title: Vulcan Tire

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Vulcan Tire is an American online retailer.  Their merchandise includes tires, tire chains, TPMS, tire accessories and cargo control devices.  Vulcan Tire was founded in 1997 and is based in Sandy, Utah.

History
Vulcan Tire has a history of sponsoring and promoting club motorsports and supporting local automotive enthusiasts.  Vulcan Tire sponsored a team who crossed the United States on an "Xtreme Roadtrip", as well offering prizes at local auto cross events.

In June 2014, the company became the first tire retailer in the world to accept Bitcoin payments.

Vulcan Tire is currently one of the top online retailers for customer’s satisfaction.

Website

Products
Most of the products sold on Vulcan Tire are tire related items, such at tires, tire chains and tire gauges.  The company does sell some items not directly related to tires such as cargo control products.

Vulcan Tire displays reviews on tire products. These reviews ranks tire products on over 12 different criteria.

Vulcan Tire is an Thule Authorized Internet Retailer. This ensures Thule products purchased from Vulcan Tire are backed by Thule's warranty and supplied by authorized distribution channels.

Awards

Bizrate Circle of Excellence Award 2013
Bizrate Circle of Excellence Award 2014
Bizrate Platinum Circle of Excellence Award 2015

Notes

External links
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Retail companies established in 1997
Companies based in Utah
Online automotive companies of the United States
1997 establishments in Utah


title: Paul-Frédéric Rollet

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Paul-Frédéric Rollet (1875–1941) was a Général who led in the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion RMLE, and was the 1st Inspector of the Foreign Legion, a post which he created under his intentions. Rollet accumulated 41 years of military service out of which 33 were in the Legion and also planned the 100th anniversary of the legion on Cameron day of 30 April 1931. Consequently, he was responsible for creating many of the Legion's current traditions.

Early life
He was born in Auxerre, France and was admitted to the military school at Saint-Cyr in 1894. Upon graduation, he was initially assigned to the 91st Infantry Regiment () but was later transferred to the 1st Foreign Regiment 1er RE in Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria.

Military career
Rollet served first in Algeria from 1899 to 1902, then in Madagascar from 1902 to 1905, prior to returning to Algeria from 1905 to 1909. Promoted to captain in March 1909, he commanded the 3rd mounted combat company of the 1st marching battalion of the 2nd Foreign Regiment, 2e R.E from 1909 to 1914.

While World War I erupted, Rollet was on leave in France. Insisting to be on the front, he was assigned to the 31st Line Infantry Regiment (), then to the 331 Infantry Regiment (). Wounded twice, he was promoted by delegation to Chef de bataillon (Commandant – Major), based on the recommendation of général Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. Following several victories, he was confirmed as a Chef de battalion.

On 18 May 1917 he was assigned to the Foreign Legion and became the regimental commander of the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion (R.M.L.E) as a lieutenant-colonel. Under his command, the regiment covered itself with excellence during combats of Hangard-en-Santerre, La Montagnde de Paris, then in piercing the Hindenburg Line, a combat battle which would later be designated as the anniversary of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 3e REI, heir to the traditions of the R.M.L.E. The regimental colors of the R.M.L.E were subsequently decorated with four new citations (with five previous citations already) as well as the double Fourragere, with colors of the Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre.
At the end of the war of 1914–1918, he participated in campaigns in Morocco with his regiment, which would be designated as the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 3e REI.

Consequently, Rollet was promoted to colonel. In 1925, he assumed command as regimental commander of the 1st Foreign Regiment 1e RE at Sidi-Bel-Abbès. He would remain until planning the 100th anniversary (the centennial) of the French Foreign Legion on Cameron day of 30 April 1931.<ref>Ces cérémonies commémoraient le centenaire de la création de la Légion étrangère, en 1831, mais furent célébrées le jour anniversaire du combat de Camerone</ref>

On 1 April 1931 Rollet assumed command tenure as the 1st Inspector of the Foreign Legion, a post which he specifically created under his intentions.

Following years of service, Rollet retired on 20 December 1935, having accumulated 41 years of military service out of which 33 years were in the Legion.

 Later life and death

In his final years of service, he dedicated his career to the organization of the modern French Foreign Legion and the realization of considerable social profits to active legionnaires as well as those on retirement. He would later pursue social donation actions in that respect after concluding his service.

Rollet died in Paris on 16 April 1941.  He was originally buried at the French Foreign Legion's Headquarters in Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria.  When the Legion left Algeria in 1962 his remains were one of three chosen to be reinterred at the Legion's new headquarters in Aubagne, France.

 Legacy
He is surnamed Père de la Légion'' (Father of the Legion), an honorary title. This title is reflected in his organization of Legion units, as well as the brotherhood he assimilated to his men.

Rollet made major contributions to promoting and preserving the Legion's history, traditions and mystique. The legion always maintained an institutional reputation of legendary and honorable values.

Recognitions and honors
Général Rollet's awards include:

List of decorations
Orders, decorations, and medals of France
 Grand officer de la Légion d'honneur
 Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with 7 palms and gilt star
 Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures with 2 palms
 Médaille commémorative du Maroc with clasps : OUDJA-MAROC-HAUT-GUIR
 Médaille coloniale with 4 clasps: SAHARA-MAROC-ALGÉRIE-MADAGASCAR
 Croix du combattant
 1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal (France)
 Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914-1918
 Chevalier de l'ordre du Mérite agricole (1911)
 Commemorative medal of the battle of Verdun (medal non-official)
 Commemorative medal of the battle of the Somme

Orde, decorations and Foreign medals
 Commandeur de l'Order of the Crown (Romania) (1917)
 Commandeur de la Spanish Red Cross 1925
 Commandeur de l'Order of Prince Danilo I (Montenegro – 1917)
 Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite civil d’Espagne 1930
 Commandeur de l’Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg – 1931)
 Grand officier de l'Ordre du Order of Ouissam Alaouite (1931)
 Grand officier du Nichan Iftikhar (1931)
 Grand officier de l'Order of Saint-Charles (Principauté de Monaco 1931)
 Grand-croix de l'Ordre royal du Cambodge 14 November 1936
 Grand officier de l'Ordre du Mérite militaire d'Espagne (Order of Spanish Military Merit) (1920)
 Officier de l'Ordre chérifien du Ouissan hafidien (1911)
 Ordre du Muniséraphon, ordre académique du Royaume du Cambodge (1936)

See also

Major (France)
French Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE)
Moroccan Division
1st Foreign Infantry Regiment
2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment
3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment
History of the 2nd Foreign Regiment
List of French Foreign Legion units

References

1875 births
1941 deaths


title: Rajendra Kumar KC

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Rajendra Kumar KC () is a member of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly and House of Representatives. He won Kathamandu–10 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Nepali Congress defeating Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

In the 2022 Nepalese general election, he was elected as the member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal.

References

Nepali Congress politicians from Bagmati Province
Living people
Nepal MPs 2017–2022
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
1958 births
Nepal MPs 2022–present


title: Abraham Willemsens

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Abraham Willemsens or Abraham Willemsen (c. 1605-1610 - 1672), was a Flemish painter of history and genre paintings.  His genre scenes were reminiscent of the style of the Le Nain brothers.  He also produced copies after the works of Rubens.

Life
Details about his early life such as his birth date and place are unknown.  In 1627-1628 he is recorded in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Gilliam Antonissens (also called Guillaume Anthoni), a French painter active in Antwerp.  Willemsens married Maria de Lang. In 1645, he was elected dean of the Guild.  He was recorded in Paris the same year.

It is assumed that he operated a big workshop with a large output to supply the export market.  As a result, a large number of his paintings can be found in Spain.  He was recorded in the archives of the prominent Antwerp art dealer Guillam Forchondt in 1669 and also worked for the art dealer Matthijs Musson.  He was active as an art dealer himself.  He had two apprentices, respectively in the years 1651/52 and in 1654/55.

He died in Antwerp.

Work
The painter was virtually unknown until the discovery in the early 1990s of a painting bearing his full signature.  Since then his oeuvre has gradually been reconstituted.  Numerous attribution issues had to be dealt with as Willemsens was not the only contemporary painter who used the monogram AW.  The artists Artus Wolffort and Adriaen Willemhoudt also signed with the monogram AW. The monogrammist AW who was responsible for a number of oil on copper paintings held by the Prado Museum has now been conclusively identified as Adriaen Willemhoudt.  Because of the similarity in style there have also been misattributions of Willemsens' work to Willem van Herp.

Willemsens has further been identified with the anonymous master previously referred to as the Master of the Béguins.  This notname was given to this anonymous master active in Paris in the mid 17th century because he often depicted beguines.  The style of this master's works were grouped because of their subject matter and their closeness in style to that of the Le Nain brothers..  The identification of Willemsens with the Master of the Béguins has not been unanimously accepted in the art historical community.

Willemsens is recorded in Paris around 1645 and this can explain the influence of the Le Nain brothers who were active in Paris at that time where they painted peasant scenes.  Aside from the subject matter, another reason why Willemsens' work has often been misattributed to the Le Nains is that, like the Le Nains, he habitually used coarse linen as the canvas support.

In response to the contemporary demand for copies of Rubens' oil sketches, Willemsens produced a large number of copies of Rubens' work.  Willemsens was together with Pieter van Lint and Willem van Herp one of the principal producers of such copies for the Antwerp art dealers.  In addition to copies after Rubens, Willemsens painted landscapes on copper, often animated with religious or genre scenes.  His figures were derived primarily from paintings by Rubens, Hendrick van Balen and Gerard Seghers.  Willemsens also took inspiration from Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Francken the Elder and the Le Nain brothers.

References

Links

External links

Flemish Baroque painters
Painters from Antwerp
1672 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Year of birth uncertain


title: Sheetal Maulik

text:
Sheetal Maulik is an Indian television actress.

Filmography

Television

Short films

References

External links

Actresses from Mumbai
Indian soap opera actresses
Indian television actresses
Actors from Mumbai
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Hindi television
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Gulf Coast Medical Center

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Gulf Coast Medical Center (GCMC) is a 356-bed hospital located in Fort Myers, Florida.

History
Gulf Coast Medical Center was created through the merging of Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center and Gulf Coast Hospital in March 2009. Both were for-profit hospitals owned by Hospital Corporation of America.

Gulf Coast Hospital and Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center joined Lee Memorial Health Systems in 2006 before the merger, though the merger was planned before the change of ownership.

Gulf Coast Medical Center wraps around the former Gulf Coast Hospital and consists of 436,000 square feet of new construction and 20,000 square feet of renovation to the former facility. Construction required over 800 miles of electrical wire, 3,100 tons of steel and 5,500 tons of concrete.

Patient care and services
Since 2018, Gulf Coast Medical Center has seen over 47,000 patients visit its facility annually.

Major services provided at Gulf Coast Medical Center include neuroscience, orthopedics, and general surgery.

Gulf Coast Medical Center is an accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center which has the physician coverage and technology to treat all stroke patients, including bleeding strokes—such as those caused by brain aneurysms. With 24/7 access to minimally invasive catheter procedures to treat stroke; a dedicated neurosurgical intensive care unit; and on-site neurological availability, Gulf Coast Medical Center has the ability to treat stoke patients with a variety of complex procedures.

The radiology department features digital technology, such as the Picture Archive Computer System, or PACS, which enables physicians to view X-rays on a computer monitor and adjust the image for a better view. The department also has a state-of-the-art GE 128-slice HD Volume CT scanner, which is very beneficial to its stroke program.

The hospital's outpatient rehabilitation clinic utilizes a speech pathology procedure in which a fiber-optic endoscopic evaluation allows speech pathologists to see how patients swallow in real time without an X-ray.

Renal Transplant evaluation services are performed at Gulf Coast Medical Center in coordination with the Tampa General Renal Transplant Program.

Awards and recognition

In August 2014, Gulf Coast Medical Center was designated a top-level provider of stroke treatments.

Gulf Coast Medical Center is distinguished as a Gold Plus Stroke Center by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

In a 2014 Soliant Health user-generated poll, Gulf Coast Medical Center was chosen as the runner-up to be America's Most Beautiful Hospital.

Gulf Coast Medical Center was ranked as one of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for pulmonary care for two years in a row, 2012–2013.

In 2016, Gulf Coast Medical Center earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Gold Plus Stroke Center designation.

References

Hospital buildings completed in 2009
Hospitals established in 2009


title: Chandra Maharjan

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Chandra Maharjan () is a member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He won Lalitpur–2 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Nepali Congress. He is also a Former President of Jyapu Samaj, Yala.

Personal life
Chandra Maharjan was born on 16 November 1954 in Subahal, Lalitpur-8 to Chandra Man Maharjan and Buddhi Maya Maharjan. He has two sons and three daughters. He holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He is the vice-president of Jyapu Samaj-Yala, general secretary of Ganeshman Singh Study Foundation and founder member of Rotary Club.

Political career
Maharjan began his political career from CPN (Fourth Convention) in 1972. He was a representative of Nepali Congress General Convention. He was initially inclined to communist philosophy but joined NC after the referendum of 1980. He also served as  the central member of NC's association of ethnic communities. Maharjan has also worked as district president and was also elected as deputy mayor of Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City in 1992. In the 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, Maharjan was defeated from Lalitpur-2 with 16,392 votes.

References

1954 births
Nepali Congress politicians from Bagmati Province
People from Lalitpur District, Nepal
Living people
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly


title: Liniine

text:
Liniine (; ; ) is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.

Liniine is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of . The settlement is located  southwest from Hurzuf, which it is administratively subordinate to. Its population was 31 in the 2001 Ukrainian census. Current population:

References

Rural settlements in Crimea
Yalta Municipality


title: 2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team

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The United States men's national basketball team won the gold medal at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup held in Spain. Prior to 2014, the event was known as the FIBA World Championship. The 24-team tournament was held from August 30 to September 14, and the victory automatically qualified the U.S. into the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Kyrie Irving was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.

The United States had automatically qualified for the World Cup by virtue of the gold medal won by their 2012 Olympic team. The Americans were expected to win the World Cup, and advanced to the knockout phase after starting the tournament 5–0 during the group stage. They were an undefeated 9–0 in the tournament, winning by an average margin of 33.0 points. The United States was just the third country in World Cup history to repeat as champions. Combined with their 2010 World Championship along with gold by their 2008 and 2012 Olympic teams, they also became the first country in FIBA basketball history to win four consecutive major titles.

Roster

The squad consisted of only six former NBA All-Stars after multiple players declined to participate. Still, the team remained deep in NBA talent, and was considered the favorite to win the championship. Holdovers included 2012 Olympic gold medalists James Harden and Anthony Davis, in addition to Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose, and Rudy Gay from the 2010 championship team. The 2014 roster featured four players  or larger, the most of any US team since Mike Krzyzewski began coaching  the team in 2006. The team was also the youngest American team since 1992, when NBA players were first allowed on the team; the average player was 24.08 years old, roughly a half-year younger than their 2010 team.

In January 2014, USA Basketball announced their initial 28-man list of players to be considered for their roster for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Players on the list who withdrew themselves from World Cup consideration were LaMarcus Aldridge, Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Dwight Howard, Andre Iguodala, LeBron James, David Lee, Kawhi Leonard, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook and Deron Williams.

A 19-man preliminary roster was announced on July 14, 2014. Two of the players, DeMar DeRozan and Chandler Parsons, were not named to the initial January roster. On July 25, Blake Griffin pulled out due to concerns with his back, and John Wall was named as a replacement. Mired in unresolved trade talks between his Minnesota Timberwolves and other teams, Kevin Love withdrew on July 25. Love was replaced on the training camp roster by Paul Millsap on July 27. The day before, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said that final squad members could also potentially come from the Select Team that is scrimmaging with the main camp roster in Las Vegas. On July 29, Mason Plumlee was promoted to the senior team to give them an extra big man.

During a scrimmage on August 1, Paul George suffered a compound fracture of both bones in his lower right leg, and underwent surgery hours after the injury. George's injury  was similar to one suffered by Louisville Cardinals player Kevin Ware during an 2013 NCAA tournament game against the Duke Blue Devils, coached by Krzyzewski.

The next set of cuts came on August 5, when Wall, Millsap, and Bradley Beal were cut. On August 7, Kevin Durant withdrew from the team, citing physical and mental fatigue. Coupled with George's injury, the small forward position went from being a strength to a weakness for Team USA. Shortly after Durant's withdrawal, Gay was added to the preliminary roster.  Kyle Korver, Chandler Parsons, Gordon Hayward, and Damian Lillard were the final cuts on the team. Big men Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Andre Drummond, and Plumlee—a Krzyzewski favorite whom he previously coached at Duke—were kept in anticipation of facing Spain in the title game against their frontline trio of Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol, and Serge Ibaka. Rose made the team after team officials were confident in the health of the 2010–11 NBA Most Valuable Player, despite his playing in just 10 games the prior two NBA seasons due to knee injuries.

Exhibition games

Preliminary round

Team USA entered the opening round with a 54-game winning steak, including exhibition games. They completed group play 5–0, averaging 102.2 points with an average victory margin of 33.2. They competed in Group C with the , , ,  and . Each team played the other respective teams from the group once, for a total of five games per team, with all the games being played at Bizkaia Arena in Barakaldo (at Greater Bilbao). After all the games were played, the four teams with the best records from each group qualified for the final round.

The U.S. had few problems advancing to the knockout round, though they habitually started games slowly, and their guards had yet to meet expectations to consistently excel on offense.  The team was most dangerous when playing in transition, while they struggled at times in their half-court offense.

All times are local to Spain,  UTC+2.

Finland

The Americans held Finland without a field goal in the second quarter, outscoring them 29–2 in the period en route to a 114–55 blowout victory. Klay Thompson scored 18 points and Davis added 17 to lead the U.S. The Americans quieted the vocal Finnish fans, who filled an entire side of the arena, by holding their opponents to 0-for-17 shooting in the second quarter. They forced 17 first-half turnovers to build a 60–18 lead by halftime.

Team USA shot 59 percent from the field as every American scored. Rose added 12 points playing a team-high 23 minutes, and Gay had 10 against Finland, who were ranked 39th, the lowest ranked team to ever receive a wild card from FIBA. The Finns finished the game with 31 turnovers and only five assists.

Turkey

In a rematch of the 2010 gold-medal game, the U.S. was behind 40–35 at the half and Turkey led by six early in the third quarter before the Americans pulled away for a 98–77 win. Despite the final margin, the U.S. did not manage a double-digit lead until 8:57 remaining in game. The Turks effectively slowed the pace of the game for much of the first three quarters before Team USA used a 17–1 run to pull away.  Kenneth Faried led the U.S. with 22 points and eight rebounds.

The game was unexpectedly tough after Team USA's 59-point rout against Finland and Turkey's needing to rally to win 76–73 against New Zealand. The Americans and Turks were tied at 16 after one quarter, and the U.S. showed frustration in the second period over the pace of the game and calls that went against them. The U.S. could not get into their transition game, unable to force turnovers or missed shots from Turkey. Davis had been the best player during the summer, but he was scoreless and had only one rebound in the first half as he was limited to  minutes while committing two fouls. The Turks held a 21–12 rebounding edge at the half, and had shot 18 free throws to the Americans 5. The game was tied at 59 with 3:10 remaining in the third when the Americans went on a 7–1 run to lead 66–60 after a basket by Faried. They opened the fourth quarter with 10 unanswered points to pull ahead 76–60.

Davis scored all of his 19 points in the second half, and finished with six rebounds.  Harden added 14 points, and Kyrie Irving scored 13 while playing extended minutes with a struggling Rose on the bench until Team USA was safely ahead in the fourth quarter. Without Ersan İlyasova and Enes Kanter on their team and Hedo Türkoğlu retired from international play, Ömer Aşık was the only NBA player on Turkey's roster; they did return eight players from their 2010 team. "I guess we felt like last night's game was pretty easy and tonight was going to be the same way", Harden said.  Added Krzyzewski: "The big lesson for our team is you can’t take things for granted, especially when you’re playing teams the caliber of Turkey".

New Zealand

Team USA led the game from beginning to end and won 98–71 over New Zealand.  The game was close for a little more than a quarter before the Americans overpowered the Kiwis with their inside game. The U.S. was led by Davis' 21 points and nine rebounds, and Faried scored 15 and had 11 boards—including seven on the offensive end.

The score was 27–20 after the first quarter, and the Americans were leading by nine when they went on a 12–0 run behind seven points by Irving. The streak featured Team USA's transition game, but they frequently took advantage of Davis' and Faried's inside game in the first half. Rose started the second half in place of Irving, as Krzyzewski wanted the former NBA MVP to receive more playing time with starters. He played the first 6:17 of the third and started the fourth as well. Harden scored 13, and Curry finished the game with 12 points after struggling with just 4-for-17 shooting in the opening two games. Thompson also scored 12, while Irving added 10, as Team USA had six players in double figures.

Faried, who entered the game shooting 14-of-17, made 7-for-9 in the game for an overall 80.8 percent in the series. "Overall, from the start of training camp, he's been the biggest and best surprise and has turned out to be a very, very important player for us", Krzyzewski said. "He’s made that happen. We never call a play for him".

Dominican Republic

The Americans cruised to 106–71 victory over the Dominican Republic after a sluggish first quarter. A 25–22 first-quarter lead grew to 15 by the half, and the U.S. led 92–52 after a 22–0 second-half run. Faried led the team with 16 points and added six rebounds, and Cousins also scored 13.

The Dominican Republic was playing without injured Francisco Garcia, who was averaging a team-high 21 points per game, but remained close after Team USA missed five free throws in the first period. The U.S. led by seven in the second quarter when Faried scored three consecutive baskets and Davis hit a jumper to build a comfortable 44–29 lead. The Americans scored 25 points in the third and another 25 in the fourth, including a series of dunks by end-of-the-bench players Drummond and Plumlee. The team exceeded triple digits for the second time after scoring 98 in each of the previous two wins.

Ukraine

Ukraine slowed the pace of the game for most of the first half before Team USA overcame another poor start for a 95–71 win. Harden had his best game during group play with a team-high 17 points. The only major scare for the U.S. occurred near the end of the game when Irving fell hard.

The Ukrainians slowed the pace of the game for the first quarter and a half, and led 19–14 after the first period. They remained ahead 27–25 midway through the second until Curry made a pair of three-point field goals during a 19–5 spurt in the last 4:43 that gave the U.S. a 44–32 lead at the half. The Americans led 69–54 after three, and were never in danger of losing in the second half. Irving left the game with 1:12 remaining after slipping and falling hard on his tailbone; he walked off holding his lower back. He said he was "fine" after the game, and the team stated it did not "anticipate a serious injury".

Curry scored 14, one of six Americans in double figures. Ukraine was coached by former NBA coach Mike Fratello, and they were led by  NBA player Viacheslav Kravtsov's team-high 15 points.

Final round

The U.S. advanced to the knockout stage in which the top four teams from the respective preliminary round groups qualified in the single-elimination tournament. The losers in the semifinals will play for the bronze medal. Teams from Groups A and B will play at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, while those from Groups C and D play at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. The third place game and the final will be held at the Madrid arena.

Round of 16 – Mexico

The U.S. avoided another slow start and Curry scored 20 while making six three-pointers in an 86–63 win over Mexico. Curry was 7-of-10 from the field and 6-for-9 from outside. Thompson, Curry's teammate on the Golden State Warriors, added 15 points, and the Americans made 13 three-pointers.

Team USA jumped out to an early 13–2 lead before Mexico scored seven unanswered points. The Americans stretched the lead to 23–13 after one quarter, and the lead remained in double digits for most of the second period for a 42–27 halftime lead. Curry then made back-to-back threes to make it 50–27.  Davis and Faried, Team USA's dominant players in the first round, scored four and eight points, respectively.  Instead, the team's top three scorers were its  perimeter players; Harden added 12 points.

Cousins, who Krzyzewski commended for another strong outing, made all five of his shots for 11 points and added seven rebounds. Mexico's  Gustavo Ayón, who played in the NBA in 2013–14, finished with 25 points.

Quarterfinals – Slovenia

Team USA won 119–76 after a troubled first half against a Slovenia team they comfortably handled in an exhibition game two weeks earlier. The Americans were led by Thompson's 20 points, and Harden scored 12 of his 14 in the third period.

The U.S. missed 10 of their first 11 shots and misfired on 21 overall in the first quarter, but their 14 offensive rebounds led to 15 second-chance points for a 29–22 lead after one. Slovenia made 70 percent of its two-pointers in the first half, but the Americans still led 49–42 despite shooting just 36 percent overall in the first two quarters; Harden and Curry were a combined 0-for-12. Team USA led by just five early in the third before going on a 27–10 run, as Slovenian turnovers led to American dunks. The U.S. scored the first 10 points in the fourth for a 96–64 lead.

Faried had 14 points with 10 rebounds, and Davis added 13 and 11. The U.S. finished with 23 offensive rebounds and 53 overall, which Slovenia coach Jure Zdovc called the difference in the game. Rose added 12 points on 6-for-12 shooting after going just 8-for-37 in the first six games of the World Cup. Slovenia was led by Goran Dragić's 12 points. He combined with brother Zoran Dragić for 24 points on 27 shots and nine rebounds.

Semifinals – Lithuania

Harden scored all 16 of his points in the third quarter, when the United States outscored Lithuania 33–14 for a 96–68 victory. After a tight first half, the U.S. started forcing turnovers to trigger its fast break, opening up the game. Irving scored 18 points and Thompson had 16 off the bench.

The first half was dominated by fouls on both sides, and the Americans led at the half 43–35. Late in the half, Cousins was elbowed in the throat by Lithuanian center Jonas Valančiūnas while boxing out for a rebound. Cousins then charged at him without throwing a punch, and received a technical foul. For the second straight game, Harden was scoreless in the first half. He scored the first field goal of the second half, and finished a 10–0 U.S. run with a three pointer that put the team ahead 53–35 in under two minutes. An 18–2 run to start the half was capped by a lob from Irving to Davis for the basket. Team USA made 14 of 19 shots in the quarter to build a 76–49 lead to start the fourth.

Curry received his fourth foul two minutes into the second half, and Davis fouled out early in the fourth quarter after receiving a technical for his fifth foul. Valančiūnas and Mindaugas Kuzminskas both scored 15 points for Lithuania. Entering the contest, Kuzminskas averaged 2.4 points in five games in the tournament for Lithuania while averaging a team-low 9.0 minutes.

Final – Serbia

Serbia made their first five shots of the game to jump to a 10–5 lead. After a U.S. timeout, Serbia scored anew, then the Americans had a 17–3 run to go up by seven. Irving and Thompson scored three-pointers to give the U.S. a 35–21 lead. In the second quarter, the Americans made six more three point shots to give them a 26-point lead at the half. Team USA held its largest lead of 39 points by the middle of the third quarter. The final deficit of 37 points and the 129 overall points scored were the largest in a World Cup final since Team USA's 137–91 victory over  in the 1994 FIBA World Championship. The Americans also became the third team, along with  and , to successfully defend the world title, and tied the Yugoslavs with having the most championships, with five.

The Americans shot 58% from the field and 50% from beyond the three-point line in the game, won all nine games by an average of 33.0 points, and qualified to the 2016 Olympics. Irving was named the tournament MVP. He and Faried were both named to the All-Tournament Team.

Statistics

References
General

Specific

External links
2014 USA team at FIBA.com

2014–15 in American basketball
2014
FIBA Basketball World Cup-winning countries


title: Nika Turković

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Nika Turković (born 7 June 1995) is a Croatian singer and songwriter. She got to be known through representing Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Turković was a cast in several music TV shows since and has established herself as a pop singer.

Music career
In 2004, Turković was chosen to represent Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 held in Lillehammer, Norway. She placed third in the competition. In 2006, she released her debut album, titled Alien. Her live performances include joining Dina Rizvić for some songs in the opening concert of the 2014 Labin Jazz Festival.

Personal life
Turković was born on 7 June 1995 in Zagreb, Croatia. Her mother Gordana, is a dentist, and father Petar, is a psychologist and official of the Croatian Nanbudo Federation and founder of the first nanbudo club in Zagreb.

She lived with her sister Kiara and her maternal grandmother Biserka. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and Slovene in addition to her native Croatian. Turković was in a 4 year relationship with Croatian singer and fellow cast member of TV show 'A strana' Matija Cvek.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

1995 births
Living people
Musicians from Zagreb
Croatian child singers
Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrants
21st-century Croatian women singers
Turković family


title: What's Going On (Taste song)

text:
"What's Going On" is a 1970 song by the blues rock band Taste written by Rory Gallagher and produced by Tony Colton. The song was a major hit for Taste.

Taste's A-side, a driving rock song, and the B-side boogie "Morning Sun", were taken from 1968 sessions for Taste's second album On the Boards and released by Taste's manager and Polydor without Gallagher's knowledge; going straight to No.1 in Germany, where the previous single "Born On The Wrong Side Of Time" had already been a hit, before Gallagher knew anything about it. By the time Gallagher had complained to Polydor the single had also entered the UK Top 10 and was unstoppable. Gallagher, who wanted to build the trio's image around serious blues music, not rock, was not happy with the record company having the say on the choice of "commercial" singles, and the other two members of the trio, John Wilson and Charlie McCracken, sided with Gallagher. After this single Taste performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970, but Gallagher quit Polydor on the last day of the year and left Taste to work on solo projects.

References

1970 songs


title: First Finance Commission

text:
The First Finance Commission of India was appointed in 1951, for the period 1952-57 by the President of India and was chaired by K. C. Neogy.

Members

 Shri K. C. Neogy, Chairman
 Shri V. P. Menon
 Shri Justice R. Kaushalendra Rao
 Dr. B. K. Madan
 Shri M.V. Rangachari Member-Secretary
 Shri V. L. Mehta

V. P. Menon resigned on 18 February 1952 and was replaced by V. L. Mehta.

Terms of Reference
The commission was asked to make recommendations regarding:
 Allocations of income tax and Union Excise Duties and tax sharing.
 Amounts payable as Grants- in-Aid to the States in need of Assistance under the ‘substantive portion of Clause 1 of Article 275’.
 Grants-in-Aid to certain States in lieu of their share of export duty on jute and jute products according to Article 273
 Continuation or adjustment of the terms of agreement with Part B States under Article 278 (1) or under Article 306.

Recommendations

 The share of States in the proceeds of income tax was to be 55 per cent.
 The First Commission recommended that shares of States in the Union excise duties be 40 per cent of the proceeds of the tax on three commodities, 25 per cent of the proceeds of the tax on eight commodities and 20 per cent of the proceeds of the tax on 35 commodities, respectively.
 As far as Horizontal Distribution is concerned, overwhelming weightage is given to Population (80%). Only residual weightage of 20% given to contribution.
 No recommendations regarding grants for meeting capital requirements of the state were made by the commission.
 The Commission provided Grants in- Aid (under Article 273) to only four states, namely, Assam Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. However, Grants were provided to many states under Substantive Portion of Article 275 (1) and under the head of Primary education grants.
 All recommendations made by the commission were accepted by the Union Government.

References

External links
 http://fincomindia.nic.in

1951 establishments in India
Finance Commission of India


title: Very Up & Co

text:
VERY UP & CO (= Uscha Pohl and Company) is a cross cultural art space in New York City that describes itself as covering "art, fashion, design and ecology" and stages exhibitions and events in London, New York City, Düsseldorf, Mallorca and Paris.

It was founded in 1996 in TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan, New York, by artist, designer, curator and German expat Uscha Pohl, who is the present director.

In September 1997, VERY UP & CO launched the international art magazine VERY, edited by Uscha Pohl.

In 2004, the gallery opened its branch in London.

Exhibited artists include Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Cees Krijnen, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Lara Schnitger, Judith Eisler, Devon Dikeou, Mia Enell, Mark Dagley, Samantha McEwen, Monica Castiglioni

References

Sources
 Tom Moody, Op at Up, Up & Co, NY, May 16-July 18, 1998
 Artnet, with Uscha Pohl‘s Changing Room-ID Cell, 1999
 Die Zeit online, It and Out, New Yorker Notizen, 1999
 MoMa PS1, Criss Cross: SomeYoung New Yorkers !II February 7-April 3, 1999
 Zingmagazine, issue 4, Uscha Pohl and Ellen Cantor
 Michelle Lowe-Holder, Uscha Pohl and VERY, November 9, 2011

Art museums and galleries in New York City


title: Miroslav Kasaj

text:
Miroslav Kasaj (born 11 March 1988) is a Slovak football midfielder who currently plays for Sereď.

Club career

FC Spartak Trnava
He made his professional debut for FC Spartak Trnava against FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce on 13 July 2014.

References

External links
 FC Spartak Trnava profile

 Eurofotbal profile
 Futbalnet profile

1988 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
MFK Ružomberok players
FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa players
FC Spartak Trnava players
Slovak First Football League players


title: Jim Frederick

text:
James Durkin Frederick (November 22, 1971 – July 31, 2014) was an American author and journalist who was an editor for Time magazine. He was born in Lake Forest, Illinois and graduated from Columbia University in 1993. In 2010, he wrote the best-selling book Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, about the Mahmudiyah killings. He was married to Time senior editor Charlotte Greensit, whom he met while stationed in London. Frederick left Time in 2013, then settled in San Francisco to start a company, Hybrid Vigor Media.

Publications
Jenkins, Charles Robert, and Jim Frederick. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Frederick, Jim. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Plunge into Madness in the Triangle of Death and the American Struggle in Iraq. New York: Harmony Books, 2010.
 His friend Ken Kurson called this book "the single best book ever written about the war in Iraq and one of the greatest war books ever."  The Commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy made it the inaugural book in his personal leadership development book club for cadets and told Frederick that he would be considered a lifetime friend of West Point.

Death
On July 31, 2014, Frederick died at the age of 42 in the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, of cardiac arrest and arrhythmia.

References

1971 births
2014 deaths
American war correspondents
Time (magazine) people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
People from Lake Forest, Illinois


title: Waytapallana (Aychana)

text:
Waytapallana (Quechua wayta wild flower, a little bunch of flowers, pallay to collect, pallana an instrument to collect fruit / collectable, Waytapallana "a place where you collect wild flowers", hispanicized spelling Huaytapallana) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Junín Region, Huancayo Province, Pariahuanca District. Waytapallana lies on the left bank of the Lampa River, east of the Waytapallana mountain range. The village of Aychana lies at its feet.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Junín Region


title: Bullet for Hire

text:
Bullet for Hire is a 1991 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Yuen Chun-man and starring Jacky Cheung, Simon Yam, Dick Wei, Lo Lieh and Sheila Chan.

Plot
Triad assassins Ngok (Lo Lieh), Hon (Simon Yam) and Shan (Jacky Cheung) are struggling in a battle for money and power in Hong Kong. Ngok and Hon has worked for triad boss Dick (Dick Wei) for over ten years and the two have established a profound friendship. Because they were clever, the two were heavily utilized by Dick. However, Ngok is getting old and worried that Dick will harm his only daughter, San (Elaine Chow). With the help of the police, Ngok was able to fake his death during an assassination attempt.

Shan, on the other hand, is a newcomer killer. While following Hon, Shan gets to learn about the fickleness of the world. One time after winning HK$100,000 from a bet, he encounters a message girl, Lan (Sheila Chan) and develops a romantic relationship with her. At this time, Dick suspects about Ngok's death and sends Hon and Shan to kill him. Dick also kidnaps Lan to blackmail Shan and at this critical moment of deciding the fate of three of them, the choices of life and death are in front of them.

Cast
Jacky Cheung as Shan
Simon Yam as Hon
Dick Wei as Mr. Dick
Lo Lieh as Ngok
Sheila Chan as Lan
Elaine Lui as Interpol officer
Elaine Chow as San
Lam Chung as Bill (cameo)
Ma Kei as Kwai (cameo)
Hung San-sam as Ngok's victim in flashback
Wan Seung-lam as Mr. Dick's thug
Lee Chun-kit as Mr. Dick's thug
Paul Wong as Mr. Dick's thug
Wong Chi-keung as Mr. Dick's thug
Lung Tin-sang as Boss playing darts in pub
Johnny Cheung as Boss's thug/Mr. Dick's thug
Ridley Tsui as Boss's thug
Johnny Yip
Tam Chuen-leung
Danny Chow as one of Kwai's men
Tam Chuen-hing as Superintendent Henry Tso Hon
Jameson Lam as Restaurant captain
Ken Yip as Ngai Chai-wan's bodyguard
Tsim Siu-ling
Hung Yan-yan
Roger Thomas as Mr. Wilson
Johnny Koo as Kau
Huang Kai Sen as Assassin
Benny Lai as Boss's thug
Ka See-fung as Boss's thug
Hon Chun as Boss's thug
Kwok Nga-cheung

Theme song
Resurrection (復活)
Composer: Donald Ashley
Lyricist: Calvin Poon
Singer: Jacky Cheung

Reception

Critical
City On Fire gave the film a score of 8/10 and writes "It's an erratic, irreverent, almost anything goes flick with comedy that's actually comical and some explosive action sequences that get the squibs bursting."

Box office
The film grossed HK$3,646,104 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 5 to 11 September 1991 in Hong Kong.

See also
Jacky Cheung filmography
Lo Lieh filmography

References

External links

Bullet for Hire at Hong Kong Cinemagic

1991 films
1991 action films
1990s buddy films
1991 martial arts films
1990s Cantonese-language films
Films about contract killing
Films set in Hong Kong
Films shot in Hong Kong
Gun fu films
Hong Kong action films
Hong Kong buddy films
Hong Kong martial arts films
Triad films
1990s Hong Kong films


title: I (Taproot song)

text:
"I" is the second and final single from Taproot's album Gift. The song is one of the most melodic tracks from the album. "I" was the most successful single from the album, charting at no. 34 on the Mainstream Rock Chart.

Track listing

Chart positions

Personnel
 Stephen Richards – vocals
 Mike DeWolf – guitar
 Phil Lipscomb – bass
 Jarrod Montague – drums

External links
 Lyrics at AllMusic

References

2001 singles
Atlantic Records singles
Taproot (band) songs
Songs written by Stephen Richards (musician)
2000 songs


The 2014–15 Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball team will represent Northwestern University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by seventh year head coach Joe McKeown, play their home games at the Welsh-Ryan Arena and were a members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 23–9, 12–6 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They advanced to the semifinals of the Big Ten women's tournament where they lost to Maryland. They received at-large bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament, which was their first trip since 1997. They lost in the first round to Arkansas.

2014–15 Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

See also
2014–15 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team

References

Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball seasons
Northwestern
Northwestern
Northwestern Wild
Northwestern Wild


title: Ay Vamos

text:
"Ay Vamos"  () is a song performed by Colombian singer J Balvin, released as the lead single of the reissue of his second studio album, La Familia B Sides, by Universal Music Mexico on July 22, 2014.

It received a nomination for the Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Rhythm Airplay Song of the Year in 2015. A remix, featuring French Montana and Nicky Jam was released on the Furious 7 soundtrack.

As of September 2022, the music video has received over 1.8 billion views on YouTube.

Track listing
Digital download
 "Ay Vamos" –

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Awards and nominations

See also
List of Billboard number-one Latin songs of 2014

References

2014 singles
J Balvin songs
Nicky Jam songs
Spanish-language songs
2014 songs
Universal Music Mexico singles
Number-one singles in Colombia
Number-one singles in the Dominican Republic
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song
Songs written by J Balvin


The 2002 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place February 28–March 2, 2002, at the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, Virginia. For the fourth consecutive year, the tournament was won by the Winthrop Eagles, led by head coach Gregg Marshall.

Format
All eight teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Roanoke Civic Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. Birmingham–Southern was in a transitional phase to the conference during the season, and not technically counted as a conference member.

Bracket

Source

All-Tournament Team
Greg Lewis, Winthrop
Pierre Wooten, Winthrop
Jay Wallace, High Point
Joe Knight, High Point
Correy Watkins, Radford

References

Tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament


title: Pelverata

text:
Pelverata is a rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Huon Valley and Kingborough in the South-east and Hobart LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about  south-west of the town of Kingston. The 2016 census recorded a population of 206 for the state suburb of Pelverata.
It is a town in Tasmania, Australia, to the east of Huonville. It is mainly in the Huon Valley Council area, with about 4% in the Kingborough Council LGA.

History
Pelverata was gazetted as a locality in 1968. Previously known as Upper Woodstock, the name was changed in 1912.
The name Pelverata is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word for "ear".

Geography
Most of the boundaries are survey lines.

Road infrastructure
Route B621 (Pelverata Road) runs through from south-west to north-east.

Attractions
 Pelverata Falls

References

Towns in Tasmania
Localities of Huon Valley Council
Localities of Kingborough Council


title: Miss Zimbabwe

text:
The Miss Zimbabwe or (Miss Universe Zimbabwe) is a national Beauty pageant in Zimbabwe. Began in 2023 the organization was branded as Miss Universe Zimbabwe Organization by Tendai Hunda's directorship. The winner is expected to represent the country at Miss Universe competition.

History
The Miss Zimbabwe was founded in 1980 when the national beauty pageant was transformed from Miss Rhodesia after attaining independence.

Sash titles
In 2011, Miss Tourism Zimbabwe was crowned Miss World Zimbabwe, Miss Tourism Zimbabwe, and Miss Universe Zimbabwe. Especially for Miss Universe Zimbabwe did not allow to compete at Miss Universe by Miss Universe Organization. As a result in 2011, for the first time, the Miss Universe Zimbabwe title was competed at Miss International 2011 in Chengdu, China and she was awarded the most expressive award.

Resignations
In 2014, chairperson Marry Chiwenga said the reasons for the 22-year-old university law student's resignation were “a prerequisite to both the Miss Zimbabwe and the Miss World pageants”. Thabiso is understood to have volunteered the information which necessitated her stepping down to the Trust. Thabiso is likely to be replaced by first princess Tendai Hunda.

Franchises

Miss Universe's Franchise holders
Miss Parade, Modusa Promotion by Angeline Chinyoka (Agency Unveils 'Beauty And Brains' Modelling Contest) (1998―2000)
Yvette D'Almeida-Chakras (2001)
Tendai Hunda (2023—present)

Miss Supranational's Franchise holders
The Zimbabwean Queen Organization, Farai Zembeni (2022―present)

Titleholders
Here those were using the name of Miss Zimbabwe titleholders. Later in 2017, the organization moved to the Miss World Zimbabwe organization.

Titleholders under Miss Zimbabwe org.

Miss Universe Zimbabwe

Since its inception in 1997, the Miss Parade beauty pageant has improved in quality and stature; qualifying it as one of Zimbabwe's top annual catwalk highlights, alongside Miss Zimbabwe, Supermodel, and Miss Universe. The pageant has become one of the most glamorous, judging by the successes of some of its most recent winners. It has launched a number of Zimbabwean girls into successful modeling and other related careers. The last edition of Miss Universe Zimbabwe was Tsungai Muswerakuenda, which expired on 31 March 2002 which means the title has no current holder. The Miss Universe Zimbabwe was officially directed by Yvette D'Almeida Chakras (Miss Zimbabwe Universe 1994). Since 2002 Zimbabwe does not compete at Miss Universe due to various political and social problems that it is facing at this very moment.Zimbabwe: No Miss Universe

Miss Supranational Zimbabwe

Former license holders

Miss World Zimbabwe

Starting in 2017 Miss World Zimbabwe revealed its new name "Miss World Zimbabwe" competition. The primary winner is expected to represent her country at the Miss World pageant. This pageant was chaired by Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga.

Miss International Zimbabwe

References

External links
Miss Supranational Zimbabwe Official Website

Miss Universe by country
Miss Supranational by country
Beauty pageants in Zimbabwe
Recurring events established in 1980
1980 establishments in Zimbabwe


title: Jackson Lawmakers

text:
The Jackson Lawmakers were a Cotton States League minor league baseball team based in Jackson, Mississippi that played during the 1913 season. Managed by Otto Mills, the team finished first in the league's standings. It featured players Rags Faircloth and Alex Malloy.

References

Sports in Jackson, Mississippi
Defunct baseball teams in Mississippi
Defunct minor league baseball teams
Baseball teams established in 1913
1913 establishments in Mississippi
Baseball teams disestablished in 1913
Defunct Cotton States League teams


title: KQXF

text:
KQXF (107.3 FM) is an oldies fornat broadcast radio station licensed to serve the community of Osceola, Arkansas, and broadcasting to Mississippi County in Arkansas and Lauderdale and Tipton counties in Tennessee. KQXF is owned and operated by Phoenix Broadcasting Group, Inc.

KQXF was originally a contemporary hit radio station branded as "107.3 The Fix". On April 11, 2020, KQXF changed its format to oldies and rebranded as "107.3 The Goat".

References

External links

Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1996
QXF
Osceola, Arkansas


title: Crane Bank Rwanda

text:
Crane Bank Rwanda was a commercial bank in Rwanda, licensed by National Bank of Rwanda, the central bank and national banking regulator. In June 2017, the Commercial Bank of Africa signed an agreement to acquire the assets to Crane Bank of Rwanda, pending regulatory approval.

Overview
The bank began operations on Monday 30 June 2014, having received a full unrestricted banking license from NBR, one year earlier. The estimated total asset valuation of the institution at December 2014 was approximately US$13.7 million, with shareholders' equity of approximately US$8.6 million. The official exchange rate at 31 December 2014 was USh2,778 = US$1.00.

Ownership
Crane Bank Rwanda was a 100% subsidiary of Crane Bank, the 3rd largest commercial bank in Uganda, the largest indigenous commercial bank in the country, with approximately US$620 million in total assets at December 2014.

In May 2017, CBA Rwanda, a microfinance institution, made public its intention to acquire Crane Bank Rwanda, a commercial bank, whose parent company in Uganda had been sold and the buyers of the parent did not want to keep the Rwandan subsidiary. On 15 June 2017 the CBA Group signed a definitive sale and purchase agreement with DFCU Bank, the owners of Crane Bank Rwanda. The acquisition required regulatory approval in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.

Sale and acquisition
In February 2018, following approval by the National Bank of Rwanda, the Central Bank of Kenya and the Bank of Uganda, the CBA Group took over Crane Bank Rwanda. The acquired assets and liabilities, including three operational branches in Kigali, are expected to be merged with the existing micro-finance operations of CBA Rwanda.

Ruparelia Group
Crane Bank Rwanda was a member of the Ruparelia Group, A Uganda-based conglomerate, that included a bank, insurance companies, foreign exchange bureaux, schools, radio stations, a university, hotels and resorts. In October 2016, the Bank of Uganda took over the administration of Crane Bank and its subsidiaries, due to under-capitalization. In January 2017, DFCU Bank purchased the assets and liabilities of Crane Bank. Crane Bank Rwanda was sold to the Commercial Bank of Africa Group in February 2018.

Branches
, CBR maintains the following branches:

 Main Branch - 10249 Ville De Kigali, Nyarugenge, Muhima, Kigali
 La Bonne  Branch -5447 La Bonne  Building, 76 Avenue de la Revolution, Kigali.

See also

References

External links
 Website of National Bank of Rwanda
 Stiff Competition As Ugandan Giant Bank Moves In For A Slice of Rwandan Market

Banks of Rwanda
Banks established in 2014
2014 establishments in Rwanda
Organisations based in Kigali
Economy of Kigali


title: Charlotte Honey Bees

text:
Charlotte Honey Bees are a National Basketball Association Cheerleading squad that performs at Charlotte Hornets games in the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The HoneyBees were dancers for the Charlotte Hornets from 1988 until 2002, when they became the Charlotte Lady Cats while the NBA basketball team was named the Charlotte Bobcats. In 2014, the cheerleading squad's name changed back to the Honey Bees after the Charlotte Bobcats went back to the Hornets name.

References

Charlotte Bobcats personnel
Charlotte Hornets
Dance in North Carolina
National Basketball Association cheerleading squads


title: Central Avenue Reunion

text:
Central Avenue Reunion is a live album by Art Farmer and Frank Morgan recorded in Emeryville, CA in 1989 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic said "This CD is filled with high-quality bebop that is easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz fans".  the Los Angeles Times review observed "this quintet session harks back to the halcyon days of the 1940s Central Avenue scene, when jazz could be heard in countless clubs almost 'round the clock. Trumpeter Farmer and altoist Morgan were bandstand-mates then and they both still embrace the be-bop style: Farmer is a little more true and precise in his improvisations, whereas Morgan likes to let his lines squiggle chaotically on occasion". The Chicago Tribune noted "Trumpeter Art Farmer`s mellow lyrical style fits easily with alto saxophonist Frank Morgan`s plaintive phrasing. The result is charming and satisfying, like an evening with people you like to be with".  The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars saying it had "A few fine moments amid a generally routine record".

Track listing
 "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 8:43
 "Farmer's Market" (Art Farmer) - 6:58
 "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:48
 "Blue Minor" (Sonny Clark) - 7:08
 "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 9:03
 "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 5:45
 "Cool Struttin'" (Clark) - 9:21
 "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 6:30 Bonus track on CD

Personnel
Art Farmer - trumpet, flugelhorn
Frank Morgan - alto saxophone
Lou Levy - piano
Eric Von Essen - bass
Albert Heath - drums

References

Contemporary Records live albums
Art Farmer live albums
Frank Morgan (musician) live albums
1989 live albums


title: Birthday (Taproot song)

text:
Birthday is the second and final single from Taproot's third album, Blue-Sky Research. The song is the band's last to be released through Atlantic Records following poor album sales. "Birthday" was co-written by music producer Bob Marlette.

Track listing

The radio edit of the song omits the heavy section of the bridge and the screamed vocals.

Chart positions

Personnel
 Mike DeWolf – guitar
 Philip Lipscomb – bass
 Jarrod Montague – drums
 Stephen Richards – vocals, guitar

References

2005 songs
2005 singles
Songs about birthdays
Taproot (band) songs
2000s Atlantic Records singles
Songs written by Bob Marlette
Songs written by Stephen Richards (musician)


title: Caledonia High School (Michigan)

text:
Caledonia High School is a public, magnet high school located in Caledonia, Michigan. It serves grades 9-12 in the Caledonia Community Schools.

History

The North Campus building opened in 2004. The South Campus building opened in 2017.

Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 1,543 students enrolled in 2018–19 was:
Male - 51.9%
Female - 48.1%
Native American/Alaskan - 0.1%
Asian - 2.4%
Black - 1.6%
Hispanic - 5.9%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders - 0.1%
White - 86.1%
Multiracial - 3.8%

16.5% of the students were eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

Athletics
The Caledonia Fighting Scots are members of the Ottawa-Kent Conference. The school colors are purple and gold. The following MHSAA sanctioned sports are offered:

Baseball (boys)
Basketball (girls and boys)
Bowling (girls and boys)
Competitive cheer (girls)
Cross country (girls and boys)
Football (boys)
Golf (girls and boys)
Ice hockey (boys)
Lacrosse (girls and boys)
Skiing (girls and boys)
Soccer (girls and boys)
Softball (girls)
Swim and dive (girls and boys)
Tennis (girls and boys)
Track and field (girls and boys)
Volleyball (girls and boys)
Wrestling (boys)

References

External links

Caledonia Community Schools

Public high schools in Michigan
Schools in Kent County, Michigan


The 2001 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 1–3, 2001, at the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, Virginia. For the third consecutive year, the tournament was won by the Winthrop Eagles, led by head coach Gregg Marshall.

Format
Six teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Roanoke Civic Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. As part of their transitional phase, conference members Elon and High Point were ineligible for the tournament.

Bracket

Source

All-Tournament Team
Andrey Savtchenko, Radford
Tyrone Walker, Winthrop
Derrick Knox, Winthrop
Jason Williams, Radford
Chris Caldwell, Liberty

References

Tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament


title: Disperatamente Giulia

text:
Disperatamente Giulia (also known as Julia Forever) is a 1989 Italian romance-drama mini series directed by Enrico Maria Salerno. Broadcast on Canale 5, it is based on the novel with the same name by Sveva Casati Modignani.

Cast

Tahnee Welch:  Giulia De Blasco
Fabio Testi: Ermes Corsini
Dalila Di Lazzaro: Marta Montini
Stéphane Ferrara: Leo Rovelli
Enrico Maria Salerno: Ubaldo Milkovič
Laura Antonelli: Carmen Milkovič
Eros Pagni: Vittorio De Blasco
Bekim Fehmiu: Old Armando Zani
Marina Suma: Zaira
Corinne Cléry: Elena Dionisi
Nina Soldano: Diana
Marina Berti: Silvia
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Vanni Corbellini
Sabrina Siani
Françoise Fabian
Valeria Valeri
Marisa Merlini
Riccardo Garrone

References

External links

1989 television films
1989 films
1980s Italian-language films
1989 romantic drama films
Films directed by Enrico Maria Salerno
Films based on Italian novels
Italian romantic drama films
1980s Italian films


title: Kabua

text:
Kabua is a surname of Marshallese origin. It may refer to:

 Amata Kabua (1928–1996), first President of the Marshall Islands
 Amatlain Elizabeth Kabua (born 1951), Marshallese diplomat and politician
 David Kabua (born 1951), eight President of the Marshall Islands
 Emlain Kabua (1928-2023), former First Lady of the Marshall Islands
 Imata Kabua (1943–2019), second President of the Marshall Islands
 Kabua the Great (died 1910), an Iroijlaplap of the Ralik chain of the Marshall Islands
 Kitlang Kabua (born 1991), Marshallese politician

Marshallese-language surnames


title: Crescent City Base Ball Park

text:
Crescent City Base Ball Park, originally known as Sportsman's Park (1886–1887), was a sports stadium in New Orleans from 1886 to 1900. The stadium was renamed Crescent City Base Ball Park in 1888 and reopened on February 9, 1888. The ball park was located at City Park Avenue and what is now the Pontchartrain Expressway across from Greenwood Cemetery.

It was home to the New Orleans Pelicans baseball organization from 1887 to 1900. It was also home to the Tulane Green Wave football team from 1893 to 1900.

See also
New Orleans Pelicans (baseball)
Tulane Green Wave football
Sports in New Orleans

References

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title: KOSE

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KOSE (860 AM) is an American southern gospel/ country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to serve the community of Wilson, Arkansas, and broadcasting to Mississippi County in Arkansas and Lauderdale and Tipton counties in Tennessee. KOSE is owned and operated by Newport Broadcasting Company.

860 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency; KOSE must reduce nighttime power to protect the skywave signal of CJBC in Toronto.

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Radio stations established in 1949
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The 2000 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 2–4, 2000, at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. For the second consecutive year, the tournament was won by the Winthrop Eagles, led by head coach Gregg Marshall.

Format
Six teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Asheville Civic Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. As part of their transitional phase, conference members Elon and High Point were ineligible for the tournament.

Bracket

Source

All-Tournament Team
Greg Lewis, Winthrop
Tyson Waterman, Winthrop
Robbie Waldrop, Winthrop
Brett Carey, UNC Asheville
Andre Smith, UNC Asheville

References

Tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament


title: Mohammad Reza Azadehfar

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Mohammad Reza Azadehfar (), professor in ethnomusicology and santūr performer, was born in 1969 in Isfahan, the Safavid capital of Iran. He started learning the Iranian traditional dulcimer (santūr) under the supervision of Sa’id Na’imimanesh in 1981 and spent some 4 years at the Conservatory of Isfahan. In 1988 he moved to Tehran and attended classes in the santūr given by Faramarz Payvar and Sa’id Sabet.

Azadehfar is also interested in film studies. He studied cinema at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society in 1982 and in 1988 he entered the faculty of Cinema and Theater at Tehran University of Arts to take a BA in cinema. His special interest in cinema was film scoring and editing. Azadehfar won the prize for best film scoring in 1987 for a short film by Asghar Farhadi and a prize for best editing in 1993 at the National Festival of Youth Cinema.

Since 1993 Azadehfar has mainly focused on theoretical issues of Iranian music. He began his studies by attending an MA research program in Tehran working on the topic of “General Training in Iranian Music.” His dissertation was later published as a book in the Persian language and sold more than 5000 copies. Rhythm is especially interesting to Azadehfar. He learned the Iranian percussion instrument the tombak and moved to Sheffield in England to do a PhD program on “Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music” in 1999. He finished his PhD program in 2003 and was admitted to a post-doctoral program in SOAS, University of London in the same year. He ended his fellowship in SOAS in 2005 and returned to Iran.

In 2005 Azadehfar was appointed to the Music Faculty in Tehran University of Art. In 2010 he was elected as a Dean of the Music Faculty, a post which he held until 2014. During this time he established the Ethnomusicology program in this faculty and spent some years teaching there. He is now Ethnomusicology Professor in this faculty.

In 2014 the Executive Board of ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) appointed Azadehfar as ICTM Liaison Officer for Iran.

Awards
1987, Winner of prize for best short film music at Isfahan Youth Cinema Festival
1988, Winner of prize for best music composition at Isfahan Music Conservatory
1995, Winner of prize for best edit (montage) of fantasy musical film: “The Familiar Voice” at Iran Youth Cinema Nation-wide Festival.
2019, Winner of prize for best author of music book: Melodic Structure in Iranian Music, awarded by Iranian National Music House.

Bibliography
 2023 Good Research versus Ethical Participation at Muslim Women's Ceremonies in Iran, in the Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology Publisher: Routledge.  link to Good Research versus Ethical Participation
 2022 Ethnomusicology Lines of Investigation [Persian Version], Published by Nashr-e Ney, Tehran, Iran  [Persian]. link to table of contents
 2019 Music Tourism: A Strategy for Sustainable Urban and Rural Development in Iran [Persian Version], Published by Nashr-e Markaz, Tehran, Iran  [Persian]. Music Tourism
 2017 Third Edition of Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music, published by University of Arts, Iran  [English].https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322329754_Rhythmic_structure_in_Iranian_music_3rd_Edition
 2017 Melodic Structure in Iranian Music [Persian Version], Published by Nashr-e Markaz, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2017 The Basics of Melody Creation in Composition, Published by Nashr-e Markaz, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2016 The Arts (Official Book of Grade 10, Secondary Schools in Iran), Published by the Iranian Ministry of Education, Curriculum and Textbook Developments Office, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2016 Music in Islamic Philosophy and Theosophy, A Short Introduction, Published by Nashr-e Markaz, Tehran, Iran   [Persian].
 2016 Arts and Ethics, Published by Soureh Mehr, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2014 General Knowledge of Music: An Insight into Iranian Music Theory, Dastgah System, Musical Instruments and Music History, Published by Nashre Ney, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2013 Theoretical and Practical Bases of Film Music: An Essay on Film Music in the World of Islam, Published by Soroush Mehr, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2011 Second Edition of Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music, published by University of Arts, Iran  (9789646218475) [English].
 2011 Epic and Music, published by Iranian Institute for Research of Culture, Art and Communications, Tehran, Iran  [Persian].
 2006 The Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music (402 pages, published by University of Arts, Iran)  (9789646218475) [English].
 1996 General Training in Iranian Music , [Persian].
 1992 Specialised Textbook for Concours in Arts (Entrance University Exams), Published by Jahad Daneshgahi Publications [Persian].
 1992 The 3000 Test of Art Concours, Published by Jahad Daneshgahi Publications [Persian]

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1969 births
Living people
Iranian ethnomusicologists
Santur players


title: Brownlee, Nebraska

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Brownlee is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 15. It is located on the North Loup River,  west of U.S. Route 83 in the Sandhills region of the state.

History
Brownlee was given the maiden name of the founder's grandmother.

Demographics

References

Census-designated places in Nebraska
Census-designated places in Cherry County, Nebraska


title: Francis Parry

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Francis Parry F.R.G.S. was a British businessman in China and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Parry was a member of the Birley & Co. He was elected as Trustees for the Year 1865–66, 1866–67, 1867–68 by the Seatholders of the St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong. He was appointed member of the Legislative Council vice Hugh Bold Gibb's absence on leave in July 1867.

He married Jane, widow of Rev. James Gwynne, Rector of Cork, and daughter of the late Charles Osburn, Fareham, Hampshire.

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title: Hi! School: Love On

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Hi! School: Love On () is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kim Sae-ron, Nam Woo-hyun and Lee Sung-yeol of the band Infinite. It aired on KBS2 from July 11 to December 19, 2014 on Fridays at 20:55 for 20 episodes.

Hi! School: Love On is a teen fantasy romance series about an angel who has no choice but to become a human after unintentionally saving a male student in danger. The now-mortal angel then interacts with teenage high school students and learns about love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

Plot
Sung-yeol and Woo-hyun are two 18-year-old boys who are both tormented by the emotional scars of broken families; Woo-hyun longs to see again his mother who left him as a child, while Sung-yeol lives with a stepmother that he detests and whom he blames for the break up of his parents' marriage. Both are considered asocial by Korean norms, although popular, brave and public spirited Woo-hyun drifts through school refusing to apply himself to his studies; Sung-yeol is studious and does well academically but is dismissive and disrespectful of his parents, aloof and detached from his classmates, appearing cold and arrogant to all. The lives of the two crash together when an angel falls from heaven.

Woo-hyun's classmate, Kim Jin-young, harbours a crush for him. Fearing for her daughter's grades from her infatuation with a slacker, Jin-young's mother arrives in class and warns Woo-hyun to stay away from her daughter, publicly humiliating her. Unable to deal with her overbearing mother Jin-young prepares to jump from the roof of the school building, where Woo-hyun finds her.

Going about their business invisible to mortals are angels who guide the souls of the dead to the next life, one such nameless angel spends her time in between clients watching Korean soap operas and watching over the lives of mortals, including Woo-hyun and Sung-yeol. For this, she is chided for by a senior angel, "for its always the same story told over and over again just with different people." However the angel believes that by watching she can come to understand what it is to be human, and how mortals can love when the outcome will always be parting, and how they can live if death is all that waits.

Each angel is guided by a black book that contains the name of the soon to be deceased. The female angel arrives on the school rooftop to find Woo-hyun and Jin-young standing on the ledge. There is an unexpected thunderstorm and the name and picture of the soul to be collected oscillates between Woo-hyun and Jin-young as if it cannot decide who is to die. The angel drops her book and in the moment that she takes to recover it Woo-hyun pushes Jin-young to safety but over-balances and falls to the ground; instinctively the angel uses her powers to save his life, however they both pass out as they crash into the bonnet of a car.

Woo-hyun and the angel wake up in hospital, Woo-hyun is surprised that he is unscathed but the angel is shocked, when she realises that Woo-hyun can see her, that he can touch her, that she can feel the ground with her toes, that she has a heartbeat, and that she is in fact now mortal.

Believing her to be suffering from amnesia due to his landing on top of her Woo-hyun takes the angel to the local police station, where under questioning she stumbles on the name Yi Seul-bi. Pressed she randomly selected syllables from magazines in the police station, from which the policeman (Sung-yeol's father, Hwang Woo-jin) puzzled out a name that made sense. Woo-hyun is about to leave the newly named Seul-bi to the care of the police when Jin-young's mother arrives (with Woo-hyun's form tutor and grandmother in tow) threatening to sue Woo-hyun for trying to entice her daughter into a suicide pact, and with trumped up accusations of violence and bullying. Being well disposed to Woo-hyun from an earlier encounter, Hwang Woo-jin refuses to entertain the charges. Woo-hyun is about to leave Seul-bi to the care of the police, when his grandmother insists that they take her in as he owes her his life.

Seul-bi moves in with Woo-hyun and his grandmother, working part-time in their rice cake restaurant. Forgetting that she is now mortal Seul-bi is fearless in the face of injustice, authority and things she sees as wrong, traits that Woo-hyun appreciates and the two make themselves responsible for each other's well-being and happiness. Woo-hyun is forced by Jin-young's mother to transfer to a new school, the same school that Sung-yeol attends and the two become both rivals and allies. Curious about high school, and emotionally attached to Woo-hyun, Seul-bi decides to join him in school, where Sung-yeol also falls for her.

Seul-bi gets her wish of knowing humanity better, in high school learning firsthand the joys and sorrows of being a normal teenager, but she must also face a test unknown to any teenager nor angel, for on the day that she became mortal, the soul she should have led into the next life was Woo-hyun's.

Cast

Main characters
 Nam Woo-hyun as Shin Woo-hyun, an 18-year-old high school student who is aware about his good looks but is failing academically.
 Kim Sae-ron as Lee Seul-bi, originally an ageless, nameless, angel who becomes human. After she becomes human, she struggles to adjust to her new life.
 Lee Sung-yeol as Hwang Sung-yeol, an 18-year-old high school student, a loner, and #1 student in the high school.
 Choi Su-rin as Ahn Ji-hye, a high school ethics/civics teacher, stepmother of Sung-yeol and biological mother of Woo-hyun. She had left Woo-hyun with his grandmother when he was very young.
 Jung Jae-soon as Gong Mal-sook, Woo-hyun's paternal grandmother, who raised him due to his abandonment by his mother
 Cho Yeon-woo as Hwang Woo-jin, policeman, the father of Sung-yeol.

Supporting characters

Students of Grade 11 Class 3
  as Kang Ki-soo (18), Woo-hyun's best friend. Works many part-time jobs to help his family.
Kim Young-jae as Choi Jae-suk (18). School bully. His father abuses him, causing him to act the way he does at school due to his loneliness. He has a crush on Da-yool.
Kim Min-young as Na Young-eun (18). Likes Sung-yeol and Kang Ki-soo. Ye-na's best friend.
Na Hae-ryeong as Lee Ye-na (18). Likes Woo-hyun, Seul-bi's rival. She often bullied Seul-bi to get her away from Woo-hyun. But this often backfired on her since Seul-bi would never know what's going on and undermine the situation. She is best friends with Young-eun.
  as Lee Da-yool (18). She dreams of being a singer. but since she has no money, she goes to clubs to find people who can get her closer to her dream.
Kim Min-seok as Park Byung-wook (18), Jae-suk's lackey. He eventually leaves the group when Jae-seok starts bullying Seul-bi, not because he likes her, but he doesn't like to bully girls and children.
Baek Seung-heon as Yang Tae-ho (18), Jae-seok's lackey - solo. Likes Joo-ah and always get her the newest novels to get her attention.
Jung Yoo-min as Kim Joo-ah (18), class vice-president. Has feelings for Tae-ho, but never showed them until Tae-ho's father got admitted into the hospital. Her father abused her when she was young. She works many jobs to stay afloat. She is friends with Seul-bi.
Changjae as Lee Suk-hoon (18), class president
Lee Si-hoo as Go Chun-sik (18), a coward bullied by Jae-suk's gang but stands up for himself later. In earlier episodes, some said that he may have romantic feelings for Woo-hyun, but the drama between the two did not develop any further.
Song Ji-ho as Seo Yo-han (18), became substitute for Chun-sik for being bullied by Jae-suk's gang.

High school teachers
Kim Kwang-sik as Kim Kwang-sik, music teacher
Han Soo-young as Choi So-jin
--- as Park Han-gil
Lee Jun-hyeok as Ha Dong-geun, P.E. teacher
Choi Sung-kook as first angel to become human
Fabien Yoon as Phillip, literature teacher
 Lee Chang-joo as Chun Byung-chul, senior angel, an angel and friend of Seul-bi who tries to help her become an angel again. It is hinted throughout the series that he has feelings for Seul-bi.

Extended cast
Baek Soo-hee as Eun-bi
--- as Lee Yoo-jung
Kang Sung Ah as Han Jung-min
--- as Kim Yoon-hee
--- as Detective Park
--- as Woo-hyun's former homeroom teacher
Choa as Kim Jin-young, who has a crush on Woo-hyun, which causes her mother, a school trustee, to have Woo-hyun transferred to another school
Kim Ye-boon as Choi Sung-gook, Jin-young's mother

Original soundtrack

Ratings

Note
  Episode 3 was preempted because of K League All-Star Game.
  Episode 8 was preempted because of a baseball game.
  Episode 9 was preempted due to the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games
  Episode 17 was preempted because of the Grand Bell Awards

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title: Terry Alexander (baseball)

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Terry Alexander (born April 15, 1955 in Marietta, Georgia) is the current hitting coach of the Bristol Pirates and previously served as head coach of Jacksonville University's baseball team from 1991 to 2013. He was the school's most successful and longest-tenured head coach, compiling a record of 713-590-2 record in 22 seasons.

He served as assistant coach of Jacksonville University from 1980 to 1990. In 2002, he was assistant coach for the USA national baseball team, which won Haarlem Baseball Week and won silver at the World University Baseball Championship.

He signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Florida State University in 1978, but did not play at that level due to a back injury.

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title: Arabia, Nebraska

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Arabia is an unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established at Arabia in 1883, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1919. The soil at Arabia was thought to resemble the sandy soil of the Arabian Peninsula, hence the name.

References

Populated places in Cherry County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Agouti (disambiguation)

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Agouti are several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta.

Agouti may also refer to:

Biology

Rodents
 Tailed agouti or acouchi, a member of the genus Myoprocta
 Paca, a member of the genus Cuniculus, formerly Agouti

Other
 Agouti (coloration), fur coloration in which each hair has alternating dark and light bands
 Agouti signalling peptide, a circulating hormone produced by the Agouti gene that acts like an antagonist at melanocortin receptors
 Agouti-related peptide, a neuropeptide produced in the brain by the AgRP/NPY neuron

Other uses
 Agouti (engineering), a propeller cavitation noise reduction system

See also
 Agouta or Hispaniolan solenodon, a solenodon
 Aguti

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Daimler AG v. Bauman

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Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117 (2014), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court answered whether an American court may exercise jurisdiction over a foreign company based on the fact that a subsidiary of the company acts on its behalf in the jurisdictional state. The court held that an American company cannot be sued for conduct occurring outside the United States and American courts do not have jurisdiction of such a claim.

Background
Daimler Aktiengesellschaft is an automotive manufacturer based in Stuttgart, Germany, that owns Mercedes-Benz and its subsidiaries around the world, including in the United States and Argentina. During the Dirty War in Argentina, a labor dispute developed at the Mercedes-Benz plant in González Catán. Mercedes-Benz reported the labor leaders as "subversives" to the right-wing military junta, had junta forces stationed within the factory, and allowed the junta to conduct raids on workers. During the dispute, twenty-two labor leaders were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. Afterwards, the police chief responsible for the "disappearances" was hired as Mercedes-Benz Argentina's chief of security and the company provided his legal defense against human rights abuse accusations.

Twenty years later, Mercedes-Benz's role in Argentina's Dirty War came to the attention of the German media. DaimlerChrysler AG responded to the accusations against its subsidiary by hiring Professor Christian Tomuschat to conduct an investigation.  His exculpatory findings were criticized by Amnesty International.

In 2004, the survivors sued DaimlerChrysler AG in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that its subsidiary's activities during Argentina's Dirty War gave rise to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, the Torture Victim Protection Act, and California state tort law. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte dismissed the suit for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that, under the law of agency, DaimlerChrysler's wholly owned subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA is not an agent of its owner, and that it would be unreasonable to exercise jurisdiction directly over DaimlerChrysler. Plaintiffs appealed.

Before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Senior Circuit Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson, joined by Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder, affirmed, with Judge Stephen Reinhardt dissenting. Plaintiffs petitioned for a rehearing and, nine months later, the court granted the rehearing, vacated its earlier opinion and scheduled the case for reargument.

However, the court then cancelled the reargument and instead released a new opinion, authored by Judge Reinhardt, that came to the opposite of its earlier conclusion. The three-judge panel unanimously reversed the district court, finding that Mercedes-Benz USA was indeed an agent of DaimlerChrysler and that the exercise of personal jurisdiction over DaimlerChrysler was reasonable "under the circumstances of this case". The Ninth Circuit then denied DaimlerChrysler's petition for a rehearing en banc, with Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain authoring a dissent joined by seven other judges.

DaimlerChrysler (by then renamed Daimler AG) petitioned for a writ of certiorari from the United States Supreme Court and the petition was granted. The case was argued on October 15, 2013, with Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler appearing as a friend in support of Daimler.

Opinion of the Court
The Supreme Court unanimously reversed, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for the Court, "Exercises of personal jurisdiction so exorbitant, we hold, are barred by due process constraints."  Justice Ginsburg, in an opinion joined by seven other justices, begins by tracing the jurisprudential history of in personam jurisdiction, beginning with the rigid territorial limits of Pennoyer v. Neff (1878). The Court saw International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945) as later recognizing the distinction between specific jurisdiction, which includes only the specific conduct that connects the defendant to the territory, and general jurisdiction, which includes all the defendant's acts anywhere, and Ginsburg ends the history with her recent admonition to exercise general jurisdiction only when the defendant is “essentially at home” in the forum in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown (2011).

The Court finds that "in no event" can Reinhardt's agency theory be sustained. Noting that even the plaintiffs' brief had distanced itself from Reinhardt's logic, the Court largely adopts the criticisms of the Ninth Circuit judges dissenting from the denial of an en banc rehearing. The Court even goes so far as to emphasize that Reinhardt's formulation "stacks the deck" and would always have the same result of exercising jurisdiction.

The Court then goes further, writing, "Even if we were to assume that MBUSA is at home in California, and further to assume MBUSA's contacts are imputable to Daimler, there would still be no basis to subject Daimler to general jurisdiction in California." Daimler could not be subject to general jurisdiction in California because its agent's activity in California would merely establish specific jurisdiction in California.  Justice Ginsburg rejects Justice Sotomayor's assertion that the Court had chosen to decide an issue not argued below, writing, "the question fairly encompasses an inquiry" into the agency relationship.  The Court then implies that a corporation can only be "at home" and subject to general jurisdiction where it is incorporated or where it has its principal place of business.

Lastly, the Court notes that recent cases have rendered federal claims for human rights violations "infirm". Furthermore, the Court gives weight to the Solicitor General's suggestion that "international rapport" may be damaged when U.S. courts hear foreign corporations' foreign misdeeds.

Concurrence in the judgment
Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred in judgment only.  Sotomayor agreed that Reinhardt's opinion is clearly in error, and suggests that personal jurisdiction is simply unreasonable because Germany has a far greater interest in resolving the dispute.  Sotomayor considered the Court's opinion wrong in “both process and substance.”  Procedurally, Sotomayor argued that Ginsburg strayed beyond the question briefed by assuming Mercedes Benz USA's agency relationship in the absence of an adequate factual record below.  Substantively, Sotomayor argued that effectively limiting general jurisdiction to the principal place of business inherently favors larger businesses, making multinational corporations “too big for general jurisdiction”.

This, in her view, created manifold injustices.  It is unjust by using the Constitution to limit the states' sovereign prerogative over the exercise of their courts’ jurisdiction. It is unjust to small businesses in that they will be subject to instate general jurisdiction while their multinational competitors will not.  It is unjust to individuals because when visiting a state a natural person can be served with process and become subject to general jurisdiction while a fictional person cannot, even if that fictional person is a multinational corporation who has permanent employees in the state.  Finally, Sotomayor views the Court's singular approach unjust because the result of limiting general jurisdiction is to shut the courthouse door, inevitably benefiting wrongdoers at the cost of those they have wronged.

Reaction
During an interview Linda Greenhouse asked Justice Sotomayor about her concurrence in the judgment, noting that "you did not pull your punches", to which the justice replied "bad facts make bad law" and that she felt she needed to bring attention to "the dangers of the path the Court is on."

Scholars concluded that the Court's opinion "constitutes a radical departure from settled law," and that "the Court has severely constrained the reach of general jurisdiction in a way that would have been surprising just four years ago."  At a symposium on the case, academics pronounced the "end of an era," encouraged a return to the International Shoe standard, or identified the need for new legislation.

In its 2017 decisions in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its adherence to the jurisdictional limitations recognized in Daimler.

References

External links

 SCOTUSblog case page
 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc Roundtable case preview

2014 in United States case law
United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court
United States Supreme Court cases
United States personal jurisdiction case law
Mercedes-Benz Group


The 1999 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place February 25–27, 1999, at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. For the first time in their school history, the Winthrop Eagles won the tournament, led by head coach Gregg Marshall.

Format
All six teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Asheville Civic Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. Elon and High Point were making their transition to the league during the season, and were not yet included as full members.

Bracket

Source

All-Tournament Team
Greg Lewis, Winthrop
Tyson Waterman, Winthrop
Leslie Ballard, Radford
Kevin Martin, UNC Asheville
Adam Larrick, Charleston Southern

References

Tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament


title: Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming

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Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming is an action role-playing game developed by Opus and published by Marvelous. It is the sequel to Half-Minute Hero. It was first released in Japan for the PlayStation Portable before being localized in English for Windows in 2014.

Gameplay

Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming's single player mode features 5 separate episodes, each of which is unlocked after completing the previous episode. Each episode takes place hundreds of years after the previous one, and they all feature the same type of gameplay as the Hero 30 game mode in Half-Minute Hero.

Due to the various bosses in the game being able to cast a spell that kills the main character in 30 seconds, each hero is forced to make a contract with the Time Goddess that lets the player rewind time in exchange for increasing amounts of gold. The player must fight against the clock to defeat the boss as quickly as possible while completing various other objectives.

The episodes of the game are called "Overture", "Judgement", "Revolution", "Ragnarok" and "Destiny".

Plot
The plot of the game is largely comedic in nature, and parodies many classic RPG and anime series. The story begins when the special operations soldier Yusha is called upon to eliminate the remnant Evil Lords alongside a group including the swordsman Yashu. When this is complete, he is ordered by Queen Maria to slay 8 elemental dragons who are supposedly trying to destroy the world. However, it turns out that the queen is an impostor and Yusha accidentally opens the gate to the demon world by killing the dragons who had sealed it.

Yusha is imprisoned for supposedly murdering the queen, and Yashu turns against him, seeking dark powers and becoming immortal. Yusha manages to break out of prison and defeat the evil fiends. After a time skip of centuries, the story switches to Yushia, a young princess whose country is attacked by an evil Empire. With the help of her friends, she is able to defeat the emperor and return peace to the land.

After another time skip, it is revealed that "Gods" descended from on high to destroy the world due to the coexistence of humans and demons, which they found unacceptable. The rough and tumble Yuja, dubbed the "Godslayer", teams up with the blind songstress Coo to destroy the Gods and free humanity. Ultimately, the Gods are defeated by Yuja, but the Time Goddess suddenly goes insane due to the imbalance of the Timestream, becoming the evil Black Goddess. Yuja fights through time to stop her, and Coo sacrifices herself to bring her back to normal.

Finally, the Time Goddess realizes someone is pulling the strings to make sure the world is always faced by evil, ensuring balance between good and evil. The heroes from all past ages ascend to the heavens with the Goddess' help, and fight the forces of Fate, an entity who maintains the Timestream. Fate is destroyed,  allowing the various races to live by their own rules.

Development
Marvelous decided to localize Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming due to the commercial success of the first game on Steam. The localizers tried to match the same style as the translation of the first game done by Xseed. Due to the extreme character limits of the game, text was forced to be concise. The game was ported from PSP in a week.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the game features an even larger cast of composers than the previous game. They include Hideki Asanaka, Motoi Sakuraba, Kumi Tanioka, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kenji Ito, Tetsuya Shibata, Yoshitaka Hirota, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yui Isshiki, Masaharu Iwata, Masashi Hamauzu, Manabu Namiki, Yoko Shimomura, Michiko Naruke, Yasuo Yamate, Takushi Hiyamuta, Maiko Iuchi, Takaaki Nakahashi, Yasumasa Yamada, Yoshino Aoki, Toshikazu Tanaka, Takeshi Toriumi, Tomonori Arai, and Takashi Jinno.

Reception
Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming received generally favorable reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Notes

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Action role-playing video games
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PlayStation Portable games
Windows games
2011 video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Video games scored by Kenji Ito
Video games scored by Kumi Tanioka
Video games scored by Manabu Namiki
Video games scored by Masaharu Iwata
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title: James Banks Taylor

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James Banks Taylor (31 January 1834 – 31 January 1884) was a Scottish businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Taylor was born in Tranent, a small town near Edinburgh. He entered the firm of Smith, Archer & Co. in Hong Kong in 1861 and was admitted a partner of the firm in 1864. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1867 and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1868 vice Phineas Ryrie's absence on leave. He retired from the Smith, Archer & Co. in December 1871. He died on 31 January 1884 in New York.

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1834 births
1884 deaths
British expatriates in Hong Kong
Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
19th-century Scottish businesspeople