title: Riverqueen

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Riverqueen (1973 – after 1989) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. After winning her only race as a two-year-old she emerged as one of the best fillies in Europe in the spring and summer of 1976, winning the Prix de la Grotte, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches  and Prix Saint-Alary. After her winning run was brought to an end by Pawneese in the Prix de Diane she rebounded to become the first three-year-old filly to win the weight-for-age Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. After running poorly in her last two races she was retired from racing and had some success as a broodmare. Her last recorded foal was born in 1989.

Background
Riverqueen was a bay mare with a small white star bred in France by the Head family's Ecurie Aland. She was sired by Luthier, a French horse who won the Prix Jacques Le Marois in 1968 and became a very successful breeding stallion whose other progeny included the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sagace. Luthier was a representative of the Byerley Turk sire line, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who descend directly from the Darley Arabian. Riverqueen's dam Riverside was a high-class racemare who won the Prix de Royallieu in 1969 and a granddaughter of Refreshed, who finished third in the 1000 Guineas and was a half-ister of Festoon. Riverside's half-sister Lorn Lady produced the Prix de Diane winner Lady In Silver.

The filly was sent into training with Christian Datessen in France and was ridden in most of her races by Freddie Head.

Racing career

1975: two-year-old season
Riverqueen made her racecourse debut in a maiden race over 1700 metres at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in October 1975. She won  in "very promising" style by three lengths from fourteen opponents.

1976: three-year-old season
Riverqueen began her second season in the Group Three Prix de la Grotte over 1600 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 11 April and started the 5.4/1 third favourite behind Antrona (winner of the Prix d'Aumale) and Paint The Town. She was restrained by Freddy Head in the early stages before taking the lead in the straight and winning by two and a half lengths from Kesar Queen (later to win the Coronation Stakes) with Antrona two lengths back in third. Three weeks later, the filly started 4/5 favourite for the Group One Poule d'Essai des Pouliches over the same court and distance. As in her previous start, she was not among the early leaders, but took the lead in the straight and won by three lengths from Suvannee, a filly who had won the Prix des Réservoirs and finished second to Theia in the Prix Marcel Boussac. On 23 May, Riverqueen started favourite for an exceptionally strong field for the Group One Prix Saint-Alary over 2000 metres at Longchamp. Apart from Suvannee, Antrona and Kesar Queen, the field included the 1000 Guineas winner Flying Water and Theia, the top-rated two-year-old French filly of 1975. Riverqueen took the lead from Kesar Queen 300 metres from the finish and held off several challengers in the closing stages to win by three quarters of a length from Theia, with Antrona and Suvannee close behind in third and fourth places.

On 20 June, Riverqueen was matched against The Oaks winner Pawneese in the Prix de Diane over 2100 metres at Chantilly Racecourse. Theia and Antrona were again amongst the opposition as well as the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Sarah Siddons. Pawneese led from the start, whereas Riverqueen was restrained by Head towards the rear of the field, before moving forward early in the straight. She never looked likely to get on terms with Pawneese and was beaten one and half lengths, with the 28/1 outsider Lagunette (later to win the Irish Oaks) in third. Some observers felt that Head had given the filly too much ground to make up in the closing stages. Two weeks later, Riverqueen was matched against older horses for the first time in the 2500 metre Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, a race which had never been won by a three-year-old filly. Her main rivals in a seven-runner field were Ashmore (runner-up in the race in 1975), Maitland (Prix Jean de Chaudenay), the British challengers Quiet Fling (Coronation Cup) and Libra's Rib and the stayer Citoyen. Riverqueen settled in fifth place as Maitland and Citoyen before moving up to dispute the lead with Ashmore in the last 400 metres. She took the advantage in the closing stages and won by half a length from Ashmore, with Tip Moss two lengths back in third place.

Riverqueen failed to sustain her form into the autumn. Following reports that she had defeated the four-year-old filly Ivanjica in a trial gallop she started 2/1 second favourite behind Pawneese in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on 19 September but ran very poorly, finishing ninth of the ten runners, almost twenty lengths behind the upset winner Lagunette. Freddie Head opted to ride Ivanjica in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on 3 October, leaving Robert Jallu to take the ride on Riverqueen. She was never in contention and finished seventeenth of the twenty runners behind Ivanjica. Timeform speculated that the filly may either have been worn out by her earlier campaign or been unsuited by the very soft ground conditions which prevailed that autumn.

Assessment
There was no International Classification of European two-year-olds in 1975: the official handicappers of Britain, Ireland and France compiled separate rankings for horses which competed in those countries. Riverqueen was not given a rating in the French Free Handicap. The independent Timeform organisation, in their annual Racehorses of 1975 felt that there was insufficient data to award Riverqueen a rating but described her as "sure to go on to better things". In 1976 Timeform gave her a rating of 128, three pounds behind their top three-year-old filly Pawneese. In the official French handicap she was ranked the second best filly to race in France, two pounds below Pawneese.

Breeding record
Despite reports that she would race in 1977, Riverqueen did not race after her poor run in the Arc and was retired to become a broodmare. She produced six winners from seven runners. Her progeny included:

Riviere Doree (chestnut filly, foaled in 1980, sired by Secretariat), winner of the Listed Prix Coronation and female-line ancestor of Rouvres (Prix Jean Prat), and the Japanese Grade II winner Vita Rosa.
Reve de Reine (brown filly, 1981, by Lyphard), winner of three races, second in the Prix Vanteaux
Minya (chestnut filly, 1984, by Blushing Groom), dam of Altieri who won sixteen races including two runnings of the Premio Presidente della Repubblica
Royal Arcade (colt, 1986, by Alydar)
Rose Blanche (chestnut filly, 1988, by Nureyev)
Redden Queen (chestnut filly, 1989, by Bering)

Pedigree

References

1973 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in France
Racehorses trained in France
Thoroughbred family 1-w
Byerley Turk sire line


title: Star Trek: Khan

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Star Trek: Khan is a five-issue comic book prequel and sequel to the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness by IDW Publishing. It follows Khan Noonien Singh, explaining his past and how he came to have a change in facial appearance and serve Admiral Alexander Marcus.

Plot

Issue One

Issue One starts with the trial of Khan Noonien Singn on stardate 2259.246 (September 3, 2259). Khan is brought forward, where he states that he rejects the court's authority. But Kirk note that the defendant calling himself Khan, looks nothing like the records of Khan Noonien Singn and asks him who he really is. In New Delhi in November 1971, a group of children are gassed and taken by masked men. A year later, in January 1972, Doctor Heisen is talking to a group of investors about investing in his eugenics experiment to create super soldiers. Heisen then takes a look at his test subjects, 24 boys and 15 girls, when he notices one with one leg being picked and notices his fury when he beats them. A year later, Dr. Heisen is in his office with the crippled boy who is seen to have regrown his leg through the genetic experiments that have been performed on him. Heisen shows the boy his computer and explains how he wishes for the boy to use it to unlock all of the knowledge of the world, the boy named Noonien Singh. By 1979 all the children make progress in their intellectual and physical prowess. Doctor Heisen observes a sparring session between Noonien and another boy using real knives. After scratching the other boy and seeing his wounds heal instantly, Noonien tests his own regenerative powers by impaling himself with both of his knives. While in a recovery room, Noonien hacks into the facility's security system and disables it, then proceeds to escape by digging out through the solid rock floor. Dr. Heisen goes to retrieve Noonien from the Gobi desert by incapacitating him using a neural inhibitor that has been implanted into all of the subjects. In August 1985 Noonien Singn presents Heisen with a box filled with all of the students removed neural inhibitors. He crushes Dr. Heisen's skull with his bare hands before informing his companions that the world is waiting for them.

2014 comics debuts
Comics based on Star Trek
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title: Trinity Centre for Asian Studies

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The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies (TCAS) is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre for East Asian scholarship at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

TCAS includes teaching and research in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Studies as well as Asian area studies, pan-Asian and Asian/European comparative research. Its research activities focus on contemporary Asian society and culture, Mandarin, Korean and Japanese language learning, migrant and diaspora studies, and comparative studies.

The current director of TCAS is Nathan W. Hill.

Teaching and research
Chinese Studies
TCAS offers a two-year taught postgraduate degree (M.Phil.) in Chinese studies which focuses on the study of China in a contemporary, comparative perspective.
Trinity has a relationship with China dating back to TCD's 'Mission to the Far East' (1886) and the establishment of what was then called Trinity College Fuzhou in 1907. This is now Fuzhou Foreign Language School, Fujian Normal University, and the two institutions maintain a bilateral partnership with teacher exchanges.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Trinity College Dublin was one of the first universities in Europe to welcome Chinese students, who mostly came from Beijing and Nanjing. The TCAS extramural Mandarin language programme has been running for the last two decades, and the TCAS also offers optional Mandarin language classes to all TCD undergraduates and postgraduates.

Trinity College offers two Government of Ireland International Scholarships for Chinese postgraduate students, offered in any of the university's postgraduate disciplines in Arts, Humanities, Social sciences, Science, Computer science, Engineering, Mathematics and Health Sciences.

In 2014, Trinity signed a strategic partnership with Fudan University during the visit of the Irish President, Michael D. Higgins. The university has also signed Memoranda of Understanding with Beihang University, Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Nottingham Ningbo, offering bilateral study abroad opportunities for students in these universities.

Korean Studies
The Korean Studies programme at Trinity College commenced in 2010, with for-credit modules in Korean language and culture integrated within the undergraduate programme, as well as opportunities for postgraduate supervision. The programme has received support from the Korea Foundation for three consecutive years since 2011.

Japanese Studies
The Japanese language programme at TCD has been running for several decades, with classes at three proficiency levels in Japanese language and culture. The Japan Foundation's Grant Program for Japanese-language Education Activities has supported the TCAS to offer credit-bearing Japanese modules which are fully integrated within the university's undergraduate programme. The university has signed Memoranda of Understanding with Tokyo University and Kyoto University, enabling Irish and Japanese students to study abroad. A very popular 'Arts of Japan' module is provided in the School of Histories and Humanities.

Events and activities
 Inaugural Asian Studies Lecture Series 2014/15. Speakers include the Ambassador of Japan in Ireland, H.E. Mr Atsumi Chihiro, Mr Leo Goodstadt, Professor Rosa Chun, Dr Kevin Cawley.
 Korean Speech Contest, 11 October 2014. Funded by the Korea Foundation and in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of South Korea.
 Literate Culture of the Mongols, Professor Gantogtokh, Professor of Linguistics, National University of Mongolia.  Fresher's Week event 2014.
 Special Issue of the journal of Language Learning in Higher Education (4.2) on Chinese and Japanese Language Learning in Higher Education, guest edited by Lorna Carson and Heath Rose.
 Public lecture by Dr Laurence Cox (NUIM), A dissident Orientalism? Irish Buddhism in European perspective, 11 February 2013.
 International EurKorea 2013 conference, European perspectives on Korea. Multidisciplinary comparative conference in Korean Studies (7 – 9 November 2013).
 First Irish Quiz on Korea, 10 June 2013. South Korean television game show organized as part of an annual international public diplomacy programme by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and KBS television. The quiz tests participants' general knowledge of Korea.
 Public lecture by Professor Maurizio Riotto, Defensive Fundamentalism in Korea: From history to literature, 23 January 2013.

Selected publications

 Bertoni, R. (2014). EurKorea 2013: European Perspectives of Korea. Acta of the conference held at Trinity College Dublin, 7 to 9 November 2013. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 280pp.
 Bertoni, R. (2013). Scorci di Korea/Glimpses of Korea. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 386pp.
 Bertoni, R. (2012). Buddhismo e Occidente: capoversi introduttivi. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 204pp.
 Carson, L. (2014). An exploration of the roles of English in societal and individual multilingualism in Korea. In Bertoni, R. (Ed.),  EurKorea 2013: European Perspectives of Korea. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, pp2 – 25.
 Carson, L. (2013). Perspectives on Korea within and from contemporary Europe: The cases of Italy and Ireland. In Bertoni, R. (Ed.), Scorci di Korea/Glimpses of Korea. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, pp2 – 13.
 Carson, L. & Do, E.-J. (2013). Establishing a Korean language programme in a European Higher Education context: Rationale, curriculum and assessment procedures. Language Learning in Higher Education, 3(1), 151 – 171.
 Rose, H. & Carson, L. (2014). Introduction: An overview of Chinese and Japanese language learning around the world, and of foreign language education in Japan and China. Language Learning in Higher Education, 4(2), 257 – 269.

References

Asian studies
Trinity College Dublin


title: Leopold Kessler (Zionist)

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Leopold Kessler (1864–1944) was an engineer, newspaper publisher and Zionist. He was instrumental in building many of the institutions that supported the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state.

Early life
Leopold Kessler was born on 4 February 1864, into a family that had been settled for some 250 years in Gliwice, Upper Silesia: then part of Prussia, now part of Poland. He was the youngest of five children of Jacob Kessler and Johanna Feig. His maternal grandfather was Jacob Feig, one of the first Jews permitted to settle in nearby Tarnowitz.

Kessler studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg and joined the German Student Corps' Teutonia chapter. However, he left because of anti-Semitism and because he did not agree with his fellow members' drinking and brawling. He spent a year at the Royal School of Mines in Berlin before returning to Freiberg to complete his studies. Afterward, he left Germany, because he no longer wanted to live in a country where Jews were treated as second-class citizens.

Kessler became a mining engineer in Rhodesia before going in 1896 to the Transvaal to become general manager of a mine.

Introduction to Zionism
Kessler wrote in his unfinished autobiography that when he read the booklet "The Jewish State" by Theodor Herzl, he felt he had discovered the solution to the problems that had troubled him in his student days. From then on, he declared himself to be a Zionist and became one of the earliest Zionist pioneers in South Africa. In 1899, he became president of the Transvaal Zionist Association and went to Basel, Switzerland, for the first time. He caused a stir at the Third Zionist Congress, where Jews from all over the world had rallied to Herzl’s call. Kessler was "greeted with enthusiastic applause" after presenting practical ideas for the Congress's Finance Commission, and was elected a member of the Greater Actions Committee.

In 1900, he made an exploratory trip to Palestine, where he stayed for several months, looking at the geographical, agricultural, and political conditions of the area. He prepared a detailed report for Herzl on the prospects of discovering natural resources such as coal and oil. He suggested publishing an Arabic newspaper and argued that Herzl should petition the Turks to remove the obstacles preventing Jewish immigration to Palestine. Kessler declared that "optimism, Jewish energy, endurance and intellect, combined with a steady immigration into the country, would lead to the factual recognition of the historical claims of the Jews to Palestine". Herzl, however, was of the opinion that mass migration should only occur once a charter had been agreed upon.

Kessler settled in London and attended the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901. There, he was appointed secretary and became a member of the Colonization Commission. By this time, Herzl regarded Kessler as a friend and counsellor. When Herzl outlined his plan for obtaining a charter from the Turkish sultan, which required the financial and moral support of Cecil Rhodes of South Africa, Kessler offered to secure that support. However, Rhodes died soon afterward, in March 1902.

El Arish proposal

In October 1902, Herzl met with the British colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, and England tentatively offered El Arish in the Sinai Peninsula for Jewish colonisation. This would lead, years later, to the Balfour Declaration. During the negotiations, Herzl had Kessler in mind to participate in the expedition. Oskar Marmorek, an Austro-Hungarian Zionist, appealed to Kessler: "I know of no-one who could equal you and your knowledge for our expedition. It is therefore your duty, as a loyal comrade, to make the almost impossible, possible."

Herzl received a document about El Arish from the British foreign secretary, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, and noted in his diary that it suggested Marmorek, an architect; Kessler, an engineer; and Otto Warburg, an agricultural expert, for the expedition. Petty-Fitzmaurice wrote that in Kessler, he saw a "coolness and calmness" he admired, and that "because of his composure, I like Kessler very well as the leader" of the expedition. Herzl instructed Kessler to return with a report on the feasibility of settling El Arish. With that report, he hoped to obtain the charter.

In a letter dated 28 January 1902 Herzl authorised Kessler’s leadership of the expedition and laid out his role and responsibilities. Other members of the expedition included Selig Soskin, an agricultural expert, and Hillel Yaffe, a physician to the Jewish colonies in Palestine. Kessler had become friendly with these men during his visit to Palestine in 1900. Also on the team were Marmorek; Albert Goldsmid, a colonel who had taken over Baron Maurice de Hirsch’s Jewish colonies in Argentina in 1892–93; Emile Laurent, a professor at the Agricultural Institute at Gembloux; H. Stephens, an engineer, to investigate water problems; and a representative of the Egyptian government. Kessler himself was chief of the expedition, treasurer, and geological expert.

The team toured the area from 11 February to 25 March 1903. The report signed by Kessler and the other members concluded that the project depended on water supply and, therefore, that the Egyptian government should give permission to divert some water from the Nile. The Egyptian government, calculating that the plan would require five times the amount of water Stephens had estimated, turned down the proposal. Kessler, in a supplementary report, stressed that colonisation could be carried out without Nile waters (by damming wadis, sinking wells, etc.), and Stephens reiterated his calculations with fresh evidence, but permission was once more refused. Kessler and Goldsmid then pursued futile political discussions with Egypt.

Uganda proposal

After the El Arish plan failed, the British government offered Uganda for Jewish colonisation. There was enthusiasm for the proposal at the Sixth Zionist Congress, which voted by a large margin to set up a commission to investigate the possibilities of the territory. Kessler led the nine elected members of the commission, including Warburg, Joseph Cowen, L.J. Greenberg, and Chaim Weizmann. On 27 September 1903 he wrote to Herzl that he considered it almost "hopeless to attempt to establish a purely European colony in the heart of Africa".

Kessler’s correspondence with Herzl and Warburg shows that Kessler was convinced that without Jewish enthusiasm, it would be impossible to establish a Jewish state in East Africa. For that reason, he argued that the project should be handed over to the Jewish Colonisation Association (founded by Maurice de Hirsch), whilst the Zionist Organisation should concentrate only on Palestine.

Herzl’s death and the heated debate about Uganda delayed the departure of the expedition until December 1904. As Kessler had predicted, the report was discouraging, and the 7th Zionist Congress in 1905 turned down any colonisation site but Palestine.

English Zionist Federation
At the Ninth Zionist Congress in 1909, Weizmann and others attempted to depose David Wolffsohn as president of the Zionist Organization. Kessler thanked Wolffsohn for his dedication and proposed a vote of confidence in him. The opposition promptly brought forward a motion of censure, but Kessler’s proposal was accepted by an overwhelming majority.

In 1910, the English Zionist Federation (EZF) was leaderless and on the verge of disintegration. In February 1912, Kessler became its president because he was not personally involved in the controversies surrounding its leadership. He opened the EZF's conference on 1 June 1913 by welcoming the appointment of a new chief rabbi, Joseph Hertz, an old friend of Kessler's from South Africa. At the request of Kessler and other delegates, Cowen accepted the presidency. Kessler remained on the executive committee. On 11 February 1917 Weizmann was elected president of the EZF, and Cowen joined Kessler on the executive committee.

In 1918, the EZF published a 20-page brochure, "History and Development of Jewish Colonisation in Palestine", written by Kessler. He wrote that a Jewish Palestine with a population drawn from all countries would be "the ideal which all nations profess to have made their own".

Other activities
When L.J. Greenberg decided, with some friends, to acquire The Jewish Chronicle, Kessler provided most of the funding. The acquisition changed the direction of the newspaper, which had been anti-Zionist but became very supportive of the cause. Kessler became director and later chairman of the board. The newspaper's support for Zionism was helpful in the 1917 battle to obtain the Balfour Declaration.

Kessler was present at the birth of the Jewish National Fund and became its chairman. He was elected to the board of the Jewish Colonial Trust, which became Bank Leumi, as early as 1903, and remained a member of its directorate for almost 20 years.

Final years and legacy
At the end of his life, Kessler lived in New York City. He died on 3 January 1944 without seeing the realisation of his life's work; Israel was established a little over four years after his death.

Despite the influence Kessler had on the creation of the modern state of Israel, no street in Israel bears his name. However, a girls' school built in 1969 in Lod was named in his honour.

References

Bibliography

Sources
Zionist Central Archives, Jerusalem

Bibliography

External links
AJR Information, Volume XXIV, Volume 12, December 1969
The Herzl Museum
Leopold Kessler Collection
Center for Jewish History • 15 West 16th Street New York

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1944 deaths
19th-century journalists
Male journalists
Jewish journalists
Mining engineers
People from Tarnowskie Góry
People from Gliwice
19th-century German Jews
Zionist activists
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British Zionists
South African Zionists
19th-century male writers
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title: Maud, Iowa

text:
Maud is an unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.

History
 Maud got its start as a way station on the railroad. Maud's population was 12 in 1902, and was also 12 in 1925.

References

Unincorporated communities in Allamakee County, Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Iowa


title: Doubting Thomas (Charlotte band)

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Doubting Thomas was a Rock/Americana band from Charlotte, North Carolina which performing from 1990 to 2001 and reunited for performances in 2003, 2009, 2022 and now touring in 2023 with a new recording due out late fall 2023 called "Forever Changed".

Before Doubting Thomas
Singer, actress and musician Gina Stewart grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and graduated from UNC-Charlotte in 1986. Her instruments included the guitar and banjo.

In the 1980s before Doubting Thomas, Stewart performed with Fetchin Bones, and she played bass with The Blind Dates along with Deanna Lynn CampbelL guitar and Penny Craver drums. The style of The Blind Dates included 60s girl pop and alternative rock compared to Throwing Muses, and was described as "the opposite of angst" years later. In one of their first performances at the July 1986 WDAV Battle of the Bands, Blind Dates defeated Southern Culture on the Skids. The band broke up after three years but reunited for one performance in 2004.

Band history
Drummer Paul Andrews contacted Stewart when The Blind Dates broke up, and Doubting Thomas began. Brenda Gambill played violin and percussion, in addition to singing. The bass player was Glenn Kawamoto, and Dale Alderman played acoustic guitar. A 1990 Fayetteville Observer article said Stewart would write all the songs and sing, and that the band "will combine elements of music and theater."

In 1990, Doubting Thomas was selected for the North Carolina Music Showcase in Chapel Hill. Showcase selection committee chairman and music critic Jim Desmond compared the band to 10,000 Maniacs and Fleetwood Mac and called Doubting Thomas "the highlight of the festival". He said "The Chapel Hill crowd ... went wild over them. I predict that if they work at it, within six months they'll be the biggest band in the state." Desmond also said, "You`ve got really thoughtful lyrics and terrific harmonies with Gina and Brenda. Then they have a violin, which is unusual for that type of sound. Their bass player comes out of a jazz background. Their sound is extremely complex, rhythm-wise."

The first album by Doubting Thomas was Blue Angel, produced by John Keane. Peter Buck and Bill Berry of R.E.M. performed. Their second album, Two, included vocals by Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls on "Tiny Lights" and "How High". Stewart said in a 1994 interview that Blue Angel sold well in North Carolina, but the band had not tried to get a major label interested in them.

The band's third album Cut It Out, a compilation of earlier recordings plus a few new tracks, was released in 1997. The band included Stewart on lead vocals, Gambill on vocals, violin, harmonica and percussion, Bill Carroll on bass and Mark McColl on drums. In 1998, Doubting Thomas was named "Most Deserving of National Attention" by readers of Creative Loafing.

The band's fifth album Who Died and Made You King?, also produced by Keane, had a style described by Yon Lambert of The State of Columbia, South Carolina as "Indigo Girls-styled sweetness through electrocharged rural blues." Stewart called it "more soulful and Motown-influenced than anything else we've done so far."

Late in 1999, Matthew Davenport joined on drums, and Bryan Williams was added as keyboardist. Timothy Hill replaced Irwin "Virgil" Bostian on guitar.

Of the original members, only Stewart and Gambill remained when Doubting Thomas released a live album in 2000. The band had six members who had played together for a year, and they were performing rock music, not the acoustic sound the band had to begin with.

The last official performance by Doubting Thomas took place January 13, 2001. Tonya Jameson of The Charlotte Observer said the band "consistently delivered well-crafted pop-rock tunes that have earned it a faithful following."

Doubting Thomas reunited for one performance in 2002, and for more in 2009 and 2010. Davenport and McColl subbed on drums, and Bostian played guitar and Carroll played bass. The band was also listed among performers for the Atlanta Pride Festival in 2009.

Gina Stewart's acting career
While attending UNCC, Stewart found she could not get a degree in bass guitar, so she began studying dance and drama. She acted in a CPCC company as well as her own company. She had numerous roles in the Tarradiddle Players, which became part of Children's Theater of Charlotte, and Charlotte Shakespeare Company. In 1990 she was called "one of the area`s most visible stage actresses." After a year and a half of not acting, in January 1994, Stewart was appearing in Charlotte in the one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Stewart has had small roles in Dawson's Creek and Walker: Texas Ranger and in the movie The Rage: Carrie 2.

Bill Carroll

As solo artist, Bill Carroll scored a Rate-A-Record appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand program on April 2, 1988.

Volatile Baby
Stewart, Gambill and Allison Modafferi formed the acoustic folk-rock band Volatile Baby (also called Volatile Baby!). Their first album Traveling Light in May 2006 included contributions from Carlene Carter, Kathy Mattea's drummer Jim Brock, and Don Dixon, who produced the album and said "Volatile Baby sounds like The Carter Family and The Roches decided to team up and record a bunch of newly discovered Graham Parsons songs." The band performed in Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Cash Story, a stage musical in which Stewart played Mother Maybelle Carter, and their album Backroads included "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and "Ring of Fire".

Jonesalee
Stewart, using the name Gina Jones, formed the duo Jonesalee with Gambill on fiddle to honor Mother Maybelle Carter. Also playing with them in March 2011 were Heidi Dove (guitar) and Earleen Hicks (guitar/bass).

References

External links
 ourstage.com

Musical groups from North Carolina
Musical groups established in 1990


title: Granta (disambiguation)

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Granta is a literary magazine and publisher.

Granta may also refer to:

Places
 Lada Granta, Russian car model
 River Granta, a stretch of the River Cam, England
 Granta Park, science, technology, and biomedical park near Cambridge, England
 Granta, Alberta

Other uses
 A reserve boat of Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club


title: Covenant Christian Academy (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

text:
Covenant Christian Academy (CCA) is a private PreK–12 Christian school founded in 1997 by parents interested in giving their children a Classical Christian education based on the medieval model of the trivium. It is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

References

External links

Christian schools in Pennsylvania
Classical Christian schools
Private high schools in Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in Pennsylvania
Private elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Schools in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Preparatory schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1997
1997 establishments in Pennsylvania


title: RightNOW Women

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RightNOW Women PAC is a volunteer organization and political action committee helping elect Republican women to federal office. They support women candidates from all walks of life who share common beliefs in economic growth, individual responsibility, a strong national defense, access to the best education and quality healthcare at a reasonable cost. RightNOW Women PAC focuses on engaging young professionals in their 20s and 30s to support female candidates through low dollar, high volume fundraising events. RightNOW Women seeks to complement other like-minded organizations by developing a national grassroots movement, connected through social media.

Endorsements in 2014 election

 Shelley Moore Capito
 Nan Hayworth
 Mia Love
 Mimi Walters
 Monica Wehby
 Barbara Comstock
 Joni Ernst
 Martha McSally
 Elise Stefanik

References

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Republican Party (United States) organizations
United States political action committees


title: 1995–96 Barnsley F.C. season

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During the 1995–96 English football season, Barnsley F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary
In the 1995–96 season, Barnsley started brightly with 5 league wins from their first 9 games which saw them sit in 3rd place by around mid-September but their form faltered through the first half of the season afterwards and by Christmas, Barnsley sat in a lowly 15th place after winning just two from their next 14 league games onwards. From Boxing Day to the end of February, Barnsley went on a good run of form winning five of the next 9 league matches with just one defeat, which saw the Tykes in the playoff places and a top six finish seemed possible but again from there until the end of the season, their form faltered again winning two from their final 14 league games and ended the season in a disappointing 10th place, after being playoff contenders at one stage.

Final league table

Results
Barnsley's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

References

Barnsley F.C. seasons
Barnsley


title: Dalby, Iowa

text:
Dalby is an unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.

History

Dalby was founded in Center Township. A post office was opened in Dalby in 1869, and it remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1885.

The Dalby School, also called Center Township School #7, was built in 1851 and still existed in 1932.

The Norwegian Lutheran Church and an associated cemetery were located in Dalby. This church, now known as the Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church, still operates.

Other Dalby businesses and organizations included the Scandinavian Mutual Protective Association.

References

Unincorporated communities in Allamakee County, Iowa
1869 establishments in Iowa
Populated places established in 1869
Unincorporated communities in Iowa


title: Up We Go

text:
"Up We Go" is a song recorded by Canadian electropop artist Lights for her third studio album, Little Machines (2014). Written by Lights in collaboration with songwriter-producer Tawgs Salter, the song was released July 22, 2014 via LIGHTS Music as the lead single from the album. In the United States, it was released to modern rock radio through Warner Bros. Records on September 9, 2014.

The song has enjoyed commercial success - it reached number 31 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 and the top ten on multiple airplay formats, and was certified Gold by Music Canada in January 2015 - and was also met with positive reviews from contemporary music critics, being described as "impossibly catchy."

Composition
"Up We Go" is a synthpop song that combines Lights' signature electro-influenced pop production style with "lush" guitars. Jeff Benjamin of fuse described the style as a compromise between the lighter synths of her debut and the grittier electropop territory explored on Siberia. Lyrically, the song is an anthem about persevering through difficult times, with the chorus assuring the listener that "from down this low / It's only up we go".

Critical reception
The song received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. In his "Song of the Day" spotlight featuring "Up We Go", Jeff Benjamin of fuse praised Lights for "[mixing] clever lyrics... with inspiring lyrics about persevering and looking forward to the brighter day" and was also complimentary of the shift in her sound. Also praising the lighter musical approach, Greg Moskovitch of Music Feeds wrote that "[t]he punchy, synth-pop production provides a soaring and glittering soundbed for Poxleitner’s motivational lyrics, which lead into an anthemic, impossibly catchy chorus." British music blog Popjustice rated the song 8/10 and felt the song had the potential to elevate Lights's career to the next level: "Canadian electronic pop expert Lights hasn't yet enjoyed the UK success she deserves... which is a shame, because if this excellent first track from her new album 'Little Machines' is anything to go by she's about to scale new heights."

Chart performance
"Up We Go" debuted at number 84 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 for the chart dated August 9, 2014. On the chart dated November 8, 2014, "Up We Go" reached a new peak of number 31, becoming her second highest-charting single yet, behind "Drive My Soul", which peaked at number 18. It debuted at number 42 on Canada CHR/Top 40 on the chart issued September 13, 2014, as well as number 47 on Canada Hot AC and number 43 on Canada AC the following week. The song has since peaked in the top 10 on the former two, and the top 5 on the latter.

Music video
The official music video for "Up We Go" was directed by Alon Isocianu and premiered on Lights's VEVO channel on September 3, 2014. The one shot video features the singer in an elevator, with various background events and characters appearing as the doors open to new locations.

Other appearances
The song "Up We Go" also features in the soundtrack and ingame songs of EA's The Sims 4. The song has been remixed to be sung in the Sims language Simlish

Track listings
Digital download
 "Up We Go" - 2:51

Digital download — Borgeous Remix
 "Up We Go"  - 4:41

Digital download — Borgeous Remix (UK)
 "Up We Go"  - 4:41
 "Up We Go"  - 4:41

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Little Machines liner notes.

Lights — vocals, synths, guitar, bass, drum programming, writing
Drew Pearson — additional synths, guitar, bass, drum programming, production, engineering
Thomas "Tawgs" Salter — additional synths, guitar, bass, production, writing
Jason "Human Kebab" Parsons — additional programming

Maurie Kaufmann — drums
Adam Weaver — synths
Spike Stent — mixing
João Carvalho — mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 songs
2014 singles
Lights (musician) songs
Songs written by Tawgs Salter
Warner Records singles
Songs written by Lights (musician)


title: Jonathan Beaulieu

text:
Jonathan Beaulieu (born 11 March 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Career
Born in Meudon, Jonathan started his professional career with Caen.
On 27 August 2013, he made his professional debut, coming as a substitute in a 3–0 home loss to Auxerre in the Coupe de la Ligue.

References

External links
 Profile

1993 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
French men's footballers
Stade Malherbe Caen players
US Granville players
FC Chambly Oise players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players

French people of Portuguese descent


title: DDR5 SDRAM

text:
Double Data Rate 5 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR5 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory. Compared to its predecessor DDR4 SDRAM, DDR5 was planned to reduce power consumption, while doubling bandwidth. The standard, originally targeted for 2018, was released on July 14, 2020.

A new feature called Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) enables I/O speed scalability for higher bandwidth and performance improvement. DDR5 supports more bandwidth than its predecessor, DDR4, with 4.8 gigabits per second possible, but not shipping at launch. DDR5 has about the same latency as DDR4 and DDR3. DDR5 octuples the maximum DIMM capacity from 64 GB to 512 GB. DDR5 also has higher frequencies than DDR4.

Rambus announced a working DDR5 DIMM in September 2017. On November 15, 2018, SK Hynix announced completion of its first DDR5 RAM chip; running at 5200 MT/s at 1.1 V. In February 2019, SK Hynix announced a 6400 MT/s chip, the highest speed specified by the preliminary DDR5 standard. Some companies were planning to bring the first products to market by the end of 2019. The world's first DDR5 DRAM chip was officially launched by SK Hynix on October 6, 2020.

The separate JEDEC standard LPDDR5 (Low Power Double Data Rate 5), intended for laptops and smartphones, was released in February 2019.

Compared to DDR4, DDR5 further reduces memory voltage to 1.1 V, thus reducing power consumption. DDR5 modules incorporate on-board voltage regulators in order to reach higher speeds. DDR5 supports a speed of 51.2 GB/s per module and two memory channels per module.

There is a general expectation that most use-cases that currently use DDR4 will eventually migrate to DDR5.

Features
Unlike DDR4, all DDR5 chips have on-die ECC, where errors are detected and corrected before sending data to the CPU. This, however, is not the same as true ECC memory with extra data correction chips on the memory module. DDR5's on-die error correction is to improve reliability and to allow denser RAM chips which lowers the per-chip defect rate. There still exist non-ECC and ECC DDR5 DIMM variants; the ECC variants have extra data lines to the CPU to send error-detection data, letting the CPU detect and correct errors occurring in transit.

Each DDR5 DIMM has two independent channels. Earlier DIMM generations featured only a single channel and one CA (Command/Address) bus controlling the whole memory module with its 64 (for non-ECC) or 72 (for ECC) data lines. Both subchannels on a DDR5 DIMM each have their own CA bus, controlling 32 bits for non-ECC memory and either 36 or 40 data lines for ECC memory, resulting in a total number of either 64, 72 or 80 data lines. The reduced bus width is compensated by a doubled minimum burst length of 16, which preserves the minimum access size of 64 bytes, which matches the cache line size used by modern x86 microprocessors.

Memory modules
For use in personal computers and servers, multiple DDR5 memory chips are usually
mounted on a circuit board to form memory modules, more commonly known as DIMMs. As with previous memory generations, there are multiple DIMM variants available for DDR5.

Unbuffered memory modules (UDIMMs) directly expose the memory chip interface
to the module connector. Registered or load-reduced variants (RDIMMs/LRDIMMs) use
additional active circuitry on the memory module in order to buffer the
signals between the memory controller and the DRAM chips.
This reduces the capacitive load on the DDR5 bus.

DDR5 RDIMMs/LRDIMMs use 12 V and UDIMMs use 5 V input. In order to prevent damage by accidental insertion of the wrong memory type, DDR5 UDIMMs and (L)RDIMMs are not mechanically compatible. Additionally, DDR5 DIMMs are supplied with management interface power at 3.3 V, and use on-board circuitry (a power management integrated circuit and associated passive components) to convert to the lower voltage required by the memory chips.  Final voltage regulation close to the point of use provides more stable power, and mirrors the development of voltage regulator modules for CPU power supplies.

Operation
Standard DDR5 memory speeds range from 4000 to 6400 million transfers per second (PC5-32000 to PC5-51200). Higher speeds may be added later, as happened with previous generations.

Compared to DDR4 SDRAM, the minimum burst length was doubled to 16, with the option of "burst chop" after eight transfers. The addressing range is also slightly extended as follows:

The number of chip ID bits remains at three, allowing up to eight stacked chips.
A third bank group bit (BG2) was added, allowing up to eight bank groups.
The maximum number of banks per bank group remains at four.
The number of row address bits remains at 17, for a maximum of 128K rows.
One more column address bit (C10) is added, allowing up to 8192 columns (1 KB pages) in ×4 chips.
The least-significant three column address bits (C0, C1, C2) are removed; all reads and writes must begin at a column address which is a multiple of eight.
One bit is reserved for addressing expansion as either a fourth chip ID bit (CID3) or an additional row address bit (R17).

Command encoding

The command encoding was significantly rearranged and takes inspiration from that of LPDDR4; commands are sent using either one or two cycles with 14-bit bus.  Some simple commands (e.g. precharge) take one cycle, while any that include an address (activate, read, write) use two cycles to include 28 bits of information.

Also like LPDDR, there are now 256 8-bit mode registers, rather than 8 13-bit mode registers.  Also, rather than one register (MR7) being reserved for use by the registered clock driver chip, a complete second bank of mode registers is defined (selected using the CW bit).

The "Write Pattern" command is new for DDR5; this is identical to a write command, but the range is filled in with copies of a one-byte mode register (which defaults to all-zero) instead of individual data.  Although this normally takes the same amount of time as a normal write, not driving the data lines saves energy.  Also, writes to multiple banks may be interleaved more closely as the command bus is freed earlier.

The multi-purpose command includes various sub-commands for training and calibration of the data bus.

Support

Intel
12th generation Alder Lake and 13th generation Raptor Lake CPUs support both DDR5 and DDR4 but, usually, there are only DIMM sockets for either one or the other on a motherboard. Some mainboards with Intel's H610 chipset support both DDR4 and DDR5, but not simultaneously.

AMD
DDR5 and LPDDR5 are supported by AMD's Ryzen 6000 series mobile APUs, powered by their Zen 3+ architecture. Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors also support DDR5 memory as standard.

Epyc 4th gen Genoa and Bergamo server CPUs have support for 12-channel DDR5 on the SP5 socket.

Notes

References

External links
Main Memory: DDR4 & DDR5 SDRAM / JEDEC
DDR5 Full Spec Draft Rev0.1 unfinished draft of the DDR5 standard

SDRAM

de:DDR-SDRAM#DDR5-SDRAM


title: Elon, Iowa

text:
Elon is an unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.

History
 A post office was opened in Elon in 1850, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1907. Elon's population was 17 in 1902, and 18 in 1925.

References

Unincorporated communities in Allamakee County, Iowa
1850 establishments in Iowa
Populated places established in 1850
Unincorporated communities in Iowa


title: Charie Van Dyke

text:
Charie Van Dyke (born December 10, 1965) is a former actor and model, the current president and co-owner of New Image College of Fine Arts, and a producer, known for The Clean-Up (2014), Famine (2011), and Star Vehicle (film) (2010).

Personal life
Van Dyke was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At a young age, she followed her parents, Charlotte and Bill, to Los Angeles, California, where she continued her high school education. During this time, she was an avid athlete and became an All-American in track and field. After high school, she developed her interest and love for modelling and acting, which allowed her to travel across the world. In her mid-twenties, she settled back down in Vancouver and took over her parents business.

Career
Van Dyke was a model when her parents, both psychologists, started New Image College of Fine Arts, back then known as New Image Enterprises, in 1980. At that time, New Image was a school for self-improvement. In 1988, Van Dyke took over when her mother left to care for her father after he suffered a debilitating injury. Under her ownership, the school was changed, restructured and made it into a school where acting programs, professional makeup, and professional skin care were taught. Soon after, Van Dyke met her husband and the current co-owner of New Image, John Craig. Together, in 2004, the two went through accreditation and moved the school to their current Downtown Vancouver location. As their college grew larger, Van Dyke, with the help of her husband, founded New Image Entertainment in order to create more opportunities for the graduates of their college. Recently, in 2014, New Image Entertainment, under the leadership of John Craig, was hired by an outside source for a professional production, not connected to the college.

Filmography

References

1965 births
Living people
Actresses from Los Angeles
Actresses from Vancouver
Actresses from Winnipeg
Female models from British Columbia
Film producers from British Columbia
Canadian women film producers
21st-century American women


title: Mercadonegro

text:
Mercadonegro (meaning "Black Market" in Spanish) is a Latin American salsa music group. Their debut album was released in 2002 from Bibomusic.

Use in dance performances

The uptempo music of Mercadonegro makes many of its songs a popular choice in salsa dancing performances and competitions. The song "La Malanga" from their 2005 album "Salsa Pa'l Mundo Entero" was the most popular song at the 2012 World Latin Dance Cup, leading to the song being banned from the 2013 competition. "La Bendición" is another popular song from the group, which has also been banned from the World Latin Dance Cup for 2014. The song was also used by John & Andrew in the quarterfinals of season 9 of America's Got Talent.

Discography

 Báilalo! [Bibomusic 2002]

   1. Mercadonegro llegó
   2. Tú me quieres pa' bien
   3. Regresaré
   4. ...Eso me duele (single)
   5. Tengo que decírselo
   6. Ibarreña
   7. La mujer que tengo
   8. Salsa pa'l bailador
   9. Yo se que es mentira
  10. Tributo an Eddie Palmieri
  11. La chica del barrio
  12. No hace falta tanto

 Salsa Pa'l Mundo Entero [Bibomusic 2005]

   1. La bendición
   2. La guarachera de Cuba (homenaje a Celia Cruz)
   3. Jamas
   4. Llego la hora
   5. A los orishas
   6. Pa'l callao
   7. Por una noche contigo
   8. La malanga
   9. Yo soy el son
  10. El negro
  11. Tu me gustas
  12. Aquí esta mercadonegro

La salsa es mi vida, 2017
Aquí Llegamos
Sin Cuero No Hay Salsa
Hay Amores
Pegaito
La Salsa Es Mi Vida
Pa Mi Colombia
Yo Que Jure
Chisme De Esquina
La Salsa De Ayer
Dime Que Si
Por El Bien De Los Dos
Pa Los Rumberos
Te Lo Pido De Rodillas
Homenaje A La Música Cubana (feat. Alexander Abreu)

References

External links
mercadonegro.ch
Band profile on Bibomusic

Latin American music
Salsa music groups
Musical groups established in 2002


title: Watinoceras

text:
Watinoceras is a genus of acanthoceratid ammonite that lived during the early Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

Description
Early whorls are compressed, finely ribbed with inner and outer ventrolateral and siphonal tubercles as in Neocardioceras, but siphonal row is soon lost. Later the venter may be concave between rows of ventrolateral clavi or rounded with ribs passing over in chevrons. Ornament usually becomes coarser with age. Derivation is from Neocardioceras. Watinoceras and Mammites gave rise to the other genera in the subfamily. Older classifications included Watinoceras in the subfamily Mammitinae instead.

Species include Watinoceras coloradoense, W. reesidei, and W. thompsonense.

Biostratigraphic significance
The first occurrence of the species Watinoceras devonense marks the beginning of the Turonian.

Distribution
Fossils of the genus have been found in:
 Ponta das Salinas, Angola
 Cotinguiba Formation, Brazil
 Mungo River Formation, Cameroon
 Blackstone Formation, Alberta, Canada
 Second White Speckled Shale and Kaskapu Formations, British Columbia
 McKenzie River Valley, Northwest Territories
 Mesitas del Colegio and Yaguará, Colombia
 Brießnitz Formation, Germany
 Agua Nueva and Indidura Formations, Mexico
 Eze-Aku Formation, Nigeria
 Draa el Miaad, Tunisia
 Mancos Shale, Arizona and New Mexico
 Greenhorn Formation, Colorado and Minnesota
 Colorado Group, Colorado and New Mexico
 La Luna Formation, Venezuela

References

Further reading
 W.J. Arkell et al., 1957.  Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Pat L Mollusca 4.  Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
 J. Kennedy et al., 1999. Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Watinoceras devonense Zone ammonite fauna in Colorado, USA. USGS Publications Warehouse - Citations View

Acanthoceratidae
Ammonitida genera
Index fossils
Turonian life
Late Cretaceous ammonites
Ammonites of Africa
Fossils of Angola
Cretaceous Cameroon
Fossils of Cameroon
Cretaceous Nigeria
Fossils of Nigeria
Cretaceous Tunisia
Fossils of Tunisia
Ammonites of Europe
Cretaceous Germany
Fossils of Germany
Ammonites of North America
Cretaceous Alberta
Cretaceous British Columbia
Cretaceous Northwest Territories
Fossils of Canada
Cretaceous Mexico
Fossils of Mexico
Cretaceous Arizona
Cretaceous Colorado
Cretaceous Minnesota
Cretaceous geology of New Mexico
Fossils of the United States
Ammonites of South America
Cretaceous Brazil
Fossils of Brazil
Cretaceous Colombia
Fossils of Colombia
Cretaceous Venezuela
Fossils of Venezuela
Fossil taxa described in 1930


title: Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's horizontal bar

text:
The men's horizontal bar competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held on 13 and 17 November 2010 at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results

Qualification

Final

References

Results

External links
Official website

Artistic Men horizontal bar


Falavarjan County Municipalities Mass Transit Organization () also written in English as Falavarbus is a public transport agency running Transit buses in Falavarjan County, located in southeastern Isfahan city, in Greater Isfahan Region, Central Iran. The organization serves the cities of Falavarjan, Pir Bakran, Baharan Shahr, Kelishad va Sudarjan, Qahderijan, Abrisham, Zazeran, and Imanshahr, with a few termini located in Isfahan city's Municipal District 13 and Khomeynishahr.

Smart Card

Announced on 14 February 2013, 900 million Rials (Around 285'000 US Dollars at the time) has been allocated for the installation of electronic ticket card systems on buses. It has been announced that negotiations with Isfahan's Bus Company is underway to utilize the ESCard system to create unity in payment method used in both transit agencies.

Routes

References

Bus transport in Iran
Transportation in Isfahan Province
Transport in Isfahan


title: Newark and Marion Railway

text:
The Newark and Marion Railway operated between Newark, New York, and Marion, New York. Chartered in 1900, it opened for business in 1906. The railroad was constructed by the Beebe Syndicate, a conglomeration of streetcar and interurban lines across New York State, though the Newark and Marion was never electrified. The company entered receivership in 1915, and control by the Beebe Syndicate ended. The railroad was reorganized as the Marion Railway Corporation in 1917. The Pennsylvania Railroad acquired the line in 1930. It continued to operate as a spur of the Elmira Branch through the Penn Central and Conrail eras. Operation passed to short line Ontario Midland Railroad in 1979. Dwindling freight traffic and deteriorating track conditions led to the line's closure in July 1984.

Unbuilt Extensions

The Newark, Williamson and Northern Railroad was formed by the Beebe Syndicate in 1914 to construct a new railroad from Newark to Williamson through Marion. The Newark and Marion was to be acquired and integrated into this new project. Contractors from the Syracuse Railroad Construction Company surveyed portions of the line in 1915. When the Newark and Marion went into receivership in 1915 and was no longer controlled by the Beebe Syndicate, plans for extensions were called off.

See also
Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad
Northern Central Railway

References

Defunct New York (state) railroads

Railway companies established in 1900
Railway companies disestablished in 1930
Standard gauge railways in the United States


title: Tomoshige Tsunoda

text:
was a major in the Imperial Japanese Military during World War II.

He was known for his failed assassination attempt on controversial Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

Biography
He came from a family of Nagano Prefecture. His uncle was Kosaka Takeo, a Diet member. He served in China under Prince Mikasa. As the war progressed, Tsunoda sought for the resignation of Prime Minister Tojo. He plotted to assassinate Tojo, but Tojo resigned before the assassination could be executed. Tsunoda was arrested for his role in the plot. He admitted that he planned to kill Tojo, and launch a new cabinet under Prince Higashikuni.

See also
Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
Sōkichi Takagi

References

Further reading

Japanese rebels
Japanese military personnel of World War II


title: Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's parallel bars

text:
The men's parallel bars competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held on 13 and 17 November 2010 at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results

Qualification

Final

References

Results

External links
Official website

Artistic Men parallel bars


title: Amma (unreleased film)

text:
Amma is an unreleased multilingual Indian film written and directed by Faisal Saif, and produced by C. R. Manohar under the banner of Tanvi Films. Filmed in Hindi and Kannada, the film is Sandalwood star Ragini Dwivedi's second film to be launched on her birthday after Ragini IPS.

Cast

 Ragini Dwivedi as Jaya
 Prashant Narayanan as C.B.I Officer Deven Bharti
 Rajpal Yadav as Radhe Krishna Yadav a.k.a. Doosri Radha
 Kavita Radheshyam as Shweta Khatri
 Pooja Misrra as Aruna Sharma
 Hamsa Prathap
 Gokul
 Aanjjan Srivastav as Minister Dhanaji Rao
 C.R Gopi as Inspector Raghavan Shastry
 Baby Dattashree as Paree

Production and promotion
Director Faisal Saif launched the film at Om Shakti Temple Bengaluru on Ragini Dwivedi's birthday. Rajpal Yadav was signed for the main antagonist. Actress Roopa Nataraj, who rose to fame with Miss Mallige, was signed for the role of a cop but later replaced by Pooja Misrra. After filming her portions, Pooja Misrra also walked out of the film, creating controversy regarding her small role in the film. Actor Prashant Narayanan, of Murder 2 fame, was signed on to play the male lead in the film; he said: "I've always been picky about my films. What drew me to this was director Faisal Saif's script. It touches upon many aspects that are relevant to today's times".

During director Faisal Saif's creative sessions with veteran filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh while he was directing Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish in 2012, Saif discussed having a transgender antagonist dealing their gender identity with Ghosh, something which he later incorporated in this film. The character is played by Rajpal Yadav.

First look
The first look trailer and poster of the film has been released. A photo shoot was held in Mumbai where Ragini Dwivedi tested different looks for her character.

Soundtrack

References

External links

Unreleased Hindi-language films
Unreleased Kannada-language films
Indian multilingual films
Transgender-related films
Films directed by Faisal Saif
Indian LGBT-related films


title: Hunstanton Golf Club

text:
Hunstanton Golf Club is an 18-hole members golf club in Norfolk, England which has hosted many of the leading amateur golf tournaments in Britain including the Brabazon Trophy and English Amateur.

History
The course was first designed in 1891 and was significantly altered in 1907 with the addition of 40 bunkers following designs by James Braid. The club hosted its first senior amateur event hosting the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1914, and the English Ladies Open in 1922. Following this the club hosted the English Amateur for the first time in 1931.

Further changes were made to the course in 1950 with several of the holes being redesigned to their present format, most notably there were significant changes to the closing two holes. Following this the course continued to host British amateur tournaments, it hosted the English Amateur again in 1960
and the Brabazon Trophy for the first time in 1966. In total the club has hosted the Brabazon Trophy on five occasions and the English Amateur on four occasions as well as six Women's Amateur Championships and two Boys Amateur Championships.

Scorecard

Competitions hosted

English Men's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship (Brabazon Trophy)
The club has hosted the English Men's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy on 5 occasions with the following results:

English Amateur
The club has hosted the English Amateur on 4 occasions with the following results:

The Womens Amateur Championship
The club has hosted The Womens Amateur Championship (formerly known as the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship) on six occasions, the results of which are as follows:

Boys Amateur Championship
The club has twice hosted the Boys Amateur Championship with the following results:

See also
List of golf courses in the United Kingdom

References

External links
Hunstanton Golf Club - official club website

Sports venues in Norfolk
Golf clubs and courses in Norfolk
Hunstanton


title: Luna di miele in tre

text:
Luna di miele in tre (Honeymoon in three) is a 1976 Italian comedy film. It marks the directorial debut of Carlo Vanzina.

Plot
On the eve of his wedding trip to Sanremo, Alfredo Riva learns that he has won a contest by "Playmen," with the prize being a five-day vacation in Jamaica with the beautiful playmate Christine, day and night. Accompanied by his unsuspecting wife, Graziella, Alfredo reaches the Caribbean island but must resort to a series of subterfuges, leading to unforeseen expenses.

Cast
 Renato Pozzetto: Alfredo Riva
 Stefania Casini: Graziella Luraghi
 Vincent Gardenia: Frank
 Kirsten Gille: Christine/Rebecca
 Harry Reems: Gilbert Blain
 Cochi Ponzoni: Aldo Santarelli
 Felice Andreasi: Hotel Director
 Massimo Boldi: Adamo

See also
 List of Italian films of 1976

References

External links

1976 films
Italian comedy films
1976 comedy films
Films directed by Carlo Vanzina
Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
Films set in the Caribbean
1976 directorial debut films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films


title: Stonewall Jackson Elementary School

text:
Stonewall Jackson Elementary School may refer to several schools in the United States:

 Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, Bristol, Virginia; see Bristol Virginia Public Schools
 Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, Plant City, Florida; see Hillsborough County Public Schools
 Mockingbird Elementary School (Dallas), Texas, formerly named Stonewall Jackson Elementary School

See also
 Stonewall Jackson School (disambiguation)


title: E adesso sesso

text:
E adesso sesso (And now sex) is a 2001 Italian anthology comedy film written and directed by Carlo Vanzina. It consists of eight segments, set in different Italian cities, all sharing sex as main theme.

Plot
In Italy there's the 2000s, bringing fresh air. In several episodes, Carlo Vanzina offers a glimpse of the typical behavior of the Italian character of the middle-class who is struggling with beautiful women, betrayal, love affairs, and much more.

Cast
Elena Russo: Assunta Potito
Adolfo Margiotta: Romeo
Youma Diakite: Brigitte
Antonello Fassari: Padre di Barbara
Emanuela Rossi: Madre di Barbara
Virginie Marsan: Barbara
Alessio Modica: Matteo
Luigi Maria Burruano: Barone
Tony Sperandeo: Don Calogero
Guia Jelo: Anna
Max Giusti: Cesare
Anna Longhi: Nonna di Cesare
Éva Henger: Spogliarellista alla finestra
Francesca Nunzi: Adalgisa
Angelo Russo: Antonio
Paolo Triestino: Isidoro
Antonio Allocca: Doorman

References

External links

2001 films
Commedia sexy all'italiana
2000s sex comedy films
Films directed by Carlo Vanzina
Films set in Sardinia
Films set in Sicily
2000s Italian-language films
2000s Italian films


title: 2009 Roscommon County Council election

text:
An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Athlone

Boyle

Castlerea

Roscommon

Strokestown

External links
 Official website

Roscommon
Roscommon County Council elections


title: George Carver (academic)

text:
George Carver (December 19, 1888 – October 29, 1949) was an American professor and author.

Biography
Carver was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 19, 1888.

In 1916, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University. He worked as instructor in English at Pennsylvania State College from 1916 to 1918, then joined the Army in World War I, serving in the infantry. In 1919 he married Eva Gertrude Schultz; the couple had one son. From 1919 to 1924 he taught at the University of Iowa. Next he went to the University of Pittsburgh as assistant professor, becoming associate in 1927 and in 1931 professor of English.

He died on October 29, 1949, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Legacy
Carver was a member of several social organizations, including the Polygon Club, the Junta, Sons of the American Revolution, The Midland, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Sigma.

Saint Vincent College awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

See also
William Marion Reedy

Works
(1923). Writing and Rewriting (with William Shipman Maulsby and Thomas A. Knott).
(1924). Minimum Essentials of Correct Writing (with Millington Farwell Carpenter, William Shipman Maulsby, and Thomas A. Knott).
(1928). Points of Style: A Minimum of Correctness in Writing English Prose.
(1929). A Series of Six Radio Talks on Essays and Essayists (with suggested readings).
(1931). Elements of English Composition: A Handbook with Tests and Worksheets.
(1932). Paragraph Design (with Frederick Phillip Mayer).
(1938). Index to Sentence Essentials.
(1941). Communicating Experience.
(1948). Not With Eyes Only.
(1948). Alms for Oblivion: Books, Men and Biography.

Other
(1926). The Catholic Tradition in English Literature (editor).
(1926). Representative Catholic Essays (editor, with Ellen Geyer).
(1930). Periodical Essays of the 18th Century (editor).
(1930). The Stream of English Literature (editor, with Sister Mary Eleanore and Katherine Brégy).

Notes

External links
Works by George Carver, at Hathi Trust

American academics of English literature
Educators from Cincinnati
Miami University alumni
1888 births
1949 deaths
University of Pittsburgh faculty
University of Iowa faculty
United States Army personnel of World War I
Journalists from Ohio


title: Nao Tamura

text:
is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She was originally represented by the Early Wing agency, but is now currently affiliated with Haikyō.

Voice roles

Anime
2012
From the New World
2013
Aiura, Ayuko Uehara
Little Busters!, child
Log Horizon, Minori, Mischa
2014
Fairy Tail, Cosmos
Nandaka Velonica, Moe
Space Dandy, child
Log Horizon 2, Minori
World Trigger, Chika Amatori
2015
Urawa no Usagi-chan, Misono Mimuro
2016
Case Closed, Announcement
Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, Musimon
Heybot!, Nejiru Nejiiru
2017
18if, Kayo Sugisaki
2018
Hugtto! PreCure, Emiru Aisaki / Cure Macherie
2021
World Trigger 2nd Season, Chika Amatori
Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table, Minori
World Trigger 3rd Season, Chika Amatori
2022
Musasino! as Misono Mimuro

2024
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy 2nd Season, Chiya Hazuki

Film
Precure Super Stars, Emiru Aisaki / Cure Macherie
Hugtto! PreCure Futari wa Pretty Cure: All Stars Memories, Emiru Aisaki / Cure Macherie
Precure Miracle Universe, Emiru Aisaki / Cure Macherie
Precure Miracle Leap: Minna na Fushigi 1 Nichi, Emiru Aisaki / Cure Macherie

Video games
2011
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, Mothman
2012
Girl Friend Beta, Rui Takasaki
2013
Aiura: Shinkei Suijaku de Shōbu da!, Ayuko Uehara
Arcana Famiglia Collezione, Spartaco
The Idolmaster: Million Live, Hinata Kinoshita
2014
Chain Chronicle, Minori
Genkai Totsuki Moero Chronicle, Matango, Chimaera
Shanago Collection, Vezel
Uchi no Hime-sama ga Ichiban Kawaii, Pikari Golgotto
2015
Chaos Dragon: Konton Sensō, Kuihua
Diss World, Yale
Dogma Tsurugi: overture, Riruka
Kisei no Rebellion, Jean D'Arc; Arthur
Mezamashi Festival ~Yumekui to Mezamashi-ya~
Langrisser Reincarnation -Tensei-, Tsubame Deura
World Trigger: Borderless Mission, Chika Amatori
2016
Mahōtsukai to Kuroneko no Wiz, Eliana Gross
World Trigger: Smash Borders, Chika Amatori

Dubbing
Younger (Caitlin Miller (Tessa Albertson))

References

External links
 Agency profile
 Official blog

Living people
Japanese voice actresses
Voice actresses from Saitama Prefecture
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese women singers
21st-century Japanese singers
Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society voice actors


title: Tianna Hawkins

text:
Tianna Marie Hawkins (born March 2, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Townsville Fire of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She played college basketball at the University of Maryland and attended Riverdale Baptist School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

College statistics

Source

Professional career
Hawkins was drafted by the Seattle Storm with the 6th overall pick in the 2013 WNBA draft. She played with UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron during the 2013-2014 EuroLeague Women season. Hawkins and Bria Hartley were traded to the Washington Mystics in exchange for Crystal Langhorne on April 14, 2014.

In the WNBA, her career free throw percentage was 49.8%, Rebounds 2.4 a game, and PPG were 4.0.

In the 2022–23 WNBL season, Hawkins helped the Townsville Fire win the WNBL championship while earning grand final MVP honors.

WNBA statistics

Regular season

|-
| align="left" | 2013
| align="left" | Seattle
| 33 || 0 || 9.7 || .527 || .238 || .846 || 1.6 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.7 || 3.4
|-
| align="left" | 2014
| align="left" | Washington
| 34 || 0 || 10.6 || .479 || .294 || .719 || 3.0 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 1.0 || 4.2
|-
| align="left" | 2016
| align="left" | Washington
| 24 || 0 || 10.5 || .494 || .500 || .857 || 2.5 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 1.0 || 4.7
|-
| align="left" | 2017
| align="left" | Washington
| 33 || 1 || 16.6 || .471 || .261 || .953 || 4.2 || 0.3 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 0.8 || 6.9
|-
| align="left" | 2018
| align="left" | Washington
| 32 || 4 || 16.6 || .443 || .357 || .824 || 3.5 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 1.1 || 6.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | 2019†
| align="left" | Washington
| 31 || 1 || 15.4 || .514 || .363 || .925 || 4.2 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 1.1 || 9.5
|-
| align="left" | 2020
| align="left" | Washington
| 17 || 5 || 19.4 || .408 || .298 || .846 || 3.5 || 1.0 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 1.2 || 8.5
|-
| align="left" | 2021
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 28 || 8 || 15.5 || .397 || .242 || .913 || 3.1 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 0.5 || 1.1 || 4.9
|-
| align="left" | 2022
| align="left" | Washington
| 25 || 0 || 12.8 || .386 || .264 || .952 || 2.4 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 1.2 || 4.9
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 9 years, 3 teams
| 257 || 19 || 13.9 || .459 || .312 || .877 || 3.1 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 1.0 || 5.8
|}

Playoffs

|-
| align="left" | 2013
| align="left" | Seattle
| 1 || 0 || 6.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" | 2014
| align="left" | Washington
| 2 || 0 || 13.0 || .700 || 1.000 || 1.000 || 3.0 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 8.0
|-
| align="left" | 2017
| align="left" | Washington
| 5 || 0 || 13.8 || .478 || .286 || 1.000 || 2.0 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 5.2
|-
| align="left" | 2018
| align="left" | Washington
| 9 || 1 || 12.7 || .444 || .333 || .867 || 2.9 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 0.6 || 5.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | 2019†
| align="left" | Washington
| 9 || 0 || 9.6 || .682 || .600 || .667 || 2.3 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 0.9 || 4.2
|-
| align="left" | 2020
| align="left" | Washington
| 1 || 0 || 15.0 || .143 || .000 || .750 || 5.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 5.0
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 6 years, 2 teams
| 27 || 1 || 11.7 || .500 || .400 || .840 || 2.6 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 0.6 || 5.1
|}

References

External links

Maryland Terrapins bio
FIBA Europe profile

Living people
1991 births
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in China
American expatriate basketball people in Hungary
American women's basketball players
Atlanta Dream players
Basketball players from Washington, D.C.
Henan Phoenix players
Maryland Terrapins women's basketball players
Power forwards (basketball)
Seattle Storm draft picks
Washington Mystics players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women


title: World Resources Institute

text:
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research non-profit organization established in 1982 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation under the leadership of James Gustave Speth. Subsequent presidents include Jonathan Lash (1993 - 2011),  Andrew D. Steer (2012 - 2021) and current president Ani Dasgupta (2021-).

WRI studies sustainable practices for business, economics, finance and governance, with the purpose of better supporting human society in six areas: food, forests, water, energy, cities, and climate. The institute's flagship report series is the World Resources Report, each of which deals with a different topic. WRI encourages initiatives for monitoring, data analysis, and risk assessment, including global and open source projects. WRI has maintained a 4 out of 4 stars rating from Charity Navigator since 1 October 2008.

Organization
The mission of the World Resources Institute (WRI) is to “move society to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations”. It seeks to promote a sustainable human society with a basis of human health and well-being, environmental sustainability, and economic opportunity. WRI partners with local and national governments, private companies, publicly held corporations, and other non-profits, and offers services including global climate change issues, sustainable markets, ecosystem protection, and environmental responsible governance services.

The World Resources Institute maintains international offices in the Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States and is active in over 50 countries.
A report by the Center for International Policy's Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative of the top 50 think tanks on the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks rating index found that during the period 2014–2018 World Resources Institute received more funding from outside the United States than any other think tank, with a total of more than US$63 million, though this was described as "unsurprising" given the institute's presence in so many countries.
In 2014, Stephen M. Ross, an American real estate developer, gave the organization US$30 million to establish the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Initiatives
WRI's activities are focused on the areas of water (including oceans), forests, climate,
energy,
food
and cities.
WRI is active in initiatives for monitoring, data analysis, and risk assessment.
WRI emphasizes the extent to which systems are linked, and the need to connect issues such as addressing food insecurity with strategies to address climate change, protect ecosystems, and provide economic security.

WRI worked with companies  to develop a common standard, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for quantifying and managing GHG emissions.
WRI tracks estimates of fossil fuel combustion and greenhouse gas emissions, published as biennial reports.
WRI's Science Based Targets initiative  (SBTi) was established in 2015 to help companies to set emission reduction targets in line with climate science.
Tools such as the CAIT Climate Data Explorer have enabled journalists and others to examine greenhouse gas data by country and per capita emissions.   CAIT was integrated into a similar platform, Climate Watch.

In 1997 and 2000, WRI published the first comparative study of  material flow accounting (MFA), using time series data to comprehensively assess all material inputs and outputs (excluding water) used by industrial economies.

In 2008, the World Resources Institute reported on water quality world-wide, identifying over 400 dead zones due to eutrophication including areas in the Baltic Sea, the Chesapeake Bay in the United States, and Australia's Great Barrier Reef (33, 34). Eutrophication results from the discharge of highly concentrated phosphorus in urban wastewater into lakes and rivers, and from agricultural nutrient pollution. WRI advocates for the use of local nature-based solutions (NBS), which tend to be cost-effective, to improve ecosystems, resist water-related climate impacts, and mitigate the effects of warming.
WRI publishes the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, ranking countries in terms of risk of severe water crises.

WRI is active in studying the world’s coral reefs, publishing reports in 1998 and 2011 that tracked damages due to coastal development, overfishing, climate change and rising ocean acidity. A 2022 report examines reefs to a  resolution and analyzes  the protection that reefs provide to people, infrastructure and the GDP.

Beginning in 2002, the World Resources Institute worked with the Cameroon Forest Initiative, to combine disparate sources of data on land use to form digital and paper maps to track changes to Cameroon’s forests and improve their management. They integrated satellite imagery with information on agricultural terrain, boundaries, protected land, community-owned forests, and authorized land use by commercial logging operations and mining concessions.

In 2014, WRI built upon  Matthew C. Hansen's work at the University of Maryland on forest change analysis. WRI partnered with Google Earth Engine to develop Global Forest Watch (GFW),  an open-source web application that uses Landsat satellite imagery to map forest changes. Weekly GLAD deforestation alerts and daily Fires alerts can be specific to a    area. Global Forest Watch is most frequently used by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academic researchers, government employees, and the private sector. It is also used by journalists and indigenous groups, many of whose lands are threatened.
Applications of Global Forest Watch include rapid detection and response to fires,  detecting illegal logging, assuring supply chain transparency, and assessing endangered tiger habitats.

Working with the Sustainability Consortium, WRI works to identify and quantify major drivers of forest losses. For example, they have identified industrial scale internationally traded commodity crops such as beef, soybeans, palm oil, corn, and cotton as a dominant driver of forest loss in South America and Southeast Asia.

As of January 2021, WRI used Global Forest Watch to generate a forest carbon flux map that combined data about emissions and removals of forest-related greenhouse gases. Using a new method for integrating ground, airborne, and satellite data to measure carbon fluctuations in forests, they were able to map forests worldwide at a resolution of  yearly from 2001–2019. They were able to identify the contributions of different forest types, confirming that tropical forests both absorb more carbon than other types of forests, and release more as a result of deforestation and degradation.  By integrating emissions and removals, the map increases the transparency and accuracy of global carbon estimates and can support more effective forest management decisions.

In addition to mapping carbon emissions from forest loss, WRI is working with scientists at Purdue University, Science-i, and the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative to develop methods for assessing carbon accumulation rates in forested ecosystems. Such rates are affected by three forest growth components, which are difficult to measure: ingrowth, upgrowth and mortality. Being able to assess this more accurately would reduce uncertainty in estimating the impact of global forests as a carbon sink.

WRI has partnered with Google Earth Engine to develop Dynamic World, a near real-time (NRT) application that uses high-resolution satellite images to do land use land cover (LULC) classification. Dynamic World identifies areas of land and water such as wetlands, forests, trees, crops and urban areas. Released in June 2022, its uses include monitoring ecosystem restoration, assessing protected areas, and detecting land changes due to deforestation and fires.

WRI's LandMark project provides maps and information indicating lands that are collectively held and used by Indigenous peoples and local communities. Data for the Amazon region has shown that rainforest managed by local and Indigenous communities stores carbon dioxide, while rainforest managed by government and private interests is a net source of greenhouse gases.

Other WRI initiatives include  The Access Initiative, which ranks countries based on environmental democracy, the ability of citizens to engage in decision-making about natural resources, as measured by transparency, public participation laws, and access to justice.

In 2014, philanthropist Stephen M. Ross established the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities through a major gift. The Center focuses on the development of sustainable cities and improvements in quality of life in developing countries around the world. WRI’s flagship report for 2021 was Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities. It followed Accelerating Building Efficiency: Eight Actions for Urban Leaders (2019).

The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) is a public-private collaboration platform and project accelerating focusing on building the circular economy. PACE was launched during the 2018 World Economic Forum Annual meeting.

The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) is an alliance of large clean energy buyers, energy providers, and service providers that is unlocking the marketplace for all non-residential energy buyers to lead a rapid transition to a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon renewable energy future. It has over 200 members including Google, GM, Facebook, Walmart, Disney and other large companies, and reached 6 GW capacity in 2018.

WIR's Champions 12.3 coalition promotes a “Target, Measure, Act” strategy with the goal of halving food loss and waste by 2030.

Criticism
A 1990 study by the World Resources Institute was criticized by Anil Agarwal, who had been on the council of the World Resources Institute from 1988 to 1990. Agarwal, who "was among the first to argue that concepts of social equity need to be integrated into international policies aimed at mitigating the harmful effects of human-induced climate change", accused WRI of allocating too much responsibility for global warming to developing countries, and under-acknowledging the impact of U.S. overconsumption on global warming. He called the WRI study an example of environmental colonialism and suggested that a fairer analysis would balance sources of emissions against terrestrial sinks for each nation. His critique sparked considerable debate about the appropriate methodologies for such analysis, and resulted in increased awareness of the issues involved.

References

See also

 Rafe Pomerance

Environmental organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Think tanks based in the United States
1982 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1982


title: Somali Second Division

text:
The Somali Division 2 is the second football division in Somalia.
The league is contested by 10 clubs.

Clubs
As of 2013-14 season:
Albeder
Badbaado
Banaadir Telecom FC
Dahabshiil
D.B.G.
Gantaalaha Afgooye
Sahafi FC
Somali Fruit

See also
Somali Division 3

References

Football leagues in Somalia
Second level football leagues in Africa


title: Young American Recordings

text:
Young American Recordings was an American record label based in New York City. Founded by Rocco Giordano of Kinetic Records and Josh Swade of Maverick Records, it was an independent label that included groups such as British rock band South and worked with other popular groups such as Scottish punk band APB.

History

Young American Recordings was founded in 2004 by Rocco Giordano and Josh Swade, formerly of Kinetic and Maverick Records respectively. The label initially began with the group Orange Park, releasing the groups' 2005 album Songs For The Unknown. Based in New York City, Young American Recordings rose to prominence in the mid 2000s behind the rock band South.

Young American was responsible for the 2006 reissue of APB's seminal debut album Something To Believe In, originally released by Red River Records in 1985. It was released as a 20th anniversary edition to the original album and contained tracks that were previously unreleased. APB reunited for two stateside tours to promote the reissue of the album. Young American subsequently released APB's BBC Radio 1 Sessions the same year. The label released music from the New Zealand band The Phoenix Foundation and produced the Eagle vs Shark Soundtrack, which was scored by the band. In 2007, the label also released the soundtrack for the HBO Documentary Film The Trials of Darryl Hunt, containing artists such as Andrew Bird and Mark Kozelek.

Select artists

 Orange Park
 South
 The Phoenix Foundation
 APB
 The Silver State

References

External links
 Young American Recordings official website

Defunct record labels of the United States


title: Bloemenbier

text:
Bloemenbier is a Belgian beer brewed with flowers. It is also notably sold in a paper-wrapped bottle.

The beer is brewed by De Proefbrouwerij in a small Belgian town in Lochristi, famous for its flowers.
Bloemenbier is amber with an alcohol content of 7%. Flowers are used in the fermentation process.

See also
 Beer in Belgium

References

External links
Brewery website

References
 Alle Belgische bieren – Hilde Deweer – 2011 –

Belgian beer brands
Lochristi


title: Imre Bajor

text:
Imre Bajor (9 March 1957 – 6 August 2014) was a Hungarian actor and comedian.

References

External links

1957 births
2014 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
Hungarian comedians
Male actors from Budapest
Deaths from brain cancer in Hungary
Hungarian male television actors
21st-century Hungarian male actors


title: Peak's Suburban Addition, Dallas

text:
Peak's Suburban Addition is a historic residential neighborhood and City of Dallas Historic District in east Dallas, Texas (USA). The district's boundaries are, roughly, N. Fitzhugh Street to the northeast, Sycamore to the northwest, Peak Street and Haskell Street toward the southwest, and Worth Street along the southeast.  Peak's Suburban is East Dallas' oldest subdivision and oldest residential neighborhood.

Early history
The land that encompasses much of the district now was formerly a plantation settled by Jefferson Peak. Peak was a veteran of the Mexican War. Peak was an early Dallas real estate developer. Peak purchased land and built a home in 1855 at the corner of Worth and Peak streets, and it was the first brick house in Dallas.

Peak, like many early settlers, was a beneficiary of large land grants. He reportedly traveled through East Dallas on his way to fight in the Mexican War in 1846 and never forgot the territory, eventually making it his home. Peak, sometimes referred to as the "father of East Dallas," initially relocated to Dallas in 1855.

Some claim the area is, in fact, older than the city of Dallas itself, as Dallas was chartered in February, 1856.

After the Civil War, Peak was joined by other large landowners purchasing in the area, including William H. Gaston, a former Confederate Army Captain. He purchased 400 acres along White Rock Road (now Swiss Avenue). Gaston was instrumental in bringing railroads and other industry to East Dallas, which resulted in a housing shortage. The housing shortage helped encourage Jefferson Peak and others to begin subdividing their lands.

Prior to being incorporated as the city of East Dallas in 1882, the majority of the settlement in the area had been agriculture related.

Jefferson Peak platted the first of his family's subdivisions along Ross Avenue in 1874.

Peak and his son, Junius Peak, divided the family plantation in to a section of 16 blocks, which were sold as the Peak's Suburban Addition starting in 1879. Streets were named after the Peak family children: Worth, Carroll, Junius, Victor, and Flora. Many of these streets today cross between the Junius Heights Historic District, Munger Place Historic District, and Peak's Suburban Historic District. Peak initially owned all the land from Elm Street to Capital Street and to Carroll and Haskell Avenues.

After Jefferson Peak died in 1885, his son, Junius, began the larger-scale division and selloff of the family's extensive land holdings. The land around the Old Peak Homestead at Worth and Peak Streets was originally sold as Peak's Addition in 1897. Its development spurred many housing starts in East Dallas.

Jefferson Peak's son in law, Thomas Field, was also an active real estate developer in East Dallas during the 1880s and 1890s. His firm, Field and Field Real Estate and Financial Agents, he managed to control or influence the sale of very large parcels of East Dallas land. He located his home on Peak Avenue between Gaston and Junius Streets.

Streetcars Aided Development
The introduction of streetcar lines in East Dallas between 1887 and 1893—and the initiation of service around 1888—were keys to real estate development in the Peaks Addition area. The "Bryan Line," was one of the major crosstown streetcar lines serving northern sections of East Dallas, and others followed, connecting the neighborhood to Dallas' central business district.

Architecture
The district includes examples of residential architecture dating from the 1890s to the 1930s. Styles visible in the district include late Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, Mission Revival, Victorian, and Craftsman bungalows. In addition, Peak's Suburban includes some examples of "streetcar apartments," from the 1920s and 1930s.

The neighborhood includes the highest concentration of Victorian homes in Dallas.

References

Neighborhoods in Old East Dallas