title: Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

text:
Weightlifting competitions at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland were held between 24 July and 2 August at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Included with the weightlifting event were four powerlifting events for disabled athletes.

Schedule

Medal table

Events

Men's events

Women's events

* The women's 53 kg competition was originally won by 16-year-old Chika Amalaha of Nigeria. Following a failed doping test, Amalaha was stripped of her medal and placement, and the medals were redistributed.

Powerlifting

Participating nations

References

External links

 Official results book – Weightlifting
 Official results book – Powerlifting

2014 Commonwealth Games events
2014 in weightlifting
2014
Weightlifting in Scotland
Parasports competitions
2014 in disability sport
International weightlifting competitions hosted by the United Kingdom
Powerlifting at the Commonwealth Games


title: Monilea smithi

text:
Monilea smithi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description
The height of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 20 mm. The umbilicate shell has a globose-conic shape. The 6 to 7 whorls are encircled by numerous unequal, grained, partly pearly riblets. The convex base is sculptured with smoother riblets, their interstices cancellated. The umbilicus is deeply channelled. The aperture is rounded-quadrate. The columella is deeply sinuous, callous, terminating in an acute denticle. The outer lip is sulcate within, subcinereus or ashen-reddish, with scattered obscure spots on the upper whorls. The lip is thickened in adults and is silvery-pearly.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

 Dunker., Ind. Moll. Mar. Jap., p. 259, t. 6, f. 16-19, 1882.
 Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp

External links
 To World Register of Marine Species

smithi
Gastropods described in 1828


title: JS Kurama

text:
JS Kurama (DDH-144) was the second ship of the  in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Construction and career
Kurama was laid down on 17 February 1978 and launched on 20 September 1979 by IHI Corporation Tokyo Shipyard. She was commissioned on 27 March 1981, into the 2nd Escort Corps (Sasebo) together with JDS Haruna.  She was the first Maritime Self-Defense Force ship to be equipped with Phalanx CIWS. She was also equipped for the first time with a sonar that can detect submarines over long distances, and in cooperation with the onboard helicopter, it was possible to detect and destroy enemy submarines before they approach. Based on the track record of this ship, CIWS and tactical towed sonar were adopted as general-purpose escort vessels of the Maritime Self-Defense Force built after that, in which became standard equipment.

On October 13, 1982, a boiler explosion accident occurred at Sasebo.

On March 30, 1983, the 52nd Escort Corps was abolished and became a ship under the direct control of the 2nd Escort Corps. From June 28 to August 16 of the same year, she participated in the Hawaii dispatch training with the escort vessels JDS Hatsuyuki and JDS Tachikaze.

On March 30, 1984, she became the flagship of the 2nd Escort Group. She later participated in the Exercise RIMPAC 1984.

She participated in Exercise RIMPAC 1986.

From July 1 to 31, 1990, she participated in the maritime training (open sea practice voyage) toward Guam with the escort vessels JDS Asagiri, JDS Yamagiri and JDS Tachikaze.

From June 27 to August 28, 1991, she participated in the US dispatch training with the escort vessels JDS Asakaze and JDS Setogiri.

She participated in Exercise RIMPAC 1992.

She again participated in Exercise RIMPAC 1994.

From July 26 to 30, 1996, she visited Vladivostok, Russia, for the first time as a self-defense ship to participate in the 300th anniversary ceremony of the Russian Navy.

From July 24 to 29, 1998, she visited Vladivostok again with the escort ship JDS Yamagiri and JDS Hamana, and participated in the Russian Pacific Fleet Fleet Review Ceremony held on July 26. In addition, the first Japan-Russia joint training was held in the Sea of Japan east of Vladivostok on July 29 and 30, and participated in it.

From February 25 to March 31, 2000, she participated in the open sea practice voyage with JDS Yamagiri and JDS Asakaze. Later that year, she participated in Exercise RIMPAC 2000.

On November 9, 2001, she was dispatched to the Indian Ocean along with the escort ship JDS Kirisame and JDS Hamana for an information gathering mission based on the Act on Special Measures Against Terrorism. They returned to Japan on the 16th.

From May 16 to August 3, 2003, she participated in the US dispatch training with the escort vessels JDS Shimakaze and JDS Setogiri. After returning to Japan, remodeling work was carried out at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, and the shooting command device for short SAM control changed from WM-25 to the domestically produced Type 81 shooting command device type 2-12 (FCS-2-12). It was replaced with the domestic GMLS-3, and the onboard missile was the RIM-7M. All of these are reprinted from those equipped on the escort ship JDS Takatsuki, which was removed from the register in August 2002. The construction was completed in April 2004.

From November 10 to 12, 2004, she dealt with the Han-class submarine in Japan's territorial sea with the escort ship JDS Yudachi.

On January 14, 2005, an integrated unit of land, sea, and air self-defense forces was formed based on the Japan Disaster Relief Team Dispatch Law to rescue the Sumatra Island Earthquake, and departed from Sasebo. Relief activities such as transportation of relief supplies were carried out together with the transport ship JDS Kunisaki and JDS Tokiwa.

From May 16 to August 1, 2007, she participated in the US dispatch training with the escort vessels JS Chokai and JS Inazuma.

On March 26, 2008, she was transferred to the 2nd Escort Group 2 Escort Corps due to the reorganization of the Escort Corps. She was transferred to Yokosuka.

She was dispatched to the Great East Japan Earthquake caused by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011. On October 19, the same year, she departed Yokosuka for training in the United States, stayed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii from October 31 to November 21, and trained with US Navy vessels to improve their practical skills. She returned to Sasebo on December 5.

On 27 October 2009, JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan.  While neither ship sunk, the bow of Kurama was badly damaged and burned for hours.  Three Kurama crew members were reported injured.

On March 22, 2017, she was decommissioned due to the commissioning of the second Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga. Her final affiliation is the 2nd Escort Group, 2nd Escort Corps. The home port has been Sasebo consistently for about 36 years since commissioning. In the SDF observing ceremony for 36 years, she served as a observing ship four times, with a total voyage time of 78,772 hours, a total number of landings of 51,300 times, and sailed 942,760.2 nautical miles (1,745,991.9 km), which is equivalent to about 43.6 laps of the earth. After retirement, a press release was released to make the new torpedo for submarines a real ship.

On June 12, 2018, the ship departed while being towed from Sasebo, and then was actually disposed of by a new torpedo from a submarine of the Maritime Self-Defense Force off the coast of Wakasa Bay. Floating debris such as the inner fireboat and the outer shell of the turret have been recovered by the test ship JS Asuka in the sea area.

Gallery

Citations

References

External links

1979 ships
Ships built by IHI Corporation
Shirane-class destroyers


title: Bojan Stamenković

text:
Bojan Stamenković (; born 14 November 1981) is a Serbian football midfielder who last played for FK Dubočica before retiring in 2017.

References

External links

1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Leskovac
Men's association football midfielders
Serbian men's footballers
FK Radnički Niš players
FK Zemun players
FK Radnički 1923 players
FK Napredak Kruševac players
FK Dinamo Vranje players
FK Banat Zrenjanin players
FK Timok players
FK Sileks players
Serbian SuperLiga players


title: LA GRANDEE International College

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LA GRANDEE International College (formerly known as Pokhara College of Technology, or PCT) was established in 2000 as Pokhara's first College for BCA program. Now, the college runs the other programs like BBA and BPH along with BCA.

Location

LA GRANDEE International College is located in Pokhara city of Kaski district.

Teaching
LA GRANDEE International College is a Pokhara University affiliated college. It uses a semester system. All bachelor's degrees are of four years (delivered over eight semesters).

There are four programs:

 Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
 Bachelor of Public Health (BPH)
 Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA)

References

External links

Universities and colleges in Nepal
Education in Pokhara
2000 establishments in Nepal


title: Workshops for Careers in the Arts

text:
Workshops for Careers in the Arts was a professional training program especially designed for artistically talented teenagers which took place on the campus of The George Washington University in a joint collaboration. Designated a pilot program, Workshops for Careers in the Arts was created in June 1968 by Peggy Cooper Cafritz and Mike Malone as a means toward the establishment of a public high school for the arts in Washington, D.C.

There were three departments in the school program at the start of its formation. They were in Drama/Theatre, Dance, and Visual Arts/Painting. These departments serviced qualified area students after their normal home school day, on weekends during the academic year, and full time during the summer months. Roughly ninety (90) students were enrolled during the inaugural years. Funding eventually became increasingly available as lobbying, grants, enrollment, contributions, and stellar reputations regarding the program significantly increased.

Students were accepted on the basis of recommendations from area Principals, Teachers, Parents, interviews, and auditions. Talented students who could not otherwise afford such training were given top priority. Workshops for Careers in the Arts enrolled and had diverse students from all over the Washington Metropolitan region. No student was required to pay a tuition.

Upon leaving the program, the students were encouraged to continue their career training. Workshops for Careers in the Arts students began to achieve collegiate full scholarships and receive contracts toward higher education. The George Washington University, The Washington School of Ballet, The North Carolina School of the Arts, The Juilliard School and Howard University were some of the very first illustrious institutions to receive Workshops for Careers in the Arts graduates. Some graduates had opportunities to start professional careers in their field soon after their departure from the program.

Workshops for Careers in the Arts showed the need for and the results of specialized vocational training in the arts. As more successful Workshops for Careers in the Arts years past, which included the need for an additional space location on Georgia Avenue at Morton Street, N.W., the Washington community made this opportunity available to their young people on a much broader scale. In the process during 1974, the Duke Ellington High School at Western High School in Washington, D.C. was born. The goal was achieved.

Duke Ellington School of the Arts was established as an accredited four (4) year public high school curriculum, combining arts and academics in the Nation's Capital.

Thanks to the brilliant Staff, Faculty, Students, and Alumni of Workshops for Careers in the Arts.

References

The Washington Post Style Section, August 11, 1970, EVERYMAN, Morality Play in the Street
The Alexandria Gazette, August 26, 1970, Market Square Play Set Tomorrow Night
The Washington Post, August 27, 1970, THE ARTS, Theater Notes, Street Theater, By Richard L Coe
 The Washington Post, May 22, 1971, Seeing and Feeling, Organic 'Gut!', Author/Photo By Frank Johnson
 The Washington Post, Love takes 'Guts', June 22, 1971
https://www.dc1968project.com/blog/2018/8/8/8-august-1968-workshops-for-careers-in-the-arts

Visual arts education
George Washington University


title: Cadastral surveying

text:
Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties. This is regardless of whether they are on land, water or defined by natural or artificial features. It is an important component of the legal creation of properties. A cadastral surveyor must apply both the spatial-measurement principles of general surveying and legal principles such as respect of neighboring titles.

Duties and role of a cadastral surveyor

One of the primary roles of the land surveyor is to determine the boundary of real property on the ground. That boundary has already been established and described in legal documents and official plans and maps prepared by attorneys, engineers, and other land surveyors.  The corners of the property will either have been monumented by a prior surveyor, or monumented by the surveyor hired to perform a survey of a new boundary which has been agreed upon by adjoining land owners.

Principles
A common use of a survey is to determine an existing legal property boundary. The first stage in such a survey, known as a resurvey, is to obtain copies of the deed description and all other available documents. The deed description is from a deed and not a tax statement or other incomplete document. The surveyor would also obtain copies of deed descriptions and maps of the adjoining properties, any records from the municipality or county, utility maps, and any records of surveys. Depending on which region the survey is located in, records may be incomplete or difficult to find. A thorough search is important so that no records are overlooked. Copies of deeds are usually in the government recorder's office, and maps or plats can usually be found at the recorder or surveyor's office. These arrangements will vary state-to-state and survey-system-to-survey system, so local familiarity is important.

When all the records are assembled, the surveyor examines the documents for errors, such as closure errors. When a metes and bounds description is involved, the seniority of the deeds must be determined. The title abstract may provide the order of seniority for the deeds related to the tract being surveyed. After this data is gathered and analyzed, the field survey may commence. The initial survey operations are concentrated on locating monuments. Property corners may be marked by iron pins, metal survey markers, iron pipes, and other features possibly establishing a line of possession will be located. When the approximate positions for the boundaries of the property have been located, a traverse is run around the property. While the control traverse is being run, ties will be measured and all details relevant to the boundaries will be acquired. This includes but is not limited to locating the property corners, monuments, fences, hedge rows, walls, walks, and buildings on the lot. The surveyor then takes this collected data and compares it to the records which were received. When a solution is reached, the chosen property corners (those that best fit all the data) are coordinated, and ties by direction and distance are computed from the nearest traverse point. Once this has been established the features on the lot can be drawn, dimensions can be shown from these features to the boundary line, and a map or plat is prepared for the client.

Monuments

Monuments are categorized into two groups which are known as natural and artificial. Natural monuments are things such as trees, large stones, and other substantial, naturally occurring objects that were in place before the survey was made. An artificial monument is anything within the regulations which marks the property boundary—having been placed by landowners, surveyors, engineers, or others. They may be referred to as iron pins or pipes, stakes, trees, concrete monuments, or whatever the surveyor decides to use at the time, within the regulations for the area. The courts have held that natural monuments take precedence over artificial monuments, because they are more certain in identification and less likely to be disturbed.

Over time, construction and maintenance of roads and many other human acts, along with acts of nature such as earthquakes, movement of water, and tectonic shift can obliterate or damage the monumented locations of land boundaries. The land surveyor is often compelled to consider other evidence such as fence locations, wood lines, monuments on neighboring properties, and people's recollections. This other evidence is known as extrinsic evidence and is a fairly common principle. Extrinsic evidence is defined as evidence outside the writings, in this case evidence outside of the deed. Extrinsic evidence is held to be of equal value to evidence from another source.

A land surveyor sets monuments at actual physical points on the ground that define angle points of boundary lines dividing neighboring land parcels. These monuments may be iron rebar rods or pipes but they vary by local regulations. Rods or pipes may have an affixed plastic cap over the top bearing the responsible surveyor's name and license number. Older monuments may exist such as old pipes, gun barrels, axles, mounds of stone, whiskey bottles, or even wooden stakes. In addition to rods and pipes, surveyors might use 4 inch × 4 inch concrete posts at the corners of large parcels or anywhere which requires greater stability (e.g. beach sand).

See also
Cadastre#Surveys
Surveying#Cadastral

References

Land surveying systems
Land management
Real estate


The Nicaragua national under-20 football team, more commonly known as La Azulita, is controlled by Nicaraguan Football Federation and represents Nicaragua in international Under 20 or youth football competitions.

Competitive record

FIFA U-20 World Cup Record

UNCAF preliminary round

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

Fixtures and results

Current squad

 The following players were called up for the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.
 Match dates: 18 June – 3 July 2022
 Caps and goals correct as of: 25 June 2022
 Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

Current technical staff
 Head coach:  Jaime Ruiz
 Assistant coach:  Tyron Acevedo
 Goalkeeper coach:  Carlos Mendieta
 Doctor: Curpertino Borrell

References

External links
FENIFUT – Nicaraguan Football Federation

under-20


title: Garrison Place

text:
The Garrison Place was a historic house in rural Dallas County, Arkansas.  Built c. 1861, it was a rectangular single-story braced-frame structure clad in weatherboard, and was the only 1860s house of that type in the county, exhibiting other construction features not found in any other period buildings in the county.  It was located on a dirt road 1/2 mile south of Highway 48.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.  It has since been demolished.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Arkansas

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1861
Houses in Dallas County, Arkansas
1861 establishments in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Arkansas


title: Nenad Mitrović (footballer, born 1980)

text:
Nenad Mitrović (; born 21 October 1980) is a Serbian footballer, who plays as a forward for Jedinstvo Bošnjace.

References

1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Leskovac
Men's association football forwards
Serbian men's footballers
FK Zemun players
FK Obilić players
FK Voždovac players
FK Radnički Pirot players
Serbian SuperLiga players


title: Shi Zhonggui

text:
Shi Zhonggui may refer to:

 Shi Chonggui (石重貴; 914-947), Later Jin emperor, name could also be romanized as Shi Zhonggui
 Shi Zhonggui (painter) (史忠貴; born 1954), Chinese painter


title: Alexander Graham (politician)

text:
Alexander Graham (April 6, 1816 – May 1, 1895) was an American politician and businessman.

Born in Utica, New York, Graham was educated in Homer, New York. Graham was in the banking and real estate business. He served as superintendent of schools in Chemung County, New York and then in Tompkins County, New York. In 1851, he served in the New York State Assembly, as a Whig, from Tompkins County, New York. In 1858, he settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. He served as school commissioner in Janesville and served on the Janesville Common Council in 1864. In 1869, 1871, and 1872, Graham served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican.

References

1816 births
1895 deaths
Politicians from Utica, New York
Politicians from Janesville, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
New York (state) Whigs
19th-century American politicians
Wisconsin city council members
Members of the New York State Assembly
Businesspeople from Utica, New York
19th-century American businesspeople
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly


The Presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements was an administrative division of British India, established by the East India Company on 17 July 1682.

History
In 1658 all the settlements in Bengal and on the Coromandel coast were made subordinate to Fort St George.
The presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements, named after the Coromandel Coast and Bengal, was established by the company for the administration of Bengal following the abolition of the Bengal Agency.

Between 1694 and 1698 the administration of the territories of the presidency was subordinated to Madras (Presidency of Fort St. George).
Then again the authority of the presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements was reestablished until the creation of the Bengal Presidency in 1700.

See also

Fort William
Madras Presidency
Territorial evolution of the British Empire

References

Subdivisions of British India
Historical Indian regions
History of Bengal
Coromandel Coast


title: Nutt–Trussell Building

text:
The Nutt–Trussell Building is a historic commercial building at 202 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas, USA. Built in 1883, this two-story structure was the first brick building erected in Fordyce, a railroad town in southwestern Arkansas. Its exterior was covered in stucco c. 1920. It was built by Robert Nutt, who operated a dry goods shop on the premises. It later housed the Bank of Fordyce, and its upper floor has a long history of use for social club meetings (notably local Masons), and also housed the city's first telephone exchange. The descendants of L. L. Trussell, a later owner, gave the building to the city in 2000 for use as a local history museum.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Arkansas

References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Buildings and structures completed in 1883
Buildings and structures in Fordyce, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Arkansas
Historic district contributing properties in Arkansas


title: Syracuse Elementary School

text:
Syracuse Elementary School may refer to:

Syracuse Elementary School (Syracuse, Indiana), a school in Syracuse, Indiana
Syracuse Elementary School (Syracuse, Kansas), a school in Syracuse, Kansas
Syracuse Elementary School (Unadilla, Nebraska), a school in Syracuse, Nebraska
Syracuse Elementary School (Syracuse, Utah), a school in the Davis School District of Syracuse, Utah
East Syracuse Elementary School, Syracuse, New York, a school in the East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District


title: Ø-Færgen

text:
Ø-Færgen is a Danish ferry company that operates a single ferry, M/S Faaborg III, between Faaborg Harbour and the small islands of Avernakø and Lyø in the South Funen Archipelago.

External links
 Official website
 Scedual

Ferry companies of Denmark
Transport in Funen


title: 2014 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby – Men's singles

text:
Frank Dancevic was the defending champion, but decided to compete for the Philadelphia Freedoms of the World TeamTennis instead.

Hiroki Moriya won the title, defeating Fabrice Martin 7–5, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 in the final.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw

Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby
Challenger de Granby


title: MTNL Perfect Health Mela

text:
The MTNL Perfect Health Mela is a five-day annual event centred around prevalent health issues and their prevention. This health fair is held between Dussehra and Diwali in the month of October every year, and features seminars, lectures, entertainment shows, health workshops, free on-ground checkups, pop–up stores, and competitions for schools, colleges, and corporates. The event aims to create mass awareness on common healthcare issues in India. The brainchild of cardiologist Dr K K Aggarwal, the event is organised and managed by the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI). It is one of the most visited community health events, with a footfall of more than a lakh each year from all segments of society. Over the past two decades, the Mela has conducted many health awareness campaigns including hand hygiene, influenza management, heart health, dengue, and malaria.

History
Perfect Health Mela was held for the first time in 1993. This was commemorated by a stamp issue.

The primary focus was to debate and deliver a comprehensive strategy for the national management of new age health epidemics such as dengue and swine flu.

References

Fairs in Delhi
Healthcare in Delhi
Social responsibility
Health campaigns


title: Wommack Kiln

text:
The Wommack Kiln is a history pottery site in central rural Dallas County, Arkansas.  Built in 1891 by John Welch, it is the best-preserved of a series of pottery works established in Dallas County in the later decades of the 19th century.  Welch established this site after abandoning an earlier site he set up in the 1880s.

The kiln site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.  It is located off County Road 302, roughly midway between its junctions with CR 301 and CR 314.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Arkansas

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Dallas County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Arkansas


title: Diana Gittins

text:
Diana Gittins (born 20 October 1946), is a former associate lecturer in creative writing for the Open University and a published writer of fiction and non-fiction books.

Gittins is the author of Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997, which was adapted for broadcast for BBC Radio 4.

Biography
Diana Gittins spent her childhood in New England, USA and moved to Devon in the UK when she was 14.

After attending Dartington Hall School, Devon she studied at the University of Paris for a year, University of Essex, and later at Bath Spa University. She has two masters, one in social history and one in writing for young people. She also has a PhD in sociology.

Gittins has had a number of jobs through the years, but her academic roles have included: being a research fellow at the University of Essex; a lecturer at Plymouth University; a lecturer at Colgate University, US; as well as a part-time associate lecturer of creative writing for the Open University.

She lives with her partner in Exeter.

Awards
 Hawthornden Castle Fellowship
 Shortlisted for the 2009 Cinnamon Poetry Pamphlet competition
 Guernsey International Poetry on the Buses competition, 2011
 Flamingo Feather Poetry Competition (second place)

Publications

Books

Poetry

  "I Should Have Moved On" by Diana Gittins

Prose

  Pdf of magazine contents.

Non-fiction

See also
 Severalls Hospital
 Creative writing

References

External links
 Personal website

1946 births
Academics of the Open University
Academics of the University of Plymouth
Alumni of Bath Spa University
Alumni of the University of Essex
Colgate University faculty
Living people
University of Paris alumni
American non-fiction writers
American women academics
People educated at Dartington Hall School
American women non-fiction writers
American emigrants to the United Kingdom
British expatriates in France


title: Syracuse High School

text:
Syracuse High School may refer to:

Syracuse High School (Syracuse, Utah)
Syracuse High School (Syracuse, Kansas), unified high school for Hamilton County, Kansas, in Syracuse, Kansas
Syracuse High School (Syracuse, Nebraska), high school in Syracuse, Nebraska

See also
Syracuse City School District, a school district in Syracuse, New York
Cicero – North Syracuse High School, Cicero, New York
East Syracuse-Minoa High School, Manlius, New York
Syracuse Junior High School, Syracuse, Utah, in Davis School District
Syracuse Elementary School (disambiguation)


title: Salim al-Jabouri

text:
Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri (Arabic: سليم عبدالله الجبوري) (born 12 August 1971) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014 until 1 July 2018.

Al-Jabouri now holds the position of president of Iraqi Parliament starting from 2014.

Al-Jabouri is a Sunni Arab from Muqdadiya, Diyala Governorate who obtained a doctorate in law in 2001. He worked as a law professor at Nahrain University in Baghdad.

He was originally a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party. He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in December 2005 for the Iraqi Accord Front list and he became deputy head of parliament's legal committee. Two of his brothers, Fuad and Ahmed al-Jabouri, were killed in an attack in 2007 in Muqdadiya.

He stood in Diyala in the March 2010 general election but the Iraqi Accord Front failed to have any MPs elected from that province. However, he defected to the Iraqiya list and was nominated to parliament in December 2010 as a replacement MP. He headed the parliament's Human Rights Committee, where he accused the government of Nouri al Maliki of torturing detainees. In 2011, the Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabah al-Jadid quoted sources saying an arrest warrant had been issued for him on charges of terrorism.  The al Sabah newspaper reported at the same time that the Higher Judicial Council had asked the parliament to lift his immunity. In March 2014 he was targeted by a roadside bomb which killed two of his bodyguards.

He was elected in the 2014 general election on the "Diyala is Our Identity Coalition", a predominantly Sunni Arab list which won 5 out of 14 seats and is part of a wider alliance with the Muttahidoon party of former speaker Osama al-Nujaifi. His election was initially approved by the Independent High Electoral Commission on the grounds that they had "serious crime cases" pending against him. However, he was acquitted by the Federal Supreme Court and allowed to take his seat.

After the election he was selected by the Sunni Arab MPs as their candidate for the speakership, following the Muhassasah convention adopted in Iraq whereby the speaker is always a Sunni Arab, the Prime Minister always a Shi'ite Arab and the President a Kurd. Al-Jabouri won 194 votes, a majority of the 328 MPs as required under the constitution.

References

Iraqi politicians
Living people
1971 births
Speakers of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
People from Diyala Province
Iraqi Sunni Muslims


title: Losing My Mind (disambiguation)

text:
"Losing My Mind" is a song by Stephen Sondheim.

Losing My Mind may also refer to:
"Losing My Mind" (Grey's Anatomy), an episode of Grey's Anatomy
"Losing My Mind" (Desperate Housewives), an episode of Desperate Housewives
"Losing My Mind" (Falling in Reverse song), 2018
"Losing My Mind" (Maroon 5 song), a 2007 B-side to "Wake Up Call"
"Losing My Mind", a song by Daughtry from Break the Spell
"Losing My Mind", a song by Trina Broussard
"Losing My Mind", a song by Charlie Puth from Nine Track Mind
"Losing My Mind", a song by The Cranberries from Roses

See also
Insanity
Lose My Mind (disambiguation)


title: Lucas Euser

text:
Lucas Euser (born December 5, 1983 in Napa, California) is a retired American, and former United healthcare, cyclist. After witnessing a crash, whilst competing in the 2014 US National Road Race, he stayed alongside fellow American cyclist Taylor Phinney. Following this experience; he retired, and they remain good friends.

Major results

2006
 1st Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb
2007
 1st Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb
 7th Overall Vuelta a Chihuahua
 9th Overall Tour de Georgia
2008
 1st Univest Grand Prix
 1st Stage 4 Tour de Georgia (TTT)
 4th Road race, National Road Championships
2009
 8th Overall Tour de Langkawi
2011
 9th Overall Tour of Utah
2012
 8th Overall Tour of Utah
2013
 4th Overall Tour of Utah
 7th Overall Tour of the Gila
 8th Overall Tour de Beauce
 8th Bucks County Classic

References

1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Napa, California
American male cyclists


title: Jan Henric Buettner

text:
Jan Henric Buettner (born 1964) is a German entrepreneur.

Born in Hamburg, Buettner studied business management there and did an internship at a precursor of Vodafone, then started his career as a trainee at Axel Springer AG, where he worked on interactive media. In 1995 he developed AOL Europe with Andreas von Blottnitz. He became head of AOL Germany, then in 1997 moved to the US, where he established a venture capital firm specialising in internet companies, BV Capital, as general partner for Bertelsmann. In 2003 he and Blottnitz were awarded €203 million in damages by a California court for Bertelsmann's failure to pay them part of the proceeds from the sale of its share in AOL Europe; the amount was reduced to €160 million in an out-of-court agreement.

In 2005 he bought a historic estate by the Baltic Sea for €7 million, and converted the estate buildings and village into Grand Village Weissenhaus, a privately operated luxury resort which opened in 2014. Some of the funding for the renovation and conversion was raised on the crowdfunding site Companisto.de, where it drew more investment than any other for-profit European organisation to that date.

Buettner lives in Hamburg; his former wife and their children continue to live in Santa Barbara, California.

References

External links
 "Über verpasste Chancen und wie man sie vermeidet: VC Jan Henric Buettner". Interview with André Vollbracht, Venture TV, 16 February 2013

Businesspeople from Hanover
Living people
1964 births


title: One Day (Kodaline song)

text:
"One Day" is a song by Dublin-based alternative rock quartet Kodaline. The song was released as a digital download on 2014, as the fifth single from their debut studio album In a Perfect World (2013).

Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "One Day" was first released onto YouTube on 27 January 2014 at a total length of three minutes and forty-six seconds.

Track listing

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Release history

References

Kodaline songs
2012 songs
B-Unique Records singles


title: Lily Osman Adams

text:
Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945) was a Canadian painter. She worked mainly in pastel and watercolor, and depicted landscapes, flowers and still life.

Early years

Lily Osman Adams was born in Toronto in 1865.
She studied privately under Farquhar McGillivray Knowles (1859–1932) and Lucius Richard O'Brien (1832–1899).
She attended the Toronto Art School where she was taught by John William Beatty (1869–1941).
In New York, she studied at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York under Arthur Wesley Dow and John F. Carlson.
She also studied at the University of Toronto, St John's Wood Art School, the Ontario School of Art and the Newlyn School of Art, Newlyn, England, under Stanhope Forbes.
In her later years, she studied under L. Birge Harrison at Woodstock, New York.

Style
Adams is a painter who specialized in landscapes, flowers, and still life genres. Adams’ primary mediums are watercolour, pastel, and occasionally oil paint. Her landscapes are evocative of the impressionist movement where she utilizes bold brushstrokes to depict nature.

Career

Adams mostly used pastel and water color, and painted landscapes, flowers and still life.
She also used oil at times.

In 1896, the Woman's Art Association of Canada (WAAC) decided to commission a Canadian State Dinner Service to be painted on china by members of the association.
The artists included Lily Osman Adams, Alice Egan (1872–1972) and Phoebe Amelia Watson (1858–1947).
Adams painted eighteen plates with underwater designs as part of the service.

Adams exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts from 1904 to 1936.
Her work was shown at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1907, and at the Ontario Society of Artists from 1903 to 1920.
In 1924, she had a joint exhibition with Minnie Kallmeyer for which Saturday Night gave her work a favorable review.
She held annual exhibitions at her studio on Irwin Street in Toronto during the 1930s.

Lily Osman Adams died in Toronto in 1945.
One of her pastel studies of trilliums is held by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

References

Sources

1865 births
1945 deaths
People from Old Toronto
Canadian women painters
19th-century Canadian painters
19th-century Canadian women artists
20th-century Canadian painters
20th-century Canadian women artists


title: Vidyasagar Shishu Niketan

text:
Vidyasagar Shishu Niketan is a primary and higher secondary English-medium school in Midnapore in West Bengal, India, established in 1975. Spread across two campuses in the city, the school is run by the Society for the Betterment of Education, a local voluntary group. Students are prepared for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and the Indian School Certificate (ISC).

History
The Society for the Betterment of Education was formed by a group of educationists and administrators on 4 September 1974 with the help of Sri Dipak Ghosh I.A.S, the then District Magistrate of Midnapore, to impart better education to the school going children of Midnapore and to establish institutions for this purpose. This group felt that children should be able to feel at home anywhere in India during their student life and also later in their working life. For this reason, they decided to set up a school where education would be imparted through the medium of English.

Vidyasagar Shishu Niketan was established in January 1975 with preparatory and kindergarten classes only, under the guidance of Miss S. Mukherjee, Honorary Secretary and Principal. Since 1975, the school grew up by one class each year until 1983. The School from its very inception depended solely on the tuition and other fees collected from its students.

Governance
Vidyasagar Shishu Niketan is managed by a Governing Body, appointed by the Society for the Betterment of Education. This Society and its members take interest in the business of the school without any remuneration whatsoever. The Society is under the direct supervision of the District Magistrate and the School Governing Body is constituted by the Society. The School is permanently affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations.

Educational provision
The School is now run in four sections: Pre-school section (Lower & Upper prep. & K.G. Classes); Primary school section (classes I to IV); High school section (Classes V to X); Higher Secondary (XI & XII).

Thirteen batches of students have already taken the final ICSE examination quite successfully. Three batches of ISC have appeared quite successfully.

See also
Education in India
List of schools in India
Education in West Bengal

References

External links

Primary schools in West Bengal
High schools and secondary schools in West Bengal
Schools in Paschim Medinipur district
Educational institutions established in 1975
1975 establishments in West Bengal


title: Bosea vestrisii

text:
Bosea vestrisii is a bacterium from the genus of Bosea which was isolated from hospital water.

References

External links
Type strain of Bosea vestrisii at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2003


title: 1941 LSU Tigers football team

text:
The 1941 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1941 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers compiled a 4–4–2 record (2–2–2 against SEC opponents), finished seventh in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 119 to 93.

Senior center Bernie Lipkis was selected as the team's most valuable player. Triple-threat tailback Leo Bird placed second, and fullback Walt Gorinski placed third. Gorinski later played professional football for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

LSU was ranked at No. 22 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.

The team played its home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Schedule

References

LSU
LSU Tigers football seasons
LSU Tigers football


title: Mycoplana

text:
Mycoplana is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria. The cells are slightly curved or irregularly shaped rods. Initially, the cells can form filaments, which can also be branched. After some time, the filaments break up into irregular rods. Mycoplana is motile by peritrichous flagella.

Etymology
The genus name Mycoplana consists of two words, mykos ("mushroom") and planos ("wandering"). It refers to the mobility and the similarity with fungi (the genus produces filaments like fungi).

References

Rhizobiaceae
Bacteria genera


title: Juan Manuel Tévez

text:
Juan Manuel Tévez (born August 28, 1987 in Puerto Belgrano (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Aucas of the Primera División in Ecuador.

Teams
  Guillermo Brown 2008-2013
  Talleres de Córdoba 2013-2014
  Unión La Calera 2014–2015
  Guillermo Brown 2015
  Coquimbo Unido 2016
  Macará 2017
  Aucas 2018–2019
  Universidad Católica 2020–2021
  Aucas 2022–

References
 Profile at BDFA

1987 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Guillermo Brown de Puerto Madryn footballers
Talleres de Córdoba footballers
Unión La Calera footballers
Coquimbo Unido footballers
C.S.D. Macará footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador

Men's association football players not categorized by position
Footballers from Buenos Aires


title: Tokyo Slaves

text:
is a 2014 Japanese suspense thriller film directed by Sakichi Satō and starring Sayaka Akimoto and Kanata Hongō, based on the manga Doreiku by Shinichi Okada. It was released on 28 June 2014.

Cast
Sayaka Akimoto
Kanata Hongō
Hikaru Ōsawa
Yūki Yamada
Sayuri Anzu
Ayumi Orii
Takahiro Kuroishi
Yuki Kubota
Kanta Ogata
Miyuki Torii

Reception
The film has grossed NT$940,000 in Taipei, Taiwan.

References

External links

2010s thriller films
Japanese thriller films
2010s Japanese films


title: Halima Rafiq

text:
Halima Rafiq (; 23 March 1997 – 13 July 2014)  was a Pakistani cricketer from Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Rafiq accused Multan Cricket Club chairman Maulvi Muhammad Sultan Alam Ansari of sexual harassment during a cricket match in Multan Cricket Stadium, for which she was backed by her female teammates but was thereafter sued by Alam Ansari for ₨20 million. She died after ingesting acid on 13 July 2014.

Career

Sexual harassment allegations
Rafiq  made a claim during a cricket match that she had been a victim of sexual harassment at the hands of her recruiters. The alleged perpetrator was Maulvi Muhammad Sultan Alam Ansari, who is a 70-year-old lawyer, former judge, and member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from MPA elected from the PP-161 from Multan with Pakistan Muslim League (N) ticket. She claimed that Alam Ansari, along with team selector Mohammad Javed, demanded sexual favours in return for nominating her for both the regional and national cricket teams. Raifiq then stated she was since being threatened for highlighting the issue of sexual harassment in women's sports brought onto them by their recruiters. In 2013, Rafiq, Seema Javed, Hina Ghafoor, Kiran Irshad and Saba Ghafoor claimed that they were being threatened, intimidated, and harassed by the Multan Cricket Board.

Alam Ansari subsequently sued Rafiq for ₨20 million for making false accusations and attempted defamation.

Death
On Sunday, 13 July 2014,  Rafiq committed suicide by ingesting acid, two days after receiving notice that Alam Ansari had named her in a defamation suit. Muhammad Rafiq, father of Halima, accused Multan Cricket Board officials (including Alam Ansari) of sexually harassing teenage female players during Cricket camp training. Rashid Rafiq, brother of Halima, accused Nishtar Hospital for negligence since emergency room doctors did not pump her stomach of the acid and instead released her after 2 hours in the hospital.

See also
 Pakistan Cricket Board
 Pakistan national women's cricket team
 List of Pakistan women ODI cricketers

References

External links
 ESPN Cricinfo - Haleema Rafique
 Female cricketer Halima Rafique dies
 Committee recommends ban against five female cricketers
 Female cricketer commits suicide after sexual harassment
 Report of Women Cricketers Inquiry conducted on 11 June 2013 at Multan
 Family tells of Pakistan teen cricketer's 'suicide' after sex-pest row
 On Haleema Rafiq And Sexual Harassment In Women’s Sports

1997 births
2014 deaths
Pakistani women cricketers
Sportswomen from Punjab, Pakistan
Cricketers from Multan
2014 suicides
Suicides in Pakistan
Suicides by poison


title: 2014 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby – Men's doubles

text:
Érik Chvojka and Peter Polansky were the defending champions, but Polansky decided not to participate this year. Chvojka partnered with Lukáš Lacko, but lost in the first round to Philip Bester and Brayden Schnur.

Marcus Daniell and Artem Sitak won the title, defeating Jordan Kerr and Fabrice Martin 7–6(7–5), 5–7, [10–5] in the final.

Seeds

Draw

References
Main Draw

Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby
Challenger de Granby


title: Josephine, Guardian Angel

text:
Josephine, Guardian Angel (Joséphine, ange gardien) is a French television series. It has been aired since 1997 on TF1 (France).

Plot
Joséphine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and her magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears by snapping her fingers.

Episodes

Season 1 - Pilot (1997)

Season 2 (1998)

Season 3 (1999)

Season 4 (2000)

Season 5 (2001)

Season 6 (2002)

Season 7 (2003)

Season 8 (2004)

Season 9 (2005)

Season 10 (2006)

Season 11 (2007)

Season 12 (2008)

Season 13 (2009)

Season 14 (2012)

Season 15 (2014)

Season 16 (2015)

Season 17 (2016)

Season 18 (2017)

Season 19 (2018)

Season 20 (2019)

Awards
Mimie Mathy has received the 7 d'Or for Favorite Actress in a Fictional Series three times, in 1998, 2000 and 2003. In 2003, the series also received a 7 d'Or for Favorite TV Series.

See also
 List of French television series

References

External links

1997 French television series debuts
TF1 original programming


title: 2015 Australian Open

text:
The 2015 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park from 19 January to 1 February 2015. It was the 103rd edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.

Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion in men's singles but lost to four-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals. Reigning women's champion Li Na did not defend her title, as she retired from professional tennis in September, 2014. Novak Djokovic won an Open Era record fifth men's singles crown by defeating Andy Murray in the final, and this was the third time they met each other in the final. Serena Williams won an Open Era record six women's singles championships by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final, and this was the second time they met each other in the final.

Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini teamed up to win the men's doubles title for the first time over the team of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová teamed up to win the women's doubles crown for the first time over the team of Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie. Martina Hingis and Leander Paes teamed up to win the mixed doubles title, it was the second for Hingis and third for Paes, over the defending champions Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor.

Tournament

The 2015 Australian Open was the 103rd edition of the tournament and was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2015 ATP World Tour and the 2015 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which was part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and also singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament was played on hard courts and took place over a series of 16 courts with Plexicushion surface, including the three main showcourts – Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena. The latter was unveiled with a capacity increase from 6,000 to 7,500 and also as the third Melbourne Park venue with fully operational retractable roof to make the Australian Open the first Grand Slam tournament with three such tennis stadiums. Partly due to the new roof, the 2015 event set an all-time attendance record of 703,899 fans. The cooler than normal temperatures may also have played a role.

Broadcast
The tournament was broadcast in more than 200 countries around the world. In Australia, all matches were broadcast live by the Seven Network on the network's primary channel under the banner Seven Sport. In the Asia/Pacific region, the tournament was covered by CCTV, iQiyi, SMG (China), Fiji One (Fiji), Sony SIX (India), Wowow, NHK (Japan), Sky TV (New Zealand) and Fox Sports Asia, in Europe by Eurosport, NOS (Netherlands), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and BBC (United Kingdom), in the Middle East by beIN Sports, in Africa by SuperSport, while in the Americas coverage was provided by ESPN.

In 2015, live coverage emanated from all sixteen courts. Qualifying tournaments, draw ceremony and Kids' Day were shown on official tournament website, AusOpen.com.

Controversy
Following a second round victory in Women's singles Canadian Eugenie Bouchard was approached by an interviewer, Ian Cohen, who cited tweets made by Bouchard the previous evening which complimented fellow competitor Serena Williams's on court attire.  The interviewer, explaining that Williams "was kind enough to give us a twirl", asked Bouchard to offer her own twirl.  Though Bouchard obliged, the request was met with criticism, with many accusing the interviewer of being sexist. The controversy was referred to by some media outlets as "twirlgate."  Billie Jean King responded to the interview by saying "This is truly sexist. If you ask the women, you have to ask the guys to twirl as well."  For her part, Bouchard said the request would not be sexist if men were asked to "flex their muscles and stuff."  At least one media outlet pointed out that as part of a pre-tournament interview Rafael Nadal was asked to take off his shirt for the enjoyment of female fans.

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

Senior points

Wheelchair points

Junior points

Prize money
The Australian Open total prize money for 2015 was increased to A$40,000,000, with men's and women's singles champions to receive a tournament-record 3.1 million Australian dollars reward. Out of total prize money, A$28,796,000 was paid for players competing in singles main draw, further A$1,344,000 for players, who lost in qualifying, A$5,165,200 – for doubles players, A$480,000 for mixed doubles players and A$605,330 for competitors in other events, while A$3,609,470 was used to cover other fees, including players' per diem and trophies.

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team

Singles players
2015 Australian Open – Men's singles

2015 Australian Open – Women's singles

Day-by-day summaries

Events

Seniors

Men's singles

  Novak Djokovic  defeated  Andy Murray, 7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–0
This was the third time these two players met in the final. The other two times were in 2011 and 2013, when Djokovic won. This time would prove no different with Djokovic winning his fifth title, an Open Era record, to go along with his titles in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013. This victory was Djokovic's eighth grand slam title, tying him in the Open Era with Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi. This was Murray's fourth loss in the final of the Australian Open, three of them to Djokovic and one to Roger Federer in 2010. This marks the first time since Björn Borg at the US Open that someone has lost all four of his final appearances at a particular grand slam event.

Women's singles

  Serena Williams defeated  Maria Sharapova, 6–3, 7–6(7–5)
This marked the second time these two players met in the final. The other time was in 2007, which Williams won. This time would be exactly the same, with Williams winning her sixth title (an Open Era record), to go along with wins in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010.  This was her nineteenth career grand slam singles title, behind only Steffi Graf's twenty-two titles in the Open Era of tennis. This was Sharapova's third loss in the final; the other two losses were in 2012 to Victoria Azarenka and to Williams in 2007. Sharapova won the title in 2008.

Men's doubles

  Simone Bolelli /  Fabio Fognini defeated  Pierre-Hugues Herbert /  Nicolas Mahut, 6–4, 6–4
This was the first men's doubles title for the team of Bolelli and Fognini at the event and in their respective careers.

Women's doubles

  Bethanie Mattek-Sands /  Lucie Šafářová defeated  Chan Yung-jan /  Zheng Jie, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
This was the first women's doubles title for the team of Mattek-Sands and Šafářová at the event and in their respective careers.  One of their finalist opponents, Zheng Jie won the title in 2006 with Yan Zi.

Mixed doubles

  Martina Hingis /  Leander Paes defeated  Kristina Mladenovic /  Daniel Nestor, 6–4, 6–3
This was a match of past mixed doubles champions at the event, which Hingis won with Mahesh Bhupathi in 2006, while her partner Paes won titles in 2003 with Martina Navratilova and in 2010 with Cara Black. Their finalist opponents' won the event last year, but Nestor won titles in 2007 with Elena Likhovtseva and 2011 with Katarina Srebotnik. This was Hingis' second mixed doubles title for her career, and for Paes' it is his seventh mixed doubles grand slam crown for his career.

Juniors

Boys' singles

  Roman Safiullin defeated  Hong Seong-chan, 7–5, 7–6(7–2)

Girls' singles

  Tereza Mihalíková defeated  Katie Swan, 6–1, 6–4

Boys' doubles

  Jake Delaney /  Marc Polmans defeated  Hubert Hurkacz /  Alex Molčan, 0–6, 6–2, [10–8]

Girls' doubles

  Miriam Kolodziejová /  Markéta Vondroušová defeated  Katharina Hobgarski /  Greet Minnen, 7–5, 6–4

Wheelchair

Wheelchair men's singles

  Shingo Kunieda defeated  Stéphane Houdet, 6–2, 6–2

Wheelchair women's singles

  Jiske Griffioen defeated  Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 7–5

Wheelchair quad singles

  Dylan Alcott defeated  David Wagner, 6–2, 6–3

Wheelchair men's doubles

  Stéphane Houdet /  Shingo Kunieda defeated  Gustavo Fernández /  Gordon Reid, 6–2, 6–1

Wheelchair women's doubles

  Yui Kamiji /  Jordanne Whiley defeated  Jiske Griffioen /  Aniek van Koot, 4–6, 6–4, 7–5

Wheelchair quad doubles

  Andrew Lapthorne /  David Wagner defeated  Dylan Alcott /  Lucas Sithole, 6–0, 3–6, 6–2

Singles seeds
Seedings are based on rankings as of 12 January 2015. Rankings and points before are as of 19 January 2015.
Points defending includes results from both the 2014 Australian Open and tournaments from the week of 27 January 2014 (Davis Cup for the men, and Paris and Pattaya for the women).

Men's singles

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

†The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2014. Accordingly, this was the 18th best result deducted instead.

Women's singles

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

1 Rankings were as of 12 January 2015.

Women's doubles

 1 Rankings are as of 12 January 2015.

Mixed doubles

 1 Rankings are as of 12 January 2015.

Main draw wildcard entries

As part of an agreement between Tennis Australia, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and the French Tennis Federation (FFT), one male and one female player from the United States and France received a wild card into the Australian Open singles event. USTA gave it to Denis Kudla and Irina Falconi, thanks to their positions in 2014 USTA Pro Circuit's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge standing, while Lucas Pouille and Océane Dodin were chosen by internal FFT selection.

Further four wildcards were awarded at Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Playoff into the men's and women's singles and doubles main draw events, while Tennis Australia organized its own playoff competitions, where Jordan Thompson, Daria Gavrilova and Sam Thompson & Masa Jovanovic mixed doubles team received entries to Australian Open.

Remaining wildcard places were filled by Australian internal selection.

Men's singles
  James Duckworth
  Thanasi Kokkinakis
  Denis Kudla
  John Millman
  Lucas Pouille
  Luke Saville
  Jordan Thompson
  Zhang Ze

Women's singles
  Chang Kai-chen
  Océane Dodin
  Duan Yingying
  Irina Falconi
  Daria Gavrilova
  Arina Rodionova
  Olivia Rogowska
  Storm Sanders

Men's doubles
  Alex Bolt /  Andrew Whittington
  James Duckworth /  Luke Saville
  Matthew Ebden /  Matt Reid
  Omar Jasika /  John-Patrick Smith
  Thanasi Kokkinakis /  Nick Kyrgios
  Lee Hsin-han /  Zhang Ze
  John Millman /  Benjamin Mitchell

Women's doubles
  Monique Adamczak /  Olivia Rogowska
  Naiktha Bains /  Sara Tomic
  Kimberly Birrell /  Priscilla Hon
  Daria Gavrilova /  Storm Sanders
  Maddison Inglis /  Alexandra Nancarrow
  Jessica Moore /  Abbie Myers
  Yang Zhaoxuan /  Ye Qiuyu

Mixed doubles
  Chang Kai-chen /  Zhang Ze
  Casey Dellacqua /  John Peers
  Jarmila Gajdošová /  Mahesh Bhupathi
  Daria Gavrilova /  Luke Saville
  Masa Jovanovic /  Sam Thompson
  Andreja Klepač /  Chris Guccione
  Arina Rodionova /  Max Mirnyi

Main draw qualifier entries
The qualifying competition took place in Melbourne Park on 14 – 17 January 2015.

Men's singles

Men's singles qualifiers
  Tim Pütz
  Jürgen Melzer
  Elias Ymer
  Tim Smyczek
  Matthias Bachinger
  Jan Hernych
  Aljaž Bedene
  Jimmy Wang
  Michael Russell
  Ruben Bemelmans
  Marius Copil
  Kyle Edmund
  Alexander Kudryavtsev
  Illya Marchenko
  Yuki Bhambri
  Laurent Lokoli

Lucky loser
  Hiroki Moriya

Women's singles

Women's singles qualifiers
  Denisa Allertová
  Stéphanie Foretz
  Renata Voráčová
  Tatjana Maria
  Alexandra Panova
  Lucie Hradecká
  Ons Jabeur
  Urszula Radwańska
  Richèl Hogenkamp
  Evgeniya Rodina
  Anna Tatishvili
  Petra Martić

Lucky loser
  Yulia Putintseva

Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

Men's singles
  Juan Martín del Potro (PR 7)
  Stéphane Robert (PR 103)

Women's singles
  Bethanie Mattek-Sands (PR 52)
  Romina Oprandi (PR 40)
  Vera Zvonareva (PR 15)

Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew.

Men's singles
  Marin Čilić → replaced by  James Ward
  Juan Martín del Potro → replaced by  Hiroki Moriya
  Tommy Haas → replaced by  Stéphane Robert
  Jack Sock → replaced by  Máximo González
  Radek Štěpánek → replaced by  Blaž Kavčič
  Janko Tipsarević → replaced by  Marsel İlhan
  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga → replaced by  Kenny de Schepper

Women's singles
  Jana Čepelová → replaced by  Yulia Putintseva
  Petra Cetkovská → replaced by  Alison Van Uytvanck

Retirements
Men's singles
  Peter Gojowczyk
  Martin Kližan
  Adrian Mannarino
  Tommy Robredo

References

External links


title: 1942 LSU Tigers football team

text:
The 1942 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1942 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers complied an overall record of 7–3, with a conference record of 3–2, and finished sixth in the SEC.

LSU was ranked at No. 19 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.

Schedule

References

LSU
LSU Tigers football seasons
LSU Tigers football


title: 37th Manitoba Legislature

text:
The members of the 37th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in September 1999. The legislature sat from November 18, 1999, to May 2, 2003.

The New Democratic Party led by Gary Doer formed the government.

Gary Filmon of the Progressive Conservative Party was Leader of the Opposition. After Filmon's resignation in 2000, Bonnie Mitchelson served as acting party leader until Stuart Murray was elected leader in November 2000.

George Hickes served as speaker for the assembly.

There were four sessions of the 37th Legislature:

Peter Liba was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.

Members of the Assembly
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1999:

Notes:

By-elections
By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Notes:

References

Terms of the Manitoba Legislature
1999 establishments in Manitoba
2003 disestablishments in Manitoba


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's discus throw

text:
The women's discus throw event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 20 September in Kuala Lumpur.

Results

References

Discus
1998
1998 in women's athletics


title: Giovanni Fietta

text:
Giovanni Fietta (born 14 November 1984) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Pro Patria.

Club career

Treviso
Born in Asolo, in the Province of Treviso, Veneto, Fietta was a youth product of Treviso Football Club. He won the promotion to Serie B in 2003. However Treviso loaned Fietta back to lower divisions, for Serie C2 club Ivrea. Fietta returned to Treviso in 2004, which he briefly played in 2004–05 Serie B season. In 2005, he left the club again, for Serie C1 club Pizzighettone in co-ownership deal. Treviso also relegated in 2005–06 Serie A season. in June 2006 Pizzighettone purchased Fietta outright for undisclosed fee, however in July 2006 Treviso bought Fietta back for €45,000. That season he made 24 Serie B appearances. In July 2007, Fietta, Marco Zaninelli and Alfonso Camorani were signed by fellow Serie B club Spezia in temporary deal.

Cremonese
In January 2008 Fietta was signed by the third division club Cremonese in another co-ownership deal, for €170,000. In June 2009 Treviso bought back Fietta. However, due to the bankruptcy of Treviso, Fietta returned to Cremonese on a free transfer. On 16 July 2012 Fietta signed a new 1-year contract with the Lombard side.

Como
On 1 July 2013 Fietta became a free agent. On 3 September 2013 he was signed by the third division club Como in 2-year contract. Como finished as the losing quarter-finalists in the promotion playoffs.

Pro Patria
On 10 July 2018, he joined Serie C club Pro Patria.

Honours
 Serie C1: 2003 (Treviso)

References

External links
 Profile (2006–07 season) at La Gazzetta dello Sport
 AIC profile (data by football.it)

1984 births
Living people
People from Asolo
Footballers from the Province of Treviso
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Serie B players
Serie C players
Treviso FBC 1993 players
ASD Calcio Ivrea players
AS Pizzighettone players
Spezia Calcio players
US Cremonese players
Como 1907 players
AC Renate players
Aurora Pro Patria 1919 players


title: St. Andrew's Anglican Church (San Ignacio)

text:
Founded in 1905, St. Andrew's Church is an active Anglican congregation located on Burns Avenue in San Ignacio, Belize.

History

St. Andrew's Church, a part of the Anglican Diocese of Belize, has played an influential role in San Ignacio's rich history. Its mission and ministry have always been located in the downtown area of San Ignacio, with its first house of worship founded on Far West Street. The first priest was the Rev'd C.G. MacArthur, serving from 1905 until 1907. In 1907 a vibrant young Belizean by the name of William Robert Hope took over leadership as deacon. Mr. Hope went on to become Canon William Hope, rector of San Ignacio, and the first ordained Belizean priest in the Diocese of Belize. He faithfully served St. Andrew's parish from 1907 until 1918. With a land donation from Mr. John O. Waight, the church and congregation moved to its present location on Burns Avenue in 1918, and Canon Hope was called to serve another church in Gales Point. The congregation of St. Andrew's worshipped in temporary quarters, until a beautiful wooden sanctuary was finally completed near year's end 1925 and consecrated by the bishop on Sunday, February 28, 1926. The Rev'd Arnold Stackhouse was priest-in-charge at the time. This church became known as the second St. Andrew's Church. A rectory was soon built in front of the church, and an already existing school building (on the grounds of where the church's community centre now stands) would receive renovations.

On Easter Monday, April 13, 1998, the second St. Andrew's Church was demolished, due to irreparable damage by termites. A new concrete sanctuary was built between April 27 and November 7, 1998. The enormous task of fundraising began in 1995 under the talented leadership of English priest, the Rev'd Ian Hutchinson Cervantes (1994–1997), and it continued with another equally talented and devoted English priest, the Rev'd Mark Rogers from 1997 (1997–2000). The beautiful sanctuary was designed by Bimco and constructed by Mr. Marcus Chen. It was dedicated on November 8, 1998, by the Right Rev'd Sylvester Romero Palma, then bishop of Belize.

Worship

Throughout the church's physical changes the altar has remained as the original centerpiece for worship. Canon Hope was instrumental in procuring a donation from England of three beautifully carved panels for the altar. The altar itself was constructed as a gift by Mr. James Massiah for the church's consecration in 1926. The three carved panels display both grapevines (representing communion wine and the blood of Christ) and sheaves of wheat (communion bread and the body of Christ).

St. Andrew's has a long list of distinguished service from priests. However, in most instances, a priest has not served longer than three to four years (notable exceptions being Canon Leroy Flowers, who with his family served St. Andrew's from 1980–1986, and the Rev'd Juan B. Marentes, who served St. Andrew's from 2009-2014). Thus, while priests have come and gone, the congregation and its lay leadership have brought the church into the 21st century.

St. Andrew's is currently served by the Right Rev'd Philip Wright, bishop of Belize, and Rev'd David B. Alenskis, priest-in-charge and missionary in connection with SAMS-USA.

References

External links

Anglican church buildings in the Caribbean
San Ignacio, Belize
Churches in Belize
Christian organizations established in 1905
1905 establishments in the British Empire


The Global Innovation through Science and Technology initiative (GIST) is a U.S. government program on innovation and entrepreneurship. The program assists businesspeople in establishing startups. GIST participants in 135 emerging economies can develop skills, build networks, find mentors, and access financing through a combination of in-country training, a pitch competition, interactive online programming, and direct connections to U.S. experts. GIST helps create conditions for successful local entrepreneurship ecosystems and enables global youth to develop local solutions to local problems. GIST is also one of the key programs under President Obama's SPARK Initiative, an initiative under which programs are selected to represent the best work being done by the U.S. Government to advance entrepreneurship around the world.

Since 2011, GIST has engaged more than 2.8 million innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide and mentored over 5,000 startups that have generated more than $110 million in revenue. GIST is a partnership led by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, with the implementation of programs by Venturewell and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Launch
The GIST programs were announced at the 2011 conference on Economic Development through Science and Technology Innovation in Rabat, Morocco attended by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Dr. Kerri-Ann Jones. This conference was the third and final consultative meeting to develop high-impact engagement opportunities. Previous meetings were held in Alexandria, Egypt and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  The GIST initiative exemplifies a science and technology innovation partnership that U.S. President Barack Obama called for in a 2009 speech at Cairo University.

GIST assists entrepreneurs in 135 emerging economies through its Global Online Innovation Community, including online programming and mentorship; in-country training programs, the GIST Startup Boot Camps, GIST Ideation Boot Camps and GIST Villages; and the annual GIST Tech-I Global Pitch Competition.

Global Online Innovation Community

GISTNetwork is a government program led by the Department of State that provides a user-driven online resource to help young science and technology entrepreneurs in emerging economies build viable startups. GISTNetwork connects entrepreneurs to peers, mentors, experts, and financing both globally and within their communities.

GISTNetwork's online community provides:  Mentors from top U.S. universities, Silicon Valley startups and local communities around the world; live and on-demand programming, including pages focused on specific local communities; and access to international angel investors and venture capitalists and a meeting place to find entrepreneurial team members.

GIST Online Programming

GIST online programming provides in-country entrepreneurs with direct online access to U.S. businesspeople and academics. The two key online programs are the GIST TechConnect and GIST Guru Series.

GIST In-Country Training Programs
GIST in-country programs nurture the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs through direct, on-the-ground training.  Top U.S. and in-country leaders teach and mentor aspiring entrepreneurs, who also develop financial know-how and access to capital that allow them  to advance their science and technology ventures with skill and confidence. There are three main in-country programs: GIST Ideation Boot Camps; GIST Startup Boot Camps; and GIST Villages.

GIST Tech-I Global Pitch Competition

The GIST Tech-I Global Pitch Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from emerging economies worldwide. Participants produce videos to pitch their ideas and startups, which are reviewed first by a panel of experts and then by the online voting public. Finalists receive a trip to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), three months of one-to-one mentoring, and the chance to win seed capital.  Through two days of intensive training and pitching their ventures at the GES, GIST Tech-I finalists make connections and gain international exposure.

Since 2011, innovators from over 100 emerging economies have showcased their science and technology ventures through GIST Tech-I Global Pitch Competitions, with over one million votes from the online voting public.

The first Tech-I competition occurred in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. Notable Tech-I finalists have included Nermin Sa'd, founder of Hanadisayat.net from Jordan; and Natali Ardianto, founder and CTO of Tiket.com from Indonesia.

The Tech-I Competition of the GIST initiative is implemented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

References

External links

Entrepreneurship organizations
Types of diplomacy
Innovation organizations


title: Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code

text:
Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code criminalises attempted suicide as well as suicide assistance.

Section 309 states:
  Whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the commission of such offence, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with both.
Although section 309 is still in effect, the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (enacted July 2018) has restricted its application. The relevant provision of the new act states:
 Notwithstanding anything contained in section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, any person who attempts to commit suicide shall be presumed, unless proved otherwise, to have severe stress and shall not be tried and punished under the said Code.

Path to repeal
In the 1996 Gian Kaur vs State of Punjab, the appellant failed to convince the five judge bench that section 309 violated article 21 of the Constitution of India. A bill to strike the section was subsequently introduced in parliament, but failed to pass.

On 7 March 2011, the Supreme Court recommended that Parliament consider deleting section 309 from the statute.

On 10 December 2014, in response to a question by Vivek Gupta in the Rajya Sabha on decriminalisation of suicide, the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Haribhai Chaudhary replied that "it has been decided to delete Section 309 of IPC from the Statute book."

On 24 February 2015, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary, said that a proposal to delete Section 309 from the Indian Penal Code had been sent to the Legislative Department of the Ministry of Law and Justice for drawing up a draft Amendment Bill.

Restriction by other acts of parliament
Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code was set to be limited in effect by the Mental Health Care bill, first introduced to the Rajya Sabha on 19 August 2013.

Section 115 of the bill initially stipulated that "Notwithstanding anything contained in section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, any person who attempts to commit suicide shall be presumed, unless proved otherwise, to be suffering from mental illness at the time of attempting suicide and shall not be liable to punishment under the said section." The bill also stipulated that the Government would have a duty to provide medical care to persons that attempted suicide. The bill was referred by the Rajya Sabha to a standing committee on 18 September 2013, which submitted a report on 20 November 2013. In its report, the standing committee expressed three concerns on article 124: firstly, that the presumption of mental illness would subject persons to 'mental health treatment', secondly, concerns about the consequences on Section 306 of the Penal Code, which concerns abetment to suicide, and thirdly, concerns regarding the "institutionalization in silencing victims of domestic violence."

In response, the Ministry proposed amendments which would change the language of this provision to one concerning the "presumption of severe stress in case of attempt to commit suicide". The Committee accepted this recommendation, noting that there was still ambiguity regarding the stage at which this presumption would operate.

The bill was voted upon and passed by the Rajya Sabha on 8 August 2016, and passed by the Lok Sabha on 27 March 2017. The bill was subsequently enacted in July 2018 as the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017.

The Mental Health Care Act does not repeal Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, but merely provides the presumption of mental illness.

See also
Suicide legislation
Euthanasia

Notes

Sections of the Indian Penal Code
Suicide in India


title: Arbetstidsförkortning

text:
Arbetstidsförkortning (ATK; English: shortening of work time ) is additional leave in Sweden, typically 5-10 work days per year. It is not legally mandated, but is available to many employees through collective bargaining agreements.

References

Society of Sweden


title: Noel Denholm Davis

text:
Noel Denholm Davis (1876–1950) was a British artist, who worked chiefly as a portraitist.

He was born in Nottingham, England, in 1876 and studied at Nottingham School of Art, and then the Royal Academy Schools. He spent a decade working in London, before returning to live in Nottingham.

A number of his subjects have connections with Nottingham, including several owned by the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Castle Museum, and Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. One of his portraits of Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent is in the collection of the University of Nottingham, another of the same subject is on loan to the National Portrait Gallery. Among his other notable subjects were Albert Ball V.C. and William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.

In 1929, Davis painted the frescoes, still extant, in the stairwell of Nottingham Council House.

He died at Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in 1950.

References

External links

1876 births
1950 deaths
English portrait painters
Artists from Nottingham
Alumni of Nottingham School of Art
Fresco painters
Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
20th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English male artists


title: Dukey

text:
Dukey may refer to:

 an anthropomorphic dog character in the Canadian animated television series Johnny Test
 Dukey Flyswatter, stage name of American actor, screenwriter and musician Michael Sonye (born 1954)
 family nickname of Harold Lloyd Jr. (1931–1971), American actor and singer, son of Harold Lloyd
 James Dukey, a clarinet player with the San Francisco Ballet


title: Willem Warmont

text:
Willem Warmont, or Warmondt (1583 – 8 May 1649), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer and mayor of Haarlem.

Biography
He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the Amsterdam merchant Jacob Warmont and Ytgen Arentsdr Bouwer but moved to Haarlem where he became a brewer in Het Gecroonde Ancker. He was a judge, magistrate and mayor of Haarlem. He was a lieutenant of the St. Adrian militia from 1618 to 1621, captain there from 1624 to 1627 and 1636–1639, and colonel from 1642 to 1645. He married in Amsterdam 11 November 1607 to Catharina van Rhijn,  daughter of Jacob Egbertsz and Maria Claesdr. Gaeff.

Willem Warmont was portrayed by Frans Hals twice; once in his schutterstuk called The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627, and again in an oval portrait around 1630.

He died in Haarlem.

References

Willem Warmont in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 60, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, , on the website of the North Holland Archives

1583 births
1649 deaths
Frans Hals
Businesspeople from Haarlem
Mayors of Haarlem
Dutch brewers


title: London Festival of Architecture

text:
The London Festival of Architecture is a festival specialized in architecture. It takes place annually in London, United Kingdom usually through the month of June. It features an extensive range of activities that focus on design and architecture: exhibitions; installations; talks; debates; open studios; tours; family activities; film screenings; student shows, and evenings.

History and organization
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is Europe's biggest annual architecture festival. It was founded by former director Peter Murray in 2004. Up until 2006, the festival was only held once every two years and was previously known as the London Architecture Biennale. From 2008 onwards, the festival took place on an annual basis. Ross Rogina serves on the board as the Director of the London Festival of Architecture.

Themes
Themes are chosen each year for the festival.

 2016: "Community"
 2017: "Memory"
 2018: "Identity"
 2019: "Boundaries"
 2020: "Power"
 2021: "Care"
 2022: "Act"
 2023: "In Common"

Key events and highlights
 IP_DO Dulwich Picture Gallery pavilion
 The London Festival of Architecture Fringe
 Debates
 Great Architectural Bake-Off
 Exhibition of winning entries to Silvertown Flyover Design Competition

References

Architecture festivals
Annual events in London
Festivals in London


title: Rave Down

text:
Rave Down is the second EP by English alternative rock band Swervedriver. Produced and recorded by Anjali Dutt and the band,  it was released in November 1990, through Creation and A&M Records. The title track of the EP was included in the band's debut album, Raise (1991).

Background
Rave Down is the second of a string of EPs that was released in early 1990s by Swervedriver, following Son of Mustang Ford (1990) and preceding Sandblasted (1991). It was recorded and mixed at Jam Studios.

Critical reception

Andy Kellman of Allmusic wrote: "The bulldozing, bass-driven, Dinosaur Jr.-meets-Stooges onslaught continues in fine form." On the title track, he commented that "it is undeniably one of Swervedriver's all-time career highs, churning and chugging with that effortless flair they often possessed." Nevertheless, he also wrote that "B-sides are anything but afterthoughts or gap fillers," further explaining that "Afterglow" is the best of the extra material on the EP. NME critic Mary Anne Hobbs called its title track "a cyclone of wild, swollen riff machinery that sounds like it's been played with dislocated shoulder joints," and stated that the track "She's Beside Herself" is the only one [track] in which any other influence - an almost distinguished Costello-like vocal quality, oddly- is really discernible through Swervedriver's shredder-static."

The EP was made single of the week by a heavy metal magazine, which prompted band's bassist Adi Vines to describe their style as "ethereal metal."

Track listing

All tracks written by Swervedriver.

 "Rave Down" – 5:07
 "She's Beside Herself" – 5:51
 "Afterglow" – 3:03
 "Zedhead" – 4:42

Personnel

Swervedriver
 Adam Franklin – vocals, guitar
 Jimmy Hartridge – guitar
 Adi Vines – bass guitar
 Graham Bonnar – drums

Other personnel
 Amp Art – artwork
 Anjali Dutt – production, engineering
 Nick Taylor – additional guitar

References

External links

1990 EPs
Swervedriver EPs
Creation Records EPs
A&M Records EPs
Shoegaze EPs


title: David Rhodes (media executive)

text:
David Rhodes (born December 1973) is an American media executive. He was named Executive Chairman of the Sky News Group in February 2023.  In July 2021, he was hired to lead international business development at Sky, a subsidiary of US cable company Comcast Corp. He served as the president of CBS News from 2011 until 2019. He was the youngest network news president in the history of American television.

Early life and education
Rhodes was born and raised in New York City. He is the son of an Episcopalian father from Texas and a Jewish mother from New York. He graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1996 with majors in economics and political science. He is the brother of Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for President Barack Obama.

Career
Rhodes began his career in television journalism with Fox News Channel, where he joined as a Production Assistant before the channel launched in October 1996. He eventually became Vice President of News and stayed at FNC for 12 years.   In 2008, Rhodes moved to Bloomberg L.P. as Head of U.S. Television. Bloomberg's cable channel underwent a major re-design in 2009.

In February 2011 Rhodes became president of CBS News, replacing Sean McManus.  At age 37 he was the youngest network news president in the history of American television.

He was responsible for CBS News broadcasts and the division's news-gathering across all platforms including television, CBS News Radio, CBSNews.com and CBSN, the first live-anchored streaming news network.

Beginning in 2015 he took over the CBS News unit of the network. In addition, he was responsible for the supervision of the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and more.

Rhodes promoted "Real News" and put an emphasis on CBS News' journalistic traditions. The division began programming CBS This Morning in 2012  —emphasizing harder news coverage and bringing the morning show back to the CBS Broadcast Center from a remote studio. CBS News' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer was expanded to one hour and emerged as the #1 Sunday morning public affairs show.

On January 6, 2019, Susan Zirinsky was named President of CBS News, replacing David Rhodes. Rhodes stepped down on March 1, 2019, "after overseeing Zirinsky’s transition and having an advisory role after that." According to Variety, with Rhodes at the helm, "CBS News expanded into new digital territories and placed more emphasis on its roots as a trusted hard-news outlet, refashioning the network’s morning show and launching streaming-news outlet CBSN."

In September 2019 he began work as a consultant for Spotify's original podcast development, and he has also worked for the Los Angeles Times since leaving CBS.

In May 2020 he began to work for News UK, the British division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. He is developing several current affairs and entertainment programs, but the project was discontinued when Rhodes' team concluded it was unwise to launch a traditional cable news business in the present market.

In July 2021, Rhodes was hired to lead international business development at Sky, a Comcast subsidiary.

Boards
David Rhodes was chairman of the advisory board of The Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He also serves on the Rice University Board of Trustees,  The Baker Institute Board of Advisors,  the advisory board for Rice University's Doerr Institute for New Leaders,  and the advisory board of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications.

Awards and recognition
Rhodes became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum at the group's 2013 gathering in Yangon, Myanmar, and participates in the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Rhodes reached the top 10 of Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in 2012 and has been named to a number of media and business lists, including The Hollywood Reporters 35 Most Powerful People in Media, 2012 Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40, and GQs 50 Most Powerful People in Washington. He is the Radio Television Digital News Foundation's 2018 First Amendment Service Award recipient.

Personal life
In 2005, he married Emma Kahn. He currently splits his time between London and New York with his spouse and two sons.

References

External links
David Rhodes's bio at CBSNews.com

1973 births
20th-century American Jews
American television executives
Presidents of CBS News
Businesspeople from New York City
Rice University alumni
Living people
21st-century American Jews


title: Soigné

text:
Restaurant Soigné is a restaurant in Bussum, Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in 2010 and has retained that rating until the present.

In 2013, GaultMillau awarded the restaurant 13 out of 20 points.

The head chef of Soigné is Dennis Jong, former senior sous chef of La Rive. The maître is Frank Velthuyse. They have owned the restaurant since 2007.

The restaurant is located in a building that formerly housed the restaurant Negliche. This restaurant was in 2006 sold to Sidney Heinze, former head chef of Tante Koosje. Heinze changed the name of the restaurant in Soigné, but sold the restaurant a year later.

See also
 List of Michelin starred restaurants in the Netherlands

References

Michelin Guide starred restaurants in the Netherlands
Restaurants in the Netherlands


title: Je Joue

text:
Je Joue is a London-based luxury sex toy company that produces high end vibrators, G-spot vibrators, vibrating cock rings and Kegel exercise balls. Je Joue also has offices in China, Barcelona and US.

What makes Je Joue different is that they set the frequency of their toys lower than other vibrator manufacturers. Having a low-frequency vibrator gives a "rumbling" sensation, rather than a buzzy sensation. Low-frequency vibrations also carry through the body better, accessing parts of the clitoris that other vibrators do not reach.

Je Joue is often in the press for the best sex toys, as seen in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, etc. The Je Joue Mimi was voted "the best sex toy" in a 2014 survey by Good Housekeeping Magazine UK.

History
Je Joue was founded in 2008, the year in which the first toy, SaSi was released. In April 2009 SaSi was featured under "the cutting edge" section of "Modern Emotion" magazine: "SaSi is a totally unique product inspired by foreplay and it is, in actual fact, the only product on the market that uses movement as well as vibration as a form of clitoral stimulation."  SaSi won the 2009 AVN 'O' award for Outstanding Innovation.

2009 saw the adjustable vibrator G-Ki to be released on the market. Clinical sexologist Megan Andelloux described the G-Ki “Variation of vibration, rounded tip, owner control with the degree of pressure delivered, medically sound materials that are hypoallergenic (and waterproof) and yet, still friendly for our planet. Yes the G-Ki is even green.” An improved G-Ki was released at the start of 2014 with a complete overhaul.

2010 launched Ami, the Je Joue version of Kegel exercise balls. This year MiMi was also released as an external vibrator.

2011 saw Uma as the specific G-spot vibrator followed shortly by FiFi which took on the style of the rabbit vibrator made famous by HBO's Sex and the City Season 1, Episode 9. More recently in 2012 Je Joue introduced Mio the vibrating cock rings designed for specific couples use. An addition to the MiMi family, MiMi Soft was released in 2013, with a softer tip for clientele with different tastes.

2015 saw Je Joue launch a new brand, Ooh by Je Joue. The brand is more affordable and taking a more eco-friendly approach, providing one vibrating motor that you can mix and match into several silicone sleeves to create various styles of vibrators.

2017 saw the release of a contemporary bullet collection with 3 different models. All priced at US$59, they are very affordable compared to some of its competitors like Lelo and We-vibe.

References

External links
Official Website

Sex toy manufacturers
2008 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies based in the City of Westminster


title: 2014–15 National League B season

text:
The 2014–15 National League B season was the 68th ice hockey season of Switzerland's second tier hockey league, the National League B

Teams

Regular season
Final standings.

Playoffs

League Qualification

Lakers vs. SCL Tigers

SCL Tigers won the series and were promoted to NLA and will play there in 2015–16 season. Rapperswil-Jona Lakers were relegated to National League B and will play there in 2015–16 season.

References

External links
  National League B, official website
  National League B, official website
  National League B, hockeyarchives

National League B seasons
2014–15 in Swiss ice hockey
Swiss


title: Lillyn Brown

text:
Lillyn Brown (born Lillian Thomas; April 24, 1885 – June 8, 1969), sometimes credited as Lillyan Brown, was an American singer, vaudeville entertainer and teacher who claimed to have been "the first professional vocalist to sing the blues in front of the public", in 1908. She was billed as "The Kate Smith of Harlem" and "The Original Gay 90's Gal".

Biography
Brown was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24, 1885, as Lillian Thomas. She was the daughter of an African-American mother and a French father. She was light-skinned, and "some black friends said that they did not realize she was a Negro until she told them."

She first performed in 1894 as "The Indian Princess" with an all-white female string band. By 1896, billed as "The World's Youngest Interlocutor", she was performing in minstrel shows as a male impersonator, often credited as E. L. Brown to disguise her gender.  She developed an act in which she wore a top hat and tails, sang several songs as a man, and then revealed her long hair and continued singing as a woman.  She claimed to be the first professional vocalist to sing the blues before a public audience, in performances at the Little Strand Theatre in Chicago in 1908.

In 1918, she replaced Esther Bigeou as the female star of the popular musical comedy Broadway Rastus in New York City. She made her only recordings in March and May 1921, a few months after the pioneering blues recordings by Mamie Smith. Brown recorded for Emerson Records, backed by the Jazz-Bo Syncopators, a band that included Ed Cox (cornet), Bud Aiken and Herb Flemming (trombones), Garvin Bushell (clarinet), Johnny Mullins (violin), and Lutice Perkins (drums). She only recorded four tracks – "Ever Lovin' Blues", "If That's What You Want Here It Is", "The Jazz Me Blues", and "Bad-Land Blues". They were then reissued under different names by other record labels: Maude Jones on Medallion Records, Fannie Baker on Oriole Records, and Mildred Fernandez on Regal Records.

Brown appeared on Broadway, toured in Europe, and performed at many of the major nightclubs in Harlem and on the Keith vaudeville circuit. She announced her retirement in 1934, but she appeared in 1938 in the Broadway show Sing Out the News. In 1949 she appeared in Marc Blitzstein's opera Regina, at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. In 1952 she appeared in a short-lived revival of Kiss Me, Kate on Broadway. She operated an acting and singing school in Manhattan during the 1950s and taught at the Jarahal School of Music in Harlem. She also wrote, performed and produced plays for the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and was active in the African American Actors Guild. Her final public performance was at a tribute concert for Mamie Smith in 1964.

Brown died at St. Rose's Home at 71 Jackson Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on June 8, 1969, at the age of 84.

Broadway
Sing Out the News (1938)
Regina (1949)
Kiss Me, Kate, revival (1952)

External links

References

1885 births
1969 deaths
Classic female blues singers
20th-century African-American women singers
Singers from Atlanta
American drag kings
Blackface minstrel performers


title: Ledjon Muçaj

text:
Ledjon Muçaj (born 4 September 1992) is an Albanian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for KS Besa Kavajë in Kategoria e Parë.

References

External links
Ledjon Muçaj at Fupa

1992 births
Living people
Footballers from Fier
Men's association football midfielders
Albanian men's footballers
KF Bylis players
FK Apolonia Fier players
KF Besa Kavajë players
SC Gjilani players
FC Ballkani players
KF Vushtrria players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria e Parë players
Football Superleague of Kosovo players
Albanian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Kosovo
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Kosovo
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany