Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 13. It is located in western Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, comprising the eastern parts of the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim and Nordwestmecklenburg, and the northwestern part of Landkreis Rostock.

Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I was created for the 2002 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Frank Junge of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography
Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I is located in western Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the western parts of Ludwigslust-Parchim district (specifically the municipality of Parchim and the Ämter of Crivitz, Eldenburg Lübz, Goldberg-Mildenitz, Parchimer Umland, Plau am See, and Sternberger Seenlandschaft) and Nordwestmecklenburg (specifically the municipalities of Grevesmühlen, Poel, and Wismar, and the Ämter of Dorf Mecklenburg-Bad Kleinen, Grevesmühlen-Land, Klützer Winkel, Neuburg, and Neukloster-Warin), as well as northwestern parts of Landkreis Rostock (specifically the municipalities of Bad Doberan, Kröpelin, Kühlungsborn, Neubukow, and Satow and the Ämter of Bad Doberan-Land and Neubukow-Salzhaff).

History
Ludwigslust-Parchim II – Nordwestmecklenburg II – Landkreis Rostock I was created in 2002, then known as Wismar – Nordwestmecklenburg – Parchim. It contained parts of the abolished constituencies of Wismar – Gadebusch – Grevesmühlen – Doberan – Bützow, Schwerin – Hagenow, and Güstrow – Sternberg – Lübz – Parchim – Ludwigslust. Until 2013, it was constituency 12 in the numbering system. Originally, it comprised the now-abolished independent city of Wismar, the district of Nordwestmecklenburg, and the now-abolished district of Parchim. In the 2013 election, it lost the Ämter of Gadebusch, Lützow-Lübstorf, Rehna, and Schönberger Land from the Nordwestmecklenburg district, while it gained northwestern parts of Landkreis Rostock; it also acquired its current name and constituency number.

Members
The constituency was held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its creation in 2002 until 2009, during which time it was represented by Iris Hoffmann. It was won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2009, and represented by Karin Strenz. She was re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Frank Junge won the constituency for the SPD In 2021.

Election results

2021 election

2017 election

2013 election

2009 election

References

Federal electoral districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2013 establishments in Germany
Constituencies established in 2013


title: 1990 PBA Expansion Draft

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The 1990 PBA Expansion Draft was the first expansion draft of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The draft was held before the start of the 1990 PBA season, so that the newly founded teams Pepsi Hotshots and Pop Cola Sizzlers could acquire players for the upcoming season. A "protect 9" scheme was implemented for the draft, meaning that the six existing PBA teams can protect up to nine players in their rosters and will unconditionally release three players to the expansion pool.

Key

Selections

Notes
 Number of years played in the PBA prior to the draft

References

Philippine Basketball Association expansion drafts
Expansion Draft
TNT Tropang Giga
Pop Cola Panthers


title: 2015 Madeiran regional election

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A regional election was held in Madeira on 29 March 2015, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election was the first in which the former President of the Region, Alberto João Jardim, was not on the ballot as he earlier stated that he would step down as President and leader of the PSD-Madeira in January 2015. On 29 December 2014, the PSD-Madeira elected  Miguel Albuquerque as the new president of the party's regional section. After winning the presidency, Albuquerque stated that he would not assume the Presidency of the Government without an election, so Alberto João Jardim asked President Aníbal Cavaco Silva to dissolve the Parliament and call an election, which was scheduled for 29 March.

The campaign for the regional legislative election in Madeira ran from 15 to 27 March 2015.

The results showed that the Social Democrats were reelected for the 11th time in a row and, again, with an absolute majority of 24 seats, against the 25 seats won in 2011. The People's Party was again the second most voted party and the coalition between the Socialists and other smaller parties called Change suffered a huge defeat by winning fewer votes and seats compared to the combined total of the parties in 2011. Together for the People was the surprise of the election winning 10.3% of the vote and winning 5 seats. The Unitary Democratic Coalition increase their result by one MP and the Left Bloc returned to the regional parliament with 2 seats.

The turnout in these elections was the lowest ever, with 49.6% of voters casting a ballot.

Electoral system
The 47 members of the Madeiran regional parliament are elected in a single constituency by proportional representation under the D'Hondt method, coinciding with the territory of the Region.

Parties
The parties that contested the election, and their leaders, were:

 Change (PS-PTP-PAN-MPT), Victor Freitas
 Citizen Platform (PPM-PDA), Miguel Fonseca
 Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), Edgar Silva
 New Democracy Party (PND), Baltazar Aguiar
 Workers' Communist Party (PCTP/MRPP), Alexandre Caldeira
 Left Bloc (BE), Roberto Almada
 National Renovator Party (PNR), Álvaro Araújo
 People's Party (CDS–PP), José Manuel Rodrigues
 Social Democratic Party (PSD), Miguel Albuquerque
 Socialist Alternative Movement (MAS), José Carlos Gonçalves Jardim
 Together for the People (JPP), Filipe Sousa

Opinion polling
Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded but both are displayed in bold. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication.

Opinion polls

Seats
Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 24 seats are required for an absolute majority in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.

Voter turnout
The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day.

Summary of votes and seats

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| colspan=11|
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing
! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |MPs %/votes %
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"|2011
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"| 2015
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
|-
|
||56,574||44.36||4.2||25||24||1||51.06||2.1||1.15
|-
|
||17,488||13.71||3.9||9||7||2||14.89||4.3||1.09
|-
|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" |
|align=left|Change Coalition
||14,573||11.43||11.0||11||6||5||12.77||10.6||1.12
|-
|
||13,114||10.28||||||5||||10.64||||1.03
|-
|
||7,060||5.54||1.8||1||2||1||4.25||2.1||0.77
|-
|
||4,849||3.80||2.1||0||2||2||4.25||4.3||1.12
|-
|
||2,635||2.07||1.2||1||1||0||2.13||0.0||1.04
|-
|
||2,137||1.67||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
||1,715||1.34||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
||1,052||0.82||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|style="width: 10px" bgcolor= align="center" |
|align=left|Citizen Platform
||903||0.71||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|122,100
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|95.74
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.6
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|47
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|47
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
||1,116||0.87||0.2||colspan=6 rowspan=4|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
||4,323||3.39||1.5
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|127,539
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout
||257,232||49.58||7.8
|-
| colspan=11 align=left|Coalition between the PS, PTP, PAN and the MPT. The 11 seats from 2011 are the sum of PS, PTP, PAN and MPT seats.Portuguese Communist Party (2 MPs) and "The Greens" (0 MPs) ran in coalition.People's Monarchist Party (0 MPs) and Democratic Party of the Atlantic (0 MPs) ran in coalition.
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

Maps

See also
Madeira

Notes

References

External links
Election results
Comissão Nacional de Eleições

2015 elections in Portugal
2015
March 2015 events in Portugal


title: Poeira de Estrelas

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Poeira de Estrelas is a 1948 Brazilian musical comedy film directed by Moacyr Fenelon. It stars Lourdinha Bittencourt and Emilinha Borba.

References

External links

1948 films
1948 musical comedy films
Brazilian musical comedy films
Brazilian black-and-white films


title: 2014 PBA Expansion Draft

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The 2014 PBA Expansion Draft is the third expansion draft of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The draft was held on July 18, 2014, so that the newly founded teams Blackwater Elite and the Kia Sorento could acquire players for the 2014–15 season. A "protect 12" scheme was implemented for the draft, meaning that the 10 existing PBA teams could protect up to 12 players in their rosters and unconditionally release their unprotected players to the expansion pool. This was the first expansion draft held by the PBA since 2000, when Batang Red Bull Energizers entered the league as an expansion team. The draft was closed to the public as the final list was distributed only to the expansion clubs. Players involved would be returned to their original teams if they were not chosen, provided they were unaware of their inclusion in the draft.

Blackwater Elite were formed as one of the founding members of the PBA Developmental League in 2011. They were only the D-League team, besides the NLEX Road Warriors to win a championship, which they won in the 2013 PBA D-League Foundation Cup. The team is owned by Dioceldo Sy, through his company, Ever Bilena Cosmetics, Inc. Sy also owned the Blu Detergent team in the Philippine Basketball League, who hired Asi Taulava before turning professional in 1999.

The Kia Sorento were formed after the approval of the league's board of governors on their expansion application, together with Blackwater and NLEX. The team is owned by Columbian Autocar Corporation, the local distributor of Kia cars in the Philippines. On June 9, 2014, the team held a press conference, announcing that boxer Manny Pacquiao would coach their team in the 2014–15 season. A naming contest was held to determine the team's moniker. On August 24, during the 2014 PBA draft, Columbian Autocar Corporation president Gina Domingo announced that they took the moniker "Sorento", the name of their top-selling sports utility vehicle in the Philippines and United States.

The NLEX Road Warriors were supposed to be part of this expansion draft, but they opted to buy the Air21 Express. NLEX started as a founding member of the PBA D-League and won six championships, most recently the 2014 Foundation Cup, when they swept Blackwater Elite in their finals series.

Key

Selections
The draft was supposed to be held at the PBA office in Libis, Quezon City, but due to the rotational power cuts caused by the aftermath of Typhoon Glenda (international name Rammasun), the draft was held at Microtel Acropolis, which across Circumferential Road 5 from the league's offices.

Notes
 Number of years played in the PBA prior to the draft
 Career with the expansion franchise that drafted the player
 Never played in the PBA prior to the expansion draft
 Never played a game for the franchise

References

Philippine Basketball Association expansion drafts
2014–15 PBA season
Blackwater Bossing
Terrafirma Dyip
Pba expansion draft


title: Tosena splendida

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Tosena melanoptera is a cicada species from Thailand. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1878.

References

Endemic fauna of Thailand
Tosenini
Insects described in 1878


title: Minimal counterintuitiveness effect

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Cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer argued that minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI) i.e., concepts that violate a few ontological expectations of a category such as the category of an agent, are more memorable than intuitive and maximally counterintuitive (MXCI) concepts. A number of experimental psychology studies have found support for Boyer's hypothesis.  Upal labelled this as the minimal counterintuitiveness effect or the MCI-effect.

Boyer originally did not precisely specify the number of expectation-violations that would render an idea maximally counterintuitive.  Early empirical studies including those by Boyer himself and others did not study MXCI concepts.  Both these studies only used concepts violating a single expectation (which were labelled as MCI concepts).  Atran was the first to study memory for MXCI concepts and labeled concepts violating 2-expectations as maximally counterintuitive.  Studies by the I-75 Cognition and Culture Group  also labelled ideas violating two expectations as maximally counterintuitive.  Barrett argued that ideas violating 1 or 2 ontological expectations should be considered MCI and only ideas violating 3 or more expectations should be labelled MXCI.  Subsequent studies of the MCI effect have followed this revised labelling scheme.

Upal has divided the cognitive accounts that explain the MCI effect into two categories: the context-based model of minimal counterintuitiveness, and content-based view of minimal counterintuitiveness.  The context-based view emphasizes the role played by context in making an idea counterintuitive whereas the content-based view ignores the role of context.

See also
 Uncanny valley

References

Memory
Cognitive science


title: Vanna Brosio

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Vanna Brosio (18 April 1943 – 19 June 2010) was an Italian singer, television personality and journalist.

Life and career
Born Giovanna Brosio  in Turin, the daughter of a well-known antiquarian and the niece of the former NATO Secretary General Manlio Brosio, she started her career in 1948 as a model in Milan, appearing in magazines, fotoromanzi and Carosello commercials. In 1964  she started a more than twenty years musical career during which she recorded songs written for her by Enzo Jannacci, Cristiano Malgioglio and Gianni Boncompagni, among others. In 1971 she hosted the radio program Novità, and between 1972 and 1976 she hosted the RAI musical show Adesso musica. In 1984 she co-presented, alongside Aldo Biscardi, the sport talk-show Il processo del Lunedì. In addition to her musical and television activities, Brosio was also active as a journalist, collaborating for years with the magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni.

Filmography

References

External links

 Vanna Brosio at Discogs

Musicians from Turin
1943 births
Italian film actresses
2010 deaths
Italian pop singers
Italian radio presenters
Italian journalists
Italian women journalists
20th-century Italian women singers
Italian women radio presenters
Italian women television presenters
Mass media people from Turin


title: The Read

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The Read is a weekly pop culture podcast. One of several podcasts affiliated with the Loud Speakers Network, The Read is hosted by American comedians Kid Fury and Crissle West and based in New York City.

History
Prior to starting The Read, Kid Fury became popular online through his YouTube stand-up series Furious Thoughts and met co-host Crissle West through Twitter, where the two bonded and Fury asked West to start a podcast together.

The first episode of The Read was released on March 4, 2013. The Read is distributed via the iTunes Store, iHeartRadio Talk, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher. On iTunes, the podcast peaked at number three in the "New and Noteworthy" section charts and at number one in the comedy section charts. As of 2019, the podcast had over 85 million listens around the world, and received over 1.5 million unique listens every month. Fury and West have hosted several live shows for The Read, including one at the Essence Festival in 2018, where they became the first podcast to be a headlining act.

In 2019, Missy Elliott was awarded the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, where she thanked Kid Fury and Crissle for helping to make it happen.

In 2021, it was announced that Issa Rae's audio company Raedio signed a record deal with The Read to produce a comedy album with pop culture commentary from Kid Fury and Crissle and music from up and coming recording artists.

Format
During podcast episodes, Kid Fury and West discuss and analyze pop culture and current events. The podcast's format has five sections:
 Black Excellence
 Hot Tops, (previously known as Sick Sad World, Hot Topics, Shade in Full, and Bitch, You Guessed It) consists of the hosts discussing entertainment news from the week.
 "Kid Fury's SPORTS SHORTS!" This segment, introduced in 2020, is not a consistent bit and features Kid Fury passionately describing sports news and culture with varying degrees of accuracy.
 Listener Letters (the segment is changed to Listener Questions when done during a live show), where the hosts read emails sent in from listeners and offer advice.
 Crissle's Couch, where West shares some of the wisdom she has learned from her mental health therapist. This segment was added to the show in July 2018 but does not appear every week.
 The Read, where Kid Fury and West "read" (African American gay slang for giving one's harsh opinion which originated in the 1980s) a person or topic.

Television show

On March 13, 2019, it was announced that Fuse had greenlit a variety/talk show based on The Read, titled The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle West. Kid Fury and West served as executive producers, as did Chloe Pisello, David Martin, Jon Thoday, and Richard Allen-Turner.

The show premiered on October 11, 2019, on Fuse.

Reception

Critical reception
Tre'vell Anderson of Out called The Read "Black queer excellence", writing, "The pair consistently, and quite remarkably, have crafted a show that is more than just a pop culture recap, deftly melding together conversations about politics, social justice, the importance of therapy, career advice, and self-help." Writing for Ebony, Elizabeth Aguirre called the podcast "so unapologetically Black it hurts" and wrote, "Hosts Kid Fury and Crissle start off innocently enough, but by the end of the show, the duo will have you rolling in your seat."

HuffPosts Taryn Finley referred to The Read as "a fun, slightly raunchy, expletive-filled, brutally honest podcast that doubles as a safe space for black people", and stated that, with The Read, Fury and West "made a definitive mark" and "have helped usher in a wave of black podcasters after them". For The Guardian, Lilah Raptopoulos wrote in 2014 that "[Fury and West's] is a casual but energising voice in the podcast world," adding, "The podcast world is one dominated by straight white male comedians reaching middle age. Kid Fury and Crissle are black, gay, young and cool. Their perspective is more sensitive to race, sexual identity and the minority experience than any other podcast that exists right now."

Accolades

References

External links
Official site

Comedy podcasts
Audio podcasts
2013 podcast debuts
LGBT-related podcasts


title: Geoffrey Wainwright (archaeologist)

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Geoffrey John Wainwright,  (19 September 1937 – 6 March 2017) was a British archaeologist specialising in prehistory. He was the Chief Archaeologist of English Heritage from 1989 to 1999, and visiting professor to a number of universities. He served as president of the Prehistoric Society from 1981 to 1985 and the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2007 to 2010.

Early life and education
Wainwright was born on 19 September 1937 in Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He was educated at Pembroke Dock Grammar School. He studied archaeology at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1958. He undertook postgraduate research in "the Mesolithic cultures of south-west Wales" at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, completing his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1961.

Career
From 1961 to 1963, Wainwright was professor of environmental archaeology at the University of Baroda in India. He then joined the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments in what was to become English Heritage, serving as an inspector from 1963 to 1980, a principal inspector from 1980 to 1990, and as Chief Archaeologist from 1989 to 1999. He was a visiting professor at the University of Southampton from 1991, and was a visiting professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology from 1995 to 2005.

Wainwright was involved in his first excavation as a university student: this was a Mesolithic settlement at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 1965, he excavated an entire Iron Age settlement in Tollard Royal, Wiltshire: unusually for the time, and with "consternation from traditional archaeologists", he used a JCB digger to clear the topsoil. He used the same technique at more Iron Age sites and also at some late Neolithic henges. In 1966, he excavated Durrington Walls, and he found two timber circles. In 1972, he excavated the Iron Age settlement at Gussage All Saints, Dorset.

Later life
In retirement, Wainwright lived in Pontfaen, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He died at home on 6 March 2017, aged 79. His funeral was held on 20 March at the Parc Gwyn Crematorium in Narberth, Pembrokeshire.

Personal life
Wainwright was first married to Sue Lukes and they had three children. Having divorced Sue, he married Judith Paton in 1977.

Honours
In the 1991 New Year Honours, Wainwright was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of his services as Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage. In 2006, he was awarded the Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistoric Archaeology by the British Academy.

On 2 March 1967, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Selected works

References

1937 births
2017 deaths
British archaeologists
Prehistorians
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of London
People from Pembrokeshire
Academic staff of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Recipients of the Grahame Clark Medal


title: Salmson 5

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The Salmson 5 was a French aircraft built in 1917 during World War I intended for artillery spotting. It was based on the Salmson 2, but it was 23 km/h slower and offered no compensating advantages and only 1 aircraft was built.

Specifications

References

Citations

Bibliography

1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
Biplanes
Salmson aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1917


title: Charles-Auguste van den Berghe

text:
Charles-Auguste van den Berghe (1798–1853), was a French painter.

He was born in Beauvais as the son of Augustin van den Berghe and became the pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

He died in Paris.

References

Charles-Auguste Van den Berghe on Artnet

1798 births
1853 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
Mythological painters
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
People from Beauvais
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Prix de Rome for painting
19th-century French male artists


title: Lackey, Kentucky

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Lackey is an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. Lackey was home to a pack horse library as part of the Pack Horse Library Project in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

References

Unincorporated communities in Floyd County, Kentucky
Coal towns in Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


title: Folias Cariocas

text:
Folias Cariocas is a 1948 Brazilian musical comedy film directed by Manoel Jorge and Hélio Thys. It stars Lauro Borges, Dercy Gonçalves and Silva Filho.

References

External links

1948 films
1948 musical comedy films
Brazilian musical comedy films
Brazilian black-and-white films


title: Agyina

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Agyina is a community in the Kintampo South District of the Bono East Region of Ghana. It has a high immigrant population from Northern Ghana and is noted for its large scale farming activities. Languages spoken in this community are mainly Asante twi and Dagbanli.

References

Populated places in the Bono East Region


title: Pennytown, Missouri

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Pennytown is an unincorporated area in Saline County, Missouri, United States. Historically, it was the largest African-American community in central Missouri.

Joe Penny, a former slave from Kentucky, started what would become Pennytown in March 1871 when he purchased eight acres of land for $160. Ten more purchases by black families followed during the 1870s and by 1880, black farmers owned more than one-third of the land in the Salt Fork Township. Historically, its population consisted of former slaves and their descendants. Pennytown's peak population was 1,000. The final birth in the community occurred in 1944. Around that period, due to lowering economic prospects, many families began to move to Marshall. As time passed, more and more buildings were razed. As of 2014, the only remaining building from the former settlement is the Free Will Baptist Church of Pennytown.

References

Populated places in Saline County, Missouri
1871 establishments in Missouri
Populated places established by African Americans


title: Lourdinha Bittencourt

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Lourdinha Bittencourt (née Maria de Lourdes Bittencourt; October 30, 1923 – August 19, 1979) was a Brazilian actress and singer who took part in the musical ensemble Trio de Ouro from 1952 to 1957, replacing the lead singer Dalva de Oliveira. She also appeared in telenovelas such as Rosa Rebelde (1969), Véu de Noiva (1969), Irmãos Coragem, (1970), Selva de Pedra (1972), Fogo sobre Terra (1974), and in films such as Poeira de Estrelas (1948), É Proibido Sonhar (1944) and Obrigado, Doutor (1948). She died in 1979 of a stroke.

Life and career

As a movie star
Abandoned in the orphanage Asilo Melo Matos at birth, Lourdinha Bittencourt was adopted by piano teacher Maria Bittencourt. From childhood, she showed interest in music and dance. Stimulated by her mother, she began taking courses to develop her artistic skills, a process which soon led her to work at Cassino da Urca as child prodigy. In 1935, she appeared in the cast of the movie Noites Cariocas, and in several other films the following years. Lourdinha Bittencourt took part in many films, such as Maria Bonita and Cidade Mulher, both from 1936. She also appeared in É Proibido Sonhar (1943), Moleque Tião (1943), Asas do Brasil (1947), Obrigada Doutor, and Poeira de Estrelas (1948), O Homem Que Passa and Não Me Digas Adeus (1949).

As singer
In 1949, she recorded her first solo album for the label Star, with the songs Não Vale Recordar by Mário Rossi and José Conde, and Lenço Branco by Oscar Bellandi. Three years later she married Antonio Gonçalves Sobral, popularly known as Nelson Gonçalves, with whom she had two children. That same year she joined the third formation of the musical band Trio de Ouro, replacing singer Naomi Cavalcanti, alongside Herivelto Martins and Raul Sampaio. Among her first recordings as member of the band was a re-recording of Ave Maria no Morro, one of the great hits of the band at the beginning of the 1940s, sung by Dalva de Oliveira. The band was commissioned by Radio Nacional, remaining in the company until 1954. She then traveled throughout several Brazilian states, besides going to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Peru. Despite the success of the band at that time, she was the female figure who never equaled Dalva de Olivera, though they achieved some success with her vocals on India by J. A. Flores and M. Guerrero, Negro telefone by Herivelto Martins and David Nasser, Saudades de Mangueira by Nelson Trigueiro and Bartholomew Silva, and Luzes da Ribalta by Charles Chaplin.

In 1957, Lourdinha Bittencourt faced health problems that prompted her departure from the band. In 1959, her marriage broke apart and she then divorced Nelson Gonçalves. In 1960, she released an album with the song Ouvi Dizer by Adelino Moreira, and Como No Primeiro Dia (Comme Au Premier Jour) by Hubert Giraud and Pierre Dorsey through the label Polydor. The following year she released through RCA Victor a 78-RPM album with another song by Adelino Moreira entitled Ouvi Dizer and Eu Te Amo, also by Adelino Moreira with participation of Nelson Gonçalves.

As actress on television
From 1969, she worked as an actress of telenovelas, debuting in the role of Martha in Rosa Rebelde. In 1970, she appeared in the cast of the soap opera Irmãos Coragem, one of the greatest soap operas of Brazilian television produced by Rede Globo. Four years later she starred in Fogo Sobre Terra, her last appearance on television. That same year, she took part in the album Encontro com Adelino Moreira na Churrascaria Cinderela, where she sand the songs Ouvi dizer and Eu te amo.

Filmography

Films
1935 – Cabocla Bonita
1936 – Noites Cariocas
1937 – Maria Bonita
1943 – Moleque Tião
1944 – É Proibido Sonhar .... Cantora
1947 – Asas do Brasil
1947 – Não me Digas Adeus
1948 – Obrigado, Doutor
1948 – Poeira de Estrelas
1949 – O Homem que Passa
1952 – Está com Tudo
1953 – Com a Mão na Massa
1956 – Guerra ao Samba
1956 – Samba na Vila

Television
1969 – Rosa Rebelde .... Marta
1969 – Véu de Noiva
1970 – Irmãos Coragem .... Manoela
1972 – Selva de Pedra
1974 – Fogo Sobre Terra .... Suely

Discography

References

External links

1923 births
1979 deaths
20th-century Brazilian actresses
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian soap opera actresses
People from Campinas
20th-century Brazilian women singers
20th-century Brazilian singers


title: Geometric cryptography

text:
Geometric cryptography is an area of cryptology where messages and ciphertexts are represented by geometric quantities such as angles or intervals and where computations are performed by ruler and compass constructions. The difficulty  or impossibility of solving certain geometric problems like trisection of an angle using ruler and compass only is the basis for the various protocols in geometric cryptography. This field of study was suggested by Mike Burmester, Ronald L. Rivest and Adi Shamir in 1996. Though the cryptographic methods based on geometry have practically no real life applications, they are of use as pedagogic tools for  the elucidation of other more complex cryptographic protocols. Geometric cryptography may have applications in the future once current mainstream encryption methods are made obsolete by quantum computing.

A geometric one-way function
Some of the geometric cryptographic methods  are based on the impossibility of trisecting an angle using ruler and compass. Given an arbitrary angle, there is a straightforward ruler and compass construction for finding the triple of the given angle. But there is no ruler and compass construction for finding the angle which is exact one-third of an arbitrary angle. Hence the function which assigns the triple of an angle to a given angle can be thought of as a one-way function, the only constructions allowed being ruler and compass constructions.

A geometric identification protocol
A geometric identification protocol has been suggested based on the one-way function indicated  above.

Assume that Alice wishes to establish a means of proving her identity later to Bob.

Initialization:  Alice publishes a copy of an angle YA which is constructed by Alice as the triple of an angle XA she has constructed at random.  Because trisecting an angle is impossible Alice is confident that she is the only one who knows XA.

Identification Protocol:
Alice gives Bob a copy of an angle R which she has constructed as the triple of an angle K that she has selected at random.
Bob flips a coin and tells Alice the result.
If Bob says "heads" Alice gives Bob a copy of the angle K and Bob checks that 3*K = R.
If Bob says "tails" Alice gives Bob a copy of the angle L = K + XA and Bob checks that 3*L = R + YA.

The four steps are repeated t times independently. Bob accepts Alice's proof of identity only if all t checks are successful.

This protocol is an interactive proof of knowledge of the angle XA (the identity of Alice) with
error 2−t. The protocol is also zero-knowledge.

See also
 Post-quantum cryptography

References

Cryptographic algorithms


title: Bangladesh–Brazil relations

text:
Bangladesh–Brazil relations are the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Brazil. Bangladesh has an embassy in Brasillia and Brazil has an embassy in Dhaka.

The two countries have rapidly growing trade links.

High level visits
Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes paid an official visit to Brasilia in 2011.

Cooperation in international forums

In 2013, Bangladesh has sought Brazil's support for its candidature at the Human Rights Council in 2015 and Non-permanent seat of the UN Security Council for 2016–17 term. In 2014, Brazil assured its support to Bangladesh for the posts of United Nations Human Rights Commission and CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women). Bangladesh also supported Brazil's candidature for the post of Director General of World Trade Organization. Brazil has also given Bangladesh $3 million in aid for disaster management.

Cooperation in culture, education and agriculture
In 2011, Brazil proposed to sign an agreement for cooperation in various potential sectors, including agriculture, health, education and sports. In 2014, Brazil has expressed its interest in extending cooperation to Bangladesh for agricultural development.

Economic relations
The bilateral trade between the two countries stood at US$1.7 billion, as of 2017. Brazil's main export to Bangladesh include agricultural products like sugar. Bangladesh has been exporting jute, ready made garments and pharmaceutical products. The trade surplus is heavily tilted in favor of Brazil.

References

Brazil
Bilateral relations of Brazil


title: Dario Graffi

text:
Dario Graffi (10 January 1905 – 28 December 1990) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist, known for his researches on the electromagnetic field, particularly for a mathematical explanation of the Luxemburg effect, for proving an important uniqueness theorem for the solutions of a class of fluid dynamics equations including the Navier-Stokes equation, for his researches in continuum mechanics and for his contribution to oscillation theory.

Life and academic career
Dario Graffi was born in Rovigo, the son of Michele, a yarn wholesale trader and of Amalia Tedeschi. He attended the Istituto tecnico in his home town, specializing in physics and mathematics, but got his diploma in Bologna in 1921, where his family had moved a year before.

He graduated from the University of Bologna in Physics in 1925, when he was 20, and in mathematics in 1927, when he was 22: both the degrees were awarded cum laude,

Honors
He was awarded the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte" in 1964, and a year later, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the Prize of the President of the Italian Republic.

Work

Research activity

Graffi is known for his researches on the electromagnetic field, particularly for a mathematical explanation of the Luxemburg effect, for proving an important uniqueness theorem for the solutions of a class of fluid dynamics equations including the Navier-Stokes equation, for his researches in continuum mechanics and for his contribution to oscillation theory.

Selected publications
Graffi published 181 works. lists of his publications are included in references  and in the biographical section of his "Selected works" (1999, pp. XX–XXVI): however, the set of lecture notes  is not listed in any of his publication lists.

Scientific works

Scientific papers
. In this paper, written only few years after the discovery of the effect itself, Dario Graffi proposes a theory of the Luxemburg effect based on Volterra's theory of hereditary phenomena.

. In this paper, Graffi extends to compressible viscous fluids a uniqueness theorem for the solutions to Navier-Stokes equation in bounded domains, previously proved only for incompressible fluids by Emanuele Foà and rediscovered by David Dolidze.
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, available at Gallica. A short research note announcing the results of the author on the uniqueness of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations on unbounded domains under the hypothesis of constant fluid velocity at infinity.
 (online version ). In this paper, Graffi extends his uniqueness theorem for the solutions of Navier-Stokes equations on unbounded domains relaxing previously assumed hypotheses on the behaviour of the velocity at infinity.
. The published text of a conference held at the Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano, exposing mainly his researches on the uniqueness of the solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
 (online version ). In this paper, Graffi introduces the free energy now called Graffi–Volterra free energy after him.
.
.

Books
, reviewed by , by  (also available with online ), and by  (also available with online ).
. A set of lecture notes of a course held by Graffi in the years 1977–1978.
. Dario Graffi's "Selected works", containing a choice of his research papers reprinted in their original typographical form.

Historical, commemorative and survey works
. An obituary, with a list of his publications.
. "Electromagnetism in the work of Levi-Civita" (English translation of the contribution title) is a survey of some of the works of Levi-Civita on the theory of electromagnetism.
. The published text of the prolusion to the opening of the 1976 academic year, commemorating Augustin Louis Cauchy and describing his relationships with the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena, the first one in Italy having elected him member.
. "The work of Vito Volterra on hereditary phenomena and some of their consequences" is an ample technical survey paper on the research work of Vito Volterra on hereditary phenomena in mathematical physics.

See also
Gaetano Fichera
Heat equation
Ordinary differential equation
Wave propagation

Notes

References

Biographical references
.
. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including an historical sketch of its history, the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of informations about its academic and scientific activities.
. The first part ("Tomo") of an extensive work on the "Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena", reporting the history of the academy and biographies of members up to the year 2006.
, freely available from the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali - Dipartimento per i Beni Archivistici e Librari - Direzione Generale per gli Archivi. The complete inventory of the Reale Accademia d'Italia, which incorporated the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei between 1939 and 1944.
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. The biographical and bibliographical entry (updated up to 1976) on Dario Graffi, published under the auspices of the Accademia dei Lincei in a book collecting many profiles of its living members up to 1976.
. Recollections of Giulio Supino and Emanuele Foà by Dino Zanobetti, professor emeritus of Electrical engineering and one of their former students, with some notices on the first years of the academic career of Dario Graffi.

General references
, with publication list.
, translated as:
, with publication list.
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, with publication list.

Scientific references
. A short commemoration surveying Graffi's contribution to continuum physics, specifically to elasticity, electromagnetism and the mathematical theory of hereditary phenomena.
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. A a short commemorative survey of Graffi's scientific contributions.
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.

Publications dedicated to him
 (e–) .
. The proceedings of the international congress, held in Bologna on May 24–27, 2000, at the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, under the auspices of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

External links
. The biographical entry about Dario Graffi in the "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical Dictionary of Italians)" section of the Enciclopedia Treccani.

1905 births
1990 deaths
People from Rovigo
University of Bologna alumni
Academic staff of the University of Cagliari
Academic staff of the University of Turin
Academic staff of the University of Bologna
Members of the Lincean Academy
20th-century Italian physicists
20th-century Italian mathematicians
Mathematical physicists


title: Nikolay Paslar

text:
Nikolay Ivanovich Paslar (; born June 12, 1980, in Taraclia, Moldavian SSR) is an amateur Bulgarian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. Considered as one of Bulgaria's top freestyle wrestlers in his decade, Paslar has claimed two career medals (one gold and one bronze) in the 69 and 74-kg division at the World Championships (2001 and 2005), and later represented his nation Bulgaria at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Paslar trained full time as a member of the wrestling squad for Slavia Sports Club in Sofia under his personal coach Ilian Stefanov.

As a naturalized member of the Bulgarian squad, Paslar emerged into the international scene at the 2001 World Wrestling Championships in Sofia, where he thrashed Iranian wrestler Amir Tavakkolian for the gold in the 69-kg division. For displaying his early success to the sport, Paslar was highly acclaimed the Best Wrestler of the Year by the Bulgarian Sports Federation and the International Federation of Associated Wrestling (FILA).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Paslar qualified for his first Bulgarian team in the men's 74 kg class with an unforeseen result. Unable to fill an available spot from the World Championships, Paslar received a ticket to the Olympics by defeating Georgia's Gela Saghirashvili for a first-place finish at the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia. Paslar could not pull a 3–3 tie to overwhelm Poland's Krystian Brzozowski on his opening match, but eclipsed the neighboring Macedonia's Sihamir Osmanov with a 3–1 victory to close the round-robin. Finishing second in the prelim pool and eleventh overall, Paslar's performance fell short to advance him further into the quarterfinals.

Determined to offer another shot of a medal from a four-year drought, Paslar had picked up a gold in the 74-kg division at the 2005 European Championships in Varna, and a bronze at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He continued to flourish his sporting career at the next World and European Championships, but left them empty-handed before his impending retirement in 2007.

In 2013, Paslar came out of retirement from the sport to compete again for the World Championships in Budapest. Fighting at ten kilograms heavier than his previous sporting years, Paslar qualified for the men's light heavyweight category, but made an unprecedented exit with a 5–0 loss to Georgian wrestler and 2012 Olympian Dato Marsagishvili in his opening match.

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
Bulgarian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Bulgaria
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Bulgarian people of Moldovan descent
People from Taraclia District
World Wrestling Championships medalists
European Wrestling Championships medalists


title: Jhonny Perozo

text:
Jhonny David Perozo Rodríguez (28 April 1985 – 25 May 2014) was a Venezuelan footballer who last played as defender for Zulia FC.

He and one of his friends were murdered on 25 May 2014 during a fight in an entertainment center in Lagunillas.

References

1985 births
2014 deaths
Sportspeople from Zulia
Venezuelan men's footballers
Venezuelan Primera División players
Carabobo F.C. players
Male murder victims
Venezuelan murder victims
People murdered in Venezuela
Deaths by firearm in Venezuela
Men's association football defenders
2014 murders in Venezuela
21st-century Venezuelan people


title: 2000 PBA Expansion Draft

text:
The 2000 PBA Expansion Draft was the second expansion draft of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The draft was held in December 1999, so that the newly founded team Batang Red Bull Energizers could acquire players for the 2000 PBA season.

Key

Selections

Notes
 Number of years played in the PBA prior to the draft
 Caidic did not play for Red Bull and retired immediately after being selected in the expansion draft.

References

Philippine Basketball Association expansion drafts
expansion draft
Barako Bull Energy Boosters
PBA Expansion Draft


title: Marco Mariani (curler)

text:
Marco Mariani (born 14 June 1968, in Venice) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, Italy.

Mariani competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics inTurin, Italy, where he finished in 7th place.

He is currently the coach of the Chinese women's curling team and took them to 7th place at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

Personal life
Mariani is married and has one daughter.

Awards
Collie Campbell Memorial Award, 2005

References

1968 births
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Italian male curlers
Living people
Olympic curlers for Italy
Italian curling coaches
Sportspeople from Cortina d'Ampezzo


title: Marco Mariani

text:
Marco Mariani may refer to:

 Marco Mariani (footballer) (born 1992), Italian footballer
 Marco Mariani (curler) (born 1968), Italian curler
 Marco Mariani (politician)
 Marco Mariani (actor)


title: Miss Universe Bahrain

text:
The Miss Universe Bahrain is a beauty pageant established in 2021 under the Yugen Group to choose the representation of Bahrain in the Miss Universe Pageant.

Titleholders

International Competition
Miss Universe

Notes

References

Bahrain
Events in Bahrain
Bahraini awards
2012 establishments in Bahrain


title: Furniture industry in Pakistan

text:
According to the World Trade Organization's statistics, Pakistan's exports of wooden furniture amounted to $51 million in 2011. The furniture industry in Pakistan has been expanding. Many new furniture companies are now joining the furniture industry.

Our handmade furniture is in high demand by high-end customers. Pakistani furniture manufacturers have expertise in this area, due to the type of wood used namely 'sheesham' (rosewood) which adds to this furniture's demand. The leading wood-furniture-making areas of Pakistan are Chiniot, Gujrat, Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi.

Impact of increased consumer spending
Consumer spending increased by an average of 26% - per the Bloomberg's report, which was published on November 21, 2013. It's not only that the Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) companies get benefits from increased consumer spending; the furniture manufacturers also benefit from it.

Pakistan's furniture exports
As per World Trade Organization's statistics, the wooden furniture exports of Pakistan reportedly amounted to almost $51 million in the calendar year (CY) 2011. Whereas, in 2009-2010 the furniture exports of Pakistan ranged between $25 million to $30 million (excluding undocumented exports of an approximate amount of $10 million). However, according to the All Pakistan Furniture Exporters Association (APFEA)] founder, Turhan Baig Muhammad, these exports represent a very small portion of the total furniture business of the country. According to him, the local furniture market is almost 50 times stronger than that of the exports. Keeping this in view, the approximate total furniture sale of the country is more than $2.5 billion.

Fears for the furniture industry of Pakistan
Total world trade of furniture is estimated to be $23.2 billion. Wood furniture accounts for 77 percent, metal furniture 17 percent, and plastic furniture 6 percent of the total. In 2010, the share of Pakistan in the international furniture market is trivial. Even though the country takes pride in having a history of craftsmanship, it does not share a significant position in the international wood furniture market.

Domestic furniture industry is suffering because furniture exports to Pakistan from some other countries have increased, whereas, the high cost of furniture-making business is increasing problems for the local furniture manufacturers. The prices of raw materials which includes timber, colour paints, chipboard, polish materials, and foams have increased manifold. Due to unchecked deforestation, timber production of the country is also suffering.

Wood furniture industry of Pakistan is categorized as being small because old obsolete machinery is used in this industry, which is the reason for higher cost and low output. Traditional wood furniture in Pakistan is heavy and bulky. Pakistani furniture industry needs to go to light-weight and moveable furniture to be exported to the world market where demand is high to meet the needs of offices, shopping malls, buildings and shopping plazas.

Pakistan furniture council urges the government to bar furniture imports. Mostly, office furniture, bar stools, visitor chairs are imported from other countries and there is a huge demand for these products in Pakistan.

Furniture City in Faisalabad
The Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management Company (FIEDMC) has plans, in 2014, to set up a furniture city in the industrial area of Faisalabad, Pakistan. According to a news source, wood seasoning plants will be established to manufacture international standard furniture.

In this regard, FIEDMC has joined hands with the European-based IKEA company, the world's largest furniture retailer that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, for the development of the furniture city in Faisalabad. The same report tells that by this initiative about 200,000 job opportunities will be created.

Role of IT in the furniture industry of Pakistan
Local furniture manufacturers are using internet to market their products. They also have started to use social media channels to market their business activities.

Improvements in furniture industry
"Pakistan needs to bring improvements to its furniture industry to increase the total revenue generated from this industry", said the Pakistani Federal Minister for Commerce, Khurram Dastagir. The country does not lack resources and skills when it comes to manufacturing quality furniture. However, there is a need to exploit these resources in order to expand the furniture industry of Pakistan and increase international trade and foreign exchange income from it. The market beyond Pakistani borders is substantially larger than the local market.

References

External links
 All Pakistan Furniture Exporters Association website

Furniture-making
Pakistani business culture


title: Sandile Decoration

text:
The Sandile Decoration, post-nominal letters SD, was instituted by the President of the Republic of Ciskei in 1988, for award to all ranks for meritorious service.

The Ciskei Defence Force
The Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) was established upon that country's independence on 4 December 1981. The Republic of Ciskei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Ciskei Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Sandile Decoration, post-nominal letters SD, was instituted by the President of Ciskei in 1988. It is the senior award of a set of three decorations for merit, along with the Sandile Medal and the Chief C.D.F. Commendation Medal.

Ciskei's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three decorations are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Southern Cross Decoration and Pro Merito Decoration, the Southern Cross Medal (1975) and Pro Merito Medal (1975), and the Military Merit Medal.

The decoration was named after Chief Mgolombane Sandile, who had been declared as deposed and a fugitive by Major General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith Bt GCB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, after he refused to attend a meeting with Smith outside Fort Cox in December 1850. Sandile subsequently besieged the fort and the 8th Cape Frontier War broke out, the longest and bloodiest of the frontier wars.

Award criteria
The decoration could be awarded to all ranks for meritorious service.

Order of wear

Since the Sandile Decoration was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date. The position of the Sandile Decoration in the official order of precedence was revised twice after 1994, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first in April 1996, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.

Ciskei Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official CDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Cross for Gallantry (CCG).
 Succeeded by the Cross for Bravery (CCB).
Ciskei official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Sandile Decoration (SD) (Civilian Division).
 Succeeded by the Prisons Service Star for Excellence (PSE).

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Distinguished Service Medal, Gold of the Republic of Venda.
 Succeeded by the Van Riebeeck Medal (VRM) of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Prisons Distinguished Service Medal (SPO) of the Republic of Venda.
 Succeeded by the Prisons Service Star for Excellence (PSE) of the Republic of Ciskei.

South African National Defence Force from April 1996

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Distinguished Service Medal, Gold of the Republic of Venda.
 Succeeded by the Decoration for Merit in Gold (DMG) of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Prisons Distinguished Service Medal (SPO) of the Republic of Venda.
 Succeeded by the Prisons Service Star for Excellence (PSE) of the Republic of Ciskei.

The position of the Sandile Decoration in the official order of precedence remained unchanged upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003.

Description
Obverse
The Sandile Decoration is a medallion struck in silver, 38 millimetres in diameter and without a raised rim, displaying the eagle emblem of the Ciskei Defence Force in a laurel wreath.

Reverse
The reverse displays the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Ciskei.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and white, with 5 millimetres wide red edges and a 4 millimetres wide red band in the centre.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Sandile Decoration was discontinued when the Republic of Ciskei ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

See also
 Sir Harry Smith's Medal for Gallantry

References

Military decorations and medals of Ciskei
Awards established in 1988
Awards disestablished in 1994
1988 establishments in Africa
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League

text:
The 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League was the 22nd edition of the Women's EHF Champions League, the competition for top women's clubs of Europe, organized and supervised by the European Handball Federation.

Budućnost won the title for the second time by defeating Larvik HK 26–22 in the big final.

Overview

Team allocation
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders). 14 teams were directly qualified for the group stage.

Round and draw dates
All draws held at the European Handball Federation headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Qualification stage

Eight teams took part in the qualification tournaments. They were drawn into two groups of four teams, where they played a semifinal and a final or third place match. The winners of the qualification tournaments, played on 20–21 September 2014, qualified for the group stage. The draw took place on 26 June 2014, at 14:00 local time, in Vienna, Austria.

Seedings
The seedings were published on 23 June 2014.

Qualification tournament 1

Qualification tournament 2

Group stage

The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, where they played each other twice. The top three teams advanced to the main round. The draw took place on 27 June 2014, at 18:00 local time, in Vienna, Austria.

Seedings
The seedings were published on 23 June 2014.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main round

The top three teams of each group from the group stage advanced to the main round. The 12 teams were split into two groups of six teams. The top four placed teams advanced to the knockout stage. The points gained in the group stage against teams that advance, were carried over.

Group 1

Group 2

Knockout stage

The top four placed teams of each group advance to the knockout stage. In the quarterfinals, the teams will play a home-and away series to determine the four participants of the final four, which then determines the winner.

Quarterfinals
The matches were played on 4–5 April and 11–12 April 2015.

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Final four
The draw was held on 14 April 2015.

The final four was played in the László Papp Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary.

Statistics and awards

Top goalscorers
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

All-Star Team
The all-star team and awards were announced on 8 May 2015.

Goalkeeper:
Right wing:
Right back:
Central back:
Left back:
Left wing:
Pivot:

Other awards
Most Valuable Player of the Final Four:
Best Coach:
Best Young Player:
Best Defence Player:

See also
2014–15 Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup
2014–15 Women's EHF Cup
2014–15 Women's EHF Challenge Cup

References

External links
Official website

Women's EHF Champions League
EHF
EHF


title: Francesco Urso

text:
Francesco Urso (born 9 June 1994) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Cavese.

Career
Born in Fano, Marche region, Urso started his career at Romagna club Cesena. He was a player in the under-17 youth team in 2010–11 season. Urso was promoted to reserve team in 2011–12, which he received first team call-up on 10 March 2012. Urso played a friendly match for the first team on 4 April.; he made his competitive debut in the round 36 (in total 38 rounds) of 2011–12 Serie A, as the half-time substitute of Tommaso Arrigoni. Both players made their unofficial Italy U18 debut on 9 May, against the reserve team of A.S. Livorno Calcio.

On 24 June 2013 Urso was signed by Santarcangelo along with Marco Mariani. Santarcangelo qualified to 2014–15 Serie C as the 5th of Group B of 2013–14 Serie C2.

On 27 June 2014, few days before the closure of 2013–14 financial year, Urso was sold to another third level club Vicenza, with Salvatore Maiorana moved to the Serie A newcomer. Both players were tagged for €2 million transfer fee; Urso signed a 5-year contract. In January 2015 he joined Prato on loan.

On 26 February 2019, he signed with Serie C club Virtus Entella.

On 26 June 2019, Urso signed to Catanzaro until 30 June 2021.

On 1 February 2021 he returned to his hometown club Fano.

On 5 January 2022 he joined Fidelis Andria.

On 30 January 2023, Urso signed with Torres.

Honours
Virtus Entella
 Serie C: 2018–19 (Group A)

References

External links
 AIC profile (data by football.it)

1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Fano
Footballers from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Serie A players
Serie C players
AC Cesena players
Alma Juventus Fano 1906 players
Santarcangelo Calcio players
LR Vicenza players
AC Prato players
USD Matera Grumentum players
Virtus Entella players
US Catanzaro 1929 players
Fidelis Andria 2018 players
SEF Torres 1903 players
Cavese 1919 players


title: List of Brazilian films of 1930

text:
A list of films produced in Brazil in 1930:

See also
 1930 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1930 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1930
Films


title: Sophie Diez

text:
Sophie Diez or Dietz (née Hartmann) (1 September 1820 – 3 May 1887) was a German soprano who sang leading roles with the Munich Hofoper (now known as the Bavarian State Opera) in a career spanning 40 years. She is most remembered today for having created the role of Magdalena in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, but she also sang in the world premieres of several other operas by lesser-known German composers.

Life and career
Diez was born in Munich and received her early training from her father who was a musician in the city. In 1836 she joined the chorus of the Munich Hofoper where the conductor Franz Lachner noticed the beauty of her voice and gave her further training. She made her debut as a soloist on 1 December 1836 as Angelina in Cherubini's The Water Carrier and in February of the following year appeared as Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph. Shortly thereafter she was engaged as permanent member of the company. She went on to sing many leading roles with the Hofoper and appeared in several world premieres. By 1867, she had sung 122 roles in 94 operas, including all the female roles (apart from Marcellina) in The Marriage of Figaro and all six female roles in The Magic Flute.

In addition to her performances in Munich, Diez also appeared as a guest singer in several other German cites, including Stuttgart, Cologne, Dresden, and Hamburg. In 1866, she was given the title Kammersängerin by Prince Luitpold  and a jubilee celebration was staged by the Hofoper to mark the 30th anniversary of her debut. Diez officially retired from the company in December 1877, although she made one more appearance the following April as Nandl in one of Ignaz Lachner's Alpine Scenes, Das Versprechen hinter'm Herd.

In 1841, she had married Ernst Friedrich Diez, who was 15 years her senior and sang as a tenor with the Munich Hofoper from 1837 to 1849. They appeared in several productions together, including the Munich premiere of Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann in July 1841—she as Marie and he as the Marquis de Chateauneuf. Sophie Diez died in Munich in 1887 at the age of 66 and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof cemetery. Her husband died five years later. Richard Strauss dedicated several of his early songs to her, including his 1879 Für Musik, a setting of Emanuel Geibel's poem "Nun die Schatten dunkeln"
("Now the Shadows Darken").

Roles created
Sophie Diez sang in the following world premieres:
Lauretta in Franz Xaver Pentenrieder's Die Nacht zu Paluzzi, Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 2 October 1840
Käthchen in Heinrich Esser's Die zwei Prinzen, Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 10 April 1845
Ascanio in Franz Lachner's Benvenuto Cellini, Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 7 October 1849
Magdalena in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 21 June 1868
Mathilde in Josef Rheinberger's Die sieben Raben, Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, 23 May 1869

References

German operatic sopranos
1820 births
1887 deaths
19th-century German women opera singers
Singers from Munich


title: Delphine Dryden

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Delphine Dryden (born December 1, 1967) is an American author of contemporary romance, erotic romance and steampunk romance fiction.

Career
Dryden was first published in 2008 and has since published over twenty novels and novellas . She currently writes for Berkley Publishing and Harlequin (Carina Press and Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin). Dryden’s work, in particular the award-winning novel The Theory of Attraction, has frequently been cited as an example of nerd romance Dryden has also received critical praise for her steampunk novels. Dryden has been a speaker at events such as the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention, the Romance Writers of America National Conference, and Comicpalooza. Dryden is also a founding member of and regular contributor to the romance, writing and culture blog Wonkomance.com.

Personal life
Dryden currently lives near her hometown of Houston, Texas.

Honors
2012 Romantic Times Magazine July Seal of Excellence Winner (The Theory of Attraction)
2012 Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Award Winner (The Theory of Attraction)
2012 Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence Winner (The Theory of Attraction)
 2013 Phoenix Romance Writers Golden Quill Contest Finalist (The Theory of Attraction)
 2013 EPIC (Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition) Ebook Award Winner (Love With a Chance of Zombies)
 2013 EPIC (Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition) Ebook Award Finalist (The Lamplighter’s Love)
 2013 Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Award Nominee (The Seduction Hypothesis)

Bibliography
The Science of Temptation series (Carina Press):

 The Theory of Attraction (January 2012)
 The Seduction Hypothesis (May 2013)
 The Principle of Desire (December 2013)

The Steam and Seduction series (Berkley Sensation):
 Gossamer Wing (November 2013)
 Scarlet Devices (February 2014)
 Gilded Lily (July 2014)

The Tropical Trysts series (Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin):
 Mai Tai for Two (May 2014)
 Sex on the Beach (July 2014)

The Truth and Lies series (Ellora’s Cave):
 How to Tell a Lie (November 2009)
 Art of the Lie (September 2010)
 Naked Truth (October 2010)
 Tangled Truth (June 2011)
 Tell Me No Lies (November 2012)

Other Titles (Ellora’s Cave):
 Snow Job (November 2008)
 When in Rio (February 2009)
 Xmas Spark (December 2010)
 Roses and Chains (April 2011)
 The Lamplighter’s Love (September 2011)
 Love With a Chance of Zombies (September 2011)
 Toy Box (September 2012)
 Intermezzo (March 2013)

References

External links
 Official Website
 Facebook Author Page
 Berkley
 Harlequin

Writers from Houston
Steampunk writers
Living people
American romantic fiction writers
1967 births
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: New World String Quartet

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The New World String Quartet was a classical music string quartet formed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, in 1975 and active through the early 1990s. Founding members were: Yosef Yankelev and William Patterson, violins; Yuri Vasilaki, viola; and Ross Harbaugh, cello. These were also the members in a 1981 Minnesota Public Radio interview and performance. As of 1983, members were: Curtis J. Macomber and William Patterson, violins; Robert Dan, viola; and Ross T. Harbaugh, cello. These are also the members listed on the quartet's recording of Ben Johnston's
String Quartet No. 6. As of 1985, members were: Curtis Macomber and Vahn Armstrong, violins; Robert Dan, viola; and Ross Harbaugh, cello. Members on recordings in the late 1980s and early 1990s included Curtis Macomber and Vahn Armstrong, violins; Benjamin Simon, viola; and Ross Harbaugh, cello. The quartet also recorded a Brahms piano quintet with Derek Han, piano.

The quartet won the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music award in 1979. In 1980 the New World String Quartet became the first quartet-in-residence at Harvard University. The quartet was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque in 1991 for their recording of the string quartets of Debussy, Ravel, and Henri Dutilleux.

Discography

 Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 6 (1980) on the Walter W. Naumburg Award LP record
 Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C-Minor, Op. 51; String Quartet No. 2 in A-Minor, Op. 51
 Brahms: Quintet in F-Minor; String Quartet No.3
 Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D-minor 'Death and the Maiden'; String Quartet No.9 in G-minor
 French Music For String Quartet: Debussy: String Quartet in G minor; Ravel: String Quartet in F; Dutilleux: Ainsli La Nuit
 Janacek: The Two String Quartets

References

Musical groups established in 1975
American string quartets
Harvard University musical groups
Grand Prix du Disque winners


title: Junk Mail (book)

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Junk Mail is a 1995 book by Will Self published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It features pieces of writing centred on drugs and the counter-culture, taken from writing in British newspapers such as The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent. It incorporates a wide range of writing, such as an article on drug dealers in the East End of London called "New Crack City", reflections on the nature of slacking, travel essays on whirling dervishes in Turkey as well as life in Israel and Ulster, and a script of sorts for a rock video by the group Massive Attack. It also includes dialogues with Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard and William Burroughs and profiles on Thomas Szasz, Damien Hirst, Tim Willocks and Bret Easton Ellis.

References

1995 non-fiction books


title: Sony Alpha 77 II

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The Sony Alpha 77 II (ILCA-77M2), stylized as the Sony α77 II, is an interchangeable-lens camera aimed at the advanced amateur. It replaced the Sony Alpha 77 model in June 2014. It is similar in design to its predecessor, including the use of a SLT transparent mirror and electronic viewfinder.

Specifications
The successor of Sony Alpha 77 model, the Sony Alpha 77 II is similar in design to its antecedent, including the use of a SLT transparent mirror and electronic viewfinder. It features a BIONZ X image processor and is compatible with A-mount lenses. GPS has been dropped in favour of Wi-Fi and NFC. The focus area is wider and denser, with a class-leading 79 AF points including 15 crossing sensor combined with subject tracking and eye-focus capabilities. The SLT design avoids the need to flip the mirror out of the way with every shot, allowing a rapid 12 fps burst speed for up to 60 frames in full resolution. Unlike most DSLR cameras, the phase-detect focus unit is operational during live-view and video (which is Full HD at 60p/50p and 24p/25p). The resolution of the camera is 24 megapixels. Sony's A-mount cameras feature in-body image stabilisation and the α77 II is the first of such to also stabilise the viewfinder when taking still images. ISO ranges from 50 to 25600. APS-C sized CMOS sensor.

AVCHD and MPEG-4 recording of full HD at 1920 x 1080 (1080i60 / 1080i50 @ 24M (Mode "FX"),
1080i60 / 1080i50 @ 17M (Mode "FH"),
1080p60 / 1080p50 @ 28M (Mode "PS"),
1080p25 @ 24M (Mode "FX"),
1080p24 @ 24M (Mode "FX"),
1080p25 @ 17M (Mode "FH"),
1080p24 @ 17M (Mode "FH"),
1440×1080 @ 12M,
VGA @ 3M)

Reception
Angela Nicholson of TechRadar gave the camera four and a half stars, calling the unit "great" as a whole for enthusiasts wanting to shoot "a range of subjects in a wide variety of conditions." Callum McInerney-Riley of Amateur Photographer regarded the autofocus, graphical user interface and "comprehensive" wireless features as pros to the camera, but cited the harshness of the noise reduction and overexposure due to its translucent mirror, along with its lack of a GPS, as cons. Moritz Wanke of Chip gave it a rating of 93.8 percent, concluding it to be an improvement of its predecessor and the best camera containing an APS-C image sensor in the market. Writing for Zoom.nl, Cees de Jonge gave it a 7.9 out of 10, being surprised at its SLT designation, which he considered "passé".

Gallery

References
 General
 Sony UK: α77 II A-mount Camera with APS-C sensor
 Specific

Cameras introduced in 2014
77 II
Live-preview digital cameras


title: List of Brazilian films of 1931

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A list of films produced in Brazil in 1931:

See also
 1931 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1931 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1931
Films


title: Taking My Parents to Burning Man

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Taking My Parents to Burning Man is a 2014 Canadian documentary film directed by Joel Ashton McCarthy and Bryant H. Boesen that follows the latter's adventures with his 60-year-old parents at Burning Man. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation, journey and adventures at the "least-likely family vacation imaginable."

Production
Boesen wanted to make a documentary about Burning Man to help define it for people who have never been. According to Boesen, it was his parents' decision to attend Burning Man; as he was planning to shoot a documentary anyway and they were already attending, he asked if he could follow them on their first visit.

Boesen approached McCarthy while the two were finishing film school to make the documentary. In April 2012, after McCarthy maxed out two credit cards, the pair launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. After successfully raising over $10,000, Kickstarter refused to deliver payment due to an "administrative glitch" and despite Boesen having proof of being a dual US/Canadian citizen. The incident is incorporated into the feature. In December 2012 they relaunched their campaign, this time using indiegogo and again reached their $10,000 goal.

Their journey took them on a road-trip from Vancouver, British Columbia to northern Nevada in a 35-foot school bus. About 40 hours of footage was shot, including on-location from August 27 to September 3, 2012, with the approval of Black Rock City, LLC.

Reaction
Selling out seven consecutive screenings, it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at both the 2014 Sonoma International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere, and the 2014 Newport Beach Film Festival. It also won the Micro-Budget Feature Award at the 2014 Maui Film Festival. It held its Canadian premiere at the Rio Theatre in May 2014.

Peter Mehlman described it as, "Funny, oddly heart-warming and beautifully produced... portrays Burning Man honestly." Fellow Vancouver filmmakers the Soska sisters called it, "the real spirit of Burning Man." Chelsea Rush praised its depiction of the family bonding. Tommy Cook, although liking it, mentions it becomes, "an exercise in creativity-shunned, where the only answer to rampant corporate greed and the monotony of the '9 to 5' is to regress back to a constant state of adolescence."

References

2014 documentary films
2014 films
Canadian documentary films
Documentary films about Burning Man
Films shot in Nevada
Documentary films about families
Kickstarter-funded documentaries
Indiegogo projects
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films


title: Hans Van de Bovenkamp

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Hans Van de Bovenkamp (born 1938) is a Dutch-born American sculptor. Van de Bovenkamp was born in Garderen, Holland in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1958. He is best known for his large scale abstract work in bronze, stainless steel, painted steel, and aluminum. Van de Bovenkamp's works are often influenced by myth, symbol, and nature. He is a member of the International Sculpture Center, the New York Sculptors Guild, and the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Early life
Hans Van de Bovenkamp was born in Garderen, Holland to parents Maria Johanna Le Jeu and Jan Albertus van de Bovenkamp in 1938. Van de Bovenkamp studied at the School of Architecture in Amsterdam, Netherlands until 1961. Following his parents emigration to Ontario, Canada, Van de Bovenkamp came to the United States to attend the University of Michigan in 1958. In 1958, during his first year of university, he was an apprentice for Richard Jennings, a sculptor of large kinetic fountains. Van de Bovenkamp studied with Joseph Goto, a sculptor and master welder from 1958 until 1961.

Career

Van de Bovenkamp moved to New York City and became a part of the 10th street gallery co-op movement following his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1961. In 1962, his first solo exhibit took place at the Little Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. The following year, Van de Bovenkamp developed sculptural ideas for the windows of Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue. Van de Bovenkamp began manufacturing limited edition fountains in a studio on Christopher Street in New York in 1967. He had fifteen assistants, including George Rhoads and Sybil and David Yurman. Together they produced more than five thousand fountains worldwide. Over the next ten years, Van de Bovenkamp exhibited his sculptures throughout the United States, including in New York City at New York University, Tiffany & Co., 10 Downtown, and Bryant Park; at Houston, Texas Contemporary Arts Museum; and at both the Stamford Museum and University of Connecticut. He is the founder of the New York's 10 Downtown project. His work has also been displayed in Italy, Lebanon, Venezuela, Switzerland, and Canada. Van de Bovenkamp's works have been featured in ten museums, embassies, and sculpture center shows, as well as numerous universities, public gardens and institutes. Kevin Miller has been Van de Bovenkamp's assistant since 1995.

Van de Bovenkamp received his first commission in 1966 to design a copper fountain made of cubist shapes for the Georgetown Plaza, at Eight Street and Broadway in Manhattan with his brother, Gerrit. He received another commission to create a sculpture on a highway stop along Nebraska's Interstate 80 to commemorate the United States Bicentennial in 1976. The sculpture has intersecting curving pathways of metal near the ground, then sends dual angled shafts, symbolizing road travel, approximately forty feet into the sky. This project, Roadway Confluence, was funded primarily by private contributions with additional financial support from the state government. Van de Bovenkamp was commissioned to create the Mariner's Gateway in 1968. The sculpture is located on the Hudson River in Haverstraw, New York.

On September 9, 2000, the Danubiana Portal and 16 additional Van de Bovenkamp sculptures were purchased for the opening of the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Slovakia.

Van de Bovenkamp began his "Menhirs" sculpture series in 2001. The sculptures consist of stacked balanced shapes. Hans was influenced by the piled boulders and stones from Stonehenge in England, the Baths at Virgin Gorda, and desert landscapes and conservation areas worldwide.

In 2002, Van de Bovenkamp moved to the Twins Oak Farm, a horse farm in Sagaponack, New York. He renovated the barns and buildings into his home, studio, and gallery. Most of the horse pastures were turned into landscapes for sculptures. He also created a sculpture garden on the grounds of Twins Oak Farm.

Van de Bovenkamp has work in the permanent collections of the City University of New York, Stony Brook University, Texas A&M University, University of Missouri, Jing'an Park in China, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the Butler Institute of University Art Museum. Van de Bovenkamp's sculptures are also a part of private collection of the Rockefeller family corporate collections including Neiman Marcus, the Georgetown Plaza building, the Hyatt Regency, the Louis K. Meisel gallery and the Manhattan house. Art created by Van de Bovenkamp has been featured in group and solo exhibitions including exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Oakland Museum of California, the Chicago Fair, the Shanghai Art Fair, the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery and the Sculpturesite Galleries.

Van de Bovenkamp served on the advisory board of the Institute for Symbolic Studies and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. He is currently represented by Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, Florida, Baker Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, Sculpturesite, Sonoma, California, and Samuel Lynne Galleries, Dallas, Texas.

Influence
Van de Bovenkamp's ideas about creating effect through scale were inspired by his studies of stele and other sculptural structures of ancient cultures during his travels to Mexico, North Africa, India, and Nepal.

Awards
Van de Bovenkamp was awarded the Lowe sculpture award in 1964 for a "weldage" made of metal shapes. In 1976, he exhibited at the American Institute of Arts and Letters, and won the Nebraska Bicentennial Sculpture Competition in Sydney, Nebraska. Van de Bovenkamp won the Sanctuary Design Competition sponsored by the Omega Holistic Health Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York in 1996. Guild Hall awarded Van de Bovenkamp the best sculpture award in 2003 in East Hampton, New York.

Personal life
Hans Van de Bovenkamp married twice, to Janet Bovenkamp Stuart and to artist and poet Siv Cedering, both deceased. He has two sons, Eric and Brett Van de Bovenkamp, and a daughter Cody Parker.

See also
 Gateway (Van de Bovenkamp), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.

References

1938 births
Living people
20th-century American sculptors
Dutch architects
Dutch emigrants to the United States
Dutch sculptors
Dutch male sculptors
University of Michigan alumni
People from Barneveld
21st-century American sculptors


title: List of Brazilian films of 1932

text:
A list of films produced in Brazil in 1932:

See also
 1932 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1932 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1932
Films


title: M. nepalensis

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M. nepalensis may refer to:

 Mahonia nepalensis, an evergreen shrub
 Mallinella nepalensis, an ant spider
 Mastax nepalensis, a ground beetle
 Meconopsis nepalensis, a plant containing beta-Carbolines
 Medasina nepalensis, an Asian moth
 Melittia nepalensis, a clearwing moth
 Microzargus nepalensis, a ground beetle
 Mimocolliuris nepalensis, a ground beetle
 Monocercops nepalensis, a Nepalese moth
 Mordellistena nepalensis, a tumbling flower beetle
 Musa nepalensis, a plant native to Asia


title: List of Brazilian films of 1933

text:
A list of films produced in Brazil in 1933:

See also
 1933 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1933 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1933
Films


title: Ice Age Giants

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Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, first shown in the UK on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 May 2013. The series steps back to 20,000 years in time and follows the trail of the prehistoric mammals in the ice age on North America and European region that lived through it to life by using the latest scientific knowledge and a little graphic wizardry.

The series was presented by Dr. Alice Roberts and composed by David Mitcham.

Broadcast

British television
Ice Age Giants debuted on British television on 19 May 2013, broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD, which consisted of total three episodes.

International
The series premiered in Australia on Animal Planet on 24 June 2015.

Episodes

Merchandise

DVDs
In United States and Canada (Region 1), a single DVD was released by BBC Warner on 13 January 2015.

As for Australia and New Zealand (Region 4), it was released by ABC DVD/Village Roadshow on 6 August 2014.

See also
 Wild New World
 Planet Earth
 The Blue Planet
 Frozen Planet

References

External links

2013 British television series debuts
2013 British television series endings
2010s British documentary television series
2010s British television miniseries
BBC high definition shows
BBC television documentaries
BBC television miniseries
English-language television shows
Nature educational television series
Documentary films about prehistoric life


title: List of Brazilian films of 1934

text:
A list of films produced in Brazil in 1934:

See also
 1934 in Brazil

External links
Brazilian films of 1934 at the Internet Movie Database

Brazil
1934
Films


title: Nicole Franzel

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Nicole Ann Franzel-Arroyo (born June 30, 1992) is an American television personality who was born in Ubly, Michigan. She graduated from college as an ER nurse in 2014. She is best known for her appearance on Big Brother 16 in 2014, winning Big Brother 18 in 2016 and placing third on Big Brother 22: All Stars in 2020.

Big Brother 16
Upon her entry onto Big Brother 16, Franzel was the second youngest contestant in the house. She applied for the show as a self-proclaimed 'super-fan.' During her season, she earned a reputation for being a potential competition threat, winning the Head of Household role three times in Weeks 3, 6 and 7 (although due to the rules of the Battle of the Block competition, she was dethroned on two of these reigns when her nominees won safety). She also won safety from eviction in Weeks two and five courtesy of the Battle of the Block competition. On Day 56, she was evicted by a vote of 6-0 and became the third member of the jury and the first person in Big Brother history to win the Head of Household title, be dethroned by the Battle of the Block competition and get evicted in the same week. Franzel returned to the house Day 63 after winning the Battle Back competition, where one of the first four jurors would return to the house. On Day 71, Franzel was nominated for a sixth consecutive time and was re-evicted by a vote of 4-0 as the fifth member of the jury. Franzel voted for Derrick Levasseur to win Big Brother 16 on finale night. Franzel was revealed to be among the top three vote-getters for "America's Favorite Houseguest", alongside Zach Rance and Donny Thompson, the eventual winner of the prize.

Throughout the course of the show, Franzel found love with fellow houseguest Hayden Voss. The couple went on to date from September 2014 to early 2016.

Big Brother 18
After her appearance on Big Brother 16, Franzel later became a returnee contestant alongside James Huling, Da'vonne Rogers and Frank Eudy on Big Brother 18. Franzel earned the power of Head of Household two times during the season, first in week 1 and second in week 10. She also secured the Power of Veto twice, first in week 10 and again in week 12. Unlike in her first season, Franzel opted for a less aggressive strategy to avoid being nominated for eviction, which proved effective as Franzel avoided nomination for eviction until the final four. Ultimately, she survived eviction. Franzel entered finale night having won the second part of the three-part Final Head of Household, advancing her to the third and final competition against Paul Abrahamian. Abrahamian defeated Franzel, but chose to bring her to the Final Two. Franzel beat Abrahamian in a 5–4 vote in the Us version, making her the first female houseguest to defeat a male in the Final Two.

During the show's original airing, Franzel and fellow houseguest Corey Brooks partook in a showmance. The two dated from September 2016-December 2016.

The Amazing Race 31
Franzel competed in The Amazing Race 31 alongside boyfriend-turned-fiance and now husband Victor Arroyo.  Season 31 consisted of teams of contestants who had previously appeared on either Survivor, Big Brother or The Amazing Race. They placed fourth of 11 teams overall and were the last team standing who had not previously competed on The Amazing Race.

Big Brother 22

Franzel (who was referred to as "Nicole F." to avoid confusion with fellow All Stars houseguest Nicole Anthony of Big Brother 21 fame) returned for Big Brother 22: All-Stars alongside 15 other houseguests. Franzel was one of two former winners to enter the house, the other being Big Brother 14 winner Ian Terry. Franzel won her first and only Head of Household and Power of Veto competitions in week 10. Franzel played in the three-part Final Head of Household competitions against Cody Calafiore and Enzo Palumbo, winning the first part. On finale night, Franzel competed against Calafiore in the final competition, where Calafiore defeated Franzel by one point. He opted to evict Franzel, placing her third amongst the other houseguests. Franzel voted for Calafiore to win.

Franzel made history by living in the Big Brother house the most days, with 255 days.

Personal life
Franzel was born and raised in Ubly, Michigan. Franzel attended Ubly High School, where she played on the women's basketball team. Franzel has been in a relationship with fellow Big Brother 18 houseguest Victor Arroyo since early 2017, and the two became engaged on September 8, 2018 in a special appearance on an episode of Big Brother 20. On January 11, 2021, Franzel announced on Twitter that she was expecting her first child with Arroyo. Franzel announced on her Coco Caliente podcast that she and Arroyo would wed in March 2021, after postponing the wedding three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Franzel and Arroyo were married on March 16, 2021. Their son Victor "Arrow" Arroyo IV was born in July 2021.

Filmography

References

1992 births
Living people
People from Huron County, Michigan
Big Brother (American TV series) winners
American nurses
American women nurses
Participants in American reality television series


title: Cody Calafiore

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Cody Christopher Calafiore (born December 13, 1990) is an American reality television personality.  He was the runner up on the reality television series Big Brother 16 in 2014. He was later crowned the winner of Big Brother 22: All-Stars in 2020.

Early life and education
Calafiore was born on December 13, 1990, in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Calafiore attended Monmouth University where he was a member of the soccer team before transferring to Temple University where he graduated from the Fox School of Business and Management with a Bachelors in business administration. He played for the Temple Owls soccer team from 2010 to 2012.

He trialed with the Columbus Crew in pre-season, before an ankle injury ended his soccer career.

Big Brother

Season 16
Calafiore entered the Big Brother house on Day 1 with the first group of contestants. On Day 2, he formed an alliance with Derrick Levasseur called "The Hitmen". Throughout the season, the two secretly worked together with the ultimate goal of being the final 2 players left in the game on finale night. Calafiore initially won the Head of Household (HOH) in Week 2, but his victory was rescinded after producers saw him touch the ground before he hit the buzzer. In week 4, Calafiore won HOH alongside Frankie Grande and nominated Victoria Rafaeli and Brittany Martinez for eviction. Calafiore's nominees lost the Battle of the Block competition, therefore, Calafiore remained HOH and Grande was dethroned.

In Week 8, Calafiore was nominated for eviction alongside Caleb Reynolds by HOH Grande. Calafiore and Reynolds lost the BOTB competition and remained on the block as a result. Calafiore was then nominated aside his former ally Zach Rance after Grande used the POV on Caleb and backdoored Rance. Calafiore survived eviction. In Week 9, he won his second HOH and became the first solo HOH of the season. He nominated Donny Thompson and Nicole Franzel for eviction. The same week, Calafiore won his first Power of Veto and chose to keep the nominations the same, which resulted in Thompson's eviction. In Week 11, Calafiore was nominated alongside Rafaeli by Grande, the HOH. However, due to a twist that reset the game by one week, both Calafiore and Rafaeli got off the block. In Week 12, Calafiore won his second and third Powers of Veto of the season. On Day 90, he was the sole vote to evict Reynolds. On Day 97, he won the final HOH of the season. He evicted Rafaeli and took his ally, Levasseur, to the final 2, a move considered by fans as one of the worst in the show's history. Calafiore became season's runner-up, losing to Levasseur on a 7–2 vote, winning $50,000.

Calafiore's older brother Paulie was a contestant on Big Brother 18, where he placed eighth.

Season 22

In 2020, Calafiore returned to compete in the show's second All-Star season. He was HoH in weeks 1, 8, 9 and 12, giving him a total of 4 HoH victories and reigns. He won the PoV in weeks 3, 8, 9 and 11, giving him a total 4 PoV victories. He made it to the final 3 without being nominated. At the final 3, Calafiore won final HoH, becoming the first ever houseguest to win the final HoH twice, as well as the first ever houseguest to make it to the final 2 without ever going on the block. Calafiore won the show by a unanimous 9–0 vote. He became just the second houseguest in Big Brother U.S. history to have won in the Final 2 (Big Brother 22) and to have lost in the Final 2 (Big Brother 16) after Dan Gheesling won Big Brother 10 and finished runner-up in Big Brother 14. He also became the second ever houseguest not to receive an eviction vote against him and received all the jury votes after Gheesling.

Career
In 2014, Calafiore appeared in an ad campaign for American underwear brand C-IN2 and was in several issues of Seventeen as part of their Hot Guys Panel. Prior to his television appearance, Calafiore spent two years as an event host at Total Entertainment in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was also a sales associate at ADP for six months in 2015. Following his appearance on Big Brother 16, Calafiore signed with New York-based modeling agency Soul Artist Management. He has since appeared in Winq Magazine, Men's Fitness, LOVE Magazine, Risbel Magazine, and three editorials for The Fashionisto. Calafiore has appeared in fashion shows as a model for Malan Breton, Gents, and Ricardo Seco. In 2016 Calafiore co-starred in the independent film What Happened Last Night. Calafiore joined Keller Williams Realty, representing Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in October, 2019. In July 2021, he began a podcast with fellow Big Brother winner Derrick Levasseur called "The Winner's Circle" where they discuss the current season of Big Brother. In January 2023, Calafiore appeared as a contestant on Peacock's reality TV series The Traitors.

Filmography

Personal Life
On 10-22-22 , Cody announced his engagement to his girlfriend of seven years, Cristie Laratta

References

External links

 Official Cody Calafiore Facebook

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title: Derrick Levasseur

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Derrick Levasseur (born February 3, 1984) is an American television personality and private investigator from Providence, Rhode Island. He is best known for winning the reality television series Big Brother 16 in 2014. On March 31, 2016, Levasseur confirmed that he would be part of an upcoming Martin Sheen-produced series Hard Evidence: Is OJ Innocent on Investigation Discovery. Prior to Big Brother, Levasseur was a police officer in Central Falls, Rhode Island. He was one of the hosts on 2 seasons of Breaking Homicide on Investigation Discovery. Derrick also co-hosts two podcasts: one about true crime called Crime Weekly with YouTuber Stephanie Harlowe, as well one with fellow Big Brother winner Cody Calafiore called The Winner's Circle where they analyze the current season of Big Brother.

Big Brother 16
On Day 2, Levasseur formed an alliance and final two deal with fellow HouseGuest Cody Calafiore called "The Hitmen". Levasseur was also a member of the Team America alliance with fellow HouseGuests Frankie Grande and Donny Thompson, earning $75,000 by completing tasks as assigned by online voters. Levasseur won Head of Household (HOH) in weeks 3, 8, 10, and 12. He was the sole HOH for three out of those four weeks. He didn't sit on the block until the Final Three, making him the first HouseGuest to accomplish this since Danielle Reyes and Jason Guy, both of Big Brother 3. On finale night, when Calafiore won Head of Household and chose to take Levasseur to the final two, Levasseur won the game with a 7-2 jury vote, earning him $500,000. This, coupled with previously earned Team America prize money, resulted in a grand total of $575,000 for Levasseur.

Professional career
Levasseur is a decorated police sergeant from Central Falls, Rhode Island. Hired at only twenty years old, he was one of the youngest officers in the department's history and worked in both the Patrol Division and the Detective Division. He was later assigned to the Special Investigations Unit as an undercover detective, where he had the opportunity to work with the ATF, DEA, FBI, and US Secret Service, resulting in numerous arrests and seizures. In addition to his experience in the field, he has advanced training in crime scene analysis, interview and interrogation techniques, and undercover operations.

In April 2007, while working patrol, Levasseur responded to a 911 call for help. Upon arrival, he was informed by the caller that Selvin M. Garrido Morales was attempting to stab his friend and girlfriend with a knife. When Levasseur and other officers confronted Morales, Morales proceeded to charge at the officers with a knife. Levasseur shot and killed Morales (Levasseur described it as a suicide by police). He and the other officers involved were cleared of any wrongdoing by a grand jury. Throughout the course of his career, Levasseur received multiple awards, including letters of recognition, unit citations, commendations, and the Medal of Valor, which is the highest honor a sworn officer can receive. In 2017, he was the recipient of the American Red Cross “Hero Award” after saving seven people from a burning building. Levasseur was a police officer for 13 years. He retired in 2017 to open his own private investigation firm, Break Investigative Group.

Personal life
Levasseur married Jana Blythe Donlin on April 30, 2011. Together, they have two daughters, Tenley Rose and Peyton.

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1984 births
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People from Providence, Rhode Island
Big Brother (American TV series) winners
American police officers
Television personalities from Rhode Island
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