. He remained ambassador until 1917, he was recalled after the overthrow of the government of Costa Rica, leading the Wilson administration to refuse to recognize their new government.

In between the two diplomatic appointments, he was the moving force behind the creation of the canal system of the Cape Fear River.

References

1839 births
1922 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
St. Anthony Hall
19th-century American newspaper editors
20th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
19th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
Confederate States Army officers


title: Leo R. Sack

text:
Leo R. Sack (July 9, 1889April 15, 1956) was an American journalist and diplomat who served as ambassador to Costa Rica from 1933 to 1937.

Sack, from Mississippi, attended the University of Missouri, and later served in World War I in the United States Army Air Service. He was a journalist, both in the South and in Washington, D.C.

Sack served in the United States Diplomatic Service from September 1933 until he resigned his post in order to associate with Schenley. In 1934, during Costa Rica's Great Banana Strike, the United Fruit Company attempted to secure Sack's help in requesting United States intervention in Costa Rica to end the strike. Sack refused as he was not in favour of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign nations, and also didn't believe President Roosevelt would be in favour of such action, citing the Good Neighbor Policy. After his resignation, Edward Albright was appointed to replace him; but after Albright's death, William H. Hornibrook ultimately became the new minister. Later, he started a public relations firm.

He died in 1956 from a kidney ailment; his wife and his daughter survived him.

References

External links
 Sack Named Minister

1889 births
1956 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
United States Army personnel of World War I
People from Los Angeles
Politicians from Tupelo, Mississippi
University of Missouri alumni


title: William H. Hornibrook

text:
William Harrison Hornibrook (July 6, 1884 – October 24, 1946) was an American publisher, politician, and diplomat.

Biography

Hornibrook, born on July 6, 1884, in Utah, started his career as a newspaper publisher in 1906; at one point or another, he owned both the predecessors to The Columbian and the Albany Democrat-Herald, along with various other papers.

In November 1906, he married Yolande Wilson, with whom he had two children, a son and a daughter.

A Democrat, Hornibrook was elected to the Idaho State Senate, from Twin Falls County, serving from 1911 to 1912, before his resignation.

He served as US ambassador to Thailand (then Siam) from 1915 to 1916, later as ambassador to Iran from 1934 to 1936 and Afghanistan from 1935 to 1936, while resident in Tehran. After the recognition of the Afghan government led by King Zahir Shah in August 1934, Hornibrook was appointed the first minister to Afghanistan.

From 1937–1941, he was ambassador to Costa Rica.

He died in March 1946, in Pacific Grove, California.

References

1884 births
1946 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Iran
Ambassadors of the United States to Thailand
Ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica
Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan
Idaho state senators
20th-century American diplomats
20th-century American politicians


title: New Jersey sound

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The New Jersey sound or Jersey sound is a genre of house music originating in Newark, New Jersey during the early 1980s. It is a type of deep and garage house with an emphasis on soulful vocals influenced by Newark's gospel legacy.

History
The New Jersey sound originated in the 1980s. Places like Club Zanzibar in Newark, New Jersey, where DJ Tony Humphries began his residency in 1982, helped "spawn the sometimes raw but always soulful, gospel-infused subgenre" of deep house music known as the Jersey sound. Besides the term "New Jersey house", there are alternative names for the genre: "In the UK, for fairly unfathomable reasons, it became known as garage music (named after the Paradise Garage in New York), while in NJ itself they simply called it club (or perhaps more pertinently, the Jersey sound)." Newark female singers famously remixed by house music DJ Larry Levan included Gwen Guthrie ("Ain't Nothin' Goin On But The Rent") and Taana Gardner ("Heartbeat").

In 1992, Union County's Aly-Us released their deep-house hit "Follow Me."

Abigail Adams's house-music record label and store, Movin’ Records in Newark's neighbor East Orange, was another contributor to the Jersey Sound.

The Jersey club scene also gave rise to the ball culture scene in Newark hotels and nightclubs. "Queen of House" Crystal Waters and other house luminaries performed on the Newark scene. DJ Kerri Chandler, another Zanzibar DJ, was another pioneer of the "Jersey sound" variety of house music. Jersey artists like Jomanda found success in the early 90s house music scene. Some have said that "when New York went to rap [during this period], Jersey stayed with the club. Because of Zanzibar.”

Festivals
Annual summer events like the Roselle House Music Festival in Warinanco Park, the Trenton House Music Festival, the Weequahic Park House Music Festival, the Plainfield House Music Festival in Cedar Brook Park and the Lincoln Park Music Festival attract families and house music enthusiasts, also known as "househeads," dedicated to the classic 1980s Jersey sound.

See also
Latin freestyle, a genre of dance music popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the New Jersey area

References

House music genres
Music of New Jersey
Culture of Newark, New Jersey
1980s in music


title: Horst Mandl

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Horst Mandl (January 8, 1936 – July 14, 2018) was an Austrian athlete.  He was born in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.  He represented Austria in the decathlon at the 1968 Olympics.  While he was not able to complete the first day at the Olympics, he was the Austrian National Champion in 110 metres hurdles (1967-1969), high jump (1970 and 1973), long jump (1962, 1964-1966), triple jump 9 times in row (1964-1972), pentathlon (1967-1968) and decathlon (1963-1965 and 1969-1971).

He also took up coaching, among his first success stories was future wife Doris, who he coached to the state championship in the 100 metres hurdles.  He coached at the General Gymnastics Club Graz until his retirement.

He continued competing into masters age groups, winning the world championships in the M40 110 hurdles, high jump and triple jump in 1977 and the M50 high jump and triple jump in 1987.  In 1976 he set the masters M40 world record in the high jump at 2.02m which lasted for 5 years until it was surpassed by John Dobroth.  In 1996 he again set a masters M60 world record at 1.70, improving on the record of Milton Newton, which would hold for two years until it was surpassed by Phil Fehlen.  Since 2001, he is tied with Jim Gilcrest for the current M65 Indoor record at 1.62.

References

1936 births
2018 deaths
Austrian decathletes
Austrian male high jumpers
Austrian male long jumpers
Austrian male triple jumpers
Austrian male hurdlers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Austria
Sportspeople from Graz


title: List of unsolved problems in information theory

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This article lists notable unsolved problems in information theory. These are separated into source coding and channel coding. There are also related unsolved problems in philosophy.

Channel coding

Capacity of a network: The capacity of a general wireless network is not known.  There are some specific cases for which the capacity is known, such as the AWGN channel and fading channel.
 Capacity of the broadcast channel: The capacity of the broadcast channel, or the case in which a single transmitter is sending information to many receivers, is unknown in general, though it is known for several specific cases.
 Capacity of the interference channel (Two User): The capacity of the interference channel, in the case where there are two transmitter and receiver pairs that interfere among each other, is unknown in general. Capacity is known in special cases: strong interference regime, injective-deterministic. Capacity is known in approximate sense or within a range for: injective-semi-deterministic, additive white Gaussian noise with per block power constraint.
Capacity of the two-way channel: The capacity of the two-way channel (a channel in which information is sent in both directions simultaneously) is unknown.
The capacity of Aloha:  The ALOHAnet used a very simple access scheme for which the capacity is still unknown, though it is known in a few special cases.
Quantum capacity: The capacity of a quantum channel is in general not known.

Source coding

 Lossy distributed source coding: The best way to compress correlated information sources using encoders that do not communicate with each other, preserving each source to within its distortion metric, is not known.

References

Further reading

information theory


title: Knights of Power

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Knights of Power is an album by James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble, with guest saxophonists Arthur Blythe and Hamiet Bluiett, recorded in 1995 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "Along with No Wave, this is the best of the Music Revelation Ensemble's recordings; it kicks ass". Jazz Review'''s  Lee Prosser awarded the album 4 stars, enthusing: "This CD mixes funk, fusion and straight jazz idioms into a blend that is fresh and high energy. Question! Is some new jazz starting to meld together? THIS WILL WAKE YOU UP . Find this gem ....... and you will understand why it is called KNIGHTS OF POWER
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Track listingAll compositions by James Blood Ulmer''
 "The Scandal Monger" – 5:33
 "The Day Of" – 7:55
 "Convulsion" – 7:48
 "Noise and Clamor" – 6:44
 "The Elephant" – 9:46
 "Father of Flame" – 4:12
 "Quarish" – 5:09
 "Back Biter" – 7:17

Personnel
James Blood Ulmer – guitar
Amin Ali – electric bass
Cornell Rochester – drums
Arthur Blythe – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 7)
Hamiet Bluiett – baritone saxophone (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 8)

References

1996 albums
James Blood Ulmer albums
DIW Records albums


The 2014–15 Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team represented Stony Brook University in the America East Conference.  The Seawolves were led by first-year head coach Caroline McCombs and will play their home games at the Island Federal Credit Union Arena. They finished the season 17-13, 10-6 in America East play for a third-place finish. They lost in the quarterfinals of the 2015 America East women's basketball tournament to UMBC. They were invited to the 2015 Women's Basketball Invitational where they lost to Siena in the first round.

Media
All non-televised home games and conference road games will stream on either ESPN3 or AmericaEast.tv. Most road games will stream on the opponents website. All games will have an audio broadcast streamed online through the Pack Network.

Roster

Schedule

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See also
2014–15 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team
Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball

References

Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball seasons
Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team
Stony Brook
Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team
Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team


title: Calm Down (Busta Rhymes song)

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"Calm Down" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes from the album Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God. The song features Eminem and was produced by Scoop DeVille. It was released for digital download on July 1, 2014 by The Conglomerate Entertainment and Empire Distribution.

Background
In September 2013, Busta Rhymes confirmed the collaboration in an interview with XXL, saying: "I’ve got a six-minute record with Eminem that sounds like we are respectfully trying to battle each other in a way that you probably never heard us battle in our entire careers on a record. So it’s lot of real incredibly golden moments for us on this project." In January 2014, the song's producer Scoop DeVille spoke about the song in an interview with Vlad TV, saying that "That's the next record that's going to, I'd say destroy the streets of New York and Hip Hop in a lot of ways" and "bring back Busta in a major way." He revealed that the song, 6 minutes in length, had been worked on for a long time and was planned to have an accompanying music video as well.

In July 2014, during an interview with Power 106, Busta explained that as he and Eminem kept going "back and forth" in a competitive, battling manner, the song went from three minutes and eight seconds to 6 minutes. Busta continued: "We [were] like, 'Yo, listen, it's one thing to say F the rules, but it's another thing to say we're O.D.ing," and called the song a "special," "beautiful piece of art."

In a July 2014, interview with Complex, Busta explained how the song came together. Scoop provided Busta with the instrumental, which Busta "loved". He immediately recorded two 16-bar verses and titled the song "Calm Down". After "marinating" on the song for some time, Busta felt that it "would be an incredible record for Eminem to get on" and called his own manager Chris Lighty, and requested him to arrange a meeting with Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, to whom they gave the song, but were not informed whether Eminem would record for the song. After six weeks, Busta's associate Shaheem Reid reached out to then-Shady Records A&R Riggs Morales, who came by the studio to hear the song, and two weeks later, Rosenberg finally confirmed that "[Em] had got the beat and that he’s fucking with it."

After a few months, Busta met up with Rosenberg in the studio, where Busta heard Eminem's verse and "was blown away," but was also intrigued that Eminem had a longer, 42-bar verse, which triggered "a competitive process." Busta then wrote a 50 bar verse and flew out to Eminem's studio in Detroit for a mix session, where Eminem heard Busta's new verse, which prompted him to expand his own verse to 60 bars. Busta then expanded his verse to 62 bars, and finally Eminem his own to 64 bars. Busta also spoke about how long it took to finish the song, saying: "It took us about seven months to go back and forth because we still had other commitments and tours to go on. So sometimes I would have to wait a couple of months to get Em’s new adjustment back and vice versa."

Busta noted that "It started off from just doing a dope, high energy hip-hop record into us respectfully competing and damn near battling each other" and stated that he and Eminem "bring the best out of" each other and praised Eminem as someone who "genuinely still cares about the music."

Composition and production
"Calm Down" is a hip hop song. It features two lengthy verses by each rapper, both preceded by a chorus. The instrumental is produced by Scoop DeVille and is based around a sample of the introductory horns from the 1992 House of Pain song "Jump Around" (which themselves are taken from Bob & Earl's 1963 track "Harlem Shuffle"). The song also includes vocal samples: "Yo, chill man! Chill!" from The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1993 track "Party and Bullshit" (which appears in the background of the second chorus and at the very end of the song), "Steady on the right, steady on the left" from Grand Wizzard Theodore and Kevie Kev Rockwell's 1983 "Military Cut - Scratch Mix" (used for the chorus).

In interview with Power 106 on Big Boy's Neighborhood, Busta revealed that the song's mixing and mastering, as well as some additional production, was done by Eminem.

Commercial performance
In its debut week of release, the song sold 40,133 digital copies in the United States and debuted at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

Notes
 signifies an additional producer.

Chart performance

References

Songs written by Eminem
Busta Rhymes songs
Eminem songs
2014 singles
Empire Distribution singles
2014 songs
Song recordings produced by Scoop DeVille
Songs written by Busta Rhymes
Songs written by Scoop DeVille


title: Palmyrene alphabet

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The Palmyrene alphabet was a historical Semitic alphabet used to write Palmyrene Aramaic.
It was used between 100 BCE and 300 CE in Palmyra in the Syrian desert.
The oldest surviving Palmyrene inscription dates to 44 BCE.
The last surviving inscription dates to 274 CE, two years after Palmyra was sacked by Roman Emperor Aurelian, ending the Palmyrene Empire.  Use of the Palmyrene language and script declined, being replaced with Greek and Latin.

The Palmyrene alphabet was derived from cursive versions of the Aramaic alphabet and shares many of its characteristics:
 Twenty-two letters with only consonants represented
 Written horizontally from right-to-left
 Numbers written right-to-left using a non-decimal system

Palmyrene was normally written without spaces or punctuation between words and sentences (scriptio continua style).

Two forms of the Palmyrene alphabet were developed: The rounded, cursive form derived from the Aramaic alphabet and later a decorative, monumental form developed from the cursive Palmyrene.
Both the cursive and monumental forms commonly used orthographic ligatures.

Characters

Numbers
Palmyrene used a non-decimal system which built up numbers using combinations of their symbols for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 20.
It is similar to the system used for Aramaic which built numbers using their symbols for 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 100, 1000, and 10000.

Letters
There are some styles in which the 'r'-letter (resh) is the same as the 'd'-letter (dalesh) with a dot on top, but there are styles in which the two letters are visually distinct. Ligation, after b, ḥ, m, n, and q before some other consonants was common in some inscriptions but was not obligatory. There are also two fleurons (left-sided and right-sided) that tend to appear near numbers.

Decipherment
Examples of Palmyrene inscriptions were printed as far back as 1616, but accurate copies of Palmyrene/Greek bilingual inscriptions were not available until 1753.
The Palmyrene alphabet was deciphered in 1754, literally overnight, by Abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy using these new, accurate copies of bilingual inscriptions.

Unicode

Palmyrene was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2014 with the release of version 7.0.

The Unicode block for Palmyrene is U+10860–U+1087F:

Gallery

References

Abjad writing systems
Obsolete writing systems
Aramaic languages


title: 2014 Assiniboine River flood

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The 2014 Assiniboine River flood was caused by above average precipitation in western Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Unlike most prior floods, this flood was not due to spring runoff, but rather significant rainfall. Flooding and high water involved both the main stem of the Assiniboine River and many of its tributaries including the Qu'Appelle River and the Souris River. The flood came just 3 years after the 2011 Assiniboine River Flood which was considered a 1 in 300 year event. Peak flows along the river for the first crest were generally slightly less than in 2011. However, the second peak on the river has exceeded 2011 levels starting near St. Lazare, Manitoba up to Brandon, Manitoba so far.

Early signs
After a generally unremarkable spring in the Assiniboine River watershed with some minor flooding, a series of significant rainfall events occurred in June and early July with the most significant event occurring in Eastern Saskatchewan and Western Manitoba over the Canada Day long weekend.

Preparations
After multiple states of local states of emergencies were declared in Manitoba, the Province of Manitoba declared a provincial state of emergency on July 4, and Premier Greg Selinger contacted Prime Minister Stephen Harper to request military assistance in the flood fight. Troops from CFB Shilo were deployed to help sandbag vulnerable properties, shore up dikes, and monitor dikes for any breaches along the lower Assiniboine River between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg. Dikes were reinforced and built up along the Portage Diversion as well in order for the channel to run above design capacity.  Preparations were also made at the Hoop and Holler bend on Provincial Road 331 in the event a controlled breach of the lower Assiniboine River was needed to handle excess flows beyond the capacity of flood control measures.

Flooding
The first crest reached Brandon on July 6 with flows of 34,330 cfs below the levels of 2011 when the river crested at 36,700 cfs. When the crest reached the Portage Reservoir on July 9, flows reached 52,100 cfs with approximately 34,100  cfs directed toward Lake Manitoba through the Portage Diversion and 18,000 cfs toward Winnipeg. This was again lower than in 2011 when the river crested at the Portage Reservoir with flows of 53,100 cfs.

The second crest reached St. Lazare, Manitoba on July 9 and crested at 1,290.78 feet above sea level (ASL), which was approximately 0.7 ft. higher than the previous record crest of 2011. Nine homes in the St. Lazare area outside the community ring dike were damaged. On July 12, the second crest reached Brandon and peak flows were measured at 38,870 cfs, which was higher than 2011 levels. Record flows were experienced upstream of the confluence of the Souris and Assiniboine Rivers but not downstream of this point, as the Souris River was not experiencing significant enough flows. As a result the second crest at the Portage Reservoir was slightly lower than the first one coming in at 51,480 cfs.

Effects on Lake Manitoba
With excess spring flows on the Assiniboine River directed towards Lake Manitoba through use of the Portage Diversion, lake levels were above the desirable range of the lake of 810.0 to 812.0 feet above sea level (ASL) and even the upper limit of 813 feet ASL prior to the summer flood. Continued use of the Portage Diversion occurred after it was re-opened to help mitigate against flooding, during which flows of over 34,000 cfs were directed towards the lake, well above the original designed channel capacity of the Portage Diversion of 25,000 cfs. During the 2011 as well as the 2014 floods, work was done on the Portage Diversion to allow it to convey the higher volumes experienced. The result of this was that the water level of Lake Manitoba peaked at 814.6 feet putting residents on the lake at risk of flooding and damage from wind events.

Aftermath and damages
Preliminary estimates of damages directly from the flooding are estimated at $1 billion for the agricultural sector alone with further damages yet to be assessed for property owners and other businesses. This does not include economic losses related to economic spin-offs which are estimated to total a $3 billion loss to the economy of Manitoba. Future damages may occur on Lake Manitoba as a result of the continued use of the Portage Diversion redirecting flood waters from the Assiniboine River until the lower reach of the river can handle flows without flooding. Without the use of the Portage Diversion catastrophic damages would occur downstream. However, even with the restriction of flows on the lower Assiniboine River to about 18,000 cfs property damage occurred.  Numerous properties along the Assiniboine River east of Portage la Prairie suffered significant property damage as well as bank erosion and loss of mature stands of trees. Water continues to remain over the banks in the same region well into August including the KOA campground in St Francois Xavier which remained under water for approximately 4 weeks.

References

2010s floods in North America
2014 floods
Floods in Canada
2014 disasters in Canada
2014 in Manitoba
2014 in Saskatchewan


title: Hemidactylus depressus

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Hemidactylus depressus, also known as Sri Lanka leaf-nosed gecko or Kandyan gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.

Description
Head large with large granules, especially on snout. Mid-ventrals 36–40. Digits webbed at base. Lamellae under fourth toe counts 10–11. Tail depressed, with serrated lateral edges.
Dorsum light brown to gray, with 4-5 dark transverse angular markings. A dark canthal stripe, edged with a pale one. Tail is with dark cross bars. Venter grayish-creamy.

Distribution and habitat
A gecko endemic to Sri Lanka, found only from localities Kantale, Giritale, Mankulam, Alutnuwara, Hunugalla, Elkaduwa, Matale, Rattota, Gammaduwa, Kandy, Knuckles Mountain Range, Haragama, Wakwalla, Palatupana, Balangoda and Vanathavilluwa.

Ecology and diet
Arboreal species from the plains, found on trees, boulders and caves and sometimes enter houses.
Diet comprises insects.

Reproduction
Lay 2 eggs at a time in rock crevices, tree holes, leaf litter between June–August. Hatchlings emerge during August and September.

References

 http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Hemidactylus&species=depressus
 http://biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/01/kandian-gecko-hemidactylus-depressus.html
 http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Hemidactylus_depressus/classification/

Reptiles of Sri Lanka
depressus
Reptiles described in 1842
Taxa named by John Edward Gray


title: Yasser Ibrahim

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Yasser Ibrahim Ahmed El Hanafi (; born 10 February 1993) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Al Ahly and the Egypt national team.

Club career
On 7 January 2019, he moved to Al Ahly.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club
Zamalek
 Egypt Cup: 2013–14

Al Ahly
 Egyptian Premier League: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23
 Egypt Cup: 2019–20, 2021–22
 Egyptian Super Cup: 2018–19
 CAF Champions League: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23
 CAF Super Cup: 2021 (May), 2021 (December)

International
Egypt U20
 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations: 2013

Individual
FIFA Club World Cup top scorer: 2021

References

External links
Profile on Goalzz

1993 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Egyptian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
El Mansoura SC players
Zamalek SC players
Smouha SC players
Al Ahly SC players
Egyptian Premier League players
Egypt men's youth international footballers
Egypt men's under-20 international footballers
Egypt men's international footballers


title: Masters M40 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M40 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Masters M35 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M35 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Spotted giant gecko

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The spotted giant gecko (Hemidactylus hunae) is a species of gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.

Habitat and distribution
The largest gecko found in Sri Lanka, inhabiting outcrops of the dry and intermediate regions of the island. Localities includes Nilgala, Okanda, Panamure, and Rambukkana.

Description
Snout somewhat pointed. Forehead with large scattered scales. Back with 15-20 rows of tubercles. Ventrals smooth. Fingers and toes with divided scansors. Males are with 19-25 femoral pores. Mental scales are as long as wide.
Dorsum grayish brown, with black blotches that are expanded into rhomboidal marks. Two dark streaks found along the eyes. Venter unpatterned creamy colored.

Ecology and diet
Inhabits rocky outcrops, including caves and cracks in boulders, and more rarely on walls of buildings and on trees. In the former microhabitat, it was sympatric with Calodactylodes illingworthorum, but timing of activity is more at dusk, than largely diurnal habit of Calodactylodes illingworthorum.
Diet comprises small insects, although others geckos are also known to be eaten.

Reproduction
2 eggs are produced at a time measuring 10 * 12mm in March and August. Hatchlings measure 33m.

References
 http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Hemidactylus&species=hunae
  Rediscovery of Spotted rock Gecko from Sri Lanka
 https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=818682

hunae
Reptiles described in 1937
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka


title: Welcome to Sweden

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Welcome to Sweden may refer to:
 Welcome to Sweden (2007 TV series), a reality show with Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer on Kanal 5
 Welcome to Sweden (2014 TV series), a sitcom with Greg Poehler and Josephine Bornebusch on TV4 in Sweden and NBC in the U.S.
 Welcome to Sweden, a 2020 album by Swedish rapper Einár


title: Alec Marr

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Alec Marr is an Australian conservationist and former Executive Director of the Wilderness Society (TWS) in Australia From 1998 to 2010. He has been a forest campaigner, lobbyist and international campaign advisor.

Farmhouse Creek and Tasmanian wilderness activism
In 1986 Marr joined forest campaigners at the Hobart office of the Wilderness Society where he began organising a forest blockade at Farmhouse Creek in Tasmania's south-west. In February 1986 he climbed 20 metres to a tree sit and stayed there for 16 days. The Farmhouse Creek protest became front page news across Australia.

In 1989 he and fellow Wilderness Society campaigner Geoff Law, negotiated the Salamanca Agreement. The Labor-Green Accord negotiations led to an increase in Tasmania's World Heritage estate from 235,000 to 550,000 hectares. Further negotiations with the federal government extended the protected area to 600,000 hectares.

In 1992 Marr led the direct action that stopped limestone mining at Exit Cave in Tasmania's southwest, which at the time was the longest known cave in Australia. Subsequently he became The Wilderness Society's spokesperson for the Long Hot Summer forest campaign of 1992-93.

As TWS's national lobbyist from 1994, Marr negotiated with the Keating and Howard governments over wood chipping.

Jabiluka Uranium Mine
In March 1998 Marr was among the first to be arrested at what proved to be a several-months long, but ultimately successful, protest against uranium mining at Jabiluka in the Northern Territory. After his arrest Marr joined traditional owners in lobbying the World Heritage Committee to stop Uranium Mining inside the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park, at Jabiluka. The campaign to stop Uranium Mining was ultimately successful after Marr and Leanne Minshull led the Wilderness Society's corporate activism against the mining company, North Limited, significantly reducing the company's share price.

Growth of the Wilderness Society
In May 1998 Marr became Executive Director of The Wilderness Society.

Meanwhile TWS kept growing. When Marr became director the Society was virtually bankrupt with an annual turn-over of less than $1 million. Ten years later, by 2008, the Society had a budget of $15 million with a membership of 45,000. One hundred and fifty employees worked across the country. Paid campaign teams operated in every state.

Gunns Ltd & Ors v Marr & Ors
Marr steered the Wilderness Society on a corporate campaign against Gunns, the country's largest timber company and one of the world's largest exporter of woodchips. The Society took the issue to Gunns' customers in Japan and the company's financial backers.

However, Marr's leadership in the campaign against Gunns resulted in two separate writs brought in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Marr was named as the lead defendant among 14 others in a claim alleging interference in the practices of Gunns Ltd in six separate incidents. The case was recognised as Australia's biggest strategic lawsuit against public participation at the time. When finally settled in 2010 the case was reported to have cost Gunns Ltd $2.8 million including $1.3 million paid to the Wilderness Society.

Departure from the Wilderness Society
A consultant's audit commissioned by Marr in 2008 had reported there was "a combative approach by managers" and lack of transparency in the matter of pay structures, including commissions, bonuses, and perceived perks.

By the end of 2009 Lyndon Schnieders had failed in his bid to become appointed as the Wilderness Society's National Campaigns Director after an international applicant was chosen for the position. Imminently following the staffing decision, Marr claimed he was in a power struggle with Schnieders and chaos enveloped the Society. Several staff members allied to Schnieders began expressing no confidence in Marr's leadership. Marr convened an annual general meeting in November 2009 known to only the governing National Management Committee. At the meeting, the Society's constitution was changed to ensure 10% of the membership was required to call for an extraordinary general meeting, and not 20 which had been the previous requirement.

A 2010 ruling by the Tasmanian Supreme Court found that the AGM held in November 2009 by Marr was not legitimate. Following the ruling, several of the Society's staff, led by Lyndon Schneiders, were easily able to garner the 20 members required to call an extraordinary general meeting to oust Marr and the National Management Committee of the Society. In September 2010, Marr's resignation was forced by an extradentary general meeting of the Wilderness Society held in Adelaide. At the time, Marr claimed there was a conspiracy to remove him and alleged 'cronyism' within the organisation.

Within several weeks of Marr's departure from the Wilderness Society, Lyndon Schneiders became National Director, disbanding both the Wild Country and Climate Change programs established under the leadership of Marr.

Triabunna Woodchip Mill controversy
In his final months at the Wilderness Society, Marr and fellow campaigners had conceived the idea of buying Gunns' controversial Triabunna Woodchip Mill on the east coast of Tasmania, at the time it was the largest woodchip mill in the southern hemisphere.

Marr found buyers in Wotif founder Graeme Wood and Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron. Negotiating on their behalf, Marr convinced the new management at Gunns to sell to Wood and Cameron, who purchased the mill for around $10 million. In July 2011 Marr was appointed general manager of the woodchip mill. In July 2014 Tasmanian media published a refutation by Marr of accusations that he had been installed with the express intention of sabotaging the plant as reported in an article in the Monthly.

World Heritage
In 2014 Marr was present at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee in Doha, Qatar on the occasion of the hearing into the proposal to remove 74,000 ha from Tasmania's World Heritage Area. At the meeting, Marr and other conservationists successfully worked with State Parties on the World Heritage Committee to stop the World Heritage revocations of Tasmania forests.

In 2019 Marr became a strategic adviser to the NSW based Colong Foundation for Wilderness. Marr's work centres around lobbying of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on the proposed raising of the Warragamba Dam wall.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian environmentalists
The Wilderness Society (Australia)


title: St. Mary's Road

text:
St. Mary's Road may refer to:

Canada

St. Mary's Road, the colloquial name of an old route in southeastern Manitoba, made up the following modern roads:
Winnipeg Route 52
Manitoba Provincial Road 200, from Winnipeg to Ste. Agathe
Manitoba Provincial Road 246, from Ste. Agathe to St. Jean Baptiste

Odonyms referring to religion


title: He Xiaopeng

text:
He Xiaopeng (; born 3November 1977) is a Chinese entrepreneur, best known for co-founding companies including XPeng Motors, an intelligent electric vehicle manufacturer, and UCWeb, the Chinese mobile Internet software and service provider he co-founded in 2004. UCWeb was acquired by Alibaba Group in June 2014 in the largest M&A deal ever in Chinese Internet industry. After acquisition, he was named as president of UCWeb and president of the Alibaba Mobile Business Group, and later served as the president of Tudou & Ali Games.

On 22 August 2017, Xiaopeng left Alibaba and officially joined XPeng Motors on 29 August as chairman of the startup.

Early life and education
Born in Huangshi, Hubei, where he spent his childhood. He graduated from the South China University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Career

Early career
He worked at AsiaInfo Technologies in various roles including technology manager, testing manager and project manager after graduation in his early career.

UCWeb: 2004–2017
He co-founded UCWeb with Liang Jie in 2004 overseeing the company product strategy and R&D efforts. In June 2014, UCWeb was acquired by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group for $4,3 billion making He Xiaopeng a billionaire. From 2014 to August 2017, Xiaopeng served as senior executive of Alibaba Mobile Business Division. On 22 August 2017, Xiaopeng officially announced his resignation from all his positions in Alibaba to start a new adventure and lead startup XPeng Motors.

XPeng Motors: 2017–present

In 2014, He Xiaopeng supported Xia Heng and He Tao in the foundation of XPeng Motors, an electric self-driving vehicle automobile company. The company received initial investments from Li Xueling, Fu Sheng, Wu Xiaoguang, Zhang Ying, and other investors to work on autonomous driving engineering and machine learning. XPeng's stated goal was to manufacture networked cars in China with capabilities like electrification, intelligence, networking and autonomous driving. In September 2016, XPeng Motors released the beta version of its prototype G3 intelligent electric mini-SUV in Beijing. The car received positive reviews for its design, performance and technology. He became full-time chairman of XPeng in August 2017.

XPeng Motors currently manufactures its G3 intelligent electric SUV in China, and distributes and supports its vehicles through a chain of retail and service centers across the country. The company's P7 intelligent electric sports coupe model is scheduled to come to market in the spring of 2020.

References

1977 births
Living people
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Alibaba Group people
Businesspeople from Hubei
Chinese founders of automobile manufacturers
People from Huangshi
South China University of Technology alumni
XPeng people


title: Calytrix amethystina

text:
Calytrix amethystina is a species of flowering plant of the family Myrtaceae.

The shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between July and September producing blue-purple-white star shaped flowers.

Found amongst rocky outcrops and on breakaways in inland parts of the Mid West and western parts of the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows on shallow rocky soils over sandstone or laterite.

References

External links

Plants described in 1987
amethystina


title: Hemidactylus lankae

text:
Hemidactylus lankae (termite-hill gecko, Sri Lanka leaf-toed gecko) is a species of gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.

Habitat and distribution
A beautiful dark-light banded ground gecko from the dry zone of Sri Lanka, below 300m. Known from localities including Kandalama, Dambulla, Giritale, Bakamuna, Puttalam, Wilpattu National Park, and Menikdena.

Description
Head large. An indistinct lateral skin fold present. Forehead and back covered with large 16-18 rows of convex tubercles. Male are with 13-19 pre-ano-femoral pores.
Dorsum yellowish-olive, with three large brown saddle-like patches, edged with black. Head is with yellow stripes from behind the eye and across nape. Venter unpatterned creamy. Tail dark banded.

Ecology and diet
Inhabits open forests and shrublands. A nocturnal and terrestrial gecko, it shelters during the day in rock cracks, under bark and in rodent burrows.
Diet comprises termites, and also crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, and beetles, and they known to congregate on termitaria with swarming termite alates.

Reproduction
Clutched comprise 2, and may 6, measuring 10 * 12mm, which laid between May and July. Hatchlings are 22mm long.

References
 http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Hemidactylus&species=lankae
 https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
 https://www.gbif.org/species/6066687

Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 1953
lankae


title: Nargis Sethi

text:
Nargis Sethi () is a retired Pakistani civil service officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service who served in BPS-22 grade as the Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Other heavyweight assignments held by Sethi include Secretary for Water and Power, Secretary for Economic Affairs and Defence Secretary of Pakistan.

Sethi was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani in October 2010. After her retirement from the civil services, she was appointed as member of the Federal Public Service Commission.

Education
Sethi holds post-graduate degrees in international relations from Karachi University, defence studies from Quaid-e-Azam University, and a Master of Science in Development Administration from a university in the  United States.

Personal life
Sethi is married to Saleem Sethi who is also a retired senior civil service officer.

She was the first woman in the country's history to be posted as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.

Awards and recognition
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the President of Pakistan in 2012

See also
Nasir Mahmood Khosa
Jawad Rafique Malik
Rizwan Ahmed
Tariq Bajwa
Rabiya Javeri Agha
Fawad Hassan Fawad
Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
Tasneem Noorani

References

Pakistani civil servants
Defence Secretaries of Pakistan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan


title: Jambughoda State

text:
Jambughoda State, previously known as Narukot and Tokalpur state, was a small princely state in India during the time of the British Raj. Its last ruler acceded to the Union of India on 10 June 1948.

Jambughoda State had an area of 370 km2 and a population of 11385 in 1931. It was bounded by Baria State in the north, Baroda State in the south and Chhota Udaipur State in the east.

Jambughoda State fell under the Baroda Agency of the Bombay Presidency, later integrated into the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.
It was located in a tribal dominated area, with the Naikda and the Koli people as the main groups. Its capital was at Jambughoda town in present-day Gujarat state, India.

History
Jambughoda State was established towards the end of the 14th century by Thakore Vachhaji, a descendant of the Malwa ruling dynasty. From the mid-tenth century, Malwa had been ruled by the Paramaras, who established a capital at Dhar. King Bhoj, who ruled from about 1010 to 1060, was known as the great polymath philosopher-king of medieval India. Under his rule Malwa became an intellectual centre of India. His successors ruled until about 1305, when Malwa was conquered by the Delhi Sultanate.

In 1826 Jambughoda State became a British protectorate. Between 1829 and 1838 the territory was occupied by Baroda State, becoming a British protectorate again in 1849.

The Thakur Sahib of Jambughoda was one of the original constituents of the Chamber of Princes an institution established in 1920. He exercised considerable civil and criminal jurisdiction. The progressive and efficient administration of the state of Jambughoda exempted it from being merged during the attachment scheme of 1943. The last ruler was Ranjitsinhji Gambhirsinhji (b. 1892) who reigned from 27 Sep 1917 to 15 Aug 1947.

Rulers
The state was ruled by Kshatriya Kolis belonging to the Parmar dynasty and took the title of Thakor And Rana Sahib.

Thakor Sahibs
.... – 1820: Amarsinghji
1820 – 1870: Jagatsinhji
1870 – 1911: Dipsinhji Jagatsinhji (b. 1841 – d. 1911)
1911 – 27 Sep 1917: Gambhirsimhji (d. 1917)

See also

 Political integration of India
Jawhar State

Koli

References

External links
Heraldry of the princely states of Gujarat

Princely states of India
History of Gujarat
Panchmahal district
Rajputs
States and territories established in the 14th century
14th-century establishments in India
1948 disestablishments in India


The 2014–15 UMass Lowell River Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the America East Conference.  The River Hawks are led by first year head coach Jenerrie Harris  and will once again play most their home games in the Costello Athletic Center while select games will be played in the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. As part of their transition to Division I, they are ineligible for post season play until the 2017–18 season. They finished the season 14–15, 7–9 in America East play for a sixth-place finish.

Media
All non-televised home games and conference road games will stream on either ESPN3 or AmericaEast.tv. Most road games will stream on the opponents website.

Roster

Schedule

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See also
2014–15 UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball team
UMass Lowell River Hawks women's basketball

References

UMass Lowell River Hawks women's basketball seasons
UMass Lowell
UMass
UMass


title: Masters M45 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M45 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Hemidactylus parvimaculatus

text:
Hemidactylus parvimaculatus, also known as the spotted house gecko or the Sri Lankan house gecko, is a species of gecko from South Asia and Indian Ocean.

Description
Hemidactylus parvimaculatus can grow to  in length. The body has many tubercles and the tail has rings of small spines. Coloration is light grey to tan; there are dark blotches that form three rows along the back. The belly is pinkish-cream.

Distribution
This gecko is found in Sri Lanka, southern India, Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues, Moheli (Comoro Islands), Maldives, and Mascarene Islands. There are also introduced populations in Bangkok, Thailand, and in the southern United States.

Ecology
In Sri Lanka, Hemidactylus parvimaculatus has been recorded to prey upon Ramanella variegata frogs and insects. It can also be cannibalistic.

References

parvimaculatus
Reptiles of the Comoros
Reptiles of India
Reptiles of the Maldives
Fauna of the Mascarene Islands
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles of Thailand
Taxa named by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
Reptiles described in 1953


title: Hmong: History of a People

text:
Hmong: History of a People is a book by H. Keith Quincy, PhD, published by the Eastern Washington University Press. It was initially published in 1988 with a revised edition published in 1995.

It chronicles the history of the Hmong people in China; it also documents the modern Hmong with main focus on Hmong in Laos and also some focus on Hmong in Vietnam. In 2005 Robert Entenmann, Ph.D. of St. Olaf College wrote that the book was "the only easily available English-language study of Hmong history." The sources used in the work include historical events and eyewitness interviews. The author, who was an Eastern Washington University (EWU) professor in the Department of Government, received his doctoral degree from Claremont Colleges and specialized in American politics, political theory, and Vietnam. Quincy described himself as a "political philosopher".

Content
There are eleven chapters in the book. The history of the Hmong people is discussed in Chapters 1 through 3. The traditional culture of the Hmong, the 19th Century migration of Hmong into Southeast Asia, and the opium-producing role of the Hmong and that effect on global politics and international trade are all chronicled in Chapters 4 through 6. Chapters 7 through 10 discuss the involvement of Hmong in Laos with the French colonial governments, the Laotian government, and the U.S. military.; this included intra-Hmong feuds. Chapter 11 discusses the Communist victory in Laos in 1975.

There are not very many direct attributions to material, and the book does not have footnotes, nor does it have any other formal references to sources. Entenmann stated that the absence of footnotes was "a remarkable omission for a monograph published by a university press". Bruce Downing, who wrote a review for the Journal of Refugee Studies, stated "This is not a highly scholarly work".

This book cites François Marie Savina's Histoire des Miao, and The History of the Hmong (Meo) by Jean Mottin in its bibliography.

Historical statements

Sonom
Entenmann states that even though the book identifies Sonom as a Hmong king, Sonom in fact was not Hmong. Entenmann argued that the use of the word "Miao" was imprecise during the time when Jean Joseph Marie Amiot wrote an account of the Jinchuan Wars, since the Qing government under the Qianlong Emperor referred to all ethnic minorities as "Miao people" (). Amiot uses "Miao-tsée" () to refer to the Gyalrong people, of which Sonom was a part. This is distinct from the word "Miaozu" ().

Savina reprinted the account by Amiot. Entenmann stated that Savina made the error confusing the Gyalrong for the Hmong because he "was unfamiliar with Chinese history and the subtleties of Chinese vocabulary" even though he had studied Chinese. The word "Miao" in general was also used to refer to Hmong people. Entenmann stated that the book Hmong: History of a People "does not offer a reliable history of the Hmong in China" because Quincy was "evidently not trained as a historian" and did not read Chinese, so he introduced the error made by Savina. Mottin also included the Savina account.

Siberian theory
Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD of the Hmong Cultural and Resource Center (HCRC) of Saint Paul, Minnesota stated that the book "strongly suggested" that in a period between 3000 B.C. and 2500 B.C. the Hmong people had migrated to China from Siberia, but that there was no "firm evidence" behind the theory. Quincy cited some missionary beliefs stating that blue eyes and blonde hair proved the Siberian origins. Nicholas Tapp, author of "The State of Hmong Studies," stated that the missionary beliefs were myths and they had been discredited a long time prior to 2005. Tapp stated that there were other possible reasons for the blonde hair and blue eyes, such as relations with Westerners and albinism. Downing stated that the Siberian/Caucasian origin theory was an "ill-supported notion" and that Chapters 1-3 give "perhaps too much attention" to the theory.

Other statements
Tapp also stated that the book presented the existence and details of a year 400-900 Hmong Kingdom with no evidence, arguing that the Chinese never kept such records of the Hmong.

Downing stated "One suspects that myths, legends and self-serving accounts of events have sometimes been given undue credence."

Reception

In 2005 Pfeifer, referring to statements by Tapp and Entenmann, stated "In recent years, Quincy’s Hmong History of People has been strongly critiqued by key scholars of Hmong and Asian Studies". Tapp described Hmong: History of a People as "extraordinarily inaccurate and utterly misleading", a "wretched paperback", and a "sorry publication". Entenmann concluded that Tapp's assessments were "fully justified."

In his 1989 review Downing concluded that "Quincy is to be congratulated for making a comprehensive, ideologically neutral, and readable overview of Hmong history available in English of the first time." Downing stated that Quincy "has created a narrative that makes easy and interesting reading". Downing argued that the book should have explained the name "Miao" as it was used in China, since there are many different ethnic groups that speak the Miao languages, which Downing compares to the situations of the German people, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings as being a part of a larger group. Downing added that there were "minor errors of fact and typography".

Legacy
Pfeifer stated that many academics and students who read Hmong: History of a People circulated Quincy's theory on the Hmong coming from Siberia. Anne Fadiman used this book as a source for the sections on Hmong history in her book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. She stated "Were I citing the source of each detail, Quincy's name would attach itself to nearly every sentence in the pages on the Hmong in China." Fadiman's book cited the Quincy Siberian theory. Entenmann wrote that because of the reliance on Quincy's book, Fadiman's book propagated the mistaken idea that Sonom was a Hmong king.

References
 Downing, Bruce (University of Minnesota). "Hmong: History of a People" (Book Review) Journal of Refugee Studies, ISSN 0951-6328, 1989, Volume 2, Issue 3, p. 398. - DOI 10.1093/jrs/2.3.398
 Entenmann, Robert (St. Olaf College). "The Myth of Sonom, the Hmong King" (Archive). Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 6, 2005. p. 1. Retrieved on July 11, 2014.
 Pfeifer, Mark E. (Hmong Cultural and Resource Center). "Overview of Recent Scholarship on Premodern Hmong History" (Archive). Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (affiliated with the Hmong Studies Journal). Presentation at the "“Building on Hmong Women’s Assets: Past, Present, and Future” September 16-17, 2005, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN" (Archive).
 Tapp, Nicholas. "The State of Hmong Studies." In: Tapp, Nicholas, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas, and Gary Y. Lee (editors). Hmong/Miao in Asia Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004. pages 18–20 discuss Quincy's book and other pages discuss Quincy's work in relation to other studies of the Hmong which cite Quincy

Notes

Further reading
 Yates, C. L. "Asia & Oceania -- Hmong, history of a people by Keith Quincy." CHOICE, ISSN 0009-4978, 07/1996, Volume 33, Issue 11-12, p. 1848.

1988 non-fiction books
Hmong studies
History of Hmong people
Books published by university presses


title: Masters M50 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M50 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

External links
Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Masters M55 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M55 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Masters M60 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M60 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Masters M65 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M65 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High jump


title: Masters M70 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M70 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Masters M75 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M75 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High


title: Atarashii Bunmei Kaika

text:
, also known by its English language title "Brand New Civilization", is a song by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was a promotional song for the band's fifth album Dai Hakken, released on June 29, 2011, and was used in commercials for Tokyo Metro.

Background and development

After releasing their album Sports in February 2010, Tokyo Jihen undertook their Ultra C tour across Japan. In July they released two digital singles, "Tengoku e Yōkoso" for the drama Atami no Sōsakan and "Dopa-mint!" for Ezaki Glico's Watering Kissmint gum commercials. The band planned to release a double A-side single in February 2011, "Sora ga Natteiru" / "Onna no Ko wa Dare Demo", which was postponed until May due to drummer Toshiki Hata's incident involving a police officer in February 2010. The band's follow-up album, Dai Hakken, was first announced on May 9, 2011.

In 2010, Tokyo Metro used Yu Takahashi's song "Fukuwarai" as a song for their commercials. Previous years featured music by Yoko Kanno, Richard Rodgers, Pes from Rip Slyme, Kazunobu Mineta of Going Steady and Ging Nang Boyz, and Yoshiharu Abe from Unicorn.

Writing and production
The song features music by band pianist Ichiyo Izawa, with lyrics and additional music by Ringo Sheena. The song is entirely in English, and was translated by Jack Brown, who had previously collaborated with vocalist Sheena on the song "Mittei Monogatari", featured on Sheena's 2009 solo album Sanmon Gossip. Izawa felt the song had a "different feeling to regular pop". Sheena asked Izawa if he could leave the song up to her to arrange.

This was the third time the band released a lead single in English. Tokyo Jihen's second album, Adult (2006) featured the song "Kenka Jōtō" as a promotional single, sung almost entirely in English. Their fourth album, Sports (2010) was promoted by the English language song "Kachi Ikusa", which was used in commercials for Ezaki Glico's Watering Kissmint gum.

Promotion and release

The song was used in a commercial campaign for Tokyo Metro. The commercials began airing on May 20, and featured model Anne as their spokesperson. The song was first performed on September 24, 2011, at the band's Terebi Asahi Dream Music Festival festival appearance, and the song featured as a part of the set-list for their Discovery (2010) and Bon Voyage (2012) tours.

A music video for the song was released on June 13, 2011, directed by Yuichi Kodama. It features the band performing the song in bright clothing, while being backed by a cheer squad. After Kameda is tackled by a football player, he returns on screen in football gear with the label . The additional scenes feature the band as cabin crew on an aeroplane, with Hata and Izawa acting as the pilots, Sheena as an air hostess, and Ukigumo Kameda as passengers, with Kameda sitting next to the football "new Kameda". Several scenes feature the band's crane logo. The first involves a cuckoo clock where the cuckoo has been replaced by the logo, and the second features a team of performers who create a moving crane logo. The band members act as judges, and give the performance high ratings.

Critical reception

CDJournal called the song a "killer tune", noting the pleasant melody line and sprinting sound and praising Ukigumo's guitar solo in the introduction.

Chart rankings

Release history

References

2011 songs
English-language Japanese songs
Music videos directed by Yuichi Kodama
Songs used as jingles
Songs written by Ichiyo Izawa
Songs written by Ringo Sheena
Tokyo Jihen songs


title: Masters M80 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M80 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High


title: Masters M85 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M85 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High


title: Masters M90 high jump world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the high jump M90 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics High Jump list

Masters athletics world record progressions
High


title: Kunturi (Tarucani)

text:
Kunturi (Aymara for condor, Hispanicized spelling Condori) is a mountain in the Arequipa Region in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Arequipa Province, Tarucani District. Kunturi lies south of the El Fraile dam, between Qiñwani (Quenuani) in the northeast and Pukasaya in the southwest.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Arequipa Region


title: Funfair (disambiguation)

text:
Funfair may refer to:
 Amusement park
 Midway (fair)
 Sideshow alley (in Australia)
 Traveling carnival (US English)
 Travelling funfair (British English)
 Volksfest (in Germany)

Music
 "Funfair" (song), written for the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 Funfair (Nobukazu Takemura album), released in 1999
 Funfair (Rip Slyme album), released in 2007

Other uses
 Funfair (horse), winner of the 2012 Colleen Stakes
 “Funfair” (Balamory) A Series 2 Episode

See also
 Fair (disambiguation)
 Fairground (disambiguation)
 Fun Fare (disambiguation)


title: Justicia austroguangxiensis

text:
Justicia austroguangxiensis is a plant in the family Acanthaceae.

References

austroguangxiensis


title: Tasneem Aslam

text:
Tasneem Aslam () was a Pakistani career diplomat who formerly served as the  spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Career
After joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984, she served in missions in New Delhi, The Hague and Paris before serving as ambassador to Italy between 2007-2010 and to the Kingdom of Morocco in 2012. She served as the Additional Foreign Secretary for European Affairs from August 2013 till December 2013.

Aslam's alma maters include the University of the Punjab, where she received a Master in Business Administration, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she was awarded a master's degree in International Relations.

In an article examining the progress of female diplomats, Pakistan Today stated that Aslem is the only woman from Azad Kashmir. She was the first woman appointed by the ministry as its spokesperson (in 2005). She served as director of the Foreign Secretary’s Office; director Americas; director-general at the United Nations division and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

She retired form the service in 2017.

External links
 Pakistan appoints Tasnim Aslam as new Foreign Ministry spokesperson

References

Ambassadors of Pakistan to Italy
Ambassadors of Pakistan to Morocco
Living people
University of the Punjab people
The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni
Pakistani women ambassadors
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Angus MacLane

text:
Angus MacLane (born April 13, 1975) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor, best known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios. He co-directed the film Finding Dory (2016) and made his solo feature directorial debut with the Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear (2022). MacLane is also a Lego enthusiast and created the CubeDudes building format and designed a LEGO WALL-E that has become an official set from The Lego Group.

Early life and education
Angus MacLane was born on April 13, 1975, in Riverside County, California, but grew up in Portland, Oregon. He originally wanted to be a comic book artist but halfway through school switched to animation and hoped one day he could work at the Will Vinton Studios (now Laika) and would eventually go on to work for the studio before working for Pixar. In 1997, he received a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design.

Career

1997–2023: Pixar
MacLane joined Pixar in 1997, starting as an animator on Geri's Game. He worked as an animator on every Pixar feature film from A Bug's Life (1998) through Toy Story 3 (2010). He also worked in the character development on Monsters, Inc. (2001) and The Incredibles (2004). His work on The Incredibles gained him an Annie for Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation.  After serving as Supervising Animator on One Man Band, MacLane started working on the story team for Andrew Stanton's WALL-E and later moved up to Directing Animator. After animating a small scene for a side character named BURN-E, MacLane wanted to know what might happen to the character. He originally wanted BURN-E's story arc part of the actual film, but Stanton ended up wanting him to develop it into a short which eventually became BURN-E, which can now be viewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of WALL-E. For a short amount of time, he worked on the animation for Up, and the animation on Toy Story 3.

After BURN-E, MacLane started to move further to directing and writing works in the studio with the Toy Story Toon: Small Fry and Pixar's first TV special Toy Story of Terror!, for which he won an Annie for Outstanding Achievement in Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production. In addition, MacLane co-directed Pixar's 2016 film Finding Dory and directed the 2022 film Lightyear. Following the commercial failure of Lightyear, MacLane was included among 75 Pixar employees laid off by The Walt Disney Company as part of an ongoing company-wide restructuring.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Television

Other credits
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Recognition
 2005, Won Annie Award for 'Character Animation' for The Incredibles 2014, Won Annie Award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Directing ' for Toy Story of Terror''

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
American animated film directors
American male voice actors
American storyboard artists
Annie Award winners
Film directors from Oregon
Male actors from Portland, Oregon
Pixar people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Portland, Oregon


title: The Burning Dark

text:
The Burning Dark (originally titled Shadow's Call) is a 2014 science fiction horror novel by Adam Christopher. The novel was published in the United States and the United Kingdom on March 25, 2014 through Tor Books and Titan Books, respectively. The Burning Dark is the first book in the Spider War trilogy but can also be read as a stand-alone novel.

While writing the novel, Christopher was inspired by the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy theory, Blake's 7, and Japanese mythology. Christopher has stated that while Spider War will be a trilogy, he has plans for further books set within the same universe.

Synopsis
The book follows several people tasked with the job of decommissioning a remote space station, the U-Star Coast City. The job is to be the final orders for black ops Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland (referred to as "Ida"), as he is going to retire shortly after the task is completed. He's haunted by the memories of a battle against a Mother Spider, an alien creature capable of devouring entire worlds. Ida managed to successfully stop her from destroying a planet, but at the cost of lives and Ida's knee. His arrival on Coast City sparks the ire of the crew members Carter and DeJohn, who are unwilling to believe that Ida was capable of the featespecially since there was no news reporting about the event. His only true friend is the medic Izanami, with whom Ida frequently confides. Knowing that his presence aboard the ship is for appearances only, Ida spends his time constructing a space radio, through which he listens in to various conversations between other space crews. He's startled when he overhears an ancient communication from a Russian woman in some distress, as the woman talks about how she is burning and in danger from ship failure.

At the same time several strange occurrences are happening on board the Coast City and the psi-marine Serra has been frequently hearing the voice of her dead grandmother calling to her. This is compounded by the multiple electronic malfunctions on the station and the fact that the Coast City is effectively cut off from the rest of mankind because of this. Things come to a breaking point when Zia Hollywood, a space profiteer and celebrity, boards the ship to refuel and rest before she and her crew move on. As tensions rise and more and the strange and frightening phenomena increase in frequency, the crew must discover who or what is causing all of the trouble and what it all means.

Reception
Critical reception for The Burning Dark has been mostly positive, and the novel received praise from The Roanoke Times, SciFiNow, and Starburst Magazine. SFX wrote that the book was "studded with memorable imagery" and that "although it’s clear to the reader from early on that certain things are not what they seem, Christopher keeps you guessing concerning how the major plot elements link up." In contrast, RT Book Reviews and Publishers Weekly both criticized the work, and RT Book Reviews commented that "The big reveal of character backstory and motivation for the “big evil” is short, inadequate and a bit trite."

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