title: Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet

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Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, 4th Baronet  ( – 6 February 1764) was an English baronet and politician. He was the grandson of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, namesake of Downing Street; and cousin and heir of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, whose Gamlingay estate would eventually establish Downing College, Cambridge despite illegal attempts by Jacob and his widow to prevent the university from receiving the estate.

Biography

Downing was the oldest son of Charles Downing of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and Sarah Garrard. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Jacob Garrard, who was son and heir of Sir Thomas Garrad, 2nd Baronet of Langford, but who died before his father and thus did not succeed as the third baronet. Jacob Downing had an older sister, Sarah, who died as a child before he was born. His father was comptroller of customs in Salem, Massachusetts, and became immensely wealthy, and Jacob inherited his father's wealth in 1740.

Downing was a Member of Parliament for Dunwich from 1741 to 1747, from 1749 to 1761 and from 1763 to 1764. He was closely associated with Lord Hardwicke.  In the 1760s, Downing had been the sole patron of Dunwich, but in theory he also was considered to have only influence, rather than the absolute power to dictate the choice of the Members. Downing was able to occupy one seat himself and sell the choice of the other member to the Duke of Newcastle (then Prime Minister) for £1,000; it is not recorded whether he needed to share some of this largesse with his co-operative voters.

In 1749, Downing inherited the baronetcy and Gamlingay estate in Cambridgeshire from his cousin Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet. The next year, on 17 May 1750, Downing married Margaret Price, daughter of Rev. Price, curate at Barrington, Gloucestershire. They had no children.

Downing estate

Downing devoted himself to restoring his late cousin's lands, which were left in his hands in a poor state. Near the end of his life, Sir George Downing had failed to find tenants for vacant farms, and was losing £1,500 a year () through his mismanagement.

Sir Jacob Downing took great pride in his land and slowly rehabilitated the estate. Old buildings were repaired, new ones built and open land enclosed, at a cost of around £30,000. One of his first acts was to commission a series of maps by Joseph Cole, showing the different farms which made up the estate.  However, as he grew older, Sir Jacob's thoughts obviously turned increasingly to his lack of heir and what would happen after his death as some new barns and buildings were put onto pattens, or rollers, perhaps so that they could be moved off the entailed land by his wife after his death.

There were no children of the marriage, and the baronetcy became extinct in 1764, when he died at Hill Street, London. Per the third baronet's will, if Jacob Downing had no son, George Downing's estate was supposed to be used by the University of Cambridge to establish a college in his name. However, Jacob instead left the estates to his widow, which led to 40 years of litigation between Lady Margaret and the university. During this time, the estates were neglected and diminished considerably in value. Lady Margaret demolished Gamlingay Park house in 1776,  "selling it brick by brick at auction for a fraction of its value".

After Downing died in 1764, in 1768, she married Admiral Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet, who in 1794 was created a baronet in his own right, several years after her death (18 September 1778). The legal fight for the third baronet's estates continued after her death, as she left them to her widower and a nephew.

The legal battle continued until March 1800, when the university and Lady Margaret's heirs reached an agreement. However, during this time, the value of the estate was massively reduced to a fraction of what it had been. Only 10 per cent was recovered from the £100,000 () owed to the estate in rents. Even though the charter for the new college was finally granted in September 1800, it was not until 1806 that the first building went up, and a further 16 years passed before the first Downing College students began their studies—56 years after the death of Sir Jacob Downing.

References

1717 births
1764 deaths
Politicians from Bury St Edmunds
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1741–1747
British MPs 1747–1754
British MPs 1754–1761
British MPs 1761–1768


The  Monument to the heroes of the October Revolution and the Civil War is a memorial in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It was opened in 1975.

References

Monuments and memorials in Ufa
Statues in Russia
Sculptures in the Soviet Union
Outdoor sculptures in Russia
War monuments and memorials
1975 establishments in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Bashkortostan


title: Nagaram, East Godavari district

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Nagaram is a coastal village in the Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh in South India. It is 13 km away from district headquarters  Amalapuram, 78 km from  Kakinada and 230 km from  Visakhapatnam. It falls on National Highway 216 which connects Ongole to Kathipudi in Andhra Pradesh.

Geography and climate
Nagaram is located at  at an average altitude of .

Muharram
Every year, Many Shia Muslims gather here from neighbouring towns and villages namely Amalapuram, Mummidivaram, Draksharamam and  Rajamahendravaram to take part in Muharram processions. The processions start in Nagaram immediately after viewing the Moon which marks the beginning of Muharram Month. People mostly gather in Nagaram from 7th Muharram. People who follow Hindu religion also worship. Muharram holds a lot of prominence in Nagaram.

References

Villages in East Godavari district


title: Zidane Zeraoui El Awad

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Zidane Zeraoui El Awad is a Mexican professor and researcher of Algerian origin who specializes in international relations and the Middle East at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. His work has been recognized with Level II membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Life
Zeraoui El Awad received his bachelor's degree in journalism and information sciences from the University of Algiers in Algeria.

The professor did not come to Mexico with the intention of staying but has since become a naturalized citizen, earning his masters and doctorate in political science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He is a self-described “work-a-holic,” and currently lives in Monterrey, Mexico.

Career
Zeraoui El Awad is an expert in international politics, specializing in the Middle East as well as emerging players in international relations.

His academic career began at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he coordinated the international relations undergraduate program from 1987 to 1988.

Since 1993, he has taught with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, primarily at the Monterrey campus. He was director of the International Relations Department from 1997 to 2003, as well as the coordinator for the Masters in Education specializing in International Relations at the Universidad TecVirtual from 1995-1997. Currently he is the coordinator of internationalization with the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences.
In the 1990s he was a department director but did not like the administrative end of the position. He proposed changed to the system’s handling of personnel files, now called the ADP system.

He is one of the creators of the Program for International Business Leadership (Programa de Liderazgo Empresarial Internacional), one of the system’s signature programs, which sends students to countries in Europe, South American and Asia to complete projects.

The professor has taught over ninety course titles, all related to international relations and the Middle East, including courses at the Universidad de las América in Puebla, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad Femenina de México, as well as courses in French and Arabic in Algeria and Mexico.

Zeraoui El Awad has participated in over 280 conferences, courses and seminars on international relations and the Middle East.

He is one of the most recognized researchers of the Monterrey Campus, and his work has been recognized with Level 2 membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of CONACYT.

He serves on the editorial boards of the Occasional Paper of the Mexican Student Association of the University of Miami, and the Revista de Relaciones Internacionales of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.

Publications
His book publications include: El mundo árabe: imperialismo y nacionalismo (1981); Argelia-Libia: Islam y socialismo (1986); Siria-Iraq: El Ba´th en el poder (1986); Judaísmo versus sionismo: una interpretación materialista del judaísmo norteamericano (1988); Islam y Política: los procesos políticos árabes contemporáneos (2008); México: los proyectos de su modernidad (1999); Modernidad y posmodernidad: la crisis de los valores y paradigmas (2000) and Política internacional contemporánea" (2004).

Zeraoui El Awad has also coauthored ten other titles in the field of international relations including  Arab Immigration in Mexico in the Nineteenth and twentieth Centuries: Assimilation and Arab Heritage (2010), over thirty three peer-reviewed articles and over 240 articles in general newspapers and magazines, including those in Revista Tiempo, Uno más uno, El Norte and Siempre.

See also
 Interview with Dr. Zeraoui at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, 2012
List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty

References

Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Algerian emigrants
Immigrants to Mexico


title: Richard Haworth Ltd

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Richard Haworth and Co. was established by Richard Haworth in 1854 as a cotton spinning and manufacturing firm in Cannon Street, Manchester, and Tatton Mill in Salford. Today the company is part of the Ruia Group which comprises a number of companies that import, supply and distribute textiles and hosiery to retailers and hospitality organisations. Richard Haworth Ltd. supplies a range of linens to the hospitality sector.

History

Richard Haworth and Co was founded in c.1854. Richard Haworth, with Frederick Copley Hulton and James Craven, worked in partnership to begin trading as yarn and cloth commission agents in Cannon Street, Manchester. The partners then established a small weaving shed in Mount Street until, following a growth in demand, they expanded into spinning and leased a large mill at Broughton Bridge.

The company continued to prosper and expand, and by 1872 was working out of three large mills and weaving sheds; Egyptian Mill (1864), Tatton Mill (1870) and Ordsall Mill (1872). By 1900 the mills covered 13 acres and 150,000 spindles produced thread for 4,000 looms. The annual output for cloth reached 30,000,000 yards and the workforce reached 4000.

Richard Haworth died in 1883, and his two partners in 1886. Richard Haworth's sons, G and J Haworth, took control of the company. The company continued to thrive, converting to a limited liability company and, at its peak being considered first class example of how cotton mills should be operated, with the Manchester Guardian writing in 1883:

In 1951 Richard Haworth and Co Ltd was advertised for sale. It had grown from a cotton spinning a weaving firm to one offering a whole range of cotton and rayon fabrics under the trademark 'Spero'. By this time the company were working out of a large head office in Manchester and the Ordsall and Tatton mills and weaving sheds, a third location having been destroyed during the Manchester Blitz in 1940.

According to records held at Companies Office Manchester, Richard Haworth Ltd was purchased by Vantona textiles in 1953, and the Title 'Richard Haworth' subsequently purchased by the Ruia Group. The company, Richard Haworth, continues to manufacture and distribute textiles out of Kearsley Mill in Greater Manchester.

Richard Haworth (1820–1883)

Born in March 1820, Richard was the youngest of eight children of George Haworth and his wife. He attended school until, at the age of seven, his father died and by the age of thirteen he secured a full-time job at Messrs Openshaw & Co of Bury, spinners and fustian manufacturers. One day whilst brushing a loom he injured his hand badly when it became caught in the machinery. To some extent this changed the course of his life. He later took a job as a weft lad and utilised his spare hours by attending a night school.

He continued to attend night school, showing an aptitude for mathematics and was transferred to the mill's basic accounts. According to records held in the national archives, when Haworth was eighteen he left to become a bookkeeper at Rylands Mill, Ainsworth, and later in 1843 became the official bookkeeper. During this time he had been developing his own business and decided to devote his time to his own business. His company and mills were recognised for their excellence and in addition to providing employment for thousands of mill workers and workplaces that placed an emphasis on safety, Richard Haworth felt it important to contribute to his local community and had a strong connection to the Wesleyan Methodist body.

"He took an active part in the lay home mission, assisting in the conduct of its services in Angel Meadow and in other of the poorest and most neglected parts of the town. He did a great deal to promote education amongst the middle class of Wesleyans by the establishment of boarding schools at Colwyn Bay and Rhyl." - Manchester Guardian, Obituaries of Richard Haworth 1883

Other achievements and public posts included Treasurer of the Hospital Sunday Fund, Chairman of the Equitable Fire Insurance Company, of which he was one of the original promoters, Chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Accident Insurance Society, Treasurer of the Sunday Closing Fund, Justice of the peace for Manchester, Member of the Withington Local Board, Member of the first School Board in Manchester and Member of the Board of Management of the Royal Infirmary.
Richard Haworth married Sarah Sewell in 1839 with whom he had six children; two girls and four boys. One of his sons became a Wesleyan minister at Teddington, Surrey; the other three, Messrs. George Chester Haworth, John Fletcher Haworth, and Fred Haworth, became active partners in the firm of Richard Haworth and Co and took responsibility for the company when Richard Haworth died at the age of 63, in 1883.

Cultural context

Manchester and Lancashire mills became the largest, most productive cotton spinning centre in the world, responsible for 32% of global cotton production in 1871. In 1853, the number of cotton mills in Manchester peaked at 108. As the industrial centre began to decline, mills opened up in the surrounding towns of Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, and Bolton. This flourishing cotton manufacturing community came to be referred to as "Cottonopolis".

The British cotton industry reached its peak in 1912, producing eight billion yards of cloth. However, the war of 1914 had an enormous impact on Britain's staple industries; cotton could no longer be exported to foreign markets and, particularly in Japan, countries began to build their own factories. Soon, Japan introduced 24-hour cotton production and by 1933, became the world's largest cotton manufacturer. The demand for British cotton slumped and during this period 800 mills closed.

Despite these fluctuating patterns of manufacturing and trade, the company Richard Haworth built in the 1800s grew to a workforce of 4000 with an annual output of 30,000,000 yards of cloth, surviving until its sale in 1951.

Legacy

Haworth's impact on the local area and importance in local history was recognised in 2012 by the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. With Lottery funding, the library launched their "Invisible Histories" project, investigating the realities of people's working lives during the period that Salford was an industrial powerhouse in the northwest. The research focusses on 3 historical workplaces, Agecroft Colliery, Ward & Goldstone and Richard Haworth's cotton mill. The study focuses on the Ordsall Lane mill which closed in the 1970s, and acknowledges the companies continued production of textiles. Several individuals who worked at, or had a connection with Richard Hawort's mills gave interviews which described their working experiences at this leading cotton company.

Peter Downing, who was interviewed by the 'Invisible Histories: Salford's Working Lives' team, worked as an apprentice joiner in Richard Haworth's mills and described Ordsall Lane mill as "A busy, busy mill" with "2000 workers there, maybe more, every room fully manned". He described it as "A great working environment, full of life... friendly and sociable".

References

Bibliography
 Williams, M. Farnie, D. (1992) Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester. Preston: Carnegie ltd
 R. Mc Neil and M. Nevell (2000) AIA Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Manchester
 Hartwell, C. Hyde, M. Pevsner, N. (2004) Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East. Yale University Press
 Gurr, D. Hunt, J (1998) The cotton mills of Oldham. Oldham Education & Leisure Services.
 Palliser, D. Clark, P. Daunton, M (2000) The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 3., Cambridge University Press, p. 378.

External links

1854 establishments in England
Textile manufacturers of England
British companies established in 1854
Manufacturing companies established in 1854


title: Gary Williamson

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Gary Williamson may refer to:

Gary Williamson (footballer) (1941–2009), Australian rules footballer for Richmond and South Melbourne
Gary Williamson (ice hockey) (born 1950), Canadian former World Hockey Association forward
Gary Williamson, Canadian politician elected in the Wellington County municipal elections, 2010
Gary Williamson, contestant who appeared as Tony Christie  on a 2000 episode of Stars in Their Eyes
Gary Williamson, drummer with the Australian rock band The Zorros
Gary Williamson, production designer and British Independent Film Awards 2009 nominee


title: Xyrena

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Xyrena is an Austin, Texas perfumery founded in Los Angeles specializing in cruelty-free and vegan products certified by PETA and Leaping Bunny. Xyrena describes itself as "a defiant cosmetics startup that includes the world's first celebrity-partnered on-demand perfumery". Xyrena only releases fragrances in water-free Extrait de Parfum form.

History

Founder Killian Wells coined the name "Xyrena" as a compound of two terms: XY for male and female chromosomes (echoed by the brand's unisex fragrances and cosmetics) and RENA, from the Latin word renascor, which means "to be renewed or reborn." The name Xyrena also means "enchanter" in Old Greek.

Notable fragrances

Aaliyah by Xyrena: A tribute fragrance to the late singer known as the "Princess of R&B". Launched for pre-order on September 15, 2015, Aaliyah by Xyrena was developed in collaboration with Aaliyah's brother Rashad Haughton & mother Diane Haughton. Missy Elliott supported the fragrance with a tweet. 5% of the proceeds from Aaliyah by Xyrena will be donated to the Aaliyah Memorial Fund. An official web spot, directed by Killian Wells and Christopher Oroza was released for the fragrance. On September 30, 2015 one thousand samples of the fragrance were gifted to attendees of PETA's 35th Anniversary Party with Paul McCartney.

Flazéda by Pearl: Created by Xyrena in collaboration with Pearl, Flazéda is the first commercial fragrance to be released by an alumnus of RuPaul's Drag Race An official fashion film titled #LoveYourself was released to support the fragrance; directed by Killian Wells and Christopher Oroza, the high-fashion short (featuring a soundtrack reminiscent of Amy Winehouse) was compared to branding by Vogue and Calvin Klein

Formula 3 by Dalton Maldonado: Formula 3 is the first signature fragrance from an openly gay athlete. Part of the proceeds from Formula 3 go to support the LGBT sports organization You Can Play. Professional athletes and celebrities have shown their support of the product on Twitter including Michael Sam, Wade Davis, Jason Collins, and Montel Williams.

References

Celebrity perfumes
Perfume houses
Perfumes
Companies based in Austin, Texas


title: Wooday P. Krishna

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Wooday P. Krishna is an Indian educationist, technocrat and social activist. Krishna is also the Honorary General Secretary of Seshadripuram Educational Trust, President, Karnataka Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Former Chairman Gandhi Peace Foundation and  former Chairman, The Institution of Engineers (India), Karnataka State Centre. He has served as a member of State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Karnataka in the rank of Minister of State, to develop proactive mitigating strategies for any disasters in the State.

Krishna is a recipient of the President’s Gold Medal, the highest National Award given for Red Cross humanitarian work of high order in 2012 from the Honourable President of India and the prestigious State Rajyotsava Award in 2004 for social work from the Government of Karnataka.  He has been elected Fellow, World Academy of Productivity Science, Canada in recognition of his contributions to productivity improvement in the delivery of humanitarian services. In 2020 he has been conferred with the prestigious Nadoja Award which is equivalent to Honorary degree of Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) by Kannada University, Hampi.

Early and personal life
Krishna was born in 1963 in Bangalore, Karnataka to father Late W. H. Puttiah, a merchant and freedom fighter and mother Late Doddammaiya. He is married to Dr.G.Savitha.
Krishna attended Sri Ramkrishna Vidyashala in Mysuru; and is a Doctorate (Ph.D) in Management'  and a post-graduate in Engineering, Law, Sociology and Journalism. At school he was influenced by the principles of Swami Vivekananda and later by Raja Rammohun Roy.

Career
Krishna is a well-known and nationally recognized educationist. He has provided leadership to the Seshadripuram Educational Trust (SET) that comprises 34 educational institutions spread across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Tumakuru and Mandya Districts and was established in 1930 by a group of women as a primary school named Seshadripuram Stree Samaja. He has been involved with Indian Red Cross Society, The Tuberculosis Association of India, Gandhi Peace Foundation, and The Institution of Engineers (India) at the national level; .

A Chartered Engineer of more than three decades standing, he is also a  well-known technical arbitrator.

Krishna authored a book named Sir M Visvesvaraya Jeevana Sadhane that was released on National Science Day in 2009.

Recognition
 2002 – Kempegowda Award from Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for Education
 2004 – State Rajyotsava Award from Government of Karnataka – for social work
 2005 – Red Cross Award from the Honourable Governor of Karnataka – for humanitarian services
 2011 – Eminent Engineer Award from The Institution of Engineers – for contribution in the field of Engineering.
 2012 – President's Gold Medal from Honourable President of India for Red Cross humanitarian work
 2014 – Fellowship of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom
 2017 – The Doyen’s Award from the Hindu Group in recognition of his exemplary contribution to make education inclusive, and change the landscape of education in Karnataka
 2020 –  Honorary degree Nadoja by Kannada University, Hampi. Conferred the honorary degree by His Excellency Sri Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, Governor of Karnataka and Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi
 2023 - Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D. Lit.) from Bengaluru City University for Exceptional Service to Society.

References

External links

20th-century Indian educational theorists
1963 births
Scholars from Bangalore
Living people
Social workers from Karnataka
Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2004


title: Dictyandra

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Dictyandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical Africa.

Species
Dictyandra arborescens Welw. ex Hook.f. - Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cabinda Province, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, D.R.Congo, Uganda, Angola
Dictyandra congolana Robbr. - Congo, D.R.Congo

References

External links
Dictyandra in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Pavetteae
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker


title: Ian Tulloch

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Ian "Inky" Tulloch  (born 21 September 1950) is a New Zealand racing-driver and a former politician in both local and national politics. He is most famous for his career in racing saloon cars as well as for being the last Mayor of Mataura before it became part of the Gore District Council. His father was Malcolm "Mac" Tulloch, a man who had been the Mayor of Mataura twice between 1959 and 1962 and between 1968 and 1970.

Biography

Racing career
Tulloch's extensive racing career has spanned four decades within which he participated in 119 races. During his career, Tulloch achieved 7 wins and 21 podium finishes. The notable competitions in which he raced were the Australian Production Car Championship, NZ Truth V8s Championship, Parker ENZED NZV8s Championship, and the NZ Production Car Championship. NZ & Australian super trucks.

In 2016 he crashed during a 1-hour endurance race in his Honda Integra clubmans saloon car and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Political career
Tulloch was elected Mayor of Mataura in 1983 and remained in office until the council ceased to exist in 1989. He then served as mayor of Gore District from 1989 until 1995. Tulloch contested the  for the Christian Coalition and was placed ninth on their party list. He was the first president of the United Future party.

In the 2006 New Year Honours, Tulloch was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.

References

New Zealand racing drivers
Mayors of places in Southland, New Zealand
1950 births
Living people
Christian Coalition (New Zealand) politicians
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1996 New Zealand general election
United Future politicians
People from Mataura
New Zealand sportsperson-politicians
Companions of the Queen's Service Order
New Zealand justices of the peace
Mayors of Gore


The 1996 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Hamilton, Ontario, on June 22, 1996 to elect a successor to Bob Rae as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP). The convention was necessary because Rae resigned on February 29, 1996. Frances Lankin was an early favourite but was hurt due to her close association with the Rae government. Hampton, an outsider, led on the first ballot and won the leadership by 178 votes over Lankin on the third ballot. He remained as leader of the party until 2009.

Background
In 1996 the party was in disarray after losing the 1995 election in which they lost 57 seats. The leader Bob Rae stayed on for another eight months but resigned his seat and his leadership on February 29, 1996 to return to private life.

Frances Lankin announced her candidacy on February 9, 1996. She was viewed as a frontrunner candidate having the support of such party luminaries as former leader Stephen Lewis. However her association with the Rae government as a senior cabinet minister and her support of the social contract, an austerity program based on unpaid leave for civil service workers, cost her support amongst the delegates.

Howard Hampton also put his name forward. While he was also a senior member of the Rae cabinet, he was viewed as more of an outsider, particularly because he was from northern Ontario and not based in Toronto.

Tony Silipo and Peter Kormos also entered the race. Both were longshot candidates. Silipo's campaign emphasized involvement of multicultural communities. Kormos had gained special notoriety as a maverick. Kormos was an informal leader of the left wing of the party, and a vocal opponent of the Social Contract. He had been kicked out of cabinet in 1991 after appearing as the Sunshine Boy in the right-wing Toronto Sun, and managed to get himself expelled from the legislature ten days before the convention during a debate on an education reform bill.

Union support for the candidates was mixed. The Steelworkers were divided between Lankin and Hampton while the Autoworkers were split between Lankin and Kormos. Kormos concentrated his attacks on Lankin, from the left. This weakened her initial support and when the first ballot was counted she trailed Hampton. Even though Kormos was a long shot, he managed to get more than 1/5 of the total delegate support.

After the first ballot Silipo was eliminated and he endorsed Hampton. After the second ballot, Kormos was eliminated and he endorsed no one. On the final ballot, Hampton beat Lankin by 178 votes. 80 ballots were spoiled, likely from disgruntled Kormos supporters.

Ballot results

References

1996 elections in Canada
New Democratic Party Leadership Election
Ontario New Democratic Party leadership elections
Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election
June 1996 events in Canada


title: Mountaineering in India

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Mountaineering is quite popular in India, since the entire northern and north-eastern borders are the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. The apex body in India is the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, which is affiliated to the International Federation of Sport Climbing.

India has several premier mountaineering institutes. The four National Institutes are :

 Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling
 Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi
 Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Pahalgam
 National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS), Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh
 Sonam Gyatso Mountaineering Institute, Gangtok
The other institutes are :
 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (ABVIMAS), Manali
Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering, Gulmarg
 Swami Vivekanand Institute of Mountaineering, Mount Abu
 Guardian Giripremi Institute of Mountaineering (GGIM), Pune, Maharashtra

Indian mountaineers

 Ashish Mane
 Krushnaa Patil
 Asim Mukhopadhyay
 Mohan Singh Kohli
 Narendra Dhar Jayal
 Mandip Singh Soin
 Gurdial Singh
Dawa Thondup
 Narendra Kumar
 Sudipta Sengupta
 Bachendri Pal
 Kuntal Joisher
 Nirupama Pandey
 Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
 Malavath Purna
 Chandra Prakash Vohra
 Sonam Gyatso
Mohan Singh Gunjyal
Santosh Yadav
 Colonel Ajay Kothiyal
 Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat
 Lt. Colonel Ranveer Jamwal
Malli Mastan Babu

Role of The Doon School

The faculty and students of The Doon School, a boys-only boarding school in Dehradun founded in 1935, are credited to be among the early pioneers of mountaineering in a newly independent India. The founding headmaster and teachers, including A.E. Foot, R.L. Holdsworth, J.A.K. Martyn and Jack Gibson, were all Alpinists. Along with Gurdial Singh, who joined as faculty, and Narendra Dhar Jayal, then a student at Doon, they were among the first to go on major Himalayan expeditions 1940s onwards. Jayal later went on to pioneer Indian mountaineering and, at Jawaharlal Nehru's behest, became the founder principal of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute.

See also
 Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
 Himalayas

References

External links

Institute of Mountaineering


title: Alexander Forrester (politician)

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Alexander Forrester ( 1711 – 2 July 1787) was a British barrister and politician.

Forrester's family were Scottish Jacobites who had gone into exile in France with King James II, but little is known of his parents.

Forrester was educated at the Inner Temple, and became a successful barrister.  After 1758, he specialised in cases before the House of Lords, including election petitions

He was a Member of Parliament for Dunwich from 1658 to 1761, for Okehampton from 1761 to 1768, and for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1768 to 1774.

References

1711 births
1787 deaths
Members of the Inner Temple
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Newcastle-under-Lyme
British MPs 1754–1761
British MPs 1761–1768
British MPs 1768–1774
Year of birth uncertain
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Okehampton


title: Didymaea

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Didymaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from Mexico to Central America.

Species
Didymaea alsinoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Standl. - Mexico
Didymaea ixtepejiensis Borhidi & E.Martinez - Oaxaca
Didymaea linearis Standl. - Jalisco
Didymaea mexicana Hook.f. - Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Didymaea naniflora Borhidi & E.Martinez - Oaxaca

References

External links
Didymaea in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Rubieae
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker


title: Abida partioti

text:
Abida partioti  is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Chondrinidae.

Geographic distribution
The native distribution of A. partioti is restricted to the central Pyrenees, in France and Spain.

Ecology
A. partioti inhabits montane karstic areas, living within crevices or under stones, although in humid environments it can be found on the surface of limestone rocks and rubble.

See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Metropolitan France
List of non-marine molluscs of Spain

References

External links

Chondrinidae
Gastropods of Europe
Gastropods described in 1848


title: Padmanava College of Engineering, Rourkela

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Padmanava College of Engineering (PCE), Rourkela was established in academic year 1999-2000 to impart degree courses in engineering under the Padmanva Educational Trust, Bhubaneswar. The prime objective of the trust has been the promotion of facilities of technical education for people of west Odisha and around.

The institute is affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) with ISO 9001:2000 certification.

The institute is now functioning in the campus of sector 4, Rourkela. The new campus of the college is under construction near sector 9.

References

Private engineering colleges in India
Engineering colleges in Odisha
Colleges affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Universities and colleges in Rourkela
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in Orissa


title: Hwanjile

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Hwanjile (r. 1740–1774) was a high priest and kpojito ("reign mate") of the African Kingdom of Dahomey, in what is now Benin.

Life
Hwanjile was an Aja woman from the village of Home in an area west of Abomey, in the southern portion of modern-day Benin. She was reportedly already an adult with two children when she was brought, either as a war captive or trader, to the palace of Abomey. Hwanjile was married to the king Agaja before she was appointed to the position of kpojito ("Mother of the Leopard") by Tegbesu, the fourth king of Dahomey. Her kin included the powerful Adanle, Hodonour, and Kossou-Naeton families of merchants in the town of Ouidah.

Political and religious involvement
The oral histories which are our chief source of information about eighteenth-century Dahomey do not explain why Hwanjile allied herself with Tegbesu, but they do state that Hwanjile played a pivotal role in Tegbesu's accession to the throne, displacing his older brother. As a result of this assistance, Tegbesu named Hwanjile kpojito, a position which made her the richest and most powerful woman in the kingdom. This term is often translated as "queen mother" in English, though this is not entirely accurate. To be kpojito was to be a female "reign mate" of a king through an either literal or symbolic mother-son relationship, representative of a balancing of royal power, and to possess the authority to resolve religious disputes.

Hwanjile solidified her and Tegbesu's rule through manipulation of religious beliefs, particularly those centered on the Dahomean vodun or gods. She imported two creator gods, Mawu and Lisa, from Aja and proclaimed them the rulers of the Dahomean pantheon. Hwanjile established a home for them directly outside the royal palace, where she served as their powerful high priest. She also encouraged the use of fa divination.

Legacy
Due to the key role which she played in creating a strong, centralised kingdom in less than a generation, Hwanjile is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Dahomey, and indeed of modern-day Benin. Following Hwanjile's death, she was replaced by a direct descendant who took on her name and her functions. This system of perpetual succession still continues, and successive Hwanjile have continued to be politically powerful.

In addition, a number of the gods introduced by Hwanjile are worshipped today in Benin.

References

Further reading
Edna G. Bay. "Belief, Legitimacy and the Kpojito: An Institutional History of the 'Queen Mother' in Precolonial Dahomey" in The Journal of African History 36, no. 1 (1995): 1-27.
Edna G. Bay. Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey (1998).
Robert B. Edgerton. Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War (2000)

18th century in the Kingdom of Dahomey
18th-century monarchs in Africa
18th-century women rulers
Priestesses


The 1994 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from November 30 to December 5, 1993 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The event was sanctioned by the International Skating Union and open to ISU member nations. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

World Junior Figure Skating Championships
1993 in figure skating
1994 in figure skating
International figure skating competitions hosted by the United States


title: Bravofly (website)

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Bravofly.com is an online travel agency owned by the Lastminute.com Group. It is available to customers in 14 languages. It has offices in Chiasso, Switzerland, where it has its operational headquarters, and in Madrid, Spain.

History
The Bravofly Rumbo Group was founded in 2006, but traces its roots back to 2004, when Fabio Cannavale and Marco Corradino launched Volagratis, a search engine for low cost flights in the Italian market.

In 2006, the headquarters were moved to Chiasso and the company introduced websites for Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

in November 2012, it acquired Rumbo.

In December 2013, the company announced the acquisition of Jetcost, a French travel meta-search site.

In March 2015, the company acquired Lastminute.com.

In April 2014, the company became a public company via an initial public offering on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

References

Online travel agencies
Swiss travel websites


title: Walter Van Wiggeren

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Walter M. Van Wiggeren (November 12, 1887 – September 29, 1968) was an American engineer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on November 12, 1887, in Yorkville, Oneida County, New York, the son of Walter Jelle Van Wiggeren (1856–1917) and Dieuwke (Zijlstra) Van Wiggeren (born 1862), both Dutch emigrants from Frisia. In 1900, the family removed to Ilion, in Herkimer County, where Walter Van Wiggeren Sr. worked for Remington Arms. Walter Jr. attended the public schools. He became a draftsman, and later a mechanical engineer, and designed tools and machinery for Remington Arms. On September 2, 1913, he married Gladys Bradbury (1886–1974).

He was Mayor of Ilion for two years, Clerk of Herkimer County from 1928 to 1949, and a delegate to the 1944 Republican National Convention.

Van Wiggeren was elected on February 8, 1949, to the New York State Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Fred A. Young to the New York Court of Claims. Van Wiggeren remained in the State Senate until 1964, sitting in the 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures. In June 1964, he ran for re-nomination in the Republican primary, but was defeated by Dalwin J. Niles. In November 1964, he ran for re-election on the Conservative ticket, but was defeated again.

He died on September 29, 1968, in Mohawk Valley General Hospital in Ilion, New York; and was buried at the Armory Hill Cemetery there.

References

1887 births
1968 deaths
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
People from Oneida County, New York
People from Ilion, New York
Mayors of places in New York (state)
Conservative Party of New York State politicians
20th-century American politicians


title: Diary of a Chambermaid (2015 film)

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Diary of a Chambermaid () is a 2015 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot, and written by Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer. It is an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel of the same name and stars Léa Seydoux as Célestine, a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for a wealthy couple in France during the early twentieth century. Mirbeau's original novel was adapted into films multiple times before, notably Jean Renoir's 1946 film and Luis Buñuel's 1964 film.

It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and was released on 1 April 2015, by Mars Distribution.

Synopsis
In Normandy at the end of the 19th century, a beautiful and ambitious young chambermaid named Célestine (Léa Seydoux) enters the service of her new employers, the Lanlaire family, which consists of a bitter wife and her perverted husband. Monsieur Lanlaire has a reputation for molesting and impregnating his chambermaids, while Madame Lanlaire is known for her domineering attitude over her servants and often fires her chambermaids. She also meets the other servants: Marianne, the overweight and homely cook and the mysterious, older Joseph (Vincent Lindon), the groom, who shares a mutual attraction with Célestine.

Throughout the film, Célestine reflects on her past positions, such as to a middle-aged woman with an elderly husband who was humiliated at a train customs stop after being forced to open a box revealing her dildo. Another significant post was her satisfying employment with the sickly young Georges and his kindly grandmother. Georges became infatuated with Célestine as she took care of him. After resisting his advances at first, Célestine had sex with him, only for him to succumb to his illness and die during the act, horrifying her. Numb from the experience, she left the position.

In the Lanlaire household, Célestine chafes under the demanding and often unreasonable Madame Lanlaire, who frequently derides Célestine for any delay or error and refuses to let her attend the funeral of her mother. Monsieur Lanlaire quickly sets his sights on Célestine, who rebuffs his advances while secretly plotting to manipulate him. The neighbor, Captain Mauger (Patrick d'Assumçao), who has apparently bequeathed his estate to the servant, Rose, after his wife left him for sleeping with Rose, is also interested in her. Célestine also plots to use Capt Mauger for her own ambitions, but Rose becomes jealous after Capt Mauger kills his obedient pet ferret named Kleber after a comment Célestine makes about the pet.

Célestine finds respite in gossip at the house of the village abortion provider and in commiserating with cook Marianne. In one conversation with Marianne, she learns that Marianne was attracted to one of her old masters, but was kicked out after becoming pregnant by him and was forced to kill her baby; later, she reveals that she is having sex with Monsieur Lanlaire regularly and she must get an abortion done. One night, after talking with Marianne, Célestine hears agonized screams coming from the forest, which unsettle her.

The next day, she visits Joseph and learns that he is a rabid anti-Semite and propagates anti-Dreyfus propaganda on behalf of local priests. He dreams of owning a business where he can provide a rendezvous for militant right-wing nationalists and acknowledges that he needs a woman like Célestine to make his plan a success. Later, while gossiping with the other women, Célestine learns that a local prepubescent peasant girl was violently raped, disemboweled and murdered, explaining the screams Célestine had heard at night. Célestine suspects that Joseph is the murderer, as he could be placed at the scene of the crime, but this only makes her more fascinated with him.

Rose dies and Capt Mauger admits to Célestine that Rose had disappointed him after getting a servant of her own and failed to keep up the chores she had when she was a servant. He had hoped to die before her, as he had secretly made a second will nullifying the first, ensuring that Rose would inherit nothing. Capt Mauger offers for Célestine to work for him in the same work and sexual arrangement than Rose had with him, but Célestine only promises to think about it, satisfied with her manipulation of him.

Ultimately, she professes her attraction to Joseph and begs to join him. After aggressive sexual intercourse with her, he has Célestine assist him in the theft of the Lanlaire's silverware that would fund his plan, a theft which is blamed on professional thieves. Upon discovering the burglary, Madame Lanlaire wonders aloud why their dogs did not bark at the burglars, so Joseph shoots both the dogs dead. Police start the probe into the burglary. The police ask Lanlaires whether they suspected anyone from the household, especially Joseph, but they give him a clean sheet saying that he had been with them for 15 years and he is very devoted and trustworthy. The police have no clues even after several weeks of investigation. The case is closed unsolved. Joseph quits his position later and Célestine bides her time waiting for him, befriending Madame Lanlaire to get in her good graces before telling her that she is engaged to be married and must soon quit. One night, she sees Joseph's signal through her window and joins him, ruminating that she has been out-manipulated, acknowledging that he is a devil, but he has her completely in his grasp. They leave for Cherbourg and the carriage disappears into the darkness.

Cast
 Léa Seydoux as Célestine
 Vincent Lindon as Joseph
 Clotilde Mollet as Madame Lanlaire
 Hervé Pierre as Monsieur Lanlaire
 Mélodie Valemberg as Marianne
 Patrick d'Assumçao as Captain Mauger
 Vincent Lacoste as Georges
 Joséphine Derenne as Madame Mendelssohn
 Dominique Reymond as the recruiter
 Rosette as Rose
 Adriana Asti as the madam
 Aurélia Petit as the mistress

Production

Development
On 9 February 2013, it was announced Benoît Jacquot would direct a film based on the 1900 novel The Diary of a Chambermaid. Producer Kristina Larsen stated that "Jacquot's version will be the most faithful adaptation of Mirbeau's novel". In February 2013, Marion Cotillard was in talks to play the central character Célestine, but later dropped out of the film over scheduling conflicts with Macbeth. On 5 February 2014, director Benoît Jacquot confirmed in an interview Diary of a Chambermaid will begin shooting in the forthcoming summer, with Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon joining the cast of the film. On 10 April, Cineuropa reported that the Île-de-France Region's Support Fund for the Film and Audiovisual Technical Industry added €440,000 to the film's funding.

Filming
Principal photography commenced on 10 June 2014 and concluded on 30 July. Filming took place in northern France (the heritage railway Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, Le Crotoy, and Berck) and also at locations in and around Paris.

Release
On 14 January 2015, it was announced that Diary of a Chambermaid had been selected to be screened in competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

The film was released to cinemas on 1 April 2015 in France.

Reception
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 65%, based on 34 reviews, with an average score of 5.99/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 56, based on 16 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

The A.V. Club'''s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky opined that the film "lacks a unifying principle, as though the director were too eager to address subtexts to bother with text," and concluded: "Nominally, Diary Of A Chambermaid'' is about the moral rot hiding below, but its most lasting impressions come from surface pleasures and barely motivated flourishes of style."

Accolades

References

External links

2015 films
2010s French-language films
2010s historical drama films
French historical drama films
Films about interclass romance
Films set in country houses
Films set in the 1900s
Films shot in France
Belgian historical drama films
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Benoît Jacquot
Maids in films
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Films featuring a Best Actor Lumières Award-winning performance
2015 drama films
Films scored by Bruno Coulais
French-language Belgian films
2010s French films
Les Films du Fleuve films
Films based on works by Octave Mirbeau


title: Alexander Forrester

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Alexander Forrester may refer to:

 Alexander Forrester of Garden 16th-century Scottish landowner
 Alexander Forrester (politician) (c1711–1787), British barrister and politician
 Alexander Forrester (educationist) (1805–1869) Presbyterian clergyman and educationist
 Alexander Forrester (minister) (1611–1686), Scottish minister

See also
 Forrester (surname)


"What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House)" is a country gospel song, written by Yolanda Adams, Errol McCalla Jr., Jonathan Broussard and Marcus Ecby, and popularized in 1956 by up-and-coming country singer Porter Wagoner.

Wagoner's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard country charts in the spring of 1956, and was the higher of two competing chart versions released that year. Also in 1956, another up-and-coming country singer, Red Sovine, released his own version on Decca Records, which peaked at No. 15. For Sovine, although the main chorus – What would you do/if Jesus came to your house/to spend some time with you – is sung, it was one of his first songs that were spoken, as most of his later well-known songs were.

Chart performance

Porter Wagoner version

Red Sovine version

References

1956 singles
Porter Wagoner songs
RCA Records singles
Decca Records singles
1956 songs
Song recordings produced by Stephen H. Sholes


title: Hee-sun

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Hee-sun, also spelled Hui-seon, is a Korean unisex given name. There are 24 hanja with the reading "hee" and 41 hanja with the reading "sun" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:
Kim Heesun (born 1972), South Korean female writer
Kim Hee-sun (born 1977), South Korean actress
HeeSun Lee (born 1983), South Korean-born American Christian singer
Jang Hee-sun (born 1986), South Korean female field hockey player
Joo Hee-sun, South Korean male music video director

Fictional characters with this name include:
Ahn Hee-sun, in 2013 South Korean television series All About My Romance
Moon Hee-sun, in 2013 South Korean television series That Winter, the Wind Blows

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean unisex given names


title: Barberville, Rhode Island

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Barberville is a small village located primarily in the town of Hopkinton, but also extending into Richmond in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Barberville is located to the north of Hopkinton's principal village, Hope Valley and uses Hope Valley's zip code, 02832.

History
Barberville has a short history. It was never an extremely populated place; the 1880 census reported a population of 49, and a 1902 gazetteer counted 34.  Its genesis comes from when Joseph T. Barber built a dam and sawmill in 1829.  The mill burned in a fire in 1869.  Barberville was the site of one of Hopkinton's original school districts.

Today, the only major road that passes through Barberville is Arcadia Road. The Wood River, which serves as the border between Hopkinton and Richmond, runs through Barberville and the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association is headquartered in the village.

References

Villages in Washington County, Rhode Island
Villages in Rhode Island


title: Monument to Feodor Chaliapin

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A monument to  Feodor Chaliapin stands at the Noble Assembly House in Ufa, Russia, since 2007.

References

Monuments and memorials in Ufa
2007 establishments in Russia
Outdoor sculptures in Russia
Statues in Russia
Sculptures of men in Russia


title: Didymochlamys

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Didymochlamys is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from Nicaragua to Guyana and Ecuador.

There are two species in the genus. They are usually epiphytes that grow on trees. The inflorescence contains 2 to 5 flowers pressed between flattened green bracts.

Species
 Didymochlamys connellii N.E.Br. - Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela
 Didymochlamys whitei Hook.f. - Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama

References

External links
 Didymochlamys in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker


title: 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles qualifying

text:
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

Seeds

  Lyudmyla Kichenok /  Nadiia Kichenok (qualified)
  Yuliya Beygelzimer /  Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (qualifying competition, lucky losers)
  Chan Chin-wei /  Xu Yifan (qualifying competition)
  Monique Adamczak /  Olivia Rogowska (first round)
  Jarmila Gajdošová /  Arina Rodionova (qualified)
  Mandy Minella /  Alexandra Panova (first round)
  Mariana Duque Mariño /  María Irigoyen (first round)
  Stéphanie Foretz Gacon /  Tamarine Tanasugarn (first round)

Qualifiers

  Lyudmyla Kichenok /  Nadiia Kichenok
  Jarmila Gajdošová /  Arina Rodionova
  Pauline Parmentier /  Laura Thorpe
  Vesna Dolonc /  Daniela Seguel

Lucky losers
  Yuliya Beygelzimer /  Klaudia Jans-Ignacik

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

External links

2014 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Doubles Qualifying
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's doubles qualifying
Wimbledon Championships


title: Akebäck Church

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Akebäck Church () is a medieval church in Akebäck on the island of Gotland, Sweden. It's a largely Romanesque church and its main construction period was at the end of the 12th century. The church is part of the Diocese of Visby within the Church of Sweden.

History and architecture

Akebäck Church was constructed of plastered limestone and is, with the exception of the sacristy, a completely Romanesque church. Most of the building was done at the end of the 12th century, with the tower added during the mid-13th century. The church was inaugurated in 1149. Only the sacristy is considerably later, from 1931.

The church has an almost square choir, a semi-circular apse and a rectangular nave. It has a simple interior. Notable are the original ceramic pots which have been immured in the vault of the church, as a way to improve the acoustics. Another unusual detail is a stone sculpture depicting a stonemason lying down which is immured in the church portal. According to tradition, it was made in memory of one of the men who worked at the church but fell and died during the construction; scholars have suggested that it may on the other hand simply be a stone that was placed in the wrong direction with the picture lying down instead of standing up.

Among the furnishings, the altar is unusual in that while it is from the 17th century, the crucifix in the middle is a re-used medieval cross, from the 15th century. The baptismal font is from the 13th century. Of later date is a chandelier, donated in 1850 by a carpenter as a votive gift, "in thanks to divine providence, that kept him safe during fourteen years abroad". The smaller of the two church bells was donated in 1993.

The church underwent a renovation in 1931–32 under a proposal by architect Sven Brandel (1886–1931).
During the renovation, a large picture stone was found immured in the church. It was extracted and is now displayed outside the church.

Akebäck Church belongs to the Church of Sweden and lies within the Diocese of Visby.

References

Further reading

External links

Official site (in Swedish)

Romanesque architecture in Sweden
Churches in Gotland County
Churches in the Diocese of Visby
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden
1149 establishments in Europe


title: Juan Language

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Juan Michael Language (born 19 April 1989 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player who last played for the . He can play as a flanker or a number eight.

Career

Youth, club and varsity rugby

He played high school rugby for Hoërskool Framesby in his hometown of Port Elizabeth. In 2007, he was selected to represent an Eastern Province Under-18 side at the Academy Week tournament.

While at Framesby, Language also played sevens rugby. In January 2007, he took part in a high school sevens tournament involving schools from across the Eastern Cape and from Gauteng. He helped Framesby win the competition and was also named Player of the Tournament.

He moved to Durban, where he joined the  academy. In 2010, he played for the  side in the 2010 Under-21 Provincial Competition, making three appearances off the bench.

Between 2011 and 2013, he played club rugby for Durban-based club side College Rovers. In 2012, College Rovers won the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union's premier club competition, the Moor Cup, which meant they qualified to the inaugural SARU Community Cup competition in 2013. Language was a regular starter for College Rovers in the competition, playing in all four matches during the pool stages, in their quarter-final match against Durbanville-Bellville and, after sitting out the semi-final, he started in the Final of the competition against Eastern Cape side Despatch. College Rovers fell just short in the final, losing the match 26–24 with Language playing the full 80 minutes.

Prior to the 2014 season, College Rovers head coach Robert du Preez was appointed as the coach of Potchefstroom-based provincial union the , as well as university side the . Language was among a number of players that followed Du Preez to North West Province. He featured prominently for  during the 2014 Varsity Cup tournament, starting seven of their nine matches during the competition as they reached the final of the competition for only the second time. He also played in the final, as the Pukke lost the match in dramatic fashion; they were leading 33–15 with five minutes left to play, but allowed the  to score three late tries to win the match 39–33 and win their second Varsity Cup title.

Leopards

Language's performances during the 2014 Varsity Cup led to his inclusion in the  squad for the 2014 Currie Cup qualification competition. Despite no first class appearances to his name, he was also named vice-captain for the competition.

He made his first class debut on 7 June 2014 against the  at . He had an immediate and significant impact in the match and scored two tries either side of half-time to help the Leopards to a 51–23 victory. He continued his scoring streak in the next match as he scored a try against the  in Kempton Park to send the Leopards top of the log.

He was the captain of the  team that won the 2015 Currie Cup First Division. He featured in a total of thirteen matches during the 2015 Currie Cup qualification rounds and First Division proper and scored seven tries for the side to be the top try scorer during the second round of fixtures. He also scored two of the Leopards' tries in the final, helping them to a 44–20 victory over the  to win the competition for the first time in their history.

References

South African rugby union players
Living people
1989 births
Rugby union players from Port Elizabeth
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
Leopards (rugby union) players


title: Ignacio Maria Napoli

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Ignacio Maria Napoli (died ca. 1744; also known as "Padre Procurador") was an Italian Jesuit missionary to the Baja California peninsula. In 1723, he founded the Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní, which was located southwest of Bahía las Palmas. Napoli arrived in the Cora area of Aiñiní (now known as Santiago, Baja California Sur) around 1721. Replaced by Lorenzo Carranco, he was transferred to Sinaloa or Sonora by 1726. In 1736, he was directing the Yaqui missions at Huirivis, Pótam, and Rahum.

References

1744 deaths
18th-century Italian Jesuits
Jesuit missionaries in Baja California
People from Baja California Sur
Year of birth missing
Italian Roman Catholic missionaries
Italian expatriates in the Spanish Empire


title: 1987–88 Primera B Nacional

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The 1987–88 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 2nd. season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 22 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera División. Deportivo Mandiyú of Corrientes Province won the championship, promoting to Primera along with San Martín de Tucumán.

On the other hand, Guaraní Antonio Franco, Ferro Carril Oeste (General Pico) and Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy were relegated.

Club information

1: Property of Huracán Corrientes.

Standings
Deportivo Mandiyú was declared champion and was automatically promoted to Primera División, and the teams placed 2nd to 10th qualified for the Second Promotion Playoff.

Second Promotion Playoff
The Second Promotion Playoff or Torneo Reducido was played by the teams placed 2nd to 10th in the overall standings: Quilmes (2nd), who entered in the Semifinals, Cipolletti (3rd) who entered in the Second Round, Chaco For Ever (4th), Tigre (5th), Belgrano (6th), Huracán (7th), Colón (8th), Atlético Tucumán (9th), Douglas Haig (10th); the champion of Primera B Metropolitana: Talleres (RE), San Martin (T) and Estación Quequén, both winners of Zonales Noroeste y Sureste from Torneo del Interior. The winner was promoted to Primera División.

1: Qualified because of sport advantage.

Note: San Martín de Tucumán won 3–0 on aggregate, promoting to Primera División.

Relegation

1: They kept the points earned in previous editions of the Primera B Metropolitana, although the category was new.
2: Despite they were promoted to play this season the points earned in previous editions of the Primera B Metropolitana were used to calculate averages, plus those achieved in the previous two tournaments.

Note: Clubs with indirect affiliation with AFA are relegated to their respective league of his province according to the Argentine football league system, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana. Clubs with direct affiliation are all from Greater Buenos Aires, with the exception of Newell's, Rosario Central, Central Córdoba and Argentino de Rosario, all from Rosario, and Unión and Colón from Santa Fe.

Relegation Playoff Matches
Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.
This season, Central Córdoba (SdE) had to play against Güemes (SdE) from the Liga Santiagueña de Fútbol.

Central Córdoba (SdE) remains in Primera B Nacional.

Top scorers

See also
1987–88 in Argentine football

References

Primera B Nacional seasons
Prim
1987 in South American football leagues
1988 in South American football leagues


title: Niro (rapper)

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Nourredine Bahri (; born 9 July 1987), better known by his stage name Niro (), is a born French Moroccan rapper from Blois. In 2013, he was signed to the AZ label after many years with the rap label Street Lourd formed by members of the French rap collective Mafia K'1 Fry.

Career
He started earlier releasing his street album Niroshima III in 2007. Niro became the first independent act to be signed to Street Lourd. His first single "70 Kg" was released in 2011 followed by "Dans ton kwaah" and "Pikassos". He was featured on recordings by well-known rappers including Seth Gueko, Kery James and Booba. He is considered one of the prominent figures of French "street rap" (le rap de rue).

In 2012, he released his debut studio album Paraplégique that contained many of his earlier hits. Immediately after the release of the album, he was involved in legal problems on some minor charges, arrested after a police chase and sentenced to a five-month term.

While in jail, he composed his second album Rééducation that he released to critical acclaim in 2013 addressing his legal problems. In 2014, he returned with a third album Miraculé. He followed this with Si je me souviens in 2015 and Or Game in 2016.

Discography

Albums

Street albums
2012 : Paraplégique (Street Lourd/Musicast)

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other charted songs

References

External links
Facebook

French rappers
1988 births
Living people
Rappers from Loir-et-Cher
French people of Moroccan descent


title: Monument to Alexander Matrosov

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The Monument to Alexander Matrosov is a monument in Ufa.  It is located at Republic House.

Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov was established in Ufa May 9, 1951 in the park renamed in honor of the hero. The monument is made of bronze mounted on a pedestal of pink granite. He is a figure of 2.5 meters in height, full-length in forward motion, with a gun in his hands. On the head of a soldier is a helmet and over his clothing is a cape. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov".

References

Monuments and memorials in Ufa
Statues in Russia
Outdoor sculptures in Russia
1951 establishments in Russia
Sculptures in the Soviet Union
Sculptures of men in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Bashkortostan


title: A. maxima

text:
A. maxima may refer to:

 Aerodramus maxima, a cave-nesting swift
 Alcadia maxima, a land snail
 Alucita maxima, a Libyan moth
 Anatoma maxima, a sea snail
 Apamea maxima, a moth native to western North America
 Architectonica maxima, a staircase shell
 Archontophoenix maxima, a palm endemic to Queensland
 Argonauta maxima, a pelagic octopus
 Aristolochia maxima, a New World plant
 Arthrospira maxima, a filamentous cyanobacterion
 Astrantia maxima, a perennial plant
 Atoposea maxima, a Colombian moth


title: Ashoka Mody

text:
Ashoka Mody (born 14 January 1956) is an American economist. He is the Charles and Marie Robertson visiting professor in international economic policy and lecturer in public and international affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Education
Mody studied Electronics at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras. After his B.Tech. (1978) he switched fields and obtained a M.Phil. in Applied Economics at the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum 1979, where he worked as a Research Associate until completing his PhD in Economics from Boston University in 1986.

Career
He briefly joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of their technical staff before joining the World Bank where he worked from 1987 to 2003.  In 1997/1998, Mody was a visiting professor of public policy at the Wharton School. From 2001 until his retirement, Mody was the assistant director of the International Monetary Fund's European Department. He is opposed to fiscal austerity as a means to resolve credit crises.

He was the chief IMF representative to Ireland during Ireland's troika bailout.  Mody was critical of the troika for severity of the austerity regime enforced on Ireland.  He was also critical of the Irish Government's lack of solidarity with other indebted EU nations and claimed that Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan "blew it" by siding with the troika in 2015, when a debt reduction might have been reached.  Mody noted in 2018 that Ireland's heavy exposure to U.S. multinationals for its business model would be a problem post the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reforms.

He is also affiliated with Bruegel in Brussels.

Attempt on Mody's life
In October 2009 as Mody returned to his home in Bethesda, Maryland when he was shot multiple times whilst in his car by a masked gunman who then fled on foot. Police issued an arrest warrant for Mohau Mercy Mathibe who worked for a trial period at the IMF under Mody. The assailant was suspected to be denied a promotion, leaving him embittered enough to commit the crime.

Personal life
Mody is married and has two children.

Bibliography

See also
Post-2008 Irish banking crisis
Ireland as a tax haven
Economic Adjustment Programme for Ireland
Post-2008 Irish economic downturn

References

External links
Ashoka Mody webpage of publications
Ashoka Mody Princeton

1956 births
Indian development economists
20th-century Indian economists
Living people


title: Heteraster

text:
Heteraster is an extinct  genus of sea urchins belonging to the family Toxasteridae.

These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period. Fossils of this family have been found in the sediments of Algeria, Egypt, France, Hungary, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland and Yemen.

Species
Heteraster oblongus Brongniart, 1821
Heteraster delgadoi (Loriol, 1888)
Heteraster renevieri (Desor, 1858).
Heteraster  transiens Devries (1956)
Heteraster  tissoti Coquand
Heteraster peroni Ficheur
Heteraster castellon

References

Spatangoida
Cretaceous echinoderms
Cretaceous animals of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 1855
Fossils of Serbia
Prehistoric echinoderms of Africa


title: Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Ufa

text:
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky is a sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chairman of the Cheka,  in Dzerzhinsky Park in the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan, Russia.

History

The statue was erected in Ufa in 1987 near the building of the Bashkir KGB (now - the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bashkortostan) in the park behind the "Rodina" cinema. The sculptor of the monument was the Leningrad artist Albert Seraphimovich Charkin. The sculpture was cast at the Leningrad plant "Monumentskulptura". Simultaneously with the installation of the monument, a row of poplars were planted behind it.

The popular name of the monument is "With his back to the Motherland" because the monument is behind the "Rodina" ("Motherland") cinema and is turned away from it.

See also
 Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow

References

Monuments and memorials in Ufa
Statues in Russia
Sculptures in the Soviet Union
Outdoor sculptures in Russia
Sculptures of men in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments in Bashkortostan


title: 2000 Brownlow Medal

text:
The 2000 Brownlow Medal was the 73rd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. Shane Woewodin of the Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-four votes during the 2000 AFL season.

The Essendon Football Club set a record for the highest number of votes collected as a team, with 116 out of a possible 132 votes. The club polled at least one vote in every game, including all six votes in 14 games.

Leading vote-getters

References

Brownlow Medal
2000
Brownlow Medal


title: Washington Street Plaza

text:
The Washington Street Plaza was a pedestrian plaza along Washington Street between Carlisle and Albany Streets on the west side of the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. It opened on May 23, 2013.

With an epoxy gravel placed over the street, it contained granite blocks, red chairs, tables, and potted plants.

Its construction was delayed for several years and debated within Manhattan Community Board 1, although it was ultimately approved by the executive committee. The Alliance for Downtown New York, the Business Improvement District led by Elizabeth H. Berger, argued that the plaza would, according to the Downtown Express, "improve pedestrian mobility" around the September 11 Memorial and allow the Alliance to install a tourist kiosk. Referring to the Alliance's report "Five Principles for Greenwich South," which advocated for the plaza, she said: “One of the things that we looked at was how to capitalize on the old-world geometry of the street plan to create a sense of destination and gathering places.... There’ll be an attractive space not only for visitors but for people who live and work in the area to congregate.” Some residents believed, however, that "it would disrupt traffic and complicate an already crowded area."

The administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, through Jeffrey Mandel, an adviser to Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel, also advanced that the plaza would benefit residents of the Downtown neighborhood while helping to mitigate foot traffic from tourists. He said, "[the plaza] pushes a couple of big dominos forward by creating a place that's not just attractive and desirable for the folks down here but that has beneficial impacts in the way of mitigation."

The plaza's construction was delayed by Hurricane Sandy. Representing the exiting Bloomberg administration, Mandel said, "We think it's important to make our best efforts in our last hours in the neighborhood."

Activists for the recognition of the history of the Lower West Side and the Little Syria neighborhood have argued that the plaza would be an ideal place for historical signage. In anticipation of its construction, they pursued a resolution in support of signage from Community Board 1.

References

Parks in Manhattan
Financial District, Manhattan


title: Kamyab TV

text:
Kamyab TV is a 24-hour Odia language general entertainment TV channel. It broadcasts various regional programs related to family entertainment, current affair, discussion and news. Kamyab TV got license from Union Ministry of IB in 2009.

Kamyab TV is available in INSAT-4A satellite in MPEG-4 format. It is headquartered in Bhubaneswar. Two serials Ganga Jamuna Saraswati and Dhara Shravan are broadcast on Kamyab TV.

References

See also
List of Oriya-language television channels

Free-to-air
Mass media in Odisha
Television stations in Bhubaneswar
2009 establishments in Orissa
Television channels and stations established in 2009


title: Jaswantnagar Assembly constituency

text:
Jaswantnagar Assembly constituency is a part of the Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh and it comes under Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
Etawah district


title: Out There (Disney song)

text:
"Out There" is a song from the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Unofficially, it consists of the two songs "Stay In Here" and "Out There". In the stage musical version, Frollo's "Stay In Here" section was expanded into its own song entitled "Sanctuary".

Production
Alan Menken's demo of the song put more emphasis on the "Stay In Here" theme of Quasimodo's monstrous features and Judge Claude Frollo's manipulation to keep him inside the cathedral.

In the stage musical version, the song is reprised at the very end, when he realizes that to a certain degree Frollo was right - that the world is cruel and wicked. But he also realizes that it is joyous and kind as well, and that it is the only world we've got so we must accept it, highs and lows included.

Synopsis
At this point in the film, Quasimodo wants to attend the Feast of Fools, but has never been allowed out of Notre Dame's bell tower before. His master Frollo tells him the outside world will treat him like a monster and says for his own sake he must stay where he is. After Frollo leaves, Quasimodo laments about what it would be like out in the real world, and pictures a romanticised version.

In one shot, Belle from Beauty and the Beast makes a cameo appearance in the streets of Paris reading her book. In the same shot, someone can be seen beating out the magic carpet from Aladdin.

Composition
The song actually consists of two separate sections, centering upon the themes of entrapment and escape. Frollo's "Stay In Here" and Quasimodo's "Out There" juxtapose each other, and express the motivations behind both characters and their relationship to each other.

Critical reception
Den of Geek! noted "We’re already talking about just how dark the song 'Hellfire' goes, but there’s also the earlier duet in 'Out There' between Frollo and Quasimodo...It’s hardly High School Musical, is it?" Filmtracks.com wrote "The character song 'Out There' opens with a frighteningly sinister conversational interaction between Frollo and Quasimodo before the latter performs his compelling cry for identity with flourishing and redemptive orchestral accompaniment. Tom Hulce's voice, especially compared to Tony Jay, is appropriately light."

References

1990s ballads
Pop ballads
Songs from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)
1996 songs
Disney Renaissance songs
Songs with music by Alan Menken
Songs written by Stephen Schwartz (composer)
Tony Jay songs
Male vocal duets
Song recordings produced by Alan Menken


title: Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi F.C.

text:
Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Malakhi () is an Israeli football club based in Kiryat Malakhi. They are currently in Liga Bet South B division.

History
The club was founded in 1962, and played in most of their football seasons in Liga Gimel, the lowest tier of Israeli football.

In the 1993–94 season, the club was promoted to Liga Bet for the first time in their history, after 33 years in Liga Gimel. However, their spell in Liga Bet lasted one season, and they were relegated back to Liga Gimel in the following season.

In 1999, Hapoel Kiryat Malakhi, which have played in Liga Alef, dissolved after major financial problems, and Maccabi remained the only football club in Kiryat Malakhi.

In the 2002–03 season, the club was promoted to Liga Bet for the second time, after they won their regional division of Liga Gimel with a perfect record of 20 wins, without any draw or lose, scoring 110 goals and conceding 11. After three seasons in Liga Bet South B division, the club finished the 2005–06 season in the third place, and were eventually promoted to Liga Alef, after one spot was vacated in the south division, following the merger of Beitar Kiryat Gat and Maccabi Kiryat Gat.

In Liga Alef South division, the highest placing of the club was runners-up finish in the 2010–11 season, and qualification with the home advantage to the promotion play-offs, where they beat Hapoel Kfar Shalem 2–0 in the first round, and were eliminated in the second round after they lost 1–3 to Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa.

Prior to the 2014–15 season, Maccabi were deducted nine points for entering administration. The club did not recover, as at the end of the season, they were relegated to Liga Bet, following a bottom place finish.

Honours
Liga Gimel:
1964–65, 1993–94, 2002–03

External links
Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi Ironi The Israel Football Association

References
History Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi

Kiryat Malakhi
Kiryat Malakhi
Association football clubs established in 1962
1962 establishments in Israel


title: 2014–15 Oman Professional League

text:
The 2014–15 Oman Professional League (known as the Omantel Professional League for sponsorship reasons) was the 39th edition of the top football league in Oman. The season began on 11 September 2014, and concluded on 28 May 2015. Al-Nahda Club were the defending champions, having won their third title in the previous 2013–14 season. On Saturday, 9 May 2015, Al-Oruba SC were crowned the champions of the 2014–15 Oman Professional League with three games to spare after Sur SC was held to a 2–2 draw by Al-Suwaiq Club at the Al-Seeb Stadium. Al-Oruba who had beaten Sohar SC, 1–0 on Friday took their tally to 48 points from 23 matches, gaining an unassailable lead of eight points ahead of second-placed Sur. Sur, which needed to win on Saturday to keep their title hopes alive, and settled for one point to take its tally to 40 points, helping the fierce rivals from Sur city to win their 4th domestic title.

Teams
This season the league has 14 teams. Majees SC and Al-Ittihad Club were relegated to the First Division League after finishing in the relegation zone in the 2013–14 season. Al-Nasr S.C.S.C. however again managed to play in the top division as they won the Relegation/Promotion playoff against Al-Mudhaibi Club. The two relegated teams were replaced by First Division League winners Al-Khabourah SC, runners-up Bowsher Club.

The winner and the runner-up will qualify for the 2016 AFC Cup.

Stadiums and locations

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Foreign players
Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field during each game including at least one player from the AFC country.

League table

Results

Clubs season-progress

Promotion/relegation play-off

1st leg

2nd leg

Sohar secured promotion after winning 2–1 on aggregate

Season statistics

Top scorers

* Player scored 2 goals for Saham SC** Player scored 2 goals for Dhofar S.C.S.C.

Top Omani scorers

Hat-tricks

OFA Awards
Oman Football Association awarded the following awards for the 2014–15 Oman Professional League season.
Top Scorer: Mechac Koffi (Al-Nasr)
Best Player: Eid Al-Farsi (Al-Oruba)
Most Promising Young Player: Mohammed Al-Najashi (Sur)
Best Goalkeeper: Riyadh Al-Alawi (Al-Oruba)
Best Coach: Philippe Burle (Al-Oruba)
Best Team Manager: Hussain Mustahil (Al-Nasr)
Fair Play Award: Al-Suwaiq

Media coverage

Controversies
The league was the subject of controversies like the refusal of Omani referees to officiate in the league matches and boycott of the Professional League by clubs.

Before the beginning of the 2014–15 season, nine top clubs of the Oman Professional League demanded the cancellation of the Professional League. It was reported that the presidents of the nine clubs (Al-Oruba, Dhofar, Al-Seeb, Al-Nahda, Fanja, Bowsher, Sohar, Al-Shabab and Sur) held a meeting in the head office of Sur SC on 7 June 2014 in order to discuss the experience of different clubs of the professional league. The statement released by the clubs after this meeting sparked a wave of controversy as all these nine clubs decided to hold a meeting with Sayyid Khalid Al-Busaidi, Chairman of the Oman Football Association and demand the cancellation of the 2014–15 season of the Oman Professional League. The reason given out was that the clubs were unable to meet the financial demands laid out by the association and also that the association failed to fulfill the promises made before the beginning of the pro-league system.

In a major embarrassment for the Oman Football Association (OFA), all its top-division referees boycotted the three-day opening round of the prestigious Omantel Professional League (OPL), which began on 11 September 2014, over a payment issue. This was the first ever instance in Oman of OFA-accredited referees boycotting top-flight domestic league matches over a stand-off. The referees refused to officiate in the opening-round matches on 11 September 2014, 12 September 2014 and 13 September 2014 over long-standing bonus payments from the OFA. The row over pending bonus payments for the referees had been brewing since the conclusion of the inaugural edition of OPL last season. The first round match between Sur SC and Al-Seeb Club was postponed from the scheduled time to another time and the match between Dhofar S.C.S.C. and Al-Khaboora SC which was also scheduled to be held on 11 September was postponed to the next day because of the refusal of Omani referees to officiate in the league matches. The OFA, under the chairmanship of Sayyid Khalid al Busaidy, managed to defuse the crisis by requesting the UAE football body to send match officials to get the OPL started. UAE duly responded, sending 16 officials - eight referees and eight linesmen - who officiated in the seven opening-round matches that went ahead as scheduled from Thursday to Saturday at various venues in Oman.

On 11 December 2014, defending champions Al-Nahda failed to turn up against Dhofar in an OPL match at the Al-Saada Stadium in Salalah; the Oman Professional League's Disciplinary Committee handed the result of the abandoned match in favour of Dhofar (3-0) and docked Al-Nahda a total of nine points - three for skipping the 11 December fixture and six more as penalty.

On 11 February 2015, 4 (Al-Musannah, Al-Seeb, Bowsher and Fanja) out of the 14 clubs participating in the 2014–15 Oman Professional League along with 8 other Omani clubs decided to go ahead with their demand for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) with the aim of introducing a no-confidence motion against the association's  board members.

On 7 March 2015, 10 out of 39 clubs attending a consultative meeting of the OFA walked out in protest midway into the proceedings. walkout was triggered by the OFA's decision to call off an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), which was originally scheduled for 7 March 2015. However, the OFA which had previously agreed for an EGM, on 6 March 2015 shelved the summit, citing a letter from the FIFA, football's world governing body. On the very next day, the OFA cancelled the membership of 11 clubs (Ahli Sidab, Al-Ittifaq, Al-Kamel Wa Al-Wafi, Al-Musannah, Al-Seeb, Bowsher, Dhofar, Fanja, Ibri, Ja'lan and Nizwa) for illegally withdrawing from the consultative meeting conducted by the OFA.

See also

2014–15 Sultan Qaboos Cup
2014–15 Oman Professional League Cup
2014 Oman Super Cup
2014–15 Oman First Division League
2015–16 Oman Second Division League

References

Top level Omani football league seasons
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Oman


title: Toxasteridae

text:
Toxasteridae is an extinct  family of sea urchins.

These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145.5 to 61.7 Ma.

Genera
Adytaster
Aphelaster
Douvillaster
Enallopneustes
Heteraster
Isaster
Isomicraster
Macraster
Mokotibaster
Palmeraster
Polydesmaster
Toxaster

References

Spatangoida
Cretaceous first appearances
Cretaceous extinctions
Prehistoric echinoderm families


title: Redstone Press

text:
Redstone Press is a London-based art book publisher that was founded in 1986 by Julian Rothenstein, the son of English portrait painter Duffy Ayers and her first husband, the painter and printmaker Michael Rothenstein. Publisher Julian Rothenstein, who has been called "a one-man art movement", is also the press's editor and designer.

History
The first Redstone Press book was of drawings by the publisher's father as a child prodigy in 1912–17, entitled Drawing Book. In the words of Eye magazine: "A softbound book in a black paper portfolio, it was beautiful and quirky, perfectly pitched to delight eye and mind together. The same qualities have distinguished Redstone's subsequent output." Other early productions include visual books in boxes, such as Frans Masereel's Passionate Journey (1988), a novel told in 165 woodcuts, with an Introduction by Thomas Mann; Images of Frida Kahlo with an introduction by Angela Carter; and Osip Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia with an introduction by Bruce Chatwin.

The Redstone Diary, started in 1989, is now considered a "cult product", with Ian Sansom writing in The Guardian: "There may be no great diarists, then, but there are still great diaries. By far the best is the legendary Redstone Diary….In the midst of one's self-obsessions, the Redstone Diary reminds one of other worlds." It is an annual spiral-bound desk diary that "usually delivers a quirky collection of literary and graphic ephemera based around a single theme, such as ‘Daring!’ (2003), ‘The Artist’s World’ (2011) and ‘The Senses' (2012)."

Self-defined as "the publishers of surprising books and games", Redstone Press have published numerous books on psychology, including Psychobox (with an introduction by Jonathan Miller), Psychogames, The Redstone Inkblot Test and Psychobook (with an introduction by Lionel Shriver). Other titles include The Blind Photographer (2016), a compilation co-edited by Rothenstein with Mel Gooding, that was described as "the first of its kind" by World of Interiors, whose review concluded: "Summing up the book’s lucid, generous ethos is a quote by Stevie Wonder, placed on its cover. 'Visions are not seen purely by the eyes but through the spirit.' The Blind Photographer, challenging our assumptions, shows that blindness does not stop sight."<ref>Rebecca Swirsky, The Blind Photographer review, World of Interiors.</ref>

More recently, Redstone published the book Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition (accompanying an exhibition at the House of Illustration from 8 November 2019 to 1 March 2020, curated by Paul Goodwin and Katie McCurrach, featuring the pioneering infographics of W. E. B. Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition), edited by Julian Rothenstein, and with an Introduction by Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall, a Foreword by David Adjaye and contribution from Henry Louis Gates Jr. According to the review in Black History Month'' magazine, "Black Lives is a book of black history that has contemporary relevance to the black lives of people across the globe."

References

External links
 "Julian Rothenstein, Publisher", Spitalfields Life, 11 December 2013.

Book publishing companies based in London
Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Publishing companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in England
Small press publishing companies


title: Congress Hall, Ufa

text:
The Congress Hall () is the Government House in Ufa, built for the 450th anniversary of the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia.

Its architecture is characterized by the use of spatial, formal, coloristic prototypes of Bashkir culture for the formation of a modern national architecture. The epitome of this style became glazed facade with Bashkir ornament, looking at the Belaya River.

The BRICS summit was held in Congress Hall in 2015.

See also
Republic House, Bashkortostan

References

External links
 Congress Hall website

Buildings and structures in Ufa
Government buildings in Russia


title: Robert Dulmers

text:
Robert Dulmers (born 12 June 1965, Vienna) is a Dutch writer and journalist. Dulmers is known for his years of reporting from the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars, during which he was arrested and interrogated. He has written several books, one based on his experiences in the former Yugoslavia and another, on Pope John Paul II's succession, based on years he spent studying for the priesthood in Rome. Dulmers mostly works freelance and has built a reputation as a single-minded and somewhat eccentric writer, difficult to work with but highly praised by his colleagues.

Biography

Dulmers worked freelance in 1981–1982 for the VPRO's news program BGTV, and wrote a series of articles for Vrij Nederland with Frits Abrahams. He studied philosophy at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and in September 1991 left for Graz to study with the Jesuits for a year. From Graz he traveled to Croatia, where the Yugoslav Civil War had just broken out, and reported for Dutch radio from East Slavonia. In the following years he reported from and lived in  Osijek, Zagreb, Split and Sarajevo, working freelance for the ANP, the largest Dutch press agency.

Dulmers was arrested on 19 May 1992 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by a Bosnian Serb militia while traveling with one of the UNHCR food convoys, and charged with espionage. He was released on 29 May after intervention by the Red Cross, after "reportedly [being] beaten and threatened with execution". As a result of his experiences Dulmers was able to testify against Bosnian Serb paramilitary group leader Nikola Jorgic, who was sentenced to life in prison for genocide in 1997. Dulmers' colleague, photographer Teun Voeten, had stayed with him in Osijek, Croatia, while the town was being shelled by Bosnian Serb forces in October 1991, and described how Dulmers, who knew everyone in town, walked around the ruins with a long black leather coat covering a tuxedo, and slept in the basement of the local clergy house among the pickles. Voeten commented that he and Dulmers crossed paths frequently in years to come: they often disagreed and usually fought, but, he said, Dulmers had a "brilliant mind and a tender soul". Reviewing Zwart ("Black"), Dulmers' autobiographical novel based on his experiences in former Yugoslavia, Voeten called it "an impressive and, as far as I know, unique book for Dutch literature: a philosophical confessional novel with homo-erotic subtext, Bildungsroman and ruthless war reporting at the same time".

After Yugoslavia
In the late 1990s Dulmers worked, still as a freelance writer, for a number of Dutch publications including again Vrij Nederland, which fired him in 1999 after he was charged with plagiarism: one paragraph (five sentences) in a long article on safe sex was copied from the Internet. The magazine's editor-in-chief commented that everything else in the article checked out, and that he couldn't understand why Dulmers had copied the "unnecessary" paragraph. In the same magazine, Dutch writer Natasha Gerson commented on Dulmers, after comparing him with notorious and unconventional writers such as Gerard Reve and Charles Bukowski, "Dulmers is of that type whose passing people lament, and wonder why such people are no longer around, when the answer is clear: our world, today, does not tolerate brilliant and curious – and enervating – individuals such as him".

His years in former Yugoslavia had brought Dulmers to "the edge of insanity", and in 1998 he decided to study theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, to become a priest. He did not, in the end, become one, but used his experience in the Vatican to write a book on the final years of Pope John Paul II and the process of electing a new pope, Wachten op witte rook: De opvolging van Johannes Paulus II ("Waiting for white smoke: the succession of John Paul II", 2004).

Dulmers reported in 2009 on the trial of former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadžić. In 2014, Dulmers went to Syria with Teun Voeten, in hopes of an interview with president Bashar al-Assad. They did not interview Assad but were allowed to visit for coffee (having brought Pierre Marcolini bonbons for Mrs. Assad), and published their report in De Groene Amsterdammer. Dulmers commented afterward that in war journalism it is frequently impossible to report on both sides: "If they [the rebels] find out that I visited at the presidential office, then I'm finished".

In 2022, he went to Ukraine to cover the Ukraine war as a correspondent for Nederlands Dagblad. When he posted a photo of the aftermath of a Russian rocket attack on a fuel warehouse in Odessa on Twitter, he was arrested and accused of revealing state secrets. He claimed to have been violently detained and intimidated by Ukrainian security forces. On April 3, 2022, he was expelled from Ukraine and banned from re-entering the country for 10 years.

Bibliography
 Phaëthon (1989) (Picaron Editions).
 Zwart (2003) (Meulenhoff).
 Wachten op witte rook: De opvolging van Johannes Paulus II (2004) (Meulenhoff)
 Bonbons voor Mevrouw Assad. Achter de Linies van het Syrische Regime (2016) (Meulenhoff)

Awards and nominations
 2016  Winner of De Loep – Dutch and Flemish Grand Award for Investigative Journalism
 2016 Nomination for the Lira- Scherpenzeel Award – Dutch Prize for outstanding Foreign Journalism
 2017 Nomination for the Bob den Uyl Award – Dutch Award for the Best Travel Book

References

Living people
1965 births
Dutch male writers
Dutch war correspondents
War correspondents of the Yugoslav Wars

Austrian emigrants to the Netherlands

University of Amsterdam alumni