title: List of cemeteries in Windhoek

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A complete list of cemeteries in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia:

Historic cemeteries
 Leutwein Cemetery (1892–1904), situated between Robert Mugabe Avenue and Leutwein Street in Central Windhoek. Sometimes regarded as two different cemeteries with one piece left and one piece right of Mugabe Avenue. The burial place is named after Theodor Leutwein, colonial administrator of German South West Africa from 1894 to 1904.
 Gammams Cemetery (1904–1927) on the western side of Gammams River between today's suburbs of Hochland Park and Pioneers Park. The cemetery started as an informal burial ground for victims of the Herero Wars. Gammams Cemetery accommodates Namibia's only crematory.
 Old Location Cemetery (1927–1960), today a national monument named Old Location Cemetery Museum, in Hochland Road, Hochland Park. Contains the mass grave of people killed in the Old Location Uprising in December 1959.
 Veronica Street Cemetery in the Ludwigsdorf suburb
 Katutura Cemetery in Claudius Kandovazu Street, Katutura

Current cemeteries
 Old Location Cemetery (opened 1927), an extension to the Gammams cemetery on the eastern side of Gammams River. The name stems from Windhoek's former Old Location, a segregated reserve for Windhoek's non-white population. The cemetery itself became racially segregated in 1926. There is an Old Location Cemetery Museum and a mass grave for people killed in the Old Location Uprisings in December 1959. The mass grave was listed on the National Heritage Register in August 2004. The entire cemetery was provisionally proclaimed a national monument in 1987 but failed to be listed. The provisional proclamation expired 5 years later.
 Oponganda Cemetery (May 2001-) on Otjomuise Road in the Grysblock suburb, opposite Gammams Water Works. It is Katutura's largest cemetery,  4,500 adult graves and 6,900 graves of children.
 Khomasdal Cemetery (1965-) on the corner of Begonia Street and Roos Street in the suburb of Khomasdal.  no more new graves available at this cemetery; it accommodated 6,750 adult graves and 3,500 graves of children.
 Heroes' Acre, situated  south of Windhoek, is a burial ground for Namibian National Heroes and Heroines. The burial site consists of 174 tombs, not all of which are  occupied.

Future cemeteries
 Rocky Crest Cemetery in the suburb of Rocky Crest, opened in 2016
 a cemetery in the Goreangab suburb

References

Cemeteries
Windhoek
History of Windhoek
Cemeteries


title: Maj. John Hammond Fordham House

text:
Maj. John Hammond Fordham House is a historic home located in Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a 1½-story, Victorian frame cottage. It was the home of Maj. John Hammond Fordham, a prominent African-American citizen of Orangeburg.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Victorian architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1903
Houses in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina


title: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

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The men's double sculls competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place at Meilahti, Finland. The event was held from 20 July until 23 July.

Heats
First two rowers advanced directly to semi-finals. The others must compete in the repechage for remaining spots in the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Heat 4

First repechage
The winner in each heat qualified for the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Semi-finals
The winners in each heat qualified for the final, while the others must compete in the second repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 2

Second repechage
The winners in each heat qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Final

References

External links

Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics


title: Nord's 2nd constituency

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The 2nd constituency of Nord is a French legislative constituency in the Nord département.

Description

Nord's 2nd constituency covers the eastern portion of Lille including the suburbs of Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Lezennes and Ronchin.

Politically the seat was a bastion of the Socialist Party until 2017 and was for many years held by former President of the Nord General Council Bernard Derosier. It is also notable for being held for many years by Pierre Mauroy, the Prime Minister of France between 1981 and 1984, Mauroy was also the Mayor of Lille for 28 years.

Historic Representation

Election results

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Sources

 Official results of French elections from 2002: "Résultats électoraux officiels en France" (in French).

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title: Distance (Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards album)

text:
Distance is the fourth album by Dan Michaelson aka Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards. Released by London label The state51 Conspiracy in August 2014.

A video, directed by Edward Mantle, was created for the second single, Bones.

Track listing

References

2014 albums


title: Hodge Hall

text:
Hodge Hall is a historic academic building located on the campus of South Carolina State University at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1928 in the Palladian style.  It is a two-story, nine nay, brick building with a full basement, a flat roof and a parapet. The front facade features a flat-roofed portico with paired fluted columns and pilasters. The building has two large, modern brick rear additions.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located included in the South Carolina State College Historic District.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Palladian Revival architecture in the United States
School buildings completed in 1928
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Historic district contributing properties in South Carolina
South Carolina State University
1928 establishments in South Carolina


title: A Noble Spirit

text:
A Noble Spirit () is a 2014 Chinese biographical documentary film directed by Miao Yue and starring Ngawang Rinchen, Maggie Jiang and Chen Jin.

Cast
Ngawang Rinchen
Jiang Shuying
Chen Jin

References

2014 films
2010s biographical films
2014 documentary films
Biographical documentary films
Chinese biographical films
Chinese documentary films


title: OSCA (song)

text:
"OSCA" is a song by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was released as the band's fourth single on July 11, 2007, as one of the two singles before the band's third album Variety (2007). It was the first and only single released by the band that did not feature writing by vocalist Sheena, instead created by the band's second guitarist, Ukigumo.

Background and development

Vocalist Ringo Sheena originally debuted as a solo musician in 1998, however decided to become a member of a band instead for her main musical activities, and debuted Tokyo Jihen in 2004. After their debut album Kyōiku, two of the original members of the band made decisions to leave, and were replaced by pianist Ichiyo Izawa and guitarist Ukigumo. The new line-up released the single "Shuraba", a song used as the theme song for the drama Ōoku: Hana no Ran., and the band's second album, Adult (2006). Adult, while featuring lyrics entirely written by Sheena and the band collaborating to arrange the songs, also featured "Himitsu", which was arranged solely by Izawa, and "Tegami", which was composed by Izawa and arranged by Sheena.

In late 2006 and 2007, Sheena briefly resumed solo activities in collaboration with Neko Saito, on Heisei Fūzoku (2007), a soundtrack album for the Mika Ninagawa film Sakuran. The "OSCA" single was first announced on May 17, 2007.

The Variety project for the band involved the band members other than Sheena amassing demo tapes, and the band making careful selections. For the project, Sheena worked as a vocalist and a lyricist. After the band's tour for Adult, Domestic! Just Can't Help It, finished on May 30, 2006, Sheena requested band members Ukigumo and Ichiyo Izawa write songs for the band's next studio album. While Sheena is the primary songwriter for her solo career and for Tokyo Jihen's first two albums, she occasionally goes through periods of not being able to write music.

During the single's release schedule, the Toshiba stake of Tokyo Jihen's label Toshiba EMI was bought out by the EMI group. The label was renamed EMI Music Japan on June 30, 2007.

Writing and production

"OSCA" was written in spring/autumn 2006, by band guitarist Ukigumo. Unlike previous songs written by band members such as "Gunjō Biyori" or "Tōmei Ningen", the song did not have lyrical input by Sheena. Ukigumo wanted to pull out new sides of Sheena not seen before in her musical releases. The title stems from the Italian O.S.C.A. brand of sports cars, as Ukigumo, a big fan of cars, wanted a song titled after one. He was further inspired by the character Oscar François de Jarjayes from the 1970s manga Rose of Versailles, liking the dramatic image linked to the name Oscar. Ukigumo wrote the lyrics about a womanizer. Unlike "Oiran" from Sheena's Heisei Fūzoku or "Mirror-ball" from Variety, "OSCA" did not change much conceptually since Ukigumo wrote the song. Ukigumo also did not think that the sound would become a single, however it was popular with the other band members, who voted on which of the Variety songs would become singles.

While written for Tokyo Jihen, the song was originally performed by Ukigumo as a member of his band Petrolz. It appears on Petrolz' extended play Karimen, released in April 2007 at live events.
 The band continued to perform "OSCA", as well as "Mirror-ball", at live events even after Tokyo Jihen's disbandment in 2012.

The Variety sessions was in pre-production while Sheena was promoting Heisei Fūzoku in February 2007. She felt that the recording session reminded her of recording her debut album Muzai Moratorium (1998), in that she was free from considering the commercial music market when producing the songs.

The two B-sides are both Izawa compositions, chosen from a collection of his demos. "Kaban no Nakami" was written after the band finished their Domestic! Just Can't Help It. tour in mid 2006, while "Pinocchio" was recorded in the last half of that year. "Pinocchio" was written and composed entirely by Izawa, while "Kaban no Nakami" featured lyrics written by Sheena, translated into English by Robbie Clark.

The single is stylistically similar to their next single "Killer-tune", released a month later. "OSCA" features an A-side written by Ukigumo and two Izawa compositions, while "Killer-tune" was written by Izawa and featured two Ukigumo compisitons as B-sides. In both cases, the final track is a song where Sheena collaborated with Robbie Clark to create a song with English lyrics. Neither release featured a cover song, unlike Tokyo Jihen's first three singles. The official English title for the song was stylised differently as "O.S.C.A.", a style also found on the Petrolz extended play Karimen. The B-side "Kaban no Nakami" was given an entirely new title unrelated to the original title, "Crosswalk".

According to the musical score of "OSCA", it is written in the key of E major in common time with a tempo of 130 beats per minute. The track follows the chord progression of E7–A7 in the introduction, which changes to A7–C7–D7–C7–F7 at the end of the second verse.

Promotion and release

The band appeared in magazines Musica, Rockin' On Japan, Oricon Style, Barfout! and GyaO Magazine to promote the release, as well as having special features on websites such as MSN Music, Listenjapan, What's In? Web, Excite, Yahoo! and Amazon.co.jp. The song was performed during the band's Spa & Treatment (2007), Ultra C (2010), Discovery (2011) and Bon Voyage (2012) tours, with the band also performing the song during their festival/event performances at the Rising Sun Rock Festival (2008), Society of the Citizens Vol. 2 (2008), Countdown Japan (2009), EMI Rocks (2010) and the Terebi Asahi Dream Music Festival (2011). Additionally, the two B-sides "Pinnochio" and "Kaban no Nakami" were performed during the Spa & Treatment tour, with "Pinocchio" also making the set-list for the band's Rising Sun Rock Festival performance.

Soon after the release of the single, the band began promotions for "Killer-tune", which was released as a single a month after, and the Variety album, which was released on September 26, 2007.

Music video

A music video was first unveiled on June 18, 2007. It was directed by Yuichi Kodama, the first time Sheena or the band has worked with him, and also featured a collaboration with dance troupe Idevian Crew. The video focuses on four female dancers, as well as the members of Tokyo Jihen in police uniforms. Sheena sings the song into a megaphone, while wearing a white dress and occasionally a police-style peaked cap. The video was nominated for the Best Video of the Year award at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, however lost to Exile's "I Believe".

Three edits of the video exist. In addition to the original version, a version centring on the band, as well as a version centred on Idevian Crew dancers exist. These three versions were compiled on the Senkō Shōjo music video DVD, released on November 21, 2007.

Critical reception

Kiyohiko Koike for Listenmusic felt the song was an "aggressive number erupting all the band member's fervour" created by aspects such as the "quick beat, growling bass line and Ringo's freaky passionate voice". He felt the song was not a song you could call a single feeling it had an "eccentric spirit of adventure", but praised Sheena being used as a resource by her bandmates in the production of a song, and felt that the "mental aspects" of the band had evolved. Hot Express reviewer Tetsuo Hiraga praised Sheena's "charming" vocals in the song, and felt as if the song were exploding from every direction. He believed that this "broken" Sheena had not been seen in her previous works before. CDJournal reviewers noted the song's structure, describing it as "developing into a constantly changing song, as if many songs were in a single song." Reviewer Naoko Saito was very positive on the song, praising the "exploding tricky band sound", calling the song "full of thrills and excitement, like looking at something you shouldn't be". What's In? reviewers called the song a "wild rock tune", noting its "bewildering structure".

What's In? reviewers noted how varied the musical styles of the three songs on the single were. Of the B-sides, reviewers praised the sentimentality in "Pinocchio", with Hiraga likening it to "Gamble" from Sheena's soundtrack album Heisei Fūzoku (2007). CDJournal reviewers praised the mix of "a self-backed piano style with a country taste" in the song. Saito felt that "Kaban no Nakami" had a "slightly '60s taste", while CDJournal called "Kaban no Nakami" an "old taste pop tune," and a honky-tonk piano and guitar song "as if [Sheena] were performing it in the corner of a southern US bar", and praised Sheena's lyrics as "cute".

Track listing

Personnel

Personnel details were sourced from "OSCA"'s liner notes booklet.

Toshiki Hata – drums
Daisuke Iga – styling
Uni Inoue – recording, mixing
Ichiyo Izawa – keyboards
Seiji Kameda – bass
Yutaka Kimura – advertisements, design

Ringo Sheena – vocals
Miyamoto Shigeo – mastering
Takashi Saito – assistant engineer
Shoji Uchida – photography
Ukigumo – guitar

Chart rankings

Sales

Release history

References

2007 songs
2007 singles
Japanese-language songs
Tokyo Jihen songs
Music videos directed by Yuichi Kodama


title: Lowman Hall, South Carolina State College

text:
Lowman Hall is a historic academic building located on the campus of South Carolina State University at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1917, and is a three-story, hip roofed, brick building, with projecting end pavilions. The front façade features a one-story, tetrastyle Ionic order portico.  It was originally used as a men's dormitory.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is part of the South Carolina State College Historic District.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1917
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Historic district contributing properties in South Carolina
1917 establishments in South Carolina


title: Than Nyein

text:
Than Nyein (; 5 August 1937 – 21 May 2014) was a Burmese politician and physician. He was one of the founders of the National Democratic Force (NDF) party, after working for the National League for Democracy (NLD) since its inception in 1988.

Early life and career
Than Nyein was born in Khanaung east village, Kyauktan Township in British Burma on 5 August 1937.

He graduated from Institute of Medicine, Yangon in 1963 after passing high school in 1954. He worked for the Ministry of Health as a leader in the leprosy prevention group and as a township medical officer. He also served for the United Nations in Sri Lanka from 1984 to 1986.

Political imprisonment
He was forced to retire from government posts for his involvement in the 8888 uprising. He was arrested following an attempt by the National League for Democracy (NLD) to hold a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD youth in Mayangone Township in Yangon. His medical licence was revoked and sentenced to 7 years in prison for participating in youth organization activities in October 1997. He was released in 2008 after his prison term was repeatedly extended by the military regime.

Political career
He joined the National League for Democracy since its founding of the party. He was elected as a Hluttaw member for Kyauktan Township in the 1990 election. He served in various positions in the NLD and became a member of its Central Executive Committee in 2009. He disagreed with party secretary general Aung San Suu Kyi and advocated for major political decision that not to boycott 2010 elections.

He, together with Khin Maung Swe founded National Democratic Force Party in June 2010. He did not run for election and only four candidates from the NDF were elected as Hluttaw members in the 2010 election.

He was the brother-in-law of Khin Nyunt, then chief of military intelligence and Prime Minister of Myanmar from 2003 to 2004.

Death
He died of liver cancer at the age of 76 at Pinlon Hospital of Yangon on 21 May 2014.

References

Burmese politicians
1937 births
2014 deaths
Burmese prisoners and detainees
People from Yangon Region
Prisoners and detainees of Myanmar
Burmese democracy activists
University of Medicine 1, Yangon alumni
Deaths from liver cancer
Deaths from cancer in Myanmar


title: All the Moron's Men

text:
All the Moron's Men () is a 1999 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Costella.

The movie's title is a parody of All the President's Men (Tutti gli uomini del presidente in Italian).

Cast

Soundtrack

References

External links

1999 films
Italian comedy films
1999 comedy films
1990s Italian-language films
1990s Italian films


title: Rheineck railway station

text:
Rheineck railway station () is a railway station that serves the municipality of Rheineck, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The station is located on the eastern edge of Rheineck village centre, with the A1 motorway, the Alter Rhein river channel and then the border with Austria flanking the opposite side of the station.

The station is an intermediate stop on the St. Margrethen–Rorschach railway line, and is the lower terminus of the Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway. It is served by St. Gallen S-Bahn services S2, S4, and S5, which link Rheineck to the city of St. Gallen and other local towns, and by service S26, which shuttles up to Walzenhausen. The S2, S4, and S5 each run hourly, providing three trains per hour to and from St. Gallen, whilst the S26 operates one or two return journeys per hour, depending on the time of day.

Rheineck is also the easterly end of the Swiss shipping services on Lake Constance, and the town's landing stages are located on the Alter Rhein channel. The landing stages are linked to the station by a pedestrian subway under the A1 motorway. Local bus services operate from a bus station adjacent to the station building.

The station has two side platforms, on either side of the twin track main line. The station building abuts the western platform, and is linked to the eastern platform by a pedestrian subway. The Rheineck–Walzenhausen line starts from its own platform, which is actually located on the western mainline platform.

Gallery

References

External links

Railway stations in the canton of St. Gallen
Swiss Federal Railways stations


title: Dixie Library Building

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Dixie Library Building is a historic library building located at Orangeburg in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a one-story, frame Classical Revival style building. It has a small rear addition, a pedimented and low-pitched gable roof, and colonnade of Tuscan order piers. The building was moved in 1912 and 1955.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Library buildings completed in 1850
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina


title: The Predictor Paul

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The Predictor Paul () is a 2014 Chinese animated comedy fantasy romance film directed by Shi Yang and starring Hao Xianghai, Zhang Wei and Xu Jing.

Cast
Hao Xianghai
Zhang Wei
Xu Jing

References

2014 films
2014 romantic comedy films
2014 fantasy films
2014 animated films
Animated romance films
Chinese animated fantasy films
Chinese animated comedy films


title: Dukes Gymnasium

text:
Dukes Gymnasium is a historic gymnasium located on the campus of South Carolina State University at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1931, and is a two-story, brick building with a full basement and a gable on hip roof. The front façade features a five-bay brick arcade. It is the home venue for the South Carolina State Bulldogs women's volleyball team. Intramural Men's  Basketball Scoring Record is held by Antonio D. Coleman (Spring 2002).  Coleman scored 63 points in the semifinals overtime lost to SC/GA Connect. The game ended on a last second buzzer beater three pointer from Kevin Mack.  The game has been heralded as one of the greatest games to be played Dukes Gymnasium ever.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
College basketball venues in the United States
College volleyball venues in the United States
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1931
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
South Carolina State Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs


title: Nathan Davis (traveller)

text:
Nathan Davis (1812–1882) was a British archaeologist known for his work on the site of Carthage. He published Carthage and her remains (1861).

Early life and background
Suggestions that Davis was an American are not now accepted. He was British, born in London of Jewish background, and later became a Christian convert.

Missionary work
By his late 20s Davis was working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews (LSPCJ). The association with the Society eventually damaged his reputation, according to Moses Margoliouth. Davis chose to side with Margoliouth and Alexander M'Caul in his approach to missionary work, rather than with the alternative views of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Stanislaus Hoga.

Davis spent a number of years in Northern Africa, at Tunis, as missionary to the Jews. From 1838 to 1843 he was there for the LSPCJ. He lived first at Douar el Chott (Dawwar ash Shatt) near Tunis. In his Voice from North Africa (1844), Davis attacked some British supposed philo-Semites, and that cost him his position with the LSPCJ.

In 1844 Davis travelled to Scotland, returning to Tunis as a missionary for the Church of Scotland. He held that position to 1848. He was struggling with the work, however, and having caused offence to the local Jewish community was transferred to missionary work in Gibraltar, in 1849. That mission was closed in 1850, and Davis was moved back to London.

In 1852 Davis, still employed by the Church of Scotland as a missionary to London Jews, edited the Hebrew Christian Magazine. He became a nonconformist Christian minister.

Work for the British Museum

From 1856 to 1858 Davis was engaged on behalf of the British Museum in excavations at Carthage and Utica. When Jane Franklin stayed with the Davises in 1858, they were living in Gammarth. The visit overlapped a period during which Gustave Flaubert called socially.

With the backing of Anthony Panizzi, Davis had received British Foreign Office support for his dig, an unusual arrangement.  Archaeological work had already been done at Carthage by the Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe, and the British consul Thomas Reade. Cases from Davis arrived at the museum in 1857; there were 51 cases received in 1858, and more in 1860.

The major antiquities discovered were Roman mosaic pavements, and Phœnician inscriptions. Augustus Wollaston Franks was writing on the finds by 1859. The inscription were worked on by William Sandys Wright Vaux with Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch, a book Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character (1863) by Vaux offering translation into Latin with transcription into the Hebrew alphabet. This transliteration then became standard.

Last years
Shortly before his death Davis revisited Tunis. He died in Florence on 6 January 1882 of congestion of the lungs.

Works
Davis wrote:

 Tunis, or Selections from a Journal during a Residence in that Regency, Malta, 1841.
 A Voice from North Africa, or a Narrative illustrative of the … Manners of the Inhabitants of that Part of the World, Edinburgh [1844?]; another ed., dated 1844, Edinburgh.
 Israel's true Emancipator, two letters to Nathan Marcus Adler, London, 1852. Under the pseudonym "E. H. C. M." (i.e. Editor of the Hebrew Christian Magazine).
 With Benjamin Davidson, Arabic Reading Lessons, London [1854].
 Evenings in my Tent, or Wanderings in Balad, Ejjareed, illustrating the … Conditions of various Arab Tribes of the African Sahara, 2 vols., London, 1854.
 Carthage and her Remains, London, 1861.
 Ruined Cities within Numidian and Carthaginian Territories, London, 1862.

Notes

Attribution

References

1812 births
1882 deaths
British Jews
British travel writers
Converts to Anglicanism from Judaism


title: Kamakshi Devi Temple, Pratapgarh

text:
Kamakshi Devi Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to mother goddess Kamakshi, a form of Shakti. It is located in the village  Kamasin in Pratapgarh district of the North Indian state Uttar Pradesh.

See also
Nandmahar Dham
Mata Mawai Dham
Durgan Dham Temple

References

Shakti temples
Hindu temples in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh


title: DOME project

text:
DOME is a Dutch government-funded project between IBM and ASTRON in form of a public-private-partnership focussing on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest planned radio telescope. SKA will be built in Australia and South Africa. The DOME project objective is technology roadmap development that applies both to SKA and IBM. The 5-year project was started in 2012 and is co-funded by the Dutch government and IBM Research in Zürich, Switzerland and ASTRON in the Netherlands. The project ended officially on 30 September 2017.

The DOME project is focusing on three areas of computing, green computing, data and streaming and nano-photonics and partitioned into seven research projects.
 P1 Algorithms & Machines – As traditional computing scaling have essentially hit a wall, a new set of methodologies and principles is needed for the design of future large-scale computers. This will be an umbrella project for the other six.
 P2 Access Patterns – When faced with storing petabytes of data per day, new thinking of data storage tiering and storage medium must be developed.
 P3 Nano Photonics – Fiber optic communication over long distances and between systems is nothing new, but there is a lot to do for optic communications within computer systems and within the telescopes themselves.
 P4 Microservers – New demands on higher computing density, higher performance per Watt, and reduced complexity of systems suggests a new kind of custom designed server
 P5 Accelerators – With the flattening of general computing performance, special architectures for addressing next level of performance will be investigated for specialized tasks like signal processing and analysis.
 P6 Compressive Sampling – Fundamental research into tailored signal processing and machine learning algorithms for the capture, processing, and analysis of the radio astronomy data. Compressive sensing, algebraic systems, machine learning and pattern recognition are focus areas.
 P7 Real-Time Communication – Reduce the latency caused by redundant network operations at very large scale systems and optimize the utility of the communications bandwidth so that the correct data gets to the correct processing unit in real time.

P1 Algorithms & Machines
The design of computers has changed dramatically in the last decades but the old paradigms still reign. Current designs stem from single computers working on small data sets in one location. SKA will face a completely different landscape, working on an extremely large data set, collected on myriad of geographically separated locations using tens of thousands of separate computers in real time. The fundamental principles for designing such a machine will have to be reexamined. Parameters concerning power envelope, accelerator technologies, workload distribution, memory size, CPU architecture, node intercommunications, must be investigated to draw new baseline to design from. The tools that result from this project are being open-sourced early 2018.

This fundamental research will work as the umbrella for the other six focus areas, help making proper decisions regarding architectural directions.

A first step will be a retrospective analysis of the design of the LOFAR and MeerKAT telescopes and development of a design tool to use when designing very large and distributed computers.

P2 Access Patterns
This project will focus on the very large amount of data the DOME must handle. SKA will generates petabytes of data daily and this must be handled differently according to urgency and geographical location whether its near the telescope arrays or in the datacenters. A complex tiered solution must be devised using a lot of technologies that currently is beyond the state of the art. Driving forces behind the designs will be lowest possible cost, accessibility and energy efficiency.

This multi-tier approach will combine several different kinds of software technologies to analyze, sift, distribute, store and retrieve data on hardware ranging from traditional storage media like magnetic tape and hard drives to newly developed technologies like phase-change memory. The suitability of different storage media heavily depends on the usage patterns when writing and reading data, and these patterns will change over time, so there must also be room for changes to the designs.

P3 Nano Photonics
Transport of data is a major factor, influencing design on the largest scales to the smallest of DOME. The cost of communicating electrically on copper wires will drive the application of low-power photonic interconnects, from connections between collecting antennas and datacenters to connecting devices inside the computers. Both IBM and ASTRON have advanced research programs into nano photonics, beamforming and optical links and they will combine their efforts for the new designs.

This research project is divided into four R&D sections, investigating digital optical interconnects, analog optical interconnects and analog optical signal processing.
 Digital optical interconnect technology for astronomy signal processing boards.
 Analog optical interconnection technology for focal-plane array front-ends.
 Analog optical interconnection technology for photonic phased array receiver tiles.
 Analog optical interconnection and signal processing technology for photonic focal plane arrays.

In February 2013 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IBM and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland showed a 100 Gbit/s analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
In February 2014 at ISSCC, IBM and ASTRON demoed a 400 Gbit/s ADC.

P4 Microservers

In 2012 a team at IBM led by Ronald P. Luijten started pursuing a computational dense, and energy efficient 64-bit compute server design based on commodity components, running Linux. A system-on-chip (SoC) design where most necessary components would fit on a single chip would fit these goals best, and a definition of "microserver" emerged where essentially a complete motherboard (except RAM and boot flash) would fit on chip. ARM, x86 and Power ISA based solutions were investigated and a solution based on Freescale's Power ISA-based dual core P5020 / quad core P5040 processor came out on top.

Design

The resulting microserver is fit inside the same form factor as standard FB-DIMM socket. The SoC chip, about 20 GB of DRAM and a few control chips (such as the PSoC 3 from Cypress used for monitoring, debugging and booting) comprise a complete compute node with the physical dimensions of 133×55 mm. The card's pins are used for a SATA, five Gbit and two 10 Gbit Ethernet ports, one SD card interface, one USB 2 interface, and power.

The compute card operates within a 35 W power envelope with headroom up to 70 W. The idea is to fit about a hundred of these compute cards within a 19" rack 2U drawer together with network switchboards for external storage and communication. Cooling will be provided via the Aquasar hot water cooling solution pioneered by the SuperMUC supercomputer in Germany.

Future

In late 2013 a new SoC was chosen. Freescale's newer 12 core T4240 is significantly more powerful and operates within the same power envelope as the T5020. A new prototype micro server card was built and validated for the larger scale deployment in the full 2U drawer in early 2014. Later an 8-core ARMv8 board was developed using the LS2088A part from NXP (Formerly Freescale). At the end of 2017, IBM is licensing the technology to a startup who plans to take this to market by mid 2018.

P5 Accelerators
Traditional high performance processors hit a performance wall during the late 2000s when clock-speeds couldn't be increased anymore due to increasing power requirements. One of the solutions is to include hardware to off load the most common and/or compute intensive tasks to specialized hardware called accelerators. This research area will try to identify these areas and design algorithms and hardware to overcome the bottlenecks. There will probably be accelerators doing pattern detection, parsing, data lookup and signal processing. The hardware will be of two classes;  fixed accelerators for static tasks, or programmable accelerators for a family of tasks with similar characteristics. The project will also look att massively parallel computing using commodity graphics processors.

P6 Compressive Sampling
The compressive sampling project is fundamental research into signal processing in collabrotation with Delft University of Technology. In the context of radio astronomy capture, analysis and processing of signals is extremely compute intensive on enormous datasets. The goal is to do sampling and compression simultaneously and use machine learning to detect what to keep and what to throw away, preferably as close to the data collectors as possible. This project's goal is to develop compressive sampling algorithms to use in capturing the signal and to calibrate the patterns to keep, in an ever-increasing number of pattern clusters. The research will also tackle the problem of degraded pattern quality, outlier detection, object classification and image formation.

P7 Real-Time Communication
Moving data from the collectors to the process facilities are traditionally bogged down due to high latency I/O, low bandwidth connections and data is often multiplied along the way due to lack of purposeful design of the communication network. This research project will try to reduce latency to a minimum and design the I/O systems so data will be written directly into the processing engines on an exascale computer design. The first phase will identify system bottlenecks, and investigate Remote direct memory access (RDMA). The second phase will investigate using standard RDMA technology onto interconnect networking. Phase three includes development of functional prototypes.

References

Data processing
Public–private partnership
Square Kilometre Array


title: DOME MicroDataCenter

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A microDataCenter contains compute, storage, power, cooling and networking in a very small volume, sometimes also called a "DataCenter-in-a-box". The term has been used to describe various incarnations of this idea over the past 20 years. Late 2017 a very tightly integrated version was shown at SuperComputing conference 2017: the DOME microDataCenter. Key features are its hot-watercooling, fully solid-state and being built with commodity components and standards only.

DOME project
DOME is a Dutch government-funded project between IBM and ASTRON in form of a public–private partnership to develop technology roadmaps targeting the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest planned radio telescope. It will be built in Australia and South Africa during the late 2010s and early 2020s. One of the 7 DOME projects is MicroDataCenter (previously called Microservers) that are small, inexpensive and computationally efficient.

The goal for the MicroDataCenter is the capability to be used both near the SKA antennas to do early processing of the data, and inside much larger supercomputers that will do the big data analysis. These servers can be deployed in very large numbers and in environmentally extreme locations such as in deserts where the antennas will be located and not in only in cooled datacenters.

A common misconception is that microservers offer only low performance. This is caused by the first microservers being based on Atoms or early 32bit ARM cores. The aim of the DOME MicroDataCenter project is to deliver high performance at low cost and low power. A key characteristic of a MicroDataCenter is its packaging: very small form factor that allows short communication distances. This is based on using Microservers,  eliminating all unnecessary components by integrating as much as possible from the traditional compute server into a single SoC (Server on a chip). A microserver will not deliver the highest possible single-thread performance, instead, it offers an energy optimized design point at medium-high delivered performance. In 2015, several high performance SoCs start appearing on the market, late 2016 a wider choice is available, such as Qualcomms Hydra.

At server level, the 28 nm T4240 based microserver card offers twice the operations per Joule compared to an energy optimized 22 nm Finfet XEON-E3 1230Lv3 based server, while delivering 40% more aggregate performance. The comparison is at server board and not at chip level.

Design

In 2012 a team at IBM Research Zürich led by Ronald P. Luijten started pursuing a very computational dense, and energy efficient 64-bit computer design based on commodity components, running Linux. A system-on-chip (SoC) design where most necessary components would fit on a single chip would fit these goals best, and a definition of "microserver" emerged where essentially a complete motherboard (except RAM, boot flash and power conversion circuits) would fit on chip. ARM, x86 and Power ISA-based solutions were investigated and a solution based on Freescale's Power ISA-based dual core P5020 / quad core P5040 processor came out on top at the time of decision in 2012.

The concept is similar to IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers but the DOME microserver is designed around off the shelf components and will run standard operating systems and protocols, to keep development and component costs down.

The complete microserver is based on the same form factor as standard FB-DIMM socket. The idea is to fit 128 of these compute cards within a 19" rack 2U drawer together with network switchboards for external storage and communication. Cooling will be provided via the Aquasar hot water cooling solution pioneered by the SuperMUC supercomputer in Germany.

The designs of the first prototype was released to the DOME user community on July 3, 2014. The P5040 SoC chip, 16 GB of DRAM and a few control chips (such as the PSoC 3 from Cypress used for monitoring, debugging and booting) comprise a complete compute node with the physical dimensions of 133×55 mm. The card's pins are used for a SATA, five Gbit and two 10 Gbit Ethernet ports, one SD card interface, one USB 2 interface, and power. The compute card operates within a 35 W power envelope with headroom up to 70 W. The bill of materials is around $500 for the single prototype.

Late 2013 a new SoC was chosen for the second prototype. Freescale's newer 12 core / full 24 thread T4240 is significantly more powerful and operates within a comparable power envelope to the P5040 at 43W TDP. This new micro server card offers 24 GB DRAM, and be powered as well as cooled from the copper heatspreader. It is being built and validated for the larger scale deployment in the full 2U drawer in early 2017. To support native 10 GbE signalling, the DIMM connector was replaced with the SPD08 connector.

Late 2016, the production version of the T4240 based microserver card was completed. Using the same form factor and the same connector (and thus plug compatible) a second server prototype board based on the NXP (Formerly Freescale) LS2088A SoC (with 8 A72 ARMv8 cores) was completed around the same time.

History

The smallest form factor micro data center technology was pioneered by the DOME micro server team in Zurich. The computing consists of multiple Microservers and the networking consists of at least one Micro switch module. The first live demo of an 8-way prototype system based on P5040ZMS was performed at Supercomputing 2015 as part of the emerging technologies display, followed by a live demo at CeBIT in March 2016. 8 Way HPL was demonstrated at CeBIT, hence named 'LinPack-in-a-shoebox'.

In 2017 the team finished the production ready version that contains 64 T4240ZMS servers, two 10/40 GbE switches, storage, power and cooling in a 2U rack unit. The picture on lowest right shows the 32-way carrier (half of the 2U rack unit) populated with 24 T4240ZMS servers, 8 FPGA boards, switch, storage power and cooling.  This technology increases density 20-fold compared to traditionally packaged datacenter technology while delivering same aggregate performance. This is achieved by a new top-down design, minimizing component count, using an SoC instead of traditional CPU and dense packaging enabled by the use of hot-water cooling.

Future

A startup company - still in stealth mode - is in the process of obtaining a technology licence from IBM to bring the technology to market 1H 2018.

Unfortunately, the startup company was unable to obtain seed funding to start productization. This project, including all resources, has been mothballed and Ronald retired from the Zurich research lab. (August 2020)

References

Square Kilometre Array
Data processing
Public–private partnership


title: Anna M. M. Vetticad

text:
Anna Marie Mathew Vetticad is an Indian journalist, film critic, and cultural commentator. She has been in the field of journalism since 1994. Vetticad is known for her political critiques of Indian cinema and the Indian film industry. She is an advocate for women's empowerment and the representation of marginalised communities in popular entertainment.

Early life
Vetticad was born to Malayali parents in Delhi. She completed her schooling from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi.

Career
She has worked with India Today (1994–2002) and The Indian Express (2002–2005) before switching to television. She worked with Headlines Today till 2011. She lives in Delhi with her family. She also used to write columns in leading magazines and newspapers, including India Today, The New Indian Express, The Indian Express, and The Hindu. She was a visiting faculty of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi.

Vetticad is the author of the book The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic (2012), an overview of Indian society as seen through the prism of the Hindi film industry and presented through an account of a year in which she watched every single Hindi film released in India’s National Capital Region. The book features a Foreword by Ranbir Kapoor.

In 2016, she was the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in the Commentary and Interpretative Writing category for her monthly column "Film Fatale" in The Hindu Businessline.

References

External links

English-language writers from India
Year of birth missing (living people)
Malayali people
Indian film critics
Indian women journalists
Living people
Journalists from Delhi
Indian women film critics
Indian newspaper journalists
Women writers from Delhi
21st-century Indian journalists
21st-century Indian women writers


title: Nord 4.2016 to 4.2095

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Nord 4.2016 to 4.2095 were a class of 0-8-0T locomotives of the Chemin de fer du Nord.

History

The eighty locomotives were built from 1930 until 1933, and were used for shunting in yards and depots. The Nord numbered them  4.2016 to 4.2095; in 1938 they passed to the SNCF who renumbered them 2–040.TG.1 to 2–040.TG.80.

They were all scrapped between 1960 and 1967.

References

4.2014
0-8-0T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1930
Standard gauge locomotives of France
Corpet-Louvet locomotives
ANF locomotives
Shunting locomotives
Scrapped locomotives


title: Agneta Stark

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Agneta Stark (born 9 February 1946), is the vice chancellor of Dalarna University in Sweden and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2012 to 2013. She is also the vice chair of the Association of Swedish Higher Education.

The main areas of research that she covers are economic theory, accounting theory, and also, gender and economic change.

Education
Stark gained her economics degree from the Stockholm School of Economics, her LL. M. and her doctorate in business administration were from Stockholm University.

Honours
In 2004 Karlstad University awarded Agneta Stark an honorary doctorate.

Selected publications
  In Swedish as:

See also
 Feminist economics
 List of feminist economists

References

1946 births
Feminist economists
Living people
Macroeconomists
Stockholm School of Economics alumni
Stockholm University alumni
21st-century Swedish economists
Swedish women economists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Swedish women academics
Rectors of universities and colleges in Sweden
Women heads of universities and colleges
Presidents of the International Association for Feminist Economics


title: Mascot Label Group

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Mascot Label Group is an independently-owned record label. Founded in 1989 in The Netherlands under the name Mascot Records, the company was renamed Mascot-Provogue in 1999 and since 2010 has been known as the Mascot Label Group. The company is based in the Netherlands and has offices in New York, Cologne, Stockholm, Milan, Paris and London. It was distributed by ADA and Warner Music Group until 2022; it is now serviced by FUGA. Mascot Label Group is the parent company of six record labels: Mascot Records, Provogue Records, Music Theories Recordings, Cool Green Recordings, The Funk Garage, and The Players Club.

Mascot Label Group is also a label member of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).

Labels

 Mascot Records – a rock-focused label whose roster includes 10 Years, Black Stone Cherry, Black Label Society, Crobot, Dragged Under, Monster Truck, Otherwise, P.O.D., Shaman's Harvest, & VOLA, as well as newer acts such as The Georgia Thunderbolts, The Cold Stares, and Naked Gypsy Queens. Mascot gained attention for fostering the career of Volbeat, who have sold over 100,000 records in Europe. In June 2012, Mascot had its first number one rock album chart entry in the UK with Black Country Communion's self-titled album. Black Label Society's 2014 record "Catacombs Of The Black Vatican" charted in over 10 European countries. In 2016, "Kentucky", the first Black Stone Cherry release on Mascot Records charted in 10 European countries and the United States.
 Provogue Records – a blues / rock label featuring Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Gov’t Mule, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes, Robben Ford, Walter Trout, Eric Gales, Robert Cray, Kris Barras Band and more. Provogue Records found success growing the career of Joe Bonamassa who went from playing for 50 people in London in 2007 to selling out the Royal Albert Hall in 2009. Bonamassa has sold over 1,500,000 albums in Europe.
 Music Theories Recordings – is a progressive rock whose roster includes Ayreon, Memories of Machines, Flying Colors, Yngwie Malmsteen, and more. Music Theories is co-run with Michael Schmitz, one of the founders of prog label Inside Out.
 Cool Green Recordings – an alternative/indie label. Among the artists released on Cool Green Recordings are Australian desert rockers Tracer, Dutch alternative band De Staat, Crippled Black Phoenix, Masters Of Reality of Chris Goss (co-writer/producer Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age) and more. De Staat's album "O" entered the Dutch national charts at #3 and won best alternative band three times in a row at the 3FM Awards.
 The Funk Garage – a funk label for which Bootsy Collins plays a leading role in finding and shepherding projects. The roster currently includes Maceo Parker, Dumpstaphunk, and Candy Dulfer.
 The Players Club – a guitar-centric record label whose roster includes Toto and members Steve Lukather, David Paich and Joseph Williams, as well as Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert and Lee Ritenour.

Notable honors and awards

GRAMMY AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
2022, Eric Gales, 'Crown' – Best Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2021, Steve Cropper, 'Fire It Up' – Best Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2021, Joe Bonamassa, 'Royal Tea' – Best Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2019, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, ‘Brighter Days’ – Best Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2017, Sonny Landreth, ‘Live in Lafayette’ – Best Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2016, Joe Bonamassa, 'Live at the Greek Theatre' – Best Traditional Blues Album (nominated)
2013, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, ‘Seesaw’ – Best Blues Album (nominated)

BLUES MUSIC AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
2022, Eric Bibb, ‘Dear America’ – Acoustic Blues Album (WON)
2022, Eric Gales, Instrumentalist – Guitar (WON)
2021, Walter Trout, “All Out of Tears” – Song of the Year (WON)
2021, Walter Trout, ‘Ordinary Madness’ – Blues Rock Album of the Year (nominated)
2021, King Solomon Hicks, ‘Harlem’ – Best Emerging Artist Album (WON)
2020, Eric Gales – Blues Rock Artist of the Year (WON)
2019, Beth Hart – B.B King Entertainer of the Year (nominated)
2019, Beth Hart – Contemporary Blues Female Artist (nominated)
2019, Beth Hart – Instrumentalist – Vocals (nominated)
2019, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Blues Rock Artist (nominated)
2019, Eric Gales, Blue Rock Artist (nominated)
2018, Beth Hart – Instrumentalist – Vocals (WON)
2018, Beth Hart, ‘Fire on the Floor – Contemporary Blues Album of the Year (nominated)
2018, Beth Hart – Contemporary Blues Female Artist (nominated)
2018, Ronnie Baker Brooks – Contemporary Blues Male Artist (nominated)
2018, Walter Trout, ‘We’re All In This Together’ – Blues Rock Album of the Year (WON)
2017, Joe Bonamassa – B.B King Entertainer of the Year (WON)
2017, Joe Bonamassa – Instrumentalist – Guitar (WON)
2017, Walter Trout, ‘Alive in Amsterdam’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2016, Sonny Landreth – Instrumentalist – Guitar (WON)
2016, Sonny Landreth, ‘Bound by the Blues’ – Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2016, Beth Hart – Contemporary Blues Female Artist (nominated)
2016, Walter Trout, "Gonna Live Again" – Song of the Year (WON)
2016, Walter Trout, ‘Battle Scars’ – Rock Blues Album of the Year (WON)
2015, Joe Bonamassa – Instrumentalist – Guitar (WON)
2015, The Robert Cray Band, ‘In My Soul’ – Soul Blues Album (nominated)
2015, Beth Hart – Contemporary Blues Female Artist (nominated)
2015, Joe Bonamassa – Contemporary Blues Male Artist (nominated)
2015, Walter Trout, ‘The Blues Came Callin’’ – Rock Blues Album of the Year (nominated)
2014, Beth Hart – Contemporary Blues Female Artist (nominated)
2014, Walter Trout, ‘Luther’s Blues’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2013, Robert Cray – Contemporary Blues Male Artist (nominated)
2013, Joe Bonamassa – Gibson Guitar Award (nominated)
2013, Walter Trout, ‘Blues For the Modern Daze’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2012, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, ‘Don’t Explain’ – Contemporary Blues Album (nominated)
2011, Walter Trout, ‘Common Ground’’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)

BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARDS (US)
2022, Beth Hart – Vocalist (WON)
2022, Beth Hart – Female Blues Artist (WON)
2022, Beth Hart, 'A Tribute To Led Zeppelin' – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2022, Eric Gales, 'Crown' – Rock Blues Album (WON)
2022, Eric Gales – Male Blues Artist (nominated)
2022, Eric Gales – Electric Guitar (nominated)
2022, Eric Bibb, 'Dear America' – Acoustic Blues Album (nominated)
2022, Eric Bibb – Acoustic Guitar (nominated)
2022, Sonny Landreth – Slide Guitar (nominated)
2021, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 'Straight To You: Live' – Live Blues Album (WON)
2021, Walter Trout, 'Ordinary Madness' – Rock Blues Album (WON)
2021, George Benson, 'Live In London' – Live Blues Album (nominated)
2021, Gary Moore, 'How Blues Can You Get' – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2020, Beth Hart – Female Blues Artist (WON)
2020, King Solomon Hicks – Sean Costello Rising Star Award (nominated)
2019, Walter Trout, ‘Survivor Blues’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2019, Beth Hart, ‘Live At Royal Albert Hall’ – Live Blues Recording (nominated)
2018, Beth Hart – Female Blues Artist (WON)
2018, Walter Trout – Male Blues Artist (WON)
2018, Walter Trout, ‘We’re All In This Together’ – Rock Blues Album (WON)
2018, Sonny Landreth, ‘Live in Lafayette’ – Acoustic Blues Album (WON)
2017, Beth Hart – Female Blues Artist (WON)
2017, Quinn Sullivan – Sean Costello Rising Star Award (nominated)
2017, Walter Trout, ‘Alive in Amsterdam’ – Live Blues Recording (WON)
2016, Walter Trout, ‘Battle Scars’ – Rock Blues Album (WON)
2014, Beth Hart – Female Blues Artist (WON)
2013, Robert Cray, ‘Nothin But Love’ – Contemporary Blues Recording (nominated)
2013, Walter Trout, ‘Blues For the Modern Daze’ – Rock Blues Album (nominated)
2010, Joe Bonamassa – Male Blues Artist (nominated)

A2IM/LIBERA AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
2022 Eric Bibb, ‘Dear America’ – Best Blues Record (nominated)
2021 Sonny Landreth, ‘Blacktop Run’ – Best Blues Record (nominated)

References

External links
 Official Mascot Label Group Website

Music production companies
Music organisations based in the Netherlands
Indie rock record labels
Dutch independent record labels


South Carolina State College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of South Carolina State University at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object at the core of the historically black university. They were constructed between 1917 and 1950, and include a variety of architectural styles including Classical Revival and International Style.  Notable buildings include the separately listed Hodge Hall and Lowman Hall, along with Home Management House, Mechanical Industries Hall, and Wilkinson Hall.  Also on the campus, but located outside the district, is Dukes Gymnasium.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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African-American history of South Carolina
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina


title: Ugo Carrega

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Ugo Carrega (17 August 1935 – 7 October 2014) was an Italian artist and poet. Carrega was one of the main exponents of visual poetry, although he preferred the term "New Writing", an experimental form of writing that combines signs of different extraction. Carrega was active mainly in Milan, where he founded the cultural centers Centro Suolo (1969), Centro Tool (1971), Mercato del Sale (1974) and Euforia Costante (1993). He also founded and directed the art magazines Tool (1965), Bollettino Tool (1968), aaa (1969) and Bollettino da dentro (1972).

Life

Youth and studies
Ugo Carrega was born in Genoa, in the Pegli neighborhood, on 17 August 1935. His father was Lelio Carrega, naval officer, and his mother was Maria Teresa Repetti, housewife. Carrega studied at the religious high school managed by the Piarists in Cornigliano, and then in a few private schools, without achieving a diploma. In 1955, he was pushed by his parents to travel to London to learn the profession of shipping agent, and there he became proficient in the English language. The following year he returned to Italy and worked as a shipping agent, then since 1963 as a translator for various publishers. Since he was a child he wrote poems, and in 1952 he collected them under the title Verde la casa (Green the House). The second collection, from 1955, is titled Per il cielo di Fiandra (For the Sky of Flander). Initially Carrega's poetry was inspired by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Dino Campana, Ceccardo Roccatagliata Ceccardi and Camillo Sbarbaro, but after discovering James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings he started experimenting with new linguistic forms based on the broadening of the semantic extension of the word.

In 1958, Carrega started working with Martino Oberto, and it was through this collaboration that he began his activity as a verbo-visual artist. In 1963, he became editor of the magazine Ana eccetera, directed by Martino Oberto and his wife Anna Bontempi. In 1965, he published in the magazine the article Analisi grafica del linguaggio. Rapporto tra il poeta e il suo lavoro, a true theoretical program where he presented his ideas about art and poetry. From literary positions, Carrega proposed the foundation of a new language integrating the alphabetic script with graphical elements of a different nature. The cornerstone of the work of the verbo-visual artist is the written page intended as an "instrument-in-itself-of expression". The elements that form the page are the verbal element and the graphical one, which constitute respectively the "technical relationship" and the "essential relationship" that is tied to the energy of the organization of the written page.

Tool
On the basis of the experience of Ana eccetera, in 1965 Carrega founded the magazine Tool with Rodolfo Vitone, Lino Matti, Vincenzo Accame, Rolando Mignani, and Liliana Landi. Like Ana eccetera, Tool aims to extend the area of writing through an analysis and restructuring of languages, but in a more practical way. The magazine, whose name refers to the tool of the poet, is published in six mimeographed notebooks in which the use of the mimeograph is chosen to give immediate emphasis to the graphical signs. In Tool there will be a concrete elaboration of "symbiotic writing", a form of experimental poetry in which signs of different nature act in a harmonious way. Starting from the idea of the "Global Page", an ideal place where writing is enriched by expressions and graphical signs, Carrega defines "symbiotic writing" as a form of writing that visualizes not only an interaction, but a symbiosis between verbal and graphical signs.

In Tool, Carrega lists the six conceptual categories of graphical and verbal expression that freely combine in the space of the white page: phonetic element, prepositional element, lettering, graphics, shape, color. Carrega's work finds original combinations between words, the writing medium and the contamination with other con altri materials from which emerge innovative experiments such as: transparent papers, poemobiles, arronsignite papers, stone-cakes, sbrinciate, verbal permutators, etc. Since 1967 symbiotic writing is called “New Writing”, necessary "to extend the field of action to research spaces that have become more and more vast", but this new definition will become active only in 1974. The following year Carrega signed the manifesto of New Writing with Vincenzo Accame, Martino and Anna Oberto, Corrado D'Ottavi, Rolando Mignani, Liliana Landi, and Vincenzo Ferrari.

Cultural centers and other magazines
In 1966, Carrega moved to Milan, artistic junction of verbo-visual research. In 1969, he founded and directed the Centro Suolo (Soil Center), a center for research and sharing of advanced poetry, with Antonio Agriesti, Alfonso Galasso, Giustino Gasbarri, Tomaso Kemeny, and Raffaele Perrotta. The center, located in via Morgagni 35 in Milan, aimed to stimulate and promote poetic research through frequent exhibitions. At the Centro Suolo, Carrega organized the first international exhibition of "advanced poetry". The center closed down a few months later. In May 1970, Carrega's works were exhibited for the first time in the Arturo Schwarz gallery in Milan. Since that moment he abandoned his job of translator to work full-time on his art and the promotion of that of fellow visual artists. Since the end of the 1960s, he increased his activity of cultural promoter and exhibition organizer with the foundation of other cultural centers dedicated to verbo-visual research.

In April 1968, Carrega began publishing Bollettino Tool (Tool Bulletin), a new aperiodical magazine collecting news and examples of advanced poetry including works by Vincenzo Accame, Mirella Bentivoglio, Gianni Bertini, Henri Chopin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eugen Gomringer, Anselm Hollo, Emilio Isgrò, Marcello Landi, Ugo Locatelli, Arrigo Lora Totino, Stelio Maria Martini, Eugenio Miccini, Magdalo Mussio, Sarenco, Franco Vaccari, and Ben Vautier. From February to June 1969, Carrega and Mario Diacono published the magazine aaa. The magazine continued the work of Tool, publishing documents of visual, concrete and total poetry including contributions by Vincenzo Accame, Luciano Caruso, Carlfriedrich Claus, Hans Clavin, Davanzo & Gunzberg, Antonio Dias, Jean Françoise Dillon, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Stelio Maria Martini, Rolando Mignani, Jean Claude Moineau, Ito Motoyuki, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Joel Rabinowitz, Giose Rimanelli, Shohachiro Takahashi, and lastly Emilio Villa, who since the 1960s became a sort of "godfather" for Carrega.

In January 1971, Carrega founded a new exhibition space: the Centro Tool (Tool Center), located in via Borgonuovo 20 in Milan, that continued the research of Centro Suolo e di pubblicare con lo stesso nome le ricerche del centro stesso. The center continued its activities until January 1972, organizing 21 exhibitions of visual poetry. In February of the same year Carrega founded the magazine Bollettino da dentro (Bulletin from Inside), in which he collected reports about his works. In October, with help from Vincenzo Ferrari, he re-opened the Centro Tool, organizing enquiries and exhibitions. In June 1973 the center closed its activities with an exhibition-enquiry in three stages: Card from the Word, Bodies, and Moments. In the same year he created with Ferrari and Claudio Salocchi the Centro di ricerca non finalizzata (Non-finalized Research Center).

In April 1974, the artist opened a new gallery called “Mercato del Sale” (Salt Market), honoring Marcel Duchamp (who had been called Marchand du Sel by Robert Desnos in 1921), whose activity was dedicated to the concept of a New Writing (Nuova Scrittura). The gallery, first located in via Borgonuovo 20, was transferred to a new venue in via degli Orti 16 in 1980. Sono importantissime in particolare le mostre Raccolta italiana di Nuova Scrittura (1977) e SCRITTURA ATTIVA. Processi artistici di scrittura in dodici dimostrazioni ESpositive (1979–1980). In 1982 Carrega supported the "Artescrittura" writing a short manifesto signed by Vincenzo Ferrari, Luca Patella, and Magdalo Mussio. In 1986 he collaborated with Sarenco, Eugenio Miccini, Lamberto Pignotti, and Stelio Maria Martini to re-found visual poetry. In 1993 he founded the new center Euforia Costante (Constant Euphory), a name that homaged Marcel Duchamp. This new experience ended in 1994, after having hosted a few exhibitions including one about the work of Nanni Balestrini.

Archive of new writing
In 1988 Paolo Della Grazia, collector of works of the verbo-visual movements since the 1960s, founded the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura (Archive of New Writing, ANS) with the help of Carrega. The ANS continues the experience of the Mercato del Sale, being hosted in the same venue in via Orti 16. The ANS documentation center and library were subsequently expanded and currently constitute an exceptional body of knowledge about the national and international verbo-visual movements. The documentary heritage of the ANS is now part of the Archivio del '900 at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Most of the artworks are preserved at the Museion in Bolzano.

Publications
The list of publications is compiled from catalogue "Poesia visiva: 5 maestri" and book "Libri d'artista in Italia: 1960–1998", excluding one-off artist's books.

èini, mimeographed edition, Genoa, 1958
Relativiste sketches, Genoa, 1960
Rapporto tra il poeta e il suo lavoro, Genoa, Edizioni AE, 1965
Love never keeps still, Milan, 1967
Wordrips, Milan, 1967
Mikrokosmos, Milan, 1968
M(a)terie (m(a)terials), Milan, Schwarz, 1969Per il Karnhoval in Villa, Milan, 1969Poemi per azione, Rome, Lerici Editore, 1969Processo biologico, Milan, 1969Sequenza verbale su di una cosa, Milan, 1969Manifesto vetro, Stuttgart, Galerie Senatore, 1970Quasi per caso (Tavole di scrittura materica), Stuttgart, Galerie Senatore, 1970Teoria del segno grafico come cosa, Brescia, Amodulo, 1970The ness is the nest ce pas?, Milan, Schwarz, 1970Progetto numero dodici, Genoa, Galleria Pourquoi pas?, 1971Le 7 porte, Milan, 1972Una proposizione affermativa, Milan, Galleria Blu, 1972Intorno all'idea di soglia, Genoa, Masnata, 1973La frase meccanica, Milan, 1973Segni in uso, Seregno, 1973Attorno O Emme (e per analogia etc.), Milan, Mercato del Sale, 1974La Nuova Scrittura, Milan, Il Mercante d'Arte, 1974C'è il tempo, Milan, Mercato del Sale, 1975Marcel Duchamp: un nuovo mondo, Milan, Mercato del Sale, 1976La porta ap(o)erta, Macerata, La Nuova Foglio, 1976La materia del significato, Macerata, La Nuova Foglio, 1976Scrittura attiva, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1980Confortato dalla mente, Rome, Le Parole Gelate Editore, 1982Il corpo ricongiunto della scrittura, Milan, in Estra n°8, 1983Commentario, Naples, Morra Editore, 1985Many shadows of green, Naples, Morra Editore, 1986L’imperio dei sensi, Milan, Mercato del Sale Edizioni Rare, 1987Il libro errante, Milan, Mercato del Sale Edizioni Rare, 1988Il grande bianco, Naples, Morra Editore, 1988MeditAzioni, Milan, Mercato del Sale, 1989Change readings, Milan, Ixidem, 1994Liriche logiche, Verona, Parise Editore, 1995

Main works

 Appunti sul vivere, 1958
 Circumvolizione, 1959
 Encefalitica, 1960
 Èvoe, 1960
 Relativiste sketches, 1960
 Descrizione, 1962
 Il culto della gioia e del ritmo, 1962
 Appunti verbografici, 1962
 Flamin, 1962
 Vortex, 1962
 Il punto mobile, 1963
 Babebismi, 1963
 L'angolo del rosso, 1963
 Little wood, 1964
 Esotica, 1965
 Manità, 1965
 Dynamon, 1967
 Love never keeps still, 1967
 Proposizione 138-137, 1967
 Genesis, 1967
 Tautologia, 1967
 Cosmo, 1967
 Quotidiano, 1968
 Mikrokosmos, 1968
 Giardino giapponese, 1968
 Piccola Liguria, 1968
 Life, sweat life, 1968
 Manità, 1968
 La manità trasparente, 1968
 Ergo magma, 1968
 A forma di macchia, 1968
 Coitarium bicuspide, 1968

 Testo mobile, 1969
 M(a)terie, 1969
 Haiku matematico della mente nel lago, 1969
 Is a ness the nest ce pas, 1969
 Sasso, oh sasso, 1969
 Sequenza verbale su di una cosa, 1969
 Analisi della parola forma, 1969
 Alfabeto reale, 1970
 Il pozzo di vetro, 1970
 Clouds & love, 1970
 Handprint, 1970
 Orpo, 1970
 Libro di lettura, 1970
 Verbosculture, 1971
 Col martello crollano gli scudi, 1971
 Metafora arancio, 1971
 Scherzo erotico, 1972
 La ferita, 1972
 Alcune cose sparse per terra, 1973
 La porta aperta, 1973
 Qual-cosa sulla carta, 1973
 Metafora, 1973
 Allo stato delle cose, 1974
 Abbiamo incominciato, 1974
 Semplice presenza, 1974
 La pagina come scrittura, 1974
 Mitografia, primo gesto, 1974
 Teoria della pagina elementare, 1974
 Assioma di estensione, 1974
 No words, 1974
 Van Gogh, 1975
 L'A, 1975

 Nuova vita, 1975
 Caos, 1975
 Idee perdute, 1976
 Macchiando, 1976
 Il cerchio è fatto a mano e dunque imperfetto, 1977
 Sabbia, 1979
 Caffè amaro, 1979
 Non c'è niente da dire, 1984
 Mai, 1987
 Intemporion, 1988
 Per la metamorfosi di K, 1989
 Essendo Dio, 1989
 Le torte, 1990
 Esiziale, 1991
 E lì comincia il rosso, 1992
 È come se non fosse, 1994
 Così caro, così amato, così lontano, 1996
 La violenza interferisce col pensiero, 1996
 Un pezzo di muro celeste, 1997
 La forma generale delle cose, 1998
 Il bianco, il tempo, la mente, 1999
 Attorno alla morte, 1999
 Lo stato della forma, 1999
 L'abisso, 1999
 Grammaticaverbovisivaelementare, 2002
 No more chance, 2002
 It, 2002
 Tutto ciò che c'è è, 2002
 Decadenza e fine, 2003
 Serve a..., 2004
 Cosmo secondo Carrega, 2005
 Dire l'indispensabile, 2005

Personal exhibitionsThe list of exhibitions is compiled from catalogue "Poesia visiva: 5 maestri".''

1967: Galleria Le Voilà, Verona
1968: Sezione Terralba del PCI, Genoa
1969: Galerie im Uptownjazzsaloon, Innsbruck
1970: Galleria La Comune, Brescia
1970: Galleria Schwarz, Milan
1970: Galerie Senatore, Stuttgart
1971: Galerie Reckermann, Cologne
1971: Galleria Pourqoi pas?, Genoa
1971: Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Gaeta
1972: Galleria Blu, Milan
1973: Galleria Oggetto, Caserta
1973: Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa
1973: Galleria San Rocco, Seregno
1973: Galleria Veste Sagrada, Rio de Janeiro
1973: Galleria Pilota, Milan
1974: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1974: Visual Art Center, Naples
1975: Galleria Il Canale, Venice

1975: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Gaeta
1975: Galleria Spazio Arte, Rome
1976: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1978: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1978: Galerie B14, Stuttgart
1978: Collegio Cairoli, Pavia
1978: Studio D'Ars, Milan
1978: Studio Marconi, Milan
1979: Studio Santandrea, Milan
1980: Galleria Multimedia, Brescia
1980: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1981: Galleria Taide, Salerno
1982: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1984: Studio Bassanese, Trieste
1984: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1985: Studio Morra, Naples
1985: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1986: Mercato del Sale, Milan

1987: Galleria Unimedia, Genoa
1988: Mercato del Sale, Milan
1989: Studio Morra, Naples
1992: Galleria Unimedia, Genoa
1993: Venice Biennale
1993: Studio XXV, Milan
1994: Galleria Silvano Lodi Jr., Milan
1994: Galleria dell'Italcornici, Milan
1994: Galleria Libreria Derbylius, Milan
1995: Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Milan
1995: Studio Caterina Guaco, Genoa
1996: Sarenco's Club, Verona
1996: Galleria Vinciana, Milan
1997: Galleria Derbylius, Milan
1999: Galleria dell'Italcornici, Milan
1999: Studio Caterina Gualco, Genoa
2014: Galleria Derbylius, Milan

References

Essential bibliography

External links
Fondo Fraccaro-Carrega at Mart's Archivio del '900
Relativamente, 1971 performance by Carrega digitized by the Archivio del '900
"Carrega Imprimavit", 2015 Docu-film about Ugo Carrega
Ugo Carrega Artwork. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

1935 births
2014 deaths
Italian contemporary artists
Italian magazine editors
Italian publishers (people)
Italian male poets
Artists from Genoa
20th-century Italian poets
20th-century Italian male writers
Italian male non-fiction writers
Writers from Genoa


title: Plagiostachys

text:
Plagiostachys is a genus of plants in the Zingiberaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia.

 species

References

Alpinioideae
Zingiberaceae genera


title: Dualex

text:
The Dualex is an optical sensor developed by Force-A (No longer in business) for the assessment of flavonol, anthocyanin, and chlorophyll contents in leaves. The sensor is a result of technology transfer from the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and University of Paris-Sud Orsay. It allows to perform real-time and non-destructive measurements. The main applications are plant science and agriculture research.

Calculated indices
The assessment of polyphenolic compounds in leaves is based on the absorbance of the leaf epidermis through the screening effect it procures to chlorophyll fluorescence.
The indices calculated by Dualex are:
 Anth, for the anthocyanin index
 Chl, for the chlorophyll index
 Flav, for the flavonols index
 NBI, for the nitrogen balance index

Applications
Based on the four measured indices, this optical sensor is applied in the fields of research as follows:
 Plant physiology
 Genetic studies
 Plant phenology
 Herbal selection

It is equally applied in studies related to chlorophyll (nutritional chlorosis, potential photosynthesis), flavonols (UV protection, leaf light environment) and anthocyanins (temperature stress, light selection).

References

Optical devices
Sensors


The Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor hard courts. The event is held at the Nanchang Tennis Center in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, China. It is also part of the China Open Series. The best performance of Chinese players in women's singles will receive a wild card from the China Open.

For the first two years, this was a WTA 125K series level tournament. However, beginning in 2016, it became one of the main WTA Tour level tournaments under the International classification.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

External links
 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open at wtatennis.com

WTA 125 tournaments
Hard court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in China


title: Ernakulam Public Library

text:
Ernakulam Public Library is a public library in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India. Established in 1870, it is the oldest public library in Kerala. The library serves as the most important information store and cultural centre of Ernakulam and has a collection of several books on various subjects. This library contributed a lot to the social and cultural improvements of the city over the past three centuries.

History
Thottakattu Sankunni Menon, Diwan of the Cochin Kingdom presents his idea of a Public Library in Cochin State to Rama Varma XIV, King of Cochin. Based upon this a meeting was held on 8 October 1869 at the school building premises now occupied by Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. The first president of the library was the principal of the College, A.F. Sealy. The minutes of the meeting says : that a Public Library and Reading Room be established for the benefit of the community. Thus was born, this institution.

Developments
The foundation stone for new building was laid by Sri.C.Achutha Menon, the then chief Minister of Kerala and was inaugurated on 3 March 1974. The second floor was completed in the year 1977 and was inaugurated by Cardinal Joseph Parecattil. The Third Floor which consists of an auditorium was completed in June 1987.

Facilities
 Members room
 Ladies and children’s room
 General reading room
 Auditorium

Membership
The library offers memberships like Institutional Membership, Lifetime Membership, First Class Membership, Second Class Membership and Third Class Membership.

References

Libraries in Kerala
Public libraries in India
Libraries in Ernakulam
Libraries established in 1870


title: Lonely Me

text:
Lonely Me is debut studio album by Hong Kong cantopop singer Charlene Choi, member of the popular duo Twins. The album is released in April 2009 in Hong Kong. The album consists of two discs: Disc 1, CD, contains 12 songs and disc 2 is a DVD with 3 music videos.

Background
After Twins have break up in March 2008 (because of Edison Chen photo scandal involving Gillian Chung), the other member of duo Charlene Choi started to record her debut album. The album, entitled Lonely Me, was released on April 9, 2009. The album contains theme song for The Butterfly Lovers movie "2 - 1". The album consists of Two discs: CD (12 songs) and a DVD (3 music videos). The album features a duet and music video, "Little Dimples" features JJ Lin which also released in his sixth studio album Sixology by Ocean Butterflies.

Track listing
CD
"2 - 1" (theme song for The Butterfly Lovers movie)
"I'm Sorry"
"Crossover"
"Bowknot"
"Hydrogen Ballon"
"Knowing You, He Did Not"
"2 - 1" (Mandarin version)
"Make a Wish"
"Small Dimple" (Mandarin version) (featuring JJ Lin)
"Heartbeat Cantabile"
"Little Dimples" (featuring JJ Lin)
"Heart as Butterfly"

DVD
"2 - 1" (music video)
"I'm Sorry" (music video)
"Hydrogen Ballon" (music video)
"Knowing You, He Did Not" (music video)

References

External links
 http://www.yesasia.com/us/lonely-me-cd-dvd/1019560806-0-0-0-en/info.html
 http://www.play-asia.com/lonely-me-cddvd-paOS-13-49-en-70-3c1d.html
 http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/charlenechoi/lyrics/lonely-me::9521.html
 http://www.mtv.com/artists/charlene-choi/discography/2442874/

2009 debut albums
Charlene Choi albums


title: Chauharjan Devi Temple

text:
Chauharjan Devi Temple also known as Barahi Devi is a Hindu (Sanatan Religious) temple of mother goddess Barahi or Chauharjan Devi, located in village Chauharjan Parasrampur in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. The temple is located on the holy bank of river Sai.

See also

Nandmahar Dham
Mata Mawai Dham

References

Hindu temples in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh


title: Get Up (film)

text:
Get Up is a 2008 South Korean television film on the educational problems of adolescents in schools. It starred Lee Min-ho, Rhyme, and Lee Ah-jin.

Synopsis
High school students Min Wook-gi (Lee Min-ho) and Doo-heon (Rhyme) both land in trouble after they get into a fight. Doo-heon gets suspended, and Wook-gi has to clean his teacher's (Gi Ju-bong) car as punishment. While he's cleaning, his girlfriend Chura (Choi Ah-jin) shows up to tell him she's going on a ski trip with her new boyfriend. To chase after his girlfriend, Wook-gi tries to steal his teacher's car – but he can't drive. As he's making a run for it, Doo-heon happens to pass by on his motorcycle, and the two end up hitting the open road together.

Cast
 Lee Min-ho as Min Wook-gi
 Rhyme as Lee Doo-heon
 Lee Ah-jin as Joo-won
 Gi Ju-bong
 Lee Doo-il
 Nam Kyeong-eup

References

External links

2008 in South Korean television
Korean-language television shows
South Korean teen dramas


title: ISTAR Battalion (Portugal)

text:
The ISTAR Battalion (BISTAR, Batalhão ISTAR in Portuguese) is the Portuguese Army unit responsible for centralizing the intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) missions.

The ISTAR started to be raised in 2009, following NATO requisites and the need felt by the Portuguese Army to develop the capability to give ISTAR support to its operational brigades and to its deployed forces in foreign territory.

Organization
The BISTAR is organized as command element and aggregating unit, being made up with the grouping of sub-units specialized in the different ISTAR capabilities, which are raised by several other units. It includes:
 Headquarters and Headquarters Company;
 C2 Company;
 Electronic Warfare Company;
 HUMINT Platoon;
 Reconnaissance Platoon;
 Unattended Ground Sensor Section;
 Low Altitude Medium Endurance UAV Platoon;
 Weapon Locating Platoon;
 Weapon Locating Accousting Sensor Platoon;
 Forward Observers Platoon..

Units

 3rd Cavalry Regiment – Reconnaissance Squadron;
 1st Reconnaissance Platoon (1PelRec);
 2nd Reconnaissance Platoon (2PelRec);
 Medium Mortar Platoon (PelMortMed);
 Transmissions Section (SecTm);
 Battlefield Surveillance Section (SecVCB);
 Maintenance Section (SecMan);
 Refueling Section (SecReab);
 Sanitary Section (SecSan).

 Transmission Regiment – Electronic Warfare Company (CompGE);
 Support Platoon (PelAp);
 Electronic Warfare Platoon (Medium) (PelGE) (Med);
 Electronic Warfare Platoon (Light) (Pel GE) (Lig).

 Army Geospatial Information Center –  Army Geospatial Support Unit (UnApGeo).
 Geospatial Analysis Element (ElAnGelo);
 Data Acquisition Element (ElAqDados);
 Technical Control Element (ElContrTecn).
 5th Artillery Regiment– Surveillance Systems Company (CSV);

Equipment

 MARWIN MW12 weather station;

 Shelters with workstations for intelligence analysis and command post for information assessment.

References

Army units and formations of Portugal
Targeting (warfare)
Military of Portugal


title: Erskine Bridge Hotel & Spa

text:
The MGM Muthu Glasgow River Hotel, formerly the Erskine Bridge Hotel & Spa is situated on the banks of the River Clyde in Erskine, Renfrewshire. The hotel takes its name from the nearby Erskine Bridge and Clyde River. Originally named the Esso Motor Hotel Erskine, it opened in 1971. It was originally planned and owned by the oil company Esso. It was Scotland's second motor based hotel as Esso had already opened another unit in Edinburgh.

Ownership
The hotel started out as the Esso Motor Hotel of Erskine. Since then it has changed ownership four times. Esso sold the business to the Crest Hotel Group. Then it was sold to the Forte Group of hotels and then to the Cosmopolitan Hotel Group, who renamed the hotel to the Erskine Bridge Hotel & Spa. In 2020, it was sold to its current owners, MGM Muthu Hotels, who renamed the hotel to the MGM Muthu Glasgow River Hotel.

Construction
The hotel was built by Daniel Construction Company (now Fluor Corporation) at a cost of £1m. The on-site architects were Morris and Steedman. The hotel interior was designed by Cope Notter Design Associates. There is park and fly facilities for Glasgow Airport, gym, swimming pool and conference suites at the hotel. There was also a nine-hole pitch and putt golf course.

References

Hotel spas
Hotels in Renfrewshire
Hotel buildings completed in 1971
Hotels established in 1971
1971 establishments in Scotland
Brutalist architecture in Scotland
Erskine, Renfrewshire


title: Punta Fuego

text:
Fuego Point, commonly known as Punta Fuego, is a flame-shaped headland located in western Batangas province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It extends as a  long promontory into the South China Sea overlooking Fortune Island and Nasugbu and Calayo bays in the municipality of Nasugbu. It is home to the exclusive Club Punta Fuego and Peninsula de Punta Fuego resort and seaside community.

Geography
Punta Fuego is moderately high and rocky, with an islet off its north side. Two other islets, connected by a reef, lie southeast of the point and have a pinnacle rock, awash at low water, on their eastern side. The 88-hectare residential resort has several private beaches, a golf course, marina and a heliport developed in 1995 by Landco Pacific and Roxaco Land. The entire area is administered as part of the Nasugbu barangay of Balaytigue.

History
Punta Fuego was the site of the Battle of San Diego between the Spanish and Dutch forces in the prelude to the Battles of La Naval de Manila in 1600. It is believed that the name of the place may have originated from this naval battle, when the early inhabitants heard the word Fuego! ("Fire!" in English), the command given by the Spanish naval vessel captain to fire cannons against the enemy.

See also
 San Diego (ship)

References

External links

Headlands of the Philippines
Landforms of Batangas
Tourist attractions in Batangas
Resorts in the Philippines


title: Gavampati

text:
Gavampati may refer to:
Gavampati (chronicle), a supplementary Mon language chronicle.
Gavampati (Buddha's disciple), one of the first ten disciples of Buddha to be ordained.


title: 2014 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open

text:
The 2014 Zhonghong Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 WTA 125K series and took place in Nanchang, China, from 21 July through 28 July 2014. First-seeded Peng Shuai won the singles title.

Singles draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings as of 14 July 2014

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Peng Shuai
  Wang Yafan
  Zheng Jie
  Zheng Wushuang

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Monique Adamczak
  Junri Namigata
  Tang Haochen
  Zhang Kailin

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:
  Yang Zi

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Ayumi Morita [replaced by Yang Zi]

Doubles draw entrants

Seeds

Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles draw:
  Sun Xuliu /  Zheng Wushuang

Finals

Singles

  Peng Shuai defeated  Liu Fangzhou 6–2, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

  Chuang Chia-jung /  Junri Namigata defeated  Chan Chin-wei /  Xu Yifan 7–6(7–4), 6–3

References

2014 WTA 125K series
2014
2014 in Chinese tennis


title: Gavampati (Buddha's disciple)

text:
Gavāṃpati is a disciple of the Buddha, one of the first ten to be ordained and to have known the state of Arhat. In Southeastern Buddhism, Gavāṃpati has become a preeminent character. In Thailand amulet as Pidta, Laos, Cambodia, and the Shan states, the Mon cult of Gavampati has survived.

Notes

References

Disciples of Gautama Buddha
Arhats


title: Jørgen Plaetner

text:
Jørgen Plaetner (1930-2002) was a Danish electronic composer. His works were performed at the Statens Museum for Kunst in 1963.

Works
Album Electronic Music on Da Capo Records
Beta
Modulations
Nocturne
The Lovers
Figures in Water
Hieronymus Bosch
Sonata for Tape Recorder
Alpha

References

1930 births
2002 deaths


The 2002 Huntingdonshire District Council election took place on 4 May 2002 to elect members of Huntingdonshire District Council in Cambridgeshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:
Conservative 37
Liberal Democrats 13
Independent 3

Election result

Ward results

By-elections between 2002 and 2003

References

2002 English local elections
2002
2000s in Cambridgeshire


title: Carl Ludwig Hübsch

text:
Carl Ludwig Hübsch (born 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German jazz musician, tuba player, and composer.

Discography
Album: Longrun Development Of The Universe: The Creators Bend A Master Plan. The Carl Ludwig Hübsch brass trio; Hübsch (tuba); Matthias Schubert (tenor saxophone); Wolter Wierbos (trombone) with guest Gerry Hemingway (drums). NEOS Records 41003CD
Lumière;
Not Even;
Three Pinups;
Orbiting and Module Modulations.

References

1966 births
Living people
German jazz musicians


title: Polamuru, East Godavari district

text:
Polamuru is a village in Anaparthy mandal, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.

References

Villages in Anaparthy mandal


title: Onslow Burrish

text:
Onslow Burrish (died 1758) was a British envoy in the Low Countries and Germany.

Career
Burrish was appointed "to be his Majesty's Resident at the Court of Brussels, and also at that of Liège" in 1743. Afterwards he was Minister to Bavaria 1745–58 and concurrently to Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach (at that time separate margraviates), and to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Cologne and Hesse-Cassel. Later he was sent to Regensburg as part of Lord Newcastle's effort to secure the election of Maria Theresa's son, the future Emperor Joseph II, as King of the Romans (a title of the Holy Roman Empire that carried enormous prestige but little real power) in order to keep that title in the control of Britain's ally Austria.

Publications
Batavia illustrata: or, A view of the policy and commerce of the United Provinces, particularly of Holland : with an enquiry into the alliances of the States General with the Emperor, France, Spain, and Great Britain, London, 1728; second edition 1742; modern reproductions

References

External links

Further material at UK National Archives

Year of birth unknown
1758 deaths
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Belgium
Ambassadors to Bavaria


title: 1894–95 Liverpool F.C. season

text:
The 1894–95 season was the third season in Liverpool F.C.'s existence, and was their second year in The Football League, in which they competed in the First Division for the first time. The season covers the period from 1 July 1894 to 30 June 1895.

Test Match 1895
Liverpool lost 1-0 to Bury on 27 April and were relegated back to the second division.

References

External links
LFC History Season 1894-95
1893–94 Liverpool F.C.Results
LFC Kit 1893-94

1894-1895
English football clubs 1894–95 season


title: Polamuru

text:
Palamuru may refer to:

 Polamuru, East Godavari, a village in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India
 Polamuru, West Godavari, a village in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India


Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound is a 2000 book edited by Peter Shapiro. It is a companion piece to the documentary film Modulations: Cinema for the Ear.

The book features Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house music, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno music, Chris Sharp on Drum and bass jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient music, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of electronic music.

References

2000 non-fiction books
Music books
Electronic music
Electronics books


title: 1794 in Spain

text:
Events in the year 1794 in Spain.

Incumbents
Monarch: Charles IV

Events
January 28 - Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
April 29-May 1 - Second Battle of Boulou
July 23-August 1 - Battle of the Baztan Valley
August 13 - Battle of San Lorenzo de la Muga
October 15–17 - Battle of Orbaitzeta
November 17–20 - Battle of the Black Mountain

Deaths
November 20 - Luis Firmín de Carvajal, Conde de la Unión, Peruvian-born general, killed during the Siege of Roses (1794–95) (born 1752)

References

1790s in Spain


title: Paramesia gnomana

text:
Paramesia gnomana is a species of moth belonging to the  family Tortricidae, first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759.

Description
Paramesia gnomana has a wingspan of about . It is similar to Clepsis spectrana, but it is paler. These moths fly from June to August.

Caterpillars are polyphagous, feeding from May to June on a wide range of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees, especially on bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Stachys species, Iris species, plantain (Plantago species), and dandelion (Taraxacum species).

Distribution and habitat
This species is present in most of Europe and in the Near East. It prefers dry grassland habitats.

References

External links
 Lepiforum.de
 Lepidoptera of Belgium

Archipini
Moths described in 1759
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Carl Alexander Clerck
Tortricidae of Europe