title: Danielle Andersen

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Danielle Andersen (born May 21, 1984) is an American professional poker player previously sponsored by Ultimate Poker. Andersen's competitive nature led her to pick up the game after watching her future husband, and friends, play in college in 2003. Finding herself winning on a regular basis, she made a $50 deposit and never looked back.

Andersen's nickname is “dmoongirl.” Andersen was consistently found playing $25–$50 6-max cash games online – sometimes as high as $200–$400 prior to Black Friday. As one of the focal points in the online poker documentary, “Bet Raise Fold,” her life as a professional female poker player, wife, and mother was a highlighted character arcs in the documentary. The success of “Bet Raise Fold” catapulted her to becoming an even more recognizable face and name within the poker community.

While Andersen is primarily a cash game player she has played in some WPT and WSOP events. Her live tournament earnings total $136,180

In compliment to her poker career, upon signing with Ultimate Poker "dmoongirl" took her experience in front of the camera and became the face of Ultimate Poker's web series, ME vs. U. In ME vs. U, Andersen competes against fellow Ultimate Poker pro, Dan O'Brien in challenges. The winner gets a reward and the loser is punished.

Personal life
Danielle Andersen was born and raised in Minnesota. In 2014, Andersen moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with her family to pursue her online poker career with the United States' first regulated online poker site, Ultimate Poker. Her early adult life was captured on film in the documentary "Bet Raise Fold." A film about the coming of age of online poker, Andersen's life story unfolded. She was born and raised in rural Minnesota where she lived with her husband, Kory, and son, Easton. She has been supporting her family with online poker since 2004. Bluff Magazine named her one of poker's "Leading Ladies." BET RAISE FOLD followed Danielle as she pursued her dreams of sponsorship in order to secure a better future for her family. Years after the documentary premiered, Andersen signed a sponsorship deal with Ultimate Poker.

Poker
Andersen has been playing poker since 2004 focusing mainly on Texas Hold'em cash games. Although online poker is her focus, Andersen also plays some live poker as well. During the summers, she can be found playing tournaments at the World Series of Poker as well as cash games.

Andersen is a frequent guest on the TV show Poker Night in America.

References

External links
 Danielle Andersen on Twitter

American poker players
Female poker players
Poker players from the Las Vegas Valley
1984 births
Living people


title: Edward Kielley

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Edward Kielley or  Kielly (ca. 1790 – March 8, 1855) was a naval officer and surgeon in Newfoundland. He is remembered primarily for his role in a case Kielley v. Carson which established a limit on the powers granted to assemblies in British colonies.

He was born in St. John's and became an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1814; he was promoted to surgeon the following year. In 1818, he set up practice in St. John's. Kielley married Amelia Jackson in 1822. In 1824, he was acquitted of the charge of assault with intent to commit rape on a woman from Twillingate. Kielly became surgeon for the St. John's jail in 1826. He subsequently returned to service in the Navy but was discharged, having been declared an invalid, and returned to St. John's, where he returned to service as jail surgeon. In 1832, he became a member of the board of health and medical officer for St. John's. Kielley was named district surgeon in 1834. Although a Roman Catholic, he was seen as aligned against the pro-Catholic reformers.

Kielley v. Carson
In August 1838, Kielley quarrelled with John Kent and threatened him with injury. Kent brought the issue before the assembly, claiming that his parliamentary privilege had been violated. The assembly interviewed witnesses, a warrant was issued by the speaker William Carson and he was arrested by the assembly's sergeant-at-arms. Kielley was brought before the assembly; refusing to apologize, he called Kent "a liar and a coward". He was sent to jail but was released by the sheriff on a writ of habeas corpus issued by George Lilly, an assistant justice of the Supreme Court. The assembly ordered the arrest of Lilly and the sheriff. At this point, governor Sir Henry Prescott prorogued the assembly. The Supreme Court of Newfoundland found in favour of the assembly in December 1838 but this decision was overturned by the  judicial committee of the British Privy Council in January 1843, who found that colonial parliaments did not necessarily have all the privileges associated with the British House of Commons. In 1844, the assembly found that Kielley should be compensated out of public funds for his legal expenses in the matter.

Kielley died in St. John's in 1855.

References

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Year of birth uncertain
1855 deaths
Newfoundland Colony people
Canadian surgeons
Royal Navy Medical Service officers


title: Mistress of English Literature

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Mistress of English Literature (M.E.L.) was a master's degree in English—without ancient, modern, or foreign language requirements—conferred mostly at American women's colleges during the 19th and early 20th centuries.  The acronym also stood for Master of English Literature.  The degree was similar to a Lit. M. or M. Lit. degree.  The term "Mistress," in this context, is the feminine form of "Master." In the era of this degree, both forms were interchangeable depending on the gender of the degree holder.

Variations on the degree, in name and course studies, included Mistress of Polite Literature (M.P.L.)

References

Master's degrees


title: California Agricultural Labor Relations Board

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The Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) is an agency of the California state government that administers the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in the state. The ALRB has two functions: To conduct, oversee, and certify representation elections, and to investigate unfair labor practice (ULP) charges and pursue remedies. Administrative law judges and agency staff adjudicate most cases, with the five-member Board serving as a final arbiter. The ALRB is overseen by the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.

Legal controversies

De-certification of UFW at major fruit farm

In 2013, farmworkers for one of California's largest fruit growers requested the ALRB to supervise an election to decertify the United Farm Workers as their representative, citing the union's failure to act in their interests. ALRB attorneys tried to prevent the decertification elections from taking place. A California state assemblyman representing the Central Valley area accused the ARLB of being a “rogue agency” that is “out of control.” The ALRB's regional director tried to prevent the workers from voting, leading workers to sue the ALRB to force agency to permit them to choose whether or not to be represented by the UFW.

A California Superior Court judge hearing a related case said that “the ALRB seems to be pre-deciding” the farm workers’ election results. “So the Court is very suspect of . . . the ALRB’s position here. It almost seems like it’s in cahoots” with the UFW,” Judge Jeffrey Y. Hamilton, Jr., said. “You have a responsibility, unlike an advocate for one side, to bring out all of the evidence, not just evidence that is supportive of the UFW,” the judge said. “And it appears to the Court that’s what you’re doing.”

The three-member ALRB ordered its legal team to permit the vote to proceed. After the vote, held on November 5, 2013, the ALRB general counsel prevented the farm workers’ votes from being counted, citing alleged irregularities and employer intimidation. The general counsel backed the ALRB regional director's move to lock the workers' ballots in a safe and did not count the votes. In 2014, a federal court gave the go-ahead for a farm worker to proceed with a lawsuit against the ALRB, for violating the workers’ Constitutional rights.

In May 2014, the ALRB stated that it had no “timetable” for counting the votes, and later began proceedings to destroy the ballots before it could investigate the allegations it raised. News organizations cited the unusual slowness in the investigation, with a lead financial news service suspecting the general counsel's reluctance to count worker ballots that would reject the UFW.

The ALRB's own in-house administrative law judge ruled on September 16, 2015, that the workers' ballots should remain uncounted and should be destroyed.

'En masse segregation of voters'

A federal court found in July 2014 that the ALRB committed an “en masse segregation of voters” to intimidate the workers from de-certifying the UFW, and that ALRB's regional director deliberately “delayed completion of his investigation” of alleged fraud and unfair labor practices in order to prevent a count of the workers’ ballots.

As of May 2015, the ALRB general counsel had not permitted the votes to be counted, and was pressing an ALRB administrative judge to order the farm workers' ballots to be destroyed.

ALRB action ruled unconstitutional

In a separate case, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal ruled in May, 2015, that ALRB violated the law and the "equal protection principles of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to impose a contract on farm employers and workers. ALRB said that it intends to appeal that ruling.

ALRB Forced To Count Gerawan Votes

The ALRB was eventually forced to count the votes in the Gerawan case, with the result of a "No Union" vote, despite the board's many attempt to force unionization on the farmworkers.

References

External links

 Agricultural Labor Relations Board in the California Code of Regulations

Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Labor relations boards
Agricultural labor in the United States
Labor relations in California
Agriculture in California


title: Jackie Chan (disambiguation)

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Jackie Chan (born 1954) is a Hong Kong actor.

Jackie or Jack Chan may also refer to:

Jackie Chan (politician) (born 1938), former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Jackie Chan Hiu-ki (born 1986), better known as Kellyjackie, Hong Kong pop singer
Jackie Chan (character), in Jackie Chan Adventures
Jack Chan, character played by Johnny Ngan
"Jackie Chan" (song), by Tiësto and Dzeko ft. Preme and Post Malone

See also

John Chan (disambiguation)
Jacqui Chan (born 1939), Chinese-Trinidadian dancer


title: St. Philip's Seminary

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Saint Philip's Seminary is an apostolate of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a Catholic society of apostolic life. It has been authorized to grant degrees by the province of Ontario. It accepts students for the priesthood who are sponsored by their diocese or by their religious order.

History
The Philosophy Division of Saint Philip's Seminary was founded in 1986. Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter requested to provide a place for the philosophical preparation of seminarians for the Archdiocese of Toronto, especially those in residence at Serra House, the archdiocesan house of discernment. In the fall of 1988, a residential program providing intellectual training, spiritual and personal formation was made available to seminarians from Dioceses and Religious Communities. In 2007, a three-year course of studies with an expanded set of degrees was provided at the request of the Archdiocese of Toronto and St. Augustine's Seminary. The Congregation for Education in January 2011 instituted the three-year course of philosophical studies as the norm for seminarians.

Principles
 Seminarians need a program of philosophy of a high intellectual calibre, explicitly directed towards the subsequent study of theology;
 Seminarians need a program of formation focussing upon the development of a clear understanding of and a deep love for the priestly vocation.

Status
The seminary has trained men for Roman Catholic priesthood and provided continuing education
courses for adults in matters relating to the Roman Catholic faith since its inception. However, the Ontario legislature officially recognized the seminary as a degree-granting institution through the passage "An Act respecting The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, 1990".

Academic programs

 Bachelor of Catholic Thought (2 years)
 Bachelor of Thomistic Thought (3 or 4 years)
 Master of Theology (3 years)

References

External links

Seminaries and theological colleges in Canada
Education in Toronto
Educational institutions established in 1986
Catholic seminaries in North America
Catholic Church in Ontario
Universities and colleges in Toronto
1986 establishments in Ontario


title: Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar

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Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar (12 March 1891 – 23 November 1959), also known as Chintamanrao Kolhatkar, was a well known Marathi stage actor, director, producer, and playwright.

He joined the Maharashtra Natak Mandali in 1911, but after a year left for the Shri Bharat Natak Mandali. He entered the Kirloskar Natak Mandali in 1914 and helped establish the Balwant Sangit Natak Mandali with Dinanath Mangeshkar in 1918. His greatest performances came in R. G. Gadkari's plays, in Punyaprabhav (1916), Rajsanyas (1922), and especially as the villain Ghanashyam in Bhavbandn in 1919. He tried the movie industry in 1933 and acted as the tyrant Shakara in Vasantsena in 1942. However, he failed in this medium and returned to theatre. He joined Gangadharpant Londhe's Rajaram Sangit Mandali, worked with M. G. Rangnekar's Natyaniketan, and established his own company, Lalit Kala Kunj which gave P. L. Deshpande a break. Kolhatkar was a non-singing actor, who took roles in Hindi and Urdu as well.

Jawaharlal Nehru once called him Bahurupi i.e. 'many-formed', which Kolhatkar used as the title for his autobiography. He also wrote character sketches of several playwrights titled Majhe natakkar, and a five-act play, Purnavatar in 1924.

He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1957, given by  the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.

References

1891 births
1959 deaths
Male actors from Bombay State
Indian male stage actors
Male actors in Marathi theatre
Marathi actors
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi


title: Kanikehia

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Kanikehia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Tortricidae. Its only species, Kanikehia kanikehiana, is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. Both the genus and species were first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. The habitat consists of bamboo and secondary forests at altitudes of about 850 meters.

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is pale brownish, but creamish along the costa. The suffusions and strigulation (fine streaks) are brownish, as are the markings. The hindwings are also brownish.

Etymology
The genus name is based on the type locality of the type species. The specific name also refers to the type locality, Kanikeh.

References

Moths described in 2013
Archipini


title: Print Magic

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Print Magic is a personal publishing program by Epyx. It was a direct competitor to the leading personal publishing program of the time, The Print Shop, by Broderbund. It was released in 1988 for  the Apple II and MS-DOS.

Like The Print Shop, Print Magic lets users create a variety of customized documents, mixing graphics and text, such as:
 Greeting cards
 Invitations
 Award certificates
 Meeting announcements
 Publicity notices
 Scratch pads
 Stationery
 Banners

The program's three disks aren't copy-protected, so users are free to make "working copies" of them. It employs a Macintosh-like GUI, unusual for software of its time. Most commands and features are accessed via pull-down menus or icons. It can also import clip art from other publishing software, such as The Print Shop and Newsroom. It includes the ability to create custom graphics, such as with a paint program.

Print Magic's included clip art was much higher resolution than other packages and scales much better as well. It could also import fonts from Fontrix, a popular font program of the era. The flexibility of the text and graphic layout of documents was one of its most critically acclaimed features, though reviewers noted that sometimes it was troublesome due to the computer's limited resolution. However, it also has a zoom function which allows for pixel-precision placement. Print Magic includes other features, such as the ability to draw various borders on a document, something absent from other contemporary offerings.

Reception
Print Magic was universally praised for its ease of use, versatility and high-quality graphics, especially compared to contemporary offerings. Duncan Teague of Compute! gave the program a favorable review saying, "Print Magic provides solutions to nearly every drawback you've encountered with other printing programs... With its ease of use, intuitive interface, exquisite graphics and text, and superior documentation, Print Magic delivers a fine performance." Peter Staek of Apple2000 said it "combines the virtues of versatility and easy operation," and, "it is a splendid alternative (or complement) to Print Shop". The only criticisms of the program were that it only allowed printing in black and white and that a fairly new ribbon should be used when printing.

Legacy
Print Magic was later incorporated into another Epyx product, Studio of Greetings. Studio of Greetings used Print Magic as its engine to create a variety of greeting cards for any occasion. Released in 1992, Studio of Greetings was available only for MS-DOS.

References

Desktop publishing software
Apple II software
DOS software
1988 software


title: Till dom ensamma

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"Till dom ensamma" is a song written and recorded by Mauro Scocco for his 1991 studio album Dr. Space dagbok, and released as a single the same year. The song charted at Svensktoppen for 22 weeks between 8 December 1991-10 May 1992, topping the chart. It also peaked at number 12 on the Swedish Singles Chart.

Other recordings
Date participated at Dansbandskampen 2009, performing the song, and they also recorded it for their 2010 album Här och nu!.

Charts

References

1991 singles
1991 songs
Swedish-language songs
Swedish pop songs
Songs written by Mauro Scocco
Songs about loneliness


title: Valentine Britten

text:
Valentine Mary Rachel Britten (14 February 1903 – 1 March 1986) was a British librarian who was the BBC's gramophone librarian, responsible for its library of recorded music.

Life
Named after Saint Valentine, Britten was born in Fulham, London. She started with the BBC during the Second World War and worked there until her retirement on 13 December 1963. During that time, she was credited with enlarging the collection from 200,000 discs to half a million. She subsequently ran a guest house belonging and adjacent to Buckfast Abbey in Devon.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 September 1956.

She died in Brighton in 1986, aged 83.

References

1903 births
1986 deaths
People from Fulham
BBC people
English librarians
British women librarians


title: 1939 State of the Union Address

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The 1939 State of the Union Address was given to the 76th United States Congress, on Wednesday, January 4, 1939, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd United States president.  Foreseeing World War II, he said, "In Reporting on the state of the nation, I have felt it necessary on previous occasions to advise the Congress of disturbance abroad and of the need of putting our own house in order in the face of storm signals from across the seas. As this Seventy-sixth Congress opens there is need for further warning.
A war which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted; but it has become increasingly clear that world peace is not assured."  On September 1, 1939, the War in Europe began.

References

State of the Union addresses
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt
81st United States Congress
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
January 1939 events


title: Mersa metochia

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Mersa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Tortricidae. Its only species, Mersa metochia, is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. Both the genus and species were first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. The habitat consists of lower montane forests at altitudes of about 1,470 meters.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is whitish faintly mixed with brownish. The markings are brown. The hindwings are brownish white.

Etymology
The genus name is an anagram of the name of the island of Seram. The specific name refers to the colouration of the species and is derived from Greek metochia (meaning a share).

References

Moths described in 2013
Archipini


title: Moskvitch DM

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The Moskvitch DM (also known as UMZ-412 or UZAM-412) was an automobile engine developed by Avtomobilny Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola (Lenin Komsomol Automobile Factory, AZLK) under the Moskvitch brand, for the Moskvich 412.

Design of the  DM began in response to the increasing power of Western Europe's competitors to the just-introduced Moskvitch 408. The existing engine's displacement could not be enlarged profitably, so the AZLK team, led by Igor Okunev, started with a clean sheet. It had a very stiff five-bearing crankshaft, and a very high-mounted camshaft (resembling the Hillman Avenger). Oknuev, drawing on his experience in motorcycles, saw he could eliminate pushrods and raise the top rev limit, to 5,800 from the earlier engine's 4750.

The cam was chain-driven, and the block, head, sump, rocker cover, intake manifold, and other parts were aluminum. It weighed only , just  more than the previous , but produced . It had removable cylinder liners, with both the aluminum oil pump and distributor driven off the crankshaft.

Prototype engines were delivered in 1964. It was tested in racing in summer 1966, before entering full production, in a higher tuned state, producing , in the Moskvitch G4M racer.

It was produced by Ufa Motorniy Avtomobilny Zavod (Ufa Automobile Engine Factory, UZAM), and the first production engine was completed 15 March 1966. It was first used in the Moskvitch 412 in March 1967. It was also supplied to IZH, which also assembled the 412.

The planned 1975 Moskvitch 356 was to use an enlarged  version of the DM, with twin Zenith carburetors, giving . None was built.

This was followed by the 1975 four door fastback Moskvitch C1 (Series One), with a  version of the DM, offering . It inspired the Moskvitch C3, which was very similar but a five-door hatchback. The engine would have been fitted at an angle from the vertical (like the Chrysler slant six). Neither project reached production.

Notes

Sources
 Thompson, Andy. Cars of the Soviet Union. Somerset, UK: Haynes Publishing, 2008.

Automobile engines
Moskvitch
Gasoline engines


title: 2014 Orica–AIS season

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The 2014 women's road cycling season was the third for the Orica–AIS team, which began as GreenEDGE-AIS in 2012.

Roster

Ages as of 1 January 2014. ()

*On June 17, the team announced the signing of Katrin Garfoot for the remainder of the 2014 season.

Riders who joined the team for the 2014 season

Riders who left the team during or after the 2013 season

Season victories

Results in major races

Single day races

Grand Tours

References

2014 UCI Women's Teams seasons
2014 in Australian sport
2014


title: Homona obtusuncus

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Homona obtusuncus is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. It is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. The habitat consists of lower montane forests.

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is ferruginous cream with pale ferruginous suffusions and rust markings, suffused with black at the edges of the wing. The hindwings are yellowish cream.

Etymology
The species name refers to the shape of the uncus and is derived from Latin obtusus (meaning blunt).

References

Moths described in 2013
Homona (moth)


title: Homona privigena

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Homona privigena is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. It is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. The habitat consists of upper montane forests.

The wingspan is about 27 mm for males and 33 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is brownish cream with brownish strigulation (fine streaks) and brown markings. The hindwings are yellowish cream, but becoming darker apically.

Etymology
The species name refers to close affinity of this species to Homona coffearia and is derived from Latin privigena (meaning a stepdaughter).

References

Moths described in 2013
Homona (moth)


title: 1863 State of the Union Address

text:
The 1863 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the United States Congress, on Tuesday, December 8, 1863, amid the ongoing American Civil War. He said, "The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wars to aid an inexcusable insurrection have been unavailing," referring to the citizens of the Confederate States of America, and their failed efforts to bring the Emperor of France, Napoleon III, or the British Monarch, Queen Victoria, onto their side. He ended with, "The movements by State action for emancipation in several of the States not included in the emancipation proclamation are matters of profound gratulation."

References

State of the Union addresses
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Works by Abraham Lincoln
38th United States Congress
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
Politics of the American Civil War
December 1863 events
State of the Union


title: Sugar & Allied Industries Limited

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Sugar & Allied Industries Limited (SAIL), also referred to as Kaliro Sugar Limited is a sugar manufacturer in Uganda.

Overview
SAIL sits on approximately  of land owned by the factory owners; Alam Group, under sugar cane cultivation. The company also has 4,000 registered out-growers who collectively have  under sugar cane farming.
SAIL is the fourth-largest manufacturer of sugar in Uganda, producing an estimated 60,000 metric tonnes annually in 2013, accounting for approximately 14% of national output. Kakira Sugar Works, located in Kakira, Jinja District, is the nation's largest sugar producer, accounting for approximately 40% of national output. Kinyara Sugar Works (KSW), in Kinyara, Masindi District, is the second-largest producer of sugar in the country, accounting for about 27% of national output. Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL), located in Lugazi, Buikwe District, produces about 14% of total national output. The remaining 6% is produced by Sango Bay Estates Limited, located in Kakuuto, Rakai District, Central Uganda. The estimated 450,000 metric tonnes of sugar produced by the five leading sugar manufacturers in Uganda is marketed to the Eastern African countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Location
Kaliro Sugar Limited is located in Bwayuya Village, Namugongo sub-county, Kaliro District, Eastern Uganda, near the town of Kaliro. This location is approximately , by road, northeast of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country. The estimated coordinates of Kaliro Sugar Limited are 0°56'48.0"N, 33°29'13.0"E (Latitude:0.946660; 33.486936).

History
The sugar estate was founded in 2011. From 2011 until 2013, the owners planted sugar cane on  on the land adjacent to the factory. They also recruited and put under contract, an estimated 4,000 out-growers with an estimated , under sugar cane cultivation. The factory started crushing cane in June 2013, producing about 200 metric tonnes daily, translating into about 60,000 metric tonnes annually.

Ownership
Sugar and Allied Industries Limited is a privately owned company. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Modern Group of Companies, a Uganda-based conglomerate, with subsidiaries in other East African countries.

Memberships
SAIL is a member of Uganda Sugar Manufacturers' Association (USMA), an industry group of leading sugar manufacturers in the county.

Co-generation
SAIL owns and operates Kaliro Power Station, a bagasse-fired thermal power station, that is incorporated in the SAIL sugar factory. The power plant generates 12MW of power, of which 3MW are used internally by SAIL and 9MW are sold to Uganda's national electric grid.

See also

References

External links
  Homepage of Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA)

Food and drink companies established in 2011
Kaliro District
Eastern Region, Uganda
Sugar companies of Uganda
Alam Group
Agriculture in Uganda
2011 establishments in Uganda


title: Gabile.com

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Gabile.com is a website managed from Istanbul which provides an online LGBT community by services such as dating, chatting and sexual advice. As of 2013, it was Turkey's largest gay dating portal and LGBT social network. The organization was founded in 1999. It allows profile creation on the website, online chat and gives away information and news related to LGBT events, alongside photos, personal writings made available to people with all different sexual orientations. In 2009, there were 225,000 registered users from Turkey using the website. Four different membership types or preference are available for people who utilize the service: users, contacts, clubs and escorts, The website is available in 4 different languages and covers topics related to different sexual orientations, including active gay, passive gay, AP gay, lesbian, bisexual male, bisexual female, transvestite, and transgender Many artists, including Seyhan Arman, have worked as a columnist for the website. The organization works in partnership with Shemaleturk.com, a website exclusive to gay and transgender people. On the radio channel Radyo Gabile, many celebrities including Sibel Tüzün, Yonca Evcimik, Zeynep, Aydın, and Vj Bülent, have participated as guests. Gabile is also the owner of a gay bar in Taksim Square called Club Otherway.

Background
The website has been active since 1999, founded by Can under the pseudonym "Eskuel" and Tamer under the pseudonym "Eriss".

Content
The +18 option is located next to the Gabile emblem on the website. Members cannot upload pictures that may have pornographic nature or create pornographic perception, nor can they have sexual correspondence. The membership agreement states that individuals under the age of 18 cannot be members. Also on the website it specifically mentions things such as pornography, users under the age of 18, slang, and inappropriate behavior are prohibited.

Censorship
Gabile.com was blocked in Turkey and made inaccessible following the Presidency of Telecommunication and Communication's (BTK) decision to take administrative measures on the grounds that "the photos of members in swimsuits are encouraging prostitution" and "promoting it". Following the block of the website, in the news section of the Gabile.com website's main page a statement was made available:

After the block by BTK, the world press described the incident as a scandal. The initiative of the Amsterdam Homoloket LGBTQ families and its related institutes announced that they had found the decision "homophobic" by publishing a protest letter. In the written statement made by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority following the censorship, BTK announced "that they removed the offensive content from the Internet sites and took the necessary measures to prevent these contents from appearing on other sites." In the same statement, it was clarified that the block had been lifted following technical investigations and reviewing the contents thoroughly.

See also
 Homosocialization

References

External links
 Gabile.com
 Gabile Radio

LGBT online dating services
LGBT social networking services
LGBT organizations in Turkey
Online dating services of Turkey


title: Homona blaiki

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Homona blaiki is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. It is found on Seram and in New Caledonia. The habitat consists of alluvial forests, Eucalyptus forests, bamboo and secondary forests.

The wingspan is about 21 mm for males and 30 mm for females. There is some external variation in adults, especially in males. Some specimens have blackish-brown and brown forewings, while others have a yellow-brown colouration and better developed brownish markings.

Etymology
The species is named for Dr. Tomasz Blaik who collected the species.

References

Moths described in 2013
Homona (moth)


title: Foton-M No.4

text:
Foton-M No.4 is a Russian microgravity and bioscience research spacecraft launched in July 2014 as part of the Foton programme. It is the fourth spacecraft in the Foton-M series, and the first to use the 34KSM configuration incorporating the equipment module from a Yantar satellite in place of that of a Zenit on earlier missions.

Foton-M No.4 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 July 2014, atop a Soyuz-2-1a carrier rocket. The launch was completed successfully, with the satellite separating from its rocket and beginning data transmission to its controllers. However, after four orbits, it ceased responding to commands issued to it from the ground. As a consequence of this, the spacecraft did not perform an orbit-raising maneuver that had been scheduled to occur shortly after orbital insertion. Satellite control was regained on 26 July by which time some of the microgravity experiments had already begun. On 1 August the head of Roskosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, was quoted as saying that the satellite will fly its entire two-month mission as originally planned, despite the cancellation of the orbit-boosting maneuver. However, all of the experiments completed by 27 August, and the Russian space agency decided to return the spacecraft to Earth on 1 September, two weeks earlier than the original 15 September target landing date.

Aboard the spacecraft are specimens for research on the biological effects of zero gravity and cosmic radiation. The specimens include geckos, silkworm eggs, dried seeds, fruit flies, and mushrooms. The geckos are part of biology experiments by Russia's Institute of Medico-Biological Problems on the effects of weightlessness on mating. Initial reports after the payload's return indicate that all five of the geckos launched in the experiment had died. Investigation is underway to determine the cause of death. However, the fruit flies did survive the trip and were able to breed and develop successfully.

Another experiment aboard the spacecraft is designed to measure the effects of microgravity on semiconductor crystal growth, with the ultimate goal of producing higher-quality crystals for use in electronics.

References

Spacecraft launched in 2014
Spacecraft which reentered in 2014
Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-2 rockets
Biosatellites


title: Homona fatalis

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Homona fatalis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1936. It is found on Seram and in Malaysia. The habitat consists of cultivated areas, lowland forests, bamboo and secondary forests.

The larvae feed on Acacia mangium, Cinnamomum verum, Coffea liberica, Citrus aurantiifolia and Theobroma cacao.

References

Moths described in 1936
Homona (moth)


title: Mutiny (2001 film)

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Mutiny is the fifth episode of the British film series Hornblower. It was released on April 8, 2001. It is based on the 1952 book Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester. Mutiny was written by T. R. Bowen and directed by Andrew Grieve.

Plot
In 1802 in Kingston, Jamaica, Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower is imprisoned on a charge of mutiny. During a visit to his cell, Hornblower explains the circumstances to his former captain, Commodore Sir Edward Pellew.

In a six months flashback, Hornblower is third Lieutenant aboard HMS Renown, under the command of the famous Captain James Sawyer, a hero from the Battle of the Nile and one of Admiral Nelson's band of brothers. The other officers are First Lieutenant Buckland, the newly arrived Second Lieutenant William Bush, and Fourth Lieutenant Archie Kennedy. Sawyer appears to be thinking and acting incoherently; he does not trust his officers, accuses them of conspiring against him, and treats them harshly.

After a trip to Plymouth, Renown is sent on a mission to Santo Domingo, then undergoing a slave rebellion, in order to deal with Spanish privateers that threaten British trade in the West Indies. Conditions worsen when Sawyer targets Midshipman Wellard and places Hornblower on a 36-hour watch for attempting to defend Wellard. Later, Sawyer gives the crew an extra ration of rum, which leaves them slow to respond when they suddenly sight two French frigates which threaten to rake Renown. Hornblower frightens them off by firing a stern chaser loaded with only powder and wadding, but Sawyer is again angry at what he sees as an unauthorized act. Sawyer has Wellard flogged into unconsciousness while Hornblower watches, then orders Hornblower to resume his watch.

That night, Sawyer finds Hornblower asleep on watch, which is punishable by death under the Articles of War. Sawyer tells Hornblower, "I do believe your life is in my hands." Sawyer offers Hornblower a pistol and tells Hornblower to shoot him. Dr. Clive, a Sawyer loyalist, intervenes and leads the captain away.

Irrationally suspecting his officers are plotting against him, Sawyer extends Hornblower's watch another 36 hours and orders that the other lieutenants report to him every hour. Hornblower secretly meets with Buckland and Kennedy to consider declaring Sawyer unfit for command. Bush joins them. Gunner Hobbs, a loyal, longtime shipmate of Sawyer's, informs the captain that the lieutenants are nowhere to be found. The captain calls out the Marines to search for the officers. Hornblower, Wellard, and Kennedy hide. As Sawyer closes in, they begin to reveal themselves, and Sawyer sees Kennedy. He starts to confront Kennedy, then suddenly falls or is pushed into the hold.

Sawyer suffers memory loss and Clive keeps him sedated to avoid revealing his increasingly erratic behavior. Buckland assumes command. Rumors begin to circulate that someone pushed Sawyer. Sawyer recovers from the fall and resumes command. Bush, Hornblower, and Kennedy are arrested for mutiny.

Renown arrives at Santo Domingo, only to find that the Spanish fort sits too high for the ship's guns to reach. She suffers heavy damage and casualties from the Spanish cannons but Sawyer insists on remaining and returning fire even though it is ineffective. Renown is grounded, the hold begins to flood, and Matthews releases the imprisoned lieutenants to save them from drowning. Clive finally deems Sawyer unfit, so Buckland takes charge and has the captain locked in his cabin. Hornblower and Bush execute a kedging maneuver that succeeds in freeing Renown from the rocks, during which Hornblower saves Bush from drowning, and Buckland then sails her out of cannon range.

Back in Kingston, Commodore Pellew asks Hornblower to explain further.

Cast

 Ioan Gruffudd as 3rd Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower
 David Warner as Captain James Sawyer
 Nicholas Jones as 1st Lieutenant Buckland
 Paul McGann as 2nd Lieutenant William Bush
 Jamie Bamber as 4th Lieutenant Archie Kennedy
 Paul Copley as Matthews, Boatswain
 Sean Gilder as Styles, Boatswain's Mate
 Philip Glenister as Gunner Hobbs
 David Rintoul as Dr. Clive
 Terence Corrigan as Midshipman Wellard
 Gilly Gilchrist as Randall
 Paul Brightwell as Sergeant Whiting
 Robert Lindsay as Commodore Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

References

External links

2001 television films
2001 films
2000s historical films
2000s war films
Films based on British novels
Films based on historical novels
Films based on military novels
Films set in the Caribbean
Films set in the 1800s
French Revolutionary Wars films
Hornblower (TV series)
War television films
Films directed by Andrew Grieve


title: Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz

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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (born 1972 in Lausanne and 1963 in Berlin) are a Berlin-based artist duo who have worked together since 2006. They produce film installations that revisit recent and past material (a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance), with a particular focus on a critical history of the photographic and moving image itself.

The duo works with performance to create embodiments which are able to conflate different times and they often create illegitimate collaborations – partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal. Their work To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation (2013) is based on the eponymous 1970 score by avant-garde feminist composer Pauline Oliveros, filmed in Funkhaus Nalepastraße, the former GDR Radio studios in Berlin, and featuring performances from the musicians Ray Aggs, Peaches, Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and William Wheeler. The work had its premiere exhibition as part of their solo show Patriarchal Poetry at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, in Autumn 2013 and was shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and Gregg Bordowitz in May 2014. In I Want they stage a meeting between punk poet Kathy Acker, artist Sharon Hayes, and transgender- and prison-abolitionist activist Chelsea Manning, who, in 2010, channeled classified information about the war in Iraq to WikiLeaks. The performers in their films are choreographers, dancers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance.
Recent retrospectives and solo exhibitions have included Improvisation télépathique, at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018; Everybody talks about the weather... we don't at Participant Inc., New York, 2017; Loving, Repeating, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2015; Portrait of an Eye, Kunstalle Zürich, Zürich, 2015; Aftershow, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2013; Toxic Play in Two Acts, South London Gallery, 2012; Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, 2011.

In 2019 Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz were invited to represent Switzerland at the 58th Venice Biennale.

In 2022 and 2023, the duo's installation "El cristal es mi piel" was featured in Madrid's Palacio de Cristal.

Their work has been written about by writers and critics including André Lepecki, Gregg Bordowitz, Antke Engel and Mathias Danbolt. Their catalogues include Telepathic Improvisation, published by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2018, I Want, published by Sternberg Press, 2015; Aftershow, published by Sternberg Press, 2014, and Temporal Drag, published by Hatje Cantz in 2011.

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz  are represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and Marcelle Alix, Paris.

References

Living people
Art duos
German contemporary artists
Swiss contemporary artists
Queer artists
1972 births
Swiss expatriates in Germany
German expatriates in Switzerland


title: Ada Cherry Kearton

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Ada Cherry Kearton (born Ada Forrest; 17 July 1877 – 19 January 1966) was a South African classical soprano who sang in concert and oratorio. She made her London debut in 1907 and retired from the stage shortly before her marriage in 1922 to the English wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton. Her 1956 autobiography  On Safari recounts their travels together in Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Life and career

Kearton was born in Congella, a settlement near Durban in the Colony of Natal. She received her first instruction in singing at her convent school in Durban and made her first public appearance at the South African Eisteddfod in Durban when she was 14. She went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London and subsequently studied under Charles Santley, Pietro Neri-Baraldi, and Henry Wood. A soprano, she made her London debut on 24 May 1907, at the Empire Day Concert in Queen's Hall. England was to become her home, although she returned to South Africa several times to perform, including a concert tour in 1909.

She appeared numerous times in the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts between 1909 and 1915. During the course of her career she appeared in many other concerts and recitals in England and Scotland, including a solo recital at London's Wigmore Hall in November 1918, where she sang 17th-century songs by William Lawes and Thomas Morley and modern settings of Tennyson's poems. The Wigmore performance did not impress Ezra Pound who wrote a scathing review for The New Age: "As Morley and Lawes scarcely preserved a trace of their beauties in the path of her assault, I fled before she began singing modern settings of Tennyson."

She made a last recital tour to South Africa in 1921 before retiring from the concert stage. She changed her name from Ada Forrest to Ada Cherry Kearton in 1922, upon marrying the wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton (his second marriage) and then "devoted her life to her husband and his work". The couple had a pet chimpanzee named Mary who lived with them for six years as "one of the Kearton family". The Keartons were said to have taught Mary to write her name and play three musical instruments. According to the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the chimpanzee would sit and sew with Ada for an hour at a time and accompanied the couple on many of their travels. Ada Kearton's autobiography On Safari, an account of her travels through Africa, Australia and New Zealand with her husband, was published in 1956. On 8 October of that year she appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs.

Cherry Kearton died in 1940. Ada died in London in 1966 at the age of 88.

Bibliography

Recordings

According to the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Ada Kearton and Annie Visser were the first major South African singers whose recordings included works in Afrikaans. Both of their recordings were made in London in 1908. Kearton's other recordings were:
Henry Purcell's  "Nymphs and Shepherds" for His Master's Voice
Frances Allitsen's "There's a Land" and Amelia Lehmann's "When love is kind" (double-sided disc) for Pathé Records.

See also
 List of Afrikaans singers

References

External links
Audio files of two songs in Afrikaans: "Bijna" and "Hondt het fort" Performance credited to "Ada Forrest" (South African Music Archive Project)

1877 births
1966 deaths
20th-century South African women opera singers
Musicians from KwaZulu-Natal
South African sopranos
20th-century travel writers
Women travel writers
Women autobiographers
South African autobiographers
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom


title: Karl Friedrich Bernhard Hellmuth von Hobe

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Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich Bernhard Helmuth von Hobe (16 October 1765 in Jürgenstorf – 25 December 1822 in Cologne) was a German officer of the Prussian Army during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of the Seventh Coalition. He was a Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite (awarded 1814 with Oak Leaves).

See also
 Hobe (family)

Notes

References

1765 births
1822 deaths
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
Prussian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Lieutenant generals of Prussia
Military personnel from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania


title: 1997 Salford Reds season

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The 1997 Salford Reds season was the 101st season in the club's rugby league history and the first season in the Super League. Coached by Andy Gregory, the Salford Reds competed in Super League II and finished in 6th place. The club also reached the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup before being knocked out by St. Helens.

Table

Squad

References

External links
Salford Reds - Rugby League Project

Salford Red Devils seasons
Salford Reds


title: Walden Woods Project

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The Walden Woods Project (WWP) is a nonprofit organization located in Lincoln, Massachusetts, devoted to the legacy of Henry David Thoreau and the preservation of Walden Woods, the forest around Walden Pond that spans Lincoln and Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1990 by musician Don Henley to prevent two development projects in Walden Woods. Its mission has since expanded from conservation to research and education on the works of Henry David Thoreau. In 1998, the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods was founded as part of the Project; today its library houses a collection of Thoreau-related resources.

History

In 1989, two commercial development projects were proposed within Walden Woods at Bear Garden Hill and Brister's Hill. Although 60% of Walden Woods was already protected, the threat of encroaching development in Walden Woods prompted grassroots organizers to oppose the plan, and National Trust for Historic Preservation also listed Walden Woods as one of America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places. Don Henley, who was influenced by Thoreau's writings in college, offered to lend his support to the opposition movement.

In 1990, Henley founded the Walden Woods Project, which ultimately purchased both the proposed development sites, as well as other sites. The first of these, a 25-acre site on Bear Garden Hill, was bought in January 1991 costing $3.55 million. Another 25 acres at Boiling Spring was purchased for $1.25 million in April 1992, an 18.6-acre site on Brister's hill for $3.5 million in May 1993, 18 acres at Pine Hill in July 1994 for $1.2 million, and 10 acres at Fair Haven Hill for $900,000 in December 1995.   The land acquired for preservation totaled 96 acres in the 1990s. Later, 41 acres of land along the Sudbury River was acquired as a gift, and further land as well as the Adams House were bought.  An interpretive trail was later designed on Brister's hill, featuring quotes from Thoreau and individuals he influenced, and a section explaining ecological succession.

To help cover the cost of the project, Henley organized a series of benefit concerts, which included artists such as Elton John, Aerosmith, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, Jimmy Buffett, John Fogerty, Neil Young, Roger Waters and others. In 1992, Henley initiated the recording of a charity album, Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, released in 1993 to raise funds for the project. It was certified 3× Platinum in the United States by the RIAA on June 27, 1994.  He also donated part of the proceeds from the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over album and tour.  Through these and various other fund-raising efforts, which included T-shirt sales and a book Heaven Is Under Our Feet, $15 million were raised by 1996, and $22 million were eventually raised in total.

The organization pledged to find a new location for the thwarted housing development planned. They later paid for the appraisal and environmental assessment on a 12-acre site in West Concord, which in 2013 was transferred to the Concord Housing Development Corporation. The project's headquarters were moved from Boston to Lincoln, MA, in 1997, and in 1998 the Thoreau Institute officially opened. Today the WWP manages nearly 170 acres across the 2,680 acres of Walden Woods.

Education
The Walden Woods Project runs a number of educational programs for students, educators, and the general public. The WWP hosts both on-site educational workshops and Skype sessions with Thoreau Institute library curator Jeffrey S. Cramer. In addition, it organizes an essay contest for students entitled "Live Deliberately." Since 2003 the WWP has offered an annual professional development course for high school educators entitled "Approaching Walden".

Film
Walden (2017), a short (22 minutes) film about Henley's WWP; it was executive produced by Ken Burns.

References

External sources
Walden Woods Project Official Site

Lincoln, Massachusetts
Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau
Environmental organizations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Massachusetts


title: Bathyphantes

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Bathyphantes is a genus of  dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1866.

Species
 it contains fifty-seven species and one subspecies:
B. alameda Ivie, 1969 – USA, Canada
B. alascensis (Banks, 1900) – USA, Canada
B. alboventris (Banks, 1892) – USA, Canada
B. approximatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)
B. bishopi Ivie, 1969 – USA
B. bohuensis Zhu & Zhou, 1983 – China
B. brevipes (Emerton, 1917) – USA, Canada
B. brevis (Emerton, 1911) – USA, Canada
B. canadensis (Emerton, 1882) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Canada, USA
B. chico Ivie, 1969 – USA
B. diasosnemis Fage, 1929 – USA
B. dubius Locket, 1968 – Angola
B. eumenis (L. Koch, 1879) – USA (Alaska), Canada, Czech Rep., Poland, Finland, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
Bathyphantes e. buchari Ruzicka, 1988 – Central Europe
B. fissidens Simon, 1902 – Argentina
B. floralis Tu & Li, 2006 – Laos, Vietnam
B. glacialis Caporiacco, 1935 – Karakorum
B. gracilipes van Helsdingen, 1977 – St. Helena
B. gracilis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – North America, Europe, Northern Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Japan
B. gulkana Ivie, 1969 – Russia (Far East), USA (Alaska), Canada
B. helenae van Helsdingen, 1977 – St. Helena
B. hirsutus Locket, 1968 – Congo
B. humilis (L. Koch, 1879) – Russia (Europe to Far East)
B. iviei Holm, 1970 – USA (Alaska)
B. jeniseicus Eskov, 1979 – Finland, Russia (West Siberia to Far East)
B. keeni (Emerton, 1917) – Canada, USA
B. larvarum Caporiacco, 1935 – Karakorum
B. latescens (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA
B. lennoxensis Simon, 1902 – Argentina
B. mainlingensis Hu, 2001 – China
B. malkini Ivie, 1969 – USA, Canada
B. menyuanensis Hu, 2001 – China
B. minor Millidge & Russell-Smith, 1992 – Borneo
B. montanus Rainbow, 1912 – Australia (Queensland)
B. nangqianensis Hu, 2001 – China
B. nigrinus (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
B. ohlerti Simon, 1884 – Poland
B. orica Ivie, 1969 – USA, Canada
B. pallidus (Banks, 1892) – USA, Canada
B. paracymbialis Tanasevitch, 2014 – China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra)
B. paradoxus Berland, 1929 – Samoa
B. parvulus (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
B. pogonias Kulczyński, 1885 – Russia (Far East), USA (Alaska)
B. rainbowi Roewer, 1942 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
B. reprobus (Kulczyński, 1916) – North America, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
B. reticularis Caporiacco, 1935 – Karakorum
B. robustus Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
B. sarasini Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
B. setiger F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
B. similis Kulczyński, 1894 – Europe, Turkey
B. tagalogensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
B. tongluensis Chen & Song, 1988 – China
B. umiatus Ivie, 1969 – USA (Alaska)
B. vittiger Simon, 1884 – France
B. waneta Ivie, 1969 – USA, Canada
B. weyeri (Emerton, 1875) – USA
B. yodoensis Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
B. yukon Ivie, 1969 – USA (Alaska)

See also
 List of Linyphiidae species
 Pimoa

References

External links
Image of a female Bathyphantes alascensis from Washington

Araneomorphae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Linyphiidae


title: Danbury and Bethel Street Railway

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The Danbury and Bethel Street Railway was a streetcar transit operator serving the greater Danbury, Connecticut, area, originally chartered in 1886. It was one of the few trolley companies to remain independent of the Connecticut Company consolidation of transit lines throughout the state. Electric trolley service between Danbury and Bethel began in 1887. The streetcar line connected to the Danbury and Harlem Traction Company at the Fairgrounds, but no service was provided and the line was abandoned by 1910. The Danbury and Bethel Street Railway faced its first financial difficulties in 1914 as ridership declined with the closure of local factories. The construction of an aborted extension to Bridgeport had nearly exhausted the railway's cash reserves. The company was purchased by J. Moss Ives in 1918 with the intention of bringing the operation back to profitability. The first buses were ordered and put into operation in 1912 between Main Street and Lake Avenue in Danbury. Ives reorganized as the Danbury and Bethel Traction Company in 1925. When the proposal to replace all remaining streetcar lines with bus operation was announced, the trolley motormen all went on strike in November 1926. The work stoppage did not affect the transition, and by the end of 1926 all streetcar operation had been abandoned, making it the first line in Connecticut to completely convert to bus operation.

Bus Transit Operations (1927-1965)
The Danbury Power and Transportation Company succeeded Danbury and Bethel Traction Company and continued to operate local bus transit service around the city of Danbury. The company was headed by A. William Sperry, founder of Sperry Engineering. Streamlined GMC transit buses began to appear between 1945 and 1948. William T. Sperry took over operations from his father in 1950. A number of fare increases through the 1950s were proposed to keep pace with rising costs.

The bus operation grew into a regional system by the 1950s. Routes to Brewster, Bridgeport, and Norwalk were operated by subsidiary Intercity Coach and Danbury Bus Company. Sperry also operated White Lines in Bridgeport, as well as local services in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Levittown, New York. Sperry also provided school bus services in Danbury and the surrounding communities through subsidiary County Bus Service.

In September 1964, Danbury Power and Transportation, Danbury Bus, and Intercity Coach all suspended operation when their liability insurance had expired due to non-payment. An interim operator from New Haven kept the local service running in the meantime. A month after the transit service was suspended, the banks had seized County Bus Service which disrupted school bus service throughout the region. The fleet was repossessed and new operators took over the following week.

From Private to Public Operation (1965-1979)
The local transit franchises were acquired by Candlewood Bus Company in 1965. Operation then passed to ABC Bus Company for a few months until all local bus service was suspended in 1967. The Danbury-Bethel Transit District was formed in 1972 to restore local bus transit service to Danbury and Bethel. Service began in 1973, with Candlewood Valley Bus Company operating the service under contract. The Chieppo Bus Co. of New Haven provided infrequent bus service between Danbury and Bridgeport during the 1960s and 1970s before going out of business; since the early 1980s, there has been no direct bus service between Danbury and Bridgeport. In 1979, New Milford was added to the transit district. The system was soon rebranded and renamed Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART).

References

Streetcars in Connecticut
Defunct Connecticut railroads
Defunct public transport operators in the United States
Bus transportation in Connecticut
Transit agencies in Connecticut


title: Harbour Square Park

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Harbour Square Park is a park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada right on the Toronto harbour. It is next to the Harbour Square condos, the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and the Westin Harbour Castle. It is south of Queens Quay and adjacent to the Queens Quay streetcar station. It contains a boardwalk and a permanent public art installation.

History
The park opened as part of a planned 85 million dollar waterfront project started in 1964, and completed in the early 1970s at the cost of 250 million dollars that would also see the Bay Street shipping slip filled, the Harbour Castle Hilton and Harbour Square condos built. The park is where the ferry terminal used to be before it was shifted to the east side of the park for this redevelopment. This complex and park, a predecessor to the Harbourfront project (today Harbourfront Centre), was one of the first redevelopments of the waterfront, after its deindustrialization. The Park was designed by Fleisher Ridout Partnership Inc., Landscape Architects.

Development of the site was governed by a tripartite agreement between Campeau Corporation, the Toronto Harbour Commission and the City of Toronto. The development evoked "vociferous" criticism, based on size and isolation of the water's edge.

In 2014, trees were planted in memory of the victims of the Khojaly massacre.

Public art
The Sundial Folly is a concrete sphere that you can go inside, and was created by John Fung and Paul Figueiredo and installed in 1995.

Location
The park is located near the foot of Bay Street, just south of Queens Quay.

References

Parks in Toronto
Harbourfront, Toronto


title: Clearbury Ring

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Clearbury Ring is a univallate Iron Age hillfort which is partly in the parish of Downton in the county of Wiltshire in south-west England, approximately  due south of Salisbury city centre. The site, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, straddles the boundary with Odstock parish, and a slight scarp runs across the interior of the fort, marking the parish boundary.

The fort occupies a prominent hilltop overlooking the valley of the River Avon, at an altitude of  above mean sea level. The hillfort is immediately adjacent to the Clearbury Down Site of Special Scientific Interest, but is not included within it.

Clearbury Ring encloses an area of approximately ; the rampart is well preserved and consisted of a single bank with a ditch outside it. The fort had a single entrance on the north-west side, consisting simply of a  wide gap with a causeway across the ditch. Traces of a quarry are evident within the fort's interior. The fort is overgrown with tree cover. In 1632, Clearbury Ring was recorded as Clereburu. A paleolithic hand axe was found here.

To the south-west of the fort are the remains of a lynchet, consisting of a steep  high scarp that runs parallel to the fort's defences. Two other lynchets have been identified near the fort, although they are not as well-preserved, together with faint traces of ancient field boundaries.

References

Hill forts in Wiltshire
Iron Age sites in England
Scheduled monuments in Wiltshire


title: 2014–15 FC Zorya Luhansk season

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Zorya Luhansk are a Ukrainian football club which are based in Luhansk. During the 2014–15 campaign the club competed in the Ukrainian Premier League, UEFA Europa League, Ukrainian Cup. They were under the management of Yuriy Vernydub.

Competitions

Premier League

League table

Matches

Ukrainian Cup

Uefa Europa League

References

External links
 Official website
  zarya.lg.ua – Information site of fans of FC Zarya Luhansk
  Unofficial website
  "Zorya" (Dawn) of the football Luhansk-land

FC Zorya Luhansk seasons
Zorya Luhansk
Zorya Luhansk


title: 1975 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election

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The Columbus mayoral election of 1975 was the 75th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio.  It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1975.  Democratic party nominee John Rosemond was defeated by incumbent Republican mayor Tom Moody.

Further reading

Mayoral elections in Columbus, Ohio
1975 Ohio elections
Columbus


title: Lone star bandavirus

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Lone star bandavirus is a highly divergent bunyavirus, which is carried and transmitted by the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum. This is the same vector that transmits the SFTS virus, and the newly discovered Bhanja and Heartland viruses.

Lone star virus shares the same vector as these viruses and has many characteristics of them, it shares less than sixty-one percent of its amino acid identity with them. Though the virus has never been a cause of illness in humans, it has the ability to infect both human and monkey cells, and its effects are seen, in both cell lines, 72 hours after contact.

It was first discovered and studied by the Center for Zoonoses Research, at the University of Illinois, in 1966. The virus was taken from a lone star tick, which had been removed from a woodchuck in the Land Between the Lakes region of Western Kentucky.

Characteristics
Lone star virus's genome consist of negative, single-stranded RNA. It is in the Bunyaviridae family of viruses. Its genus is Bandavirus and its species name is Lone star bandavirus. It has been proven to produce titers in human and monkey cells seventy-two hours after inoculation. Although it was discovered in 1967, it has never been genetically characterized.

Interest has recently increased in it due to the emergence of STARI, or Southern Tick-borne Rash Illness, an unknown disease which is also associated with Amblyomma americanum. It is the hope of the scientific community that researching Lone star virus can give clues to the etiology of STARI. They are also curious as to whether LSV virus could be found in patients who have STARI. Finding a link between the two will help them to understand both of these viruses on a greater level.

The viruses size is between 90 and 100 micrometers.

Transmission
There has not been any documented case of Lone star virus causing illness in a human. It is found to be present in the Lone star tick. This tick used to exist mainly in the South-Central United States, however it has increased in both range and abundance over the past twenty years, to now exist along most of the Southern states and the Eastern Coast of the United States. This increase in number will cause more humans to come in contact with lone star ticks, and could possible lead to a human being affected by the virus.

Signs and symptoms
The virus is shown to have a cytopathic effect on both human (HeLa) and monkey (vero) cells. As part of the minimal research that has been done, death occurred in mice that were infected with the virus.

Risk factors
No human cases have been found thus far, however evidence points to the fact that it does have pathogenic effects in humans. This means this disease could likely be something that affects humans in the future, or has had an effect, but has not been documented, or traced back to this source.

it has a Biosafety level of 2.

Research
After the virus was isolated from the A. americanum nymph, it was inoculated into many test animals including: newborn and full-grown mice, woodchucks, raccoons, as well as chicken and duck eggs. The virus was most pathogenic to the newborn mice, causing death in many of them. In the full grown mice, their reaction to the virus was determined by how the virus was inoculated in them. Mice who received the virus intraperitoneally, showed no reaction or symptoms to the virus. However about seventy-five percent of mice who were inoculated in their cerebrum showed sickness or even death, due to the virus. One out of the six woodchucks studied showed signs of being infected while the others had no response to the inoculation. Only raccoons developed antibodies against the virus, and did not show any other signs of being exposed. The chicken and duck eggs were not affected in any way.

References

Phleboviruses


title: Telescope (horse)

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Telescope (foaled 25 January 2010) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He won one minor race as a two-year-old but was highly regarded by his connections and was considered a leading contender for the following year's Epsom Derby. His three-year-old campaign was severely restricted by injury, but he won two of his three races, including the Great Voltigeur Stakes. At four, he was beaten in his first two races before recording an impressive seven-length win in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. He added a win in the Aston Park Stakes in 2015 before his racing career was ended by injury. Apart from his wins, he finished second in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, third in the International Stakes and fourth in the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Background
Telescope is a bay horse with a large white star bred in Ireland by the Barronstown Stud. He was sired by Galileo the winner of the 2001 Derby who went on to become an outstanding breeding stallion, winning the title of champion sire on five occasions. Galileo's other progeny include Rip Van Winkle, Nathaniel, Cape Blanco, New Approach and Frankel. His dam, Velouette was an unraced daughter of the Lowther Stakes winner Velvet Moon, a mare whose other progeny included Moon Ballad. Velvet Moon  was a half-sister of Central Park who won the Derby Italiano and finished second in the Melbourne Cup and was related to the Prix Royal Oak winner Braashee.

Racing career

2012: two-year-old season
On his first racecourse appearance, Telescope, ridden by Richard Mullen, started the 4/1 favourite for a seventeen-runner maiden race  over seven furlongs at Ascot Racecourse. He was restrained towards the back of the field before making progress in the final quarter mile but was beaten a short head by Snow King after Mullen dropped his whip 50 yards from the finish. Nineteen days later he started 8/13 favourite against eight opponents in a maiden race over the Rowley mile at Newmarket in which he was ridden by Richard Hughes. As on his debut, he pulled hard against his jockey's attempts to restrain him before moving up to take the lead a furlong from the finish. He won comfortably by two and a quarter lengths from Elkaayed without Hughes having to use his whip.

2013: three-year-old season
Telescope was regarded as a leading contender for the 2013 Epsom Derby but suffered from a series of leg injuries and did not contest the race. He missed an intended run in the Dante Stakes and was withdrawn from the Derby field after performing unimpressively in a racecourse gallop at Lingfield Park Racecourse. He made a belated seasonal debut on 18 July in a minor race over ten furlongs at Leicester Racecourse in which he was ridden by Ryan Moore and started the 1/2 favourite against two opponents. The colt led in the early stages, before being headed by Centurius, but regained the lead three furlongs from the finish and drew away to win by twenty-four lengths. On 10 August, Telescope was matched against older horses for the first time when he started 4/9 favourite for the Group Three Rose of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock Park Racecourse. Telescope and Ryan Moore tracked the leaders before making a challenge in the straight but was beaten a length by the four-year-old David Livingston with Noble Mission a head away in third place. In the Group Two Great Voltigeur Stakes at York Racecourse eleven days later, Telescope started 5/4 favourite against six opponents including the Gordon Stakes winner Cap o'Rushes and the Aidan O'Brien-trained Foundry. The colt tracked the leaders before taking the lead two furlongs from the finish and winning by one and a quarter lengths from Foundry with the Godolphin colt Secret Number in third. After the race, Telescope was made the ante-post favourite for the St Leger Stakes but was withdrawn from the race after doubts were expressed about his ability to stay the distance. He missed an alternative engagement in the Champion Stakes and did not race again in 2013.

2014: four-year-old season
On his first appearance as a four-year-old, Telescope contested the Group Three Gordon Richards Stakes over ten furlongs at Sandown Park Racecourse on 25 April in which he finished second, proving no match for Noble Mission, who won by nine lengths. He faced Noble Mission again in the Huxley Stakes over a similar distance at Chester Racecourse on 8 May, and was beaten two and a quarter lengths by the Lady Cecil-trained five-year-old, who was conceding three pounds. On 21 June at Royal Ascot, Telescope was moved back up in distance for the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes over one and a half miles. After racing just behind the leaders Telescope took the lead a quarter of a mile from the finish and went clear of his opponents to win impressively by seven lengths from his stable companion Hillstar. Despite never having previously competed at Group One level, Telescope started 5/2 favourite for Britain's most prestigious weight-for-age race the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over the same course and distance as the Hardwicke on 26 July. He raced in third palace before moving forward to challenge for the lead in the straight. He got the better of a protracted struggle with the five-year-old Mukhadram but was unable to hold the late run of the filly Taghrooda and finished second, three lengths behind the winner. Highclere's leader Harry Herbert said "It went according to plan... Our horse has run a cracking race... There's plenty to look forward to".

On 20 August Telescope was brought back in distance to face the Derby winner Australia as well as Mukhadram and the Prix du Jockey Club winner The Grey Gatsby in the International Stakes over ten and a half furlongs at York. He tracked the leaders in fourth place before moving forward to challenge for the lead in the straight, but was outpaced in the closing stages and finished third, beaten two lengths and two and a quarter lengths by Australia and The Grey Gatsby. On 1 November, Telescope started the 8/5 favourite for the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita Park. After racing just behind the leaders he moved up on the inside on the final turn and took a narrow advantage early in the straight. He was overtaken in the closing stages and finished fourth of the twelve runners behind Main Sequence, Flintshire and Twilight Eclipse. Stoute commented "He's run a good race, but the race wasn't really run to suit him. He needs to be able to do it one long progression. He's a long striding horse for a track like this."

2015: five-year-old season
Telescope began his 2015 season in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on 2 May. Starting the odds-on favourite he went clear of the field in the last quarter mile but was worn down in the closing stages and beaten a head by the four-year-old gelding Second Step. He was dropped in class for the Listed Aston Park Stakes at Newbury two weeks later and won easily by six lengths at odds of 8/13. In June he attempted to repeat his 2014 success in the Hardwicke Stakes. He started 6/4 favourite, but having raced in second place until the final furlong he weakened badly and finished sixth of the eight runners behind Snow Sky. He was being prepared for a second run in the King George when he sustained a tendon injury. His retirement from racing was announced on 31 August.

Pedigree

References

External links
 Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Telescope

2010 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Ireland
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title: Eugène Joors

text:
Eugène Joors (20 February 1850, Borgerhout - 23 October 1910, Berchem), was a Belgian painter in the realistic style.

Life and work
He studied from 1865 to 1870 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, where his teacher were Polydore Beaufaux, Nicaise de Keyser and Jozef Van Lerius. In 1886, he became a teacher of still-life painting, in cooperation with his friend Frans Mortelmans. Among his pupils was the German painter Helene Cramer. He executed both the traditional, carefully arranged still lifes and the more natural-appearing floral variety as well as a great variety of landscapes, portraits and genre scenes.

From 1879, he was a regular exhibitor in Antwerp and abroad, receiving a gold medal at a show in Munich where one of his paintings was bought by Prince Luitpold. He also assisted Charles Verlat in producing his famous panorama of the Battle of Waterloo.

He was awarded the Order of Leopold and a street in Borgerhout is named after him.

Selected paintings

References

Further reading
 Max Rooses (introduction), Eugène Joors: Catalogue des tableaux laissés par feu le peintre Eugène Joors. Ronnefeldt & de Volder, Antwerpen, 1911.

External links

 ArtNet: More paintings by Joors

1850 births
1910 deaths
Belgian still life painters
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
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20th-century Belgian male artists


title: Stephen Spring Rice (1856–1902)

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Stephen Edward Spring Rice  (28 March 1856 – 6 September 1902) was a British civil servant and academic.

Background and early life
Spring Rice was the son of the Hon. Charles William Thomas Spring Rice, a civil servant in the Foreign Office, and Elizabeth Margaret Marshall. He was the grandson of the Whig politician, Lord Monteagle of Brandon and the brother of the diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice. He was brought up near Watermillock on the shore of Ullswater. Spring Rice was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a fellow of the college in 1879.

Career
He entered HM Treasury in 1878 and was Private Secretary to successive Financial Secretaries to the Treasury between 1881 and 1888. Spring Rice became Private Secretary to Sir William Harcourt when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer for the first time in 1886. In 1894, he became Principal Clerk in the Treasury and was given the additional role of Auditor of the Civil List in 1899.

He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Family
Spring Rice married Julia FitzGerald, a daughter of Sir Peter FitzGerald, 19th Knight of Kerry, on 12 January 1888. They had a son, Edward Dominck Spring Rice, and a daughter, Mary Honora Spring Rice.

Spring Rice died of an illness at Abinger Hall in Dorking on 6 September 1902 at the age of 46 and was buried at All Saints Church, Watermillock. He is also commemorated by a memorial bridge at Aira Force with his brothers Gerald and Cecil.

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title: Little Wars (magazine)

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Little Wars was a miniature wargaming magazine produced by TSR from 1976 to 1978.

History
TSR cancelled The Strategic Review after only seven issues in 1976, and replaced it with two magazines, Little Wars, which covered miniature wargaming, and The Dragon, which covered role playing games.  After twelve issues, Little Wars ceased independent publication and issue 13 was published as part of The Dragon issue 22.

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title: John Watt (broadcaster)

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John Watt (27 October 1901 – 23 February 1960) was a British broadcaster and producer.

Watt was born on 27 October 1901 at 4 Hidbrooke Park Road, Blackheath, London, to Richard Watt, a solicitor, and Minnie (née Dale). He went to Cranleigh School and University College London.

Among the shows he worked on as the BBC's Director of Variety were Workers' Playtime and ITMA.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 December 1956.

Watt died on 23 February 1960 at home in Montpelier Street, Brighton. His wife Violette (they married in 1927) survived him; she wrote professionally, under the pen name of Angela Jeans.

Further reading

References

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1901 births
People from Blackheath, London
1960 deaths
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title: List of ministers for foreign affairs of Latvia

text:
The foreign minister of the Republic of Latvia is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is charged with being the architect Latvian foreign policy and carrying out diplomatic orders by the president of Latvia. The position was first created in 1918 after Latvian independence, and re-established in May 1990 following the restoration of the country's independence from the USSR. Since October 2011, the position has been held by Edgars Rinkēvičs.

List of ministers

See also
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Latvia)

Foreign Affairs minister


The 2014 South American Basketball Championship was the 46th edition of the South American Basketball Championship. Eight teams featured the competition, held in Isla Margarita, Venezuela from 24 to July 28. Argentina was the defending champion. The first three places qualified for the 2015 Pan-American Games, with the top four teams qualifying for the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

All times local (UTC-04:30)

Group B

All times local (UTC-04:30)

Knockout round

5th place bracket

Classification 5–8

Semifinals

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Third place match

Final

Final standings

References

External links
 Official website

South American Basketball Championship
2014–15 in South American basketball
2014 in Venezuelan sport
International basketball competitions hosted by Venezuela


title: Gennadiy Trukhanov

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Gennadiy Leonidovich Trukhanov (born 17 January 1965) is the mayor of Odesa. He has been named as part of a Ukrainian crime syndicate who laundered money through London by buying multi-million pound properties in the city. In October 2022 he was charged in an ongoing corruption investigation concerning $18.5 million in municipal losses, and on 4 May 2023 he was detained on charges of embezzling $2.5 million in city funds. He was released the next day after paying $350,000 bail.

Early life and career
Gennadiy Trukhanov was born on 17 January 1965 in Odesa, which was then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a part of the Soviet Union. In 1986, he graduated from the  in Odesa. After graduation, he was given the rank of lieutenant. He was an engineer that specialised in repairing and maintaining artillery. From 1986 until 1992, he served in the North Caucasus Military District. He retired from Armed Forces in 1992, after having attained the rank of captain.

In 1993, he worked at a private security firm. In 2000, he worked at Lukoil. He started work at the office of Verkhovna Rada, (the parliament of Ukraine) in 2004. He was elected to Odesa City Council in 2005, and was re-elected in 2006. He served on various committees in the Odesa City Council.

Member of the Verkhovna Rada

He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a representative of the Party of Regions in 2012. Amidst rising unrest in Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the violent 2014 Odesa clashes, he was elected mayor of the city on 25 May 2014.

Mayor of Odesa
In the 2015 Mayoral election of Odesa Trukhanov was reelected in the first round of the election with 52.9% of the vote.

In 2016, the leaked Panama Papers revealed that Trukhanov is a Russian citizen, despite Ukrainian law banning dual citizenship. Trukhanov denied the allegation. The Panama Papers also show that he has "a substantial business empire in Ukraine through companies registered in the British Virgin Islands", with a suburb of Moscow listed as his place of residence. On 9 April, Eduard Gurwits, ex-mayor of Odesa, affirmed that Trukhanov possesses three foreign passports: two Russian and one Greek. Trukhanov in 2017, through a Russian court, annulled his Russian passport. Moreover, the Paradise papers indicate that, according to the Italian state police Deputy Commissioner, he trained members of a Ukrainian criminal gang in "hand-to-hand combat and sniper shooting with high precision weapons".

Trukhanov was detained at Ukraine's Boryspil International Airport on 14 February 2018 suspected of embezzlement of property through abuse of power.

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Trukhanov was placed in the top ten of the party list of Opposition Bloc. But the nationwide list of this party won 3.23% of the votes and thus did not overcome the 5% election barrier, keeping Trukhanov out of parliament.

In the 2020 Odesa local election Trukhanov was again a candidate for mayor of Odesa (nominated by Trust Deeds). Trukhanov defeated Mykola Skoryk of Opposition Platform — For Life in the second round of the mayoral election on 15 November 2020, 54.28% of the voters voted for him.

In May 2023, Trukhanov was again taken into custody under corruption charges and after failing to present US$800,000 in bail.

Notes

References

External links
Official website of Gennadiy Trukhanov

1965 births
Living people
Politicians from Odesa
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The Essential Transportation Worker Identification Credential Assessment Act () is a bill that would direct the United States Department of Homeland Security to assess the effectiveness of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. The bill would require an independent assessment of how well the TWIC program improves security and reduces risks at the facilities and vessels it is responsible for. The evaluation would include a cost-benefit analysis and information on alternate technologies that could be used.

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background

The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program is a Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Coast Guard initiative in the United States. The TWIC program provides a tamper-resistant biometric credential to maritime workers requiring unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities, outer continental shelf facilities, and vessels regulated under the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002, or MTSA, and all U.S. Coast Guard credentialed merchant mariners. As of May 2014, there were 2,999,058 people enrolled in the program.

Critics assert that the program has cost over $420 million and has little to show for it. A 2013 GAO report found the TWIC card reader pilot program results to be unreliable and questioned "the program's premise and effectiveness in enhancing security."  Rep. John Mica (R-FL) has called them "at best no more useful than library cards.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The Essential Transportation Worker Identification Credential Assessment Act would direct the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit to Congress and the Comptroller General (GAO) a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the transportation security card program at enhancing security or reducing security risks for maritime facilities and vessels.

The bill would direct the Secretary to issue a corrective action plan based on the assessment that responds to the findings of a cost-benefit analysis of the program and enhances security or reduces security risk for such facilities and vessels.

The bill would direct the Comptroller General, within 120 days after the Secretary issues the corrective action plan, to: (1) review the extent to which the submissions implement certain recommendations issued by the Comptroller General, and (2) inform Congress as to the responsiveness of the submission.

The bill would prohibit the Secretary from issuing a final rule requiring the use of transportation security card readers until: (1) the Comptroller General informs Congress that the submission is substantially responsive to the GAO recommendations, and (2) the Secretary issues an updated list of transportation security card readers that are compatible with active transportation security cards.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 11, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 3202 would direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to assess the effectiveness of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. That program was established under the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), which requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide a biometric security credential for personnel who require unescorted access to secure areas of MTSA-regulated facilities and vessels and to all mariners who hold credentials issued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Based on the findings of the proposed assessment, H.R. 3202 would direct the Secretary to identify and implement corrective actions necessary to improve the effectiveness of the TWIC program and require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to the Congress on the status of those efforts. Finally, H.R. 3202 would specify conditions that would pertain to certain rulemakings related to the TWIC program.

Based on information from the Coast Guard and GAO, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing H.R. 3202 would cost about $1.5 million in 2015, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. That estimate is based on the historical cost of studies and analyses undertaken by those agencies that are similar in scope to those envisioned under the bill. Enacting H.R. 3202 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 3202 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
The Essential Transportation Worker Identification Credential Assessment Act was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on September 27, 2013 by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D, TX-18). It was referred to the United States House Committee on Homeland Security, the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, and the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security. On July 17, 2014 it was reported (amended) alongside House Report 113-528. On July 28, 2014, the House voted in Roll Call Vote 456 to pass the bill 400-0.

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 3202
beta.congress.gov H.R. 3202
GovTrack.us H.R. 3202
OpenCongress.org H.R. 3202
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 3202
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 3202
House Report 113-528 on H.R. 3202

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Hessian Bibliography

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The Hessian Bibliography () is a German regional bibliography. Its aim is to completely capture all the literature connected with the geography, history and culture of the German federal state of Hesse from the year 1974. It is based on the holdings of the copyright libraries at Kassel, Fulda, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Darmstadt.

By 2000 a total of 24 indexed year books had appeared in print; since then it has only been available in electronic form as a freely accessible database of the Hessian library information system (HEBIS). The titles are recorded in accordance with the Rules for Alphabetic Cataloguing and accessed using a comprehensive system of about 1,200 system sites and keywords. About 6,500 bibliographic records are added per year.

The Hessian bibliography is part of the Virtual German National Bibliography, which has its own web portal.

For the period before 1974, the "Literature on the History and Historic Geograph and Culture of Hesse" is used. This consists of seven printed volumes by Karl Ernst Demandt (covering the period to 1964) and by Winfried Leist and Wolfgang Podehl (covering the period 1965-1976). Currently, the volumes of Podehl and Leist are gradually being added retrospectively to the database.

References

Literature

 Brigitte Störch: Landesbibliographische Berichterstattung in Hessen. In: Ludger Syré (ed.): Die Regionalbibliographie im digitalen Zeitalter. Frankfurt a.M. 2006, pp. 257–266. Full text (pdf; 154 kB)

External links
 Hessian Bibliography

Hesse, State Bibliography
Online databases
Geography of Hesse


title: Peter Charleton

text:
Peter Mitchel Andrew Charleton (born 11 April 1956) is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since June 2014. He previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2006 to 2014.

Early life
He was educated at St Mary's College, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and King's Inns. He was the auditor of the College Historical Society between 1977 and 1978. His immediate predecessor was Mary Harney. He was in the final of the Irish Times Debate in 1977 and won the Benchers' Trophy for legal debate with Alex Schuster in 1979. As auditor of the CHS, his inaugural address was on the subject of "Republicanism Reviewed" and featured contributions from Conor Cruise O'Brien, John A. Murphy, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Mairéad Corrigan, Noël Browne and John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough.

Legal career
He was called to the Bar in 1979, and became a senior counsel in 1995. He was the first senior counsel to appear in an Irish court without a wig, following the enactment of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995. He was appointed to the Advisory Group on Criminal Law and Procedure in 1996 by Minister for Justice Nora Owen.

His legal practice included appearing for the Director of Public Prosecutions in criminal trials. He was prosecuting counsel in cases against Catherine Nevin for murder, and Paul Ward and John Gilligan in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of Veronica Guerin. Charleton also represented clients as a criminal defence barrister and in family law, judicial review and commercial law cases. He represented Christy Burke in a defamation action in 1996 and Eircom in a case related to the publication of a phone sex line in their telephone directory. He defended Ritchie Neville and Jason "J" Brown of the boyband 5ive following charges arising out of an altercation in Temple Bar, Dublin in 2001.

He worked as senior counsel for the Morris Tribunal into allegations of corruption in the Donegal division of the Garda Síochána. He was joined by Paul McDermott SC and Anthony Barr. He left the Morris Tribunal two years before it finished to take up an appointment to the High Court.

Charleton has also represented the State in cases before the European Court of Justice.

He is the author of a number books on criminal law and has also published on family and constitutional law, copyright, extradition and judicial review. He lectured in the King's Inns in the law of tort between 1982 and 1984, Trinity College Dublin in criminal law between 1986 and 1988, Fordham University, The University of Washington, and China University of Political Science and Law. He is also an adjunct professor of criminal law and criminology at University of Galway and regularly delivers lectures there.

He was Chairman of the National Archives of Ireland Advisory Council from 2011 to 2016, an unpaid position.

Judicial career

High Court
He was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in December 2006, and assigned to the Commercial Court from 2010. In 2014 he criticised a firm of stockbrokers for taking risks with the personal fortune of a person with special needs. As a judge of the Central Criminal Court, in a case called The People (DPP) v WD he introduced sentencing bands for rape cases and followed this up with supervision of the Judicial Researchers Office to produce sentencing guidelines for a range of serious indictable crime.

He has also acted as an ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

Supreme Court
He was nominated to the Supreme Court in June 2014 and appointed by President Michael D. Higgins in July 2014.

Charleton has written judgments for the Supreme Court on key aspects of criminal law. In 2016, he outlined the nature of consent in law in the context of sexual offences. He developed the substance of Irish common law defences of duress and provocation in the Gleeson and McNamara cases respectively, in both instances deploying tests using mixed standards of objective and subjective elements.

Disclosures Tribunal
In 2017, he was appointed sole member of the Disclosures Tribunal investigation into allegations of Garda Síochána malpractice. He published two substantive reports as chair of the Tribunal.

The portion of the inquiry presided over by Charleton ran from February 2017 until October 2018. In his findings from the inquiry, he found that a Garda sergeant, Maurice McCabe, had been subject to a smear campaign by the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and a Garda press officer, but not from subsequent Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan and other Gardaí. He was also critical of the Child and Family Agency in handling claims of rape.

In his concluding remarks on his findings, he criticised the Gardaí and the Child and Family Agency for not having organisational mentalities of learning from their errors. He was particularly critical of the credibility of evidence given by several senior members of the police force. Drew Harris, O'Sullivan's successor as commissioner, said on its publication that the report was "difficult reading for the organisation" and the Gardaí would move to have "an open and inclusive culture".

Subsequently, he criticised the manner in which tribunals of inquiry are conducted in Ireland. He suggested that instead of being run in a format akin to criminal trials, the main aspect of the inquiry should be directed from the tribunal itself. He later co-authored a journal article about his proposals for change.

Personal life
He is married to Fiona Daly. He has three children, Clara, Anna-Rose and Maitiú. He was a founder of the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir and a member of the board of the Irish Baroque Orchestra.

Publications

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title: Bibi Seshanbe

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Bibi Seshanbe (Sistanian: Bibi Sashemma), which literally means "The Queen of Tuesday," refers to a Persian mystical figure, most widely known among the Sistanian people. They consider her a holy angel who can save and cure poor and desperate people when called upon.

Sistanian Version
According to the Sistanian version of the Asoke Bibi-sa-shemma myth (the story of "The Queen of Tuesday"), a poor little girl stuck among a tyrant family finds a golden shoe, leading her to falling in love with the prince and saving her from such an intolerable circumstance. This story is strongly reminiscent of western fairytale Cinderella.
This story is narrated only by girls and women and all the men refuse to be around the women participating in the special ritual assigned to the "Asoke Bibi-sa-shemma," otherwise the above-mentioned angel not going to cure their problems. The setting of fire in this ritual derives from Zoroastrianism.

References

Persian mythology
Sistani culture