title: Alex Gordon (architect)

text:
Sir Alexander John Gordon, CBE (25 February 1917 – 12 July 1999) was a Welsh architect. Born in Ayr, Scotland, he was brought up and educated in Swansea and Cardiff. After World War II he designed several major buildings in Cardiff and Swansea, and from 1971 to 1973 he served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 1974 he summarised the needs of new architecture as 'Long life, loose fit, low energy'.

Biography

Gordon was born in Ayr, Scotland, the son of John Tullis Gordon (b. 1884), a telegraph engineer, and Euphemia Baxter Borrowman Gordon, née Simpson (1890–1942). In 1925 the family moved to Swansea.

Gordon attended Swansea Grammar School, where his contemporaries included the poet Dylan Thomas, with whom he produced the school magazine, the composer Daniel Jones and the art critic Mervyn Levy.  He lived in South Wales for the rest of his life, for many years at Llanblethian in the Vale of Glamorgan.

He was an enthusiastic art collector, and bequeathed 32 paintings to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, including works by Marc Chagall, Augustus John, Kyffin Williams, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Elisabeth Frink and a portrait bust of himself by Ivor Roberts-Jones.

He retired in 1982, but retained a consultative role until 1988.

He died in St Hilary, Vale of Glamorgan on 23 July 1999. He was unmarried.

Training
Gordon became a trainee architect in the Swansea Borough Architect's Department in 1935, and studied part-time for the RIBA intermediate examination, which he passed before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1936, while a trainee, he won the Lord Mayor of Cardiff's competition for the design of street decorations to celebrate the coronation. During World War II he served as a major in the Royal Engineers, serving in Palestine where he worked on large-scale construction projects. After leaving the Army, he studied at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, and was awarded a diploma with special distinction in 1948.

Professional life
In 1949 Gordon entered into partnership with Thomas Alwyn Lloyd (1881–1960), forming T. Alwyn Lloyd and Gordon. Initially the practice worked on public housing and housing for the Forestry Commission.

In 1949 he was appointed consultant architect to the Wales Gas Board, for which he designed a new headquarters, Snelling House, Cardiff (1966). This eight-story office block was the first of many large buildings that he designed.

After Alwyn Lloyd's death in 1960, Gordon established Alex Gordon and Partners with Alun Roberts and David Humphreys. The business expanded, and had ten partners by 1972.

Gordon was visiting professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Gordon was elected president of the South Wales Institute of Architects in 1967. He was active in the RIBA and served as its president from 1971 to 1973.

Long life, loose fit, low energy
In 1974 he wrote a paper for the RIBA on the future shape of architecture, in which he argued that buildings should be designed for Long life, loose fit, low energy. This phrase has since become widely used by architectural practices.

Buildings

1955 University Sports Pavilion, Cardiff (Awarded RIBA Bronze Medal)
1966 Cyncoed Methodist Church, Cardiff (Grade II listed building)
1966 Snelling House, Cardiff. Headquarters of Wales Gas, now the Big Sleep hotel.
Mid-1960s Staff housing Atlantic College, St Donats
1967 Cement and Concrete Association Training Centre, Fulmer Grange, Slough
1968 Churchill House, Cardiff
1970 Telephone Exchange Building, Swansea
1970 Cardiff University School of Music
1971 Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
1972 Mathematics Building, Cardiff University
1973 Students' Union Building, Cardiff University
1978 Transport House, Transport and General Workers' Union building, Cardiff
1979 Welsh Office, Cathays Park, Cardiff, now known as Crown Building 2
1981 Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend
1988 Swansea Crown Court

Public committees
Cardiff Development Corporation
Design Council
Royal Fine Art Commission
University Grants Committee
Welsh Arts Council

Awards and honours
OBE (1967)
Honorary LL.D, University of Wales (1972)
CBE (1974)
Knighted (1988)
Honorary fellow, University College Cardiff (1989)
Honorary fellow, American Institute of Architects
Honorary fellow, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Honorary member, Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects)

References

1917 births
1999 deaths
20th-century Welsh architects
People from Ayr
People educated at Bishop Gore School
Presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Welsh art collectors
Alumni of the Welsh School of Architecture


title: Flags of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

text:
The several branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are represented by flags, among other emblems and insignia. Within each branch, various flags fly on various occasions, and on various ships, bases, camps, and military academies.

Flags

Maritime flags
Many maritime flags have been used in Ukraine.

Personal flags

Military of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukrainian military-related lists


title: Coprosma inopinata

text:
Coprosma inopinata  is a flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. The specific epithet comes from the Latin inopinus (“unexpected”), because it was discovered unexpectedly in 1989, proving to be yet another species of Coprosma that was endemic to Lord Howe Island.

Description
It is a compact shrub, scrambling or prostrate, with shoots extending to 50 cm in height. The broadly lanceolate to elliptic leaves are 7–13 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. The small flowers, crowded between leaf and stem, are green with purple edges and 6–9 mm long. The fleshy, egg-shaped, orange fruits are 6 mm long. The flowering season is from October to November.

Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to Australia's subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. It is rare and has only been recorded at or around the summits of Mounts Lidgbird and Gower at the southern end of the island.

References

inopinata
Endemic flora of Lord Howe Island
Plants described in 1993
Gentianales of Australia


title: Nyctemera maculata

text:
Nyctemera maculata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found on Java, Bali, Lombok and Flores.

Subspecies
Nyctemera maculata maculata (Java)
Nyctemera maculata variamacula de Vos, 2002 (Bali, Lombok, Flores)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854


title: Nyctemera muelleri

text:
Nyctemera muelleri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found on Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, as well as in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines (Palawan, Tawitawi).

Subspecies
Nyctemera muelleri muelleri (southern Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan, Tawitawi)
Nyctemera muelleri eddela (Swinhoe, 1904) (Engano)
Nyctemera muelleri mentawaiensis de Vos, 2002 (Mentawai, Sipora, Siberut)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1863


title: Nyctemera swinhoei

text:
Nyctemera swinhoei is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Rob de Vos in 2002. It is found on the northern Moluccas (Bacan, Halmahera, Morotai, Obi, Ternate).

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 2002


title: Nyctemera contrasta

text:
Nyctemera contrasta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Rob de Vos and Karel Černý in 1999. It is found in the Philippines (Mindanao, Negros, Palawan).

Subspecies
Nyctemera contrasta contrasta (Philippines: Mindanao)
Nyctemera contrasta negrosica De Vos & Černý, 1999 (Philippines: Negros)
Nyctemera contrasta supracontrasta De Vos & Černý, 1999 (Philippines: Palawan)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1999


title: Nyctemera herklotsii

text:
Nyctemera herklotsii is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found on Java in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1863


title: Nyctemera luctuosa

text:
Nyctemera luctuosa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines. The habitat consists of mountainous areas.

The forewings are black with a broad irregular diagonal white band and a small white spot near the base. The hindwings are white with broad black margins. Adults are variable in both pattern and ground colour. This is a day-flying species.

The larvae feed on various plants, including Senecio scandens.

Subspecies
Nyctemera luctuosa luctuosa (Batjan)
Nyctemera luctuosa drucei (Swinhoe, 1903) (New Guinea, New Hebrides, Australia)
Nyctemera luctuosa galbana (Swinhoe, 1892) (Sebu)
Nyctemera luctuosa instructa Walker, 1864 (New Guinea)
Nyctemera luctuosa onetha (Swinhoe, 1901) (New Britain)
Nyctemera luctuosa syrnia (Swinhoe, 1903) (Fergusson Islands)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1863
Taxa named by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven


title: Nyctemera ludekingii

text:
Nyctemera ludekingii is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found on Sumatra and Borneo.

Adults are day-flying.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1863


title: Nyctemera simulatrix

text:
Nyctemera simulatrix is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found on Sulawesi, Flores, Bangai and the Key Islands.

Subspecies
Nyctemera simulatrix simulatrix (central and south-western Sulawesi, Flores)
Nyctemera simulatrix basinigra Niewenhuis, 1948 (south-eastern Sulawesi, Bangai)
Nyctemera simulatrix consobrina (Hopffer, 1874) (Sulawesi: eastern Minahassa Peninsula)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1864


title: Nyctemera cenis

text:
Nyctemera cenis is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was  first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777 and is found in China (Zhejiang, Yunnan), Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), the north-western Himalayas, north-eastern India and Myanmar.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1777


title: Nyctemera kala

text:
Nyctemera kala is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found on the Key Islands of Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1892


title: Nyctemera kebeae

text:
Nyctemera kebeae is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904. It is found on New Guinea.

Subspecies
Nyctemera kebeae kebeae (Papua New Guinea: Owen Stanley Range)
Nyctemera kebeae intermedia de Vos, 1997 (Irian Jaya: Star Mountains, north of the Baliem Valley)
Nyctemera kebeae occidentalis de Vos, 1997 (Irian Jaya: Snow Mountains, Weyland Mountains, Wissel Lakes)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1904


title: Chemical shift index

text:
The chemical shift index or CSI is a widely employed technique in protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that can be used to display and identify the location (i.e. start and end) as well as the type of protein secondary structure (beta strands, helices and random coil regions) found in proteins using only backbone chemical shift data  The technique was invented by David S. Wishart in 1992 for analyzing 1Hα chemical shifts and then later extended by him in 1994 to incorporate 13C backbone shifts. The original CSI method makes use of the fact that 1Hα chemical shifts of amino acid residues in helices tends to be shifted upfield (i.e. towards the right side of an NMR spectrum) relative to their random coil values and downfield (i.e. towards the left side of an NMR spectrum) in beta strands.  Similar kinds of upfield and downfield trends are also detectable in backbone 13C chemical shifts.

Implementation
The CSI is a graph-based technique that essentially employs an amino acid-specific digital filter to convert every assigned backbone chemical shift value into a simple three-state (-1, 0, +1) index.  This approach generates a more easily understood and much more visually pleasing graph of protein chemical shift values.   In particular, if the upfield 1Hα chemical shift (relative to an amino acid-specific random coil value) of a certain residue is > 0.1 ppm, then that amino acid residue is assigned a value of -1.  Similarly, if the downfield 1Hα chemical shift of a certain amino acid residue is > 0.1 ppm then that residue is assigned a value of +1.  If an amino acid residue's chemical shift is not shifted downfield or upfield by a sufficient amount (i.e. <0.1 ppm), it is given a value of 0.  When this 3-state index is plotted as a bar graph over the full length of the protein sequence, simple inspection can allow one to identify beta strands (clusters of +1 values), alpha helices (clusters of -1 values), and random coil segments (clusters of 0 values).  A list of the amino acid-specific random coil chemical shifts for CSI calculations is given in Table 1.  An example of a CSI graph for a small protein is shown in Figure 1 with the arrows located above the black bars indicating locations of the beta strands and the rectangular box indicating the location of a helix.

Performance
Using only 1Hα chemical shifts and simple clustering rules (clusters of 3 or more vertical bars for beta strands and clusters of 4 or more vertical bars for alpha helices), the CSI is typically 75-80% accurate in the identification of secondary structures. This performance depends partly on the quality of the NMR data set as well as the technique (manual or programmatic) used to identify the protein secondary structures.  As noted above, a consensus CSI method that filters upfield/downfield chemical shift changes in 13Cα, 13Cβ, and 13C' atoms in a similar manner to 1Hα shifts has also been developed.  The consensus CSI combines the CSI plots from backbone 1H and 13C chemical shifts to generate a single CSI plot. It can be up to 85-90% accurate.

History
The link between protein chemical shifts and protein secondary structure (specifically alpha helices) was first described by John Markley and colleagues in 1967.  With the development of modern 2-dimensional NMR techniques, it became possible to measure more protein chemical shifts. With more peptides and proteins were being assigned in the early 1980s it soon became obvious that amino acid chemical shifts were sensitive not only to helical conformations, but also to β-strand conformations. Specifically, the secondary 1Hα chemical shifts of all amino acids exhibit a clear upfield trend on helix formation and an obvious downfield trend on β-sheet formation. By the early 1990s, a sufficient body of  13C and 15N chemical shift assignments for peptides and proteins had been collected to determine that similar upfield/downfield trends were evident for essentially all backbone 13Cα, 13Cβ, 13C', 1HN and 15N (weakly) chemical shifts. It was these rather striking chemical shift trends that were exploited in the development of the chemical shift index.

Limitations
The CSI method is not without some shortcomings.  In particular, its performance drops if chemical shift assignments are mis-referenced or incomplete.  It is also quite sensitive to the choice of random coil shifts used to calculate the secondary shifts and it generally identifies alpha helices (>85% accuracy) better than beta strands (<75% accuracy) regardless of the choice of random coil shifts.  Furthermore, the CSI method does not identify other kinds of secondary structures, such as β-turns.  Because of these shortcomings, a number of alternative CSI-like approaches have been proposed. These include: 1) a prediction method that employs statistically derived chemical shift/structure potentials (PECAN); 2) a probabilistic approach to secondary structure identification (PSSI); 3) a method that combines secondary structure predictions from sequence data and chemical shift data (PsiCSI), 4) a secondary structure identification approach that uses pre-specified chemical shift patterns (PLATON) and 5) a two-dimensional cluster analysis method known as 2DCSi. The performance of these newer methods is generally slightly better (2-4%) than the original CSI method.

Utility
Since its original description in 1992, the CSI method has been used to characterize the secondary structure of thousands of peptides and proteins.  Its popularity is largely due to the fact that it is easy to understand and can be implemented without the need for specialized computer programs.  Even though the CSI method can be easily performed manually, a number of commonly used NMR data processing programs such as NMRView, NMR structure generation web servers such as CS23D as well as various NMR data analysis web servers such as RCI, Preditor and PANAV  have incorporated the CSI method into their software.

See also
Chemical Shift
Random Coil Index
Protein NMR
Protein Chemical Shift Re-Referencing
Protein secondary structure
Protein Chemical Shift Prediction
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Protein

References

External links
 CSI calculations via RCI webserver
 CSI calculations via Preditor webserver
 Stand-alone CSI program for Linux/Unix
 Chemical shift rereferencing for CSI calculations by Shiftcor
 Chemical shift rereferencing for CSI calculations  by PANAV

Nuclear magnetic resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance software
Protein methods
Protein structure
Biophysics
Scientific techniques


title: Nyctemera latemarginata

text:
Nyctemera latemarginata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1901. It is found in New Guinea.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1901


title: Nyctemera latistriga

text:
Nyctemera latistriga is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Borneo to the Philippines and Lombok.

Description
Adults are day flying. Differs from Nyctemera lacticinia in having the broad white streak on base of inner margin of forewing replaced by narrow streaks on costa, vein 1, and innermargin and by a very broad streak below he median nervure. The postmedial band of spots with the upper two conjoined. The fourth is very large and fifth absent.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854


title: Nyctemera mastrigti

text:
Nyctemera mastrigti is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Rob de Vos in 1996. It is found in New Guinea and Papua New Guinea.

The moth has brown and white markings on its wings, with a medium wingspan.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1996


title: Nyctemera obtusa

text:
Nyctemera obtusa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found on Sulawesi in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1856


title: Nyctemera pagenstecheri

text:
Nyctemera pagenstecheri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1898. It is found on Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Borneo (Pulo Laut).

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1898


title: I'm Watch

text:
The i'm Watch is a smartwatch developed by Italian company i'm S.p.A. It was conceptualized by Manuel Zanella and Massimiliano Bertolini in early 2011, with funding provided by H-Invest and then released in the middle of 2012. The i'm Watch can receive calls, texts and notifications from social media accounts, provide news and weather reports, control music, view and save photos, and create appointments. The watch can also be paired to iOS 4 or higher, Android 4 or higher and BlackBerry 10 devices. On September 19, 2014, i'm S.p.A. announced the discontinuation of sales and its exit from the smartwatch market.

Features
Utilizing a touchscreen, the i'm Watch features a 1.54-inch, color LCD screen. Sensors for the watch include an accelerometer and a magnetometer. In terms of operating system, it has its own customized version of Android 1.6 called i'm Droid 2. It also has a built-in microphone and speaker, as well as 4GB of memory space. It uses Bluetooth 2 for connectivity. For charging, a USB proprietary cable is attached to the headphone jack.
The i'm Watch is available in four watch case materials: aluminum, gold, silver and titanium. It has six wristband color options: black, pink, red, blue, white and yellow.

Other specifics
 450 MHz processor ARM 9
 i.MX233 Applications Processor
 Lithium Polymer 450mAh battery
 128 MB of RAM

Reception
Critics have considered the i'm Watch as a flop. CNET praises the device for its smooth interface and how it displays notifications and messages in an easily viewable format. The downside to this though, is that the watch is very difficult to set up. Battery life is very low, as it falls way short of other devices on the market. Laptop Magazine liked the internal memory capacity, but feels that the Bluetooth tethering causes too much hassle when connecting. They added that the watch looks like "a timepiece from the future, but its performance does not match the Dick Tracy-style feature set." Tech Radar commends the i'm Watch for its ability to pair with Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices, but is concerned about the poor hands-free control quality and lack of text message alerts.

See also
Wearable computer
MetaWatch
Pebble Watch

External links

References

Smartwatches
Android (operating system) devices
Products introduced in 2012
Palm OS devices
Personal digital assistants
Watch models


title: Nyctemera pseudokala

text:
Nyctemera pseudokala is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Rob de Vos in 1996. It is found on Buru in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1996


title: Nyctemera sonticum

text:
Nyctemera sonticum is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the Philippines and Borneo (Sabah).

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1892


title: Elmeri Eronen

text:
Elmeri Eronen (born 27 January 1995) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with Timrå IK in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).

Eronen made his Liiga debut playing with HC TPS during the 2013–14 Liiga season.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Finnish ice hockey defencemen
HPK players
Timrå IK players
HC TPS players
Ice hockey people from Turku
21st-century Finnish people


title: Nyctemera warmasina

text:
Nyctemera warmasina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1910. It is found on New Guinea.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1910


title: Nyctemera clathratum

text:
Nyctemera clathratum is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found in New Guinea and on the Moluccas (Ambon, Saparua and Seram).

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1863


title: Nyctemera dauila

text:
Nyctemera dauila is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species is found on Goodenough Island.

The length of the forewings is 21–22 mm. The forewings are dark brown, the basal half with faded white veins. The wingfold and longitudinal line in the cell are white. The fascia are narrow and are crossed by dark brown veins. The hindwings have a dark brown hindmargin.

Etymology
The species name refers to the local and old name of Goodenough Island, Dauila.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 2007


title: Nyctemera giloloensis

text:
Nyctemera giloloensis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the northern Moluccan Islands Halmahera and Morotai.

The length of the forewings is about 23 mm. The forewings are dark grey-brown, the basal half with white veins and a broad white wingfold, as well as a broad longitudinal line in the cell. The fascia are broad and crossed by suffused veins. The hindwings have a narrow hindmargin. The veins are suffused with brown.

Etymology
The species name refers to the old name for Halmahera, Gilolo, which is also the name for a village on the island.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 2007


title: Nyctemera latimargo

text:
Nyctemera latimargo is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua, where it has been recorded from the Snow Mountains and the Baliem Valley. It is found at altitudes ranging from sea level to 2,100 meters.

The length of the forewings is 20–21 mm. The forewings are dark brown, the basal half with white veins. The wingfold and longitudinal line in the cell are also white. The fascia are narrow and crossed by dark brown veins. The hindwings have a broad dark brown hindmargin.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1915


title: Nyctemera leopoldi

text:
Nyctemera leopoldi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua, where it has been recorded from the Bird's Head Peninsula (Arfak Mountains) and the Kobowre (Weyland) Mountains. It has also been recorded from Numfor island.

The length of the forewings is 19–22 mm. The forewings are pale grey-brown, the basal half with white veins. The wingfold and longitudinal line in the cell are also white. The hindwings have a broad pale grey-brown hindmargin, fading into the white central area.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1935


title: Nyctemera mesolychna

text:
Nyctemera mesolychna is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is widely distributed in the eastern part of New Guinea at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1,800 meters.

The length of the forewings is 19–21 mm. The forewings are brown, the basal half with white veins. The wingfold and longitudinal line in the cell are white. The hindwings have a broad hindmargin.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1889


title: Nyctemera oninica

text:
Nyctemera oninica is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species is found in Papua, where it has been recorded from the Onin Peninsula, the Wandammen Peninsula and Roon Island.

The length of the forewings is 21–22 mm. The forewings are chocolate brown, the basal half with white veins. The wingfold and longitudinal line in the cell are also white. The fascia are broad and crossed by veins suffused with brown. The hindwings are white with a narrow brown hindmargin.

Etymology
The species name refers to the type location, the Onin Peninsula.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 2007


title: Nyctemera apensis

text:
Nyctemera apensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Georg Semper in 1899. It is found on Mindanao in the Philippines.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1899


title: Nyctemera calcicola

text:
Nyctemera calcicola is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1988. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of upper montane forest on limestone.

The length of the forewings is 23–25 mm. The forewings are black.

The larvae possibly feed on Senecio species.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1988


title: Nyctemera clarior

text:
Nyctemera clarior is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Karl Johann Roepke in 1957. It is found on Sumatra and Malacca.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1957


title: Nyctemera distincta

text:
Nyctemera distincta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found on Java in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854


title: Nyctemera kiauensis

text:
Nyctemera kiauensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1976. It is found on Borneo.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1976


title: Aqif Pasha Elbasani

text:
Aqif Pasha Biçaku mostly known as Aqif Pashë Elbasani (1860 – 10 February 1926) was an Ottoman Albanian political figure in the Sanjak of Elbasan and after the Young Turk Revolution became an activist for the Albanian national cause.

Life
Aqif Pasha was born in Elbasan, back then Vilayet of Monastir, son of Mustafa Pasha Biçakçiu, patriarch of one of the three landowning influential and respected families of the town and a lady from Alizoti family, which made him maternal first cousin of Esad Pasha Toptani. His surname, derived from Turkish bıçakçı, means "knifesmith" (cognate with the Bosniak surname Bičakčić). In his first school years he was taught privately and afterwards he was educated in Istanbul.

He was an activist of the Albanian National Awakening in the Elbasan region. He is remembered for having raised the Albanian flag in Elbasan on 26 November 1912 at the request of Ismail Qemal bey Vlora. In 1913 he was elected Prefect of Elbasan. He supported Qemal in his attempt to form a stable administration and was Minister of the Interior for a brief period in 1914 (28 March - 3 September) during the reign of Prince William of Wied.

After the triumph of the Islamic Revolt in 1914 he left Albania together with Wied. He settled in Bari, Italy, and after a couple of months returned to Albania, settling in Shkodër since going back to Elbasan was impossible. In 1915 he joined a secret nationalist committee founded by Hoxha Kadri Prishtina in Shkodër, together with other patriots as Sotir Peçi, Eshref Frashëri, Ali Shefqet Shkupi, etc. The committee was a precursor of the later Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo.

Following the Montenegrin invasion of Shkodër in 1915, he was arrested and sent to internment for a few months together with Luigj Gurakuqi and Sotir Peçi. Following an Austro-Hungarian offensive, Montenegro capitulated and Biçakçiu and other were set free. As a pro-Austrian he propagandized between Albanians not to oppose the Austrian armies. Biçakçiu took part in an unsuccessful congress in his native Elbasan in 1916 to restore Albanian independence, in cooperation with the Austrian authorities, specifically August Ritter von Kral. Biçakçiu aimed at restoring the Prince Wied and the Principality of Albania. The same Austrian authorities would prohibit such an event.

In this condition, he resigned from any political duty. He was not involved until the Congress of Durrës in December 1918. Despite the desire of participating in the event, Biçakçiu could only send a telegram where he advised aiming at reestablishing the borders of Treaty of London, 1913 as a sign of "neutrality" of the Albania state. At the same time, the telegram positioned him against the pro-Italian spirit of the Durrës Congress which characterized most of the participants.

In 1920, he chaired the Congress of Lushnje and was one of the central figures who rules the Albanian politics of that time, together with Eshref Frashëri and Ahmet Zogu. As a representative of the Bektashi community, he was elected to the four-member High Regency Council (Këshilli i Lartë i Regjencës) that ruled the Principality of Albania after the exile of Prince Wied. Biçaku was a foe of Shefqet Vërlaci and had often tenuous relations with Ahmet Zogu. Together with Dom Luigj Bumçi, he took part in a coup d’état in December 1921 and was later relieved of his duties on the High Council by Zogu.

In 1923–1924, Biçaku represented Korça in the Albanian parliament as a member of a pro-Noli democratic opposition. After the suppression of the June Revolution in December 1924 and fall of the Noli government, he went into exile. Sejfi Vllamasi, another political refugee in Vienna would describe him as a "great patriot, but stubborn and insistent till the end".

His son, Ibrahim Biçakçiu, was a Balli Kombëtar leader and served as Prime Minister of Albania during the period 29 August to 28 November 1944. He was arrested by the Communist authorities after World War II.

In 1962, he was given the "Order for Patriotic Activity of Second Class" by the Albanian government.

After the fall of communism in Albania, a statue of him was placed in a plaza of Elbasan.

See also
Lef Nosi
Albanian Declaration of Independence
Principality of Albania

Further
Pavarësia e Elbasanit 1912 : (35 firmëtarët) [Independence of Elbasan 1912: (35 signatories)], Hyqmet Kotherja, Tirana, Shtëpi Botimi "2 Lindje, 2 Perëndime", 2012,

References

People from Elbasan
19th-century Albanian politicians
20th-century Albanian politicians
Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire
Albanian politicians
1861 births
1926 deaths
Activists of the Albanian National Awakening
Albanian Pashas
People from Manastir vilayet
Bektashi Order
Aqif
Albanian Sufis
Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire


title: Nyctemera kinibalina

text:
Nyctemera kinibalina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Snellen in 1899. It is found on Borneo.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1899


title: Nyctemera lugens

text:
Nyctemera lugens is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Karl Johann Roepke in 1949. It is found on Sulawesi in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1949


title: Nyctemera malaccana

text:
Nyctemera malaccana is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Karl Johann Roepke in 1957. It is found on Malacca in Malaysia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1957


title: Flags of the regions of Ukraine

text:
The flags of the subdivisions of Ukraine exhibit a wide variety of regional influences and local histories, reflecting different styles and design principles. Most local flags were designed and adopted after Ukrainian independence in 1991.

Flags of Ukrainian oblasts

Flag of autonomous republic

Flags of cities with special status

Historical

Flags of Ukrainian oblasts

Flags of Ruthenian lands in the battle of Tannenberg, 1410

Cossacks' flags captured by Radzivil in 1651

Flags of Black Sea Cossack Host

See also
Coats of arms of the regions of Ukraine
List of flags of the raions of Ukraine
Flags of populated places of Ukraine
Flag of Ukraine
List of Ukrainian flags

regions
Ukraine
Flags
National symbols of Ukraine
Ukraine
Flags


title: Tamer Ashour

text:
Tamer Ashour (; also spelt Tamer Ashour or Tamer Ashur, born 2 January 1984) is an Egyptian singer and composer. From 2004 to 2011 he released more than 17 songs and 4 albums. Some of his better-known songs include  "Zikrayat Kaddaba" ("Lying Memories"), "Ekhtarna Leh" (Why We Chose), "Thania Wahda" ("One second"), and "Enta Ekhtart" ("You Chose").

Career
Ashour released his album "Sa'ab" (Difficult) in 2006, which included material he'd recorded prior to 2006 as well as new music. Different production companies competed to sign him, and in 2008 he joined Rotana. The album Bieyheb followed in late 2008.

At the beginning of 2011, Ashour released Leia nazrah, his second album with Rotana and third of his career. Leia nazrah was a success both in the summit sales cassette market and on the Internet. That same year Ashor began military service. Once he had finished military service he began working on a fourth album, which by the end of 2013 had yet to be released.

Albums
2006: Sa'ab
2008: Bieyheb
2011: Leia nazrah
2014: Esht maak hekayat
2017: Khayaly
2019: Ayam
2022: Tegy Ntrahen

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Egyptian singer-songwriters
21st-century Egyptian male singers


title: Nyctemera ploesslo

text:
Nyctemera ploesslo is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Karel Černý in 2009 and is found in Thailand.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 2009


title: Nyctemera popiya

text:
Nyctemera popiya is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1903. It is found on Java in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1903


title: Beatties Bluff, Mississippi

text:
Beatties Bluff (also Beattie's Bluff) is a ghost town and former county seat in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving hamlet on the south shore of the Big Black River, which formed the northern boundary of the county, the settlement declined when it was replaced as the county seat. Nothing remains of it. In 2001, a new $32 million wastewater treatment plant was constructed here as part of infrastructure support for a Nissan plant in Canton.

History
Beatties Bluff was founded in the early 1800s as an outpost along the Natchez Trace. When Yazoo County was created in 1823, Beatties Bluff was made its first county seat.  In 1829, the county seat was moved to Benton.  When Madison County was created in 1828, it too named Beatties Bluff as its first county seat.  Soon after, the county seat was moved to Livingston.

Boats ascended the Big Black River to Beatties Bluff, which had a post office, court house, and other buildings made of hewn logs.

In 1835, rumors of a slave uprising were overheard on a plantation at Beatties Bluff.  Slaves there were tortured to extract information, which led to the arrest and quick execution of two itinerant white men.  This incident coincided with the general hysteria about slave uprisings known as the "Murrell Excitement".

When Beatties Bluff was replaced a second time as the county seat, it immediately lost businesses and residents to the new judicial center. It eventually became extinct.

In 2000, Nissan Motor Company began construction of a vehicle assembly plant in nearby Canton.  As part of the infrastructure, a site just west of the old town was selected in 2001 for the construction of the Beatties Bluff Wastewater Treatment Facility, capable of processing  of water per day.

References

External links
 Photo of Beatties Bluff site

Former populated places in Madison County, Mississippi
Former populated places in Mississippi


title: Nyctemera radiata

text:
Nyctemera radiata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in the Philippines.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1856


title: Nyctemera regularis

text:
Nyctemera regularis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Snellen in 1880. It is found on Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

Subspecies
Nyctemera regularis regularis (Sumatra)
Nyctemera regularis crameri Roepke, 1949 (Java)
Nyctemera regularis snelleni Pagenstecher, 1901 (Borneo)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1880


title: Nyctemera sumatrensis

text:
Nyctemera sumatrensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Franciscus J. M. Heylaerts in 1890. It is found on Malacca, Sumatra and Java.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1890


title: Nyctemera tenompoka

text:
Nyctemera tenompoka is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1988. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of secondary montane forests and agricultural terraces on mountain slopes.

The length of the forewings is about 21 mm.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1988


title: Chisocheton maxilla-pisticis

text:
Chisocheton maxilla-pisticis is a tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet  is from the Latin meaning "shark jaw", referring to the shape of the young leaves.

Description
The tree grows up to  tall with a trunk diameter of up to . Fruits are red-brown, round, up to  in diameter.

Distribution and habitat
Chisocheton maxilla-pisticis is found in Borneo and the Philippines. Its habitat is lowland rain forest.

References

maxilla-pisticis
Trees of Borneo
Trees of the Philippines
Plants described in 2003


title: Nyctemera tripunctaria

text:
Nyctemera tripunctaria is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in southern China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sundaland, the Philippines and on Sulawesi.

Adults are day flying.

Subspecies
Nyctemera tripunctaria tripunctaria
Nyctemera tripunctaria aequimargo (Rothschild, 1920)
Nyctemera tripunctaria assimile (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863) (Java)
Nyctemera tripunctaria celsa Walker, 1864 (Cambodia, southern China)
Nyctemera tripunctaria cydippe Weymer, 1885 (Nias)
Nyctemera tripunctaria lombokiana (Swinhoe, 1903)
Nyctemera tripunctaria simalura Roepke, 1957 (Simalur Island)
Nyctemera tripunctaria subvelata Walker, 1864 (Sulawesi)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


title: Nyctemera trita

text:
Nyctemera trita is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found on Malacca, Java, Sumatra and Lombok.

Subspecies
Nyctemera trita trita (Java, Lombok)
Nyctemera trita tritoides Heylaerts, 1890 (Sumatra)
Nyctemera trita harca (Swinhoe, 1893) (Malacca)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854


title: Nyctemera genora

text:
Nyctemera genora is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1917. It is found on New Guinea.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1917


title: Nyctemera immitans

text:
Nyctemera immitans is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1915. It is found on Seram in Indonesia.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1915


title: 2014 College Basketball Invitational

text:
The 2014 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT. The opening games were held on Tuesday, March 18 and Wednesday, March 19. After the quarterfinals, the bracket was reseeded. A best-of-three championship series between the eventual winner Siena College and the loser Fresno State was held on March 31, April 2, and April 5 in a best of three series. Games were televised by the CBS Sports Network.

Participants
The following teams were announced as participants on Sunday, March 16, after the NCAA Selection Show.

Declined invitations
The following programs declined an invitation to participate in the CBI:

 Indiana
 St. Bonaventure

Schedule

Bracket

Home teams listed second.
During the finals, Siena hosted games 2 and 3 at Alumni Recreation Center instead of their normal home site at Times Union Center.

References

College Basketball Invitational
College Basketball Invitational


title: List of Clarence episodes

text:
Clarence is an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. Page, a former Cartoon Network storyboard artist for the series Adventure Time and storyboard revisionist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, developed the series at Cartoon Network Studios in 2012 as part of their animated short development initiative. The series revolves around a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything. The network initially commissioned twelve 15-minute episodes, and aired the pilot following the 2014 Hall of Game Awards show on February 17, 2014.

On July 25, 2014, Cartoon Network announced they had ordered 26 more episodes of Clarence, bringing the first season to a total of 51 episodes.

In July 2015, the series was picked up for a second season by Cartoon Network which premiered on January 18, 2016 and ended on February 3, 2017.

The third and final season premiered on February 10, 2017 and ended on June 24, 2018.

During the course of the series, 130 episodes of Clarence  aired over three seasons.

Series overview

Episodes

Pilot (2013)

Season 1 (2014–15)

Season 2 (2016–17)

Season 3 (2017–18)

Shorts

Notes

References

Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
 you
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
2010s-related lists


title: Nyctemera quaternarium

text:
Nyctemera quaternarium is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1900. It is found on the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1900


title: Afronyctemera itokina

text:
Afronyctemera itokina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1904. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The larvae feed on Senecio species.

References

Moths described in 1904
Nyctemerina
Moths of Africa


title: Chiromachla chalcosidia

text:
Chiromachla chalcosidia is a moth of the  subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Subspecies
Chiromachla chalcosidia chalcosidia
Chiromachla chalcosidia seriatopunctata (Aurivillius, 1925) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1910


title: Chiromachla gracilis

text:
Chiromachla gracilis is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Madagascar.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1884


title: Michael Rafter

text:
Michael Rafter  is an American arranger, musical director, musical supervisor, conductor, and musician best known for his work on Broadway and collaborations with Sutton Foster. He was Musical Director for the 2014 Broadway revival of Violet.

Awards
Rafter was awarded the 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction in the television adaption of the Stage Musical Gypsy.

Personal life
Michael Rafter was married to Tony winner Jeanine Tesori and lives in Manhattan with their child Siena

Credits

Stage
 Broadway
 Violet° Musical Director (2014)
 Everyday Rapture Musical Supervisor (2010)
 Sweet Charity Broadway Revival Additional Music and Vocal Arranger (2005)
 Thoroughly Modern Millie* Conductor, Musical Director (2002-2004)
 Swing! Musical Supervisor, Music Arranger (1999-2001)
 The Sound of Music Revival Musical Director, Conductor (1998-1999)
 The King and I Revival Musical Director, Conductor (1996-1998)
 The Most Happy Fella Assistant Conductor, Piano (1992)
 Gypsy Revival Assistant Conductor, Piano (1989-1991)

 West End
 Thoroughly Modern Millie°  Musical Director (2003)

 Off Broadway
 Violet° Musical Director, Conductor (1997)
 Merrily We Roll Along Musical Director (1994)
 Theda Barra and the Frontier Rabbi Musical Director (1993)
 Mandrake Musical Director (1984)

 Other Credits
 Thoroughly Modern Millie° Musical Director (2000)
 Thoroughly Modern Millie° Musical Director (1999)

° Denotes Musical composed by his wife Jeanine Tesori

Discography
 An Evening with Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle (2011)
 Wish (2008)
 Thoroughly Modern Millie Original Cast Recording (2002)

References

External links

   Listing at Broadway World

Music directors
Broadway music directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Chiromachla insulare

text:
Chiromachla insulare is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Comoros, La Réunion and in Madagascar, Mauritius and Tanzania.

The larvae feed on Crassocephalum rubens and Senecio acetosaefolius.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1833


title: Chiromachla leuconoe

text:
Chiromachla leuconoe is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

Subspecies
Chiromachla leuconoe leuconoe
Chiromachla leuconoe limbalis (Strand, 1909) (Tanzania, Uganda)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1857
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa


title: Chiromachla pallescens

text:
Chiromachla pallescens is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found on the Comoros and Madagascar.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1890


title: Chiromachla perspicua

text:
Chiromachla perspicua is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda and possibly Kenya.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854


title: Chiromachla restrictum

text:
Chiromachla restrictum is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1894


title: Chiromachla seychellensis

text:
Chiromachla seychellensis is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in the Seychelles.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1908


title: Chiromachla torbeni

text:
Chiromachla torbeni is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths of the Middle East
Moths described in 1983


title: Chiromachla transitella

text:
Chiromachla transitella is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Tanzania.

References

Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1909


title: Podomachla acraeina

text:
Podomachla acraeina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1882. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo.

Subspecies
Podomachla acraeina acraeina
Podomachla acraeina togoensis (Strand, 1909) (Togo)

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1882


title: Podomachla antinorii

text:
Podomachla antinorii is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1880


title: Podomachla apicalis

text:
Podomachla apicalis is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, São Tomé & Principe, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Asteraceae species.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1854
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Moths of São Tomé and Príncipe


title: Podomachla arieticornis

text:
Podomachla arieticornis is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Cameroon.

References

Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1909


title: Podomachla insularis

text:
Podomachla insularis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Talbot in 1929. It is found on São Tomé Island.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths of São Tomé and Príncipe
Fauna of São Tomé Island
Moths described in 1929
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)


title: Podomachla usambarae

text:
Podomachla usambarae is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Tanzania.

References

Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1893


title: Podomachla virgo

text:
Podomachla virgo is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found on the Comoros, La Réunion and Madagascar.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1909


title: Xylecata biformis

text:
Xylecata biformis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found on Madagascar.

References

Nyctemerina


title: Orenburg Bashkir Pedagogical College

text:
Orenburg Bashkir Pedagogical College (, ) is a school in Orenburg, worked in 1921–1936, respectively. Forge Bashkir national intelligentsia. Students are trained in the building Orenburg Caravanserai, historical and cultural monuments of the Bashkir people.

Notable alumni
 Sagit Agish (1905–1973) - Bashkir writer
 Sagid R. Alibaev (1903—1975) - Soviet statesman and teacher
 Gabdulla Amantay (1907–1938) Bashkir writer
 Zainab Biisheva (1908–1996) – Bashkir writer
 Bayezit Bikbay (1909–1968) - Bashkir writer
 Guinan Khairy (1903—1938) - Bashkir writer
 Sabit Sufiyanov (1904–1974) - Bashkir writer

References

Organizations based in Bashkortostan
Secondary schools in Russia
Education in Bashkortostan


title: Xylecata crassiantennata

text:
Xylecata crassiantennata is a moth of the  subfamily Arctiinae. It is found on Madagascar.

References

Nyctemerina


title: Paul Rusch

text:
Paul Frederick Rusch (1897 – 1979) was a lay missionary of the Anglican Church in Japan.

Rusch is remembered in Japan for his role as an educator and for pioneering activities in development of American football, rural agriculture and post Second World War reconciliation.

Background and early life
Born November 25, 1897, in Fairmount, Indiana, US,  Rusch was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.  He served with the US Army in France during the First World War. In Kentucky, Rusch was an active member of the congregation of Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville.

Work in Japan
Rusch first arrived in Japan in 1925, initially to help the YMCA with reconstruction efforts after the Great Kantō earthquake, and stayed to dedicate his life and energies towards youth education, post-war reconciliation and rural development in that country.  Through his association with the Anglican Church in Japan he taught both Economics at Rikkyo University and was instrumental in helping Dr. Rudolf Teusler raise funds for the expansion of St. Luke's International Hospital in central Tokyo.

Encouraged by Bishop Charles S. Reifsnider, Rusch was renowned as an unconventional, but highly effective lay evangelist for the Anglican Church in Japan, establishing a chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Rikkyo University in 1927.

In 1934 Rusch also established and was elected first chairman of the Intercollegiate Football League, the first college level American Football association in Japan.  The Paul Rusch Cup is awarded each year to the MVP of the Rice Bowl, Japan's own American Football national championship game.

Rusch was arrested in December 1941 immediately after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor.  He was detained at a temporary prison camp on the campus of Sumire Girls' School on the outskirts of Tokyo and eventually deported from Japan as a part of a wartime prisoner exchange in June 1942.  Repatriated back to the United States, Rusch worked at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota, returning to Japan at the end of hostilities as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's General Staff.

Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP)
Rusch is most widely known for his work in founding the rural  at Kiyosato, on the slopes of Mt. Yatsugatake, Yamanashi Prefecture.  The camp and farm, first opened in July 1938, served as an Anglican youth mission center prior to the Second World War and was rededicated in 1946 as the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP).

After the war, as surrounding fields were cleared, a new Anglican church dedicated to St. Andrew was constructed using local stone. A vocational school, an experimental farm, a nursery and library facilities soon followed.  In June 1948 the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Seisen Ryo rural clinic were attended by Prince Takamatsu. Other features of the mountainside site include a Yamanashi Prefecture Nature Center, the Japan American Football Hall of Fame, and an outdoor chapel and altar constructed in 1962 by students from Lenox School for Boys.

The KEEP farm and mission center is an operationally independent year-round residential retreat and conference center, but retains its links with Anglican and other Christian church educational establishments throughout Japan.

The original farm property and Paul Rusch Memorial Museum are the focus of the popular Yatsugatake County Fair and Paul Rusch Festival held each October.

Recognition and awards
Among numerous awards and decorations, Rusch received honorary doctorates from Hobart and William Smith College in 1950, Lincoln University in 1955 and Rikkyo University in 1965.

Rusch was awarded the Third Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese Government in 1956.

The Paul Rusch Athletics Center on the main campus of Rikkyo University in Ikebukuro is named in his honour.  A commemorative plaque in the University Chapel records his role as Godfather of over 500 Rikkyo Students.

Paul Rusch Cup

The Paul Rusch Cup is an annual award, beginning in 1984, given to the top American football player in Japan.

See also

Anglican Church in Japan
Rikkyo University

References

External links
 Official site of KEEP
 Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Review of McDonald, Andrew T.; McDonald, Verlaine Stoner, Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle against Communism, H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews (June 2019).

American Anglican missionaries
Anglican missionaries in Japan
1897 births
1979 deaths
Academic staff of Rikkyo University
American football in Japan
People from Grant County, Indiana
People from Louisville, Kentucky
American expatriates in Japan


title: Xylecata druna

text:
Xylecata druna is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Ghana.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1904


title: Xylecata glauce

text:
Xylecata glauce is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Kenya and Uganda.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1916


title: Xylecata hemixantha

text:
Xylecata hemixantha is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Rwanda.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1904


title: Xylecata rattrayi

text:
Xylecata rattrayi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1904


title: John M. Goldman

text:
John M. Goldman (30 November 1938 – 24 December 2013) was a British haematologist, oncologist and medical researcher. A specialist in chronic myeloid leukaemia, Goldman conducted pioneering research into leukaemia treatment – he was instrumental in the development of bone marrow transplantation as a clinical method, and later in the development of the drug imatinib. He was also a prolific author of scientific papers, was involved with numerous medical charities and had a decades-long surgical career at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Early life and education
Goldman was born in London in 1938 to Carl and Berthe Goldman, both Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Although he was briefly detained as an enemy alien, Carl Goldman served in the British Army during World War II, and established a successful medical practice in London; he later treated famous individuals such as Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Reed. John Goldman attended the Westminster School and performed in the school choir, but was barred from singing in Westminster Abbey, likely due to his Jewish background.

Goldman attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied psychology and physiology despite originally applying to study classics. At one point during his Oxford years, Goldman and some friends drove across Eurasia to reach India; the Iranian authorities briefly arrested them during the journey, forcing Goldman's group to drug their guards with barbiturates to escape. After graduating from Oxford, Goldman trained in (and later taught) haematology and oncology at several medical schools and hospitals, including St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Harvard University, and the University of Miami.

Medical career and leukaemia research
In 1971 Goldman joined the staff of Hammersmith Hospital, London, and became a specialist in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia. During the 1980s, he conducted some of the first bone marrow transplants in Europe, and also developed precise molecular tests to detect residual leukaemia cells in the blood of patients. Goldman chaired the charity Leuka from its inception in 1982, launching a £10 million appeal to build the Catherine Lewis Centre, a specialist leukaemia centre, at Hammersmith Hospital; the centre opened in 2002. In 1988, Goldman became a member of the blood cancer charity and bone marrow transplant register Anthony Nolan. He worked as a trustee and medical director for Anthony Nolan for over 20 years, helping the charity to expand its reach and resources worldwide. He also helped establish the World Marrow Donor Association in 1990, and served (at various different times) as the president of the International Society for Experimental Haematology, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the European Haematology Association and several other medical and scientific organisations.

From the late 1990s onwards, Goldman was instrumental in promoting the use of the anti-cancer drug imatinib, working to refine and expand its clinical usage as a targeted therapy. He retired from Hammersmith Hospital in 2004, but continued to work as an advocate and benefactor of cancer research and treatment in the developing world. During his career, he published over 700 scientific papers, and was the editor of the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation from 1985 until his death in December 2013.

Personal life
Goldman was married to Jeannine Fuller; after divorcing her, he lived with Constance Shaw. He was survived by his three children: a daughter from his marriage to Fuller, and a daughter and son from his relationship with Shaw. Goldman was an avid reader of history and classic literature, travelled extensively overseas, and was a passionate skier.

References

External links
 Obituary of Goldman in Bone Marrow Transplantation (PDF)

British oncologists
British medical researchers
British haematologists
British Jews
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
1938 births
2013 deaths
Physicians of Hammersmith Hospital


title: Leopold Quehl

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Leopold Quehl (1849–1922, Halle an der Saale) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.

Biography

Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium. He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.

Quehl was a founding member of Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (DKG).

Legacy
Plants with the specific epithets of quehlianum and quehlianus are named in his honor; examples being:
 Echinocactus quehlianus (F.Haage ex Quehl).
 Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).

References

1849 births
1922 deaths
19th-century German botanists
Scientists from Halle (Saale)
20th-century German botanists


title: Dikungu Airport

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Dikungu Airport  is a highway strip airport serving the village of Dikungu in Sankuru Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

See also

 Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 List of airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

References

External links
 OpenStreetMap - Dikungu Airport
 FallingRain - Dikungu Airport
 OurAirports - Dikungu Airport

Airports in Sankuru


title: Leonard Gaetz

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Leonard Gaetz (June 7, 1841 – June 9, 1907) was a Canadian politician. He was one of the first settlers and founder of what is now the city of Red Deer, Alberta.

Early life
Born in 1841 at Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, Gaetz married Caroline Blowers Hamilton in 1865. They had a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Gaetz was an ordained Methodist minister, serving the church until 1883. He left the ministry due to ill health and moved to the Red Deer Valley. He decided to homestead on the west half of a section on the Red Deer River, and one of his sons, Halley Gaetz, took up the other half section.

Red Deer

Leonard Gaetz acted as the local land agent for the Saskatchewan Colonization Company and purchased parts of three other sections from his employers. By 1890, the Gaetz family owned vast land holdings along the south bank of the Red Deer River around the mouth of the Waskasoo Creek. The holdings included parts of Sections 16, 17, 20 and 21. Leonard Gaetz's increasing wealth allowed his family to play a central role in the growth of Red Deer.

In 1895, Gaetz returned to the active ministry in Manitoba, at Brandon and Winnipeg. Once again, this proved detrimental to his health. He retired back to Red Deer in 1901, and resided here for the remainder of his life. He was a strong promoter of the area, founding the Westerner showgrounds and annual "Westerner Days", akin to the Calgary Stampede. A Conservative, Gaetz ran for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta unsuccessfully in the Alberta general election, 1905 and for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in 1894, both times for the Red Deer constituency.

Death

He died in Red Deer in 1907, less than a year after the death of his wife in December 1906. Two sons would serve as mayor of Red Deer, Raymond Leonard Gaetz, and Halley Hamilton Gaetz. Another son, Clarence Wilberforce Gaetz would become the first mayor of Leduc, Alberta.

Legacy

A Methodist church was built in 1892 and enlarged in 1909, when the new Methodist Church was announced by the Board of Trustees, to be known as The Leonard Gaetz Memorial Methodist Church, named after Reverend Leonard Gaetz. In 1925 the local Methodist congregation voted in favour of church union, and their building became Gaetz Memorial United Church, again named in honour of Reverend Leonard Gaetz.

He is memorialized in the name of Red Deer's major thoroughfare, Gaetz Avenue, also known as 50th Avenue.

References

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1841 births
1907 deaths


title: Nanase Kiryu

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is a Japanese football player. She plays for Changnyeong WFC in the WK League. She played for Japan national team.

Club career
Kiryu was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on 31 October 1989. From 2007, she played for Nippon TV Beleza in Japan's first-division L.League. During her career with the team, she scored 25 goals in her 94 appearances. In February 2014, she signed with Sky Blue FC in the National Women's Soccer League, where she played for one season before returning to Beleza. In January 2016, Kiryu signed with Chinese Division 2 club Guangdong Haiyin, located in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. In 2017, she returned to Japan and joined Okayama Yunogo Belle.

National team career
On 13 January 2010, Kiryu debuted for Japan national team against Denmark. She was a member of Japan for 2014 Asian Cup and Japan won the championship. She played 16 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 2014.

National team statistics

International goals

Honors and awards
Individual
 L.League Best XI: 2013

Club
 L.League Division 1 League Champions: 2008, 2010
 L.League Division 1 League Runners-up: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
 Empress's Cup: 2008, 2009
 Nadeshiko League Cup: 2007, 2010, 2012
 Japan/Korea Women's League Championship: 2011

References

External links

 Nanase "Na-Na" Kiryu profile at National Women's Soccer League
 Nanase Kiryu profile at Sky Blue FC

1989 births
Living people
Association football people from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese women's footballers
Japan women's international footballers
Nadeshiko League players
National Women's Soccer League players
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza players
NJ/NY Gotham FC players
Okayama Yunogo Belle players
Japanese expatriate women's footballers
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Expatriate women's footballers in South Korea
Asian Games medalists in football
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games
Women's association football forwards
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games


title: Dilolo Airport

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Dilolo Airport  is an airstrip in Dilolo, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The runway is  south of the town, near the Angola border.

See also

Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 List of airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

References

External links
 OpenStreetMap - Dilolo Airport
 FallingRain - Dilolo Airport
 HERE Maps - Dilolo Airport
 OurAirports - Dilolo Airport

Airports in Lualaba Province


title: Naked (2013 film)

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Naked is a short musical film directed by Sean Robinson and written by VP Boyle. It is based on the song "Without a Stitch On" by Mike Pettry, and was first shown at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in 2013. It stars Katie Zaffrann.

Reception
 Parma International Music Film Festival: Best Song (won-2013)
 Long Island International Film Expo: Best Original Song (won-2013)
 Chain NYC Film Festival: Best Musical Short (won-2013)
 Snake Alley Festival of Film: Best Comedy (nominated-2013)

Film Threat gave the film 3 stars.

References

External links

2013 films
2010s musical films
2010s English-language films


title: Land reform in Zambia

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Land reform in Zambia refers to the process of land reform in Zambia.

Zimbabwean farmers
In 2001, neighbouring Zimbabwe's government undertook aggressive land reform policies which included invasions of farms owned by White Zimbabweans. Many of those farmers moved to Zambia and took up farming again. They produced maize and tobacco on large farms.

References

External links
 Getting Agreement on Land Tenure Reform: The Case of Zambia by Joseph Mbinji, Zambia Land Alliance
 PSIA Summary – Zambia Land Reform World Bank
  Contestation, confusion and corruption: Market-based land reform in Zambia by Taylor Brown, Oxfam

Economy of Zambia
Agriculture in Zambia
Zambia
Reform in Zambia


title: Sharada Ramanathan

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Sharada Ramanathan is an Indian film director, cultural thinker and writer. She made her directional debut in the 2007 Tamil film Sringaram which won three National Film Awards. Her second film Puthiya Thiruppangal is awaiting release. In 2014, she directed Natyanubhava, a documentary film about Indian classical dance, featuring the top dancers and film technicians in India.

Career
Prior to entering films, Sharada Ramanathan was working in the fields of media and culture. She was involved with social and cultural organizations  SPIC MACAY and CRY. She was highly instrumental in setting up India Foundation for the Arts, a philanthropic organization to encourage fine arts in India. She was also associated with Ford Foundation as its "Program Officer".

Her first feature film, Sringaram (2007), is a period film and depicts the life of a Devadasi. After getting screened at various film festivals, the film had its theatrical release in 2007 and went on to win three National Film Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. The film was critically acclaimed. Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu noted, "Sringaram is an aesthetic showcase of first time maker Sharada Ramanathan's potential". She was one of the jury members of the 54th National Film Awards.

Her second film Puthiya Thiruppangal, which deals with child trafficking, is currently awaiting release. Unlike her previous film, Puthiya Thiruppangal takes place in modern-day and has been made on "commercial format". Sharada's third project Natyanubhava (2014) is a documentary focused on Indian classical dance. The film was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and funded by the Ministry of External Affairs. Sharada Directed a short film called Adivaanam (2020) that got popular and critical acclaim for its poetic class and won one international award.  She worked with top class cast and crew like Aishwarya Rajesh Ashwin Kakumanu   Ravi K. Chandran Santhosh Narayanan A. Sreekar Prasad. Sharada directed a short sequel, Vidivaanam with top artists and crew.

Sharada is Director of the Chennai-Based film company called Thaniththirai Productions.

Other works
Apart from her film career, Sharada has also written for various dailies, journals and magazines. She is associated with United Nations Development Programme and UNESCO, and has served on many film-related international juries, including the Indian National Film Awards, IFFI Goa and International Macau Film Festival.

Filmography
 Sringaram (2007)
 Natyanubhava (2015)
 Puthiya Thiruppangal (TBA)
 Adivaanam - Horizon
 Vidivaanam - A New Dawn
 International film Production (TBA)

References

Indian women film directors
Tamil film directors
Living people
Film directors from Chennai
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014
Women artists from Tamil Nadu


title: Cibola County Correctional Center

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Cibola County Correctional Center is a privately owned minimum-security prison, located at 2000 Cibola Loop in Milan, Cibola County, New Mexico.

The facility first opened in 1993 as a county prison with capacity to house state prisoners, and was then acquired and expanded by the Corrections Corporation of America in 1998.  It has a capacity of 1129 inmates.  Until October 2016 it housed federal minimum-security prisoners under a contract with the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshal Service. but was soon re-opened under a new contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This facility is unrelated to Western New Mexico Correctional Facility, also in Cibola County, operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department with an inmate capacity of 440.

Closure

Before the facility was closed in 2016, it had been a "standout example of the problems at the BOP's private prisons".

Almost 700 Cibola County inmates staged a non-violent protest of prison conditions on April 23, 2001 and were tear-gassed.  In March 2013 about 250 inmates staged another non-violent protest, which was resolved peacefully.  Prison officials declined to reveal the reason for the protest.  As of June 2002, 95% of prisoners held in Cibola County were undocumented Mexican nationals.

From 2007-2016, 30 of the 34 citations against the facility were related to poor medical care, including the lack of an on-location doctor, failure to perform CPR, and lack of mental health evaluation for a suicidal inmate.

In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings.  The agency expected to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.  The same month CCA announced that their federal contract had not been renewed. The FBOP removed its last prisoner on October 1, and facility was slated to close with the loss of about 300 local jobs.

ICE administration

The facility was reopened with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract under CCA's new name, CoreCivic.

There are open lawsuits and investigations related to deaths of people who were detained in the facility since October 2016. A 2018 hearing at the New Mexico state capitol documented experiences of abuse and negligence at both Cibola and Otero County Prison Facility.

Transgender migrant detention

Cibola County includes facilities for ongoing detention of transgender migrant detainees, one of the only following the closure of a dedicated ICE detention pod for gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) detainees in Santa Ana.  In November 2018, an independent autopsy indicated that Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, a 33 year old transgender woman seeking asylum from Honduras who was detained at Cibola County, had been physically abused in before being detained in Cibola County. Rodriguez was one of at least four immigrants who died in CoreCivic facilities in 2018. Transgender women detained at the facility have a higher rate of receiving legal representation than other detainees, however face significant mental health challenges.

References

External links

Cibola County Correctional Center (CoreCivic)
Cibola Detention Center (New Mexico Immigrant Law Center)

Prisons in New Mexico
CoreCivic
Buildings and structures in Cibola County, New Mexico
1993 establishments in New Mexico


title: First Presbyterian Church (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)

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First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian congregation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, founded in 1882 by Rev. A. B. Coit.  It was the first church in the town and predated Hattiesburg's own incorporation by two years.  In 1973 it left the Presbyterian Church in the United States to become a charter member of the more theologically conservative Presbyterian Church in America.

History

Founding

The church was first located at McDonald's Mill, a sawmill seven miles northeast of downtown, but moved to the center of Hattiesburg in 1883.  The first supply pastor, Rev. H. C. Smith, also served small congregations in Jones and Perry counties.  The young congregation first met in space shared with the local school; while their first building was built, they shared space with the local Methodist church and adopted the name Bouie Presbyterian.  In 1886, the church called the Rev. J. M. Smith as pastor, who spent seven years ministering in Hattiesburg and other small congregations in the area.  Smith had been born in Mt. Olive, Mississippi and studied at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

Currie and McIntosh Pastorates

In 1893, Dr. E. J. Currie was called as pastor, and his tenure saw the congregation move into its second building, white clapboard with twin spires, at 723 Main Street.  Dr. Currie also served as the superintendent of schools in Perry County and eventually the first superintendent of Hattiesburg Public Schools. In 1918, he would become president of Chickasaw Female College.  The church planted two still extant daughter congregations in this period, Petal Presbyterian in 1902 and Bay Street Presbyterian in 1906.  When planting Bay Street, which was also in Hattiesburg, the congregation changed its name to First Presbyterian.

The church's longest serving minister was Dr. W. H. McIntosh, who served from 1919 until 1954.  Dr. McIntosh oversaw the 1929 move to a new building a few blocks north on Main Street, which now houses the True Light Missionary Baptist Church.  He also served as moderator of the Synod of Mississippi of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and on the board of trustees of Southwestern University and Columbia Theological Seminary.

Civil Rights Era

Near the end of Dr. McIntosh's ministry, the Rev. William J. Stanway was called as an assistant pastor, succeeding as senior pastor on the unexpected death of McIntosh in 1954.  Stanway had been educated at Bob Jones University and Westminster Theological Seminary.  Under his leadership two more churches were planted, Westminster Presbyterian and Pineview Presbyterian.  Stanway also played a role in founding Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi in 1966.  During the Civil Rights Movement he followed the path of other Hattiesburg clergy in remaining silent on the great upheavals of the time.  Robert Patrick Rayner writes:
Reverend W. J. Stanway never mentioned the northern ministers or civil rights protests from his pulpit.  Even Newton Cox [of Westminster Presbyterian Church], considered the most liberal of the three [Presbyterian] ministers, refused to recognize on Sunday morning any social unrest in his community for fear of upsetting the peace and unity of the church.

In 1964, a delegation of three pastors and two elders from Hattiesburg's Presbyterian churches traveled to First Presbyterian Church in Charleston, Illinois to protest the participation of pastors from that area in the civil rights protests in Hattiesburg.

The Presbyterian Church in America

In 1970, the Rev. Ed Johnson, formerly an assistant pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, was called to First Presbyterian Hattiesburg.  He brought with him from his time at Coral Ridge under the tutelage of D. James Kennedy the Evangelism Explosion program.  Johnson's pastorate also saw the planting of Woodland Presbyterian Church and the departure of the congregation, and many of its plants, to the new Presbyterian Church in America in response to the increasing theological liberalism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.  The PCA committed itself to be, "faithful to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed faith, and obedient to the Great Commission."

Dr. L. Roy Taylor, a professor from Reformed Theological Seminary, was called as senior pastor of the church.  Growth under his leadership led to the decision to build a new church in 1990 to the west of town near I-59.  At the time, the area was undeveloped but the church leadership saw the steady development of the town to the west and sought to position the congregation for future growth.  The church, which cost $5 million to build and stands on  of land.

The church has provided a leadership role in the broader PCA, with Dr. Taylor serving as the Stated Clerk in 1994, and a ruling elder, Samuel J. Duncan, serving as moderator of the General Assembly in 1998.  Dr. H. Andrew Silman served as pastor from 1994 until 2006, and was succeeded in 2009, after a lengthy interim period, by Dr. Sean Michael Lucas, previously a professor of Covenant Theological Seminary (This is no longer current information. Dr. Lucas is now the senior pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been succeeded by Rev. Jim McCarthy.) Recent years have seen significant expansion of the physical plant with the construction of Currie and McIntosh Halls.

Services

First Presbyterian has worship services on Sunday at 10:45 am and 6:00 pm.  The morning worship services are designed to draw on the great traditions of the church's worship music.  The evening service is intended to be more acoustic and informal, drawing both from traditional hymns as well as music developed by Reformed University Fellowship, the college ministry of the PCA.  The centerpiece of each service is the Expository preaching from the Bible.

References

External links
Official website

Religious organizations established in 1882
Buildings and structures in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Presbyterian Church in America churches in Mississippi


title: P. exigua

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P. exigua may refer to:

 Partula exigua, an extinct snail
 Parvocaulis exigua, a green algae
 Parvulastra exigua, a sea star
 Patella exigua, a true limpet
 Pelegrina exigua, a jumping spider
 Peperomia exigua, a radiator plant
 Perigona exigua, a ground beetle
 Phaneroptera exigua, an Old World katydid
 Phasmoneura exigua, a carnivorous insect
 Philine exigua, a headshield slug
 Phoma exigua, a plant pathogen
 Phorocera exigua, a tachina fly
 Phycolepidozia exigua, a liverwort endemic to Dominica
 Phyllosticta exigua, a sac fungus
 Plagiolepis exigua, a formic-acid-producing ant
 Platythyrea exigua, a predaceous ant
 Plecopterodes exigua, an Afrotropical moth
 Pleurothallis exigua, a bonnet orchid
 Ponometia exigua, an American moth
 Prenanthella exigua, a flowering plant
 Prumnopitys exigua, a Bolivian conifer
 Pseudopoda exigua, a huntsman spider
 Psilogramma exigua, a hawk moth
 Purpurcapsula exigua, a false cowry
 Puya exigua, a plant endemic to Ecuador


title: Xylecata ugandicola

text:
Xylecata ugandicola is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1909


title: Xylecata uniformis

text:
Xylecata uniformis is a moth of the  subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Ivory Coast.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1880


title: Xylecata xanthura

text:
Xylecata xanthura is a moth of the  subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo.

References

Nyctemerina
Moths described in 1880


title: Kingstone Companies

text:
Kingstone Companies, Inc., headquartered in Kingston, New York, provides property and casualty insurance products through its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company. It places contracts with the third-party licensed premium finance company through its subsidiary Payments, Inc, a NYS licensed Insurance Premium Finance Company. Kingstone Insurance Company was ranked #1 of the 81 insurers rated by the Professional Insurance Agents Association in its 2010 Company Performance Survey. The company sells insurance products include personal lines of insurance products, general liability policies  commercial automobile policies and so on through independent retail and wholesale agents and brokers.

History
In 1886, the company was founded in Kingston, New York.

Operation
In December 2013, the company announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 2,500,000 shares of its common stock to promote the insurance subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company.

In October 2020, Kingstone Companies, Inc. has reported its pre-tax disaster damages of net reinsurance between $8.5 million and $9 million for the third quarter of 2020.

Woolgar v. Kingstone Companies et al.
On 11 August 2020, Kingstone Companies, Inc. has confirmed that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today denied the defendant's request to withdraw the amended lawsuit in the putative shareholder class action litigation initially brought in 2019 against the corporation and several existing and former officers and directors.

References

External links

Financial services companies of the United States
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
1886 establishments in New York (state)
Financial services companies established in 1886
American companies established in 1886
Companies based in Nassau County, New York


title: Coprosma lanceolaris

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Coprosma lanceolaris  is a flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. The specific epithet comes from the Latin lancea (“lance” or “spear”) with the suffix -aris (“pertaining to”), alluding to the shape of the leaves.

Description
It is a shrub growing to 2 m in height. The fleshy, bright green, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate to elliptic leaves are 30–90 mm long, 15–40 mm wide, with a foetid odour when crushed. The flowers are small and green, 5 mm long. The egg-shaped red fruits are 6–8 mm long. The flowering season is from mid May to mid October.

Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. It is common in the montane forest of the island, at elevations of over 500 m.

References

lanceolaris
Endemic flora of Lord Howe Island
Plants described in 1875
Gentianales of Australia
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller


title: Affirmative Insurance

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Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. is an American company that provides individual consumers non-standard personal automobile insurance policies and other related products through its subsidiaries, independent agents and unaffiliated underwriting agencies in the United States. The company provides liability-only policies including bodily injury liability coverage, property damage liability coverage, personal injury protection coverage and medical payment coverage.

History
In 1998, the company founded in Addison, Texas as Instant Insurance Holdings, Inc.

In 2003, the company completed the acquisition of two non-standard automobile insurance companies from Vesta Insurance Group, Inc.

In 2004, the company completed the initial public offering.

In 2007, the company completed the acquisition of USAgencies, a provider of non-standard automobile insurance.

In 2013, Confie Seguros, a rapidly growing national provider of personal lines insurance signed an agreement to acquire the retail distribution arm of Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc.

In 2015, the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.

References

External links

Companies based in Texas
Insurance companies of the United States
Financial services companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in Texas
Insurance companies based in Texas


title: Odorico Politi

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Odorico Politi (Udine, 27 January 1785 - Venice, 18 October 1846) was an Italian painter.

Life and career
Odorico Politi was born in Udine, and studied in Venice at the Accademia di Belle Arti with Teodoro Matteini. In 1812 he returned to Udine and began a career as a painter of neoclassical frescoes, specializing in historical and mythological subjects. Some of these frescoes can now be seen at the Palazzo Antonini and at Napoleon's Royal Palace in Venice. In 1831 he received an appointment as professor at the Accademia of Venice, where he had studied. Notable students include Pompeo Marino Molmenti, Antonio Dugoni, Fausto Antonioli and Cesare Dell'Acqua.

Works
Politi's frescoes with religious subjects are found in the churches of Attimis, Clauzetto, Felettano, Pavia di Udine, Tarcento, Trieste, Udine, Venice and Vito d'Asio. Selected works include:
Portrait of Canova - 1810 - Civic Museums of Udine
Portrait of Count GB Bartolini - 1823
The model of the painter - 1838
Santa Filomena, Rome rescued by angels - 1838 - Cathedral of Rovigo
Portrait of Abbot Angelo Dalmistro - 1839
Self Portrait - 1840 - Civic Museums of Udine

References

1785 births
1846 deaths
People from Udine
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Venice
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni
Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
Italian neoclassical painters
19th-century Italian male artists


title: Parmu ka Purwa

text:
Parmu ka Purwa is a village in Bhognipur tehsil, Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is situated on a Grand Trunk Road. The nearest railway station is Chaurah.

External links
Google Maps

Villages in Kanpur Dehat district


title: House of Dreams (song)

text:
"House of Dreams" is a song by Australian hip hop trio Bliss n Eso. It was released on 8 March 2013 through Illusive Sounds as the first single from their fifth studio album Circus in the Sky. Critical reception to song was generally positive. 'House of Dreams' debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at No. 47 and spent 5 weeks on the chart. It also finished at No. 94 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013. Bliss n Eso performed the song alongside 'My Life' at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 where they were nominated for 'Best Urban Album' for Circus in the Sky. The song was also used in a promo the 2013 AFL Grand Final. In July 2013 Bliss n Eso began their 'House of Dreams Tour'.

Music video
The music video was released on 1 April 2013, and it spans 4 minutes and 48 seconds. In the video Bliss, Eso and DJ Izm rap the song having different coloured lights shine around and fire shooting into the air surrounding them, while a band plays the song behind them. An alternate albeit similar version of the video clip with the song shortened was used in a promo for the 2013 AFL Grand Final. The alternate version shows Bliss, Eso, DJ Izm and the band playing the song outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and has clips of Hawthorn Hawks and Fremantle Dockers players playing AFL. The main music video currently has over 2,000,000 views.

Critical reception
The song received generally positive reviews. Moshpress.com wrote that "The single brings listeners that old-school Bliss N Eso vibe, reminiscent of Flying Colours and Flowers in the Pavement. All the classic elements are there: unexpected rhymes, swift, unpredictable beats and lyrical finesse that could only be expected by the dynamic duo".

Chart performance
The song debuted at No. 47 on the ARIA Singles Chart, the following week it peaked at No. 45. It then dropped out of the top 50 and spent 3 more weeks in the top 100. It also finished at No. 94 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013, making it Bliss n Eso's second highest entry for that year behind "Act Your Age".

Charts

Certifications

References

Bliss n Eso songs
2013 songs
2013 singles
Illusive Sounds singles


title: Putin (surname)

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Putin () is a masculine Russian surname. Its feminine counterpart is Putina (). Notable people with the surname include:

Igor Putin (born 1953), a Russian businessman and politician, cousin of Vladimir Putin
Lyudmila Putina (born 1958), the former wife of Vladimir Putin
Maria Putina
Roman Putin (born 1977), a Russian businessman and politician, nephew of Vladimir Putin
Spiridon Putin (1879–1965), a Russian chef who was the personal cook of Lenin and Stalin, paternal grandfather of Vladimir Putin
Vera Putina (1926–2023), a woman who claimed to be Vladimir Putin's mother
Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012–present, Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and 2008 to 2012

Fictional people
Ivan Putin, a Soviet Navy political officer in The Hunt for Red October

See also
 Putina (disambiguation)

 Putinas

Russian-language surnames


title: Nyctosia coccinea

text:
Nyctosia coccinea is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schaus in 1899. It is found in Mexico.

References

External links
Original description: Journal of the New York Entomological Society: 217

Lithosiini
Moths described in 1899