title: Direct lending

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Direct Lending is a form of corporate debt provision in which lenders other than banks make loans to companies without intermediaries such as an investment bank, a broker or a private equity firm. In direct lending, the borrowers are usually smaller or mid-sized companies, also called mid-market or small and medium enterprises, rather than large, publicly listed companies.  Lenders are generally asset management or private debt fund manager firms.  Direct lending funds use leverage, but generally less than banks or collateralized debt obligation funds (CDO/CLO).

Private Debt primarily focuses on investing at the top of the capital structure, primarily in senior, secured first lien debt. Investing at or near the top of the capital structure reduces risk relative to equity.  Direct Lending includes Senior Debt and Unitranche Debt.  Quarterly interest payments drives a constant cash flow stream throughout the deal life.  Because the total AUM of both Private Equity and Private Credit exhibited strong growth from 2013-2023, the proportion of Private Credit has remained relatively steady for the past decade.  The assets under management (AUM) in Private Credit has grown by almost 4 times over the past decade.  Private Credit metrics are proxied by Direct Lending which has exhibited strong performance through economic cycles. CalPERS references a Direct Lending benchmark as represented by the Cliffwater Direct Lending Index having market size of $263 billion as of December 2022.

The market has grown in importance since around 2009 in response to banks reducing their lending activities to companies in the wake of the Financial crisis of 2007-08. The need for direct lending has been put at €100 billion in Europe alone between 2013 and 2015. However, other sources report that in 2014 asset managers are struggling to find enough direct lending opportunities to invest in.

Asset managers cite the higher returns available from direct lending strategies as a main reason that people should invest in direct lending. US pension funds are among the investors who are reported to have made allocations to direct lending strategies, especially in Europe.  Several European governments have taken initiatives to boost direct lending to smaller companies since the financial crisis. For example, in 2012, the UK government introduced a scheme to lend £700 million of public money to smaller companies in partnership with asset managers.

2018 U.S. data shows performance returns for private credit funds equal or better than leveraged-loan, high-yield and BDC indexes. Direct lending funds have relatively low beta with positive alpha when benchmarked to leveraged loan/high yield indices. Low correlation is observed between direct lending funds with leveraged loan/high yield indices.

A large number of asset management firms have started funds to invest in direct lending, and several US firms have targeted European direct lending since around the start of 2013.

See also
Private-equity secondary market
Floating interest rate
Mezzanine capital
Venture capital
Revenue-based financing
History of private equity and venture capital

References

Financial services
Credit


title: INS Sumitra (P59)

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INS Sumitra is the fourth and last Saryu-class patrol vessel of the Indian Navy, designed and constructed by Goa Shipyard Limited. It is also the presidential yacht of India. It is designed to undertake fleet support operations, coastal and offshore patrolling, ocean surveillance and monitoring of sea lines of communications and offshore assets and escort duties.

Construction
The keel of INS Sumitra was laid at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) on 28 April 2010, and she was launched on 6 December 2010. During her construction at GSL, she was known as Yard 1211.

Service history
INS Sumitra completed her sea trials and was handed over to the Indian Navy on 18 July 2014, and was commissioned into the fleet by the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral RK Dhowan on 4 September 2014 in Chennai. She will operate under the Eastern Naval Command and conduct maritime surveillance and coastal security missions. Her first Commanding Officer is Commander Milind Mokashi.

Operation Raahat
On 30 March 2015, INS Sumitra and her crew rescued 350 Indian citizens stranded in Yemen, by evacuating them from the Yemeni port of Aden to Djibouti across the Red Sea. This rescue was part of Operation Raahat. Sumitra was diverted from her anti-piracy patrol in the Lakshadweep region to join the operation while Saudi Arabia-led forces were conducting air strikes against Houthi rebels.

Two other navy ships  and INS Tarkash (F50) were also part of this operation, along with two C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, two Airbus A-320 aircraft from Air India and passenger liners MV Kavaratti and MS Coral. The operations were overseen by Gen VK Singh (Retd), Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India.

Gallery

See also
Sukanya-class patrol vessel
List of active Indian Navy ships

References

External links

 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/navy-to-commission-ins-sumitra-on-september-4/articleshow/41515712.cms

2010 ships
Ships built in India
Patrol vessels of the Indian Navy
Royal and presidential yachts


title: Atul Bora

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Atul Bora (In Assamese: অতুল বৰা,born 7 April 1960) is an Indian politician from Assam of Asom Gana Parishad. He represents the Bokakhat constituency in the Assam Legislative Assembly since 2016 and the Golaghat constituency from 1996 to 2001. He was the Minister of Agriculture, Horticulture and Food Processing, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning Since 2016 in the Sonowal ministry and the Sarma ministry. He also served as the 2nd president of the Asom Gana Parishad since 2014 and working president of the party from 2011 to 2014.

Early career
Bora started his career of leadership from his student days. He was born in a family of Chutia ethnicity at Borahi Gaon, Athgaon Mouza of Golaghat District. He is the eldest son of Sri Mehuram Bora and Smti. Punya Probha Bora. He completed his primary education at Saraimoria LP School and Torfat ME school.

Thereafter he got himself admitted to Kacharihat High School from where he passed the HSLC Examination. Subsequently, he took admission in Debraj Roy College, Golaghat and after graduation, he joined Gauhati University and obtained his master's degree in Political Science and also obtained LLB Degree from Gauhati University Law College.

Political career

Bora participated actively in the Assam Movement while he was a student. He was elected Organizing Secretary and thereafter the General Secretary of the All Assam Students Union. He was also President of the All Assam Students Union and during his tenure in the All Assam Students Union left no stone unturned to make the All Assam Students Union as powerful as it was by fighting for the genuine causes of Assam.

Bora also became the Founder Chairman of the North-East Students' Co-ordination Committee, composed of student organisations of the north-eastern states. As the Founder Chairman, Bora became instrumental in organising educational, cultural, socio-political, sports and awareness programmes in entire North-East India.

The organisation under his leadership could draw the special attention of the Central Government to various common problems faced by the North-Eastern states. Bora joined active politics by enrolling himself as an Asom Gana Parishad worker in 1995.

On 9 June 1996, he was elected as MLA from his home constituency Golaghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Bora also practised law for a few years till assuming charge of various responsible posts of the party such as District President, Joint Secretary, General Secretary of the Central Committee and in the year 2011 he was elected as the Working President of the party and on 15 July 2014, Bora has assumed the charge of President of the party.

Bora after taking charge of his new responsibility as the President of the party has been trying his level best to improve the position of the party by visiting various districts of Assam and has been interacting with the party workers, intellectuals, and influential persons of the state and also people representing various sections of the society.

In May 2016, Bora won the Bokakhat constituency. He was sworn in as Cabinet Minister on 24 May 2016 and has been allotted polities like agriculture, horticulture and food processing, animal husbandry and veterinary, urban development department, and town and country planning departments.

In January 2018, Assam Agriculture Minister Bora inaugurated a chief minister’s free diagnostic and laboratory services at the Swahid Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital here in a colourful ceremony in presence of the joint director of health services, ADC (H), superintendent of SKK civil hospital, representatives from HLL Lifecare Ltd and other dignitaries.

References

Asom Gana Parishad politicians
State cabinet ministers of Assam
1960 births
Living people
Chutiya community
People from Golaghat district
Assam MLAs 2006–2011
Assam MLAs 2016–2021
Assam MLAs 2021–2026


title: Rociada, New Mexico

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Rociada is a settled area in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States, located 27 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the county seat. One of the valleys of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with the Manuelitas Creek running through it, Rociada actually comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Rociada. Several nearby villages such as Pendaries and Gascon, although technically in Mora County also use the Rociada postal address. Rociada's name means "sprinkled with dew" in Spanish, reflecting its relatively mild, moist climate in the summer compared to the other hot and arid areas of Northern New Mexico.

Notable people
Milnor Rudulph (1826-1887) died in Rociada where he lived in his later years and taught in the village school. He had been Speaker of the New Mexico Territory Legislature to which was elected in 1870 and led the inquest into the death of Billy the Kid in 1881.
Nepomuceno Segura (1855–?) lived in Rociada for part of his life. He was one of the delegates to the New Mexico Constitutional Convention of 1910 and had been the translator of the first statute laws of Colorado in 1876.
José A. Baca (1876–1924), the 5th Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico and his wife Marguerite Pendaries Baca (1876–1971), the 6th Secretary of State of New Mexico had a large ranch in Rociada. Their daughter, Emilie, who grew up on the ranch, later married Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), an American anthropologist who spent twenty-five years living among the Mbuti pygmies in central Africa. Another daughter, Consuelo, was the second wife of writer and anthropologist Oliver La Farge.
Antonia Apodaca (1923–2020), a musician and songwriter known for her performances of the traditional Hispano folk music of New Mexico, was born and raised in Rociada.

References

Unincorporated communities in San Miguel County, New Mexico
Unincorporated communities in New Mexico


title: Honeywell Level 6

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The Honeywell Level 6 was a line of 16-bit minicomputers, later upgraded to 32-bit, manufactured by Honeywell, Inc. from the mid 1970s. Honeywell literature for Models 6/06, 6/34 and 6/36 say "Series 60 (Level 6)". In 1979 the Level 6 was renamed the DPS 6, subsequently DPS 6 Plus and finally DPS 6000.

Description
As initially introduced the Level 6 consisted of three models: the 6/06, the 6/34, and the 6/36.  The CPU featured a real-time clock, a ROM bootstrap loader and 64 interrupt levels. The architecture provided a variety of addressing modes and 18 programmer-visible registers. Rack-mount and tabletop versions were available.

These systems supported up to 64 K words (KW) of MOS memory with a cycle time of 650 nanoseconds.

All three models all featured the Megabus, which was a proprietary asynchronous bus architecture.

By 1978 the line had been extended downwards with the introduction of the 6/23 and 6/33, and upwards with the 6/43, 6/47, 6/53, and 6/57.  The 6/23 did not support the Megabus.  The 6/33 was the new entry-level upgradable model.  The other four models supported up to 1 MW (Mega Words) of memory and 26 registers.  A memory management unit (MMU), optional on the 6/43 and 6/47, and standard on the 6/53 and 6/57, supported memory segmentation and four protection rings. An optional Scientific Instruction Processor (SIP) added single- and double-precision hardware floating-point instructions. The 6/47 and 6/57 were enhanced versions of the 6/43 and 6/53 respectively which added a Commercial Instruction Processor (CIP) including 30 additional instructions for character-string manipulation and decimal arithmetic. Among the final developments in the line were the high-end 32-bit 6/95-1, 6/98-1 and dual processor 6/95-2 and 6/98-2 models.

In the 1980s, Honeywell's Datanet 8 line of communications processors, often used as front-end processors for DPS 8 mainframes, shared many hardware components with DPS 6. Another specialised derivative of the Level 6 was the Honeywell Page Printing System.

In June 1986, following Honeywell Information Systems' merger with Bull, Honeywell Bull introduced the DPS 6 Plus line of symmetric multiprocessing 32-bit systems, models 410 and 420 (code named MRX - Medium Range eXtended) with up to four processors. In 1987 they introduced the uniprocessor models 210 and 220 (code named LRX - Low Range eXtended), announced the HRX (High Range eXtended), and Computerworld reported that there were more than 50,000 DPS 6 systems installed worldwide. The HRX was introduced as the DPS 6000 600 series. Recognising the commercial success of Unix, in 1988 Honeywell Bull introduced an 80386-based Unix co-processor for the DPS 6 Plus 400 series.

Software
The operating system for the Level 6 was GCOS 6:
 GCOS 6 Mod 200 was an entry version of the system oriented toward interactive data entry.
 GCOS 6 Mod 400 was a batch operating system also used to run process-control applications.
 GCOS 6 Mod 600 was a time-sharing operating system.
 The DPS 6 Plus line ran HVS 6 Plus.
 The Pick operating system was a  multi-user, time sharing business operating system for the Level 6 platform.

See also
 General Comprehensive Operating System

References

External links
 Level 6 documentation at Bitsavers

Minicomputers
Honeywell computers
16-bit computers


title: Dmitry Shikin

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Dmitry Mikhailovich Shikin (; born August 28, 1991) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with HC Vityaz of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Shikin made his Kontinental Hockey League debut playing with SKA Saint Petersburg during the 2013–14 KHL season.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Amur Khabarovsk players
Atlant Moscow Oblast players
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players
EHC Biel players
Buran Voronezh players
Dizel Penza players
Kristall Elektrostal players
HC Kunlun Red Star players
Russian ice hockey goaltenders
SKA Saint Petersburg players
SKA-1946 players
HC Sochi players
HC Vityaz players
Yermak Angarsk players


title: Jean Brun (cyclist)

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Jean Brun (28 September 1926 – 30 September 1993) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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External links

1926 births
1993 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Geneva


title: Faulu Microfinance Bank Limited

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Faulu Microfinance Bank Limited, commonly referred to as Faulu Kenya, is a microfinance bank based in Kenya. It is regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya.  The word Faulu is Swahili for succeed.

History
Faulu Microfinance Bank is a limited liability company duly incorporated in Kenya under the Companies Act. The company changed its name to Faulu Kenya Deposit Taking Microfinance (DTM) Limited in 2008 as part of the requirements to obtain the Deposit Taking Licence from the   Central Bank of Kenya. In May 2009, Faulu became the first registered DTM in Kenya under the Micro-Finance Act and is regulated by the CBK. The bank has grown from one MFI office in 1991 to over 90 service outlets which include 27 banking branches in seven of the eight provinces in Kenya by end of 2011.

In April 2014, Old Mutual completed its acquisition of 67% of Faulu Kenya through a KSH 2 billion capital injection. The acquisition gave Old Mutual a greater market reach through the Faulu Kenya branches across Kenya and gave Faulu Kenya greater capital to meet statutory requirements.

Ownership
The stock of Faulu Kenya is privately held with Old Mutual being the largest shareholder with 67% of the issued capital.

See also
 Central Bank of Kenya
 Kiva
 Food For The Hungry (FH)
List of banks in Kenya

References

External links

Microfinance companies of Africa
Banks of Kenya
Companies based in Nairobi
Banks established in 1991
Kenyan companies established in 1991


title: Nursing Home (album)

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Nursing Home is the second album by indie rock band Let's Wrestle. It was released on May 16, 2011 on Full Time Hobby, and the following day on Merge Records. It was produced by Steve Albini.

Lyrics
The album's lyrics contain humor and wit, focusing on topics such as playing computer games and hanging out with friends. The lyrics are also more self-deprecating and apathetic than those of Let's Wrestle's previous songs.

Critical reception

The album received generally favorable reviews from critics. In a mixed review, Daniel Tebo wrote, "There’s still a lot of fun to be had at this Nursing Home but it’s pretty clear that the party is winding down." In a more positive review, Robert Christgau wrote that in addition to maturing, the members of Let's Wrestle "do what all maturing s.-p.o.w.t.a. [slacker-punks or whatever they are] wish they could do – write better songs." Drowned in Sound's Michael Wheeler awarded the album a score of 8/10 and wrote that the song "For My Mother" was "probably the best and further proof of Let’s Wrestle’s idiot-savant genius."

Many reviewers perceived Nursing Home as reflecting a more mature band than did the band's debut, In the Court of the Wrestling Let's. According to Daniel Tebo, Nursing Home is "a few shades darker than expected." David Sheppard also praised Nursing Home as an improvement over their debut, writing that Nursing Home was "understandably crunchier than its predecessor," and that "this time the melodies are more consistently nagging and Gonzalez’s lyrics broader in scope." Michael Wheeler wrote that Nursing Home was "if not exactly refined, than certainly a little tighter and more focused in its abandon" than In the Court of the Wrestling Let's, and also described it as more coherent and unified.

Track listing
 In Dreams (Part 2)
 If I Keep on Loving You
 In the Suburbs
 Bad Mamories
 Dear John
 For My Mother
 I'm So Lazy
 There's a Rockstar in My Room
 I Forgot
 I Am Useful
 I Will Not Give In
 Getting Rest

Personnel
Steve Albini—Engineer
Darkus Bishop—Drums, Group Member
Wesley Patrick Gonzalez—Artwork, Composer, Group Member, Guitar, Vocals
Adam Kerle—Mastering
Mike Lightning—Bass, Group Member, Keyboards, Vocals
Merida Richards—Art Supervisor

References

2011 albums
Albums produced by Steve Albini
Merge Records albums
Full Time Hobby albums
Let's Wrestle albums


title: Kacy Catanzaro

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Kacy Esther Catanzaro (born January 14, 1990) is an American professional wrestler, gymnast and athletics-based television personality. She is currently signed with WWE on the Raw brand under the ring name Katana Chance. She is a one-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Kayden Carter, holding the record for the longest reign in the title’s history. Prior to WWE, she competed on the television sports show American Ninja Warrior and became the first woman to complete a City Qualifiers course and the first woman to complete a City Finals course.

Early life and education
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Catanzaro grew up in nearby Belleville, where she attended Belleville High School. She is of Italian descent. She began doing gymnastics at age 5. She attended Towson University in Towson, Maryland, from 2009 until 2012, studying early childhood education on an athletic scholarship.

Gymnastics career

Junior Olympic
Catanzaro was a Junior Olympic gymnast, having started training at age 6. She reached level 10 in 2007 and competed at the 2007 New Jersey Level 10 State Championships where she placed fifth in the Senior-A division. The following year Catanzaro competed at the 2008 New Jersey Level 10 State Championships where she placed third and advanced to the 2008 Junior Olympic National Championships. She finished 23rd overall but finished 6th on the balance beam.

NCAA
Catanzaro competed in gymnastics for Towson in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. She made her debut in the 2009 season. Catanzaro helped the Towson Tigers gymnastics team win the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships in 2009 and 2010. In her senior year she was named the Southeast Regional Gymnast of the Year in 2012. She was also named the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference Gymnast of the Year and was the top-ranked competitor in that conference for that year.

Obstacle competitor career

American Ninja Warrior
She worked for Alpha Warrior, an obstacle-course gym in San Antonio, Texas, from February 2013.

Catanzaro spent two years training for American Ninja Warrior alongside her then-boyfriend and co-competitor Brent Steffensen. She did not complete the qualifying course in Venice, California, but was an invited wildcard at the 2013 finals, where she fell early on the Giant cycle/ring.

In 2014, Catanzaro became the first woman to complete the qualifying course of American Ninja Warrior (season 6), making it up the warped wall on her second try at 5:26.18 at the Dallas qualifiers, ranking her 21 out of 30; this also makes her the first woman to make it up the warped wall in competition. Later in 2014, Catanzaro competed in the Dallas finals of American Ninja Warrior. She was the first woman ever to complete a city finals course (and the second woman to attempt it after Jessie Graff in season 5), qualifying for the national finals in Las Vegas with a time of 8 minutes, 59 seconds. (Not until five years later, during the 2019 season, was her accomplishment of a woman completing a City Finals course matched.)

Of the 2014 city finals run, host commentator Akbar Gbaja-Biamila remarked "I've seen greatness during my NFL career...And I've been in awe of people, but I am really in awe of Kacy". The run had been especially notable because due to her short stature, many of the obstacles looked difficult to manage and in one case, she had to leap between boards whereas other competitors could traverse them. Her achievement made her a social media phenomenon, with her run being viewed over 100 million times; supporters on Twitter coined the hashtag #MightyKacy.

Catanzaro failed to complete the first stage of the National Finals in Las Vegas. She made it past the first three obstacles, including the Giant Ring and the Silk Slider, before she fell attempting the Jumping Spider, where her full extension was simply too short to hold the position.

Subsequent seasons
In the 2015 Houston Qualifying round (season 7), Catanzaro failed to complete the course after falling on the cargo crossing. She was given a wild card spot in Vegas and she failed due to a mistimed trampoline jump at the Propeller Bar at Stage 1 of the national finals. By this time the pressure she felt to live up to her broadcast reputation as Ninjas greatest female competitor was reportedly showing and she was tearful in her post-run interview with Kristine Leahy.

In 2016, Catanzaro was invited to compete in the 32nd competition of the original Japanese version of ANW, Sasuke. Catanzaro performed well, completing 8 of the stage 1 obstacles before timing out on the final obstacle, the Lumberjack Climb. Since the course's renewal and increased difficulty, Catanzaro set the record for the furthest a female athlete has gone and the closest a female athlete has gotten to completing stage 1 since the 2nd competition (until 2017 when Jessie Graff completed stage 1 and became the first woman ever to complete stage 2.)

In the 2016 Oklahoma City Qualifying round (season 8), Catanzaro failed to complete the course after falling on an early obstacle, the Log Runner; however, she was again given a Wild Card spot in Las Vegas. In the Las Vegas National Finals, Stage 1, she fell on the second obstacle.

In December 2016 Catanzaro co-hosted as a broadcaster the Team Ninja Warrior College Madness series of shows.

In 2017, Catanzaro competed in American Ninja Warrior season 9 in the San Antonio city qualifier and finals. In the former she failed on the fourth obstacle, but did well enough to qualify for city finals under the show's new rules. In that latter run she had her best performance since 2014, making it past the Sky Hooks and the fifth obstacle to get to the now-higher Warped Wall, which she failed to surmount. Nonetheless she qualified for the national finals. At the national finals, she failed on Stage 1 at the Double Dipper.

In 2017, Catanzaro announced her retirement from American Ninja Warrior, with season 9 being her last.

 Professional wrestling career

 WWE (2017–present)

 Early years (2017–2020)
On January 4, 2017, Catanzaro received a tryout with WWE at their WWE Performance Center. It was announced on August 28 during the Mae Young Classic that Catanzaro had been signed to a contract with WWE. On January 18, 2018, WWE officially announced Catanzaro had reported to the WWE Performance Center. She made her in-ring debut at a NXT live event on April 19, in Sanford, Florida, in a losing effort to Reina González.

Catanzaro continued to make appearances during 2018, both in house shows and on NXT television; she wrestled as a face and took inspiration from WWE's Alexa Bliss's slogan "Five Feet of Fury", making reference to Catanzaro's own diminutive size. In the second episode of the Mae Young Classic, which aired on September 12, Catanzaro made her televised debut in a winning effort against Reina González in the first round match. On Episode 5, she lost in the second round to Rhea Ripley. On January 27, 2019, Catanzaro made her main roster debut, entering the Royal Rumble at number 19 and lasting 10:45, before being eliminated by Ripley. She would make her NXT debut afterwards, on March 13.

In September 2019, it was reported that Catanzaro had resigned from WWE and retired from professional wrestling due to an ongoing back injury she suffered. She returned on the January 15, 2020, episode of NXT as a surprise entrant in a women's battle royal. Catanzaro revealed in an interview that she took some time off because she had doubts about continuing in the Professional Wrestling business.

 Teaming with Kayden Carter (2020–present)
On the September 16 episode of NXT, Catanzaro teamed with Kayden Carter in a winning effort against Jessi Kamea and Xia Li. They participated in the 2021 Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament, defeating Mercedes Martinez and Toni Storm in the quarterfinals, but were beaten by Dakota Kai and Raquel González in the semifinals. They would then feud with Xia Li after constantly being attacked by her throughout the following weeks. Catanzaro lost to Li on the February 24 episode of NXT and got her leg injured afterwards. The next year, Catanzaro and Carter participated in the 2022 Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic where they defeated Diamond Mine's Ivy Nile and Tatum Paxley in the first round, but lost to Kay Lee Ray and Io Shirai in the semifinals. On April 19, Catanzaro's ring name was changed to Katana Chance. Chance and Carter won the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match, lastly eliminating Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne), on the August 2 episode of NXT, marking Kacy's first professional wrestling championship. They defended their titles against Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H. at Worlds Collide, and against Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark on the October 25 and November 8 episodes of NXT. On January 8, 2023, Catanzaro and Carter became the longest reigning NXT Women's Tag Team Champions. On the January 24 episode of NXT, they retained against Alba Fyre and Sol Ruca. At NXT Vengeance Day, Chance and Carter lost the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship to Fallon Henley and Kiana James, ending the historic reign at 186 days.

As part of the 2023 WWE Draft, Chance, along with tag team partner Carter, was drafted to the Raw brand. Chance and Carter made their main roster debut on the June 5 episode of Raw in a losing effort against the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler.

Other media
Catanzaro made her video game debut in the Banzai Pack DLC for WWE 2K22. She also appeared in WWE 2K23 under her Katana Chance ring name.

Personal life
Catanzaro previously dated fellow professional wrestler Ricochet. She is currently in a relationship with fitness trainer Naoufal Abouelhouda.

Championships and accomplishments
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' Ranked No. 63 of the top 100 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 100 in 2019
 WWE'''
 NXT Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kayden Carter

References

External links

1990 births
21st-century American sportswomen
21st-century female professional wrestlers
American female artistic gymnasts
American female professional wrestlers
American Ninja Warrior contestants
American professional wrestlers of Italian descent
Belleville High School (New Jersey) alumni
Level 10 gymnasts
Living people
NXT Women's Tag Team Champions
People from Belleville, New Jersey
People from Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Essex County, New Jersey
Towson Tigers athletes


title: Ilya Ezhov

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Ilya Ezhov (born January 12, 1987) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Playing career
Ezhov made his Kontinental Hockey League debut playing with SKA Saint Petersburg during the 2011–12 KHL season. After three seasons with Saint Petersburg, on September 6, 2014, Ezhov was traded to KHL club, HC Lada Togliatti to begin the 2014–15 season.

After two seasons as the starting goaltender for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, Ezhov left as a free agent to sign a one-year contract with HC Vityaz on 12 July 2019.

Ezhov spent four seasons with Vityaz Podolsk before leaving as a free agent to sign a one-year contract with Salavat Yulaev Ufa on 5 May 2022.

References

External links

1987 births
HC Lada Togliatti players
Living people
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
Russian ice hockey goaltenders
St. John's Fog Devils players
Salavat Yulaev Ufa players
SKA Saint Petersburg players
HC Vityaz players


title: Rudi Valenta

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Rudi Valenta (24 March 1921 – 15 July 2001) was an Austrian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Major results
1946
 1st Vienna–Graz–Vienna
1947
 2nd Vienna–Graz–Vienna
 3rd Overall Tour of Austria
1949
 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 2nd Vienna–Graz–Vienna
1950
 1st Vienna–Graz–Vienna
 1st  Road race, National Road Championships
1951
 1st Vienna–Graz–Vienna
 2nd Bol d'Or
 3rd Road race, National Road Championships

References

External links

1921 births
2001 deaths
Austrian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Austria
Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Vienna


title: Jacob Weinberg

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Jacob Weinberg (1 July 1879, Odesa – 2 November 1956 New York) was a Russian-born American Jewish composer and pianist who composed over 135 works for piano and other instruments. He was one of the founders of the Jewish National Conservatory in Jerusalem before immigrating to the U.S. where he became "an influential voice in the promotion of American Jewish music" from the 1940s until his death.

Life and career
Weinberg was born in Odesa, Ukraine, to Dora and Wolf (Zev) Weinberg. His family was middle class and his father was a merchant who died when Jacob was only 12. Jacob wrote an essay about how he had been sent to a synagogue to say the Kaddish prayer in mourning for his father. He wrote that he had not been raised in an Orthodox home and he was not familiar with the sounds of the Hebrew language in the prayer but he fell in love with the music of the language and the rhythm of the prayer. This sparked his interest in Jewish religion and Jewish music.

His uncle was Peter Weinberg, a prominent translator of Shakespeare and Heine into Russian.  Jacob completed law school at Moscow University, but he never practiced, preferring his piano studies. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory of Music from 1901 to 1906, under many prominent teachers including Taneyev and Ippolito-Ivanov. In addition, he studied composition for a year in Vienna, under Sergei Taneyev.  He taught piano as well; among his students were Josef Yasser, with whom he remained friends for many years to come.

Weinberg toured Russia as a pianist and also toured with Emil Rosenoff in their two-piano concerts from 1912 to 1916. He adapted Rachmaninoff's works to create a two-piano piece he called Rachmaniana. It was published and performed by Weinberg and Rosenoff. He was also very interested in preserving the unique melodies and music scales of Jewish religious and secular folk tunes. When the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music was formed in 1908 by Joel Engel, Lazare Saminsky, and others, Jacob Weinberg and his Moscow-based peers formed the Moscow branch of this society. Then he returned to Odessa, where he taught at the Odessa Conservatory of Music.

With the advent of the Bolshevik Revolution, Weinberg spent two months in prison and then fled with his wife Theresa (née Bernstein) and his only child, a son, Walter, in 1922 to Palestine (now Israel). There he composed the first Hebrew opera, The Pioneers (Hechalutz). It won First Prize in an international composition contest, sponsored by the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. There was a performance in Jerusalem in April, 1925. He taught piano; among his students was the pianist Mordecai Sandberg.

With the competition prize money of $1500, Weinberg took his family to New York.

Weinberg produced concert versions of his opera The Pioneers at Carnegie Hall in 1941 and 1947, and at the Mecca Temple (now New York City Center) in the 1930s. In addition, there was a performance in Berlin, Germany on September 5, 1938, by the Kulturbund, with the soprano Mascha Benya in one of the leading roles. It was conducted by violinist and conductor Chemjo Winawer. It was performed in a beautiful, huge 3,000-seat synagogue on Prinzregentenstrasse. (The Nazi party had banned the performance of Jewish works, even masterpieces, from being performed in a proper concert hall, so it was performed in a synagoguge). Two months later this grand synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht. The artists fled to the US and survived but Kurt Singer, the illustrious head of the Kulturbund, which organized such concerts, could not escape in time and was murdered in Auschwitz..

His many other works include religious Jewish works; he set the Sabbath service to music in several versions. These works are still performed at Temple Emanu-el, a prominent Reform synagogue in Manhattan. He also composed many non-religious works. He was very interested in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and set it to music for a chorus and in three other non-singing versions. Aaron Copland attended one of the Lincoln concerts prior to composing his own Lincoln Portrait.

He joined the music faculty of the New York College of Music in 1929 where he taught for many years and later joined the faculty at Hunter College. Weinberg died of lung disease in New York on November 2, 1956 at the age of 77. His remains are buried at the Stephen Wise Cemetery in Ardsley, New York.

Jacob Weinberg's widow, Theresa Bernstein Weinberg, was a brilliant woman who spoke four languages and raised their only child, Walter, when Jacob was pursuing his work. After Jacob's death, Theresa donated his music papers to Jacob Michael, the collector and philanthropist, whose foundation, in turn, donated the collection to the National Library of Israel, which is located on the campus of Hebrew University at Givat Ram, in Israel. There are over 10,000 pages in this archive which has been carefully curated by its director, Dr. Gila Flam, a distinguished musicologist. Theresa Weinberg also donated a second large volume of Weinberg's musical scores, personal letters, academic papers, and photos to the archive at the Glinka Museum of Music in Moscow, at 4 Fedeeva St. These papers can be viewed by request. Among the Glinka collection are Jacob Weinberg's masterpiece "Sonata for Two Pianos", and "Encyclopedia of Piano Technique, Part I and Part II."  His papers from his student days at the Moscow Conservatory of Music (1901-1906) are also donated here.

In addition to being Jacob's helpmate and supporter, Theresa Bernstein Weinberg was a gifted watercolor artist and avid maker of scrapbooks. In 1960 she formally signed a paper donating 67 scrapbooks of her clippings (of Jacob's work and also popular culture) to the NY Public Library system. These have yet to be found. Her grandchildren have been searching extensively for them. They are most likely in the basement storage areas of the NY Public Library at Bryant Park. Theresa passed away in 1962 and is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery, in Westchester County.

Jacob Weinberg's works continue to be enjoyed and performed today. His Klezmer works for clarinet, in particular, are widely performed. These include "Canzonetta" and "The Maypole". Weinberg was one of the in-house composers at Temple Emanu-el in Manhattan. His works are often performed during the High Holy days and during the weekly Sabbath services. Also, see YouTube for videos of contemporary performances of Jacob Weinberg's  works. See the Milken Archives for some recordings of his works.

Compositions
 Hechalutz (The Pioneers of Palestine) – Opus 18
 Sonata in E-flat major for Two Pianos
 Concerto #2 in C Major
 String Quartet – Opus 55
 Taps
 Romanze
 Jacob's Dream
 Canzonetta
 Speed Ahead (Perpetual Motion) for Violin and Piano – Op.31, No.2
 Kol Nidrei, op. 25.
 Suite for violoncello and piano
 Causerie
 The Cabalist
 The Maypole - Klezmer
 Rabbi Meir's Dance
 Trio on Hebrew Themes
 Prelude, Passacaglia and Finale, Op. 68. for piano
 Berceause Palestinienne (1929) for violin and piano

Opera
 The Pioneers (1924)

Oratorios
 Isaiah – An Oratorio
 The Life of Moses – An Oratorio

Choral
 I See A New America
 Gettysburg Address – 4 versions
 The Gettysburg address Abraham Lincoln's immortal words set for mixed voices, S.A.T.B.
 Shabbat ba'aretz (Sabbath in the Holy Land Service)
 Sabbath Evening Service
 Sabbath Morning Service (Shabath baarets), Op. 41. for cantor (baritone), mixed chorus and organ
 Sabbath Service
 Psalm 29 for cantor and congregation, or two antiphonal choirs (1951)

Songs
 Song for Heroes (1944) for voice and piano (lyrics by Nahum Ben-Horim)
 Six Hebrew songs for voice and piano
 From the Dead Sea Scrolls for baritone and piano

Arrangements
Rachmaniana for Two Pianos

Discography
 1938 - Shir Hakerem (Jacob Weinberg), Zvee Aroni and Helen Marie Stolz, 78 RPM RCA E2-KB-1531
 1954 - Yo Adir (Jacob Weinberg), Sidor Belarsky, 33 RPM, RCA Victor LPM-3197 (E3VL-4989)
 1969 - Yankl Der Shmid ("Jacob the Blacksmith"), Dovid Pinski - Jacob Weinberg, Moishe Oysher, 33 RPM, The Greater Recording GRC 154
 1977 - Berceause Palestinienne (Jacob Weinberg) David Sella & Paul Posnak, 33 RPM, Musique Internationale M-7504
 2004 - Klezmer Concertos and Encores The Maypole, Canzonetta (Jacob Weinberg), Naxos 8559403
 2005 - Weinberg: Piano Concerto No. 2, String Quartet Op. 55, Shabbat Ba'aretz - American Classics, Naxos 8559457

References

Further reading
Heskes, Irene (1998). The St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music.
Rockwell, John (7 April 1988). "Review: Works by Russian Jewish Composers. New York Times
Mausner, M,D., Ellen "Jacob Weinberg: Musical Pioneer" (KDP Amazon, New York, 2020)

External links
 Jacob Weinberg (Milken Archive)
  Biography and albums on Naxos

1879 births
1956 deaths
People from Odesa
New York College of Music faculty
Russian male composers
Jewish opera composers
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Moscow Conservatory alumni


title: Georgios Magklaras

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Georgios (George) V. Magklaras (born in Agrinio, Greece) (Greek: ) is a computer scientist working as a Senior Computer Systems Engineer at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, in Norway. He also co-founded Steelcyber Scientific, an information security based consultancy specialising in digital forensics. He is a high-performance computing engineer and information security researcher. He developed methods in the field of insider IT misuse detection and prediction and digital forensics. He is the author of the LUARM and POFR tools for the Linux Operating System. He has been a strong advocate of Linux, open source tools and the Perl programming language and has given a series of lectures internationally in the fields of intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, bioinformatics, computer programming and systems administration.

Education
Magklaras gained his BSc (Hons) in Computer Systems and Networks from the University of Plymouth, UK, where he graduated in 2000. He was then awarded an EPSRC scholarship to start the study of an MPhil (2005) degree in the area of Information Security, under the Faculty of Technology at the University of Plymouth, UK. Under the supervision of  Prof. Steven M. Furnell at the School of Computing, University of Plymouth, UK], he completed his PhD study in the same area (Information Security) in 2012.

Research and career
His research was initially concerned with ways to classify computer security incident management responses. However, his attention was drawn to the problem of misuse detection. Magklaras developed one of the first methods to systematize the misuse detection and misuse prediction techniques. He captured the problem of insider IT misuse and set the theoretical and practical foundations for a generic architecture that facilitates misuse detection and misuse prediction. As part of this work, he wrote the LUARM tool which is a live/volatile digital forensics engine that targets misuse detection. The LUARM research prototype has already been used with success on a number of notable cases detecting insiders and external computer intrusion attempts, however its main usefulness as a research prototype is to create data sets for researchers to further understand the nature of insider threats. An evolved open source version of the tool, the Penguin OS Forensic Recorder POFR has been developed under his supervision by Steelcyber Scientific, an IT consulting firm that focuses on information security and scientific computing. This version contains performance, security and forensic data accuracy improvements over the originally developed LUARM prototype and is suitable for auditing various IT infrastructure components.

Magklaras also pioneered the use of Domain Specific Languages in the field of misuse detection and prediction, in order to strengthen the data mining capabilities of information security researchers. His work on the Insider Threat Prediction and Specification Language (ITPSL) forms the only known XML based DSL language that attempts to produce semantics capable of combining techniques that mine and interpret misuse data with tags that provide the likelihood of a misuse threat occurring.

Magklaras has also been involved in the construction of deep packet inspection infrastructures for several hardware/software vendors, although this work has not been presented on the public domain. He is a strong advocate of information privacy. He has performed security assessments of covid-19 mobile phone contact tracing applications.   However, he has expressed critical views on how the mass media are covering the issue of electronic surveillance and has consulted for the Free Software Foundation on that matter. He has been an infrequent contributor of Black Hat Briefings and has participated (as part of a team) in various computer hacking challenges, including that of the GCHQ challenge in 2011.

In the field of bioinformatics, Magklaras has contributed to the study of biological sequence databases and protein-to-protein interactions by mainly engineering software (algorithms, programming)  to address these tasks. His is also known for his technical work in architectures that address the data storage volume and processing requirements of Next Generation Sequencing machines.

Prior working at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Magklaras has worked in various technical and scientific positions for a number of companies and organisations, including those of the University of Oslo, Sequent Computer Systems, IBM UK and Tiscali. He has held a number of professional affiliations, including those of an IEEE affiliate member, USENIX, SAGE/LOPSA and Red Hat Certified Engineer. He has held the position of Secretary (since 2005) and Chair (2010-2015) of the Technical Management Project Committee of the EMBnet organization.

References

External links
 https://www.steelcyber.com/georgioshome/
 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Magklaras

Greek computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Plymouth
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Agrinio


title: Jakob Schenk

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Jakob Schenk (31 March 1921 – 22 April 1951) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He also rode in the 1949 Giro d'Italia, but did not finish.

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title: Information Technology Park, Nepal

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The Information Technology Park (commonly known as Info Tech Park or IT Park), Nepal's only Information Technology Park, is situated between Banepa and Panauti of Kavrepalanchowk District, Nepal, although it comes under Panauti Municipality. It lies about  northeast of the capital city Kathmandu.

History

The Information Technology Park was completed in April 2003 with a total investment of NRs. 270 million (~  million USD). The initiation of the Park was formally done by an American company IBM but it left after nine months. Javra Software Company from the Netherlands had also started work but it too left, stating technical reasons and shifted to Kathmandu. By July 2014, it has not come into operation, as a result of which the Government of Nepal is missing millions of rupees in revenue. The government has formed a department named the Department of Information Technology for the socio-economic transformation to form a developed country.

Aims and objectives

The IT Park was established under the Ministry of Industry, for the development and promotion of information technology and services in the country. It has been said to be providing employment opportunities to about 15,000 technicians after the full range of operations of the IT Park. It has aimed to provide government services by maximizing the use of information and technology.

Land and distribution

The Park has been distributed within the area of 235 Ropanis () consisting of a commercial building, an administrative building, four residential buildings and a security building built by investing NRs. 500 million (~  million USD).

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Buildings and structures in Kavrepalanchok District
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title: Yasha (manga)

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is a Japanese  shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida and published by Shogakukan. It has 12 volumes, the first published on 11 December 1996 and the last on 23 August 2002. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama series in 2000. A sequel manga series, Eve no Nemuri, has five volumes, the first published on 26 January 2004 and the last on 20 December 2005.

Reception
It won the 47th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga. Eve no Nemuri was nominated for the 10th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

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title: Viktor Burenin

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Viktor Petrovich Burenin (, March 6 [February 22, o.s.], 1841 in Moscow, Russian Empire – August 15, 1926 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays (some co-authored by Alexey Suvorin), novels and opera librettos (Tchaikovsky's  Mazepa; Cui's  Angelo).

Biography
Viktor Burenin was born in Moscow, the twelfth child in the family of architect Pyotr Petrovich Burenin. As a student of the Moscow College of Architecture (1852-1859), he became friends with some amnestied Decembrists (Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Yakushkin, Gavriil Batenkov among others) who introduced the young man to the Russian literary circles. A strong influence proved to be petrashevets Sergey Durov who advised him to translate Barbier's Iambes et poemes for the Geneva-based The Word of the Underground magazine. In 1861 Burenin spent several months in Germany, Switzerland and France; since then his visits to the Western Europe became yearly.

In the early 1860s Burenin drifted towards the Russky Vestnik-centered literary society; attended Alexey Pleshcheev's "Meetings" (it was there that he met for the first time Suvorin, Lev Tolstoy, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin) and also Ivan Aksakov's "Fridays", the meeting place for the Moscow slavophiles. Burenin assisted Nikolai Nekrasov in gathering the historical data on the Decembrist revolt for the latter's poem Russian Women. At 20 he debuted with an article in Alexander Hertzen's Kolokol,  in 1862 started contributing satirical poems to magazines Iskra and Zritel, writing under the pseudonym Vladimir Monumentov.

In 1863 Nekrasov, Burenin moved to Saint Petersburg and a year later became a professional author. His 1864 poem "July 13, 1864" about Chernyshevsky's trial circulated in hand-written versions and could be published only in the Soviet Russia (Vestnik Literatury, 1920, No. 6). Three favorite targets for Burenin's wit in the 1860s were Prussian militarism, medical education for women and the corrupt Russian advocacy.

After Dmitry Karakozov's attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander II in 1866, Burenin's flat was searched by the police and the publication of his highly popular feuilletons in Saint Petersburg's Vedomosti was stopped. Nekrasov invited him to Otechestvennye Zapiski where he started publishing poems, several of which (including an epic "Thirteen Generals") were banned by censors. The drawn-out feud with Nikolai Mikhaylovsky led to his departure from Otechestvennye Zapiski in 1872.

In 1876 Burenin joined Novoye Vremya, led by Alexey Suvorin (with it he stayed up until the newspaper's closure in 1918) and made a political U-turn. In the years to come Ivan Goncharov and Nikolai Leskov referred to him as an "unscrupulous cynic". Writers including Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Korolenko, Leonid Andreev and Ivan Bunin filed lawsuits against him and complained about the critic's harsh words about opponents. Still, his satires were immensely popular: Blok admitted to having known by heart Burenin's parodies of his poems and was often entertaining his friends reciting them.

Personal tragedy, the death in 1884 of 20-year-old son Konstantin (a gifted poet and translator, known as K.Renin), made Burenin totally alienated from the outside world. The office of Novoye Vremya (which he lived nearby) for years became his real home. Highly detrimental to his reputation was the quarrel with dying Semyon Nadson. Having construed the latter's criticism towards himself as an 'ingratitude' (Burenin assisted Nadson's debut publication; the latter felt uneasy with the fact) he published fragments from Nadson's personal correspondence, then accused the poet of simulating his illness in order to receive financial support from friends. According to popular myth the shock Nadson received was fatal and in several days' time he died. "Since then Burenin's been treated [by the literary elite] so much more cruelly than he'd treated Nadson and [the latter's] fan Eleonora Obmokni," according to the theatre critic Alexander Kugel. So insistent was the liberal and left press in their obstruction that Burenin's name became a token one: Vladimir Lenin mentioned it regularly as a symbol of 'dirty' methods in leading the polemics.

Burenin's "Critical Sketches" in Novoye Vremya were immensely successful: general readership loved his irreverent manner of ridiculing both authors and their works. Paradoxically, the Sketches did a lot to inform the readership about the new literary events. "Violating every norm of manner and behavior in his attacks on Merezhkovsky, Volynsky, Gippius... Burenin has done more than anybody else to popularize the new trends he slagged each Fridays in his brilliant buffoonery," argued critic Pyotr Pertsov. "While in the liberal circles to read Novoye Vremya was considered mauves ton, Berenin's feullietons were read by everybody, clandestinely," wrote author and publisher Boris Glinsky.

Burenin's novels and novellas had considerable commercial success (mainly due to their sensationalist nature: the characters were easily recognizable real people) but, according to biographer Lepyokhin, hold little artistic merit. More substantial were Burenin's plays, based on antique and Middle Ages plots (Medea, with Suvorin as co-author, 1883; Messalina, 1885; The Death of Agrippina, 1887; The Comedy of Princess Zabava Putyatishna and Boyar-lady Vasilisa Mikulishna, 1889), all staged by Maly and Alexandrinsky theatres. Burenin translated several plays, by William Shakespeare, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexander Dumas, Karl Gutzkow, Gerhart Hauptmann, among others. For many years Burenin was taking an active part in the life of Maly Theatre before founding (again with Suvorin) The Literary and Arts' Society Theatre.

After the 1917 Revolution Burenin stayed in the Soviet Russia and fared relatively well despite the false obituary published in 1921 by Belgrade-based Novoye Vremya, re-newed by Suvorin's son. He was helped a lot by Maxim Gorky whom he mercifully lampooned in the 1900s.

Legacy
Viktor Burenin was one of the most controversial Russian authors of the early 20th century. The nature of his reputation was well described by Dmitry Minayev's epigram: "A dog runs down the street / Followed by Burenin, looking quite and nice / Watch out, the policemen, though / So as he won't bite the dog!" According to the 1911 edition of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, "Burenin’s literary character is defined... by the peculiar methods this critic used for his invectives, the methods that cannot be characterized in academic terms."

Many of Burenin's parodies found their way into Soviet satirical poetry anthologies. Criticising Burenin’s methods ("what he does is looking for every possibility way to offend his opponent, by ascribing to him some kind of smut"), Leskov still credited him for "great erudition, wit and cleverness". "Objectively speaking, he was one of the most gifted authors of the literary right wing," wrote Korney Chukovsky.

According to biographer M.P.Lepyokhin, though, Burenin was not a right wing sympathizer, and his satires often clashed with Suvorin-dictated general line of the newspaper. Never motivated by corporative or ideological interests, he was relying totally on his own ideas and concepts, one of which was that all Russian writers (and the new generation of them, in particular) were charlatans tending to fool their readership with nonsense which had nothing to do with reality. Burenin "despised [Russian] literature and lampooned it," Alexey Suvorin maintained.

Suvorin considered Burenin to be a victim of censorship which prevented him realizing his true potential. "Had we any freedom of the press, he'd have become the unique pamphleteer, using his wit to expose corrupt ministers, people like that. What he does now instead, is squander his gift on petty quarrels," he wrote. "A critic of considerable gift, an incomparable pamphleteer and totally worthless dramatist,” was Suvorin's more general verdict on his ally and friend. Yet, author and critic Nikolai Snessarev thought Suvorin (who reviewed his plays regularly and always negatively) might have been jealous of Burenin, a highly popular playwright.

As a literary critic Burenin was credited with originality and wit by Lev Tolstoy, Nikolai Nekrasov and Nikolai Leskov. Fyodor Dostoyevsky even argued that Burenin "understood him better than any other man" who wrote about him. According to biographer M.Lepyokhin, Burenin has launched "a genre reform" which  changed radically the face and the nature of Russian feuilleton. "With his arrival for the first time [in Russia] a highly detailed, sharp satire aimed at concrete targets superseded some abstract moralization," argued the critic.

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Novels
The Dead Leg (Мертвая нога, 1889)
The Romance in Kislovodsk (Роман в Кисловодске, 1889)
From the Notes of a Suicide (Из записок самоубийцы, 1875)
A Strange Case (Странный случай, 1878)

Plays
Medea (Медея, 1884, with Alexey Suvorin)
Messalina (Мессалина, 1885)
The Death of Agrippina (Смерть Агриппины, 1886)
The Comedy of Zabava Putyatishna and Boyarynya Vasilisa Mikulishna (Комедия о княжне Забаве Путятишне и боярыне Василисе Микулишне», 1890)
The Byzantine Captive (Пленник Византии, drama, 1893)
Diana Fornari (Диана Форнари, drama, 1894)
All Is Well That’s Ended Well (Все хорошо, что хорошо кончилось, comedy, 1893)
Aphrodita’s Necklace (Ожерелье Афродиты, drama, 1896)
The Sunken Bell (Потонувший колокол, the translation of Gerhart Hauptmann’s Die versunkene Glocke, 1897)
Princess Ozra's Heart (Сердце принцессы Озры, 1898)

Librettos
Angelo by Cesar Cui (1875)
Mazepa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1883 )
Matron of Ephesus (Матрона Эфесская), operetta by Mikhail Ivanov
Zabava Putyatishna (Забава Путятишна), opera by Mikhail Ivanov, 1897

Compilations
Sketches and Parodies (Очерки и пародии, 1874; 1895)
From the Past (Былое, poems, 1880)
Arrows (Стрелы, poems, 1880; 1889)
Songs and Caricatures (Песни и шаржи, 1886)
From the Modern Life (Из современной жизни, 1879)
Critical Sketches and Pamphlets (Критические очерки и памфлеты, 1884)
Critical Etudes (Критические этюды, 1888)
The Tail (Хвост, a collection of parodies, 1891; 1893)
Pipa and Pusya. Humorous stories (Пипа и Пуся. Юмористические рассказы. 1894)
Blue Sounds and White Poems (Голубые звуки и белые поэмы, parodies, 1895)
Woe by Stupidity (Горе от глупости, 1905)
The Works of V.P.Burenin (Saint Petersburg, 1912—1917). Vols. I-V (unfinished)

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Russian literary critics
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title: Avur, Azerbaijan

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Avur is a village in the Yardymli Rayon of Azerbaijan.  The village forms part of the municipality of Çay Üzü.

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Populated places in Yardimli District


title: Jake Barton

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Jacob ("Jake") Barton (born November 7, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American designer, and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, New York. His work focuses on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology.

Early career
In college, Jake Barton majored in performance studies (Bachelor in Science of Speech) at Northwestern University in Chicago. After graduating, he first worked doing set design work on Broadway productions. Eventually Barton started as an intern at the museum design firm, Ralph Appelbaum Associates. Working his way up, he eventually stayed at the company for seven years, and then in 2001 he left his job at Appelbaum and started graduate school at New York University, for a M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications. He simultaneously launched Local Projects as a design firm for museums and public spaces.

Local projects

Barton was named by Crain’s as one of the Top Entrepreneurs of 2013, and his company, Local Projects, which he founded in 2002, has won awards such as the National Design Awards for Interaction Design in 2013, the AIGA Design Competition for Effective Design in 2013 and multiple MUSE Awards in 2013.

Barton’s work touches on the overlap of physical and digital, creating a range of applications for museums, education, architecture, and memorials.  For the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Local Projects created a next-generation application around experiencing physics on the playground, and has worked with Frank Gehry on the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C.

As the head of Media Design for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Local Projects led a team of designers to create multi-media experiences that focus on using visitor’s own stories as well as the use of algorithms to curate up-to-the moment journalism around the post 9/11 world.

During his time working with the 9/11 Memorial, he also led a team, in partnership with Jer Thorp, to create an algorithm that solved the names arrangement on the panels. The names are not listed alphabetically or chronologically, but through personal relationships between the victims themselves.

Jake has spoken about visitor participation in museums and "The Museum of You", and Local Projects credited with bringing emotional storytelling and innovation to architecture. Local Projects has partnered with architects such as Frank Gehry, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Bjarke Ingels to create new approaches in media and physical spaces.

In March 2019, Local Projects was sold to MTM, an independent network dedicated to creating value between people and brands.

Works

See also

Ralph Appelbaum Associates, US firm
Event Communications, UK firm
Gallagher & Associates, US firm
Cultural tourism
Exhibit design
Exhibition designer

References

External links

 TED Talk: Jake Barton: The museum of you (TEDSalon NY2013)

1972 births
Living people
People from Brooklyn
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Northwestern University School of Communication alumni
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Museum designers
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title: Avur

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Avur may refer to:

 Avur, Azerbaijan
 Avur, India


title: Goniotorna chersopis

text:
Goniotorna chersopis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.

References

Moths described in 1933
Goniotorna


title: Goniotorna chondrocentra

text:
Goniotorna chondrocentra is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.

References

Moths described in 1973
Goniotorna


title: Goniotorna decipiens

text:
Goniotorna decipiens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.

References

Moths described in 1960
Goniotorna


title: Aarhus Custom House

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The Aarhus Custom House (Toldkammeret) is located on the harbour front in Aarhus, Denmark. Completed in 1898, it is said to be Hack Kampmann's finest work. Kampmann also designed other buildings in the city including Marselisborg Palace and Aarhus Teater.

The building was used by the tax authorities until the mid-1990s. Tækker Group, who purchased the building in 2004, have fully renovated the building in collaboration with the cultural authorities, taking care to maintain the Kampmann style. After being used in recent years by the architecture school and as a student hostel, the building currently houses a restaurant.

References

Literature

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De Bynære Havnearealer
Listed buildings in Aarhus
Tourist attractions in Aarhus
National Romantic architecture in Aarhus
Custom houses
Government buildings completed in 1898
Art Nouveau government buildings
Hack Kampmann buildings
Restaurants in Aarhus


title: AXIOM (camera)

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AXIOM is an open hardware and free software digital cinema camera family of devices being developed by a DIY community around the apertus° project.

The community’s second generation camera, AXIOM Beta Compact, is presently in development.

History
In 2006 Oscar Spierenburg, a Dutch film director, noticed a discussion taking place on DVInfo.net entitled “3 channel 36 bit 1280 X 720 low $ camera”, inside which Elphel cameras, which are typically used in scientific applications, had been mentioned.

In the same year a discussion thread entitled "High Definition with Elphel model 333 camera" was posted on the DVInfo.net forum, whereupon the forum’s members discussed how best to adapt Elphel open hardware camera devices for use in film production. Sebastian Pichelhofer discovered this thread in 2008 and assisted with the project by developing an Elphel camera internal hard-disk recorder user interface.

By early 2009, and because over the course of three years upwards of 1000 posts had been submitted to this thread, the community realised that it was going to be difficult to maintain a full overview of the project in this way, and consequently a dedicated website was established. All of the decision making and naming/logo design was decided upon by the community.

After having done some contracting work with Elphel, Pichelhofer focused full-time on the project across 2011 and in July 2012 the plan to create an AXIOM camera hardware prototype from scratch, and thereby overcome some of the limitations that were found to be inherent with Elphel hardware at the time (mainly due to Elphel Inc. having shifted the company's core business focus towards development of a panoramic camera solution), was announced at the Libre Software Meeting in Geneva. This prototype became known as AXIOM Alpha and was intended to gather feedback from typical shooting scenarios with a view to incorporating ideas into a future, more modular, kit version of the camera aimed at developers and early adopters (AXIOM Beta I Developer Kit).

Shortly after development on the AXIOM Alpha began, a nonprofit organization was established to provide legal shelter for the community, and an apertus° company was registered by Spierenburg in order to facilitate responsibilities that had been neglected up to this point, e.g. signing contracts with electronic part/service providers, paying for prototype manufacturing etc. Because of his drive and enthusiasm for the project Pichelhofer was elected apertus° Association chairman.

After reading a local hackerspace forum post in May 2013 Herbert Pötzl became aware of the community's efforts and met with Pichelhofer shortly thereafter. Pötzl had an extensive background in electronics engineering and software development and was appointed AXIOM Technical Lead. After Pötzl helped to develop critical aspects of hardware and software the AXIOM Alpha prototype was showcased at the Vienna Hackerlab in March 2014 whilst rough planning for a more modular and powerful camera was well underway.

In 2014, after crowdfunding the research and development through Indiegogo, work began on creating AXIOM Beta – a five printed circuit board stack, FOSS and open-source hardware, digital cinema camera incorporating the ams Sensors Belgium CMV12000 CMOS image sensor.

In recent times, and because existing manufacturers have proved reluctant to open their protocols up to the wider world, user groups have accepted responsibility and contributed to what became known as the ‘DSLR revolution’ first-hand e.g. the Magic Lantern (firmware) community. Magic Lantern is a free and open source software add-on that runs from a camera’s SD/CF card. It added a host of new features to Canon’s DSLRs that weren't included from the factory by Canon. Because the AXIOM Beta concept is essentially the hardware equivalent of the software they originally pioneered, Magic Lantern partnered with the apertus° Association in September 2014. Since then the Magic Lantern community has been involved with various colour science experiments using the camera.

Research on an AXIOM Gamma started in March 2015 after the project was awarded funding from the EU's Horizon2020 programme.

Timeline

AXIOM Alpha
AXIOM Alpha was a digital cinema camera proof of concept prototype. Only two units were built in 2013 and the second revision model was presented at the Metalab (a Vienna-based Hackerspace) in spring 2014. The main components included a Zedboard using a Xilinx Zynq-7020 System on a chip (SoC) and a 4K Super35mm image sensor designed by the Belgian company CMOSIS (later renamed to ams Sensors Belgium after being acquired by ams ).

Technical specifications
The ams Sensors Belgium CMV12000 Super35/APS-C image sensor has a resolution of 4096×3072 pixels, a color depth of 12 bits/pixel and is able to capture at a maximal frame rate of 300 frames/sec in 10-bit mode. It is connected to the ZedBoard over FMC.
The Xilinx Zynq Z-7020 combines a Cortex-A9 dual-core with an FPGA.
The ZedBoard contains the Zynq Z-7020 and all the necessary interfaces.

Software
The operating system is Linux kernel-based (Arch Linux) and composed entirely of free and open-source software.

AXIOM Beta
Successor of the AXIOM Alpha and the first 4K open hardware camera – the development of which was financed through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that exceeded its funding goal.

AXIOM Beta utilizes the same 4K Super35 image sensor as its predecessor the AXIOM Alpha. The lens mount is a passive e-mount with Canon EF or Nikon F mount adapter. The first prototype of the AXIOM Beta was presented at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

Presently there are three enclosure versions for the camera expected:

AXIOM Beta Developer Kit (DK) – apertus° offers AXIOM Beta Developer Kit without an enclosure either in kit form or readily assembled. The AXIOM Beta DK provides easy access to the camera’s printed circuit boards and is aimed at those who want to work on software related development. With this in mind all associated design files, BOMs, and STL files (for CAD or 3D printing components such as a lightweight enclosure), software source code repositories, etc. are made freely available. First AXIOM Beta DK's began shipping in October 2016.

AXIOM Beta Compact (CP) – A more user-friendly version of the camera suited to photo and video production environments is intended to ship with a CNC-milled aluminium enclosure and a web-based GUI (graphical user interface) for controlling camera functions through a Wi-Fi connection. AXIOM Beta CP is in development.

AXIOM Beta Extended (EX) – A Shoulder mounted rig incorporating AXIOM Beta, larger cooling fans, data storage facilities and an on-board PC. At time of writing (November 2017) AXIOM Beta EX is presently in concept phase.

AXIOM Gamma

Research into developing the AXIOM Gamma started in March 2015 after the project was awarded Horizon 2020 funding from the European Union. The project was coordinated by the University of Applied Arts Vienna and involved a consortium of European partners including apertus°, af inventions, Antmicro and DENZ. The AXIOM Gamma utilizes a modular hardware concept that allows the camera to be a fully extendible and repairable camera system. Research into the feasibility of AXIOM Gamma ceased in 2015 and many of its features were incorporated into the AXIOM Beta.

See also
 Elphel Open Source Hardware Camera
 Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)
 Magic Lantern (firmware)

References

External links

 Official discussion forum
 AXIOM project Wiki
 AXIOM Gamma website for the EU project

Cameras
Cinematography
Digital cameras
Digital movie cameras
Embedded Linux
Indiegogo projects
Linux-based devices
Modular design
Free and open-source software
Open-source hardware
Open hardware electronic devices
Camera firmware
Film and video technology
Movie camera manufacturers


title: Goniotorna deinozona

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Goniotorna deinozona is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.

References

Moths described in 1973
Goniotorna


title: 2010 FC Rotor Volgograd season

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The 2010 Rotor Volgograd season was the 1st season that the club played in the Russian First Division.

Squad

 (captain)

Transfers

Winter 2009/2010

In:

Out:

Summer

In:

Out:

Competitions

Friendlies

First Squad

Reserve Squad

Russian First Division

Results

Table

Russian Cup

Statistics

Squad Statistics

League

Minutes Played

    • Player in Application    x Player Couldn't Play Against a Team that Owned    * Player Dismissed from Field

Goal scorers

Discipline

All Tournaments

Appearances and goals

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Top Scorers

Disciplinary Record

Team Statistics

Home attendance

Домашняя посещаемость

General Statistics

References

FC Rotor Volgograd seasons
Rotor


title: 1994–95 S.L. Benfica season

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The 1994–95 European football season was the 91st season of Sport Lisboa e Benfica's existence and the club's 61st consecutive season in both Portuguese football and UEFA competitions. The season ran from 1 July 1994 to 30 June 1995; Benfica competed domestically in the Primeira Divisão and the Taça de Portugal. The club also participated in the UEFA Champions League as a result of winning the previous league.

After winning their latest title, Benfica made significant changes to its squad and management. It sacked Toni and replaced him with Artur Jorge. In the transfer market, the club was far more active than the past seasons. It signed over a dozen players with Michel Preud'homme, Dimas Teixeira and Paulo Bento becoming regulars. They were joined by two loans, Claudio Caniggia and Edílson, both would be the top-scorers of the team. In the departures, fan favourites like Rui Costa or Schwarz were sold, while others like Rui Àguas, Kulkov, Silvino and Hernâni Neves were released.

On the pitch, Benfica started the season by losing the 1993 Supertaça to Porto. In the Primeira Divisão, they started winning, but quickly lost their plot. In the Champions League, Jorge led Benfica to the knockout stage after coming first in their group. As the season progress, Benfica performance stabilised and starting early December, they rack up over ten wins in a row. This allowed them to close distances to leader Porto, and progress to the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup.

In late February, in the decisive stage of the season, Benfica slipped again in the Primeira Divisão, and were eliminated in the other competitions. Til the end, Benfica could only win about half of their remaining fourteen match-days, finishing in third place, 15 points behind Porto. In their last match of the season, they lost another Supertaça to Porto.

Season summary
In the post-season of a title winning year, Benfica made the surprise choice of releasing Toni, who had been closely associated with the managerial position since assuming the assistant position to Sven-Göran Eriksson in 1982. To replace him, the club chose Artur Jorge. The Portuguese manager was known for the eight titles won at FC Porto, notoriously, the 1986–87 European Cup, plus had just led Paris Saint-Germain to their second league title in history, in the past season. With the club still in financial despair, they were forced to sell important players to gather funds. Rising star, Rui Costa was sold to Fiorentina, reportedly because they offer more money than Barcelona. Schwarz joined Arsenal for 1.8 million pounds, and others left the club, either for disciplinary reasons as with Kulkov and Yuran, or old age, like Rui Àguas.

The club sought reinforcements mostly indoors, like Paulo Bento and Dimas, with a few arriving from abroad, with Preud'Homme and Caniggia gathering the most expectations. The season began with the replay match of the 1993 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, ending in another loss on the penalty shoot-out, similar to the 1991 edition. On the league campaign, the situation was better, as Benfica racked up three straight wins; however a loss against União de Leiria on 18 September, put the team behind on the title race by two points.

Benfica could not regain any point back over October, ending the month with a four points disadvantage to leader Sporting. Although the domestically, the season was not going according to the club best hopes; in Europe, the track record was much better, with a spot on the next phase secured with one match to spare. Already approaching New Year, the odds in the renewing the title race were further diminished, with a loss in Alvalade expanding the gap to the leader by a point.

The first months of 1995 were the teams best throughout the season, as they reduced the distance to the league leader, Porto, to only three points by Match-day 20 after an eight-game winning streak. However, in the next two months, at the deciding part of the season, the club dropped more points to Leiria, and then lost four times in six games, re-opening the gap to Porto to twelve points, finishing any hope of renewing the title. In the other competitions, the prospect was the same, Benfica was knock-out of the Champions League by A.C. Milan, and on the Taça de Portugal, by Vitória Setúbal.

The final games of the season were only spent securing a place in the next year European competitions, having the bitter taste of losing both games against Sporting, for a fourth time in history, the first since 1954. The Derby de Lisboa on the 30 of April was also controversial because of the irregular dismissal of Caniggia by referee Jorge Coroado; causing the match to be repeated on 14 July (2–0 win for Benfica), and then annulled on FIFA order. After finishing the league fifteen points behind them, as they regained the title back, Benfica met Porto on the replay of the 1994 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira in Paris, which was left unresolved from early in the season. The northerners won one-nil and took home their eight Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.

Competitions

Overall record

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

1993 Edition

1994 Edition

Primeira Divisão

League table

Results by round

Matches

Taça de Portugal

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group C

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Friendlies

Player statistics
The squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Artur Jorge(manager) and Zoran Filipovic (assistant manager).

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Transfers

In

In by loan

Out

Out by loan

References

Bibliography

S.L. Benfica seasons
Benfica


title: Audley McKisack

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Sir Audley McKisack QC (2 April 1903 – 16 August 1966) was an Irish barrister and judge who ended a distinguished legal career as President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia and Judge in the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Biography
McKisack was born in Craigavad, County Down, Ireland, the only son of Audley John and Elizabeth McKisack. His elder sister was the historian May McKisack(1900–1981). He was educated at Bedford School and at University College, Oxford. He entered the Colonial Service in 1924 and was an Administrative Office in Northern Rhodesia between 1924 and 1936. He was called to the Bar in 1935 and became a member of the Inner Temple.

He was Crown Counsel in Uganda between 1938 and 1944 and was appointed Attorney General of Gibraltar in 1944. He was appointed as Secretary to the Ministry of Justice of the Gold Coast in 1950 and was Attorney General of Nigeria between 1951 and 1956.  He was Chief Justice of Uganda between 1956 and 1962, President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia between 1964 and 1966, and Judge in the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas and Bermuda between 1965 and 1966.

He died in Midhurst, Sussex, aged 63.

References

1903 births
1966 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Alumni of University College, Oxford
Lawyers from County Down
English King's Counsel
Attorneys-General of Gibraltar
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Inner Temple
20th-century King's Counsel
Uganda Protectorate judges
20th-century Irish lawyers
British judges on the courts of the Bahamas
Expatriate judges on the courts of Bermuda


title: Barairo no Ashita

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is a Japanese slice of life romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Ryo Ikuemi and serialized by Shueisha on Bessatsu Margaret magazine. It has five volumes, the first published on 13 September 1997 and the last on 15 August 1999.

Reception
It won the 45th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.

References

Romance anime and manga
Shōjo manga
Shueisha manga
Slice of life anime and manga
Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga


title: This World, Then the Fireworks

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This World, Then the Fireworks is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Michael Oblowitz and starring Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, and Sheryl Lee. The screenplay is based on a short story of the same name by Jim Thompson.

Plot
As children, Marty and Carol Lakewood, fraternal twins, witness a brutal murder involving their father. They grow up to become depraved and incestuous adults, living in coastal California in the mid-1950s.

Marty is a skillful journalist, but grows bored with every new job and is easily distracted. When he seduces a young police officer, Lois Archer, and discovers she owns a beach house, Marty sets out to double-cross her and make the property his own.

Carol is a heartless prostitute, willing to go to any lengths to con men out of their money, or make them pay in other ways. Powerless to stop them is Mrs. Lakewood, a weak-willed woman who suspects the terrible truth in her children's relationship, but knows no way to stop it.

Cast
 Billy Zane as Marty
Christopher Jones as Young Marty
Christian Durango as Little Marty
 Gina Gershon as Carol
Megan Leigh Brown as Young Carol
Sloan Cobb as Little Carol
 Sheryl Lee as Lois
 Rue McClanahan as Mrs. Lakewood
Roberta Hanley as Young Mrs. Lakewood
 Seymour Cassel as Detective Harris
 Will Patton as Lieutenant Morgan
 Richard Edson as Joe
 Tom Keeley as Lyle
 William Hootkins as Jake Krutz
 Philip Loch as Marty Lakewood's Father
 Elis Imboden as neighbor's Wife
 Mark Jeffrey Miller as Lloyd
 Marianna Alacchi as Glenda
 Robert Pentz as Lou
 Orson Oblowitz as Eugene
 Thad Mace as Tim
 Jonathan Taylor Luthren as Ben
 Stephanie Fisher as Claire
 Lou Criscuolo as McCloud
 Jeffrey Pillars as Galloway
 John Bennes as Griffith
 Barry Bell as Barnett Gibons
 David Lenthall as Doctor
 Terry Nienhuis as Minister
 Valentin de Vargas as Mexican Doctor
 Dean Mumford as Marine
 Willy Cobbs as Blues Musician
 Brian Keith Gamble as Spindly Man
 Mert Hatfield as Bus Driver
 Matt O'Toole as Thug 1
 Norman Max Maxwell as Thug 2

Release
This World, Then the Fireworks was released on July 11, 1997 in only five U.S. theaters, grossing US$51,618 in total. It was released on videocassette on June 30, 1998, and on Blu-ray (through Kino Lorber) on November 14, 2017.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 38% approval rating based on 8 reviews, with an average ranking of 3.9/10.

Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote "In the hands of filmmaker Michael Oblowitz, novelist Jim Thompson's story 'This World, Then the Fireworks' gets an elegantly stylish, highly erotic, intentionally over-the-top rendition". Total Film called the film "sexy, stylized, deliberately overheated slice of noir".

See also
List of American films of 1997

References

External links

1997 crime drama films
American crime drama films
American neo-noir films
Films about twins
Films based on Jim Thompson novels
Films set in the 1950s
Films shot in North Carolina
Incest in film
Largo Entertainment films
Orion Pictures films
Films directed by Michael Oblowitz
1990s English-language films
1990s American films


title: 1992 World Fencing Championships

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The 1992 World Fencing Championships were held from 10 July to 12 July 1992 in Havana, Cuba for women's team épée and women's individual épée, both of which were not held at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Medal table

See also
 Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

References

FIE Results

World Fencing Championships
W
Sports competitions in Havana
1992 in Cuban sport
20th century in Havana
International fencing competitions hosted by Cuba
July 1992 sports events in North America


title: The Violet Flame

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The Violet Flame is the sixteenth studio album by English synth-pop duo Erasure, released by Mute Records on 22 September 2014 in the United Kingdom and on 23 September 2014 in North America.

Overview
The album contains original tracks written by band members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, and is produced by Erasure and Richard X.  The tracks were composed on synthesizers, rather than guitar and piano; a first for the duo.

The single, "Elevation", was released as a prelude to the album, with a coinciding world tour. A subsequent single, "Reason", was released on 24 November 2014, with new track "Die 4 Love" as the B-side, and a third single "Sacred" on 16 March 2015

The track listing for The Violet Flame was revealed on 18 July 2014.

On 28 September, the album charted at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the duo's first top-20 album since Other People's Songs (2003). In the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at number 48, giving Erasure their first top-50 album since Cowboy (1997), while peaking at number two on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Track listing
The Violet Flame was released as a standard CD, a deluxe 2-CD, a digital download, a double album in a gatefold sleeve (featuring The Violet Flame on violet vinyl on one disc and six remixes on white vinyl on the other, via PledgeMusic with more than 500 pre-orders), and a limited edition 3-CD box set which includes the original album as well as additional material.

Charts

References

2014 albums
Albums produced by Richard X
Erasure albums
Mute Records albums


title: Quadrants and regions of abdomen

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The human abdomen is divided into quadrants and regions by anatomists and physicians for the purposes of study, diagnosis, and treatment. The division into four quadrants allows the localisation of pain and tenderness, scars, lumps, and other items of interest, narrowing in on which organs and tissues may be involved. The quadrants are referred to as the left lower quadrant, left upper quadrant, right upper quadrant and right lower quadrant. These terms are not used in comparative anatomy, since most other animals do not stand erect.

The left lower quadrant includes the left iliac fossa and half of the flank. The equivalent in other animals is left posterior quadrant. The left upper quadrant extends from the umbilical plane to the left ribcage. This is the left anterior quadrant in other animals. The right upper quadrant extends from umbilical plane to the right ribcage. The equivalent in other animals is right anterior quadrant. The right lower quadrant extends from the umbilical plane to the right inguinal ligament. This in other animals is the right posterior quadrant.

The nine regions offer more detailed anatomy and are delineated by two vertical and two horizontal lines.

Quadrants

The left lower quadrant (LLQ) of the human abdomen is the area left of the midline and below the umbilicus. The LLQ includes the left iliac fossa and half of the left flank region. The equivalent term for animals is left posterior quadrant.
Important organs here are:
 the descending colon and sigmoid colon
 the left ovary and fallopian tube
 the left ureter

The left upper quadrant (LUQ) extends from the median plane to the left of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the left ribcage. The equivalent term for animals is left anterior quadrant. Important organs here are:
 Stomach
 Spleen
 Left lobe of liver
 Body of pancreas
 Left kidney and adrenal gland
 Splenic flexure of colon
 Parts of transverse and descending colon

The right upper quadrant (RUQ) extends from the median plane to the right of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the right ribcage. The equivalent term for animals is right anterior quadrant. Important organs here are:
 Liver
 Gall bladder with biliary tree
 Duodenum
 Head of pancreas
 Right kidney and adrenal gland
 Hepatic flexure of colon

The right lower quadrant (RLQ) extends from the median plane to the right of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the right inguinal ligament. The equivalent term for animals is right posterior quadrant. Important organs here are:
 Cecum
 Appendix
 Ascending colon
 Right ovary and fallopian tube
 Right ureter

Regions

Nine regions of the abdomen can be marked using two horizontal and two vertical dividing lines. The vertical lines are the mid-clavicular lines taken from the mid-point of each clavicle. The upper horizontal line is the subcostal line taken from the inferior parts of the lowest costal cartilages. The lower horizontal line is the intertubercular line connecting the tubercles of the pelvis.

The three main centrally positioned regions are the epigastric region, the umbilical region, and the hypogastric region also known as the pubic region.

On the sides of the abdomen the other six regions are the left and right hypochondriac regions, on either side of the epigastrium; the left and right lumbar flank regions, on either side of the umbilical region, and the left and right iliac or inguinal regions on either side of the hypogastrium.

("Hypo-" means below; "epi-" means above; "chondron" means cartilage (in this case, the cartilage of the rib) and "gaster" means stomach. The reversal of "left" and "right" is intentional, because the anatomical designations reflect the patient's own right and left.)

Clinical significance
If abdominal pain or signs of peritonitis are localised in the LLQ, colitis, diverticulitis, ureteral colic or pain due to ovarian cysts or pelvic inflammatory disease may be suspected. Examples of tumors in the left lower quadrant include colon cancer and ovarian tumor.

The LUQ may be painful or tender in the case of intestinal malrotation. The RUQ may be painful or tender in hepatitis, cholecystitis, and peptic ulcer. The RLQ, in particular the right inguinal region or right iliac fossa may be painful and tender in conditions such as appendicitis.

Differential diagnosis
Children
 gastroenteritis, mesenteric adenitis, Meckel's diverticulitis, intussusception, Henoch–Schönlein purpura, lobar pneumonia

Adults
 regional enteritis, renal colic, perforated peptic ulcer, testicular torsion, rectus sheath hematoma, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, torsion/rupture of ovarian cyst, appendicitis

Elderly
 diverticulitis, intestinal obstruction, colonic carcinoma, mesenteric ischemia, leaking aortic aneurysm

See also
 Murphy's sign
 McBurney's point
 Superficial anatomy

References

Abdomen


title: Andrea Giordana

text:
Andrea Giordana (born 27 March 1946) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 14 films, 29 television and 35 theater shows since the mostly late 1950s.

Early life
He was born in Rome, Italy to film director Claudio Gora and actress Marina Berti. His siblings are Marina , Luca, Carlo and Cristina. He began acting as a child, appearing in 1957 film Erode il grande (Herod the Great) at the age of 11 as small Daniel.

Career
He made his television debut The Count of Monte Christo (il conte di Montecristo) playing Edmond Dantes in 1966. He starred in the 1971 miniseries Eneide as Turnus and Quaranta giorni di libertà (Forty Days of Freedom), directed by Leandro Castellani. In 1976 he played Colonel Sir William Fitzgerald in the German-Italian television series Sandokan – Der Tiger von Malaysia. Giordana appeared in the 1967 film È stato bello amarti directed by Adimaro Sala.

He made several recordings, including the 1966 album Dies Irae with band I Samurai. In 1969 he made the 45 "Ecstasy". He performed with actress Marisa Solinas and in 1971 Ti prego...non-scherzare con me! (Please do mess with me).

From 1966 to 1973 he starred in several soap operas for the magazine Sogno. Among his partners were Patty Pravo, Laura Efrikian, Lorella De Luca, Susanna Martinková and Rosalba Grottesi. In 1983 he introduced the Sanremo Music Festival and was supported by Isabel Russinova. He co-presented with Hong Kong-born French singer Amanda Lear in W le donne, a variety of Rete 4 aired during 1984–1985.

On 20 July 1995 he co-presented with Myriam Fecchi on the television show Tribute to Mia Martini, organized by artistic director Ruggero Pegna, broadcast by Rai 2.

In 2007 he co-starred in the Rai 1 television series War and Peace as Count Rostov and directed by Robert Dornhelm. His pseudonym was Chip Corman or Burt Nelson.

Selected filmography
 The Italian in Love (Le Italiani e l'amore) (1961)
 Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
 The Count of Monte Christo (1966)
 The Dirty Outlaws (1967)
 Johnny Hamlet (1968)
 Quanto Costa morire (1968)
 Eneide (1971)
 Sandokan – Der Tiger von Malaysia (1976)
 Beyond Fear (1995)
 War and Peace (2007)
Mary of Nazareth (2012)

References

External links

1946 births
Living people
Male actors from Rome
Italian male singers
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
Male Spaghetti Western actors
Beauty pageant hosts


title: Brumoides suturalis

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Brumoides suturalis, the three-striped lady-beetle, is a species of ladybird described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1789. It is found in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea. It was found on an indoor window ledge in Manchester, UK, on February 25, 2022. It likely hitchhiked on flowers.

Description
Adult is small and ovate. Head and thorax are brown. Eyes are black. Elytra yellowish white with two black stripes. One strip runs down the trailing edge, whereas the other stripe runs the middle of each elytron. Pronotum brownish anterio-laterally and creamy in the center. Scutellum and ventrum brownish.

Biology
Adult female lays egg cluster of 2 to 20.within shingle-like crevices made by overlapping leaves in curled leaves, or sometimes at the junction of leaf and stem. Eggs are yellowish with orange tinge. Larva undergo four instars. Newly hatched instar is smoky grey and fuzzy. With each moult, body becomes more elongated with spiny projections over the body.

It is known to feed on wide variety of aphids: Aphis craccivora, Aphis gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, Lipaphis erysimi, Myzus persicae, Hyadaphis coriandri, Hysteroneura setariae, Ropalosiphum maidis, Therioaphis trifolii, Macrosiphum granarium, Schizaphis graminum, Phenacoccus solenopsis, Ferrisia virigata, Drosicha mangiferae, Amrasca devastans, Amrasca biguttula, Bemisia tabaci, Tetranychus atlanticus, Adelges joshii, Aonidiella auranti, Aonidiella citrina, Aonidiella orientalis, Aspidiotus destructor, Hemiberiesia latanias, Leucaspis coniferarum, Parlatoria, Pinnaspis strachani, Quadraspidiotus perniciosus, Ferrisia virgata, Phthorimaea operculella, Planococcus pacificus, Acyrthosiphon pisum and Tecaspis.

References

Beetles described in 1789
Coccinellidae


title: Angel Lip

text:
is a Japanese comedy romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kiyoko Arai and serialized by Shogakukan on Ciao magazine. It has nine volumes, the first published on 10 September 1996 and the last on 10 October 1999.

Characters
 Mikina

Reception
It won the 44th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.

References

Romantic comedy anime and manga
Shogakukan manga
Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga


title: Montenegro in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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Montenegro debuted at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 that was held in Marsa, Malta.

Formerly Montenegro participated at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as part of Serbia and Montenegro. Then the country was represented by Filip Vučić from Nikšić, Montenegro.

History

Prior to the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006 which culminated into the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro, both nations use to compete at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and Eurovision Song Contest as Serbia and Montenegro.  were the first of the two nations to compete at a Junior Contest, making their debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006. While it was at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 when Montenegro would make their debut as an independent nation. Montenegro would eventually withdraw in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 after participating for two years straight.

Participation overview

Prior to 's dissolution, the selected artist was from the Montenegrin republic unit and represented Serbia and Montenegro in . This was the only time they competed before they dissolved.

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov. The Montenegrin broadcaster, RTCG, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Montenegrin language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Montenegro. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2014.

See also
Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest – Senior version of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

References

Countries in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest