title: Sonia Marie De León de Vega

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Sonia Marie De León de Vega (born October 16, 1964) is an American orchestral conductor.  She teaches at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, and is conductor of the Los Angeles Santa Cecilia Orchestra, which she founded in 1992.

Early life and career
De León was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Reynaldo Sanchez, a musician, and Sonia De León, a dancer.  The family moved to Los Angeles when Sonia Marie was four, and she grew up in Echo Park. She studied piano and organ at California State University, Los Angeles, and graduated in 1984. After an MA in instrumental music and conducting under David Buck in 1986, she went to the Herbert Blomstedt International Institute for Instrumental Conductors at Loma Linda, California. She attended workshops of the American Symphony Orchestra League, under conductors such as Maurice Abravanel, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta and André Previn.

In 1986 De León was invited to conduct a Papal Mass at St. Peter's, in the Vatican City in Rome; she was the second person, and the first woman, to receive such an invitation. She worked as a conductor of local opera companies, and as a guest conductor in Italy and Mexico.

Santa Cecilia Orchestra

De León started the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in 1992, using money of her own. Only 12 people attended the orchestra's first concert. The orchestra now numbers 85 paid professional performers. It performs both mainstream classical repertoire and works by Latin American composers such as Daniel Catán and Silvestre Revueltas. Its two-year music education program, Discovering Music, was started in 1998 and is currently offered in 16 elementary schools throughout Los Angeles.

References

1964 births
Living people
American women conductors (music)
California State University, Los Angeles alumni
21st-century American conductors (music)


title: Nucleation in microcellular foaming

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Nucleation in microcellular plastic is an important stage which decides the final cell size, cell density and cell morphology of the foam. In the recent past, numerous researchers have studied the cell nucleation phenomenon in microcellular polymers.

Studies were performed with ultrasound induced nucleation during microcellular foaming of Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene polymers. M.C.Guo studied nucleation under the shear action. As the shear enhanced, the cell size diminished and thereby increased the cell density in the foam.

Plastics
Foams


title: Wang Liang

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Wang Liang may refer to:

Wangliang, a demon in Chinese mythology
Wang Liang (footballer, born 1979) (born 1979), Chinese footballer
Wang Liang (footballer, born 1989) (born 1989), Chinese footballer
Liang Wang (oboist) (born 1980), Chinese-American oboist

See also
Liang Wang (disambiguation)


title: Kizlyar (disambiguation)

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Kizlyar is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.

Kizlyar may also refer to:
Kizlyar Urban Okrug, a municipal formation which the Town of Kizlyar in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia is incorporated as
Kizlyar, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, a rural locality (a selo) in Mozdoksky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia
Kizlyar Bay, a bay of the Caspian Sea, Russia


title: Milli (disambiguation)

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Milli- is the SI prefix for one thousandth (10−3, symbol m)

Milli may also refer to:

Milli (rapper) (born 2002), Thai rapper
Milli, a character in Team Umizoomi
Birinci Milli, a village in Azerbaijan, also known as Milli
"A Milli", a 2008 song by Lil Wayne
Milli Bus, a government-run bus service operating across Afghanistan
Milli Fire, wildfire in Oregon forest during the summer of 2017

People with the given name Milli
Milli Jannides (born 1986), Australian-born New Zealand artist
Michael Milli Husein, South Sudanese politician

People with the surname Milli
Camillo Milli (born 1929), Italian stage, film and television actor
Emin Milli (born 1979), Azerbaijani writer and human rights activist
Matteo Milli (born 1989), Italian swimmer
Robert Milli (born 1933), American television actor

See also
Milli Vanilli, German R&B duo from Munich consisting of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus
Milli-Q, a trademark created by Millipore Corporation to describe 'ultrapure' water of "Type 1"
Mili (disambiguation)
Millie (disambiguation)
Milly (disambiguation)
Millis (disambiguation)
Millis (surname)


title: Value breakdown structure

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A value breakdown structure (VBS) is a project management technique introduced by Stephen Devaux as part of the total project control (TPC) approach to project and program value analysis.

The concept has similarities with the deliverable-oriented work breakdown structure (WBS) decomposition which is used in project management and systems engineering to break down a project into smaller components in a tree structure that represents how the work of the project will create the components of the final product. Resources and cost are typically inserted into the activities in a WBS, and summed to create a budget both for summary levels (often called "work packages") and for the whole project or program.

Similarly, a value breakdown structure will provide the expected value-added of each activity and/or component of the project (or projects within a program).

Mandatory and optional activities
In most projects (and programs), there are some components and activities (and projects) that are mandatory and others that are optional.

 Mandatory activities are required, and have the full value of the project investment, as the project cannot be completed without them.
 Optional activities, in contrast, have only the value that they are adding to the project, i.e., their value is equal to the delta between the project/program value if they are included and the value if they are omitted.

For example, in creating an automobile, an engine, a driveshaft and wheels may all be considered mandatory, whereas cupholders are optional. If any of the mandatory activities are excluded, the project's value approaches zero. But the value of the cupholders is only the difference between the value of the car with and without cupholders.

Value contributions may not necessarily be summarized
Values cannot be summed in a value breakdown structure similarly to how costs can be summed up from the branches of a work breakdown structure to provide an overall budget. For example, if the value of an automobile is $25,000, there are many components and activities that are mandatory in generating that value – leave any of them out, and the value of the project approaches zero. Therefore, the fact that the engine, driveshaft and wheels are all mandatory, and each therefore has a value-added of $25,000 does NOT make the value of the automobile $75,000.

Purpose
The main purpose of the value breakdown structure is to prioritize components and work by the value they are expected to add, and to ensure that the value of the project investment is not reduced by the inclusion of work which has a value-added that is less than its true cost, which is the sum of its resource costs and its drag cost. This can often happen if the project's critical path changes so that different activities suddenly acquire critical path drag and drag cost: an optional activity that adds $10,000 to the expected value of the project and has a budget of $5,000 may make sense when it can be performed off the critical path but should probably be jettisoned if on the critical path if they now have a negative value-added due to a drag cost of more than $5,000.

Use in index of project performance
The value from the value breakdown structure should also be used as the basis for tracking project value through Devaux's Index of Project Performance (DIPP). If scope is changed during execution, that change should be input into the value breakdown structure, the numerator in computing the Actual DIPP adjusted, and the DIPP Progress Index thus updated.

References

Further reading

 Joris Van Ostaeyen et al., “Quantifying the Economic Potential of a PSS: Methodology and Case Study,” The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability: Proceedings of the 4th CIRP International Conference on Industrial Prouct-Service Systems, Tokyo, Japan, November 8–9, 2012, ed. by Y. Shimomura and K. Kimita, pp. 523 – 528.
 Gideon Koch (2013). Value Breakdown Structure VBS
 Kjetil Strand (June 3, 2014), “ACE Introduces the Value Breakdown Structure!”
 Stephen A. Devaux (June 16, 2014), “The Value Breakdown Structure: Features and Benefits”.

Project management techniques


title: Steve Holden (speedway rider)

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Steve Holden (born 12 December 1952 in Liverpool, England) was a former motorcycle speedway rider in National League (speedway)

He started his speedway career at Chesterton stadium, where for one season only, the team was known as Chesterton Potters, riding in 6 meetings in 1973 and averaging 5 points a match. Gaining a regular team place with Stoke Potters in 1974 he rode in 35 meetings, raising his average to 5.87. The same year, he had one match for Belle Vue Aces but had only 2 rides, failing to score in either.

In 1975 he rode still for Stoke Potters and over 14 meetings, having 50 rides, he raised his points average to 7.92. He had 2 meetings for Cradley Heathens where he managed 5 rides.

Harry Bastable brought him to Oxford Cheetahs in their first year of National League in 1976, the Rebels having moved to White City with Danny Dunton. Steve became a crowd favourite, not just by riding but by living locally and getting involved off-track, such as dee-jaying at the Supporters Club, and, in Easter 1976, taking chocolate eggs to the children's ward of the John Radcliffe Hospital. With Cliff Anderson, he worked on track maintenance, looking after safety features such as boarding up the wire fencing, which had to be put up and taken down at every meeting so as not to obscure the view of the greyhound track on their race nights.

Before speedway, Steve had been a Private in the Royal Corps of Signals, following an apprenticeship as a Hydraulic Fitter.

He  lived in Wolverhampton with his family until his death in hospital in the early hours of 13 December 2014.

References

External links
 https://www.facebook.com/steve.holden.16
 http://www.stokepotters.co/briefhistory

1952 births
British motorcycle racers
British speedway riders
Stoke Potters riders
Oxford Cheetahs riders
2014 deaths


title: Terai frog

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Terai frog may refer to:

 Terai cricket frog, a frog associated with open grasslands
 Terai tree frog, a whipping frog

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Thomas Carson (politician)

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Thomas D. Carson (born March 1911) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Born in Ballybay in County Monaghan, Carson studied at Clones High School, Campbell College and Queen's University Belfast.  He worked as a medical doctor before retiring in the early 1970s.  In retirement, he became politically active, as vice-chairman of the South Armagh Unionist Association in 1971/2, and then President in 1972/3.

In 1973, Carson resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party to join the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, and immediately elected in the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election for Armagh.  Following his election, he joined the Armagh County Executive of Vanguard, and also became a member of the Monday Club and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

Carson held his Armagh seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975.  Outside politics, he spent his time gardening and birdwatching.

References

1911 births
Year of death missing
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974
Members of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
People educated at Campbell College
Politicians from County Monaghan
Ulster Unionist Party politicians
Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party politicians
People from Ballybay


title: Cyclic microcellular foaming

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Cyclic microcellular foaming refers to the solid-state Microcellular plastic manufacturing technique in which the polymer is foamed sequentially. The concept was first introduced in a research article in peer-reviewed international journal, Materials Letters on Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene as the base Polymer.

In the right side, the scanning electron images describes the concept of cyclic microcellular foaming. Clearly, it can be seen that with the repeated microcellular foaming, the cell size enhances significantly and simultaneously the cell wall thickness reduces.

Further, in the research article, these cyclic microcellular foamed polymers were exposed to ultrasound excitations due to which the cell walls got ruptured and open cellular microstructure were developed. The further images describe the scanning electron micrographs of the influence of ultrasonic waves on the microcellular morphological attributes. Certainly, it can be clearly observed that the cells become interconnected and porous which opens up a wide new field of research in microcellular polymers.

References

Polymers


title: William Harrold

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William Ashley Harrold (born 3 May 1988) is an English professional golfer.

Harrold played college golf at the University of Missouri. He turned professional in 2012 and played on mini-tours including the PGA EuroPro Tour and MENA Golf Tour winning three events. His first win on a major tour was the 2014 Belgian Challenge Open on the Challenge Tour.

Professional wins (8)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

PGA EuroPro Tour wins (2)

MENA Tour wins (2)

Hi5 Pro Tour wins (3)

References

External links

English male golfers
Missouri Tigers men's golfers
European Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Norwich
1988 births
Living people


The Hermitage Road Warehouse Historic District encompasses an industrial district in northern Richmond, Virginia.  It is bounded on the west by Hermitage Street, on the east by Interstate 95, on the north by Sherwood Avenue, and on the south by Overbrook Road.  This area, which contains mainly warehouses, was developed between 1918 and the 1950s, with most development taking place in the last decade of that period.  The warehouses are generally single-story brick structures, although detailing appears in a variety of architectural styles.  There are several multi-story buildings, notably a six-story office block attached to the warehouse of the A. H. Robins building.  The land was originally owned by A. D. Williams, who began selling it off for development in 1918.  Eastward development of the area was halted by the construction of I-95, and only one building was built after 1960.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, with a boundary increase in 2023.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia

References

National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia


title: DJ Hamida

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Ahmed Sidi Taanoun (), better known by his stage name DJ Hamida (), is a French-Moroccan DJ musicien and record producer, known for release series of À La Bien Mix Party and Meknessi Style which he promotes. His biggest success has been with single "Déconnectés" featuring Kayna Samet, Rim'K & Lartiste, soprano

Discography

Albums

Singles

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

Other charting releases

References

External links
 « Biographie DJ Hamida » on nrj.fr.
 Facebook

French DJs
Living people
French people of Moroccan descent
Place of birth missing (living people)
1986 births


title: Lagos (jewelry)

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Lagos is a privately held American jewelry company. Founded by Steven Lagos in 1977, the brand is known for its jewelry craftsmanship and the proprietary design technique of textured caviar-like beading. The company has offices in New York and Bangkok with its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia.

LAGOS is sold in over 300 stores within the United States, including Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, and independent jewelry retailers throughout the country.  The brand’s flagship boutique opened in 1994 on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

History
Lagos jewelry was founded in 1977 by American artist and designer, Steven Lagos. At age 17, he met his mentor, a Russian jeweler, who taught him the importance of jewelry craft and technique. It was then he began learning “the lessons of old world craftsmanship” and “the importance of working with the highest quality materials.” Steven Lagos founded the company at age 20.

Since 1977, LAGOS has made more than two million pieces.  Steven Lagos estimates that he has created 10,000 pieces and 400 to 500 new designs each year.

Design
In 1984, Steven Lagos created the brand’s textured sterling silver known as Caviar. This was inspired by the raw material of hematite.

References

American silversmiths
Manufacturing companies based in Philadelphia
High fashion brands
Luxury brands


title: Hemlock Hoax, the Detective

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Hemlock Hoax, the Detective is an American short comedy film produced and distributed in 1910 by the Lubin Manufacturing Company. The silent film features a detective named Hemlock Hoax who tries to solve a murder, which unbeknownst to him is a practical joke being played on him by two young boys. It was one of many shorts designed to derive its humor from a sleuth whose name was similar to Sherlock Holmes.

The character of Hemlock Hoax was based on a minor character from a film story that had been rejected. The finished film was released in April as a split reel, being presented with two other Lubin comedies. The black-and-white short received positive reviews with several journalists praising the film's humor. It is unclear whether there is a surviving print of the film, and the identities of the film's cast and crew are not recorded.

Plot
Hemlock Hoax is a detective who has little respect in the small tropical town where he lives, despite the fact that he thinks he is a better sleuth than Sherlock Holmes. A pair of boys decide to play a trick on Hoax and tell him about a murder. Hoax rushes to scene of the crime where he discovers a shred of cloth, later finding that a tramp is wearing the same type of clothes that he found. The tramp runs away and Hoax gives chase, with other people helping the pursuit. Eventually, Hoax captures the tramp with the aid of a police officer, and returns to the victim's body with the man. Hoax then comes to a realization that the body was just a dummy that had been stuffed with the leaves. The crowd has a laugh at Hoax's expense while the two boys are punished.

Production

Hemlock Hoax, the Detective was produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, a company founded by German-American film pioneer Siegmund Lubin. It was known for producing films that were similar to others successful at the time. Author Ron Haydock wrote in his book Holmes and Watson On Screen that Hemlock Hoax "was another in the long and ever-growing line of comedies that were having fun with sleuths whose names were similar to [Sherlock] Holmes".

The featured character of Hemlock Hoax had originally been a minor character in a film story that had been rejected before he appeared in Hemlock Hoax, the Detective. It is a silent film and was filmed in black-and-white, and the finished product comprised  of film. The identities of the cast and crew are not recorded.

Release and reception
Hemlock Hoax, the Detective was released on April 11, 1910, being distributed by the Lubin Manufacturing Company. Advertising touted the film as "a roaring comedy that cannot but be funny." The film was a split-reeler, and was presented alongside the Lubin comedies Jones' Watch, about a man who believes his watch has been robbed, and The Fisherman's Luck, centering on a fisherman who causes mischief while at the lake one day.

Hemlock Hoax, the Detective received positive reviews upon release. An article in film journal The Moving Picture World written by an unnamed journalist opined that the fact that the films only totaled up to  and yet had "three strong comedy subjects on the same reel" was notable. The reviewer wrote that "the three topics are so entirely different that there is no confliction and the reel is one of the best comedy offerings in a long time."

Another Moving Picture World reviewer wrote positively of the film, opining "the acting is clever, developing many amusing features as it proceeds. To see a detective hunting clews with a magnifying glass is funny indeed." A May review in Indiana newspaper The Huntington Herald described the film positively as "a comical detective picture full of exciting situations".

A review in Connecticut newspaper The New London Day lauded the three films, writing that the pictures were "a trio of laugh provokers." Hemlock Hoax, the Detective was still being screened as late as October 1911. , it is unclear whether there is a surviving print of Hemlock Hoax, the Detective; it has likely become a lost film. If rediscovered, the film would be in the public domain.

See also
 List of American films of 1910

References

Bibliography

External links

American black-and-white films
Lost American comedy films
American silent short films
Lubin Manufacturing Company films
American comedy short films
Silent American comedy films
1910 comedy films
1910 films
1910 lost films
1910s American films


title: Milan Mijailović

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Milan Mijailović (; born 18 September 1981) is a Serbian retired football forward and current coach.

Playing career
Mijailović began playing in the First League of FR Yugoslavia  in 1997 with FK Borac Čačak. In 2001, he played with FK Hajduk Kula with a loan spell with Borac Čačak in 2004. He played in the Serbian First League in 2005–06 with FK Radnički Pirot. In 2007–08, he played in the Serbian SuperLiga with FK Mladost Lučani, and with FK Jagodina the following season. In 2009, he played with FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac.

In 2010, he returned to the Serbian First League to play with FK Sloga Kraljevo, and the following season played abroad in the Ykkönen with Oulun Palloseura. After a season abroad he returned to play with FK Sloga, and later with FK Polet Ljubić. In 2012, he played in the Serbian League Belgrade with FK Kovačevac.

Managerial career
He was a football coach for FK Takovo and youth teams for FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac. In 2017, he was named the head coach for Serbian White Eagles FC in the Canadian Soccer League. He was also the head coach for Serbia AC for the 2017–18 season in the Arena Premier League.

References

External links

1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gornji Milanovac
Men's association football forwards
Serbian men's footballers
FK Hajduk Kula players
FK Borac Čačak players
FK Radnički Pirot players
FK Mladost Lučani players
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players
FK Sloga Kraljevo players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Ykkönen players
Oulun Palloseura players
Serbian White Eagles FC coaches
Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) coaches
Serbian football managers
Serbian expatriate football managers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Expatriate soccer coaches in Canada


title: Chinatown, Kuala Terengganu

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Kampung Cina (Jawi: ; ), is a Chinatown located in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. Kampung Cina is located along Jalan Bandar (formerly known as Jalan Kampung Cina), in Kuala Terengganu city centre at the river mouth of Terengganu River that empties into the South China Sea. Kampung Cina literally means Chinese Village; it is also called Tn̂g-lâng-pho () or KT's Chinatown by local people. It is one of Southeast Asia's early Chinese settlements and contains stately ancestral homes, temples, townhouses, and business establishments. The town is small but has colourful shophouses along both sides of the road that carries traditional flavour.

Kuala Terengganu's Chinatown was first established by the Chinese community in the late 19th century. It was once a hub for commercial activities that helped shape Kuala Terengganu into what it is today. The Chinese built the traditionally designed shop houses according to their place of origin in China.

History

Kampung Cina is the main Chinese settlement in Kuala Terengganu, situated near the heart of Kuala Terengganu city centre. In 1719, the Chinese village settlement had more than 1000 house compared from its today row of pre-war Chinese shophouses of that which only dated as far as 200-year or its earlier dated that are recorded by foreigners like Alexander Hamilton and Captain Joseph Jackson who visited the Chinese settlement while in the Kuala Terengganu town during 1719, and other like J. Newbold in 1893, Munshi Abdullah in 1836, and more. The great fire in early 1880s destroyed a large part of the area and subsequently, many of the houses were rebuilt. Sunday, 18 Sep 2022 there was also a fire accident at around 8 pm.

The exact date of the founding of Kampung Cina is not clearly known as no archaeology dig was ever made, as to preserve the Kampung Cina site which is now a part of the city. Many who live here may be descended from the first Chinese who arrive and settled here at Terengganu since the 16th century. Thus many of its occupants treat their house as an ancestral home which has much history after being handed down from generation to generation. Nowadays, preservation and modification projects are carried out on many of the old buildings.

Evidence of the early presence of Chinese settlers in Kampung Cina
When Alexander Hamilton and Captain Joseph Jackson visited Kuala Terengganu in 1719–20 and 1764 respectively, the presence of Chinese settlers was noted down in their records. Alexander wrote:

According to the Malay scholar Munshi Abdullah, who visited Kuala Terengganu in 1836, there was a large Chinese quarter with a Kapitan Cina (Chinese leader) named Kapitan Lim Eng Huat (1798-1847), who was the third Kapitan of Chinatown. He probably saw the concrete bridge being built during Sultan Mohammad's period (1837-1839) because in his second visit here, Munshi wrote about the bridge in 1838.

Kuala Terengganu was also described by Thomas John Newbold in 1839:

Various Chinese records and annals - dated as far back as the 10th century (Song Dynasty) have referred to the ports of Terengganu. Javanese records of the Kingdom of Majapahit in the 14th century also placed Kuala Terengganu on their list of trading centres. But no one really know the exact dated of the Chinese settlement in Kampung Cina. It is only certain with evidence that the Chinese settlement may started in Terengganu after Admiral Cheng Ho (Zheng He) of China return to China between 1419AD to 1719AD or maybe before or around the time of Alexander Hamilton and Captain Joseph Jackson who visited Kuala Terengganu in 1719–1720.

It is believed that Admiral Cheng Ho (Zheng He) of China - the Goodwill Ambassador of the Ming Dynasty - led a huge fleet of about 200 vessels with approximately 28,000 marine officers and crew to the shores of Kuala Terengganu in the year of 1414 AD. This is based on evidence from a map of places visited by Cheng Ho, during his fourth trip to the west.

Right after the visit of Cheng Ho/Zheng He, Chinese farmers from the coast of China, especially the people from Zhangzhou District of Hokkien Province sail to Terengganu first settled at Bukit Datu (Big City), and along the river bank of Nerus River. The Chinese's forefathers in Terengganu named Nerus River as Sampokang (Cheng Ho's River) and built a temple at Kampung Jeram - Sampokong Keramat Cheng Ho.

The Chinese population of Chinatown mainly did their trade in the waterfront area. These settlers were engaged in trades through concessions from the state rulers, and among their businesses included the sale and bartering of crafts such as textiles, metalwork, and woodwork from the nearby Malay communities, and commercial trades, imports, and exports of goods (such as silks, gambir, camphor, pepper, and gold) from local or foreign places.

By the mid-1800s, with the booming of the tin mining and industries, the Chinese population of Kuala Terengganu and the whole Malaya increased tremendously as new Chinese immigrants arrived here for work. Kuala Terengganu, which is strategically located on the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia, was a natural stopping point for those who plied the trade route from China to South East Asia in the early days. Those who fall in love with this enchanted land simply stay on while the rest, sail on to fulfill their own destiny, in places like Perak and Kuala Lumpur for tin mining. Kampung Cina became the most densely populated area for the Chinese community in Kuala Terengganu.

Architecture

Chinatown was opened about 300 years ago by the traders from Southern China and was the first area for business and trading in Kuala Terengganu, although in its current form, the oldest building (many of which are shophouses) dates back from the late 1800s. Today, there are about 270 pre-war Chinese shophouses. Many of these shophouses were originally built with brick, plaster, and timber. Currently, due to the old age of these structures, refurbishments and renovations are carried out to a number of buildings.

The early Chinese residents chose to build the shophouses near the bank of Terengganu River since the location provides a place for junks and ships to harbour. Like a typical Chinatown in other Malaysian states, the buildings incorporate various styles such as traditional Southern Chinese designs, Neoclassical, or Art Deco. The façades of these shophouses differ according to their styles. Neoclassical buildings, for instance, are rather elaborate and ornate in its decorations, while older buildings are generally bare and simple.

Each shophouse of Chinatown is not singular building. Instead, many different shophouses are connected to one another and form one long structure. A number of back alleys separate these structures. The shophouses in Chinatown are both commercial and private structures, mostly two storeys high. Families who own business establishments (such as sundry shop, light industry, or warehouse) usually will use the ground floor for the business and trade and reside on the upper floor. The common element of many of these shophouses is the covered passageway in front of the buildings known as kaki lima or the 'five-foot-way'. The name comes from the original prescribed width of the passageway, which is five feet, although later regulations prescribed a width of seven and a half feet.

Culture

The culture in Chinatown has been one that is an admixture of the Malay and Chinese traditions and lifestyles. Chinese traditions and customs can be found everywhere in this place and Chinese new year is celebrated widely by the Chinese residents. The influence of local Malay culture in Terengganu also gave rise to the small Peranakan community locally known as Mek and Awang. This community is quite similar to their counterparts in Penang and Malacca known as Baba and Nyonya, but still retains its own uniqueness and differences. Mek and Awang community is centred in two main places, Chinatown, and Kampung Tiruk, a village about 14 km from Kuala Terengganu.

Similar to the Baba and Nyonya in Penang and Malacca, the traditional costume of the Terengganuan Peranakan women is a special type of kebaya known as kebaya potong kot. Ornamental broidery is typical of this kebaya.

As the name implies, the residents and business traders of Chinatown are mostly Chinese although nowadays, there are other Malay or Indian traders. Small grocery shops, butcher shops, hardware shops, kopitiams (traditional Chinese coffee shops), cafes, restaurants and so on can be found there. Many of the businesses have been operating here for decades and are handed down to the new generations of traders.

Cuisine
Kampung Cina is also known for its local delicacies such as roti paung, a special local bread, durian cake, pulut dipa and the white keropok lekor, which is made of wolf herring or ikan parang. Many local Chinese dishes, along with other Malay and Indian fares, can be found in the restaurants and food courts located here. As per usual with many other cities in Malaysia, modern restaurants and cafes are also available.

The Chinese dishes (especially the Peranakan dishes) are influenced by the local East Coast culture. Among the influence is the usage of budu), a fish sauce made from anchovies. Local Chinese or Peranakan dishes that can be found here include ayam pachok, akok, rojak ceranang, roti paung dan pulut lepa. The kopitiams, cafes and restaurants that are available here offer local delicacies, mostly Chinese, but also Malay and Indian food.

Attractions
In the year 2004, The Government declared that Kampung Cina's various historical structures and area was to be gazetted as a heritage site of Terengganu. As a significant area of the city's Chinese community, it is home to two Chinese temples, Ho Ann Kiong and Tien Hou Kong, which was built in 1801 and 1896. Ho Ann Kiong contains a statue of the Goddess of the Sea, Mazu. Unfortunately, a fire broke out that ultimately destroyed 60% of the temple. A restoration was carried out and now Ho Ann Kiong functions again. Another landmark is the 19th-century Low Tiey water well, erected in 1875. It was believed to have been excavated and constructed in 1875 by Low Tiey Lim Keng Hoon (1820-1882) as a public service to the community. It was built with two separate bathing chambers for men and women with a six-metre high wall. After years and years, it still supplies clean water to Chinatown's residents.

Many of the buildings here have undergone restoration or beautification programmes to make them more appealing, but without destroying the heritage value. While the shophouses still retain their distinctive characteristics, they are now brighter and livelier. One can still see repair works being carried out on several shophouses. Murals can be found in many sections of the area. The recent attractions in Kampung Cina are its back alleys, many of which are transformed into thematic lanes. For example, Turtle Alley, the narrowest back lane, has information related to various turtles and turtle-themed wall and floor mosaics. Tauke Wee Seng Hee Cultural Lane is another such thematic lane. This alley showcases an old, colonial-era telephone booth and a classic cast iron post box (still in use) painted in bright red. The walls also displays a collection of old signs from shops in Chinatown and several Han Dynasty-era poems. These lanes have become tourist and photography spots.

Image gallery

References

External links

Chinatowns in Malaysia
Kuala Terengganu
Shopping districts and streets in Malaysia
Restaurant districts and streets in Malaysia
Tourist attractions in Terengganu


title: Katherine Ruth Bridges

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Katherine Ruth Bridges (born 1954) is an American landscape architect. In 2014 she is a landscape architect for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. She has been the principal landscape architect or contributed to the design of over 50 parks in the New York City area.  Her work includes the Blue Heron Park Preserve in Staten Island, New York, a large nature refuge that is part of Staten Island's "Blue Belt."  Bridges' designs include elements of a site's natural systems, enhancement of wildlife habitats, and also its history.

Early life and education

Bridges was born in 1954 in Manhattan.  The family moved to Staten Island in 1960.  Her mother is a retired New Dorp High School teacher, and her father was a Civil Engineer with Goodkind & O'Dea (now part of Dewberry).

Bridges attended, Notre Dame Academy, Trinity Lutheran School, St Joseph by the Sea, and Curtis High School, graduating from the latter in 1972.  She attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. In 1975 she participated in the  UGA Studies Abroad Program, in Cortona, Italy where she met Pietro Porcinai, a landscape architect with a studio in Fiesole, who would become a major influence.   She also studied with Paolo Soleri. In 1977 Bridges participated in "Ecology", a three-hour special radio program broadcast on WUOG-FM in Athens, Georgia.

Bridges graduated from the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia in 1977 with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture.  Her undergraduate thesis was entitled Christus Gardens: A Design, and is a study of Christus Gardens, which was a public attraction in Gatlinburg, TN.  She completed the Landscape Architecture Licensing Examination in 1981.

Career

In 1984, Bridges was awarded the Merit Prize, at the UGA Studies Abroad Group Show, in Cortona, Italy. In summer 1984 and summer 1985 she was artist-in-residence at the UGA Cortona Program.  During the period autumn 1984 to summer 1985, she was a consulting Landscape Architect at the Central Park Conservancy. She was registered as a landscape architect in the state of New York in 1986.

In 1986 she won First Prize in a competition for a Park Master Plan in Reggio Emilia, Italy. From July 1986 to December 1987 Bridges was a consulting Landscape Architect for projects in Florence, Italy; while there she edited a book about Pietro Porcinai, which was published by the Italian Association of Landscape Architects.   From January 1988 to March 1989 she was a Landscape Architect at  Quennell Rothschild & Partners.

Bridges was hired by the New York City Parks and Recreation in April 1989 and has worked there since. In 1991 she received a "Progressive Architecture" Merit Award for Flushing Meadow-Corona Park Master Plan from Quenell Rothschild Associates, and earned the NYC Parks & Recreation Commissioner Employee Recognition for the In-house Landscape Architecture Squad. In 1996 the NYC Art Commission presented her, jointly with Charles L. King, with an Award for Excellence in Design for Blue Heron Park Master Plan and Phase I. In 1999 Bridges received the NYC Parks & Recreation State of the Parks Best New Capital Project award.

From May 2000 to February 2008, she was Brooklyn Borough Supervisor, in charge of Brooklyn Capital Park Projects, and was a member of the Horticultural Committee from May 2002 to August 2003.  Bridges has planned and supervised the construction of many parks in New York City, including Robert E. Venable Park in Brooklyn, which was completed in 2010. Also in 2010 she contributed to the study on sustainable practices for New York City parks.

In 2011 she designed and led the project to develop Canarsie Park.

Bridges appeared in a 2012 television advertisement for the AFL-CIO. That year she lectured about the Canarsie Park project at the 2012 meeting of the New Jersey chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

In 2015 the Beverley Willis Architecture Foundation selected her design for Canarsie Park as a winner of the Built By Women - New York City (BxWNYC) award.

Professional societies

Bridges has been a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the International Federation of Landscape Architects, the Executive Board of ASLA New York Chapter, and Executive Board of Staten Island Botanical Garden.

Publications
Prof. Pietro Porcinai - 1910-1986, 1986. (editor) Italian Association of Landscape Architects, Florence Italy
"I1 Cantico delle Creature", ASLA Groundworks, NYC. 1985
"Sowing Wildflowers", Parks Maintenance Magazine, Atlanta, GA, 1980
A Plan for Sustainable Practices within NYC Parks (contributor)

Schoolhouse No. 5

In 2010, Bridges purchased a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse in Hamden, New York, identified as Schoolhouse No. 5, and rehabilitated it using current preservation principles. The schoolhouse is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Personal life

Bridges lives on the lower east side of Manhattan.  She is a certified yoga instructor, giving classes in NYC, and attends events at the Kripalu Center for Yoga.  She trained at the American Viniyoga Institute.  She is also a Marathon Runner, and completed the NYC Marathon in 1991, 1992, & 1993.

References

New York Artists Backstage by Michiko Rico Nose, 2006 – Profile as Artist – pp 72–75

External links
 "Alumni Profile – Park Place". The University of Georgia Magazine, Athens, GA. 2008.

Living people
1954 births
20th-century American artists
American landscape architects
American women architects
Women landscape architects


title: Massimo Ciavarro

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Massimo Ciavarro (born 7 November 1957) is an Italian actor and television personality.

Born in Rome, Ciavarro started his career in 1972, as a fotoromanzi actor. He made his film debut in 1976, in the commedia sexy all'italiana Sorbola...che romagnola!, and was the star of a series of romantic comedy teen films in the first half of the 1980s. Since the 2000s he has focused his activities on television, appearing in TV series and on several reality shows, notably the sixth edition of L'Isola dei Famosi. He was married for several years to the actress Eleonora Giorgi.

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1957 births
Male actors from Rome
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Living people
Participants in Italian reality television series
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title: Klodeta Gjini

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Klodeta Gijni (Tirana, 20 August 1964) is a former Albanian high jumper. She is the current national outdoor record holder (1.92 m). It was the only female member of the Albanian team at the first edition of the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland) from 7 to 14 August 1983.

Biography

She began her sporting activity in the special sports classes at the "20 Vjetori i çlirimit" school and soon realized that high jump was her future in athletics: in that regards, during her sports career for ten years in a row she was national champion  (from 1980 to 1990). She made also progress in national records and on August 21, 1989 in Tirana, she passed the bar placed at m. 1.92, an achievement that up to today is the Albanian national record. During her sports militancy she also achieved good results in pentathlon and heptathlon. Member of the Albanian athletics team, from 1980 to 1991 she participated in international activities also climbing on the podium, and was the only female athlete representing the colors of his country at the first World Athletics Championship in Helsinki, Finland, from 7 to 14 August 1983. From 1973 to 1992 she was member of the sports club "17 Nëntori", the representative team of the city of Tirana, and after her transfer to Italy in the 1992-93 season was member of Assi Banca Toscana team.

Studies

Klodeta Gijni graduated at the University of Tirana in Business Economics, (1982-1986) and achieved the ISEF Diploma in the years 1988-1992.  Later she moved to Italy when she achieved a short degree at the University of Bologna in 2006 in Physical Education and Sport Sciences and in 2008 she completed the specialized degree course in Adapted Preventive Gymnastics. In 2017 she added another degree in Marketing Management, always at the Bologna University. Nowadays she is professor of   Physical Education and Sport Science in a Bologna High School and she still holds her passion for athletics as a master athlete of the Felsinean team "Acquadela". She is "Grand Master" of the Albanian Republic and "Emeritus Master of Sport" and honorary citizen of the Përmet municipality.
She also keeps and runs a blog where she discusses topics about sports, wellness and marketing.

International competitions

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1964 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tirana
Albanian high jumpers
Albanian female athletes
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World Athletics Championships athletes for Albania
Albanian emigrants to Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games competitors for Albania


title: Nancy Batson Crews

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Nancy Batson Crews (1920-2001) was one of the original women to participate in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) during World War II.

Personal life
Crews was born to Stephen and Ruth Batson in 1920 and she was one of four children. Crews considered herself very fortunate to be born into an upper-middle-class family, as well as, parents that allowed her to be outside the Southern belle ideal. Her mother instilled Southern values but allowed Crews to be who she wanted to be. She wanted to fly since she saw Charles Lindbergh in Birmingham. Additionally, Crews was an excellent athlete during her youth, she participated in horseback riding and golf. During high school, Crews was on the cheerleading team. At the University of Alabama, Crews was elected to the highest coed office. In 1941, she graduated from University of Alabama. On February 1, 1946 she married Paul Crews and together they had three children, Paul, Radford, and Elinor. Finally, what was originally believed to be pneumonia was actually lung cancer which caused Crews' death on January 14, 2001.

Time in WAFS
In August 1943, WAFS was changed to WASP.[Women Airforce Service Pilots] (WASP) was created because Col. William H. Tunner commander of the Ferrying Division needed so many ferry pilots that he was willing to allow trained women to perform the job. In 1944, Crews graduated from pursuit school. Crews' assignment was to ferry P-47s from the factory to embarkation points to later be moved to war zones. She often would travel one coast to the other at heights up to four miles high at three hundred miles per hour. She was one of the first twenty-eight women to pilot a United States plane in World War II.

Life after WASP
While Crews stopped flying between 1949 and 1959 because her children were young, she continued to fly for most of her life. During the 1960s, Crews and her Super Club created a flying business. Through her business, she learned to how fly gliders and later became an instructor. In her seventies, she created a land and home development business. She was the first president of WAFS post-war organization between the year 1972–1975. Additionally, she was elected mayor of California City for one term in 1978. Also, she served one term as the St. Claire County Airport Commissioner. At seventy-nine, Crews co-piloted a corporate turbojet for almost eighty hours.

Awards and recognition
In 1989, Crews was inducted into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame. In 1997, a plaque with her name was placed outside of Forest of Friendship. In 2004, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. Finally, on March 10, 2010 Crews and the WASPs as a whole received a Congressional Gold Medal. Crews' uniform, Mooney Mite, and first logbook are kept at the Southern Museum of Flight in Alabama.

References

Further reading
Crews, Nancy Batson, Dawn Letson, and Patricia J. Williams. Nancy Batson Crews: An Oral History. 2000.
Gott, Kay. Women in Pursuit: Flying Fighters for the Air Transport Command Ferrying Division During World War II: A Collection & Recollection. McKinleyville, CA: K. Gott, 1993.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn. Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama's First Lady of Flight. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn. The Originals: The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II. Sarasota, FL: Disc-Us Books, 2001.
Turner, Betty Stagg. Out of the Blue and into History. Arlington Heights, IL: Aviatrix Pub., 2001.

External links
NANCY BATSON CREWS
Nancy Batson Crews
World War II and Alabama

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2001 deaths
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Congressional Gold Medal recipients
Mayors of places in California
California City, California
Women mayors of places in California
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians


title: My Very Best Friend

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My Very Best Friend is a 1996 American made-for-TV thriller film directed by Joyce Chopra, and starring Jaclyn Smith and Jill Eikenberry.

Plot
Former model Dana Griffin (Smith) invites her best friend Barbara Wilkins (Eikenberry) and her family over to San Francisco to attend her wedding to multimillionaire business tycoon Ted Marshall (Mason). Ted thinks that Dana is pregnant, but Barbara quickly finds out that Dana is lying. She initially tries to persuade Dana to tell the truth, but Dana convinces her to keep quiet, as she is pursuing to ultimately give Ted what he wishes for. Shortly after the wedding, Ted tries to surprise Dana at her so-called appointment with her doctor, only to find out about the scheme. Devastated, he tells her on their yacht that he will have the marriage annulled. In an act of desperation and outrage, Dana then pushes Ted off the yacht and watches as he drowns. She then quickly calls the police, lying about the cause of his drowning.

Shortly after Ted's death, she receives a visit from his best friend, lawyer Jay (Sanford). Jay was contacted by Ted about the annulment and openly suspects Dana of having killed her husband. Because of Jay's suspicion, Dana waives all rights to his estate and moves in with Barbara and her family in New Hampshire. It does not take long before she starts causing friction between Barbara and her husband Alex (Irwin). At dinner, Dana reminds Barbara that Alex was not there for her when she gave birth to their now 13-year-old daughter Kate (Warnat), and later she plants one of her earrings in Alex's closet that Barbara ultimately finds. Barbara's friend Molly Butler (Place) does not like Dana, because she knows that Dana slept with Alex when she was 19 years old and when he was already engaged to Barbara.

In bed, Alex admits to Barbara that even though he has the supposedly perfect life, he still feels lonely and empty inside. Dana overhears the conversation through a voice recorder that she has secretly installed in their bedroom and uses the information to grow closer to Alex by making up a story of being lonely as well. They kiss briefly, unaware that the Wilkins' housemaid Rose (Elliott) saw them. Barbara, meanwhile, decides to work on her marriage and family and is worried that both Alex and Kate instead prefer to spend their time with Dana. She asks Dana to spend less time with Alex, but he is outraged when he finds out and leaves the home. Feeling mistreated, Barbara acts out by cutting his parachute with a knife. She then orders Rose to replace it, but she forgets.

Later that evening, Dana lures Barbara away by saying that Kate is in the hospital, making sure that she is not present when throwing a surprise party for Alex. They get drunk and spend the night together, and the next morning, Dana is already making plans to get married, when Alex tells her that he has no interest in being with her and has had made a mistake. Barbara catches the couple in bed and confronts Dana with all her schemes. Dana then reveals that the abortion she had twenty years earlier was of Alex's child. Barbara leaves heartbroken, and Alex is about to follow her when Dana shoots his gun on him. Alex ultimately overpowers Dana and then leaves to go parachute jumping. Because of being cut up, the parachute does not open during the fall, and Alex dies. Initially, Barbara is questioned as the perpetrator for cutting up the parachute, but through her own voice recorder device, all of Dana's schemes, including murdering Ted, are put to light as the police are present.

Cast
Jaclyn Smith as Dana Griffin
Jill Eikenberry as Barbara Wilkins
Tom Irwin as Alex Wilkins
Tom Mason as Ted
Kimberley Warnat as Kate Wilkins
Beverley Elliott as Rose
Garwin Sanford as Jay
Mary Kay Place as Molly Butler
Robert Lewis as Trooper Russo
Steve Makaj as Trooper Harris
Ryan Taylor as Bobby

Production
The script was based on a screenplay, suggesting that the film was once developed as a feature film. Production took place in Vancouver between January 16 and February 15, 1996.

Reception
Variety was positive about the film, and especially praised director Joyce Chopra: "Bigscreen helmer Joyce Chopra [..] directs with a sure hand, eliciting multilayered perfs from her leads and delivering a wholly enjoyable tale. [..] Chopra directs with subtlety, and never lets Smith go over the top even when her character does. Eikenberry brings depth to a role that borders on revolting goodness, a la Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind."

The reviewer of the Chicago Tribune was less enthusiastic, but attributed that "for what it is, this is actually pretty well done, with strong performances from Eikenberry and Tom Irwin as her husband."

The film was released on VHS in June 1998.

References

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1996 thriller films
1996 television films
1996 films
American thriller films
Films set in New Hampshire
Lifetime (TV network) films
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films


title: Colin Bradshaw

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Colin Bradshaw is an English physician and ornithologist who was chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1997 to 2008. He was active in the BBRC for almost 20 years, both as a committee member and as chairman. He is a medical doctor by profession and travels extensively for birding, and among his other hobbies are guitar, cricket, and photography.

Life and career
As chairman of the BBRC he was responsible for running the organisation, and leading their adjudications of rare bird records in the United Kingdom.

Some testimonies about him given on or after on his retirement in 2008:
 "After 18 years involvement with the British Birds Rarities Committee, the last 11 as chairman, Colin Bradshaw will retire in 31 March 2008. His outstanding managerial skills and vision have steered the committee through times of great and often difficult change. These have included unprecedented developments in identification and taxonomy, the move to electronic submission and most recently the recruitment of a new secretary. He will now take a very well earned rest."
 "A lifelong birder, Colin was Chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee for over a decade. Since retiring from that he has been able to expand the amount of photography he has done. He combines a busy medical career with his other interests of playing guitar, rugby & cricket, travel, cooking birding & photography. He doesn't have much time to sleep!"
 BirdWatch magazine
 "Many thanks to Colin Bradshaw for these two fine bird photos taken during a short trip to Islay a couple of weeks ago. Colin retired from the British Birds Rarities Committee in 2008 after a total of 19 years service, including 11 as chairman".

He continued to be involved the BBRC's activities after retiring.

Bibliography

Books
 The Birds of Battlesteads - a photographic guide to the birds of the Battlesteads Hotel and the surrounding areas. These areas include the moors around Hadrian's Wall, the border forests and the Tyne Valley. 2011
 Birds of Brier Island - a photographic guide to the birds of Brier Island, Nova Scotia. 2011

Articles
 "Identifying ‘Siberian’ Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita tristis". November 2009. The Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club
This article was referenced in a  Carl Zeiss Award
Several articles in British Birds on morphological similarity between cross-generic species-pairs e.g. eastern olivaceous and Blyth's reed warblers and paddyfield and booted warblers
 (2000). "Separating Acrocephalus and Hippolais warblers". British Birds 93 (6): 277.
 with Steele, Jimmy (1995). "Mystery photographs 195". British Birds 88 (11): 561–564.
 with Steele, Jimmy (1997). "Mystery warblers in Tselinograd". British Birds 90 (4): 155–158.
 "Trying to Find a White-rumped Sandpiper - A Sad Tale from Cresswell". September 2011. Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club
 "What does the British Birds Rarities Committee do?". 23 May 2004. British Birds Rarities Committee
 "A review of the 1950–57 British rarities". British Birds 99(9):460–64
 "Rare seabirds and a record of Herald Petrel". British Birds 95(4):156–65
 "The occurrence of Moustached Warbler in Britain". British Birds 93(1):29–38

Committee activities
 2000 Association of European Rarities Committees
 2000 British Ornithologist's Union Records Committee - 27th Report (October 2000)
 1995 Association of European Rarities Committees
 The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC), responsible for maintaining the official list of birds recorded in Britain

References

External links
 British Birds Rarities Committee

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
English ornithologists
Nature photographers
20th-century English medical doctors


title: ShirtPunch

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ShirtPunch is a Canadian internet retailer for apparel. ShirtPunch won Canada Post's E-commerce Innovation Award.

Specialty
ShirtPunch specializes in nerd and pop culture themed t-shirts and sweatshirts. Each design offered is available for 24 hours, with new designs made available daily. ShirtPunch utilizes a community of independent artists and designers, with designs frequently featuring mashups of pop culture, video game, anime and comic book themes. ShirtPunch also featured licensed partnerships with Adventure Time, Star Wars, Kevin Smith and other media.

Collaboration
ShirtPunch frequently collaborates with celebrities who design or were featured in their apparel, including: Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Rickey Gervais, Rupert Grint, Laurence Fishburne and Warwick Davis. Some of these designs have been in support of organizations such as Little People UK, Make A Wish Foundation and THRIVEGulu, with 100% of proceeds going to charity. ShirtPunch also partnered with Canada Post in support of the Canada Post Community Foundation for Children.

In July 2017, ShirtPunch shut down, without any public explanation. In August 2017, its parent company, Fan Blocks, filed for bankruptcy.

In October 2017 ShirtPunch relaunched under new ownership.

References

External links
Official Website

Online clothing retailers of Canada


title: Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery

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Rowntree Mackintosh plc ( ), trading as Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery, is a defunct English confectionery company based in York, England. It was formed by the merger of Rowntree's and John Mackintosh Co. The company was famous for making chocolate brands, such as Kit Kat, Aero and Quality Street. It was purchased by Nestlé in 1987, with products rebranded under its own brand.

Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery owned Mackintosh's former Halifax headquarters and factory. The factory is still in use, located next to Halifax railway station, for production of Quality Street and other confections.

The former Rowntree's factory and headquarters were in York. Nestlé still operates in York with one of the world's largest confectionery factories and a global research centre for confectionery base.

History

Background

In 1862, Rowntree's was founded at Castlegate, in York by Henry Isaac Rowntree, as the company manager bought out the Tuke family. In 1864 Rowntree acquired an old iron foundry at Tanners Moat for £1,000, and moved production there. In 1869 the factory was staffed by 12 men. By 1869 Rowntree was in financial difficulties and his brother, Joseph Rowntree, joined him in full partnership, and H. I. Rowntree & Co was formally established.

Rowntree had struggled to make a milk chocolate product of comparable quality or value to Cadbury's Dairy Milk. In 1927, the company began to market its fruit gums, and its pastilles from 1928, in the now familiar tube packaging.

Rowntree entered the continental Europe market in the 1960s, establishing production facilities in Hamburg, Dijon, Elst and Noisiel. After Eights were launched in 1962.

In 1969, the Rowntree board rejected a £37 million takeover bid from General Foods. That same year, Rowntree entered into a long-term agreement with Hershey whereby Hershey would produce Rowntree products under license in the US. Rowntree merged with John Mackintosh and Co in 1969, to become Rowntree Mackintosh. Mackintosh produced Rolo, Munchies, Caramac and Quality Street.

Formation of Rowntree Mackintosh
In 1969, Rowntree's merged with John Mackintosh and Sons Ltd. to form "Rowntree Mackintosh plc" The company signed a long-time agreement with Hershey Foods Corporation to market and even produce some of its products in the U.S., starting with Kit Kat. The following year, the company expanded opening plants in Castleford and Leicester. In 1971, French business "Chocolate-Menier SA" joined the group. The company released its own newspaper, Rowntree Mackintosh News, with a circulation of 26,000 copies.

The Yorkie and Lion chocolate bars were introduced in 1976. In 1978 the Hershey contract was renegotiated, giving Hershey the rights to the Kit Kat and Rolo brands in the US in perpetuity.

Kenneth Dixon was appointed as chairman and chief executive in 1981. Between 1981 and 1987, Rowntree invested nearly £400 million in upgrading its manufacturing facilities and developing high volume, product dedicated equipment for several of the company's brands, including Kit Kat, After Eights and Smarties.

Between 1983 and 1987, Rowntree spent nearly £400 million on acquisitions, including Tom's Foods for £138 million (1983), Laura Secord Chocolates for £19 million (1983), Hot Sam Pretzels for £14 million (1986), the Sunmark confectionery business in the US for £156 million (1986) and Gale's honey for £11 million (1986). They also bought Scunthorpe snack maker Sooner Foods, known for inventing Nik Naks and for making Murphy’s Crisps, Seyshells and Wheat Crunchies.

Between 1982 and 1987, the number of UK staff was reduced from 19,700 to 15,600.

In 1987 Rowntree operated 25 factories in nine countries and employed 33,000 people, including close to 16,000 in its eight UK operations. Group turnover was £1.4 billion, with the UK and Ireland accounting for 40 percent of the total.

Purchase by Nestle
In 1987, Swiss company Nestlé purchased Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery, re-branded all of its products and took over the Halifax and York headquarters and factories.

After the acquisition, Nestlé slowly began to re-introduce the brand under the name "Rowntrees". These include Rowntree's Randoms, and Fruit Pastilles. These are the only two non-Nestle branded sweets as no Mackintosh sweets have been re-branded.

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title: Aidar Battalion

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24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar", also known as the Aidar Battalion, is an assault battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

The unit took part in the war in Eastern Ukraine and had roughly 300-400 members in 2014. It was named after the Aidar River in the Luhansk region where it was initially deployed.  In 2014, Amnesty International reported that members of the Aidar Battalion had committed war crimes during the war in Donbas. It was disbanded in 2015 and reconstituted as the 24th Separate Assault Battalion of the Ukrainian Army, before being absorbed into the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade in 2016. As of October 2018 the battalion lost 130 soldiers killed in action. The Battalion's founder and former commander is .

History

Created in May 2014, Aidar was the first Territorial Defense Battalion of Ukraine - a volunteer military detachment subordinate to the Ministry of Defence.

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, former Aidar commander  became a member of the Verkhovna Rada representing the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko; he ranked third on the party's election list. The commander of Aidar's second company, Ihor Lapin, was an MP for People's Front after winning a constituency seat in Lutsk in the same election. Neither was reelected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election (Melnychuk failed to win a seat in an electoral district in Novomoskovsk with 0.31% of the votes and Lapin was not high enough on the election list (placed 49th) of European Solidarity to get elected).

On 8 August 2014 Ukraine's Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey stated that the battalion would be reorganised, would receive better equipment and would see more combat missions. Melnychuk has described that order as "criminal", but has admitted that most of Aidar's soldiers had demobilized or come under official control by 2015.

The battalion came to spotlight after several dozen of its members were killed in an ambush south of Shchastia after the announcement of the ceasefire on 6 September 2014.

Late January and early February 2015 the battalion picketed several government buildings, which escalated into clashes.

Aidar was formally disbanded on 2 March 2015 "to prevent illegal actions of some representatives of volunteer units" (according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces). After a "careful selection of soldiers", it was then reorganized as the 24th Separate Assault Battalion of the Ukrainian Army. Lieutenant Colonel Yevhen Ptashnik was appointed as commander of the battalion. The 24th Separate Assault Battalion was made part of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade in January 2016. Later it became a part of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade.

Members and structure
The Aidar Battalion consisted of volunteers from Lviv, Chernihiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Crimea, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Donetsk regions. It included a member of the Luhansk Oblast's legislature, a former mayor of Oleksandrivsk, and self-defense activists from the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. In June 2014, it had around 400 members.

The battalion had several subdivisions:
 Kholodnyi Yar
 Company "West"
 Afgan company
 Volyn company
 Autorota
 Golden company
 Gregory Makles Company

Two Swedish neo-Nazis from the Svenskarnas parti joined Aidar in 2013 and 2014 and made headlines in the Swedish and German media, since one of the Nazis was running for a local council in elections, and the same media heavily criticized the Nazi volunteers. According to Huseyn Aliyev, a political scientist at the University of Glasgow, by 2015 the battalion's radical right-wing ideology had "toned down", and the ideology of it along with other volunteer battalions in Ukraine was best described as "nationalist-patriotic".

Allegations of human rights violations and war crimes

In July 2014, Russia began a criminal investigation of Aidar's commander, Serhiy Melnychuk, for "organizing the killing of civilians". Its volunteer pilot, Nadiya Savchenko, was captured by pro-Russian separatists near Luhansk, transported to Russia and charged with killing two Russian journalists.

On 8 September 2014 Amnesty International claimed that the battalion had committed war crimes, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible executions.

On 24 December 2014, Amnesty International reported that the unit was blocking humanitarian aid from Ukraine reaching the population of the separatist-controlled areas. Over half the population in these areas depended on food aid. According to Amnesty International, the Aidar, Donbas and Dnipro-1 battalions said they are blocking the aid because they "believe food and clothing are ending up in the wrong hands and may be sold instead of being given as humanitarian aid". Denis Krivosheev, acting Director of Europe and Central Asia for Amnesty International, stated that starving civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime.

In April 2015, the Ukrainian government-appointed Governor of Luhansk Hennadiy Moskal stated that Aidar battalion was "terrorizing the region" and asked Ukrainian Defense Ministry to rein in its members after a series of thefts, including ambulances and the takeover of a bread factory.

Gallery

Veterans of the Battalion on the March of Defenders. Independence Day, Kyiv, 24 July 2019

References

External links

Territorial defence battalions of Ukraine
History of Luhansk Oblast
Military units and formations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Ukraine
Far-right politics in Ukraine


The Water Witch Steam Fire Engine Company No. 5 is a historic fire station at 1814 Gilpin Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware.  The -story brick building was designed by Edward L. Rice, Jr., a leading Wilmington architect, and built in 1893.  The building is an architecturally eclectic mix of Queen Anne and Second Empire styling, and has retained many of its original interior details.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware

References

Fire stations completed in 1893
Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware
1893 establishments in Delaware
Queen Anne architecture in Delaware
Second Empire architecture in Delaware


title: Rays of Light (Broiler song)

text:
"Rays of Light" is a song written by the Norwegian duo,  Broiler. This is the duo's third single of 2014 following "Get Drunk" and "F*** Everybody". It was inspired by Madonna's song "Ray of Light", which was praised positively for its lyrics, inspiration, and qualified dance music technology. This song features vocals from Chris Holsten, whereas the entire mix is done by Broiler and has a lyrics video with sunrise and sunset. This is an electro song that uses piano, guitar, house beats, and synthesizer in parts of the song.

Reception
The song got mostly positive reviews and light because of its lyrics, dance tracks, and mix. MetroLyrics rated it 10/10. Other critics gave it 97%.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

References

DJ Broiler songs
2014 songs
Songs written by Thomas G:son


title: Aidan Larkin

text:
Aidan J. Larkin (born March 1946) is a former Irish nationalist politician.

Born near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Larkin studied at St Patrick's College, Armagh, University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast.  He qualified in law and joined the Bar of Northern Ireland, but worked instead as a teacher before becoming a full-time activist in the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

A founder member of the SDLP, Larkin was its first chairman in Magherafelt, at the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections, Larkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council, and later in the year he won a seat in Mid Ulster on the Northern Ireland Assembly.  However, he narrowly lost his seat at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, and left politics a few years later.

References

1946 births
Living people
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of University College Dublin
Members of Magherafelt District Council
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974
People educated at St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh
People from Magherafelt
Social Democratic and Labour Party politicians


title: Ginger Pig

text:
Ginger Pig is a butchery which used to raise livestock in the Vale of Pickering and North York Moors and retail the meat in its shops in London and supplies restaurants and other specialist butchers. It was founded by Tim Wilson in 2003.  A series of Ginger Pig cookbooks based upon their produce was released in 2013.

History

Tim Wilson came from a farming background but initially dealt in antiques and property development.  He acquired an old farm in Nottinghamshire and kept three saddleback pigs there to make good use of the pigsty.   When they were grown and slaughtered, he bought three gilt Tamworth sows, Milli, Molly and Mandy and a Tamworth boar named Dai Bando. These bred quickly and so he soon had an abundance of pork.  He learnt how to make sausages and, in 1998, his friend Anne Wilson started a stall at the Borough Market selling his sausages.  The stall was successful and became a permanent outlet. Chef Paul Hughes then joined the business, bringing expertise in charcuterie and, together, they opened a butcher's shop in the Marylebone district of London. The business continued to prosper and in 2012 had grown to three farms, five shops and a series of cookery books.

See also
 List of butcher shops

Bibliography
Ginger Pig Meat Book - Fran Warde and Tim Wilson (Mitchell Beazley, 2011)
Ginger Pig Farmhouse Cookbook - Fran Warde and Tim Wilson (Mitchell Beazley, 2013)

References

External links
The Ginger Pig — official website

2003 establishments in the United Kingdom
Butcher shops
Shops in London
Companies based in North Yorkshire
Food retailers of the United Kingdom


title: Dieidapersa

text:
Dieidapersa is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae. Its only species is Dieidapersa persa, which is found in Iran.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1911
Cossidae genera


title: International Society of Biomechanics

text:
The International Society of Biomechanics, commonly known as the ISB, is a society dedicated to promoting biomechanics in its various forms.  It promotes the study of all areas of biomechanics at the international level, although special emphasis is given to the biomechanics of human movement.  The Society encourages international contacts amongst scientists, promotes the dissemination of knowledge, and forms liaisons with national organizations.  The Society's membership includes scientists from a variety of disciplines including anatomy, physiology, engineering (mechanical, industrial aerospace, etc.), orthopedics, rehabilitation medicine, sport science and medicine, ergonomics, electro-physiological kinesiology and others.

History

The decision to establish the society was made at the 3rd International Seminar on Biomechanics held in Rome in 1971.  This meeting was organized by the “Working Group on Biomechanics” which was part of the International Council of Sport and Physical Education, which itself was part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).  At this meeting on September 29 it was voted to form the ISB at the next meeting.  The 4th International Seminar on Biomechanics was held at Penn State University from August 26 until August 31, 1973. The constitution was voted on and approved on August 29.  Two hundred and fifty of those present became charter members of the society.

Executive Council

The ISB is governed by its Executive Council.  This council is elected every two years, by ballot, and is composed of officers and council members that represent countries from throughout the world and scientific areas that span all facets of biomechanics.  The council, which meets annually, provides leadership for the continued development of the Society.  Many on-going activities are performed by Council appointed sub-committees.  The council also publishes a quarterly newsletter, known as ISB NOW, to inform members of Society developments and future events.

Congresses

The ISB was formed in 1973 and has held a conference every other year since then.  The counting of the congress started with the 1st International Seminar on Biomechanics held in Zurich in 1967.  The list of conferences and their geographical locations are given below.

Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture

At each ISB Congress the Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture is presented.  This lecture is named to honor Jurg Wartenweiler (1915-1976) who was the first president of the ISB.  He organized The First International Seminar on Biomechanics in Zürich, Switzerland in 1967.  This conference eventually morphed into the biennial ISB Congresses.  He was a faculty member at the ETH Zürich.  Typically this lecture has been the first academic presentation of the conference.  The list of Wartenweiler Memorial Lecturers and their topics follow.

Muybridge Medal

At the ISB Congress every two years, the ISB presents the Muybridge Award.  This award is the most prestigious award of the Society and is awarded for career achievements in biomechanics. The award is named after Eadward Muybridge (1830-1904), who was one of the first to use cinematography for the study of human and animal movement.  The list of Muybridge Award winners and their lecture topics follow,

Honorary Member

The ISB has a number of categories of membership including: student, charter, full, and emeritus.  The remaining category is that of honorary member, which is restricted to a few individuals whose work has made outstanding contributions to the development of Biomechanics. The honorary membership currently consists of 16 individuals.  Unfortunately some of these members have died (Levan Chkhaidze, James Hay, Ernst Jokl, Chauncey Morehouse, John Paul, Jacquelin Perry, David Winter).  The other honorary members and their current academic affiliations are,
 Peter R. Cavanagh, University of Washington, USA
 Paavo Komi, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
 Hideji Matsui, University of Nagoya, Japan
 Doris Miller, University of Western Ontario, Canada
 Mitsumasa Miyashita, University of Tokyo, Japan
 Richard C. Nelson, Penn State University, USA
 Benno Nigg, University of Calgary, Canada
 Robert Norman, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Fred Yeadon, Loughborough University, UK

Affiliated Groups

Many other biomechanics groups and societies are affiliate members of the ISB.  These groups include:
 American Society of Biomechanics
 Australia/New Zealand Society of Biomechanics
 Brazilian Society of Biomechanics
 British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
 Bulgarian Society of Biomechanics
 Canadian Society of Biomechanics
 Chinese Society of Sports Biomechanics
 Czech Society of Biomechanics
 Danish Society of Biomechanics
 German Society of Biomechanics
 Hellenic Society of Biomechanics (Greece)
 International Society of Biomechanics in Sports
 Japanese Society of Biomechanics
 Korean Society for Orthopaedic Research, Biomechanics, and Basic Science
 Polish Society of Biomechanics
 Portuguese Society of Biomechanics
 Russian Society of Biomechanics
 Societe de Biomecanique (France)
 Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics

Technical  and Working Groups

The Society also supports technical and working groups, which are groups of individuals dedicated to enhancing knowledge of specialized areas within biomechanics.   Currently active technical sections include,
 Computer Simulation
 Shoulder Biomechanics
 Footwear Biomechanics
 3-D Motion Analysis

References

Biomechanics
International learned societies


title: Sebastian Cappelen

text:
Sebastian Cappelen (born 14 April 1990) is a Danish professional golfer.

Cappelen played college golf at the University of Arkansas where he was a four-time All-American and won four times including the 2013 SEC Championship. He also played for the European team in the Palmer Cup three times.

After graduating, Cappelen turned professional in June 2014. He Monday qualified for the Air Capital Classic on the Web.com Tour, surviving a seven-man playoff for his spot in the tournament. In the tournament itself, Cappelen shot an 18-under-par 262 to beat Matt Weibring by one stroke. The win, the first by a Dane on the Web.com Tour, earned Cappelen his card for the rest of the 2014 season. He was the 14th player to win his Web.com Tour debut and the first since Ben Kohles in 2012. Despite the win, Cappelen barely missed earning a PGA Tour card, finishing 30th on the regular season money list and outside the Top 50 in the finals money list.

Cappelen made his PGA Tour debut at the 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship, playing on a sponsor's exemption, where he led after the first round. He faded in the last three rounds to finish T35.

Professional wins (2)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

Korn Ferry Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances
Amateur
European Amateur Team Championship (representing Denmark): 2009, 2011
Palmer Cup (representing Europe): 2011, 2012 (winners), 2013

See also
2019 Korn Ferry Tour Finals graduates

References

External links

Danish male golfers
Arkansas Razorbacks men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Sebastian
Danish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Sportspeople from Odense
1990 births
Living people


title: 1940: Myth and Reality

text:
1940: Myth and Reality is a controversial 1990 book by British historian Clive Ponting. It is a revisionist history of the Second World War, particularly the divergences between the rhetoric and the reality in relation to popular British narratives of the Battle of Britain. The revisionism is different from that of, for example, The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality, a 2000 book by British historian Richard Overy, and draws different (arguably more pessimistic) conclusions. The book caused a minor sensation when published, but few of the revelations were new, most having been published in other books in the previous 21 years.

The historiography of the period is a contentious one. Ponting claims that underlying realities that are far more complex and troubling are masked by the notions of 'Britain's finest hour' in the year of the Battle of Britain and the evacuation of Dunkirk, the other eulogising about the conflict and the lionisation of the premiership of Winston Churchill.

The lesson of 1940 in particular, according to Ponting, was that Britain was no longer a superpower: "So vulnerable was Britain in the summer of 1940 that secret plans were laid to sell out Ulster to the Republic of Ireland and the Falklands (a nice touch, this) to Argentina. As the money ran out, the British forfeited their independence and became a client state of the United States".

Ponting also analyses the role of propaganda transmitted by the government that also led to the creation of a façade that overstated underlying German casualty levels in the Battle of Britain and the parlous situation that led to Dunkirk. The question of the leadership of Churchill is examined and foreshadows Ponting's 1994 biography of Churchill, with the point made that the latter then addressed Parliament but rarely broadcast to the nation. The latter point has itself been contested, though the claim that an actor recorded Churchill's speeches has been found to be true.

Notes

References

1990 non-fiction books
20th-century history books
History books about World War II
History books about the United Kingdom


title: Marion Vernese Williams

text:
Marion Vernese Williams GCM, is a Barbadian economist, banker, accountant and diplomat. She is a recipient of the Gold Crown of Merit.

Early life and education
Williams was born Marion Mottley, the daughter of two Barbadian teachers, Rudolph and Cledlene Mottley. She was educated at St George's Primary School, St Michael's School, and from the age of 12 at Queen's College.

She earned a degree in Economics in 1968 from the University of the West Indies, and later a Master's in Economics as the first postgraduate in the field at the university's Cave Hill campus.

In 1995, she earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Surrey, with a thesis on prudential regulation and economic liberalisation.

Career
After her bachelor's degree, she worked for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority, the precursor of the Central Bank of Barbados, where she was eventually appointed Research Director. In 1973 she joined the Central Bank, where she held numerous senior and managerial positions and was appointed Governor in 1999.

During her tenure leading monetary policy of Barbados, then-Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson credited the team led by Williams as helping the Barbadian economy emerge relatively unaffected by the financial crises affecting other parts of the globe.

Upon her retirement in 2009, Thompson announced that he had appointed her as the Barbadian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. Williams assumed the post on 1 February 2010, and presented her credentials to the UN Office Secretary-General, Sergei Ordzhonikidze, four days later.

Personal life
She is married to Clyde Williams; they have two children.

Publications
 Liberalising a Regulated Banking System: The Caribbean Case, Ashgate Publishing, 1996, .

Awards

 Gold Crown of Merit
 Honorary LL.D., University of the West Indies (Cave Hill)

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Governors of the Central Bank of Barbados
Barbadian economists
University of the West Indies alumni
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Permanent Representatives of Barbados to the United Nations
Queen's College (Barbados) alumni
Barbadian women ambassadors
Women economists
20th-century economists
21st-century economists


title: Chin Kaji Shrestha

text:
Chin Kaji Shrestha () is a Nepalese parliamentary Chief Whip of the Nepali Congress as of March 18, 2014. He was nominated for the post by the Nepalese Prime Minister, Sushil Koirala. Prior to becoming the country's whip, he was its Chief Secretary for a while. In 2014 he proposed to investigate the apparent "vote rigging" allegations which was reported by such politicians as Bal Bahadur, Kamal Prasad Pangeni, Rekha Sharma, Ram Narayan Bidari, Laxman Lal Karna, and both Bhim Bahadur Rawal and Bhanubhakta Dhakal of the UML Party.

References

Nepali Congress politicians from Gandaki Province
20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Nepal MPs 1991–1994
Nepal MPs 1994–1999


title: Eremocossus asema

text:
Eremocossus asema is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by de Pungeler in 1899. It is found in Turkmenistan and possibly Iran.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 1899
Moths of Asia


title: Pinostilbene

text:
Pinostilbene is a stilbenoid found in Gnetum venosum and in the bark of Pinus sibirica.

References

Stilbenoids


title: Eamonn O'Kane

text:
Eamonn O'Kane (born 18 March 1982) is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 2011 to 2015. At regional level, he held the Irish middleweight title in 2013, and won the Prizefighter series in 2012.

Amateur career
As captain of the Northern Irish team, O'Kane won the gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the middleweight division.

Commonwealth Games results
2010
Defeated Ranil Jayathilakage (Sri Lanka) 5–0
Defeated Nathon McKwen (New Zealand) 9–2
Defeated Afaese Fata (Samoa) 7–2
Defeated Keiran Harding (Wales) 12–6
Defeated Anthony Ogogo (England) 16–4

Professional career
In May 2012, O'Kane won the Prizefighter 24: All-Irish Middleweights tournament, defeating Anthony Fitzgerald via split decision in the quarter-finals, Ryan Greene via first-round technical knockout in the semi-finals and JJ McDonagh via unanimous decision in the final.

Professional boxing record

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References

1982 births
Living people
Male boxers from Northern Ireland
Boxers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Middleweight boxers
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Boxers from County Londonderry


title: Cen Elezi

text:
Cen Elezi was an Albanian bayraktar, Colonel and nationalist.

Biography
Cen Elez Ndreu was born in Lisvalle (Sllove), Debre, Ottoman Empire (in modern Albania).  Ndreu was bayraktar of Dibra and Kolonel, he was son of Albanian well known patriot Elez Isuf Ndreu and grandson of Isuf Ndreu. He is considered as a nationalist figure of Albania.
Ndreu fought against Ottoman Empire alongside his father Isuf and people or Reç and liberated Peshkopi and The Greater Dibra.

On 16 April, he took part in Albanian peace delegation that went to Rome.
In 1916 Elezi was selected to be part of Liberation Committee of Kosovo in Shkodër.

References

Albanian anti-communists
1884 births
Colonels (military rank)
1949 deaths
People from Dibër (municipality)
People from Manastir vilayet
Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire


title: Maurice Curtis

text:
Maurice Curtis (1849 – 1920), stage name M. B. Curtis, was an American stage actor, producer, and real estate developer, at one point tried and acquitted of a policeman's murder.

Biography
Mauritz Bertram Strelinger was born in 1849 as proved by the entry in the Strelinger family Bible. He was born to a Jewish family in Nagy Selmetz, a Hungarian town that is now in Slovakia outside of Ruzomberok.

He came to the United States in 1856 as a six year old with his family. He tried to join the Union Army as a drummer boy, but was refused due to extreme youth. He held various jobs in Detroit and then Chicago but was very drawn to the theatre. He eventually got a job at McVickers Theatre in Chicago and began a stage career.

He performed in over 200 roles from low comedy to Shakespeare and always received great praise in newspaper reviews. He cut his teeth in San Francisco and Montreal in the 1870s.  He was best known for starring as Samuel Plastrick, the lead character in the comic melodrama Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer by George H. Jessop. It was first produced in Georgia in 1879, according to Curtis, and opened in New York on May 16, 1881, after a national tour, having previously been rejected by all New York theatre owners and is credited as introducing the first salesman as hero character.

In 1883, Curtis purchased the copyright of the play from Jessop and continued using the Plastrick character into the 1890s. Though there are many quoted sources for the character of Sam'l after it brought Curtis meteoric fame and fortune, the character was a Jewish "drummer", or traveling salesman, and Curtis claimed he based his portrayal of him on a real salesman in San Francisco, claiming, "He was, perhaps, one of the most comical men that I ever met; and for the life of me I could never refrain from giving imitations of him." Curtis also claimed to have thought of the character while waiting for a train in Texas and others claimed credit as well. The role earned him substantial fame and wealth amounting to US$250,000 ($ today).

He was the only private citizen to ever pay to keep the Statue of Liberty lit.

Curtis used some of his income to invest in developing real estate in Berkeley, California. He began building the Peralta Park Hotel in 1888; the structure, with its sixty rooms and twenty baths, opened in 1891. The building was later converted into a Catholic school until its demolition in 1959.

A year after the building opened, Curtis was arrested for drunken behavior. The arresting officer, Alexander Grant, was shot and killed and, though Curtis denied responsibility, he was indicted for murder. Witnesses claimed he was found at the scene with an abrasion on the wrist indicating he had been struggling with someone, and he was heard saying, "My God! I'd give the world to get back to the last four hours!" Nevertheless, he was found not guilty in 1893 after four trials, two hung juries, and a procedural dismissal, but both his finances and reputation were ruined.

Curtis revived his Plastrick show. He tempered the stereotypical or crude aspects of the character and, by 1894, one reviewer noted, "Nobody, whether Jew or Gentile, could find offence in this amiable, ingenious and kind hearted young Israelite." With this change, the character was less successful overseas, however. Curtis attempted one performance in London on July 4, 1895, and one historian noted the "puzzling afternoon" was "beyond the grasp" of the audience, who expected to laugh at the Jewish character rather than with him.

In 1899, Curtis founded the M. B. Curtis Afro-American Minstrel Company (sometimes called the Afro-American All Star Carnival), which began a world tour specifically to compete with a similar troupe overseen by Orpheus McAdoo. Once in Australia, Curtis abandoned the group and Ernest Hogan stepped up as manager in his place.

Gallery

References

External links
Maurice Curtis lent Berkeley brief splendor, by Daniella Thompson (June 2006)

1849 births
1920s deaths
Emigrants from the Austrian Empire to the United States
American male stage actors
Actors from Berkeley, California
Jewish American male actors
American theatre people
American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Male actors from Berkeley, California


title: Chingizid gobiana

text:
Chingizid gobiana is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1970. It is found in Mongolia.

References

Cossinae
Moths described in 1970
Moths of Asia


title: Chingizid kosachevi

text:
Chingizid kosachevi is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2012 and is endemic to Mongolia.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Endemic fauna of Mongolia
Moths described in 2012
Moths of Asia


title: Technologist (magazine)

text:
Technologist was a European popular science magazine published by Eurotech Universities beginning in June 2014. It was produced by the Swiss media agency LargeNetwork and published in English, French and German. It was based in Geneva and sold in twenty countries.  When accessed on 11 December, 2019, its website referred to itself in the past tense. The archives remain available online, with 17 from early in 2019 and many dozens more from 2014 through 2018.

See also
 List of magazines in Switzerland

References

External links
 Official website
 Eurotech Universities

2014 establishments in Switzerland
2019 disestablishments in Switzerland
Defunct magazines published in Switzerland
École Polytechnique
English-language magazines
French-language magazines
German-language magazines
Magazines established in 2014
Magazines disestablished in 2019
Magazines published in Geneva
Multilingual magazines
Popular science magazines
Quarterly magazines
Technical University of Munich


title: Chingizid transaltaica

text:
Chingizid transaltaica is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1970. It is found in Mongolia.

References

Cossinae
Moths described in 1970
Moths of Asia


title: William Hicklen House

text:
The William Hicklen House is a historic house at 502 Beaver Valley Road in Talleyville, Delaware.  The house is a rare 18th-century plank-frame house, built by an early settler of the area.  A stone wing was added to the house prior to 1800, and it was further enlarged in the 19th century.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware

References

External links
Delaware Greenways map with house location

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Houses completed in 1725
Houses in New Castle County, Delaware
1725 establishments in Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware


title: Days of Inspector Ambrosio

text:
Days of Inspector Ambrosio (Italian: I giorni del commissario Ambrosio) is a 1988 Italian crime film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is loosely based on several novels written by Renato Olivieri.

Plot
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a usual bank robbery takes place opposite his house. Then a playboy dies in a car “accident” that points to murder. The Inspector finds that his chief witness, a timid violinist and his drug-addicted daughter were closely involved with the victim. Can he “clear his desk” in time for his well-earned break?

Cast

 Ugo Tognazzi: Commissario Ambrosio
 Carlo Delle Piane: Renzo Bandelli
 Claudio Amendola: Luciano
 Cristina Marsillach: Sandra
 Amanda Sandrelli: Antonia Quadri
 Duilio Del Prete: Francesco Borghi
 Rossella Falk: Rossella
 Carla Gravina: Giulia Bandelli
 Athina Cenci: Emanuela Quadri
 Pupella Maggio: Rosa Cuomo
 Teo Teocoli: Barbieri
 Elvire Audray: "Friend" of Barbieri
 Elio Crovetto: Carlo De Silva
 Sal Borgese: Reggiani

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1988 crime films
Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
Films set in Milan
Italian crime films
Police detective films
Films based on Italian novels
1980s Italian-language films
1980s Italian films