title: Capt. Jonathan Currier House

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The Captain Jonathan Currier House is a historic house on Hillside Avenue in South Hampton, New Hampshire.  Built about 1742, it is the oldest surviving house in Currierville, one of the early settlement areas in South Hampton.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Description and history
The Captain Jonathan Currier House stands at the three-way intersection of Hilldale Avenue with Currier Street and Lone Goose Road.  It is set facing south toward the intersection and close to the road.  It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central brick chimney, and clapboarded exterior.  Its main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by simple pilasters and topped by a transom window and cornice.  A single-story ell extends at an angle from the rear of the house, parallel to Hillside Avenue.

The house, a typical vernacular Georgian style construnction, was built c. 1742 by Jonathan Currier, whose family was among the early settlers of the western part of South Hampton, and for whom the area is named Currierville.  It is the oldest house standing in the area, a significant agricultural settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Because of its proximity to nearby Newton, the area's residents, including Currier and others in his family, twice petitioned the state (without success) to become part of Newton.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

References

Houses completed in 1742
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Georgian architecture in New Hampshire
Houses in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
1742 establishments in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
South Hampton, New Hampshire


title: Polygon covering

text:
In geometry, a covering of a polygon is a set of primitive units (e.g. squares) whose union equals the polygon. A polygon covering problem is a problem of finding a covering with a smallest number of units for a given polygon. This is an important class of problems in computational geometry. There are many different polygon covering problems, depending on the type of polygon being covered. An example polygon covering problem is: given a rectilinear polygon, find a smallest set of squares whose union equals the polygon.

In some scenarios, it is not required to cover the entire polygon but only its edges (this is called polygon edge covering) or its vertices (this is called polygon vertex covering).

In a covering problem, the units in the covering are allowed to overlap, as long as their union is exactly equal to the target polygon. This is in contrast to a packing problem, in which the units must be disjoint and their union may be smaller than the target polygon, and to a polygon partition problem, in which the units must be disjoint and their union must be equal to the target polygon.

A polygon covering problem is a special case of the set cover problem. In general, the problem of finding a smallest set covering is NP-complete, but for special classes of polygons, a smallest polygon time.

A covering of a polygon  is a collection of maximal units, possibly overlapping, whose union equals .

A minimal covering is a covering that does not contain any other covering (i.e. it is a local minimum).

A minimum covering is a covering with a smallest number of units (i.e. a global minimum). Every minimum covering is minimal, but not vice versa.

Covering a rectilinear polygon with squares
A rectilinear polygon can always be covered with a finite number of vertices of the polygon. The algorithm uses a local optimization approach: it builds the covering by iteratively selecting maximal squares that are essential to the cover (i.e., contain uncovered points not covered by other maximal squares) and then deleting from the polygon the points that become unnecessary (i.e., unneeded to support future squares). Here is a simplified pseudo-code of the algorithm:

 While the polygon P is not empty:
 Select a continuator square s in P.
 If the balcony of s is not yet covered, then add s to the covering.
 Remove the balcony of s from P.
 If what remains of s is a one-knob continuator, then remove from P a certain rectangle adjacent to the knob, taking care to leave a sufficient security distance for future squares.

For polygons which may contain holes, finding a minimum such covering is NP-hard. This sharp difference between hole-free and general polygons can be intuitively explained based on the following analogy between maximal squares in a rectilinear polygon and nodes in an undirected graph:

 Some maximal squares have a continuous intersection with the boundary of the polygon; when they are removed, the remaining polygon remains connected. Such squares are called "continuators" and are analogous to leaf nodes – nodes with a single edge – that can be removed without disconnecting the graph.
 Other maximal squares are "separators": when they are removed, the polygon splits into two disconnected polygons. They are analogous to nodes with two or more edges that, when removed, leave a disconnected remainder.

In a hole-free rectilinear polygon, all maximal squares are either continuators or separators; thus, such a polygon is analogous to a tree graph. A general polygon is analogous to a general graph. Just like the vertex cover problem is polynomial for tree graphs but NP-hard for general graphs, the square covering problem is linear for hole-free polygons but NP-hard for general polygons.

It is possible to use the linear algorithm to get a 2-approximation; i.e., a covering with at most  squares, where opt is the number of squares in a minimum covering:
 For each hole, find a square s connecting the hole to the external boundary.
 Cut s from the polygon, then glue back two overlapping copies of s (see figure). The resulting polygon is not planar, but it still 2-dimensional, and now it has no holes.
 Now use the original algorithm to find a minimum covering.

The number of squares in the resulting covering is at most , where holes is the number of holes. It is possible to prove that . Hence the number of squares in the covering is at most .

Covering a rectilinear polygon with rectangles
For general rectilinear polygons, the problem of finding a minimum rectangle covering is NP-hard, even when the target polygon is hole-free. Several partial solutions have been suggested to this problem:

Covering a rectilinear polygon with orthogonally convex polygons
For a rectilinear polygon which is half-orthogonally convex (i.e. only in the x direction), a minimum covering by orthogonally convex polygons can be found in time O(n^2), where n is the number of vertices of the polygon. The same is true for a covering by rectilinear star polygons.

The number of orthogonally-convex components in a minimum covering can, in some cases, be found without finding the covering itself, in time O(n).

Covering a rectilinear polygon with star polygons
A rectilinear star polygon is a polygon P containing a point p, such that for every point q in P, there is an orthogonally convex polygon containing p and q.

The problem of covering a polygon with star polygons is a variant of the art gallery problem.

The visibility graph for the problem of minimally covering hole-free rectilinear polygons with star polygons is a perfect graph. This perfectness property implies a polynomial algorithm for finding a minimum covering of any rectilinear polygon with rectilinear star polygons.

Covering a polygon without acute angles with squares or rectangles
The most general class of polygons for which coverings by squares or rectangles can be found is the class of polygons without acute interior angles. This is because an acute angle cannot be covered by a finite number of rectangles. This problem is NP-hard, but several approximation algorithms exist.

Covering a polygon with rectangles of a finite family
In some cases, a polygon has to be covered not with arbitrary rectangles but with rectangles from a finite family.

Covering a polygon with triangles
Finding the smallest set of triangles covering a given polygon is NP-hard. It is also hard to approximate - every polynomial-time algorithm might find a covering with size (1 + 1/19151) times the minimal covering.

If the polygon is in general position (i.e. no two edges are collinear), then every triangle can cover at most 3 polygon edges. Hence every polygon triangulation is a 3-approximation.

If the covering is restricted to triangles whose vertices are vertices of the polygon (i.e. Steiner points are not allowed), then the problem is NP-complete.

If Steiner points are not allowed and the polygon is in general position (i.e. no two edges are collinear), then every minimal covering without Steiner points is also a minimal partitioning of the polygon to triangles (i.e., the triangles in the minimal covering to not overlap). Hence, the minimum covering problem is identical to the polygon triangulation problem, which can be solved in time O(nlog n).   Note that if we drop the general position assumption, there are polygons in which the triangles in the optimal covering overlap. Think of the Star of David for example.

The problem of covering only the boundary of a polygon with triangles is NP-complete, but there is an efficient 2-approximation.

Covering a polygon with convex polygons

Covering a polygon (which may contain holes) with convex polygons is NP-hard. There is an O(log n) approximation algorithm.

Covering a polygon with convex polygons is NP-hard even when the target polygon is hole-free. It is also APX-hard. The problem is NP-complete when the covering must not introduce new vertices (i.e. Steiner points are not allowed).

Covering a polygon with star polygons

Covering a simple polygon with star polygons is -complete, as is the version where a point in the kernel of each star must be contained in an edge of the polygon.

Covering a set of points with identical squares
Given a set S of points in the plane, and a set of identical squares, the goal is to find the smallest number of squares that can cover all points in S.

Suppose that, for each point p in S, we put a square centered at p. Let GS be the intersection graph of these squares. Note that two points in S can be covered by a single square, if and only if the two squares centered at them overlap. Therefore, a square-covering of the points in S is equivalent to a clique cover of GS. Finding a smallest square-covering of S is NP-hard; the proof is by reduction from 3SAT.

Other combinations

Covering a polygon (which may contain holes) with  spirals is NP-hard.

Covering a polygon with pseudotriangles has also been studied.

Additional information can be found in.

See also
 Covering problems
 Art gallery problem
 Tessellation

References

Computational geometry
Polygons
Covering problems


title: Nazmi Albadawi

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Nazmi Nidal Nazmi Albadawi (; born August 24, 1991) is a former Palestinian professional footballer who recently played as a midfielder for North Carolina FC and the Palestine national team.

Early life
Albadawi played club soccer for Triangle United Soccer Association, where he contributed to 3 consecutive USYSA Region III Championships from 2008 to 2010.

He played high school soccer for the Athens Drive High School Jaguars of Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a four-year letter winner, winning all-conference selection three times and all-region honors as a senior. He finished his high school career with 35 goals and 60 assists in 88 games.

College career
Albadawi played four years of college soccer at NC State between 2010 and 2013 and prior to that a year at Wake Technical Community College. On November 9, 2013, he scored a game-winner in overtime against in-state rivals UNC.

While at college, Albadawi appeared for NPSL club Carolina RailHawks U-23's in 2012 and 2013.

Club career

Carolina Railhawks/North Carolina FC
Albadawi signed with NASL club Carolina RailHawks on April 11, 2014. On May 28, he netted his first career goal in a 2–0 win over the Charlotte Eagles in the second round of the Lamar Hunt U.S Open Cup. On October 12, he was named NASL player of the week after scoring one goal and one assist in a win against the San Antonio Scorpions. On December 1, the RailHawks picked up his contract option for the 2015 season. On January 12, 2016 the RailHawks announced that Albadawi had been re-signed to a multi-year contract. During the 2016 season, Albadawi started 29 games for the RailHawks, scoring three goals and breaking the NASL single-season assist record with 10. Following the season, he was named to the NASL Best XI.

Prior to the 2017 NASL season, Albadawi trained with Croatian First Football League side NK Istra 1961.

FC Cincinnati
On January 15, 2018, Albadawi signed with USL side FC Cincinnati on a multi-year contract. After playing one game for Cincinnati during their inaugural MLS season in 2019, he was loaned back to North Carolina FC on May 30.

Return to North Carolina FC
On November 21, 2019, he re-signed with North Carolina FC for the 2020 season.

On September 3, 2021, Albadawi announced his retirement from professional soccer. On September 13, 2021, Albadawi was named USL League One Player of the Week for Week 23 of the 2021 season after scoring a brace against New England Revolution II in his final professional game.

International career
Albadawi played his first international match for Palestine in a friendly against Pakistan that ended with a 2–1 win, scoring the winning goal.

Personal life
Albadawi's family hails from Tarshiha. He is a Muslim, stating in 2019: "I've grown a lot in faith the last couple years and it's something that's been very important to me."

Career statistics

International
Scores and results list Palestine's goal tally first.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Palestinian men's footballers
Palestine men's international footballers
American men's soccer players
American people of Palestinian descent
NC State Wolfpack men's soccer players
Carolina RailHawks NPSL players
North Carolina FC players
Athens Drive High School alumni
Men's association football midfielders
Soccer players from Raleigh, North Carolina
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
2019 AFC Asian Cup players
FC Cincinnati players
USL Championship players
Major League Soccer players
Soccer players from North Carolina
International sportspeople born abroad


title: Hormorini

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Hormorini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Agasphaerops – Andringitrabius – Anillobius – Brachymycterus – Esmelina – Eusomostrophus – Evadodes – Evadomorpha – Evas – Genavius – Guineobius – Holcorhinosoma – Hormorus – Isopterus – Lathrotiorrhynchus – Leptorhinus – Lupinocolus – Myogalus – Ochrometa – Styliscus – Styreus

References

 Van Dyke, E.C. 1936: New species of North American Weevils in the family Curculionidae, subfamily Brachyrhininae, IV. The Pan-Pacific entomologist, 12(1): 19–32.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Laparocerini

text:
Laparocerini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Laparocerus – Moreiba

References

 Lacordaire, T. 1863: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol.: 6. Roret. Paris: 637 pp.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.
 Machado, A. 2022. The Macaronesian Laparocerus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae). Taxonomy, phylogeny, and natural history. Publicaciones Turquesa. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 681 pp.

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Leptostethini

text:
Leptostethini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

References

 Lacordaire, T. 1863: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Vol.: 6. Roret. Paris: 637 pp.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: Palo Pinto Mountains State Park

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Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is an undeveloped 4,000 plus acre state park in Palo Pinto and Stephens County, Texas near the City of Strawn. The park is located in the Western Cross Timbers Ecoregion. The park is administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department which bought the property from private landowners in October 2011. The park has not received any development money and is not yet open to the public.

The park land was originally a ranch. The land surrounds Tucker Lake, which is owned by the City of Strawn and provides drinking water for the town.

Nature

Flora
The park is home to various types of trees, including live oak, blackjack oak, Texas red oak, post oak, Texas ash, prickly ash, cedar elm, mesquite, ashe juniper and pecan. There are bluebonnets, Indian blanket, prickly poppy, coreopsis, soft goldenaster, Texas bluebell, little bluestem, prickly pear cactus and sideoats grama, the state grass of Texas.

Fauna
The park has white-tailed deer, wild turkey, raccoons, squirrels, and various small mammals and a variety of songbirds. Fish found in Tucker Lake include bass, catfish, crappie, bluegill and sunfish.

References

State parks of Texas
Protected areas of Palo Pinto County, Texas
Protected areas of Stephens County, Texas


title: Lordopini

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Lordopini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Acanthobrachis – Aeuryomus – Alocorhinus – Anidopsis – Atomorhinus – Aulametopus – Conidus – Conothorax – Deroconus – Diaprosomus – Dioryrhinus – Elytroxys – Eudmetus – Eurylobus – Euryomus – Euscapus – Euthyreus – Eutypus – Granadia – Hemieuryomus – Hypoptophila – Hypoptus – Hypsonotolobus – Hypsonotus – Lasiocnemoides – Lasiopus – Leptodomus – Lordopella – Lordops – Merodontus – Microstictius – Nesolordops – Omoionotus – Orthocnemus – Pachyconus – Prasocella – Pseudhypoptus – Rescapus – Stenorhinus – Sulla – Tomometopus – Tomorhinus – Trichocnemus – Tropidorrhinus

References

 Schönherr, C.J. 1823: Curculionides [Tabula synoptica familiae Curculionidum]. Isis von Oken, 1823(10): 1132-1146
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: 2014 Liechtenstein pensions referendum

text:
A referendum on a law on public sector pensions was held in Liechtenstein on 15 June 2014.

Results

Preference voting
Some voters voted yes to both options, but highlighted a preference for one of them.

References

2014 in Liechtenstein
2014 referendums
2014
Pension referendums
June 2014 events in Europe


title: Eucosma ephedrana

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Eucosma ephedrana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan.

References

Moths described in 1877
Eucosmini


title: Mesostylini

text:
Mesostylini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Amesostylus – Kasakhstania – Mesostylus – Parastylus

References

 Reitter, E. 1913: Bestimmungs-Schlüssel der mir bekannten europäischen Gattungen der Curculionidae, mit Einschluss der mir bekannten Gattungen aus dem palaearctischen Gebiete. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, 51 (1912): 1-90.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: All Saints' Episcopal Church (Beverly Hills, California)

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All Saints' Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church in Beverly Hills, California.

Location
It is located at 504 on North Camden Drive in Beverly Hills, California.

History
The congregation first met at the Beverly Hills Hotel from 1922 onwards. Four years later, in 1926, a chapel was built. By 1935, it became a parish in its own right.

Several decades later, in 1951, a new church building was erected, though the chapel was preserved. The organ was made by Casavant Frères for the new church in 1951.

Every week, the church serves 'The Monday Meal' to 130 - 150 guests, many of whom are homeless. In March 2012, artist Lisa Lesniak sold her paintings of the homeless as a fundraiser for the church.

The church is a member of the Congregational LGBT Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

On Ash Wednesday in 2015, the deacon from All Saints' offered ashes to passers-by on the streets of Beverly Hills together with the deacon of Church of the Good Shepherd.

Leadership
Rev. J. Herbert Smith served as rector until 1969, when Rev. Kermit Castellanos served as rector until 1975. During the latter's tenure, membership grew from 200 to 1,000. In 1977, Rev. Carol Anderson became the rector. She was the first woman to serve as rector. She was credited with bringing a more charismatic approach to her sermons.

References

External links
USC Digital Library: Exterior view of All Saints Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, ca.1930

Religious buildings and structures in Beverly Hills, California
Churches in Los Angeles County, California
Episcopal church buildings in California


title: Myorhinini

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Myorhinini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Anathresa – Aneremnodes – Apsis – Bicodes – Echinocnemodes – Ephimerostylus – Epipolaionyx – Eremnodes – Eudraces – Goniorhinus – Haptomerus – Holorygma – Lecanophora – Malosomus – Nastomma – Neobicodes – Opseorhinus – Parepeigorrhinus – Pareremnodes – Parhaptomerus – Siereorrhynchus – Stereorhynchus – Subhaptomerus – Sympiezorhynchus – Umzila – Zeugorygma

References

 Marseul, S.A. de 1863: Catalogue des Coléoptères d'Europe et du Bassin de la Méditérranée en Afrique et en Asie. Deuxième edition. Laval, Imprimerie de Mary-Beauchêne. Paris: [2] + 300 pp.
 Oberprieler, R.G. 1995: Systematic position and composition of the tribes Tanyrhynchini and Myorhinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). pp. 155–167 in: Anderson, R.S. & Lyal, C.H.C., Biology and phylogeny of Curculionoidea. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, (14)

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: Jack Lee (politician)

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Jackson "Jack" Lee (April 8, 1920 – June 10, 2014) was an American radio broadcaster and politician. In 1971, Lee became the first Republican Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, of the 20th Century. He served as the city's Mayor for two consecutive, two-year terms from 1971 to 1975. Lee was also elected Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party in April 1977. He is widely credited with unifying the state Republican Party during his tenure as chairman.

Biography

Early life and broadcasting career
Lee was born on April 8, 1920, in Fremont, Nebraska. His father, Earl Lee, served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature for fourteen years. Jack Lee received his bachelor's degree in 1941 from the University of Nebraska. He then served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Lee moved to Delaware after the war, where he initially worked as a reporter for radio stations in the Delaware Beaches region. He rose to become a radio station manager.

In 1960, Lee purchased WFAI-AM (present-day WFAY), a radio station in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He moved to the city with his wife, Virginia, and their three children. Lee hired Curt Nunnery as a station radio personality.

Under Lee, WFAI-AM became the first radio station in eastern North Carolina to air daily editorials shows hosted by Jesse Helms. He publicly supported Helms' candidacy for the United States Senate in 1972.

Lee sold WFAI in the early 1970s to focus on his political career.

Political career
Lee was a conservative Republican, while the Fayetteville region was a Democratic stronghold during the 1960s. Lee became the Republican campaign manager for Cumberland County, laying the foundation for future Republican gains in the area during the 1970s.

He began his political career in 1964, when he ran unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for a North Carolina Senate seat. Lee was soundly defeated, garnering just 30% of the vote against his Democratic opponent. Lee had later stated that he ran in 1964 so the Republican Party would at least have a candidate in that election.

Lee became the chairman of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce from 1965 to 1968. He was also active in a variety of other business and civic organizations.

In 1971, Jack Lee won the nonpartisan Fayetteville mayoral election by defeating city councilman Denny Shaffer in a landslide. While the election was nonpartisan, Lee made history by becoming Fayetteville's first Republican mayor of the 20th Century. U.S. President Richard Nixon appointed Mayor Lee to a national education council in 1973.

Lee was re-elected to a second, two-year term as Mayor in 1973. However, he declined to seek re-election in 1975. Lee was succeeded by Democrat Beth Finch, who became Fayetteville's first female mayor.

Jack Lee focused on joining the leadership of the North Carolina Republican Party after leaving the mayoral office. Prominent supporters of Lee included U.S. Senator Jesse Helms and political activist Thomas F. Ellis. Lee was elected Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party unopposed at the party's conference on April 16, 1977, after his opponent, Bill Hiatt, withdrew. The state Republican Party was deeply divided at the time between rival supporters of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Lee is widely credited with unifying the North Carolina Republican Party following a long period of political infighting. Under Lee, who believed that Republican themes would appeal to the state's conservative-leaning Democrats, Ronald Reagan won North Carolina in the 1980 presidential election.

In 1983, President Reagan appointed Lee as the Federal Communications Commission's director of legislative affairs.

Lee returned to radio after retiring from politics, working at radio stations in coastal North Carolina during the 1980s and 1990s. However, he continued to work as a radio sales representative into his 80s. He eventually moved to New Mexico to be closer to his family.

Jack Lee died in Farmington, New Mexico, on June 10, 2014, at the age of 94. His health had declined since suffering from a respiratory illness during Fall 2013. He was survived by his second wife, Pam. His first wife, Virginia Lee, had died several years prior to his death.

References

1920 births
2014 deaths
Mayors of Fayetteville, North Carolina
American radio executives
North Carolina Republicans
University of Nebraska alumni
People from Fremont, Nebraska
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
State political party chairs of North Carolina


title: Missing (album)

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Missing () is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Lala Hsu's fourth Mandarin solo studio album. It was released by AsiaMuse on 13 June 2014.

Track listing

 Notes
 "只要一分鐘 (One Minute More)" is the theme song of the 2014 film of the same name.

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links
  Asiamuse - 尋人啟事
  myMusic 徐佳瑩 - 尋人啟事

2014 albums
Lala Hsu albums


title: Nastini

text:
Nastini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

References

 Reitter, E. 1913: Bestimmungs-Schlüssel der mir bekannten europäischen Gattungen der Curculionidae, mit Einschluss der mir bekannten Gattungen aus dem palaearctischen Gebiete. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, 51 (1912): 1-90.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Ed Nickla

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Ed Nickla (August 11, 1933 - November 2, 2021) was a Canadian Football League player as a linebacker and defensive tackle. He became a 2-time east division All-Star for the Montreal Alouettes in 1962 and 1963.

Career
After playing football at the University of Tennessee in 1951 and 1952, the US Air Force in 1953-1956 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C., and the University of Maryland in 1958, Ed Nickla joined the Chicago Bears in 1959, though drafted by them back in 1955. Nickla played only one season with Chicago in 1959.

After sitting out the entire 1960 season, Nickla joined the Montreal Alouettes in 1961 as an inside linebacker, a defensive tackle, and a middle guard.

Recognition
Nickla was voted as an East All-Star in 1962 at inside linebacker and in 1963 at defensive tackle. In 1962, he intercepted four passes. However, he was released by the Alouettes after playing only two games in 1964 for being too slow. Though picked up by the Toronto Argonauts for eight more games that same year, he never played another season.

References

1933 births
2021 deaths
Montreal Alouettes players
Toronto Argonauts players
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football linebackers
Canadian football defensive linemen
Players of American football from New York City
Tennessee Volunteers football players
Maryland Terrapins football players


title: Naupactini

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Naupactini is a tribe of broad-nosed weevils (subfamily Entiminae). Primarily from the Neotropical realm, reaches highest genus and species diversity in South America. Their size varies from 3.5 to 35 mm long, and its colour patterns are diverse. As well many has colourful iridescent scales (bluish, greenish or golden), others show opaque scales or setae, and some are subglabrous. In habitats with sparse vegetation or trees absence, the occurrence of flightlessness and parthenogenesis is frequent.

Females of Naupactini usually lay their eggs between adjoining surfaces (e.g. in litter between fallen leaves, in cracks in the soil, and in crevices of tree trunks and calices of fruits), in batches covered by an adhesive substance (Marvaldi, 1999). Their ectophytic larvae live in soil where they feed externally on the roots of their host plants (Marvaldi et al., 2002, 2014; Oberprieler et al., 2014). Although naupactine weevils are capable of eating a large range of different foods, the majority of them show at least some preference for certain plant families, especially Fabaceae (Lanteri et al., 2002). Several species are considered agricultural pests in both their native ranges and places where they have been introduced due to human activities (Lanteri et al., 2013a).

Due to being agricultural pests in many crops and being considered of major fitosanitary importance, biological control with parasitic nematodes is being developed.

Several studies links parthenogenesis and the presence of parasitoid bacteria Wolbachia. The parasite generates thelytokous parthenogenesis but also other reproductive alterations on the host, increasing its frequency on the population, as the main way of transmission is maternal . Although, Wolbachia's horizontal transfer amongst unrelated invertebrates species is extensive.

Genera
Acyphus – Alceis – Amitrus – Amphideritus – Aptolemus – Aramigus – Artipus – Asymmathetes – Asynonychus – Atrichonotus – Brachystylodes – Briarius – Chamaelops – Corecaulus – Curiades – Cyphoides – Cyphopsis – Cyrtomon – Enoplopactus – Ericydeus – Eurymetopus – Exophthalmida – Fascaevinus – Galapaganas – Glaphyrometopus – Hadropus – Hoplopactus – Ischnomias – Lamprocyphopsis – Lamprocyphus – Lanterius – Leschenius – Litostylodes – Litostylus – Macrostylus – Megalostylodes – Megalostylus – Melanocyphus – Mendozella – Mesagroicus – Mimographus – Mionarthrus – Moropactus – Myociphus – Naupactus – Neoericydeus – Obrieniolus – Pactorrhinus – Pantomorus – Parapantomorus – Parasynonychus – Parexophthalmus – Phacepholis – Platyomus – Plectrophoroides – Priocyphopsis – Priocyphus – Protonaupactus – Rhynchuchus – Saurops – Squamodontus – Stenocyphus – Teratopactus – Tetragonomus – Thoracocyphus – Trichaptus – Trichocyphus – Trichonaupactus – Wagneriella – ?†Arostropsis

According to Lanteri (2017), the genera Mimographus, Hoplopactus and Naupactus are not monophyletic, Artipus belongs to Geonemini tribe, and Mimographopsis and Floresianus should be resurrected as extant genera.

References

 Gistel, J. 1848: Faunula monacensis cantharologica. (Fortsetzung). Isis von Oken, 1848(8): third unnumbered page in the Section Umschlag (front covers).
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Panderia

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Panderia is a genus of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.

These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period, from 466.0  to 443.7 Ma.

Species
Panderia baltica
Panderia beaumonti (Rouault 1847)
Panderia derivata
Panderia edita
Panderia erratica
Panderia hadelandica
Panderia insulana
Panderia lerkakensis
Panderia lewisi Salter 1867
Panderia lubrica
Panderia megalophthalma Linnarsson, 1869 (p. 26)
Panderia migratoria
Panderia parvula (Holm 1882)
Panderia ramosa
Panderia triquetra Volborth 1863

Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Norway, France, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

References

 Bruton David L., 1968: The trilobite genus Panderia from the Ordovician of Scandinavia and the Baltic areas. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 48(1-2): 1-34

External links
 GeoWiki

Ordovician trilobites
Trilobites of Europe
Illaenina
Corynexochida genera


title: Charles Edwin (died 1801)

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Charles Edwin (born Wyndham; died 1801) was a Welsh politician.

He was the oldest son of Thomas Wyndham of Cromer, Norfolk. His mother, Anne, was the daughter of Samuel Edwin MP, and the sister of Charles Edwin MP.

Charles Wyndham married twice; first in 1762 to Eleanor, daughter of Major James Rooke, and secondly to Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle. When he inherited his uncle's estates in 1776, he took the name Edwin.

At the 1780 general election he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glamorgan. He held the seat until 1789, when he stood down in favour of his son Thomas Wyndham.

References

Year of birth unknown
1801 deaths
People from Glamorgan
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies
British MPs 1780–1784
British MPs 1784–1790


title: Charles Edwin

text:
Charles Edwin may refer to:

 Charles Edwin (died 1756), Welsh politician, MP for Westminster 1741–47, for Glamorgan 1747–56
 Charles Edwin (died 1801), Welsh politician, MP for Glamorgan 1780–89

See also
 Edwin (surname)


title: KiHa 52

text:
The  is a Japanese diesel multiple unit (DMU) type formerly operated by Japanese National Railways (JNR); JR Group companies such as JR East, JR West, JR Shikoku & JR Kyushu; and later by the private railway operator Isumi Railway based in Chiba, Japan, by overseas operators such as Myanmar Railways in Myanmar, and the Philippine National Railways in the Philippines.

112 KiHa 52 cars were built for Japanese National Railways between 1958 and 1966. The design was based on the KiHa 20 series "general purpose" DMU type, but with two engines for use on mountainous lines.

Variants
 KiHa 52 1 – 56: Built 1958–1962
 KiHa 52 101 – 156: Built 1963–1966
 KiHa 52 651: Converted from KiHa 52 101

Livery variations

JNR-era liveries

JR-era regional liveries

Resale
Following withdrawal of the last remaining examples operated by JR-West, one car, KiHa 52 125, was resold to the private operator Isumi Railway in Chiba Prefecture in April 2011. This unit was built in 1965, and formerly operated on the Etsumi-Hoku Line and Ōito Line in the Hokuriku region until 2010.

Overseas operations

Myanmar

Seventeen former KiHa 52 Diesel Railcars were shipped to Myanmar to be operated by Myanmar Railways between 2007 and 2008.
The following cars were transferred to Myanmar as shown:

Philippines

Seven former JR East KiHa 52 cars originally based at JR East Niitsu Transportation Zone were donated in September 2011 to the Philippine National Railways (PNR), where they were used on commuter services in the Manila area. In October 2013, the trains were normally operated as two 3-car formations. The seventh car, KiHa 52 123, in Niigata livery, was taken out of service after operating for only seven months, and is stored at Tutuban Depot as a source of spare parts for the rest of the fleet.

The trainsets were retired from passenger service in 2020 and they were replaced by Indonesian-built PNR 8000 class DMUs on the PNR North Main Line. KiHa 52-122 was later refurbished as the newest member of PNR's maintenance fleet in Caloocan, named the "Rescue Train" with the orange livery. The other two units from the KiHa-O trainset are still in storage in Tutuban as of October 2021. KiHa-B trainsets on the other hand were already retired in 2016 and Bicol trainsets were replaced by KiHa 35s.

The former toilets in each car are locked out of use.

Formation
During their service as commuter trains, the two three-car sets were referred to as "KiHa-O" (for orange) and "KiHa-B" (for blue) named after the liveries they carry. They were formed as shown below.

Preserved examples

In addition to KiHa 52 125 operated on the Isumi Railway,  three Kiha 52 cars are preserved in Japan, as listed below.
 KiHa 52 115: Former Tsuyama Depot roundhouse, Tsuyama, Okayama
 KiHa 52 130: Osumi Line Memorial Park, Shibushi, Kagoshima
 KiHa 52 156: Inside Itoigawa Geostation Geopal at Itoigawa Station in Itoigawa, Niigata

References

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Philippine National Railways
Japanese National Railways
East Japan Railway Company
Kyushu Railway Company
West Japan Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 1958
Rolling stock of the Philippines

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title: Toshihiko Shiozawa

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Toshihiko Shiozawa () is a Japanese football manager and former footballer.

Career

Footballer
Shiozawa first played club football at Meiji University, before professionally debuting in the Japan Soccer League in 1970 for Nagoya Bank. Following the closure of the club at the end of the 1971 season, Shiozawa transferred to Eidai Sangyo where he played until 1975.  During this time, he also acted as assistant coach to Ken Okubo.

Coach
Immediately after retiring from playing in 1975, Shiozawa replaced Okubo as head coach for Eidai SC.  His tenure there did not last long, however, as after only one year, the club was closed down. Shiozawa then took an eight year hiatus from soccer, before returning to coach the football club at Meiji University.  In 1986, he began coaching ANA Yokohama, which had just been promoted to the first division of the Japan Soccer League. Within three years, Shiozawa was able to lead the team to the top position of the league, getting a second and a third place in 1989 and 1990. respectively. In 1991 Shiozawa announced he would be retiring from soccer. He briefly returned in December 2005 and January 2006, as coach of the Nepal national football team.

Honours
 Japan Soccer League Division 2: (1) - 1987-88

References

Bibliography
, 1993 CiNii entry
1989-1990 JSL Year Book, 1989 NAN'UN-DO Publishing
Shu Kamo, 「モダン サッカー へ の 挑戦」

Expatriate football managers in Nepal
Nepal national football team managers
1947 births
Living people
Japanese football managers
Japanese expatriate football managers
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Nepal
Yokohama Flügels managers


title: Dame School

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The Dame School is a historic meeting house, school, and now local historical museum, on New Hampshire Route 152 in Nottingham, New Hampshire.  The single story wood-frame Greek Revival structure was built in 1840 as a church; according to local legend, timbers from a 1740 church were used in its construction.  Its main facade has a simple entrance topped by a transom window, and flanked by a pair of windows.  The building is topped by a three-stage tower, whose second stage houses a belfry, and whose spire is topped by a weathervane in the shape of a quill pen.  It was used as a meeting house until about 1878, with its dual use as a school beginning c. 1870.  It was dedicated for academic use in 1878, after the local Universalist congregation which had been using for services, built its own dedicated building.  This building is said to have acquired its distinctive weathervane as a gift in 1870 from schoolmaster Bartholomew Van Dame.

The building was moved closer to the center in 1952, at which time it was mounted on a concrete foundation, and a sympathetic addition was made to increase its capacity.  In 1995 a new central elementary school was built, and the addition was converted for use as a police station.  This building was again moved to provide parking space for the police, and has been adapted for use as a local history museum and community center.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

References

External links
 Town of Nottingham - Museums

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Greek Revival church buildings in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures completed in 1840
Schools in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Museums in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Nottingham, New Hampshire


title: Coptosapelta

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Coptosapelta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in tropical and subtropical Asia. The genus has not been placed within a subfamily and is sister to the rest of Rubiaceae.

Species

 Coptosapelta beccari Valeton
 Coptosapelta carrii Merr. & L.M.Perry
 Coptosapelta diffusa (Champ. ex Benth.) Steenis
 Coptosapelta flavescens Korth.
 Coptosapelta fuscescens Valeton
 Coptosapelta griffithii Hook.f.
 Coptosapelta hameliiblasta (Wernham) Valeton
 Coptosapelta hammii Valeton
 Coptosapelta janowskii Valeton
 Coptosapelta laotica Valeton
 Coptosapelta lutescens Valeton
 Coptosapelta maluensis Valeton
 Coptosapelta montana Korth. ex Valeton
 Coptosapelta olaciformis (Merr.) Elmer
 Coptosapelta parviflora Ridl.
 Coptosapelta valetonii Merr.

References

External links
Coptosapelta in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Coptosapelteae


title: Jordan Burt

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Jordan Burt (born August 19, 1990) is an American former soccer player who previously played as a fullback for Colorado Springs Switchbacks in the USL Championship.

Career

Youth and college
Burt played five years of college soccer at Butler University between 2009 and 2013.

While at college, Burt appeared for various USL PDL clubs, including Indiana Invaders, Rochester Thunder, Southern California Seahorses, Washington Crossfire and Real Colorado Foxes.

Professional
Burt signed with North American Soccer League club Carolina RailHawks on April 15, 2014.

Burt signed with the USL’s Colorado Springs Switchbacks in 2015 as a member of the inaugural roster. He quickly became a mainstay of the starting lineup, making 21 starts over 27 appearances in his debut season.

Burt continued to help lead the Switchbacks, scoring a combined fourteen goals in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, while earning multiple USL Team of the Week selections.

Ahead of the 2019 season, Burt was named team captain in recognition of his achievements on the field as well as his leadership in the locker room. He went on to score seven goals in 32 total starts.

As of his re-signing in 2020, he is the only player remaining with Switchbacks from the club’s inaugural squad. He has made the most appearances in club history with 155 and is three goals shy of the franchise record for most goals with the club in all competitions with 27.

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Men's association football midfielders
Butler Bulldogs men's soccer players
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC players
Indiana Invaders players
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
North Carolina FC players
Sportspeople from Elkhart, Indiana
Real Colorado Foxes players
Rochester Thunder players
Soccer players from Indiana
Southern California Seahorses players
USL Championship players
USL League Two players
Crossfire Redmond players


title: Neumünster–Bad Oldesloe railway

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The Neumünster–Bad Oldesloe railway is an approximately 45-kilometer-long single-track, non-electrified main line in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It connects the central Holstein town of Neumünster with Bad Oldesloe, the seat of the district of Stormarn. Since December 2002, passenger services on the line have been operated by Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft.

History

The line was opened on 10 December 1875 by the then Altona-Kiel Railway Company (Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, AKE). In 1884, the railway company was nationalised. Until 1945, the line was considered as an extension of the Hagenow Land–Bad Oldesloe railway in Mecklenburg. The kilometre stones of this route still stand on the track (the zero stone is in Neumünster). The track is currently given the route number 1043 beginning in Neumünster (at km 74.376) and ending in Bad Oldesloe (km 119.886).

The line had strategic importance as it was possible for trains to run on the route from Neumünster to Hamburg via Bad Segeberg. This was used mostly for freight transport. From the late 1950s to the 1970s an express service ran on the Flensburg–Neumünster–Bad Oldesloe–Hamburg ran route in the morning.

Passenger traffic on the Neumünster–Bad Segeberg section was closed on 29 September 1984. Part of the line continued to be used for freight and the whole line was kept operational. Freight operations were abandoned between Kleinkummerfeld and Rickling on 25 September 1988 and between Neumünster and Kleinkummerfeld on 30 May 1990. As the Federal Transport Ministry had not approved the abandonment of  passenger traffic on the rest of the route as requested by Deutsche Bundesbahn, passenger services on the remaining section from Bad Segeberg to Bad Oldesloe were operated hourly from the summer 1989 timetable. Deutsche Bundesbahn operated class 628 diesel multiple units. In December 2002, the disused section was reactivated for passengers after numerous delays. The existing Kleinkummerfeld station was not put back into operation until 1984. Rickling-Ölweiche station had been abandoned at the time of cessation of services between Neumünster and Bad Segeberg in 1984 and had not been maintained for several years before that.  Neumünster Süd AKN station and Wahlstedt station have only been served since the reactivation of the line.

Current operations

The line is currently operated hourly by Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft with Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units. All trains serve the entire route and stop at all stations, although Altengörs and Fresenburg are request stops. The journey takes around 45 minutes.

Both the state, as purchaser of services, and the operating company were surprised by the high numbers of passengers. The trains are often crowded at peak times. As a first step, a parallel bus service was introduced because the platforms at some stations are too short for operating double sets. However, a double set has been used since 12 December 2011 in the morning from Neumünster at 6:37 and from Oldesloe at 7:42, and in the afternoon from Neumünster at 16:37 and from Oldesloe at 17:42. Only the three front doors of the trains can be used at the short platforms.

Future

The line has been proposed for duplication and electrification by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development. This would benefit both freight and passenger operations. In 2010 a review of the plan showed a benefit-cost ratio of 0.6 for the about €300 million project and therefore it could not be financed with federal funds. This is due to lower demand for freight than originally assumed in the original plan, as it has since been decided to proceed with the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link.

Notes

Railway lines in Schleswig-Holstein
Railway lines opened in 1875
1875 establishments in Germany
Buildings and structures in Segeberg
Buildings and structures in Stormarn (district)


title: Eucosma pupillana

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Eucosma pupillana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae.

Description
The wingspan is 14–19 mm. This moth has a characteristic wing pattern, with a whitish ground colour, pale brown fasciate markings on the forewings and well-developed black ocelli. Adults have been recorded on wing from July to August in Europe.

The larvae feed on Artemisia absinthium. They feed inside the stems and roots of their host plant.

Distribution
This species can be found in Great Britain, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Italy included Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic region, Russia (Ural Mountains), Asia Minor, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China (Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Xinjiang).

References

Moths described in 1759
Eucosmini
Taxa named by Carl Alexander Clerck


title: Dishu

text:
Dishu may refer to:

Dishu, Afghanistan, village in Dishu District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Dishu District, district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Dishu system, legal and moral system involving marriage and inheritance in ancient East Asia
Ground calligraphy (地書, dishu), a recreational practice of calligraphy, involving writing with a large water brush on the ground, in Chinese culture


title: Panderiidae

text:
Panderiidae is a family of trilobites in the order Corynexochida.

These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Ordovician period, from 488.3  to 443.7 Ma.

Genera
Hemibarrandia
Panderia

Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Czech Republic, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

References

Ordovician trilobites
Illaenina
Trilobite families


title: Nothognathini

text:
Nothognathini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

References

 Marshall, G.A.K. 1916: Coleoptera. Rhynchophora: Curculionidae. Shipley, A. E. (ed.): The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. : xv + 367 pp. Taylor & Francis. London.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes


title: Danville Town House

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The Danville Town House is the town hall of Danville, New Hampshire. It is located at 210 Main Street (New Hampshire Route 111A). The -story wood-frame building was completed in 1887, replacing the old 18th-century meetinghouse. It houses the town offices, and a meeting space in which town meetings and other civic and social events take place. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Description and history
The Danville Town House stands in the rural town center of Danville, on the east side of Main Street between Gerry Drive and the Baptist church. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in a modern synthetic imitation of clapboards (with the original wooden clapboards underneath). It has modest nods toward late 19th-century Victorian architecture, including slightly parapeted gables with projecting ends. The front porch originally had turned posts and a spindled valance; it has been replaced by square posts and balusters. On the inside, the town offices are located on the ground floor, while the second floor has a ballroom with a stage area at the eastern end.

The building was constructed in 1887, after the town's 18th-century meetinghouse was judged inadequate to meet the town's needs for municipal functions. This building's location in southern Danville was not without controversy: some objected to its more elaborate Victorian styling, and farmers in the northern part of the town objected to its relatively remote location, but were outvoted by more numerous southerners. An attempt was made to burn the building down the night before its dedication. The ballroom has been used for many public and private functions, including use by local civic groups, the Grange, and the Boy Scouts.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

References

External links
Town of Danville

Carpenter Gothic architecture in New Hampshire
Government buildings completed in 1886
Buildings and structures in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
City and town halls in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Danville, New Hampshire
City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire


title: Satyavati Devi (born 1905)

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Satyavati Devi (28 February 1905 – 26 October 2010) was an Indian freedom fighter and Gandhian. At the time of her death on 26 October 2010, she was India's oldest living freedom fighter.

She was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in Tarn Taran district. She did her schooling from Kanya Maha Vidyalay, Jalandhar. She married Lala Achint Ram in 1925. Her marriage was a dowry-less one and she wore no veil, which was the condition set by Achint Ram for marriage. She was popularly known as Bijji or Mataji. She was the mother of India's former Vice President, Krishan Kant. She also had two daughters Nirmala and Subhadra.

On 26 August 1942, she was arrested along with her children for participation in the Indian freedom movement. Along with other women prisoners she hoisted the Indian tricolour in Lahore Jail where she was imprisoned by the British. In prison she protested against the condition of barracks of political prisoners and went on a satyagraha. Post India's independence, she took an active part in Vinoba Bhave's bhoodan movement along with her husband Lala Achint Ram (who died in 1961) who was popularly called "Gandhi of Punjab". He had been member of Lok Sabha twice. They both urged the landowners to give their land to landless laborers. The revolutionary leader Chandrashekhar Azad stayed at her home for three days before his escape to Lahore. She had often fed the patriot Bhagat Singh with her own hands. Her daughter Subhadra, when arrested was only 13 years old and was the youngest freedom fighter to be arrested. In 1965, she donated all her jewels to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.

She was always respected by everyone who came to her home. Her son Krishna Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in 1989 and continued there until 1997, when he was elevated to the post of Vice President. Krishna Kant took his mother to his home during both occasions. When her son died in 2002, she was sitting beside his body until it was taken for cremation. She outlived him for eight years, dying on 26 October 2010 aged 105, outliving many of her younger co-workers. She was cremated with all state honours at her native village on the next day. A year before death on 9 August 2009, she was honoured by the then President Pratibha Patil as a part of the 67th anniversary commemoration celebrations of Quit India Movement.

References

1905 births
2010 deaths
Punjabi Hindus
Punjabi people
Indian independence activists from Punjab (British India)
People from Punjab, India
Prisoners and detainees of British India
Indian centenarians
Women centenarians


title: Immaculate Conception Parish Church (Los Baños)

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The Immaculate Conception Parish Church () is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. Its titular is the  (also Immaculate Conception) and its feast is celebrated every December 8.

History

The town of Los Baños started as a visita of Bay under the Augustinian order with Nicolas de Tolentino as the titular saint.  In 1590, Franciscans replaced the Augustinians in their missions with Pedro Bautista, later canonized as San Pedro Bautista. He discovered numerous hot springs in the area which locals called Maynit. He created a public bath he called the Los Baños. After twenty years, the Franciscans established a temporary convent to administer the hot springs that were popular for healing illnesses. A small hospital chapel was built in 1613 in the absence of a church until 1727 dedicated to the Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, with the title Aguas Santas. It was brought down by fire in 1727. A temporary chapel was built out of nipa and cane which was later destroyed again by fire. A big stone church was built in 1790 by Domingo Mateo in its present site. The belfry, sacristy and tile roofing were supervised by Manuel Amat in 1851 and the convent in 1852. The convent and bell tower were destroyed during the 1863 earthquake but repairs were made during the administration of Manuel Rodriguez and Gilberto Martin in 1880. It was also used in World War II as headquarters for the Japanese forces where it was used as a garrison by the Japanese during World War II.

Devotion
The local image of the Virgin Mary under the titular of the Immaculate Conception is known as the Nuestra Señora del Aguas Santas (also Virgin of the Holy Waters). The image of Immaculate Concepcion was said to be miraculous. Some of the miracles includes the wetting of the Virgin’s robes up to the shoulders, amor seco growing from the hems of her garments and mysterious footprints all over the church leading to her altar. Due to the popular devotion to the Virgin and miracles attributed to her, the church is currently petitioning to become a diocesan shrine.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Los Baños, Laguna
Los Baños, Laguna
Los Baños, Laguna
Los Baños, Laguna
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo


title: Mountain (video game)

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Mountain is a simulation video game developed by David OReilly and published by Double Fine Productions. It was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, and iOS in July 2014. The game is an idle game in which the only influence the player can have on the game is at the start of the game where the player is tasked to draw objects. The game is designed to be played in the background while the player uses other applications.

Gameplay
Mountain is described by its creator David OReilly as  a "Mountain Simulator, Relax em’ up, Art Horror etc." game, featuring little interactivity from the player. Upon starting the game, the player is asked to draw responses to a series of questions, described by OReilly as "more psychologically invasive than anything Facebook wants to know about you". The game uses that input to generate a model of a mountain, floating in space, surrounded by a small sphere of atmosphere. At this point, the game lacks significant interactivity; while the player can rotate the view around the mountain and zoom in and out, they cannot affect the mountain in any way. The game is set to be run in the background as the player does other activities on their computer.

Over the course of the game, the mountain slowly rotates as accelerated time progresses through day and night cycles and through seasonal changes: the player will see snow form and melt on the mountain, plants and trees grow and wither out. Randomly, the mountain may be hit by everyday objects, termed "artefacts," which then become embedded in the mountain indefinitely. The mountain periodically offers its thoughts to the player as the game progresses. After around fifty hours while the game has been running, the mountain meets its fate when it crashes into a passing giant star, ending the game, at which point the player can start the game over with a new mountain. This can be avoided by repeatedly pressing buttons on one's keyboard which forms a shield around the mountain that protects it from getting destroyed.

Development
David OReilly had developed a number of fictional video game sequences for the movie Her (2013). Following his involvement, OReilly had interest in creating a real video game, wanting "to explore in patterns and iterations of patterns". He considered the idea of simulating a mountain as "an iconic zen thing", and that the size of mountains dwarf that of the human experience; mountains further "defy objectification because they can't be owned or put in a museum". OReilly described Mountain as "visual silence", and that it is "about letting go of control" while one watches the simulation.

To develop the game, OReilly started learning the Unity engine himself. To complete Mountain, he gained assistance from Damien Quartz who did most of the game's coding.

OReilly had revealed the game during the Horizon video game showcase held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the same week in June as the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014. The game was published by Double Fine Productions under their "Double Fine Presents" label aimed for small indie games.

The title was initially released on July 1, 2014, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, and iOS platforms; an Android version was delayed until August 19, 2014, due to the cost of getting the Unity plugin for the operating system. However, official Android support for the game is no longer available. OReilly had initially envisioned the game to run as a background application for personal computers, and thus had not spent a great deal of time optimizing the iOS version through the Unity engine. However, within a week of its release, Mountain was one of the top-selling titles on various app store charts, prompting OReilly to develop more optimization for the iOS and pending Android versions.

In December 2018, Mountain 2.0, a major update to the game, was released for free on its available platforms. Taking about a year to complete, the update was a greater endeavor than the game's first version. It contains numerous additions and improvements, including more artefacts, optimized shaders, and a Slow Motion mode. OReilly largely credits the update's conception to support for the game from its fan community.

Reception
The game was generally praised by reviewers as a novel concept, though because of its limited interactivity, many players were discontent, comparing it merely to a screensaver. Zack Kotzer of Vice compared the game to the Tamagotchi toys, though lacking the constant attention to the toys' demands and instead letting the player decide when to check the mountain's progress. Others described it as a passive Katamari game, watching how the mountain accumulates stuff. Some reviewers found the game pretentious; Ben Kuchera of Polygon said it may have been a joke by OReilly, and that he did not feel the same sense of wonder that other journalists had found in the game.

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IOS games
Linux games
MacOS games
Simulation video games
Video games developed in Ireland
Windows games
Double Fine games
Indie games


title: Edward L. Gilligan

text:
Edward Lyons Gilligan (April 18, 1843 – April 2, 1922) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Gilligan received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Gilligan's medal was won after he assisted in the capture of a Confederate flag. He was honored with the award on April 30, 1892.

Gilligan joined the Army from Philadelphia in October 1861. He was commissioned as an officer in October 1864, and mustered out with his regiment in June 1865.  Gilligan was buried in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Medal of Honor citation

See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Gettysburg
List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: G–L

References

1843 births
1922 deaths
19th-century American people
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
Military personnel from Philadelphia
Union Army soldiers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients


title: Robot Koch

text:
Robert Koch (born 7 October 1977), best known by the stage name Robot Koch, is a German, Los Angeles-based artist, composer, and record producer. Koch made a name for himself as a member of the band Jahcoozi before launching as a solo artist. His electronic music sound has been called "Wonderful and Strange - pop music from the future" by John Peel of the BBC, in 2003.

Background
Koch was introduced to the piano at six years of age, and later to the drums at thirteen. He has said that both instruments were helpful in his later years as a composer, giving him a foundation in a harmonic and a rhythmic understanding of music. He worked as a composer and producer in Berlin up until 2013, when he relocated to Los Angeles, California.

While Koch has been releasing his own original material on the labels Monkeytown Records, Project Mooncircle, Bpitch Control, and Four Music, he has been a successful producer, remixer, and collaborator for other musicians such as Tensnake, Norah Jones, Bassnectar, and Max Richter. He has worked as a producer and composer for both indie and major artists worldwide, and has won gold and platinum records for his production work for Marteria, Casper, and K.I.Z.
In 2014, he won the German Music Composers Award in the category "Best Electronic Music Composer".

Koch's music has been used in numerous television shows and films, including NBC's The Blacklist, ABC's How to Get Away with Murder, MTV's Teen Wolf, and the trailer for San Andreas.

Projects
In 2016, Koch launched his own label, Trees and Cyborgs.

In 2018, he co-created the immersive audio-visual project "Sphere" in collaboration with visual artist Mickael Le Goff. For the project, Koch's 2018 album Sphere was transformed into film and a visual exploration of space, and exhibited in full-dome venues and planetariums around the world. The full-dome show was designed to transport the audience through space and time using custom projection visuals and atmospheric music, presented in a 3D sound environment.

As part of his work, Koch has also explored modern classical compositions. For the ninth edition of Neue Meister at DRIVE Forum Berlin, the artist, together with Australian violinist and composer Savannah Jo Lack, wrote and performed six pieces that were exclusively composed for the Neue Meister series. The music for this series was released in 2019.

Discography

Solo

Jahcoozi
Studio albums
 Pure Breed Mongrel (2005)
 Blitz 'N' Ass (2007)
 Barefoot Wanderer (2010)

EPs
 Fish 12" (2003)
 V.A.: Girls (2004)
 Rebel Futurism Part 2 (2004)
 Black Barbie (2005)
 Black Barbie/Stereotyp Rmx (2006)
 Reworks (2007)
 Double Barrel Name (2007)
 BLN (2007)
 Namedropper (2009)
 Barbed Wire (2009)
 Watching You (2009)
 Barefoot Wanderer Remixes PT 1 (2010)
 Barefoot Wanderer Remixes PT 2 (2010)

The Tape vs RQM
 Hungry Man EP (2005)
 Autoreverse (2005)
 Public Transport (2007)
 Luvley 12" (2008)

Robot Koch vs Cerebral Vortex
 Vortex Cookies (2008)
 Upside Down EP (2009)
 Aftershocks EP (2009)

Fiora & Robot Koch
 "Dreams of You" single (2011)
 "Let It Go By" single (2017)

Robots Don't Sleep
 Robots Don't Sleep EP (2012)
 Mirror (2013)

Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack
 Particle Fields (2016)
 Particle Fields Reimagined (2017)
 Otherwhere (2019)

Delhia de France & Robot Koch
 "California Dreamin" single (2015)
 Moirai EP (2018)

Other projects
 Goodman & Clean – Lights EP (2000)
 Back 2 Square 1 – The State of the World (2002)
 Autodrive – 4 Girls EP (2005)
 The Tape – Perpetual Dubbing (2005)
 MMDC – Love Your Sister (2006)
 Autodrive – Exponential (2006)
 Autodrive vs. Jahcoozi – Hiding from the Truth (2008)
 Robot Koch and John Robinson – Robot Robinson (2011)
 Robot Koch x Susie Suh – Here with Me (2014)
 May & Robot Koch – Gold EP (2018)
 Robot Koch & Schwarzmodul – "Black Water" single (2019)
 Robot Koch & Ian Urbina – Albatross EP (2020)
 Robot Koch –  soundtrack (2021)

Remixes, production, and features

 Panorama – "Super Race Monkey [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2003)
 Mendelson – "White Canary [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2004)
 Inverse Cinematics [The Tape Remix]" (2005)
 Tolcha feat. Jahcoozi – "Crushed Like Ice" (2005)
 Raz Ohara – "Hymn [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2005)
 Justine Electra – "Killalady [The Tape Remix]" (2006)
 Modeselektor feat. Sasha Perera – "Silikon" (2006)
 Data MC – "Pioneer Camp [The Tape Remix]" (2006)
 Unknownmix – "The Siren [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2006)
 Tolcha vs. Soom T – "Send Dem Kids to War [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2007)
 Filewile – "Damn [Jahcoozi Remix]" (2007)
 Missill feat. Jahcoozi – "Glitch EP" (2008)
 Mochipet feat. Jahcoozi – "Microphonepet" (2008)
 Jennifer Rostock – " [Robot Koch Remix]" (2008)
 Jennifer Rostock – " [Robot Koch Remix]" (2008)
 Jennifer Rostock – "Feuer [Robot Koch Remix]" (2008)
 Envy – "Tongue Twister [Robot Koch Remix]" (2008)
 Marsimoto – "" (2008)
 Mochipet – "Rambunction Rmx" (2008)
 Sneaky – "Feel Like a King feat. Barbara Panther [Robot Koch Remix]" (2009)
 King Cannibal & Jahcoozi – "Murder Us" (2009)
 Mexicans with Guns – "Nuts and Bongos" (2009)
 Th Mole – "How 2 Be Cool" (2009)
 Ira Atari – "My Name Is Ira" (2009)
 KU BO – "Kaggua" (2009)
 Marteria – "" (2010)
 Max Mutzke – "Home Work Soul" (2010)
 The Drapers – "We No Speak Americano" (2010)
 Bassnectar – "Teleport Massive" (2010)
 Talen – "The Comic Book EP" (2010)
 Casper – "XOXO" (2011)
 Kraddy – "Let Go" (2011)
 K.I.Z. – "" (2011)
 Graciela Maria – "Many Places" (2011)
 Max Herre – " (remix)" (2012)
 Marsimoto – "" (2012)
 Justine Electra – "Great Skate Date" (2013)
 Julien Mier – "Porcelain Dust" (2013)
 Claire – "The Next Ones to Come" (2013)
 Ok Kid – "Ok Kid" (2013)
 Long Distance Calling – "The Flood Inside" (2013)
 Elenka – "Wolf" (2013)
 Hurts – "Miracle" (2013)
 Alek Fin – "Waiting Like a Wolf Remix" (2013)
 Orsons – "Lagerhalle (remix)" (2013)
 Andrea Balency Crystals" (2014)
 Markus Wiebusch – "Konfetti" (2014)
 Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones – "The Sun Won't Set" (2014)
 Tensnake – "Holla" (2014)
 Vivaldi – "Summer" (2014)
 Rebeka – "Breath" (2015)
 Kasar – "Gone" (2015)
 Numaads – "Now" (2015)
 Adiam – "Runaway" (2015)
 Alejandro Bento – "Rain" (2016)
 Equador – "Blood" (2016)
 Dapayk & Padberg – "Sink the Ship" (2016)
 Hundreds – "Spotless" (2016)
 Schwarz – "In Your Eyes" (2017)
 Joplyn – "Too Close" (2017)
 Christian Löffler – "Mare" (2017)
 Anomie Belle – "Flux" (2018)
 Jono McCleery & Sterling Grove – "Beneath" (2018)
 2Raumwohnung – "" (2018)
 John Metcalfe – "When They Weep" (2019)
 Alex Banks – "Chasms" (2020)
 Aparde – "No Need" (2020)

Awards
Deutscher Musikautorenpreis - Best Electronic Music Composer (2014)

References

External links

1977 births
21st-century drummers
21st-century German male musicians
21st-century pianists
German drummers
German electronic musicians
German male musicians
German male pianists
German record producers
Living people
Male drummers
Musicians from Kassel


title: Omiini

text:
Omiini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Asphalmus – Baromiamima – Bryodaemon – Chaerocephalus – Desbrochersella – Elytrodon – Gyratogaster – Hlavena – Humeromima – Leianisorhynchus – Microelytrodon – Omiamima – Omias – Rhinomias – Scoliolenus – Teripelus – Urometopus – Yunakovius

References

 Shuckard, W.E. 1840: The British Coleoptera delineated, consisting of figures of all the genera of British Beetles, drawn in outline by W. Spry, W. Crofts. M. E. S. London: I-VIII + 84 pp. + 94 pl.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Beetle tribes


title: Young European Leadership

text:
Young European Leadership (YEL) is an international non-profit and nonpartisan organization composed of and founded by young Europeans. Its aim is to empower youths through high-level leadership opportunities to create change in their communities. Among its activities, YEL organizes the European Union's delegations to the Y7 and Y20 Summits, as well as youth-centered delegations to the annual COP conferences, the European Health Parliament, and other events, including the Paris Peace Forum.

History
Following the 2011 Y8 and Y20 Summits held in Paris, France, the initiative "Youth AEGIS" was founded by Radoslav Šoth. Its main goal was to recruit the delegates of the European Union for the next editions of the Y8 and Y20 Summits. After a change in leadership in 2012, the initiative was renamed Young European Leadership and developed into an organization. The new association was legally established in Brussels as an AISBL (international non-profit organization) the year after, in February 2013. The Co-Founders were Tillmann Heidelk (President), Flóra Rétvalvi as Vice President, Jeroen Stevens as Secretary General and Treasurer, and Radoslav Šoth as member. Diana Carter was also part of the organization from the beginning.

Since 2020, Young European Leadership has expanded its digital activities, including through hosting regular "Thursday Night Live" segments on its social media platforms.

The main aim of the organisation is to help and empower young youth so that they can bring change in the local community, through prospective measures.

Current Activities
Young European Leadership aims to empower youth by providing them with high-level leadership development opportunities and to connect young people with decision-makers in the European Union and abroad. The organization trains young Europeans in leadership skills including public speaking and negotiation skills, and organizes a number of delegations and events to achieve this aim.

Y7 and Y20 Summits
The Youth Seven (Y7) and Youth Twenty (Y20) Summits – formerly G8 and G20 Youth Summits – are international youth conferences.

The Y7 and Y20 Summits are the official Group of Seven (G7) and Group of Twenty (G20) youth events. Young adults aged 18 to 29 are encouraged to provide innovative solutions to global challenges. Their proposals are then presented to the Heads of State of all G7 and G20 countries.

UNFCCC COP Delegations
Young European Leadership organizes a high-level youth delegation to the annual United Nations Climate Change conference.

European Health Parliament Delegations
Young European Leadership organizes a high-level youth delegation to the European Health Parliament.

Other Events
In addition, Young European Leadership organizes and participates in various youth-focused events. These include events hosted by the European Business Summit, the OECD, the Paris Peace Forum, and the European Committee of the Regions.

Former Activities

Young European Council
The Young European Council was a simulation of the European Council for young people.  The different national positions on a variety of issues discussed at the European level such as energy, the question of the Euro or EU-bilateral relations, are covered. Young European Leadership organized the Young European Council (YEC) 2014 in Brussels. It gathered students and young professionals from all over Europe to address three challenges: education to employment, digital revolution and technologies, and sustainable development in cities; exchanging with policy-makers from the European institutions and think-tank experts. Guest speakers included the then-European Commissioner for Climate Action, Ms. Connie Hedegaard.

European Development Days
Young European Leadership has frequently sent a youth delegation to the European Development Days. The European Development Days are Europe's forum for international affairs and development cooperation. This initiative is sponsored by the European Commission and its premier goal is to consolidate the general view on development issues and create a unified approach to achieve more effective international cooperation.

YEL Society
The YEL Society was a project to bring together university students as well as young professionals involved in European and global politics. The Young European Leadership Society (YEL Society) believes that young people must be given the chance to design the world they are living in.

Organisation

Board
President: Eloïse Ryon
Secretary General: Sonia Stoyanova
Treasurer: Josias Knöppler
Vice-President of Community Building: Marko Milutinović
Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships: Christian Neubacher

Directors
Director of Communications: Marko Milutinović
Director of Partnerships: Christian Neubacher
Director of Delegations: Ana Elena Opre

European and International Partners

European Partners
Schneider Electric Foundation
Athens Network of Collaborating Experts (ANCE)
Bulle Media
EU40
European Business Summit
European Health Parliament
Finance Watch
Global Diplomatic Forum
Prague European Summit

International Partners
Internet Society
Youth Climate Movement

Notable alumni
Emma Wiesner , Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe)
Tillman Heidelk , First President of Young European Leadership
Diana Carter , Former Secretary-General and Treasurer
Radoslav Šoth
Flóra Rétfalvi
Luiza Niță

References

Organizations established in 2013
Non-profit organisations based in Belgium
International organisations based in Belgium
Youth empowerment organizations
International nongovernmental youth organizations
Youth model government
G20
G7 summits


title: Cordiera

text:
Cordiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in central and southern tropical America.

Species

 Cordiera concolor (Cham.) Kuntze
 Cordiera concolor var. concolor
 Cordiera concolor var. goyana C.H.Perss. & Delprete
 Cordiera elliptica (Cham.) Kuntze
 Cordiera garapatica (K.Schum.) Kuntze
 Cordiera hadrantha (Standl.) C.H.Perss. & Delprete
 Cordiera humilis (K.Schum.) Kuntze
 Cordiera humilis var. amplexicaulis (S.Moore) C.H.Perss.
 Cordiera humilis var. humilis
 Cordiera longicaudata C.H.Perss. & Delprete
 Cordiera macrophylla (K.Schum.) Kuntze
 Cordiera myrciifolia (K.Schum.) C.H.Perss. & Delprete
 Cordiera rigida (K.Schum.) Kuntze
 Cordiera sessilis (Vell.) Kuntze
 Cordiera triflora A.Rich. ex DC.

References

External links
Cordiera in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Cordiereae
Rubiaceae genera


title: David Pallett

text:
David John Pallett (born 8 February 1990)  is an English professional darts player playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Career
In January 2013, Pallett entered PDC Q School and stood just one match from joining the tour in the second event, but lost 6–5 to Louis Blundell. However, after all four events had been played, he had done enough through the Q School Order of Merit to earn a two-year PDC tour card. Pallett qualified for the first European Tour event of the year, the UK Masters and beat top 20 player Paul Nicholson 6–3 in the opening round before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to two-time world champion Adrian Lewis in the second round. He reached the last 16 of a PDC event for the first time in June at the fifth Players Championship where he was beaten 6–3 by Terry Jenkins. At the Dutch Darts Masters, he saw off established players Mark Walsh and Dave Chisnall, before Brendan Dolan eliminated Pallett in the third round.

In the beginning of the 2014 season, Pallett threw a nine-dart finish at the third UK Open Qualifier. He entered the UK Open itself at the second round stage and defeated Gary Spedding and Kevin McDine to reach the last 32 where Gary Anderson won 9–5. Pallett defeated Jamie Lewis and Andy Hamilton at the German Darts Masters, before reigning world champion Michael van Gerwen eliminated him 6–4 in the third round. Two more last 16 appearances in Players Championship events followed which contributed to Pallett earning £11,750 during the year on the Pro Tour Order of Merit, which saw him make his debut at the 2015 World Championship by taking the 11th of 16 places that were on offer to non-qualified players. Pallett played two-time winner of the event Adrian Lewis in the first round and took out a 161 finish in the first leg, but lost each set by three legs to one in a 3–0 defeat. He moved to world number 48 after the event.

At the 2015 UK Open, Pallett defeated Mark Dudbridge, Andy Smith and Colin Fowler to play in the fourth round of the event for the second year in a row. He faced Phil Taylor and was beaten 9–3. In September, Pallett averaged over 100 in knocking out both Jamie Caven (100.73) and Jelle Klaasen (104.83) at the European Darts Matchplay. His run continued with 6–5 wins over Alan Norris and Kim Huybrechts to reach the semi-finals of a PDC event for the first time, where he lost 6–3 to Dave Chisnall. This result was a huge factor in Pallett qualifying for his second successive World Championship, where he will play Huybrechts in the first round.

Pallett missed two darts to take a 2–1 set lead over Kim Huybrechts in the first round of the 2016 World Championship. However, after Huybrehcts took the opening leg of the fourth set, Pallett reeled off six straight legs to win 3–2, which included 132 and 122 finishes in the last two games. In the second round both Pallett and Mensur Suljović missed darts at doubles for nine-dart finishes. There was never more than a set between the players, with Suljović taking the final set by three legs to one. He reached the quarter-finals of the first UK Open Qualifier and lost 6–2 to Phil Taylor. His third round match with Raymond van Barneveld at the UK Open went to a deciding leg in which the Dutchman threw an 11 darter to win 9–8. It was a tough rest of the year for Pallett, but he did reach the last 16 twice towards the end of it, losing 6–3 to Steve West at the 18th Players Championship event and 6–4 to Mensur Suljović at the German Darts Championship.

Pallett regained his PDC Tour Card in January 2019 via the Order of Merit, sealing at least two years on the ProTour.

World Championship results

PDC
 2015: First round (lost to Adrian Lewis 0–3)
 2016: Second round (lost to Mensur Suljović 3–4)

WDF
 2023:

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders
English darts players
People from Newport, Shropshire


title: Hyatt Regency Kathmandu

text:
The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, is an urban five-star resort located near the Boudhanath stupa. The hotel, opened in 2000, is built in the traditional Newar architecture on 37 acres of land. It is operated by Taragaon Regency Hotels, and employs 400 workers. The hotel was built under public-private partnership with 40% public ownership and 60% private. It recorded losses for 22 years, during which the public ownership of the hotel shrunk to 9%, and later began registering record profits. The public land on which the hotel was built was in the process of being privatised at extremely cheap rates. Parliamentary committees began investigating possible financial irregularities by the private partners, including the possibility that Taragaon Regency Hotels deliberately showed losses in order to illegally gain ownership stake on the hotel by decreasing the share prices and buying them back cheaply, while deterring investment from others. The Auditor General's office and the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority also investigated the activities of Taragaon Regency Hotels. As of 2020, Taragaon Development Committee, the entity representing public interests in the hotel, is attempting to reclaim the land into public ownership.

The hotel
Hyatt Regency is the biggest five-star hotel in Nepal. Located near the Bouddhanath stupa, the hotel stretches over 37 acres. The building incorporates elements of the traditional Newar architecture; the decorations in the lobby and around the premises include Buddhist chortens and other decorative motifs. It has 280 guest rooms, including seven suites. The hotel is operated by Taragaon Regency Hotels. It is listed at the Nepal Stock Exchange.

Workers
The hotel employs around 400 workers, 320 of them affiliated to All Nepal Hotel, Casino and Restaurant Workers Union. The hotel suspended its services for a week in 2019, when workers affiliated with the union went on strike, alleging that the management had cut worker facilities and benefits even as the hotel's net profits increased significantly. The strike was later called-off upon request from the Ministry of Labour.

History
The establishment of the hotel was approved in 1992 under public–private partnership. The public interest was represented by Tourism Ministry's Taragaon Development Committee; the private partners were Radheshyam Sharaf and Ramlal Shrestha families. The public investment amounted to Rs 170 million (40%); the private investment was Rs 257.5 million (60%). For public investment, half of the land on which the hotel was to be built was sold to the hotel for a stake of 40%, and the other half was retained in public ownership and leased to the hotel. Estimated to cost Rs 1.5 billion including a proposed cultural museum, it cost Rs 3.4 billion to bring into operation, without the museum, which was never built. It came into operation on 31 August 2000, and was formally inaugurated by King Birendra the next month.

The hotel continuously recorded losses for 22 years, deterring investment. By 2017, the public share in the hotel had shrunk to 9%; the ownership of original private investors increased slightly to around 62%. Public representation on the board of directors had shrunk to one member out of eleven, from three members out of nine in 1993; the Sharaf and Shrestha families had seven seats on the board. By 2019, the hotel was registering record profits with quarterly revenues of more than Rs 1 billion.

Hyatt Regency scandal
According to a 2017 report by Nagarik Daily, the original private partners, the Sharaf and Shrestha families, with the collusion of government officials, showed losses for the hotel for years, decreasing the price of the shares and buying them back to increase their ownership, while officials persuaded governments to not invest in it. It reported that the 37-acre public land that the hotel was built on, was in danger of falling into private ownership due to decreasing public share in the hotel. The government representative assigned the only seat at the Board of Directors had been boycotting the board meetings in protest. One investigative committee had submitted its report to the Ministry but no action was taken on it. With records showing losses, the partners had successfully avoided paying dividend to small shareholders or paying taxes, while the hotel's assets kept growing.

In November 2018, speaking to a parliamentary committee, the chief of Taragaon Development Committee and public representative to the Board of Directors who had been boycotting board meetings, said that the public land the hotel was built on was in the process of being converted into shares and privatised at extremely cheap rates. He demanded an independent audit of the hotel's financial records. The Office of the Auditor General published a report concluding that financial irregularities had been committed in value re-assessment of the land. The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee started an investigation.

In April 2019, a subcommittee of the parliamentary International Relations Committee, finding irregularities in share and land ownership transfers that resulted in reduction of public ownership to 9%, directed the government to take immediate steps to regain the land leased to Taragaon Regency Hotels. It also directed the government and the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to launch investigation into possible illegal conduct by Taragaon Regency in recording losses for the hotel for 22 years in order to benefit itself at the cost of public investment, as well as other financial irregularities. CIAA submitted its report to the government in September 2019. According to Nayapatrika, as of June 2020, Taragaon Development Committee has sent a formal letter to the Tourism Ministry, to begin the process of reclaiming Hyatt's land into public ownership.

Awards
The hotel won the Service Excellence Award 2017, awarded by Luxury Travel Guide at the Asia and Australasia Awards. It had previously won the same award in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016; it won again in 2018 and 2019.

Notes

References

External links
Official Website of Hyatt Regency Kathmandu

Hotels in Nepal
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
Hotels established in 2000
Hotel buildings completed in 2000
2000 establishments in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Kathmandu


title: Kevin Thomas (darts player)

text:
Kevin Thomas (born 8 May 1980, in Swansea) is a professional Welsh darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He uses the nickname The Undertaker for his matches due to him being of fan of WWE's Undertaker.

BDO career
Kevin Thomas has been playing darts from the early age of 6, but started out properly as a 15 year old Glamorgan Youth Player in 1995. He got picked for The Wales Youth Team in 1995,1996 and 1997 and throughout his Youth years, he was a dominant force in Youth darts winning the Southern Inter Counties Under 18 Youth Averages 2 times and the Under 21 Averages 2 times. In 1999, Thomas reached the final of the British Teenage Open where he lost 3–1 against Matt Chapman. He competed consistently in BDO County Men's 'A' games for Glamorgan and played for Wales Men 28 times with 15 wins from those appearances. He also competed in BDO tournament events in the coming years with his best success reaching the last 24 televised stage of The 2011 Winmau World Masters where he lost out to Steve Douglas 2–0. He also represented Wales in the 4 man Wales World Cup Squad in The Republic of Ireland in 2011 where he lost in the last 64 of the Men's Singles to Finland's Jarkko Komula.

PDC career
After a brief spell in the mid 2000s in the early days of the PDC which involved going around different Greene King pubs to qualify for events, Thomas rejoined the 'reformed' PDC in 2013 and hit his first competitive nine-dart finish whilst playing in the second UK Open Qualifier against Peter Hudson. He qualified for the UK Open in Bolton for the first time at the first time of asking through the UK Open Order Of Merit and lost out to Conan Whitehead in the second round. Thomas' best result of his career to date came at the 2014 Dutch Darts Masters where he beat Wayne Jones 6–1 and Steve Beaton 6–5, before he lost 6–4 to Mervyn King in the last 16 earning £2,000 in the process. Thomas matched this run at the sixth Players Championship of the year by beating Peter Hudson, Andy Hamilton and Ronnie Baxter, but was then eliminated 6–4 by Kyle Anderson.

Another last 16 defeat came in 2015 at the second Players Championship event, 6–5 at the hands of James Wade, but Thomas went one better at the fourth event by reaching his first PDC quarter-final. He came through a trio of deciding leg games against Magnus Caris, Andy Smith and Andy Boulton and beat Andy Hamilton 6–3, before losing 6–1 to world number one Michael van Gerwen.

His best result of 2016 came at the Dutch Darts Masters, where he beat Jan Dekker 6–3, before losing by a reversal of this scoreline to Dave Chisnall in the second round picking up £1,500 in the process. Other than that he reached the last 64 in three more events during the year. Thomas still competes regularly on the PDC circuit and currently holds the record for the most wins in Q School whilst not officially owning a full PDC tour card. Thomas still regularly enters the Q School, Pro Tour and Euro Tour events (OOM circumstances permitting) but due to a lack of serious sponsorship in recent years, he hasn't entered so many. At the moment, Thomas is currently an associate member of the PDC which means he is a regular on The PDC Challenge Tour and his aim is to get as high up in these ranking events to secure a full time PDC Pro Tour Card to enter more professional PDC events in the future and to get back to where he knows he deserves to be playing. Aside from that, Thomas still plays his local darts in his home town of Swansea where he has been dominating the Super Leagues and Local Leagues he plays in for many years. Thomas is also a multiple time tournament winner and has won countless local and Welsh Ranking Tournaments around the Welsh valleys. Thomas recently starred in the Welsh Darts Program Oci Oci Oci which aired on S4C on 22 June 2019.

References

External links

Living people
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
Welsh darts players
1980 births
British Darts Organisation players
Sportspeople from Swansea


title: A. Rami Reddi

text:
A. Rami Reddi was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in the 1952 election, standing as the Indian National Congress candidate in the Duggirala constituency. A. Rami Reddi obtained 19,002 votes (41.63% of the votes in the constituency). He died before the end of his tenure, and a by-election to fill his seat (now part of the new state of Andhra Pradesh) was held in June 1954.

References

Indian National Congress politicians
Members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu


title: Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

text:
Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 17503 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland and the wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. She was also a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II through the queen's maternal grandmother.

Biography
Dorothy Cavendish was born on 27 August 1750 to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his wife Lady Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford.

Marriage and children
On 8 November 1766, Cavendish was married to William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. They were parents of six children:
 William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (24 June 176827 March 1854)
 The Right Hon. Lord Charles William Cavendish Bentinck (1 July 177024 July 1770)
 Unnamed son (25 August 1771died young)
 Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 177417 June 1839)
 Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck (3 October 177528 July 1862). Married Charles Greville, and they had three sons: Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, Algernon Greville, and Henry William Greville (1801–1872), and a daughter, Harriet (1803–1870) m. Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
 Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck (13 March 17786 November 1843)
 Lord Charles Bentinck (3 October 178028 April 1826). Paternal grandfather of Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
 Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (2 November 178111 February 1828) married Mary Lowther (d. 1863), daughter of William Lowther, 16 September 1820; had issue: George Cavendish-Bentinck
 A stillborn baby, birthed at Burlington House on 20 October 1786.
According to newspaper accounts, she was the mother of nine children, only four of whom were living at the time of her own death.

Later life

The duchess died at her home, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and was buried in St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, London. She “died of a bowel complaint, which she had been subject to for many years, and which terminated in a mortification after a short illness. It was at first suspected, from the violent inflammation in her bowels, that her Grace had eaten water-gruel out of a copper saucepan not properly tinned; but this suspicion is certainly erroneous, as it proved on examination.”

Bentinck was a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II (see ancestry of Elizabeth II)

Ancestry

Arms

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