title: East Branch Briar Creek

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East Branch Briar Creek is a tributary of Briar Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately  long and flows through Briar Creek Township and the boroughs of Berwick and Briar Creek. The watershed of the creek has an area of . A lake known as Briar Creek Lake is on the creek. The pH of the creek has a median of 6.92 near its headwaters and 7.565 at Briar Creek Lake. The creek's temperature ranges from  to . Rock formations in the watershed include shale, limestone, siltstone, sandstone, and mudstone.

East Branch Briar Creek is designated as a coldwater fishery. It is also partially flanked by forested land.

Course

East Branch Briar Creek begins in a lake in Briar Creek Township, immediately south of Lee Mountain. It flows west for a few miles before turning southwest for more than a mile. The creek then turns south-southeast and flows past the community of Evansville. South of Evansville, it turns roughly east and flows through Briar Creek Lake. Further downstream, the creek makes a broad turn west and passes along the outskirts of Berwick. After less than a mile, it enters the community of Briar Creek. Shortly afterwards, the creek reaches its confluence with Briar Creek.

East Branch Briar Creek joins Briar Creek  upstream of its mouth.

Tributaries
Tributaries of East Branch Briar Creek include Kashinka Hollow and Glen Brook. Kashinka Hollow joins East Branch Briar Creek  upstream of its mouth. Its watershed has an area of . Glen Brook joins the creek  upstream of its mouth. Its watershed has an area of .

Hydrology
The discharge of East Branch Briar Creek in its upper reaches ranges from 0.4 to 10.425 cubic feet per second, with a median of 1.385 cubic feet per second. Near Briar Creek Lake, the discharge of the creek ranges from 0.54 to 11.5 cubic feet per second. The median discharge here is 4.645 cubic feet per second. In the upper reaches of East Branch Briar Creek, its temperature ranges from  to . The median temperature here is . Close to Briar Creek Lake, the temperature of the creek ranges between  and . The median temperature here is .

Near the headwaters of East Branch Briar Creek, its pH ranges from 6.78 to 7.21, with a median of 6.92. Near Briar Creek Lake, the pH of the creek ranges between 7.14 and 8.73, with a median of 7.565. The creek's concentration of alkalinity is over 20 milligrams per liter. However, this is lower than several other streams in the area. The concentration of total dissolved solids in the creek near its headwaters ranges from 25 to 113 parts per million. The median concentration in this location is 35.5 parts per million. Near Briar Creek Lake, the concentration of total dissolved solids in the creek ranges between 34 and 86 parts per million, with an average of 43.5 parts per million.

In a visual assessment by the Briar Creek Association for Watershed Solutions, the upper reaches of East Branch Briar Creek were given a score of 7.8 on a scale of 1 to 10. Of ten sites in the Briar Creek watershed, this location has a priority rank of 8. However, the visual assessment gave East Branch Briar Creek a score of 3.7 near Briar Creek Lake. This site has a priority rank of 2. From the downstream site of Briar Creek Lake to the mouth of Glen Brook, the creek is considered to be "non-attaining". The causes of impairment in the creek are temperatures and low levels of dissolved oxygen.

East Branch Briar Creek has elevated levels of lead and nitrates.

Geography and geology
The elevation of East Branch Briar Creek near its mouth is  above sea level. The elevation of the creek's source is slightly over .

The southern reaches of the watershed of East Branch Briar Creek are over calcareous shale and limestone. The central part of the watershed is on siltstone and shale and the watershed's northern reaches are on mudstone and sandstone.

The soil on East Branch Briar Creek near Briar Creek Lake is of the Holly Series, which is a silt loam. Closer to the creek's source, the Albrights Series is found. This soil series is a gravelly silt loam.

There are large amounts of stream alluvium and colluvium on East Branch Briar Creek.

Watershed
The watershed of East Branch Briar Creek has an area of . Much of the watershed is in Briar Creek Township, but a small part is in Berwick. The eastern part of the watershed is in Salem Township, Luzerne County.

History
East Branch Briar Creek flooded in 1955, causing the communities of Berwick and Foundryville $75,000 in damage. As a response to this and other flooding incidents, the construction of the Briar Creek Lake was planned in 1967.

A woman fell into East Branch Briar Creek and drowned on April 23, 1973.

There are a number of former quarries on the northern side of a ridge that is to the south of East Branch Briar Creek. One of these quarries was used to get stone for making agricultural lime.

Biology
East Branch Briar Creek is designated as a coldwater fishery. Wild trout reproduce naturally in the creek upstream of Briar Creek Lake.

There are forested corridors along East Branch Briar Creek. These are described in the Briar Creek coldwater conservation plan as "very important" to the ecology of the watershed of Briar Creek. The Columbia County Natural Areas Inventory describes these corridors as "some of the most important features in this township [Briar Creek Township]".

See also
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
West Branch Briar Creek

References

Rivers of Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Susquehanna River
Rivers of Pennsylvania


title: Nové Lublice

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Nové Lublice is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.

History
The first written mention of Nové Lublice is from 1588.

Notable people
Alois Anderka (1825–1886), politician, mayor of Ostrava

Gallery

References

External links

Villages in Opava District


title: Lodi, Nebraska

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Lodi is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established at Lodi in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1928. The community was named after the Italian city of Lodi, Lombardy.

References

Populated places in Custer County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Nové Sedlice

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Nové Sedlice () is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.

History
The first written mention of Nové Sedlice is from 1377.

References

External links

Villages in Opava District


title: Exempted Limited Partnership Law, 2014

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The Exempted Limited Partnership Law, 2014 (Law 5 of 2014) is a statute of the Cayman Islands. It was passed on 2 July 2014.

Section 50 of the Law repeals the Exempted Limited Partnership Law, 2013.

See also
Law of the Cayman Islands

References
The Exempted Limited Partnership Bill. Cayman Islands Gazette.
Cayman Islands: The Exempted Limited Partnership Law 2014. The Lawyer.
Changes To The Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnership Law. Mondaq.

Law of the Cayman Islands
2014 in law
2014 in the Cayman Islands


title: Walt Clago

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Walter M. Clago (June 28, 1899 – January 16, 1955) was an American football end who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Tigers (1921) and Rock Island Independents (1922). He played college football for the University of Detroit Titans football team in 1919 and also served in the United States Army (1916–1919), Detroit Police Department (1920–1945), and Pima County Sheriff's Department (1951–1955).

Early years
Clago was born in Gibraltar, Michigan, in 1899. His parents were Bezallet Burton "Zalie" Clago and Catherine (Manausan) Clago. He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit.

Clago enlisted in the United States Army on June 1, 1916, shortly before his 17th birthday.  He served on the Mexican border prior to the United States entry into World War I.  When the United States entered the war, Clago was sent to France where he was injured, received the Purple Heart, and reached the rank of sergeant. He was discharged from the military on June 1, 1919.

After his discharge from the Army, Clago enrolled at the University of Detroit and became a star football player in 1919.

Professional football
In August 1920, Clago joined the Detroit Police Department. While serving with the police department, he also played two seasons of professional football in the early years of the NFL.  He appeared in seven games as a left end for the 1921 Detroit Tigers and seven games as a right end for the 1922 Rock Island Independents.

Policing career
After his football career ended, Clago remained with the Detroit Police Department until 1945. He was commander of the department's motor division when he retired. After retiring from the Detroit Police Department, Clago moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he had served in the Army prior to World War I. In 1951, he joined the Pima County Sheriff's Department as a night captain. He lived in the Tucson mountains and was promoted to undersheriff in June 1953.

Family and death
Clago was married twice.  He married Gertrude Richwine in April 1920. They had a daughter (Joyce Lee) and two sons (Laurence and Walter). Gertrude died in September 1953, and Clago married his second wife, Phyllis, in December 1953.

In January 1955, Clago died at age 55 from a cerebral hemorrhage at a Phoenix hospital. He was buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in Tucson.

References

1899 births
1955 deaths
Players of American football from Detroit
American football ends
Cass Technical High School alumni
Detroit Titans football players
Detroit Tigers (NFL) players
Rock Island Independents players
People from Wayne County, Michigan
Detroit Police Department officers
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army non-commissioned officers


title: Partita for keyboard No. 6, BWV 830

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The Partita for keyboard No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, is a suite of seven movements written for the harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was published in 1731 both as a separate work and as part of Bach's Clavier-Übung I.

History
Prior to publication, two movements of BWV 830 formed part of the first version of the sixth sonata in E minor for obbligato harpsichord and violin, BWV 1019: the Corrente as a harpsichord solo; and the Tempo di gavotta as a duo for violin and harpsichord. The surviving manuscript, largely written by Bach's nephew Johann Heinrich Bach, has been dated to 1725; the harpsichord parts for these two movements were written by Bach himself. BWV 830 is the last suite in Bach's  Clavier-Übung I, the first music published by Bach within his lifetime. The partitas were initially published separately, starting in 1726; the title page of the collection of six, published together in 1731, carries the designation "Opus 1".

Musical structure

This partita consists of seven movements all in E minor.

Reception and legacy
David Schulenberg describes this partita: "The Sixth Partita is the crowning work of the set and Bach's greatest suite. The allemande and sarabande contain some of the most audacious and dramatic melodic embellishment ever written, and the work opens and closes with two particularly ambitious contrapuntal movements." Peter Williams, however, considers that some movements from Clavier-Übung I that were composed earlier than others, such as the Gigue from BWV 830, have a "grinding quality that is totally absent from the elegant and novel No. 1."

 says about Sarabande in his notes in the booklet to his recording of partitas: "As for the following Sarabande, it plunges us into deep reflection. It is a pure lamento and perhaps the most intensely expressive piece in all of Bach's works for harpsichord."

American composer George Rochberg's harpsichord fantasia Nach Bach contains direct musical quotations from this partita.

Notes

References
Selected published editions

 (contains detailed preface by Engler)
 (contains detailed preface by Jones together with facsimiles of publications 1726–1731)

Books and journal articles

External links

 , Murray Perahia

Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach
Compositions for harpsichord
1731 compositions


title: Chvalíkovice

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Chvalíkovice () is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.

History
The first written mention of Chvalíkovice is from 1445.

Sights
The only monument is the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel from 1865.

References

External links

Villages in Opava District


title: List of Numéro magazine cover models

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This list of Numéro cover models is a catalog of cover models who have appeared on the cover of Numéro magazine, starting with the magazine's first issue in March 1999.

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See also

 List of Numéro China cover models
 List of Numéro Russia cover models
 List of Numéro Tokyo cover models
 List of Numéro Korea cover models

External links
 Numéro
 Numéro France on Models.com


title: Red Willow Lake (Griggs County, North Dakota)

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Red Willow Lake is a naturally formed lake located in Griggs County, North Dakota. The nearest town is Binford.

The lake covers , has  of shoreline, and has an average depth of , with a maximum depth of . Red Willow Lake is an endorheic (closed) lake; it has no significant input or output of rivers or streams and is fed only by rain and natural springs.

Red Willow Lake first became recognized as a recreational resource in 1882.

References

Lakes of North Dakota
Bodies of water of Griggs County, North Dakota


title: Milburn, Nebraska

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Milburn is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. It is located within the boundaries of the 68813 Zip code, serviced out of Anselmo, Nebraska. It is also located at the northwestern edge of the Milburn Township boundary. It is in Nebraska State Senate district 43.

History
A post office at Milburn was established in 1887 by James Milburn, and named for him.

References

Populated places in Custer County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Wanees Zarour

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Wanees Zarour (born 1986 in Ramallah) is a Chicago-based music composer, focusing on contemporary Middle Eastern Music. He is an accomplished oud, buzuq, percussion and violin player, having been featured in many international music festivals. He released his first album, Quarter to Midnight, in 2014.

Musical career
Born in Ramallah, Palestine, Zarour has trained as a musician from the age of 7.  He began with violin and quickly picked up oud, buzuq, and percussion. He has been invited to perform in major music and concerts around the world in ensemble and solo performances, including American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion, Chicago's World Music Festival, and Day of Music at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Zarour specializes in Maqam music,  teaching classes and leading ensembles mainly in the Chicago area. His compositions often fuse traditional Middle Eastern instrumentation and Maqam theory together with musical traditions ranging from free jazz to Eastern European folk, and Latin American Music such as Bossa Nova.

As of 2021, Zarour has for some years been the Director of the Middle East Music Ensemble at The University of Chicago, which performs a wide variety of  traditional and contemporary Middle Eastern music,  featuring Arab, Turkish and Persian repertoire. He also taught Maqam Theory and Middle Eastern Rhythm as a faculty member at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

Zarour has led and performed with several groups, including Duzan Ensemble and the Wanees Zarour Ensemble.  His first album, of original compositions, Quarter to Midnight was released on August 2, 2014, at Chicago's Constellation.

From 2019 through 2021 and beyond, guitarist Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour restarted the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra, with the encouragement and financial support of the Chicago World Music Festival and the Old Town School of Folk Music.  (The orchestra's original incarnation ran from 1999 to 2004, led by Willy Schwartz.) Haque and Zarour recruited other local musicians to join them, and Haque also serves as concertmaster.

Similar Artists
Other notable artists who compose and perform music in similar Middle Eastern styles include Issa Boulos, Simon Shaheen, Bassam Saba, and Ziad Rahbani.

Discography

References

External links
Official site

American male composers
American male violinists
American oud players
Palestinian emigrants to the United States
Living people
1986 births
21st-century American composers
21st-century American violinists
21st-century American male musicians


title: Neplachovice

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Neplachovice () is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The village of Zadky is an administrative part of Neplachovice.

History
The first written mention of Neplachovice is from 1257.

Notable people
Alfred Schreiber (1923–1944), German fighter pilot

References

External links

Villages in Opava District


title: Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo

text:
The diocese of Polog and Kumanovo was a diocese of the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric in North Macedonia. It ceased to exist on 19 June 2013 when it was divided into the diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo and the Diocese of Tetovo and Gostivar. From 1971 until his death in 2013, the head of Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo was Kiril.

See also
 Kiril of Polog and Kumanovo
 Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo
 List of Metropolitans of Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo

References

External links
 Official Page of Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo
 Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo on MOC-OA Site

Macedonian Orthodox dioceses
Bogovinje Municipality
Brvenica Municipality
Gostivar Municipality
Jegunovce Municipality
Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality
Tearce Municipality
Tetovo Municipality
Vrapčište Municipality
Kumanovo Municipality
Kratovo Municipality
Kriva Palanka Municipality
Želino Municipality
Rankovce Municipality
Lipkovo Municipality
Staro Nagoričane Municipality
Dioceses in North Macedonia


title: Pat Dunne (American football)

text:
Patrick Dunne was an American football fullback who played two seasons in the American Professional Football Association with the Detroit Heralds and Detroit Tigers

External links
Just Sports Stats
Fanbase profile

Year of death missing
American football fullbacks
Detroit Heralds players
Detroit Tigers (NFL) players
1890 births


title: Walworth, Nebraska

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Walworth is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.

History
Walworth was founded in 1892. It was named for a Nebraska lumber baron.

References

Populated places in Custer County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Marriages (band)

text:
Marriages was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 2011. The band's final lineup consisted of vocalist and guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle, bassist Greg Burns and drummer Andrew Clinco.

The band has been inactive since 2015, and Rundle said in 2021 that the band was not planning on releasing new material. Since then, Rundle has put out multiple solo albums while Clinco has continued with his project Drab Majesty.

History
Following the hiatus of Red Sparowes, two members of that band, Emma Ruth Rundle (also formerly of the Nocturnes) and Greg Burns (ex-Halifax Pier), formed Marriages. The band played its first show on November 28, 2011 opening for Russian Circles, and signed to the Sargent House label alongside fellow opening act Deafheaven.

The group recorded the Kitsune EP with drummer Dave Clifford. It was released in 2012 on Sargent House, and was followed by tours with Russian Circles and Chelsea Wolfe in 2012 and Deafheaven in 2013. In late 2012, drummer Andrew Clinco was brought in as a permanent member of the band, replacing Clifford. Influenced by Rundle, Clinco learned how to play the guitar for his new project, Drab Majesty.

In 2014, the group completed recording for their debut studio album, Salome, while Rundle simultaneously recorded and released her solo debut Some Heavy Ocean (she has also recorded under the name the Headless Prince of Zolpidem). Salome was released on April 7, 2015 by Sargent House, preceded by a U.S. tour with Helms Alee and followed by a European tour with Wovenhand.

As of 2021, the band appears to have disbanded. Rundle stated in a Reddit AMA that there was "no intention" of further material from Marriages.

Band members
Final lineup
Emma Ruth Rundle - guitar, vocals (2011–2015)
Greg Burns - bass, keyboards, programming (2011–2015)
Andrew Clinco - drums (2012–2015)

Former members
Dave Clifford - drums (2012)

Discography

Studio albums
Salome (2015, Sargent House)

EPs
Kitsune (2012, Sargent House)

References

External links

Musical groups from Los Angeles
Musical groups established in 2011
2011 establishments in California


title: Jerry Mansfield

text:
Jerry Allen Mansfield  (August 13, 1892 – October 27, 1960) was an American football fullback who played two seasons with the Rock Island Independents of the American Professional Football Association. He attended Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois. He died on the 27th of October, 1960, aged 68.

External links
Just Sports Stats
Fanbase profile
rockislandindependents.com

1892 births
1960 deaths
Players of American football from Illinois
American football fullbacks
Rock Island Independents players
Sportspeople from Rock Island, Illinois


title: Weissert, Nebraska

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Weissert is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. There is a post office, a small general store, a church and a grange located there, along with a few homes.

History
The first post office in Weissert was established in 1892.

References

Populated places in Custer County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme

text:
The Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme has been described as the "biggest green energy scam" in United States history. A Federal judge in the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil case found Mantria had scammed more than $54.5 million “by egregiously, recklessly, knowingly, and shamelessly perpetrating a fraudulent scheme” that used “misrepresentations, omissions, and blatant lies to induce unsuspecting and unwitting victim investors to liquidate the equity in their homes and take out bank loans to invest in Defendants’ scheme, which was nothing more than smoke and mirrors.”
On November 16, 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged four people who targeted those nearing retirement age who were seeking real estate and "green" investments. Many of these securities were offered by Mantria Corporation.

The SEC said Mantria's environmental and real estate initiatives had not generated any significant profits, and returns paid to investors had been funded from other investors' contributions. They targeted those nearing retirement age to finance the "green" initiatives of Mantria Corporation, such as a “carbon negative” housing community in rural Tennessee, waste-to-energy plants,  and a “biochar” charcoal substitute made from organic waste. Mantria Corporation operated using 55 different LLCs in the scheme, which made it very difficult for investigators to follow the funds.

Mantria Corporation

Mantria Corporation described itself in numerous press releases and on the web as a $128 million company focusing on green community development, socially responsible investing, distressed real estate fund management, mortgage banking, renewable energy, music and entertainment and philanthropy. Mantria also described its foundation called Mantria Green – a set of pioneering principles for developing premium land and real estate with carbon emission offsetting and environmentally conscious design. Some of the companies Mantria operated as include: Mantria Corporation, Mantria Industries, Eternagreen, Carbon Diversion, Mantria Realty, Mantria Communities, Mantria Investments, Mantria Records, EternaGreen Global, Earthmate Technologies, Eternagreen Capital, Clean Energy Components and many others. Based outside of Philadelphia in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, Mantria Corporation had additional offices in Tennessee and Florida.

Mantria & Speed of Wealth, LLC.

Mantria offered its investments primarily through Speed of Wealth, LLC and its principals,

Mantria Ponzi scheme

On November 16, 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged four people who targeted those nearing retirement age who were seeking real estate and “green” (environmentally-friendly) investments. Many of these securities were offered by Mantria Corporation.

The SEC said Mantria's environmental and real estate initiatives had not generated any significant profits, and returns paid to investors had been funded from other investors' contributions.

In July 2011, Denver’s 5280 Magazine wrote about Mantria and Speed of Wealth in "The Biggest Green Scam in America".

On August 5, 2011, after nearly 21 months, Federal Judge Arguello ruled the Mantria case a ponzi scheme. Arguello called Mantria a Ponzi scheme operating with "sociopathic greed". The judge was to the point in stating that Mantria scammed more than $54.5 million “by egregiously, recklessly, knowingly, and shamelessly perpetrating a fraudulent scheme” that used “misrepresentations, omissions, and blatant lies to induce unsuspecting and unwitting victim investors to liquidate the equity in their homes and take out bank loans to invest in Defendants’ scheme, which was nothing more than smoke and mirrors.”

On September 3, 2015, the Department of Justice charged three people affiliated with the Mantria Ponzi scheme. Those accused are Mantria Corporation founders and executives Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr, as well as unlicensed securities broker Wayde McKelvy. The charges included conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud and seven counts of wire fraud.
In Georgia Troy Wragg had been arrested and Wayde McKelvy was arrested in Colorado. Amanda Knorr turned herself in at a later date.

On May 24, 2016, Amanda Knorr pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy, seven counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud. Knorr could have received a maximum prison sentence of 240 years, a fine of $12.5 million and/or an order make full restitution. Sentencing was expected to take place on November 3, 2016, but was rescheduled for after the Wayde McKelvy trial.

A change of plea hearing occurred on March 2, 2017 when Troy Wragg pleaded guilty to 10 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud. The maximum penalty is 240 years in prison, 5 years supervised release, a $12.5 million fine, and a $1000 special assessment. Sentencing was rescheduled for after the Wayde McKelvy trial.

Sentencing

Troy Benjamin Wragg:  Troy Wragg, 37, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced on August 20, 2019 to 22 years in prison and $54 million restitution by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for perpetrating two fraud schemes.  Per the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator website, Wragg is inmate #67165-019.  As of 26 November 2022, he is 41 years old and incarcerated at FCI Ashland (Kentucky) with a projected release date of 8 September 2036 when he will be 59 years old.

Amanda Knorr:  Amanda Knorr, 35, of Hellertown, Pa., received a prison sentence of 2.5 years on April 5, 2019 after pleading guilty to wire and securities fraud. The prosecutors called Mantria the biggest scam involving clean energy in American history.  Per the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator webpage, she was age 39 on 26 November 2022 and her Bureau of Prisons inmate number is #72393-066.  She was released from prison on 9 July 2021.

Wayde McKelvy:  Wayde McKelvy, 59, of Aurora, CO, was sentenced in August 2021 to 18 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $37 million restitution after being convicted on October 18, 2018 on one count of conspiracy to commit fire fraud, seven counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to engage in securities fraud and one count of securities fraud.  Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Williams said in a statement. “McKelvy is nothing more than a twenty-first century snake oil salesman".  Per the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator website, McKelvy is inmate #41416-013.  As of 26 November 2022, he is 60 years old and incarcerated at FCI Sandstone with a projected release date of 17 August 2036 when he will be 78 years old.

References

Pyramid and Ponzi schemes


title: Przemek Karnowski

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Przemysław Marcin "Przemek" Karnowski (; born 8 November 1993) is a Polish basketball player for Stelmet Zielona Góra of the PLK and the VTB United League. He completed his college career at Gonzaga University in the United States in 2017. He has also played for the Polish national team. He had been viewed by some NBA draft analysts as a potential first round pick in the 2016 draft, but chose to return to Gonzaga for his final season of college eligibility in 2016–17.

College career
Przemek narrowed his decision down to California and Gonzaga. He committed to Gonzaga on May 29, 2012. For his freshman season he was behind star Canadian center Kelly Olynyk, a future lottery pick in the 2013 NBA draft. In the 2013–14 season Karnowski averaged 10.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game as the Bulldogs' starting center. As a junior, he averaged 11 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1 block per game. Due to back problems, Karnowski had surgery after playing only five games in his senior season. He was averaging 8.8 points and 5.4 rebounds in those five games.

The surgery followed a prolonged episode of back pain so severe that by the time of the operation, it took him over an hour to get out of bed and perform normal morning activities; he was also unable to walk without crutches. He developed an infection after undergoing the surgery and lost roughly . Karnowski's recovery proceeded ahead of schedule; while he was told he would be unable to perform any strenuous activities for 10 months post-operation, he was running after 7 months. For the rest of his Gonzaga career, the team's training staff placed him on a customized conditioning program to protect his back, and he did not participate in any basketball-related activity outside of games and scheduled practices.

On May 24, 2016, Gonzaga announced that Karnowski had received a medical redshirt and would return to the school for one final college season in 2016–17. In his final season with Gonzaga he led Gonzaga to the best start in the history of the organization (29-0) whilst posting the best offensive and defensive numbers of his career: 12.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 0.9 block in just 22.5 minutes per game coming to the tournament. On February 2, 2017, Karnowski became the career leader in wins for Gonzaga, passing Kevin Pangos and Kyle Dranginis (both 122 wins). Following the game with BYU, Karnowski became the active leader in Division I basketball games played with 143, passing Nigel Hayes (Wisconsin), Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks (both North Carolina). Karnowski would be surpassed later that season by Hayes and Duke's Amile Jefferson, and passed both in a win in Gonzaga's Final Four matchup with South Carolina. After the 2017 West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament, Karnowski became the NCAA's career leader in wins with 132, passing Shane Battier (131). During his senior season he was nominated to the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award and Senior CLASS Award.

Karnowski graduated with Bachelor of Education in Sport Management and MBA with one of the highest GPAs in WCC, for which he was named to the 2016-17 WCC Men's Basketball All-Academic Team. With 13 points performance and two crucial baskets he led his team to a 77–73 victory in the NCAA tournament semifinal, giving the Gonzaga Bulldogs their first ever appearance in the NCAA March Madness Final.

During his tenure with Gonzaga Bulldogs he became a fan favorite not only because his skills, but also because of his outgoing and friendly attitude as well as his signature beard. Some fans even wear fake beards during games to impersonate Karnowski. His name is found difficult to spell for basketball fans from the US, thus he was given fancy nicknames like "Shem" (short for "Przemysław"), "Big Shem," or "Mount Karnowski" (in reference to his size).

His performances are also widely recognized in his country, Poland. Tens of thousands of Polish fans watched his March Madness surge overnight, because of the time difference.

College statistics

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| align="left" | 2012–13
| align="left" | Gonzaga
| 34 || 1 || 10.8 || .567 || – || .444 || 2.7 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 5.4
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| align="left" | 2013–14
| align="left" | Gonzaga
| 36 || 36 || 25.3 || .593 || .000 || .500 || 7.0 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 1.7 || 10.4
|-
| align="left" | 2014–15
| align="left" | Gonzaga
| 38 || 37 || 24.5 || .622 || 1.000 || .509 || 5.8 || 1.3 || 0.5 || 1.0 || 11.0
|-
| align="left" | 2015–16
| align="left" | Gonzaga
| 5 || 5 || 24.8 || .594 || – || .462 || 5.4 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 0.6 || 8.8
|-
| align="left" | 2016–17
| align="left" | Gonzaga
| 39 || 39 || 22.9 || .601 || .000 || .582 || 5.8 || 2.1 || 0.4 || 1.0 || 12.2
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career
| 152 || 118 || 21.2 || .600 || .333 || .513 || 5.4 || 1.1 || 0.4 || 1.0 || 9.8

Professional career

In the 2011–12 season, Karnowski played for Siarka Jezioro Tarnobrzeg of the Polish PLK. In 35 games, he averaged 10.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. After the regular season, Karnowski won the PLK Rookie of the Year Award.

He went undrafted in the 2017 NBA draft, but joined the Charlotte Hornets for the 2017 NBA Summer League.

On July 28, 2017, Karnowski agreed to terms with Spanish Liga ACB team MoraBanc Andorra. On July 8, 2018, Karnowski part ways with MoraBanc Andorra. On August 16, 2018, he signed with Twarde Pierniki Toruń of the Polish Basketball League.

On August 17, 2020, Karnowski signed with Stelmet Zielona Góra of the PLK and the VTB United League.

Professional career statistics

|-
| align="left" | 2009–10
| align="left" | Pierniki Torun
| 14 || 0 || 21.4 || .560 || .000 || .612 || 9.1 || 1.2 || .9 || 2.5 || 12.2
|-
| align="left" | 2010–11
| align="left" | SMS Wladyslawowo
| 23 || 0 || 31.0 || .517 || .250 || .547 || 9.6 || 1.3 || 1.1 || 2.1 || 14.0
|-
| align="left" | 2011–12
| align="left" | ASK KS Siarka Tarnobrzeg
| 35 || 18 || 25.6 || .520 || .067 || .560 || 4.4 || 1.3 || 0.7 || 1.2 || 10.1
|- class="sortbottom"

International career

Karnowski guided the Polish junior national team to the championship game of the 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship, in Hamburg. He was named to the All-Tournament Team. and was named Best Center of the tournament by Eurobasket.com after averaging 14.5 points, 11 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.0 blocked shots per contest. Joining him on the official All-Tournament Team was Canada's Kevin Pangos who would later be his teammate at Gonzaga.

Karnowski represented the senior Polish national basketball team at EuroBasket 2013, in Slovenia. He averaged 3.3 PPG, 2.5 RPG, and 0.3 APG.

References

External links

Gonzaga Bulldogs bio

1993 births
Living people
Baloncesto Fuenlabrada players
BC Andorra players
Centers (basketball)
Polish expatriate basketball people in Spain
Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball players
Liga ACB players
Polish expatriate basketball people in Andorra
Polish expatriate basketball people in the United States
Polish men's basketball players
Siarka Tarnobrzeg (basketball) players
Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz
Twarde Pierniki Toruń players


title: Gemini Award for Best Children's or Youth Program or Series

text:
The Gemini Awards for Best Children's or Youth Program or Series was presented by the Gemini Awards to honour English children's television programming produced in Canada.

Prior to 1998, a single award was presented for children's programming, regardless of age bracket and inclusive of both fiction and non-fiction programming. In that year, a new award was created for Best Pre-School Program or Series, separating programming for toddlers and young children from programming for older children and teenagers. In 2002, the award was split into separate awards for Best Fiction Program or Series and Best Non-Fiction Program or Series, and the single award was no longer presented.

Winners and Nominees
Winners in bold.

Best Children's Program

1980s
1986
 The Kids of Degrassi Street: "Griff Gets a Hand" (CBC)
 A Whole New Ball Game
1987
 Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes (CBC)
 Stone Fox (NBC)
 The Conserving Kingdom (TVOntario)
1988
  They Look A Lot Like Us: A China Odyssey (CBC)

Best Children's Series

1980s
1986
 Fraggle Rock (CBC)
 OWL/TV (CBC)
 Today's Special (TVOntario)
 Wonderstruck (CBC)
1987
 Degrassi Junior High (CBC)
 Fraggle Rock (CBC)
 Spirit Bay (CBC and TVOntario)
 What's New (CBC)
1988
 Ramona (CBC)
 Mr. Dressup (CBC)
 Today's Special (TVOntario)
 What's New (CBC)
 Wonderstruck (CBC)

Best Children's Program or Series

1980s
1989
 Mr. Dressup (CBC)
 Bob Schneider & The Rainbow Kids in concert
 Happy Castle (Global)

1990s
1990
 Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band (CBC)
 Dear Aunt Agnes (TVOntario)
 Fred Penner's Place (CBC)
 Under the Umbrella Tree (CBC)
1992
 The Garden (CTV)
 Join In! (TVOntario)
 Take Off (The Family Channel)
1993
 Shining Time Station (PBS)
 Alligator Pie (CBC)
 Curse of the Viking Grave (Disney Channel)
 OWL/TV (CBC)
1994
 Lamb Chop's Play-Along (YTV)
 Join In! (TVOntario)
 The Big Comfy Couch (YTV)
 Under the Umbrella Tree Special (CBC)
1995
 The Big Comfy Couch (YTV)
 Candles, Snow & Mistletoe (CBC)
 Fred Penner's Place (CBC)
 The Biggest Little Ticket (CTV)
 Wild Side Show (Nickelodeon)
1996
 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV)
 Jim Henson's Dog City (Global)
 Mighty Machines (TVOntario)
 The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (TVOntario)
 The Composer's Specials (HBO)
 Theodore Tugboat (CBC)
1997
 The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (TVOntario)
 Goosebumps (YTV)
 Groundling Marsh (YTV)
 On My Mind (TVOntario)
 Shining Time Station ("Second Chances") (PBS)

Best Youth Program or Series

1980s
1989
 Wonderstruck (CBC)
 Skin
 What's New (CBC)
 YTV Hits (YTV)

1990s
1990
 Talkin' About AIDS
 The Party's Over
 YTV Rocks (YTV)
1992
 Lost in the Barrens (Disney Channel)
 Diary of a Teenage Smoker (CBC)
 The NewMusic ("Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Reading") (CityTV)
 Too Close...For Comfort
1993
 The Jellybean Odyssey (CBC)
 Degrassi Talks (CBC)
 Road Movies (CBC)
 Wonderstruck (CBC)
1994
 Street Cents (CBC)
 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV)
 Minoru: Memory of Exile
 Spirit Rider (CBC)
 The Odyssey (CBC)
1995
 Street Cents (CBC)
 AIDScare/AIDsCare (CBC)
 Brainstorm (TVOntario)
 For Angela
 Ready or Not (Global)
1996
 Ready or Not (Global)
 Girl Talk
 Madison (Global)
 What: Body Part Art (TVOntario)
 YTV News (YTV)
1997
 The Composer's Specials ("Handel's Last Chance") (HBO)
 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV)
 Heck's Way Home (CTV)
 Inquiring Minds (TVOntario)
 Madison (Global)

Best Children's or Youth Program or Series

1990s
1998 - A
 Street Cents (CBC)
 Goosebumps (YTV)
 Ready or Not (Global)
 ReBoot (YTV)
 The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (YTV)
1998 - B
 Ready or Not (Global)
 Incredible Story Studio (YTV)
 Popular Mechanics For Kids (SYN)
 Straight Up (CBC)
 Street Cents (CBC)
 The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (YTV)
1999
 Goosebumps (YTV)
 Incredible Story Studio (YTV)
 Jenny and the Queen of Light (Global)
 The Inventors' Specials ("Edison:The Wizard of Light") (HBO)
 YAA! To The M@x (CBC)

2000s
2000
 Incredible Story Studio (YTV)
 Popular Mechanics For Kids (SYN)
 Street Cents (CBC)
 The Worst Witch (YTV)
 YAA! To The M@x (CBC)
2001
 Street Cents (CBC)
 Caitlin's Way (YTV)
 I Was A Sixth Grade Alien (YTV)
 Incredible Story Studio (YTV)
 Screech Owls (YTV)

See also

 Canadian television awards

References

Children's Program


title: Pluto's Judgement Day

text:
Pluto's Judgement Day is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star is Pluto. It was the 78th short film in the Mickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.

Plot
Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey sternly scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty attitude towards cats, adding that he will have "plenty to answer for on (his) judgement day" if he keeps this up. Mickey then goes off to wash the kitten while Pluto falls asleep in front of the fireplace.

While asleep, a phantom cat goads Pluto into chasing him, over Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a trap where shackles magically chained him and put on trial as the cats declare him "Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats, whom Pluto has ever tormented, testify against him: A tubby kitten speaks of being picked on and chased by Pluto because he (the cat) was fat and was flattened by a steamroller while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the post-traumatic stress disorder which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three young blackface kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned their Uncle Tom (as Tom's nine ghosts briefly appear) in a river. Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive by being repelled in a seat into flames by the angry cats, when he wakes up after a hot cinder from the fireplace strikes his rear. Pluto rushes off into the tub to ease the burn, and Mickey, washing the kitten, urges the two to make up, which each one readily does much to Mickey's delight

Voice cast
 Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
 Pinto Colvig as Pluto
 Billy Bletcher as Cat Prosecutor
 Clarence Nash as the kitten & Cat Judge

Television
c. 1977 – The Wonderful World of Disney episode #5: "Halloween Hall o' Fame" (TV)

Home media
The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.

See also
Mickey Mouse (film series)

References

External links

1935 animated films
1930s Disney animated short films
1930s color films
Films about nightmares
Films directed by David Hand
Films produced by Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse short films
Pluto (Disney) short films
Films set in hell
The Devil in film
Films scored by Frank Churchill
Films scored by Leigh Harline
1935 films
Animated films about cats
Animated films about dogs
1930s American films


title: Athens insomnia scale

text:
In medicine, insomnia is widely measured using the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS). AIS was first introduced in the year 2000 by a group of researchers from Athens, Greece to assess the insomnia symptoms in patients with sleep disorders.

Measure
It is measured by assessing eight factors (as tabulated below) amongst which first five factors are related to nocturnal sleep and last three factors are related to daytime dysfunction. These are rated on a 0–3 scale and the sleep is finally evaluated from the cumulative score of all factors and reported as an individual's sleep outcome. Over the period of time, AIS is considered to be an effective tool in sleep analysis, and it is validated in various countries by testing it on local patients. A cut-off score of ≥6 on the AIS is used to establish the diagnosis of insomnia.

References

Sleep disorders
Mental disorders screening and assessment tools
Medical scales


title: Walter Junior

text:
The Walter Junior was a family of four cylinder air cooled horizontally-opposed engines produced by Walter Aircraft Engines in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s for aircraft, characterised by a bore and stroke of , a displacement of  and producing roughly .

The Junior was also built in Poland as the P.Z. Inż. Junior.

Variants
Walter Junior 4-I
 at 2,000 rpm.

Walter Junior-Major
 at 2,100 rpm (nominal),   at 2,350 rpm (maximum).

P.Z. Inż. Junior
Approximately 600 engines manufactured under license in Poland by Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii, Warsaw.

Elizalde J4
Approximately 150 engines manufactured under license in Spain by Elizalde SA Barcelona.

Applications

Adaro Chirta
Aero A.34
Beneš-Mráz Be-150 Beta-Junior
Breda Ba.15
de Havilland Puss Moth
González Gil-Pazó GP-1
Hispano-Suiza E-34
Hopfner HS-10/32
Praga BH-111
RWD 5
RWD 8
RWD 10

Specifications

See also

References

Junior
Aircraft air-cooled inline piston engines
1930s aircraft piston engines
Inverted aircraft piston engines


title: Red Willow Lake Resort

text:
Red Willow Lake Resort is a private, family-owned and seasonal resort located in Binford, North Dakota. The resort is located on the southeast shore of Red Willow Lake and operates a restaurant, pavilion, campground, swimming beach, and baseball diamonds. The resort also leases shore property to private cottage owners.

Recreational activities near the resort date back to homesteaders who took up land near the lake in the early 1880s. The area quickly became a favorite recreation area for fishers, hunters, campers and picnickers.  The annual Fourth of July dance was held in 1885. A Red Willow Association was formed and several buildings were erected for the future summer resort. The resort experienced several ownership and management changes until 1946 when Bill and Vernis Haines became the sole owners of the land and resort.[1]

The Haines built Red Willow Lake Resort into a thriving business that drew young people from throughout the region. The resort hosted several dances headlined by big name bands of the era. When not hosting popular dances, the pavilion was used for roller skating. The resort became well known for hosting youth and adult baseball and softball tournaments. The resort was a very popular weekend destination for generations of young people. A public access to the lake, swimming beach, boat rides, and paddle boat rentals allowed visitors to enjoy the lake.[2]  The resort experienced its greatest popularity during the decades of the 1950s, 1960's and 1970's.

The resort continues to be operated by the Haines family on summer weekends.

References

[1]  Red Willow Resort - Facebook site
[2] Griggs County Sentinel-Courier (June 28, 1996)

Resorts in the United States
Buildings and structures in Griggs County, North Dakota
Tourist attractions in Griggs County, North Dakota


title: Bill Greenwood (reporter)

text:
William Warren Greenwood (March 28, 1942 – January 19, 2020) was an American television reporter known for his work with ABC News.

Greenwood was hired by ABC News in October 1979. Prior to working with ABC News, Greenwood worked for stations WZRO in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and WMBR in Jacksonville, before moving to WPDQ in 1964. In 1966, he joined station WWDC in Washington, D.C. He was part of the ABC News team that won the 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding news coverage and the 2002 Peabody and DuPont awards for live coverage of the September 11 attacks.

References

1942 births
2020 deaths
American television reporters and correspondents
American war correspondents


The NAACP Image Award for Outstanding International Motion Picture was created in 2013 and discontinued a year later. The award returned during the 2021 ceremony.

History
It was only rewarded twice in the awards history.

Winners and nominees

2013
The Intouchables (France)
 Chico and Rita (Spain, United Kingdom)
 For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (Mexico)
 Forces spéciales (France)
 The Raid: Redemption (Indonesia, France, United States)

2014
War Witch (Canada)
 Call Me Kuchu (United States, Uganda)
 High Tech, Low Life (China, United States)
 La Playa DC (Colombia, Brazil, France)
 Lion Ark (United States, United Kingdom, Bolivia)

2021
 Night of the Kings (France)
 Ainu Mosir (Japan)
 His House (United States)
 The Last Tree (United Kingdom)
 The Life Ahead (Italy)

2022

 7 Prisoners (Brazil)
 African America (South Africa, United States)
 Eyimofe (This is My Desire) (Nigeria)
 Flee (United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
 The Gravedigger's Wife (France, Somalia, Germany, Finland)

2023

 Athena (France)
 Bantú Mama (Dominican Republic)
 Broker (South Korea)
 Learn To Swim (Canada)
 The Silent Twins (United Kingdom, Poland, United States)

See also
2013 in film
2014 in film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

NAACP Image Awards
Awards established in 2013
Awards disestablished in 2014
Awards established in 2021


title: Kitsune (EP)

text:
Kitsune is the first EP from American rock band Marriages. It was released on May 1, 2012, by Sargent House. The EP title "Kitsune" is also the name for a fox spirit in Japanese folklore. The EP cover depicts a woman transforming into a fox spirit and back again.

Track listing

Personnel
Kitsune album personnel adapted from AllMusic.

Dave Clifford – drums, additional guitar on "Pelt"
Emma Ruth Rundle – flute, guitar, layout, photography, piano, vocals
Greg Burns – bass, layout, photography, synthesizer
JJ Golden – mastering at Golden Mastering
Toshi Kasai – engineer, mixing at Entourage Studio

References

External links

2014 debut EPs
Marriages (band) albums
Sargent House albums


title: Chirok

text:
The Chirok (Russian: чирок – "Teal") is a Russian hybrid amphibious UAV vehicle in development by United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation, a Rostec subsidiary. The drone was presented in the Innoprom 2014 technology exhibition in Yekaterinburg for the first time. This machine is a hybridized and amphibious like UAV meaning it doesn't need an airfield for launching, similar how helicopters work according to Aleksey Smirnov, the head of the unmanned aerial vehicles department at Radio-Technical Institute.

It is expected that at Moscow-hosted MAKS Air Show 2015 the UAV Chirok will be presented as an operational prototype. The production of this aircraft could start as early as in the year of 2016.

Data & performance
The first flight tests for the Chirok aircraft will start in 2015. Reports show it will have a wingspan of 10 meters and have a maximum takeoff mass of approximately 700 kilograms, of which 300 kg would be its effective payload. Altitude ceiling is 6,000 meters, the Drone is expected to travel up to 2,500 kilometers on one single fueling. While the material of this device is made exclusively of composite materials and the fabric of its air cushion was developed in Russia and is patented by Rostec, the air cushion is fully retractable in flight mode.

The developers plan to use the drone for reconnaissance and wild fire monitoring missions, delivery of necessities to distant oil rigs and other things, it also enables carrying offensive military appliances.

Chirok can be equipped with high precision weapons like small-size guided missiles. Unlike most existing military drones, the Chirok will enough inner space to fit the weapons internally according to reports.

References

Weapons of Russia
Unmanned military aircraft of Russia
United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation
Hovercraft
Landing craft


title: Kaito Nakahori

text:
Katsunari Nakahori (, born September 14, 1989, in Urayasu, Chiba) known by his stage name Kaito Nakahori ( Nakahori Kaito) is a Chinese Japanese composer of contemporary music based in New York City, United States.

Biography
Nakahori was born in Chiba. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Toho College of Music (2012) and a Master of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2014). After Toru Takemitsu's music inspired him at the age of 14, he started teaching composition and piano himself. Through the influence of Takemitsu's music, Nakahori's compositional style have included Japanese traditional music elements such as Gagaku.

After graduating, he moved to New York, where he had his first portrait concert at the United Nations in 2015. He has introduced by the newspaper Chin po in Shenzhen, China, as a "Half Chinese, half Japanese, gifted composer”.

The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome, Italy, invited him to talk about Japanese contemporary music at a symposium, when his piece Hidden instincts for piano solo was performed by Aki Takahashi in 2013. Invited by Tongyeong International Music Festival, Hotarubi for hichiriki and string quartet commissioned by Goethe Institut was premiered in 2017. By the recommendation of Toshio Hosokawa, at the 150th anniversary concert of Japan and Hungary diplomatic relations in 2019, he conducted his chamber piece Two Different Paintings commissioned by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Invited by Festival de Royaumont in France, Countless Wells for soprano, cello and electronics (32 speakers+IRCAM Spat) commissioned by Fondation Royaumont was premiered in 2021.

In 2020, Nakahori’s first opera Zero, text by Oriza Hirata, was premiered at Toyooka Theater Festival.

Awards
 Impronta Ensemble Composition Competition - 1st Prize (2019)
 Brian M. Israel Prize (Society for New Music/NY Federation of Music Clubs Award) (2016)
 Senzoku Award for the Senzoku Contemporary Music Competition (2012)
 The 9th Hirosaki Sakura No Sono Composition Competition (2011)

Major works

Stage works
 Zero (2020) opera in one act, text by Oriza Hirata

Orchestra works
 Self Portrait (2017) for orchestra
 Leading to the Paradise (2010) for orchestra

Chamber works
 Two Different Paintings  (2018) for chamber ensemble
 Sand Ripples (2019) for chamber ensemble
 Hotarubi (2017) for hichiriki and string quartet
 Japanese Footbridge (2014) for koto and chamber ensemble
 Setsurei (2014) for sho, cello and percussion
 Yaeyama Hirugi (2014) for clarinet and string quartet
 Summit of Mt. Fuji (2014) for chamber ensemble

Solo works
 Meigetsu (2017) for shakuhachi
 Hidden instincts (2012) for piano

Film music
 After Spring, the Tamaki Family... (2016) Director: Huang Yin-Yu (2016) Taipei Film Awards, Nomination.

External links
 Official Website
 Hai-Dao Ensemble Website
 Edition Les Pois

References

1989 births
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century Japanese musicians
Chinese classical composers
Chinese male classical composers
Chinese opera composers
Electroacoustic music composers
Japanese classical composers
Japanese male classical composers
Japanese opera composers
Japanese people of Chinese descent
People from Urayasu, Chiba
Male opera composers
Musicians from Chiba Prefecture
Living people
Postmodern composers
San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni
Japanese emigrants to the United States


title: Hästveda railway station

text:
The Hästveda railway station is located on Östra Järnvägsgatan in the locality of Hästveda, in Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden.

The station opened with the arrival of the railway in the 1860s. No trains stopped at the station between 1975 and 2013.

As part of a plan to increase local passenger traffic in southern Sweden, the station was rebuilt and refurbished between 2011 and 2013. It was re-inaugurated on December 14, 2013, with regular passenger traffic starting on the following day. , the station is served by the Växjö–Hässleholm route of the  regional rail network. In Skåne, where Hästveda is located, ticket-wise the trains belong to Pågatågen.

References

Railway stations in Skåne County
2013 establishments in Sweden
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 1860s
Railway stations in Sweden opened in the 2010s
Railway stations opened in 2013


title: Eurasian hoopoe

text:
The Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) is the most widespread species of the genus Upupa. It is a distinctive cinnamon coloured bird with black and white wings, a tall erectile crest, a broad white band across a black tail, and a long narrow downcurved bill. Its call is a soft "oop-oop-oop". It is native to Europe, Asia and the northern half of Africa. It is migratory in the northern part of its range. It spends most of the time on the ground probing for grubs and insects. The clutch of seven to eight eggs is laid in an existing cavity. The eggs are incubated by the female and hatch asynchronously. Some ornithologists treat the African and Madagascar hoopoes as subspecies of the Eurasian hoopoe.

Taxonomy
The Eurasian hoopoe was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He cited the earlier descriptions by the French naturalist Pierre Belon and by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner, both of which had been published in 1555. Linnaeus placed the Eurasian hoopoe with the northern bald ibis and the  red-billed chough in the genus Upupa and coined the binomial name Upupa epops. The specific epithet epops in the Ancient Greek word for a hoopoe.

Subspecies
Six subspecies of the Eurasian hoopoe are recognised in the list of world birds maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC). The subspecies vary in size and the depth of colour in the plumage. A further subspecies has been proposed: U. e. orientalis in northwestern India.

Description

The Eurasian hoopoe is a medium-sized bird,  long, with a  wingspan. It weighs . The species is highly distinctive, with a long, thin tapering bill that is black with a fawn base. The strengthened musculature of the head allows the bill to be opened when probing inside the soil. The hoopoe has broad and rounded wings capable of strong flight; these are larger in the northern migratory subspecies. The hoopoe has a characteristic undulating flight, which is like that of a giant butterfly, caused by the wings half closing at the end of each beat or short sequence of beats. Adults may begin their moult after the breeding season and continue after they have migrated for the winter.

The call is typically a trisyllabic oop-oop-oop, which may give rise to its English and scientific names, although two and four syllables are also common. An alternative explanation of the English and scientific names is that they are derived from the French name for the bird, huppée, which means crested.  In the Himalayas, the calls can be confused with that of the Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus), although the cuckoo typically produces four notes. Other calls include rasping croaks, when alarmed, and hisses. Females produce a wheezy note during courtship feeding by the male.

Distribution and habitat

The Eurasian hoopoe is widespread in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and northern Sub-Saharan Africa. Most European and north Asian birds migrate to the tropics in winter. Those breeding in Europe usually migrate to the Sahel belt of sub-Saharan Africa. The birds predominantly migrate at night. In contrast, the African populations are sedentary all year. The species has been a vagrant in Alaska; U. e. saturata was recorded there in 1975 in the Yukon Delta. Hoopoes have been known to breed north of their European range, and in southern England during warm, dry summers that provide plenty of grasshoppers and similar insects, although as of the early 1980s northern European populations were reported to be in the decline, possibly due to changes in climate. In 2015, a record numbers of hoopoes were recorded in Ireland, with at least 50 birds recorded in the southwest of the country. This was the highest recorded number since 1965 when 65 individuals were sighted.

The hoopoe has two basic requirements of its habitat: bare or lightly vegetated ground on which to forage and vertical surfaces with cavities (such as trees, cliffs or even walls, nestboxes, haystacks, and abandoned burrows) in which to nest. These requirements can be provided in a wide range of ecosystems, and as a consequence the hoopoe inhabits a wide range of habitats such as heathland, wooded steppes, savannas and grasslands, as well as forest glades.

Hoopoes make seasonal movements in response to rain in some regions such as in Ceylon and in the Western Ghats. Birds have been seen at high altitudes during migration across the Himalayas. One was recorded at about  by the first Mount Everest expedition.

Behaviour and ecology
In what was long thought to be a defensive posture, hoopoes sunbathe by spreading out their wings and tail low against the ground and tilting their head up; they often fold their wings and preen halfway through. They also enjoy taking dust and sand baths.

Food and feeding

The diet of the Eurasian hoopoe is mostly composed of insects, although small reptiles, frogs and plant matter such as seeds and berries are sometimes taken as well. It is a solitary forager which typically feeds on the ground. More rarely they will feed in the air, where their strong and rounded wings make them fast and manoeuvrable, in pursuit of numerous swarming insects. More commonly their foraging style is to stride over relatively open ground and periodically pause to probe the ground with the full length of their bill. Insect larvae, pupae and mole crickets are detected by the bill and either extracted or dug out with the strong feet. Hoopoes will also feed on insects on the surface, probe into piles of leaves, and even use the bill to lever large stones and flake off bark. Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants. These can range from  in length, with a preferred prey size of around . Larger prey items are beaten against the ground or a preferred stone to kill them and remove indigestible body parts such as wings and legs.

Breeding

The hoopoe genus is monogamous, although the pair bond apparently only lasts for a single season, and territorial. The male calls frequently to advertise his ownership of the territory. Chases and fights between rival males (and sometimes females) are common and can be brutal.  Birds will try to stab rivals with their bills, and individuals are occasionally blinded in fights. The nest is in a hole in a tree or wall, and has a narrow entrance. It may be unlined, or various scraps may be collected. The female alone is responsible for incubating the eggs. Clutch size varies with location: Northern Hemisphere birds lay more eggs than those in the Southern Hemisphere, and birds at higher latitudes have larger clutches than those closer to the equator. In central and northern Europe and Asia the clutch size is around 12, whereas it is around four in the tropics and seven in the subtropics. The eggs are round and milky blue when laid, but quickly discolour in the increasingly dirty nest. They weigh . A replacement clutch is possible.

The incubation period for the species is between 15 and 18 days, during which time the male feeds the female. Incubation begins as soon as the first egg is laid, so the chicks are born asynchronously. The chicks hatch with a covering of downy feathers. By around day three to five, feather quills emerge which will become the adult feathers. The chicks are brooded by the female for between 9 and 14 days. The female later joins the male in the task of bringing food. The young fledge in 26 to 29 days and remain with the parents for about a week more. Hoopoes show hatching asynchrony of eggs which is thought to allow for brood reduction when food availability is low.

Hoopoes have well-developed anti-predator defences in the nest. The uropygial gland of the incubating and brooding female is quickly modified to produce a foul-smelling liquid, and the glands of nestlings do so as well. These secretions are rubbed into the plumage. The secretion, which smells like rotting meat, is thought to help deter predators, as well as deter parasites and possibly act as an antibacterial agent. Recent evidence suggests that the secretions may vary in composition depending on the microbiological composition of the female's uropygial gland; furthermore, the secretions may have an impact on the color of eggs, serving as an indicator of antimicrobial health for the adults during incubation. The secretions stop soon before the young leave the nest. From the age of six days, nestlings can also direct streams of faeces at intruders, and will hiss at them in a snake-like fashion. The young also strike with their bill or with one wing.

Relationship with humans
The diet of the Eurasian hoopoe includes many species considered by humans to be pests, such as the pupae of the processionary moth, a damaging forest pest. For this reason the species is afforded protection under the law in many countries.

Hoopoes are distinctive birds and have made a cultural impact over much of their range. They were considered sacred in Ancient Egypt, and were "depicted on the walls of tombs and temples". During the Old Kingdom, the hoopoe was used in the iconography as a symbolic code to indicate the child was the heir and successor of his father. They achieved a similar standing in Minoan Crete.

In the Torah, Leviticus 11:13–19, hoopoes were listed among the animals that are detestable and should not be eaten. They are also listed in Deuteronomy 14:18 as not kosher.

The hoopoe also appears in the Quran and is known as the "Hudhud" (هدهد), in Surah Al-Naml 27:20–22: "And he Solomon sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent? (20) I verily will punish him with hard punishment or I verily will slay him, or he verily shall bring me a plain excuse. (21) But he [the hoopoe] was not long in coming, and he said: I have found out (a thing) that thou apprehendest not, and I come unto thee from Sheba with sure tidings."

Hoopoes were seen as a symbol of virtue in Persia. A hoopoe was a leader of the birds in the Persian book of poems The Conference of the Birds ("Mantiq al-Tayr" by Attar) and when the birds seek a king, the hoopoe points out that the Simurgh was the king of the birds.

Hoopoes were thought of as thieves across much of Europe, and harbingers of war in Scandinavia. In Estonian tradition, hoopoes are strongly connected with death and the underworld; their song is believed to foreshadow death for many people or cattle.

The hoopoe is the king of the birds in the Ancient Greek comedy The Birds by Aristophanes. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 6, King Tereus of Thrace rapes Philomela, his wife Procne's sister, and cuts out her tongue. In revenge, Procne kills their son Itys and serves him as a stew to his father. When Tereus sees the boy's head, which is served on a platter, he grabs a sword but just as he attempts to kill the sisters, they are turned into birds—Procne into a swallow and Philomela into a nightingale. Tereus himself is turned into an epops (6.674), translated as lapwing by Dryden and lappewincke (lappewinge) by John Gower in his Confessio Amantis, or hoopoe in A. S. Kline's translation. The bird's crest indicates his royal status, and his long, sharp beak is a symbol of his violent nature. English translators and poets probably had the northern lapwing in mind, considering its crest.

The hoopoe was chosen as the national bird of Israel in May 2008 in conjunction with the country's 60th anniversary, following a national survey of 155,000 citizens, outpolling the white-spectacled bulbul. The hoopoe appears on the Logo of the University of Johannesburg and is the official mascot of the University's sports. The municipalities of Armstedt and Brechten, Germany, have hoopoes in their coats of arms.

In Morocco, hoopoes are traded live and as medicinal products in the markets, primarily in herbalist shops. This trade is unregulated and a potential threat to local populations

Three CGI enhanced hoopoes, together with other birds collectively named "the tittifers", are often shown whistling a song in the BBC children's television series In the Night Garden....

Conservation
The Eurasian Hoopoe is listed as a species of "Least concern" by the IUCN. Despite the fact, the species has been in a continuous decline according to the organisation since 2008, the causes being loss of habitat and over-hunting.

Hunting is of concern in southern Europe and Asia.

In Europe, the hoopoe seems to have a stable population though it is threatened in several regions. The bird is considered extinct in Sweden and "needing active conservation" in Poland. The species has recovered and stabilised in Switzerland, however they remain vulnerable.

Citations

Sources

External links

 Ageing and sexing (PDF; 5.3 MB) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze
 Photos, audio and video of Eurasian hoopoe from Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library

Eurasian hoopoe
Articles containing video clips
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title: Sri Lanka–United Kingdom relations

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Sri Lanka–United Kingdom relations, or British-Sri Lankan relations, are foreign relations between Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.

Historical overview

Pre-colonial British rule
The relationship between Sri Lanka and Western Europe goes back thousands of years, as Sri Lanka was a stop along East–West trade routes during the times of Ancient Rome and Greece.

During the reign of Emperor Claudius, a Mediterranean tax collector named Annius Plocamus facilitated direct trade and first contact between Sri Lanka and the Roman Empire. According to Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, it was when Annius Plocamus came to Sri Lanka that the two civilisations met. During this time, the Roman Empire was invading Britain. Many Romans knew Sri Lanka by the ancient Greek name of Taprobane.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, there was little contact or trade between Sri Lanka and Western Europe until the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505.

Before Britain ruled the island of Sri Lanka (which they called Ceylon), British sailors reached the island. In the 17th century, the East India Company, which established British trade with Southeast Asia, increased trade with India and Ceylon. Robert Knox, a British sailor in the service of the East India Company, sailed to Persia with his father (also named Robert Knox) in January 1658 on the ship Anne. They suffered the loss of the ship's mast in a storm in November 1659, which forced them to put ashore on Ceylon. The ship was then impounded and both the Knoxes and the ship's crew were taken captive by troops of the Kandyan king, Rajasinghe II. Robert Knox (the younger) eventually escaped in 1679, after nineteen years of captivity; he fled to Arippu, a Dutch fort where he was treated generously by the Dutch. He was then transported to the Dutch East Indies, from where he was able to return home on an English vessel. During the return voyage, Knox wrote the manuscript An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon about his experiences in Ceylon, which was published in 1681. The book was later translated to Sinhala.

British capture of Ceylon

During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, British forces led by Sir Edward Hughes captured Trincomalee (1782), a Dutch-controlled port in eastern Sri Lanka. Trincomalee was then captured by the French in the same year, followed by the subsequent Battle of Trincomalee between French and British fleets. It was restored to Dutch control after the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain, fearing that French control of the Netherlands might cede Ceylon to the French, invaded and occupied the coastal areas of the island with little difficulty in 1796, ending Dutch Ceylon. In 1802, the Treaty of Amiens formally ceded the Dutch part of the island to Britain, and it became a crown colony known as British Ceylon.

From 1805 to 1815, Governor Thomas Maitland initiated legal and social reforms to strengthen the British power. These including a reform of the civil service to eliminate corruption, and the creation of a Ceylonese High Court based on the caste law. The Catholic population was enfranchised while the Dutch Reformed church lost its privileged position. Maitland also worked to undermine Buddhist authority and attract Europeans to the colony by offering grants of up to  in Ceylon. In 1813, he was replaced by Sir Robert Brownrigg, who largely continued these policies.

Kandyan Wars

In 1803, the British invaded the Kingdom of Kandy in the First Kandyan War, but were repulsed.

In 1815, the British successfully invaded and occupied Kandy in the Second Kandyan War. The British discovered the hiding place of the last king of Kandy, Sri Vrikrama Rajasinha, who was then exiled and imprisoned in Vellore Fort in India, where he died 17 years later, in 1842. A treaty called the Kandyan Convention was signed, which stated the terms under which the Kandyans would live as a British protectorate. It declared that Buddhism would be protected by the British Crown and Christianity would not be imposed on the population. The treaty ended over 2,300 years of Sri Lankan independence.

The Kandyans rebelled against the British in the Uva Rebellion from 1817 to 1818. The rebellion was also known as the Third Kandyan War, and occurred in the Uva and Wellassa provinces of the former Kingdom of Kandy. The main cause of the rebellion was the failure by British authorities to upload Buddhist customary traditions, which the islanders viewed as integral parts of their lives. This rebellion led to the British colonial government to adopt a scorched earth policy in order to suppress it. The British won, and the Kingdom of Kandy was annexed into British Ceylon in 1817.

British rule

British Ceylon was run as a colony affiliated to British India from 1817. During British rule on the island, the Kandyan peasantry were stripped of their lands by the Crown Lands (Encroachments) Ordinance No. 12 of 1840 (sometimes called the Crown Lands Ordinance or the Waste Lands Ordinance). This was a modern enclosure movement and reduced penury following the Uva Rebellion. The British found that the uplands of Sri Lanka were well-suited for coffee, tea, and rubber cultivation, and by the mid-19th century, Ceylon tea had become a staple of the British market, bringing great wealth to a small class of European tea planters. To work the estates, the planters imported large numbers of Tamil workers as indentured labourers from south India, who soon made up 10% of the island's population. These workers lived in harsh conditions in line rooms, not very different from cattle sheds.

The British colonial government favoured some ethnic groups—the semi-European Burghers, certain high-caste Sinhalese, and the Tamils, who were mainly concentrated to the north of the country—while ignoring the other ethnic groups on the island. Nevertheless, the British also introduced democratic elements to Sri Lanka for the first time in its history. The Burghers were given some degree of self-government as early as 1833. It was not until 1909 that constitutional development began with a partly elected assembly, and not until 1920 that elected members outnumbered official appointees. Universal suffrage was introduced in 1931, despite protests by the Sinhalese, Tamil, and Burgher elite who objected to the common people being allowed to vote. Major political reforms started with the Donoughmore Commission, which proposed the constitution used from 1931 to 1947. After the Second World War, Ceylon gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, with DS Senanayake being the first prime minister and founding father.

Post-independence
Ceylon continued to be a Dominion of the British empire until 1972, when it became the Republic of Sri Lanka. The country continues to be part of the British Commonwealth.

President Maithripala Sirisena made an official visit to the United Kingdom in 2015 and met Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II. In 2018, Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe made an official visit to meet the then British Prime Minister, Theresa May.

Timeline of Sri Lanka-United Kingdom relations

Ancient
 41–54 CE – Roman tax collector Annius Plocamus facilitates direct trade and first contact between Sri Lanka and the Roman Empire.
 54–640 CE – Trade between the Roman Empire and Sri Lanka is common. Between 43–410 CE, Britain (mainly England and Wales) is part of the Roman Empire.
 6th century–918 CE – The Anglo Saxon rulers of East Anglia engage in an international trading culture which stretches from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and beyond. Many of the objects discovered at Sutton Hoo (a site dating back to Anglo-Saxon times) included garnets used in jewelry pieces which may have come from as far away as India and Sri Lanka.

  – The Anglo-Saxon Cotton World Map shows westward as far as the British Isles and eastward as far as India and Taprobanen (the Anglo-Saxon name for Sri Lanka). At this time, Sri Lanka is the most distant land known to the Anglo-Saxons.
 1300 – The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a medieval English world map created by Richard of Haldringham. This map names Sri Lanka as Taphana (sometimes instead claimed to be Sumatra).
 1357 – In the book of The Travels of John Mandeville, Sri Lanka is mentioned under the name Taprobane, the old Greco-Roman name for the island. In his preface, Mandeville says he was a knight who was born and bred in St. Albans, England. Although the book is real (written in Anglo-Norman French), it is widely believed that "Sir John Mandeville" was not real, his travels never took place, and the book was possibly written by others, such as Jan de Langhe.

Early British contact
 1589 –The first known English visitor to arrive to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) is a gentleman merchant, Ralph Fitch. He arrived in Ceylon on 6 March 1589 and stayed for five days, before leaving. He arrives back in London in 1591.
 1590s – English sailors and privateers cross to Ceylon, notably Sir James Lancaster
 1658 – A British sea captain, Robert Knox, lands by chance in Ceylon after a storm on November 18, 1659, which suffered the ship's mast. He is taken captive by the Kingdom of Kandy under Rajasinghe II. Knox escapes in 1679, after nineteen years of captivity, and arrives back in London in 1680.
 1667 – John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost mentions the name of Taprobane
 1681 – An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, a book written by Robert Knox after his experiences on Ceylon, is published in England. This book gives the British further knowledge about Ceylon.

British capture of Ceylon

 1782 – The capture of Trincomalee during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. The Treaty of Paris (1784) restores Ceylon back to Dutch control.
 1795–1796 – British forces invade and take control of Trincomalee and the areas of Dutch Ceylon.
 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens formally cedes the Dutch areas of Ceylon to Britain.
 1803–1805 – The British started to invade the Sinhalese ruled areas of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Kandyan Wars, however, they were repulsed. After fierce fighting the British force found Kandy deserted in February 1803. They swiftly established a garrison, crowned Muttusami as the new, puppet, king of Kandy, and set about subduing the remainder of the kingdom. The Kandyans counter-attacked in March and seized Kandy. In the meanwhile the retreating British army was defeated on the banks of the flooding Mahaveli river, leaving only four survivors. Despite this setback the British still remained unquestioned masters of the lands they possessed, as the disastrous Kandyan counter-campaign later in the year proved. Equipped with a handful of captured six-pound cannon, the Kandyan army advanced through the mountain passes as far as the city of Hanwella. Here the army was utterly routed by superior British firepower, forcing Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe to flee back into the mountains. A general rebellion that had erupted in British-controlled territory on hearing of the Kandyan invasion was suppressed. Frederick North, governor of Ceylon from 1798 to 1805, maintained pressure on the Kandyan frontier with numerous attacks, in 1804 dispatched a force under Captain Arthur Johnston towards Kandy. In a pattern that had become clear over the past two hundred or so years, the Kandyans once again defeated the British in the mountainous territory they called home. In 1805, emboldened by their successes, they captured Katuwana, a frontier town. This and the 1803 victory at the Battle of the Mahaveli, were to be Kandy's last, meaningful military successes.
 1805–1815 – Legal and social reforms are enacted to strengthen the British power, led by governors Thomas Maitland and Robert Brownrigg.
 February 1815 – The Second Kandyan War.
 March 1815 – The Kandyan Convention, which results in the imprisonment of the Kandyan king in India and the start of the British Ceylon period.

British rule
 1815 – Start of the British Ceylon period. George III becomes the first British monarch to rule Ceylon.
 1817–1818 – The Uva Rebellion, which ends with the complete annexation of the Kingdom of Kandy into British Ceylon.
 1818 -  Adam Sri Munni Ratna, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, travelled to England with his cousin (also a Buddhist monk) while accompanying Sir Alexander Johnston in 1818. They were keen to learn Christianity as they were travelling to England. During their brief stay, the two monks were baptised and returned to Ceylon where they entered government service. This left a presence of Buddhism and Buddhists in the UK during the early 19th century. This year also began the start of missionary work by the Anglican Church.

Diaspora

There were about 129,076 Sri Lankan-born residents in the United Kingdom according to the 2011 census. The majority of Sri Lankan immigrants in the United Kingdom live in London, with an estimated population of 84,000 in 2011.

There is also a community of European descent in Sri Lanka called the Burghers. These are people descended from the Portuguese, Dutch, English, and other Europeans during the colonial era of Ceylon.

See also
 Foreign relations of Sri Lanka
 Foreign relations of the United Kingdom

References

External links

United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
Relations of colonizer and former colony


title: Microcystinase

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Microcystinase is a protease that selectively degrades Microcystin, an extremely potent cyanotoxin that results in marine pollution and human and animal food chain poisoning. The enzyme is naturally produced by a number of bacteria isolated in Japan and New Zealand.  As of 2012, the chemical structure of this enzyme has not been scientifically determined.  The enzyme degrades the cyclic peptide toxin microcystin into a linear peptide, which is 160 times less toxic.  Other bacteria then further degrade the linear peptide.

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Bacterial enzymes
Proteases
Bioremediation
EC 3.4


title: Maria Chapdelaine (1983 film)

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Maria Chapdelaine is a French-Canadian historical drama film, released in 1983. An adaptation of Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine, the film was directed by Gilles Carle and starred Carole Laure in the title role.

Plot
Maria Chapdelaine is set in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec in the early years of the 20th century. The beautiful Maria (Carole Laure), who dreams of an easier life than the one she must endure in the wilderness, gives her heart to a handsome lumberjack (Nick Mancuso) and waits for his return.

Cast
The cast includes Claude Rich, Amulette Garneau, Yoland Guérard, Pierre Curzi, Donald Lautrec, Gilbert Sicotte, Guy Thauvette, Stéphane Quéry, Josée-Anne Fortin, Louis-Philippe Milot, Gilbert Comptois, Patrick Messe, Claude Evrard, Claude Berval, Guy Godin, Marie Tifo, Jean-Pierre Masson, Dominique Briand, Claude Prégent, Angèle Arsenault, Jean Ricard, Guy L'Écuyer, Rolland Bédard, Raoul Duguay, Michel Rivard, Gilles Valiquette, Michel Langevin, Cédric Noël, José Ledoux, Renée Girard, Rock Demers, Yvon Sarrazin, Claude Trudel, Jean-Pierre Rhéaume, Georges Levchtouk and Gilbert Moore.

Production
Gilles Carle was selected to direct the film due to his successful adaption of Roger Lemelin's Les Plouffe. Astral Bellevue Pathé, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and TF1 Group produced the film. The film was shot from 18 October to 20 December 1982, on a budget of $4.6 million (). $250,000 in funding came from the SDICC.

Release
The film was distributed by Astral Media in Canada and UGC in France. It premiered at Place du Canada on 28 April 1983. The film was seen by 127,003 people in France.

Awards and nominations
At the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, the film earned 4 Genie Awards from 11 nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Actor: Nick Mancuso
Best Actress: Carole Laure
Best Supporting Actor: Pierre Curzi
Best Supporting Actress: Amulette Garneau
Best Art Direction: Jocelyn Joly
Best Cinematography: Pierre Mignot
Best Costume Design: Michèle Hamel
Best Overall Sound: Austin Grimaldi, Patrick Rousseau, Joe Grimaldi and Dino Pigat
Best Sound Editing: Claude Langlois, Patrick Dodd and Jean-Guy Montpetit
Best Original Score: Lewis Furey

bold denotes award winner

References

Works cited

External links

1983 films
1980s historical drama films
Films directed by Gilles Carle
1980s French-language films
1983 drama films
Films set in Quebec
Films based on Canadian novels
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean in fiction
Canadian historical drama films
French-language Canadian films
1980s Canadian films


This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture.

History
This award has been given since 2005.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

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Awards established in 2005


title: Walnut Grove (Clarksville, Maryland)

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Walnut Grove is a historic plantation home located in Clarksville, Maryland, Howard County, Maryland.

The Walnut Grove plantation was built on land patented by Thomas Browne as Browne's Chance and Dorsey's Friendship. Revolutionary war patriot Col Gassaway Watkins built the stone manor house in 1780 with an onsite cemetery.  The property was also owned by racetrack & farm owner John Gill and son Barry Gill

In 1979 the property was entered into a historic preservation easement, with the intent to develop after a 25-year review. In 2001, the owners of Walnut Grove proposed developing 202 acres of the site near Sheppard Lane to develop 101 housing units with Goodier Builders.

See also
List of Howard County properties in the Maryland Historical Trust
Clifton (Clarksville, Maryland)

References

Clarksville, Maryland
Houses completed in 1780
Howard County, Maryland landmarks
Houses in Howard County, Maryland


title: Heptagonal tiling honeycomb

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In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the heptagonal tiling honeycomb or 7,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a heptagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.

Geometry
The Schläfli symbol of the heptagonal tiling honeycomb is {7,3,3}, with three heptagonal tilings meeting at each edge.  The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a tetrahedron, {3,3}.

Related polytopes and honeycombs
It is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,3,3} Schläfli symbol, and tetrahedral vertex figures:

It is a part of a series of regular honeycombs, {7,3,p}.

It is a part of a series of regular honeycombs, with {7,p,3}.

Octagonal tiling honeycomb

In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the octagonal tiling honeycomb or 8,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an octagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.

The Schläfli symbol of the octagonal tiling honeycomb is {8,3,3}, with three octagonal tilings meeting at each edge.  The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an tetrahedron, {3,3}.

Apeirogonal tiling honeycomb

In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the apeirogonal tiling honeycomb or ∞,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an apeirogonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.

The Schläfli symbol of the apeirogonal tiling honeycomb is {∞,3,3}, with three apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge.  The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an tetrahedron, {3,3}.

The "ideal surface" projection below is a plane-at-infinity, in the Poincare half-space model of H3. It shows an Apollonian gasket pattern of circles inside a largest circle.

See also
 Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
 List of regular polytopes

References

Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. . (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
 The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays (1999), Dover Publications, ,  (Chapter 10, Regular Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space ) Table III
 Jeffrey R. Weeks The Shape of Space, 2nd edition  (Chapters 16–17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I,II)
 George Maxwell, Sphere Packings and Hyperbolic Reflection Groups, JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA 79,78-97 (1982)
 Hao Chen, Jean-Philippe Labbé, Lorentzian Coxeter groups and Boyd-Maxwell ball packings, (2013)
 Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs arXiv:1511.02851 Roice Nelson, Henry Segerman (2015)

External links
John Baez, Visual insights: {7,3,3} Honeycomb (2014/08/01) {7,3,3} Honeycomb Meets Plane at Infinity (2014/08/14)
 Danny Calegari, Kleinian, a tool for visualizing Kleinian groups, Geometry and the Imagination 4 March 2014.

Honeycombs (geometry)
Heptagonal tilings


title: USA Softball Team Bound 4 Beijing Tour

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The "Bound 4 Beijing Tour" was a tour for the US Softball Team in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.  The Team went to face many College, Professional, International, and ASA teams.

Schedule

Roster
The roster of the 2008 USA national softball team is listed below.

Head Coach: Mike Candrea (Tucson, Ariz.. – Head Coach at the University of Arizona)
Full Time Assistant Coaches: Chuck D'Arcy, Karen Johns, John Ritterman

References

2008 in softball
Softball in the United States
Softball competitions in the United States
Beijing Tour
2008 in American sports


title: Lloyd Shearer

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Lloyd "Skip" Shearer (December 20, 1916 – May 27, 2001) was an American celebrity gossip columnist. From 1958 to 1991, he wrote "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" in Parade magazine. In this column he used the name Walter Scott, and discussed rumors about celebrities using a question-and-answer style. Shearer also wrote profiles of famous people under his real name.

Career
Shearer began writing in high school. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in 1936 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in the English language. His first job was for the Durham Sun in North Carolina. In 1941, Shearer was drafted into the Army. When the military magazine Yank was established, Shearer joined the staff in New York City. Later, he was transferred to Los Angeles where he wrote for Armed Forces Radio, as part of the Pacific Theater division. He also became a correspondent for The New York Times while still serving in the Army and after serving, until 1953. Then he became the West Coast correspondent of Parade, then starting his "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" column in 1958. Shearer retired from writing the column in 1991, due to Parkinson's disease.

Life
Shearer was born in New York City on December 20, 1916. Shearer's parents had immigrated from Austria, and his father worked as a typesetter. The neighborhood where Shearer was raised was described as "working class".

Shearer married fellow writer, Marva Peterson. They had three children:  Derek, a former U.S. Ambassador to Finland, and twins Cody and Brooke. Lloyd Shearer died of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home on Thursday May 27, 2001.

Shearer was mentioned in the 1942 best-selling book about a journalist's experiences in military service, See Here Private Hargrove. From that exposure Shearer was said to have "gained some notoriety".

References

1916 births
2001 deaths
Writers from New York City
American people of Austrian descent
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni


title: Clyde Zoia

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Clyde John Zoia (May 16, 1896 – April 3, 1955) was an American football guard who played four seasons with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and attended Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Illinois

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Fanbase profile

1896 births
1955 deaths
People from Preston, Minnesota
Players of American football from Minnesota
American football offensive guards
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title: The Apocalypse Is Over

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The Apocalypse Is Over is the third studio album by the folk-singer John Craigie. It was released in August 2013 on Zabriskie Point Records. The album was inspired by Craigie's regular trips to New Orleans, where he was captivated by the music and spirit he found there. Blending jazz, folk, blues and country, the songs transport listeners from life in the French Quarter ("Preservation Hall") to Van Gogh’s descent into madness in the south of France ("Rachel") and to the lonely life of a musician on the road ("We Ain’t Leavin’ this Bar Patrick (Till We Find You Some Love)").

As with Montana Tale and October is the Kindest Month, Randy Schwartz appears on drums and Cian Riordan is chief engineer. Steve Adams also returns on bass and as co-producer with Craigie and Schwartz.

Track listing

Personnel
John Craigie – acoustic guitar, banjolele, harmonica, vocals, percussion, producer
Steve Adams - bass, percussion, vocals, producer
Randy Schwartz - drums, percussion, vocals, producer
Clinton Curtis - piano, guitar, washboard, percussion, vocals
Sean Hayes - vocals
Holly McGarry - vocals
Leigh Jones - vocals
Nicholas Gyorkos - trombone, bass trombone
Matt Chiasson - clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Scott Makson - trumpet
Zach Wookey - trumpet
Mike Brun - trumpet
Matt Berkeley - organ
Gianni Staiano - accordion
Kat Fountain - harmonica
Anna Tivel - violin, mandolin
Ezra Lipp - percussion

Production:
Cian Riordan - engineering, mixing

References

John Craigie (musician) albums
2013 albums


title: Keewaydin Farm

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Located Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Keewaydin Farm.

The Keewaydin Farm house is a wooden structure forming an off-center T arrangement built in 1912 on a ten-acre farm. The name came from The Song of Hiawatha. The home was built for Judge James Clark and his wife Alda Tyson Hopkins. The house became the first meeting site for the Ellicott City PTA, Howard County Health Department. The farm raised colts used in local shows and Doughoregan Manor. Groceries for the site were delivered onsite by horse and cart from the former Mayor of Ellicott City, Samuel J. Yates. Children raised at the site included Orphans court Judge John Clark, and Senator James Clark, Jr. The farm was expanded to 30 acres and later subdivided and reduced to 10 acres In 1998 owner Edward J. Brush attempted to convert the property to an 87-room group care facility. 10 remaining acres of the property and the house was transferred to the Howard County Conservancy.

See also
Clark's Elioak Farm

References

Houses in Howard County, Maryland
Buildings and structures in Ellicott City, Maryland
Houses completed in 1912
1912 establishments in Maryland