title: Suicide of Harry Lew

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Harry Lew (; pinyin: Liào Zǐyuán; March 31, 1990 – April 3, 2011) was a Lance Corporal in the United States Marines who committed suicide at Patrol Base Gowragi in Afghanistan, allegedly after being hazed by his fellow Marines.

After investigation, three Marines stationed with Lew in Afghanistan, including his sergeant, were charged with hazing. Two were acquitted in courts-martial. The third pled guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to limited punishment. Lew was a nephew of Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA); she has introduced a bill to prohibit hazing in the military, as the Department of Defense does not track it, and not all services have policies about it.

Background
Harry Lew was born in 1990 in Santa Clara, California. He was educated in local schools, graduating from Santa Clara High School.

Career
Lew enlisted in the Marines in 2009, intending to earn money so that he could go to college. In his second year, he was sent to Afghanistan in 2011 in his first combat deployment.

His unit held Patrol Base Gowragi in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Investigation
On April 3, 2011, Lew was found dead of a gunshot wound. He had been on guard duty at Patrol Base Gowragi in Afghanistan. His death was investigated by the Marines and determined to be suicide by gunshot to the head.

Following the investigation, three fellow Marines stationed with Lew, including his sergeant, were charged for hazing, which is prohibited in the military. According to the investigation, "he was subjected to a series of physical tasks, had sand dumped on his face, and was mercilessly kicked and punched in the helmet after falling asleep on guard duty for the fourth time at an austere patrol base". They said they were taking "corrective action" because of his mistakes in the combat zone, which could be deadly to other Marines. Congresswoman Chu has noted such physical abuse does not relate to the Marines' stated policy about how plans for corrective actions are to be developed and implemented by Marines in superior rank.

Jacob Jacoby
Lance Cpl. Jacoby was court-martialed on charges of hazing; the trial was held at the Marine Base at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. In testimony, he admitted that he punched and kicked Lance Cpl. Harry Lew at the outpost in Afghanistan. Jacoby's legal case ended on January 30, 2012, when he took a plea deal from prosecutors to lesser charges of assault. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and reduction of rank.

Carlos Orozco III
Lance Cpl. Carlos Orozco III was accused of kicking sand in Lew's face and forcing him to do push-ups and leg lifts. LCPL Lew was wearing Orozco's jacket at the time of his death. LCPL Orozco had given the jacket to Lew the week prior. The panel of three officers and five enlisted Marines found Orozco not guilty at a court-martial at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay.

Benjamin Johns
Sergeant Benjamin Johns was also cleared of hazing charges in the death of Harry Lew.

Aftermath
Following congressional hearings in 2012 in which military officials discussed their efforts to prevent hazing and suicide among military members, which has reached a historic high, Congresswoman Judy Chu and others introduced in May 2012 the "Harry Lew Military Hazing Accountability and Prevention Act". It was passed by the House as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. It is intended to require all services to prohibit hazing, to establish uniform tracking, and focus more on prevention. It was reintroduced into following sessions, as the Senate did not pass it.

Chu had requested that the Government Accountability Office investigate the issue of hazing in the military. It released its report in February 2016, making several recommendations that were incorporated into a revised Harry Lew Act introduced by Chu in 2016. This was passed by the full Congress as S.2943 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; it was enacted, signed by the President on Dec 23, 2016.

See also
 Suicide of Danny Chen
 List of hazing deaths in the United States

References

2011 suicides
2011 deaths
American military personnel who committed suicide
United States military scandals
2011 in military history
United States Marine Corps in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
United States Marines
Bullying and suicide
Events that led to courts-martial


title: Jianghan Plain

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Jianghan Plain (; pinyin: Jiānghàn Píngyuán), named for the confluence of the Yangtze ('Jiang') and Han ('han') rivers, is an alluvial plain located in the middle and south of Hubei, China. Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China, is located on the plain. It shares the border with Dongtinghu Plain. It has an area of more than 30 thousands square kilometers. The region was once a large wetland, but was gradually colonized by settlers beginning in the Neolithic period. This accelerated when the state of Chu established its capital there in the middle of the 1st millennium BC, and when the Qin and Han states built dikes to protect farmland from seasonal floods. The Jianghan area has been an important food grain region of China since at least the Ming Dynasty.

References

Plains of China
Landforms of Hubei
Geography of Central China
Yangtze River


title: Anessa Ramsey

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Anessa Ramsey is an American actress and film producer.  Ramsey starred in The Signal (2007), YellowBrickRoad (2010), and Rites of Spring (2011).

Career
Heather Wixson of Dread Central called her "one of the finest actresses working in independent film these days".  Ramsey began acting at 17.  Her first starring role was in The Signal with Justin Welborn and A. J. Bowen.  The three had worked extensively with co-directors David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush in Atlanta-based productions previously.  Her next starring role was in YellowBrickRoad.  The directors, Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, were fans of The Signal and cast Ramsey based on her performance in that film.  Ramsey was offered the option of co-producing the film, which she said that she enjoyed.  She said that she was drawn to the film based on the setting.  In Rites of Spring, she starred as a flawed heroine, which she said was an important part of the characterization for her.  She was also interested in appearing in a creature feature.  Ramsey performed her own stunts.  John Anderson of Variety wrote that Rites of Spring "has a terrific actress in Anessa Ramsey, who's that rare thing in horror, a thoroughly-convincing victim."  In 2013, she appeared in a small role in Devil's Knot, and, in 2015, she appeared in the horror anthology Southbound.  In 2017, she starred in Roger Corman's Death Race 2050 as Tammy the Terrorist.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
American women film producers
American film producers
1978 births


title: Rasim Musabayov

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Rasim Musabayov, sometimes known as Rasim Musabekov, (, b. 1 January 1951, Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, USSR) is a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution. He worked as Foreign Policy State Advisor for Azerbaijan President between 1991 and 1993. He held the position of Chief Legal Adviser of the Foundation for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Market Economy from 1999 to 2010.

References

External links
 http://www.meclis.gov.az

1975 births
Azerbaijani political scientists
Politicians from Baku
Members of the National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
Living people

Independent politicians in Azerbaijan


title: Caverion

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Caverion is a Finnish listed company that designs, implements, and maintains building technology and industrial services. Its product line includes everything from design and construction to projects, technical and industrial maintenance, facility management, and advisory services. The company has two business units: Services and Projects and has about 14,500 employees in 10 countries. Its shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.

History

Caverion was established in June 2013 through the demerger of the Building Services and Industrial Services businesses from YIT Group.

Sustainability

Caverion's sustainability target by 2030 is to create sustainable impact through our solutions, with a positive carbon handprint 10 times greater than the company's own carbon footprint. The company has three focus areas in sustainability:

Controversies
According to KPMG in November 2019 Norwegian Caverion and Lithuania Caverion paid employees in Norway 99 krones an hour while minimum wage was 184,36 Norwegian krones an hour.

The incident was investigated by Statsbygg in Norway and though several regulatory violations were found, among them violating subcontractors pay and working conditions, the violations were not of the nature that Caverion was considered to have engaged in social dumping.

References

External links

Construction and civil engineering companies of Finland
1912 establishments in Finland
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1912
Companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki


title: Camelot Management Consultants AG

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Camelot Management Consultants AG is an international consulting firm with focus on Supply Chain Management. 320 consultants work directly for Camelot Management Consultants and around 1.400 consultants work in Camelot's partner organizations in eight branch offices. CEO of Camelot Management Consultants was Josef Packowski.

Services
Camelot Management Consultants is specialized in Value Chain Management in the core industries Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences and Consumer Goods. The company combines management consulting and implementation in the areas of (excerpt): Supply Chain Management, Finance & Performance Management, Sourcing & Procurement, Logistics & Distribution, Master Data Management, Transport Management and Strategic Information Management.

LEAN Supply Chain Planning

Camelot Management Consultants has developed a Supply Chain Management approach LEAN Supply Chain Planning. T

Awards
Camelot Management Consultants has received several awards in the last years. In 2012 the management consultancy received an award in the category “Supply Chain Management” in the competition “Best of Consulting” run by the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, in 2013 the technology partner Camelot ITLab was honored for the best “IT Management” in the competition. In 2014 Camelot Management Consultants also received the award by brandeins in the competition “Beste Berater 2014 (Best Consultants 2014)”. In 2013, Camelot Management Consultants was awarded as “Top Consultant” for being one of the best mid-sized consulting firm. The Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg awarded the unit Camelot ITLab 2014 with the certificate “Top-Consultant” for one of the best IT consultancy firms. In 2014 Camelot ITLab also received the “INNOVATIONSPREIS-IT” in the category “Best of ERP 2014”.

External links
Official website
Official website LEAN Supply Chain Planning

References

Management consulting firms of Germany
Consulting firms established in 1996
Supply chain management
1996 establishments in Germany
Companies based in Baden-Württemberg


title: Lionel B. Fletcher

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Lionel Bale Fletcher (22 May 1877 – 19 February 1954) was an Australian Congregational minister and evangelist who held pastorates in Australia, Wales, and New Zealand. Fletcher led successful evangelistic campaigns across Australia, the British Isles, and South Africa. He also wrote multiple books including an autobiography, Mighty Moments (1931).

Biography
Fletcher was born in Maitland, New South Wales, eighth and final child to John and Eliza (née Bale) Fletcher. His father was a Methodist lay preacher. All seven of his sons, including Michael Scott Fletcher, became preachers and at least three were ordained as Methodist ministers. Fletcher attended Newington College (1890–1892) before doing an apprenticeship on the vessel 'Maquarie'. He was converted in July 1896 after an evangelistic confrontation with his brother, Henry. "I went to bed in a violent rage," said Fletcher, "but I had gone far enough, and the mighty hand of God gripped my life that night." On 24 January 1900, Fletcher married Maude Harris Basham and together they had several children.

Pastoral ministry
Fletcher pastored in three churches over the course of his life. First, from 1909 to 1915, he pastored in Port Adelaide where his predecessor was Rev. Joseph Coles Kirby. Second, at Wood Street Congregational Church in Cardiff, Wales from 1916 to 1922. His third pastorate was at the Beresford Street church in Auckland, New Zealand from 1923 to 1932.

Evangelistic work
Fletcher's most notable work was in evangelism which was his real passion. Indeed, Edwin Orr calls Fletcher "The outstanding evangelist of the between-Wars period."

Within days of Fletcher's conversion his father's journal tells of his son wanting to start "a Christian Endeavour or a young people's class." Fletcher led the 'New Life Campaign' in Britain in 1922-1923 and went on in 1931 to lead a six-month evangelistic youth campaign in England. From September 1932 he served as 'Empire Evangelist' for the 'Movement for World Evangelization' in London until 1935. He also led highly successful campaigns in South Africa in 1934 and 1936 and again in 1938. Charles Malcolm, Fletcher's biographer, estimates that over 250,000 professed conversion under Fletcher's ministry.

F. W. Boreham, in his foreword to Charles Malcolm's biography of Fletcher, emphasised Fletcher's love for Australia: "He evangelised many lands, but he yearned above all things for the salvation of Australia."

Honours
Fletcher turned down an honorary doctorate on several occasions, but on 9 November 1951 finally accepted an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Biola University, whose president Dr. Louis T. Talbot (after whom Talbot Theological Seminary was named) was converted partly as a result of Fletcher's ministry in Sydney years earlier. Talbot had hoped to confer the degree personally in Australia, but being unable to, asked the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, Howard Mowll to confer the degree in his stead.

Bibliography

Books

Effective Evangelism (1923)
Mighty Moments (1931)
The Golden Highway (1932)
Life Quest and Conquest (1933)
Faith: The Golden Link (1933)
Hope: The Golden Light (1934)
Love: The Golden Law (1934)
Skipper My Chum—and other True Dog Stories (1935)
Prayer: The Secret Power (1937)
South African Jewels (1937)
After Conversion - What? (1939)
Kneeling to Conquer (1939)
Conquering Evangelism (1946)

Booklets/articles

Temptation and how to conquer it (1934)
Youth and Evangelism (1936)
Shall Revival Come Again? (1938)
Step by Step in the Christian Life (1930s)

Compilations

Refining Fires (1932)
Millstones and Milestones (1933)
Pathway to the Stars (1933)
Golden Blooms (1935)

References

1877 births
1954 deaths
People educated at Newington College
Australian Congregationalists
Australian Christian clergy


title: Malaysia at the 1997 SEA Games

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Malaysia competed in the 1997 Southeast Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 11 to 19 December 1997.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medallists

Football

Men's tournament
Group A

Women's tournament
Group B

References

1997
Nations at the 1997 SEA Games


title: Hilal Ahmar Tabriz FSC

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Hilal Ahmar Tabriz Futsal Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتسال هلال احمر تبریز) was an Iranian futsal club based in Tabriz. Hilal Ahmar took over the licence of Gostaresh Foolad Tabriz in 2012-13 Super League.

Season-by-season
The table below chronicles the achievements of the Club in various competitions.

players

Current squad

Notable players

  Shahram Sharifzadeh

References

External links
Hilal Ahmar's Stats and History in PersianLeague

Futsal clubs in Iran
Sport in Tabriz
2014 disestablishments in Iran
Defunct futsal clubs in Iran


Vignan Institute of Technology and Management (also called VITAM Berhampur and in ) is an engineering college located in Berhampur, in southern Odisha, India. Established in 2009 by Naveen Patnaik, the then  chief minister of Odisha, the college has one academic building and one workshop. It is a constituent college of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT). This college was named after the King Krushna Chandra Gajapati, the creator of modern Odisha.

Academic structure
The college provides 4 years Bachelor of Technology degrees in 6 disciplines[3] of engineering: Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering,  Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. A three-year B.Tech degree for diploma holders as lateral entries is also offered. All courses are full-time. The college also provides 2 years Master of Technology degrees in 2 specializations: Machine Design and ETCE and also Master of Business Administration degree

Each academic year consists of two semesters and a summer term. The education system is organized around a credit system, which ensures continuous evaluation of a student's performance and provides flexibility to choose courses to suit the student's ability or convenience. Each course is assigned credits depending upon the class hours.

Affiliation
VITAM is the Life Member International Accreditation Organization (IAO) Houston U.S.A and VITAM is having GoL MOU with Glewford University (U.S.A) ( faculty and student exchange Programmes).

VITAM is  an ISO 9001:2015 self funded Technology and Management Institute .[3]

Admission
Intake into different degree courses in this institute is made only through a "Joint Entrance Examination" conducted each year by the government of Odisha.This year ojee sought its admission through jee-main previously known as "AIEEE". The details of the eligibility, reservation, medical requirements, procedure for admission etc. are given as per the information brochure of "OJEE"-2015.

Placements
The college has year on year excellent placements. In the placement season 2014–15, the highest salary package had been Rs 3.2 Lakhs per annum(lpa) offered to 5 students by TCS through off campus placements and rest of students are in good position. Although looking to the placement is not as per expectation but the pass out batches of 2013 and 2014 students are well placed in top MNC like IBM, TCS, COGNIZANT, CAPGEMINI, INFOSYS, ACCENTURE, ARICENT and also in various public service like barc, hal and most of the student pursuing their mtech studies in various IITs, and NITs.../
But nowadays no placement available

Examination
Registration is required at the beginning of each semester. Students are allowed to appear for examination for registered courses only, and should consult with the respective department heads for guidance before registration. Students are eligible to appear for examinations provided they attend a minimum of 75% of their theory, practical, and sessional classes scheduled during the semester.

Departments
Four existing branches and three new branches are offered by B.TECH:

An additional department of Basic Science and Humanities is available. This department includes Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, Economics and Management.

References

Engineering colleges in Odisha
Colleges affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Education in Berhampur
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Orissa


title: Tanjong Rhu MRT station

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Tanjong Rhu MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Kallang, Singapore. The station will be situated at the traffic junction of Tanjong Rhu Road and Tanjong Rhu Place, near the condominiums such Pebble Bay and Casuarina Cove. It also provides access to the Singapore Sports Hub via the Tanjong Rhu Suspension Bridge.

First announced in 2014, construction of the station started in 2016. It is expected to be opened along with the Phase 4 stations of the TEL in 2024.

History
On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Tanjong Rhu station would be part of the proposed Thomson East-Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T303 for the design and construction of Tanjong Rhu Station was awarded to Bachy Soletanche Singapore Pte Ltd – Wai Fong Construction Pte Ltd Joint Venture at a sum of  in January 2016. Construction has started in 2016, with expected completion in 2024. The contract also includes the construction of  cut-and-cover tunnels and a substation which will power the TEL tracks.

The construction of this station involves the construction of a cut-and-cover tunnel above the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) tunnel. Steel sheet piles have to be driven into the ground to retain the earth and ensure the stability of both tunnels. In addition, to minimise ground movement, steel rods will be used to stabilise the excavated surface.

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

Station details
Located at the traffic junction of Tanjong Rhu Road and Tanjong Rhu Place, the station will serve the residents of the Water Place, Pebble Bay, Casuarina Cove, Camelot By-The-Water, Tanjong Ria, Parkshore and Sanctuary Green condominiums. When the station is completed, it will be between the Founders' Memorial and Katong Park stations. The station code will be TE23.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Kallang
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez

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Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez (born 30 March 1985 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Cuban Chess Champion.

Chess career
He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2011. Ortiz Suárez won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

He was the runner-up in the American Continental Chess Championship in 2013.
At the Chess World Cup 2013 he knocked out Judit Polgár in the first round, then he lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in round two and therefore was eliminated from the competition.

Ortiz Suárez played for the Cuban team in the Chess Olympiads of 2012 and 2014, and World Team Chess Championship of 2015. In the 2014 Chess Olympiad he won the silver medal on board four thanks to his rating performance of 2766 after five wins, two draws and a loss.

References

External links
Isam Ortiz Suarez chess games at 365Chess.com

1985 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Cuban chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Guantánamo


title: New Monastery

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New Monastery (subtitled A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill) is an album by American guitarist Nels Cline performing compositions by Andrew Hill which was released in September 2006 on the Cryptogramophone label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars out of 5, stating "Hill's work does not suffer for its interpretations by Cline and company; it breathes in a new context, one that understands his own. This is a fine and important date and necessary listening for those who care about the composer or are just coming to him, or about Cline and his own development. Essential listening". Writing for All About Jazz, John Kelman stated "With his sextet of highly flexible players, Cline has fashioned an homage that clearly references its source, while at the same time feeling completely within Cline's own musical universe. Hill will no doubt be proud". JazzTimes' Bill Milkowski noted "While this tribute is obviously done with great reverence for Andrew Hill’s oeuvre, Cline doesn’t hesitate to lob hand grenades into the proceedings from time to time. I expect nothing less from the guy who successfully tackled John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space".

Track listing
All compositions by Andrew Hill
 "McNeil Island / Pumpkin" - 6:20
 "Not Sa No Sa" - 8:55
 "No Doubt / 11/8 / Dance With Death" - 23:32
 "Yokada Yokada / The Rumproller" - 4:48
 "Dedication" - 8:03
 "Reconciliation / New Monastery" - 10:30
 "Compulsion" - 11:09

Personnel
 Nels Cline – guitar, effects
Bobby Bradford - cornet
Ben Goldberg - clarinet, contra-alto clarinet
Andrea Parkins - electric accordion, effects
Devin Hoff - contrabass
Scott Amendola - drums, percussion
Alex Cline - percussion (tracks 5 & 7)

References

2006 albums
Nels Cline albums
Cryptogramophone Records albums


title: Zachary Taylor (priest)

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Zachary Taylor (1653–1705) was an English priest, known for his controversial writings. One of his opponents dubbed him the "Lancashire Levite".

Life
He was born at Bolton, Lancashire, on 20 April 1653, and baptised at the parish church on 24 April; his father Zachary Taylor the elder (1619–1693) was an ejected minister in 1662, married to Abigail Ward, who became a schoolmaster. The younger
Zachary Taylor was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge, on 19 April 1671, and graduated B.A. in 1675, and M.A. in 1678; he was incorporated at Oxford on 13 July 1678.

Taylor was appointed vicar of Ormskirk on 9 March 1680, and resigned in 1693, becoming curate to the rector of Wigan. On 10 December 1695 he was appointed by the crown to the rectory of Croston, Lancashire, retaining the curacy of Wigan. He died in 1705, probably in May; his will, dated 30 April, was proved at Chester on 19 June 1705.

Works
Taylor was a Whig hard-liner, and argued in an anonymous tract Submission and Obedience to the Present Government (1690) the duty of taking the oaths of allegiance to William III and Mary II, based on Bishop Overall's Convocation Book. That work had recently been published for the first time by William Sancroft, to justify the attitude of non-jurors; but Taylor interpreted its argument of the book in the opposite sense. The author John Overall had drawn up the manuscript in 1606, and it consisted of a series of canons which had been submitted to Convocation and accepted by it early in James I's reign, concerning the right of subjects to resist oppressive government. The canons, in ambiguous language, denied the right of resistance but recognised that a government originating in rebellion might acquire the stamp of divine authority. James I objected to the second point, and the canons were dropped before they received official confirmation. Sancroft had brought the matter to public notice by insisting on Overall's first doctrine, of non-resistance; Taylor's pamphlet put the opposite emphasis on Overall's argument, and his interpretation seems to have influenced William Sherlock. Taylor added a Vindication (1691), also anonymous.

Taylor is remembered for the part he took in exposing the handling of Richard Dugdale, the "Surey demoniac", by publishing The Surey Impostor, 1697. Many nonconformist ministers in Lancashire, including Thomas Jollie, took Dugdale's condition to be demonic possession. Taylor denounced the affair as imposing on the credulous. Jollie replied, and Taylor rejoined in Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery … very fully proved, 1698 He was then attacked in The Lancashire Levite Rebuk'd (1698, anonymous, perhaps by John Carrington of Lancaster), and hence his nickname. Taylor retorted in Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery confess'd and fully proved (1699).

A local religious controversy drew from Taylor The Devil turn'd Casuist; or the Cheats of Rome (1696). He published funeral sermons for Lady Elizabeth Bradshaigh (1695) and John Risley (1705).

Family
Taylor married, first, on 12 July 1685, Barbara (died September 1689), daughter of Sir Edward Stanley, 3rd Baronet, of Bickerstaffe. His second wife, Anne, survived him, with several children.

Notes

Attribution

1653 births
1705 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
Clergy from Bolton


title: Maurandya scandens

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Maurandya scandens, also known as trailing snapdragon and snapdragon vine, is a climbing herbaceous perennial native to Mexico, with snapdragon-like flowers and untoothed leaves. It is grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the world, and has commonly escaped from cultivation to become naturalized. Other names for this plant include creeping snapdragon, vining snapdragon, creeping gloxinia and chickabiddy.

Description
The perennial plant grows up to 2-3 meters tall or long. The alternate, lanceolate to arrow-shaped, entire and lobed to coarsely toothed, pointed, on the lobes, teeth often fine-pointed leaves sit on 8 to 42 millimeters long petioles. The bare leaf blades are 11 to 62 long and 4 to 45 millimeters wide. The shoot axes often form adventitious roots.

It has been confused with Lophospermum scandens, which has longer flowers and larger, toothed leaves. It resembles Maurandya barclayana, which has blue-violet flowers and hairy rather than hairless sepals. It is semi-deciduous in the colder areas.

Flowers and reproduction

The hermaphrodite, tubular flowers appear axillary and solitary, and come in many different colours including rose pink, violet, indigo blue or white, with double perianth. The fivefold flowers feature a wide throat on long, glabrous pedicels, 30 to 85 millimeters long.

The small, ovate-lanceolate and just overgrown tips of the calyx are 10 to 15 millimeters long. They are 2 to 4 millimeters wide at the base and they are bare to sparsely covered with glandular hairs. The crown, slightly hairy on the outside, with shorter, rounded to indented, expansive lobes has two lips.

The 4 short, dynamic stamens are included. The superior, two-chambered ovary is usually bald and the bald, enclosed, relatively short style is 13 to 16 millimeters long. It flowers profusely between spring and summer, and irregularly in the cool months.

The asymmetrical, irregularly ovoid and many-seeded, cartilaginous seed capsules are 10 to 12 millimeters long and are divided into slightly unequal subjects.

Range
The original distribution area are rocky slopes, canyons and disturbed areas in tropical and subtropical forests in southern Mexico at 1200 to 2200 meters above sea level. The species prefers a medium-humid (mesic) biotope. It seems to have established its habitat from the north along the calcareous Sierra Madre and south into the volcanic belt. Due to human displacement, occurrences are now found worldwide.

Cultivation
Cultivars include Joan Lorraine with velvety purple flowers, Snow White with white flowers and Mystic Rose with fuchsia flowers.

References

Plantaginaceae
Taxa named by Antonio José Cavanilles
Flora of Mexico
Ornamental plants
Vines
Plants described in 1806


title: Malaysia at the 1999 SEA Games

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Malaysia competed in the 1999 Southeast Asian Games held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from 7 to 15 August 1999.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Medallists

Football

Men's tournament
Group B

References

1999
Nations at the 1999 SEA Games


title: Katong Park MRT station

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Katong Park MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line situated at the boundary of the planning areas of Kallang and Marine Parade, Singapore. The station is located underneath the junction of Fort Road, Tanjong Rhu Road and Meyer Road and will serve the Katong Park.

Announced in 2014, construction of the station started in 2016. It is expected to be opened along with the Phase 4 stations of the TEL in 2024. Like Stevens and Promenade stations on the Downtown Line, the station will have a stacked platform arrangement, with platforms on different levels serving the two directions of the line.

History
On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Katong Park station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T305 for the design and construction of Katong Park station was awarded to Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. (Singapore) Pte Ltd at a sum of  in January 2016. Construction has started in 2016, with completion in 2024. The construction of the  bored tunnels required the use of  diameter Earth pressure balance (EPB) machines.

The station was constructed with considerable difficulty. The site has limited space allowed for construction due to a narrow construction corridor along Meyer Road, and the ground at the station is primarily soft clay since it is built on reclaimed land. Hence, the station will have a stacked platform arrangement, similar to the DTL Promenade and Stevens stations, to avoid having to acquire more land for the construction. To minimise construction risks due to the soft ground, selected stretches of the ground were strengthened to facilitate tunnelling works and the diaphragm walls have a depth of , beyond the height of the station box which is only .

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

Station details
Located underneath the junction of Fort Road, Tanjong Rhu Road and Meyer Road, the station will serve residents of nearby condominiums such as The Belvedere, The Line @ Tanjong Rhu, The Waterside, Fulcrum, De Centurion, Palazzetto, Crystal Rhu, The View @ Meyer, La Ville, Fort Gardens, Emerald East, Fortville, The Meyer Place and Meyer Residence, as well as Dunman High School. When the station is completed, it will be between the Tanjong Rhu and Tanjong Katong stations. The station code will be TE24.

References

External links

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Kallang
Marine Parade
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Tanjong Katong MRT station

text:
Tanjong Katong MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Marine Parade, Singapore.

The station will be built underneath the intersection of Tanjong Katong Road South and Amber Road.

Description
Tanjong Katong MRT station is a fully underground mass rapid transit station with three station access points. Located below Amber Road and Tanjong Katong Road South, the station is near private residential properties such as Aalto, Amber Skye and King's Mansion.

The station gets its name from Tanjong Katong Road South on ground level, although the region of Tanjong Katong is more commonly associated with Tanjong Katong Road up north. It is also located near the Chinese Swimming Club and the Coastal Playgrove across East Coast Parkway.

History
On 15 August 2014, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that Tanjong Katong (then named 'Amber') station would be part of the proposed Thomson East-Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T306 for the design and construction of Amber Station was awarded to Woh Hup (Private) Limited at a sum of S$146 million in April 2016. Construction began in 2016, with completion in 2024. Six semi-detached houses along Amber Road and a three-storey apartment block on Tanjong Katong Road were acquired to build the station.

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Vista Analysis

text:
Vista Analysis (Norwegian: Vista Analyse AS) is a Norwegian research and consultancy firm with the main emphasis on economic research, policy analysis and advice, and evaluations. It was established in 2000 and is headquartered at Frogner in Oslo, and focuses on climate, environment and energy, urban and rural development, international development, transport and communications, and welfare state research. The company is owned by several partners. The chairman of the board is the economist Steinar Strøm, a professor of economics at the University of Turin and the University of Oslo.

The company is one of the largest firms providing independent policy analysis, evaluations and research for the Government of Norway. Its regular customers include the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

The institute carried out the much noted evaluation in 2014 of the Norwegian ban on purchasing the services of prostitutes.

Noted people
Steinar Strøm
Michael Hoel
Sidsel Sverdrup
Haakon Vennemo

References

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Vista Analyse

Research institutes in Norway
Social science research institutes
Economic research institutes
Environmental research institutes
Energy research institutes
2000 establishments in Norway
Research institutes established in 2000
Companies based in Oslo


title: Marine Parade MRT station

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Marine Parade MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Marine Parade, Singapore.

Located underneath Marine Parade Road near the junction of Marine Parade Central, the station will serve the nearby housing estates as well as Parkway Parade, hotels and I12 Katong.

History
On 15 August 2014, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that Marine Parade station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T307 for the design and construction of Marine Parade Station was awarded to Samsung C&T Corporation at a sum of S$555 million in November 2015. Construction has started in 2016, with expected completion in 2024. To facilitate the station's construction, the junction between Joo Chiat Road and Marine Parade Road had to be closed from 9 April to 12 November 2017.

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the construction of the TEL, and the completion date was pushed to 2024.

References

External links

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Marine Terrace MRT station

text:
Marine Terrace MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line at the boundary of Marine Parade and Bedok planning areas, Singapore. Nearby residential areas such as Marine Terrace and Telok Kurau will be served.

The station took its name from Marine Terrace, a road as well as the residential estate within the proximity.

History
On 15 August 2014, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that Marine Terrace station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore. This segment was expected to be completed in 2023.

Contract T308 for the design and construction of Marine Terrace station and  of associated tunnels was awarded to Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. – Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. Joint Venture at S$361 million in January 2016. Construction started in 2016, with expected completion in 2024. Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the TEL line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

Details
Marine Terrace station will serve the TEL and will be between the Marine Parade and Siglap stations. The official station code will be TE27. Located along Marine Parade Road, the six entrances of the station will serve the residential area of Marine Terrace, condominiums and landed properties in the Telok Kurau area and nearby schools such as St. Patrick's School and CHIJ Katong Convent. The station will have a length of  and a depth of .

References

External links

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Siglap MRT station

text:
Siglap MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Bedok planning area, Singapore.

The station will be located at Marine Parade Road next to the Nallur Road junction, near to Victoria School and St. Andrew's Autism Centre.

History
On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Siglap station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T309 for the design and construction of Siglap Station was awarded to John Holland Pty Ltd – Zhen Hua (Singapore) Engineering Pte. Ltd. Joint Venture  at a sum of S$176 million on 21 March 2016. Construction began in 2016, with completion slated for 2024.

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the TEL line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Bob McCulloch (prosecutor)

text:
Robert P. McCulloch (born July 27, 1951) is an American former prosecutor who was the American prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri from 1991 until 2019. A Democrat, McCulloch historically had bipartisan support as a prosecutor and won reelection in 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014, often unopposed, but by wide margins when he had an opponent. McCulloch held the highest paid position within St. Louis County government with an annual salary of $160,000. In 2018, he lost his bid for reelection in the Democratic primary to reformist challenger Wesley Bell by a 13.24% margin.

McCulloch was the chief prosecutor in office overseeing the case related to the shooting of Michael Brown, which attracted considerable controversy and media attention, both nationally and internationally.

Education and early career
After attending law school at Saint Louis University, McCulloch served as a clerk for Missouri Appeals Court judge Joseph G. Stewart. McCulloch was an assistant prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1985. He worked in private practice until 1991, when he was elected to the post of prosecuting attorney. McCulloch was president of the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and a board member of the National District Attorneys Association.

Tenure as P.A.
Just after he first took office in the early 1990s, McCulloch prosecuted Axl Rose of the band Guns N' Roses on charges related to the Riverport Riot in which 40 concert attendees and 25 police officers were injured. McCulloch charged Rose with misdemeanor assault and property damage for allegedly hitting a security guard, hurting three concertgoers and damaging a dressing room at Riverport Amphitheatre. McCulloch made headlines when he pursued Rose across the country to serve an arrest warrant in the case before Rose finally turned himself in and agreed to a plea deal.

In 2000, in the so-called "Jack in the Box" case, two undercover officers, a police officer and a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officer, shot and killed two unarmed black men in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant in Berkeley, Missouri. In 2001, the officers told a grand jury convened by McCulloch that the suspects tried to escape arrest and then drove toward them; the jury declined to indict. McCulloch told the public that every witness had testified to confirm this version, but St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Michael Sorkin reviewed the previously secret grand jury tapes, released to him by McCulloch, and found that McCulloch's statement was untrue: only three of 13 officers testified that the car was moving forward. A subsequent federal investigation found that the men were unarmed and that their car had not moved forward when the officers fired 21 shots; nevertheless, federal investigators decided that the shooting was justified because the officers feared for their safety. McCulloch also drew controversy when he said of the victims: "These guys were bums." The two men killed,  Earl Murray and Ronald Beasley, had prior felony convictions on drug and assault charges.

In 2013, McCulloch publicly switched his longtime allegiance from fellow Democrat and St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley to support Dooley's challenger in the Democratic primary for county executive, Steve Stenger, stating that Dooley oversaw too much corruption in the county. Stenger won over Dooley in the August 5, 2014, primary by a landslide.

As of July 2017, McCulloch still refused to enforce fare-evasion tickets issued for non-paying riders on MetroLink (St. Louis), despite growing concerns over safety and security on MetroLink and MetroBus facilities. According to McCulloch, “Only peace officers are capable of writing a summons or making an arrest for a misdemeanor violation, and the MetroLink employees, no matter what they call them, are not and cannot be peace officers.” At the time it was reported that St. Louis County officers, whose tickets McCulloch would presumably enforce, had been caught neglecting assigned MetroLink patrols.

In May 2018, McCulloch's office filed charges on a dismissed restraining order that was filed against a woman protesting a city police officer whom she claimed had raped her. In the Democratic primary on August 7, McCulloch in an upset lost handily to Wesley Bell who ran on a criminal justice reform platform. During that campaign, McCulloch claimed that his office does not file bail bonds for misdemeanors; however, an ACLU of Missouri report showed this to be false. On August 16, McCulloch as an invited speaker at an Oregon prosecutors conference made several remarks considered so unprofessional and characterized by some as "racially insensitive" that several walked out and subsequently boycotted a later keynote speech, including the entire staff of one district attorney office.

Michael Brown case

After the August 9, 2014, shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, McCulloch announced that rather than making a decision about whether to arrest Wilson, he would bring the case before a grand jury, leaving to jurors the decision of what charges might be brought, if any. His spokesman acknowledged that it was unusual that the prosecutor was not asking the grand jury to endorse a specific charge. It was also unusual to present a case to a grand jury before the police investigation was over.

Cornell Brooks, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), called for a special prosecutor to replace McCulloch in the case, saying that was needed to restore credibility with Ferguson's black community.

On , McCulloch reported in a press conference that the grand jury reached a decision in the case and elected "not to indict Wilson". Immediately after the announcement, McCulloch said that he appointed prosecutors in his office to handle the case, rather than himself, because "he was 'fully aware of unfounded but growing concern that the investigation might not be fair.'"

In his 23 years on the job, this was the fifth time McCulloch presented evidence to a grand jury in a shooting by police; in each case, the grand jury came back without an indictment.

Post-case analysis
Following the grand jury result, criticism was directed at McCulloch over the handling, result, and other aspects of the grand jury process, while other analysts defended his handling of the matter.

Former Supreme Court clerk Eric Citron wrote on SCOTUSblog, that the grand jury investigation was atypical. Citron argues that, based on case law – a question raised in United States v. Williams – prosecutors can withhold "substantial exculpatory evidence" in order to obtain an indictment, as the role of the grand jury is not to determine guilt, but rather to decide whether there is enough evidence of a crime; exculpatory evidence can be presented at trial. Citron presented the dissent from Justice Stevens, who said that the prosecutor need not "ferret out and present all evidence that could be used at trial to create a reasonable doubt as to defendant's guilt." Citron then asserts that when a prosecutor wants an indictment, a grand jury process like what happened in Wilson's case would not be expected.

Other legal experts asserted that McCulloch deflected responsibility for failing to indict Wilson, and created conditions in which the grand jury would not indict him either. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University, said that "As a strategic move, it was smart; he got what he wanted without being seen as directly responsible for the result," and called the case "the most unusual marshaling of a grand jury's resources I've seen in my 25 years as a lawyer and scholar."

The New Yorker'''s legal analyst, attorney Jeffrey Toobin, criticized McCulloch for implementing "a document dump, an approach that is virtually without precedent in the law of Missouri or anywhere else", and stated that despite the effort to represent the process as "an independent evaluation of the evidence", McCulloch remained in control of the process. Toobin wrote  that in the presentation of the grand jury decision, McCulloch cherry-picked the evidence that was most exculpatory of Wilson, and asserted that McCulloch "gave Wilson's case special treatment".

Radio talk show host and attorney Michael Smerconish wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer that McCulloch was in a no-win position and gave the case to the grand jury, despite a lack of evidence, to prove probable cause because the public would not accept a unilateral decision by McCulloch. Smerconish said the grand jury proceedings were atypical because they presented all the evidence and included testimony by the subject of the investigation, Darren Wilson. Smerconish said conflicting witness statements which could support indictments were not backed up by the forensic evidence.

Former United States federal judge Paul G. Cassell, writing for the Volokh Conspiracy'' blog, said that "Contrary to the complaints of some critics, the grand jury process was clearly fair." Cassell countered critics by saying that the grand jury did not deviate from the normal process, except for the prosecutor not making any particular recommendation for charges. Cassell said objections that the grand jury took too long were silent on the parallel federal investigation being run. The argument that too much evidence was presented in to the grand jury, compromising the process, was described by Cassell as an attempt to manufacture a weakness.

Personal life
McCulloch is the son of a St. Louis City K-9 police officer who was killed in the line of duty while searching for a fleeing kidnapper in the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex when McCulloch was 12 years old. When he was in high school at Augustinian Academy, McCulloch lost a leg to cancer.

McCulloch and his wife Carolyn have four children.

His son, Matthew McCulloch, a St. Louis County police officer, is suspected of shooting into the air at a children's trunk or treat event on Sunday, October 16, 2023 in Kirkwood, Missouri.

References

Living people
Politicians from St. Louis County, Missouri
Saint Louis University School of Law alumni
Lawyers from St. Louis
Shooting of Michael Brown
Missouri Democrats
District attorneys in Missouri
1951 births
Axl Rose


title: Bayshore MRT station

text:
Bayshore MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Bedok, Singapore, along Bayshore Road.

The station is located in the vicinity of the Bayshore Park, The Bayshore, and Costa Del Sol condominiums, as well as many other private houses and condominiums around Bayshore and Upper East Coast. The station will serve as the eastern terminus of the Thomson–East Coast line from 2024 to 2025, where it would then be replaced by Sungei Bedok when stage five of the line opens.

History

On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Bayshore station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between Founders' Memorial and Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Contract T310 for the design and construction of Bayshore Station and  associated bored tunnels was awarded to Woh Hup (Private) Ltd – Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd Joint Venture at a sum of  on 21 March 2016. Construction commenced in 2016, with completion in 2024.

Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in the TEL line completion, and the date was pushed to 2024.

References

External links

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024


title: Bedok South MRT station

text:
Bedok South MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line in Bedok planning area, Singapore.

The station will be located next to Temasek Secondary School, at the intersection of Upper East Coast Road and Bedok South Road.

History
On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Bedok South station would be part of the proposed Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Stage 5, consisting of 2 stations between Bedok South and Sungei Bedok, and is expected to be completed in 2025.

Contract T311 for the design and construction of Bedok South Station and associated tunnels was awarded to China Jingye Engineering Corporation Limited (Singapore Branch) at a sum of S$188 million in April 2016. Construction started in 2016.

Stage 5 of the TEL is now slated to commence passenger service in 2025 instead of 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2025


title: Lionel Brodie

text:
Lionel Brodie (28 May 1917 – 15 May 1995) was an Australian amateur tennis player who competed mainly in the 1930s and 1940s.

He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1939, 1946 and 1947. He played in the Davis Cup. He also competed in doubles with good results at both state and national levels. In November 1949 Brodie and doubles partner Bert Tonkin lost to 15-year-olds Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall in an interstate match at Kooyong (6-3, 6-4).

Brodie was ranked in the top 10 Australian players in 1939, 1940, 1945/6, 1946/7 and 1947/8.

Along with Frank Sedgman and Paul McNamee, Brodie also won the Grace Park Lawn Tennis Club championship, where the club recognises Brodie's contributions by awarding the Pennant Player of the Year the Lionel Brodie Trophy.

References

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Australian male tennis players
1917 births
1995 deaths
People from Euroa
Tennis people from Victoria (state)
20th-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)


title: Steinar Strøm

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Steinar Strøm (born 10 April 1942) is a Norwegian economist. He is currently a professor of economics at the University of Turin, researcher at the Frisch Center and a partner and chairman of the board of directors of Vista Analysis. Strøm was Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo from 1976 to 2008.  He is noted for his research on microeconometrics and labour economics, as well as energy economics and environmental economics. He is a member of the National Wages Board, appointed by the Norwegian government in 2013. He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is also affiliated with the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research. He has chaired two governmental commissions, the Income Formation Commission (1988) and The Market for Pharmaceuticals Commission (1997), and was editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1977–1981. He has been a scientific adviser to the Royal Ministry of Finance and Statistics Norway.

He has been a visiting professor at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and Shanghai, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Venice, Tilburg University, and the Center for Economic Studies.

Selected publications
 Effektivitet, fordeling og økonomisk politikk, with Jon Vislie, Universitetsforlaget (2007)
 Økonomisk atferd, beslutninger og likevekt, with Jon Vislie, Universitetsforlaget (2008)

External links

 Steinar Strøms homepage

References

1942 births
Living people
Norwegian economists
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters


title: Ancayoc Cucho

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Ancayoc Cucho (possibly from Quechua anka black-chested buzzard-eagle or eagle, k'uchu corner, inside corner or outward angle, "corner with an eagle") is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is located in the Puno Region, Sandia Province, Limbani District.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Puno Region


title: Sungei Bedok MRT station

text:
Sungei Bedok MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange and terminal station on the Downtown line and Thomson–East Coast line in Bedok planning area, Singapore. The station is being built east of where Upper East Coast Road becomes Bedok Road, and will serve residents of the Eastwood estate. Nearby facilities include the Bedok Food Centre, Eastwood Centre and the Laguna National Golf & Country Club.

The station is named after Sungei Bedok, a small river within its vicinity. Despite its name and location, the station is not contiguous to either Bedok North or Bedok Reservoir stations of the Downtown line.

History
This station was first announced on 15 August 2014 as part of the Downtown line stage 3e, consisting of 2 stations between Xilin and Sungei Bedok, and the Thomson–East Coast line phase 5, also consisting of 2 stations between Bedok South and Sungei Bedok MRT. It was expected to be completed in 2024, in tandem with the adjacent East Coast Integrated Depot. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this station is now expected to commence passenger service in 2025 instead.

While serving as the future eastern terminus of the Downtown line, it will also serve as the eastern terminus of the Thomson–East Coast line until 2040, which will be extended to Changi Airport Terminal 5 and existing Changi Airport stations, before terminating at Tanah Merah.

According to the Land Transport Master Plan 2040, "Travelling to the airport will eventually be easier with the Thomson-East Coast Line Extension (TELe) from the new Sungei Bedok Station to Changi Airport. Passing through the future Terminal 5, this new link will also connect to the stretch between Tanah Merah and Changi Airport on the East-West Line, which will be converted to form part of the TELe. Beyond providing a direct rail connection from Changi Airport to the city, it will also seamlessly link Changi Airport to stations along the TEL up to Woodlands North, where commuters may be able to transfer to the future Singapore-Johor Bahru Rapid Transit System Link."

Contract T312 for the design and construction of Sungei Bedok Station and associated tunnels was awarded to KTC Civil Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd at a sum of S$418 million in June 2016. Construction began in 2016.

References

External links

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2025


title: Odisha Mining Corporation

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Odisha Mining Corporation Limited or OMC  is a Gold Category Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) established on 16 May 1956 as a joint venture company between Government of Odisha and Government of India to explore and harness mineral wealth of Odisha and make value addition. Odisha Mining Corporation is managed by a board of directors consisting of Government Directors and Independent Directors. The day-to-day management of the corporation is looked after by the chairman and the managing director as authorized by the board of directors.

History
1956: Odisha Mining Corporation Limited (OMC) was born on 16 May 1956 as a joint venture company of Government of Odisha and Government of India to explore and harness mineral wealth of the State of Odisha and make value addition.
1961: Subsequently, on 17 November 1961, OMC became a wholly State-owned Corporation of Government of Odisha.
2003: ISO 9001:2000 Certification
2005: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Package as a Management Tool implemented for which Odisha Mining Corporation received Golden Peacock Award in 2006-07
2007: ISO 14001:2004 Certification
2012: The Odisha Mining Corporation Limited has been classified as a "Gold Category" State Public Sector Undertaking (PSU).

References

External links
 Official Website of Odisha Mining Corporation

Mining in Odisha
State agencies of Odisha
Companies based in Bhubaneswar
Mining companies of India
1956 establishments in Orissa
Government agencies established in 1956
Indian companies established in 1956


title: Xilin MRT station

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Xilin MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown line in Tampines planning area, Singapore. Taking its name from Xilin Avenue which passes overhead, Xilin station serves industries around Changi South, as well as the nearby Tanah Merah Country Club. The station is located at the junction of Xilin Avenue, Changi South Avenue 3 and Laguna Golf Green.

History
The extension to the Downtown MRT line was first announced during the revealing of the Land Transport Master Plan 2013 on 17 January 2013. The line will be extended to what was known as the Eastern Region line (presently the Thomson–East Coast MRT line) by 2025, so as to enhance the accessibility between the two rail lines and allow commuters to conveniently make transfers.

This station was first announced on 15 August 2014 as part of the Downtown line stage 3e, consisting of 2 stations between Xilin and Sungei Bedok, and is expected to be completed in 2024, in tandem with the adjacent East Coast Integrated Depot.

Contract T313 for the design and construction of Xilin Station and associated tunnels was awarded to Samsung C&T Corporation at a sum of S$834 million on 21 March 2016. Construction started in 2016, with completion in 2025.

To facilitate the construction for the Downtown line 3 Extension Xilin station and tunnels, part of Changi South Avenue 3 between Xilin Avenue and Changi South Avenue 2 will be temporarily closed to traffic from 31 January 2017 until the end of construction in 2025.

References

Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2025


title: Julian Edwin Bailes Sr.

text:
Julian Edwin Bailes Sr. (January 1915 – February 1, 2010) was an American judge. He served on Louisiana's 10th Judicial District Court from 1960 to 1972. He was reportedly the last living witness to the assassination of Huey Long.

Early life
Bailes was born in Longview, Texas in January of 1915 to Ethel (née Ballard) Larry Thaddeus Bailes Sr., who owned a timber business in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bailes graduated from Natchitoches High School, Louisiana State Normal College (now Northwestern State University) and Louisiana State University School of Law in Baton Rouge, LA in 1937.

While attending the Louisiana State University School of Law, Bailes worked part-time as an elevator operator at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. He was on-duty there and present on September 8, 1935 when Carl Weiss gunned down Huey Pierce Long Jr, a United States Senator and former Louisiana governor.

Military service
After admission to the Louisiana State Bar, Bailes set up his law practice in Natchitoches, LA in 1937. He married Georgia Gretchen Butler in September 1938, who died in childbirth the following year. In 1942, Bailes joined the U.S. Army and commanded a rifle company in the 255th Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, Seventh United States Army at the Battle of Bulge and was twice-wounded in action. After the war, Bailes returned to his private law practice in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and re-married in 1946 to Nell Sandefur.

Judicial tenure

In 1948, Bailes ran as a Democrat and won the election for Natchitoches City Judge. He was reelected in 1954. In 1960, Bailes was elected to Louisiana’s 10th Judicial District and re-elected until his retirement from the bench in 1972 after which the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Bailes to senior service on the Louisiana Courts of Appeal (1st Circuit, 3rd Circuit, and 4th Circuit), and the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Notable Court Cases

Gorman v. Swaggert.
Televangelist Marvin Gorman brought a defamation suit in 1987 in Louisiana District Court against fellow TV preacher, Jimmy Swaggart. In In his book, “Let Us Pray,” which recounts the trial over which Bailes presided, author Hunter Lundy wrote of Bailes that “he was not susceptible to political pressure from anyone.”

After a ten week trial, the jury, composed of ten women and two men, deliberated the evidence and Judge Bailes instructions for twenty-four hours before finding for Gorman and ordering Swaggert to pay him nine million dollars in damages, six hundred thousand dollars for defamation and four hundred thousand dollars for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Louisiana v. Perez.
Leander Perez Jr., the District Attorney for Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana and State District Judge Eugene V. Leon, Jr., of Plaquemines Parish, were indicted together by State Attorney General William Guste alleging the two men quashed a pending indictment against Perez by preemptively dismissing the grand jury. Perez faced four counts and a possible 12-year prison sentence. Perez' father was noted "Dixiecrat" segregationist and Plaquemines Parish political boss, Leander Perez.  The Louisiana State Supreme Court appointed Judge Bailes to preside over the case given the extraordinary legal and political implications.

Later life and death
Bailes had five children with his second wife. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church Episcopal Church and served as a Lay Reader, Vestryman, and Sunday School Superintendent. Bailes died in Shreveport, LA on February 1, 2010, at the age of 95, as a result of complications of a stroke. The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a resolution sponsored by Representative Rick Nowlin, recognizing the life of Judge Bailes and his contribution to the state of Louisiana.

References

1915 births
2010 deaths


title: 2014 Little League Softball World Series results

text:
The results of the 2014 Little League Softball World Series will be determined between August 6 and August 13, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. 10 teams were divided into two groups, both with five teams from the United States and international teams.

All times shown are US EDT.◄

2014 in softball
Little League Softball World Series
Softball in Oregon


title: GTWR

text:
GTWR may refer to:

 Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a defunct railway
 Gross trailer weight rating, of road vehicle trailers
 Geographical and Temporal Weighted Regression, a type of regression analysis

See also
 GTW (disambiguation)


title: Villafranca Station

text:
Villafranca Station (also known as VILSPA) was an ESTRACK satellite ground station in Spain,  north from the city of Madrid in a Villanueva de la Cañada, within the area of European Space Astronomy Centre.

Station currently operates 15m S-band antenna marked VIL-1 capable of automatic tracking, ranging, frequency and timing measurements, monitoring, control and two-way communications. Additional facilities provide tracking, telemetry, telecommand and radiometric measurements.

In 2014 VIL-1 was upgraded to use SARAS (Spanish acronym for Fast Acquisition of Satellites and Launchers) system allowing easier estimation of the beam direction increasing tracking precision and accuracy.

In 2012 first antenna of the Villafranca Station, built in 1974 and designated VIL-1, was passed to the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial and dedicated to the Cooperation through Education in Science and Astronomy Research (CESAR) project and currently is used as a radio telescope for educational purposes.

In 2017 VIL-1 has been transferred to European industry

References

External links

 ESA gallery of the Villafranca station
 SARAS video featuring images from upgraded Villafranca station, 2014

European Space Agency
ESTRACK facilities
Buildings and structures in the Community of Madrid
INTA facilities


title: Rodwell Makoto

text:
Rodwell Makoto (born 1987) is a Zimbabwean chess International Master.

He won the South African Open in 2012, and has featured for Zimbabwe in their Olympiad team. He became an International Master in 2013. With an Elo rating of 2403 in June 2015, Makoto became Zimbabwe's second highest rated International Master after Robert Gwaze, who was rated at 2422 at the time.

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021, where he was defeated by Vladislav Kovalev in the first round.

He won the CBZ Chess World Cup Qualifier to again qualify for the Chess World Cup 2023, where he was defeated by Nijat Abasov in the first round.

References

External links

Rodwell Makoto games at 365Chess

Zimbabwean chess players
Chess International Masters
Living people
Alumni of Prince Edward School
Chess Olympiad competitors
1987 births
Competitors at the 2019 African Games
African Games medalists in chess
African Games bronze medalists for Zimbabwe


title: Chris LaMartina

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Chris LaMartina is an American director, writer, and producer that works out of Baltimore, Maryland.

The youngest of three children, early childhood influences include the film Night of the Demons, the animated series The Real Ghostbusters and the stories of his grandmother in the oral tradition. He studied film at Towson University, during which time he filmed the 2007 movie Dead Teenagers.

He is known  for his motion pictures, WNUF Halloween Special (2013) and Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014). Since 2011, he has been working in marketing and advertising as a Creative Director as well as Director of Storytelling for several mid-Atlantic-based ad agencies.

Filmography
Dead Teenagers (2007)
Book of Lore (2007)
Grave Mistakes (2008)
President's Day (2010)
Lost Trailer Park: Never Coming Attractions (2010 - 2011, 9 episodes)
Yestermessenger (2011)
Witch's Brew (2013)
WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)
What Happens Next Will Scare You (2020)
Out There Halloween Mega Tape (aka WNUF Halloween Sequel) (2022)
 Amanda the Adventurer  (2023, full game)

References

External links

Living people
Writers from Baltimore
Film directors from Maryland
Horror film directors
Towson University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: First Homme

text:
First Homme is the second Korean EP released by K-POP group ZE:A. The album was released on June 2, 2014.

Background
On May 23, 2014 Star Empire Entertainment announced that ZE:A would have a comeback, after a ten-month hiatus, with their second EP. Following the announcement various teaser pictures were released.

Track list

References

External links
English Wikipedia
Music Daum Page

ZE:A albums
2014 EPs


title: J. J. Murphy (actor)

text:
James Joseph "J.J." Murphy (7 May 1928 – 8 August 2014) was a Northern Irish film and television actor. He was known for his roles in the films Cal (1984), Angela's Ashes (1999), Mickybo and Me (2004) and Dracula Untold (2014), as well as the Game of Thrones episode "The House of Black and White" (2015), but also known for his roles in theatre. He was also featured in The Sparticle Mystery with him being known as "The Keeper" in the final series.

Early life
Murphy trained with the Ulster Group Theatre School in 1948. Murphy also worked at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast for several years, alongside actors Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds.

Death
On 8 August 2014, Murphy died aged 86 in Belfast from natural causes, four days after filming an episode of season 5 of the HBO television series Game of Thrones, in which he portrayed Denys Mallister, a senior member of the Night's Watch and commander of the Shadow Tower, who was slated to be a recurring character in the series. Murphy was survived by his wife Mary, their two children Joseph and Jane, and his granddaughter Sarah-Jane.

Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff later announced, "We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended." The episode that Murphy appeared in, "The House of Black and White", was broadcast on 19 April 2015. Murphy's funeral took place in St Brigid's Church in Belfast on 14 August 2014, five days after his death.

References

External links

1928 births
2014 deaths
Male film actors from Northern Ireland
Male television actors from Northern Ireland
Male actors from Belfast
20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland
21st-century male actors from Northern Ireland
Male stage actors from Northern Ireland


title: 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship squads

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Players' ages as of the tournament's opening day (8 August 2014).

Group A

Angola
Head coach:  Manuel Silva

Greece
Head coach:  Dimitrios Papanikolaou

Philippines
Head coach:  Michael Ray Jarin

United States
Head coach:  Don Showalter

Group B

Australia
Head coach:

Canada
Head coach:

France
Head coach:

Japan
Head coach:

Group C

Italy
Head coach:
F Luigi Papa

Puerto Rico
Head coach:

Spain
Head coach:

United Arab Emirates
Head coach:

Group D

Argentina
Head coach:

China
Head coach:

Egypt
Head coach:

Serbia
Head coach:

References
Official site

Squads
FIBA


title: Safar Naeimi

text:
Safar Naeimi Raz (; born 1959) is an Iranian politician.

Naeimi was born in Raz, Ardabil. He was a member of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Astara. and vice chairman of Iran-Azerbaijan Friendship society. Naeimi  won with 24,062 (50.33%) votes.

Electoral history

References

People from Astara, Iran
People from Ardabil
Deputies of Astara, Iran
Living people
1959 births
Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Followers of Wilayat fraction members
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps colonels
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch alumni


title: Aglio Rosso di Nubia

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The Aglio Rosso di Nubia (Nubia Red Garlic), also known as Aglio di Paceco (Paceco Garlic) and Aglio di Trapani (Trapani Garlic), is a Sicilian variety of garlic, characterized by the intense purple color of the robes of its bulbils.  It is mainly cultivated in Nubia, a fraction of the comune of Paceco, in the Province of Trapani. In less extent, it is also cultivated in the neighboring municipalities of Trapani, Erice, Buseto Palizzolo, Valderice, Marsala and Salemi.

The cultivation takes place on dark, dry and loamy soils, in rotation with Paceco yellow melon (a local variety of melon also known as cartucciaro), vicia faba and durum, in order to avoid the over-exploitation and the subsequent impoverishment of the soils. The sowing takes place between December and January, while the harvest takes place in the months of May and June in the evening and at night, because the increased moisture of the leaves facilitates the braiding of the bulbs. For the same purpose, before harvest the inflorescence of the plant ( in local dialect) is removed.

It has a bulb consisting of an average of twelve cloves, with the outer tunics of white colour and the bulbil tunics of a bright red colour. Analysis carried out by the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Palermo showed that the Nubia red garlic has a content of allicin well above average. This gives it a particularly intense flavor.

It is listed as a traditional Italian food product (P.A.T.) by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies.

References

Garlic
Province of Trapani
Cuisine of Sicily


title: Dahomeyan Progressive Party

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The Dahomeyan Progressive Party (, PPD) was a short-lived political party in French Dahomey.

History
The party was established in 1958 as by the merger of the Republican Party of Dahomey led by Sourou-Migan Apithy and the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally led by Hubert Maga. It affiliated with the African Regroupment Party.

However, the party collapsed the following year due to internal disagreements over the future relationship with France. As a result, the two factions split back into the original parties. The following year they merged again, this time alongside the National Liberation Movement to form the Dahomeyan Unity Party.

References

Political parties established in 1958
Political parties disestablished in 1959
Defunct political parties in Benin
1958 establishments in French West Africa


title: PureGym

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PureGym Limited is a British chain of no frills health clubs based in the United Kingdom with multiple gyms around the world. The chain is headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with additional offices in London and Southampton.

It is Britain's largest gym chain by membership, with over 1,500,000 members registered to their gyms.

In May 2015, PureGym acquired all gyms from rival UK fitness chain LA Fitness, bringing the total number of gyms across the UK to 141. As of October 2022, PureGym had 327 gyms in the UK, with more than 1.5 million members, making it the largest operator of gyms across the United Kingdom.
PureGym operate gyms across 9 different countries and have over 500 locations worldwide, with the newest territory, UAE opened in 2022.

In 2019 an acquisition of Danish chain Fitness World was announced which added another approximately 200 centers to the portfolio. On May 23rd 2023 Fitness World completed its rebranding to PureGym.

Facilities
Most locations are open 24 hours a day and offer cardio equipment, fixed and free weights, and exercise classes, there are over 200 pieces of training equipment in most gyms. There are no swimming pools or saunas, which are found in more expensive gyms, however an affordable gym, such as JD gym which offers the same price does have a Sauna.

All PureGyms are monitored by real-time TV linked directly to security staff and emergency services. Most gyms also run weekly fire drills during off-peak hours.

Ownership and management
PureGym was privately owned by CCMP Capital and other investors. In 2014, rival The Gym Group attempted to take over PureGym, but abandoned the takeover after it was referred to the Competition and Markets Authority.

In May 2015, PureGym Ltd bought their UK rival LA Fitness for around £60 million to £80 million.

Humphrey Cobbold took over from Peter Roberts as the CEO. Roberts has, in turn, become the CFO, with Adam Bellamy continuing as the Non-Executive Director.

In November 2017 it was bought by Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners for £600 million.

In December 2019 PureGym agreed to buy Danish Fitness World, which also operated in Switzerland and Poland, for £350 million.

In February 2021 Humphrey Cobbold told the BBC that  "We are burning about £500,000 a day and that's the average over eight months of closure"

In 2019, PureGym acquired the Swiss basefit.ch. By the end of 2021, all of their facilities will have been renamed and redesigned

It has a 2-star accreditation from Best Companies and a BCI score of 696.6.

PureGym opened in Dubai in 2022. PureGym UAE is headed up by CEO Susan Turner, with operations being handled by John Foy.

References

External links

PureGym United Kingdom
PureGym Danmark
PureGym Swiss
PureGym Arabia, UAE
PureGum Arabia, KSA

Health clubs in the United Kingdom
Companies based in Leeds
British companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in England


title: Call Girl of Cthulhu

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Call Girl of Cthulhu is a 2014 independently made horror film from Midnight Crew Studios that was directed by Chris LaMartina and stars David Phillip Carollo, Melissa O'Brien, and Nicolette le Faye. The film was distributed by Camp Motion Pictures and had its world premiere on May 8, 2014 at the Maryland Film Festival.

An artist falls in love with a woman who ends up being the chosen bride of Cthulhu. The film is very loosely based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.

Call Girl of Cthulhu makes reference to LaMartina's WNUF Halloween Special via the Shining Trapeze Strip Club, which is featured in a commercial shown during the film.

Virgin artist Carter (David Phillip Carollo) wants desperately to lose his virginity, but only to the right person. He thinks he has found the right person in Riley (Melissa O'Brien), a call girl with a strange birthmark on her right buttock.

Carter's dreams of romance are soon ruined, as several Cthulhu-worshiping cultists of the Church of Starry Wisdom see this birthmark as a sign that Riley is destined to become the bride of Cthulhu and bear his child.

It is up to Carter, aided by Edna Curwen (Helenmary Ball) and Squid (Sabrina Taylor-Smith), to find a way (with the aid of a spell from the Necronomicon) to stop the cult from fulfilling their plan to mate Riley to the Great Old One.

In-jokes
The film contains numerous in-jokes referencing the names of Lovecraft stories and characters, including Deep Ones condoms and Cool Air aerosol.

Cast

David Phillip Carollo as Carter Wilcox
Melissa O'Brien as Riley Whatley
Nicolette le Faye as Erica Zann
Dave Gamble as Sebastian Suydum
Helenmary Ball	as Professor Edna Curwen
Sabrina Taylor-Smith as Squid
Alex Mendez as Rick 'The Dick' Pickman
Craig Peter Coletta as Wilbur
Elena Rose as Whitney
George Stover as Walter Delapore
Leanna Chamish as Detective Rita LaGrassi
Troy Jennings as Ashton Eibon
Stephanie Anders as Missy Katonixx
Ruby Larocca as Billie
Scarlett Storm as Georgia

Reception
Daily Dead gave Call Girl of Cthulhu a score of 3.5 (out of 5), stating that while the film was "not for everyone", it would appeal to "those of you Lovecraft (and horror) fans out there looking for something just a little bit outside the norm". Fangoria rated the film "three out of four skulls" and praised its acting.

References

External links

 Kickstarter page

2014 films
2014 horror films
Cthulhu Mythos films
2010s English-language films


title: Desiree Ellis

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Desiree Ellis  (born 14 March 1963) is a South African soccer manager and former player. She currently coaches the South Africa women's national team. She is a founding member of the Banyana Banyana and the second captain of the national team. She was awarded Confederation of African Football Women's Coach of the Year in 2018 after her team finished second place in the African Women Cup of Nations and qualifying for the Women's World Cup for the first time. During her club career she played as a midfielder for Spurs Ladies among other teams.She is honored to have won the African Women Cup of Nations in 2022 after South Africa's long run for a win in the finals.

In April 2023, Ellis was bestowed the National Order of Ikhamanga by the South African Government for her contributions to soccer.

Early life
Ellis grew up in Salt River in the 1970s. She stayed at her grandmother's place after school as both her parents, father Ernest, (d. 1989) and mother Natalie, worked during the day. There were no women's clubs back then and she played soccer with boys and her cousins. After school she would drop off her school bag, change her clothes and run outside to her waiting teammates. Her father often threatened to send her to school barefoot because she'd ruin her shoes while playing soccer.

Club career
Ellis eventually found another women's club,(Athlone Celtic was the first club she played for) Spurs Ladies while she still worked at a butchery in Lansdowne mixing spices. She once left town with the club over a weekend, promising her employers that she'd return in time for work but the vehicle the team was travelling in broke down on the way home, making her fail to arrive on time. Consequently, Ellis got fired.

International career
Ellis went for trials for the national team and passed and would feature in the team's first international match. She debuted against Swaziland at the age of 30 on 30 May 1993 in a 14–0 win. Ellis scored a hat-trick, as did two other players. During the 1995 World Cup qualifiers, South Africa beat Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola on aggregate, 10–1, 11–5 and 6–4 but lost to Nigeria 11–2. When South Africa hosted the 2000 African Women's Championship, she captained the side to a runner-up finish. In 2000, Ellis was nominated alongside Mercy Akide and Florence Omagbemi for African Woman Footballer of the Year. She was recognized for her services to soccer the same year when she received a Silver Presidential Sports Award. She also led Banyana Banyana to the 2002 COSAFA Cup victory. In her 32 caps for South Africa she won 23 matches, lost seven and drew two. She retired from soccer in April 2002 at the age of 38.

Coaching career
Ellis was appointed interim manager of the South Africa women's national football team in 2016 after Vera Pauw resigned following the team's group stage exit at the 2016 Olympics. Ellis was appointed head coach in February 2018 and coached the team, then ranked 50th in the world, to a second-place finish in the Africa Women Cup of Nations, losing to 11-time champions Nigeria on penalty kicks in the final; nonetheless, by finishing second, South Africa qualified to its first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 2019. She was awarded Confederation of African Football Women's Coach of the Year in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Ellis coached Banyana Banyana to their maiden Africa Cup of Nations victory in Morocco in 2022.
She made history with Banyana Banyana by beating Italy and making it to the final sixteen in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

Outside football

Administration
Ellis had many administration occupations during her playing career. She was the vice-president of Western Province Women's Football Association from 1994 to 1995 and later the PRO of the association from 1996 to 1997. She worked as a Chief Librarian at a photo agency, Touchline in 2001.

Media
Ellis can be seen on TV as a soccer commentator and a pundit on local television station e-TV. She was an ambassador for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. She also worked at Gallo Images as a picture editor.

Honours

Player
South Africa

COSAFA Women's Championship: 2002
 Women's Africa Cup of Nations runners-up: 2000

Individual
Mobil Achievement Award by WP Sportswriters: 1980
SAFA Women's Inter-provincials: 1986, 1989, 1992
Foschini Cape Woman Football Player of the Year: 1989, 1993
WP Player of the Year: 1983, 1993
Sanlam Sports Star of the Month (November): 2000
SAFA Special Recognition Gold Award: 2001
Presidential Sports Silver Award: 2001
Mandisa Shiceka Role Model Award by ANC Youth League: 2001

Manager
South Africa

 Women's Africa Cup of Nations: 2022, runners-up: 2018

 COSAFA Women's Championship: 2018, 2019, 2020
 Aisha Buhari Cup: 2021

Individual

 Sports Minster's Excellence Award: 2017
Confederation of African Football Women's Coach of the Year: 2018, 2019, 2022

References

Living people
1963 births
Women's association football midfielders
South African women's soccer players
South Africa women's international soccer players
South African expatriate women's soccer players
South Africa women's national soccer team managers
Soccer players from Cape Town
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup managers
South African soccer managers
Female association football managers
Recipients of the Order of Ikhamanga
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup managers


title: Orculella astirakiensis

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Orculella astirakiensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Orculidae.

Geographic distribution
O. astirakiensis is endemic to Greece, where it is only known from a small area in Irakleio, Crete.

See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

References

Orculella
Molluscs of Europe
Endemic fauna of Crete
Gastropods described in 2004


title: Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

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Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz (born October 26, 1970) is a Polish sociologist and the former Ambassador of Poland to Russia. She succeeded Wojciech Zajączkowski in the fall of 2014. She became the first woman ambassador of Poland in Moscow since the establishment of Polish–Russian relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 16th century. Pełczyńska-Nałęcz previously served as Undersecretary of State at the Polish Foreign Ministry.

Life
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz graduated from the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University in 1994. Then she worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences where in 1999 she defended her Ph.D. Later she became the deputy director at the Center for Eastern Studies and the head of its Russian Department.

In an interview to a Russian news agency, Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said the return of the wreck of the Polish presidential plane which crashed in 2010 would be "of symbolic significance for Poland".

Pełczyńska-Nałęcz speaks English and Russian. She is married and has three children.

References

1970 births
Living people
Ambassadors of Poland to Russia
Politicians from Warsaw
Polish women academics
University of Warsaw alumni
Polish women ambassadors
Academic staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences


title: Tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' singles

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These are the results for the girls' singles event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Xu Shilin of China won the gold medal, defeating Iryna Shymanovich of Belarus in the final, 6–3, 6–1.

Akvilė Paražinskaitė of Lithuania won the bronze medal, defeating Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine in the bronze medal match, 6–3, 7–5.

Seeds

Main draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main draw

Girl's singles


title: Dahomeyan Unity Party

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The Dahomeyan Unity Party (, PDU)  was a political party in the Republic of Dahomey.

History
The party was established on 13 November 1960 by the merger of the Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD) led by Sourou-Migan Apithy, the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) led by Hubert Maga and the National Liberation Movement (MLN) led by Jean Pliya and Albert Teveodjré. The PRD and the RDD had previously merged in 1958 to form the Dahomeyan Progressive Party, but had split the following year. Chabi Mama became the new party's secretary general.

Changes to the electoral system made by Maga allowed the PDU to win all 60 seats in the Dahomeyan parliamentary election, 1960. The following year, the main opposition party, the Dahomeyan Democratic Union, was banned and its leader Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin imprisoned. As a result, the PDU became the sole legal party in the country.

The party was dissolved on 13 November 1963 by Christophe Soglo after Hubert Maga was overthrown in a coup, and a new party, the Dahomeyan Democratic Party was formed by Apithy and Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin.

References

Political parties established in 1960
Political parties disestablished in 1963
Defunct political parties in Benin
Parties of one-party systems


title: Mark Kwok

text:
Mark Kwok may refer to:

 Mark Kwok (actor) (born 1963)
 Mark Kwok (swimmer) (born 1977)


title: Orculella creantirudis

text:
Orculella creantirudis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Orculidae.

Geographic distribution
O. creantirudis is endemic to Greece, where it occurs on the islands of Antikythera and Crete.

See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

References

Orculella
Molluscs of Europe
Endemic fauna of Greece
Gastropods described in 2004


The Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha Limited or IPICOL was incorporated on April 12, 1973 by the Government of Odisha to promote medium and large scale industries in the state by providing necessary support services including equity participation and long term financial assistance.

IPICOL has been designated as the State Level Nodal Agency (SLNA) under section 8 of Odisha Industries (Facilitation) Act, 2004 by Government of Odisha, Industries Department. Further, as per Industrial Policy Resolution (IPR), 2007 of Government of Odisha, IPICOL, as the SLNA has been further strengthened as Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) to function as an effective one stop shop for investors.

Key Activities
The main activity of IPCOL is to make Odisha an investment destination in the identified focus sectors. It also has to develop and maintain various apps, roadshows, events, exhibitions and print medias to bolster the investment scenario of the state.

Supporting Organizations
 Agricultural Promotion and Investment Corporation Of Odisha Limited
 Industrial Development Corporation of Odisha Limited
 Odisha Film Development Corporation
 Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation
 Odisha Small Industries Corporation
 Odisha State Financial Corporation

References

External links
 Official Website of Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha Limited (IPICOL)

Economy of Odisha
State agencies of Odisha
State industrial development corporations of India
1973 establishments in Orissa
Indian companies established in 1973


title: Saeid Aghaei

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Saeid Aghaei (; born 9 February 1995) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Persian Gulf Pro League

Club career

Gostaresh
He started his career with Gostaresh in 2012–13 Azadegan League and helped them to promote to Iran Pro League with scoring 3 times in 15 appearances.

Tractor
Aghaei started 2013–14 season with Gostaresh. After a few matches, he joined Tractor to spend conscription period.

Persepolis

On 1 September 2020, Aghaei signed a two-year contract with Persian Gulf Pro League champions Persepolis.

Club career statistics

International career

U17
He was part of Iran U–17 in 2010 AFC U-16 Championship.

U20
He was invited by Ali Dousti Mehr to preparation for 2014 AFC U-19 Championship.

Senior
Aghaei was called up to the senior Iran squad by Carlos Queiroz for friendlies against Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan in June 2016. He made his senior debut on 4 June 2017 against Montenegro. In May 2018, he was named in Iran's preliminary squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia but did not make the final 23.

Honours

Club
 Gostaresh Foolad
 Azadegan League (1): 2012–13

 Tractor
 Persian Gulf Pro League Runner up (1): 2014–15
 Hazfi Cup (1): 2013–14 ; Runner-up (1): 2016–17

 Persepolis
Persian Gulf Pro League (1): 2020–21
Iranian Super Cup (1): 2020 ; Runner-Up (1): 2021
AFC Champions League Runner-up (1): 2020

Individual
Persian Gulf Pro League Team of the Year (2) : 2015–16,  2016–17

References

External links

 Saeid Aghaei at IranLeague.ir

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Tabriz
Iranian men's footballers
Gostaresh Foulad F.C. players
Tractor S.C. players
Iran men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football wingers
Persepolis F.C. players
Foolad F.C. players


International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (ISDSI), based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is an educational institution offering experiential study abroad programs for students currently enrolled at universities and colleges in the United States.  ISDSI's semester-long programs immerse students in the cultures of Thailand by taking participants out of the traditional classroom and into the expedition field. During each course, students go on multi-day expeditions to various regions of Thailand and experience first-hand the cultures and ecologies of the country. Courses are hands-on while teaching students about sustainable development and its relationship to local communities.  Participants also spend the majority of time living in homestays and with locals.

Taking an approach to education that entails hands-on learning, cultural immersion and local engagement, has led to ISDSI's education model being the topic of journal articles and conference seminars.

Sending Schools include: Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Kalamazoo College, Calvin College and Wheaton College.

Risk Management
With students and staff undertaking multiple expeditions and spending a large portion of time in the wilderness, ISDSI emphasizes the importance of risk management, and creating steps to prevent injury while handling risky situations. ISDSI's risk management practices have been referenced by a variety of organizations and were presented at the 2004 Wilderness Risk Management Conference.

History
The International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (ISDSI) is based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and began as an initiative of the Center for International Programs at Kalamazoo College in 1999.   ISDSI was originally located on the campus of Chiang Mai University, but in 2004 ISDSI moved to its own location after gaining legal status as a Thai foundation.

Legal Status and Governance
In 2004, ISDSI was registered as a project under The Foundation for Experiential Learning in Thailand.  The foundation is governed by a board of directors that hold ISDSI's Executive Director accountable.  ISDSI is also registered as a 501C-3 Non-Profit in the United States.

References

External links
• ISDSI's Website
• "Sustainability Education, Experiential Learning, and Social Justice: Designing Community Based Courses in the Global South" by Mark A. Ritchie, Ph.D. (Executive Director, ISDSI)
• ISDSI's Risk Management Policy Presented at Wilderness Risk Management Conference
• Mentioned on the Cleanest Line Website

Educational organizations based in Thailand


title: Shanghai New Hongqiao High School

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Shanghai New Hongqiao High School ( "Shanghai Private New Hongqiao High School") is a private secondary school in Changning District, Shanghai, serving grades 6 through 12. The school has two departments: Chinese and International. The International Department hosts programs from Noble Hills Academy (NHA) and Vancouver Public Education Alliance (VPEA), accredited in the United States of America and Canada, respectively.

References

External links
 Shanghai New Hongqiao High School

Schools in Shanghai
Changning District