title: Magabala Books

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Magabala Books is an Indigenous publishing house based in Broome, Western Australia.

It started in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The name Magabala is a Yawuru, Karrajari and Nyulnyul word for the bush banana. In 1990, Magabala Books became an independent Aboriginal corporation. Magabala's stated objective is "restoring, preserving and maintaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures".

Many prominent Australian Indigenous authors have been published with Magabala Books, including Anita Heiss, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jimmy Pike, Alexis Wright, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jack Davis, Bill Neidjie, Stephen Hagan, Jack Davis, Jimmy Chi and Bruce Pascoe.

The literature ranges from Aboriginal lore, children's books, various picture books, as well as oral history of indigenous culture.

Magabala Books won the small publisher of the year award at the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards.

Magabala Fellowship
In August 2020 it launched a mid-career fellowship, valued at A$10,000, for First Nations writers who have had at least one book published.

Winners

 Tristan Michael Savage – 2020
 Sue McPherson – 2021
 Charmaine Papertalk Green – 2021
 Vivienne Cleven – 2022

See also

References

External links

Broome, Western Australia
Book publishing companies of Australia
Indigenous Australian mass media


title: Vandenberg Launch Emplacement 8

text:
The Launch Emplacement 8 (LE-8) is a former United States Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States.

References

Bibliography

External links

Vandenberg Space Force Base


title: Demir-Kapu

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Demir-Kapu (, ) is the second highest mountain in Crimea. Its height stands 1540 meters above sea level.

References

 Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.

Crimean Mountains
One-thousanders of Ukraine


title: Hirota (surname)

text:
Hirota (written: 廣田, 広田, 弘田 or 弘太) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aika Hirota (born 1999), Japanese idol singer (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku)
Dennis Hirota (born 1946), American Buddhist
, Japanese politician
, Japanese trampoline gymnast
, Japanese diplomat, politician and 32nd Prime Minister of Japan
, Japanese voice actor
, Japanese singer
, Japanese mixed martial artist
, Japanese actress
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese composer
Saeko Hirota, Japanese table tennis player
, Japanese golfer
Sayaka Hirota (廣田 彩花, born 1994), Japanese badminton player
, Japanese painter
Tomokazu Hirota (born 1976), Japanese drifter
, Japanese video game composer

Japanese-language surnames


title: Reynir Grétarsson

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Reynir F. Grétarsson (born 29 December 1972) is an Icelandic entrepreneur, philanthropist, Icelandic map collector and author of "About Mapping Iceland" Founder and former CEO and current chairman of the Board of Creditinfo Group, a multinational credit bureau and risk management company. Reynir was selected entrepreneur of the year in Iceland in 2008.[14]

Early life

Reynir was born in Blönduós in 1972 to father Grétar Guðmundsson and mother Ingunn Gísladóttir. After graduating from Menntaskólinn á Akureyri in 1992 he was admitted to the University of Iceland and became a law graduate in 1997, after which graduating with a master's degree in law.

Career

Reynir was a co-founder of Lánstraust hf., the predecessor of Creditinfo Group, in 1997. He co-founded a few other companies, with operations in IT and in real estate. He served as a board member for several companies. Reynir has participated in establishing and/or building up Credit Bureaus in approximately 30 countries. He was selected entrepreneur of the year in Iceland in 2008.

In 2018, Reynir co-funded two new companies, Two Birds (fintech) and Svartigaldur (online marketing).

Personal life

Reynir has one son, Grétar, and two daughters, Salma Björk and Hildur Ösp. He lives in Reykjavik. Reynir graduated from the University of Iceland in 2014 with a BA degree in Anthropology. In 2013, he earned a diploma in International Development. Additionally, Reynir is a qualified lawyer with a Master of Laws(LL.M.) degree issued by the University of Iceland in 1997.

References

1972 births
Reynir Gretarsson
Reynir Gretarsson
Living people
Reynir Gretarsson
Reynir Gretarsson
Reynir Gretarsson
Reynir Gretarsson


title: G.R.L. (EP)

text:
G.R.L. is the debut extended play (EP) by American girl group G.R.L., released on July 29, 2014 by Kemosabe Records and RCA Records.

Background
In an interview with PopCrush, the group stated that they are working with Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cirkut, Darkchild, and Lukas Hilbert for a new album, which is set to release in 2014.

Promotion
Prior to the release of their EP, the group began a monthlong promotional tour on September 10, 2013, in Brooklyn, New York, partnered with Claire's and Westfield Malls meeting fans, visiting radio stations, and performing at select locations.

On March 14, 2014, the group performed at the iTunes Festival at SXSW, opening for Zedd and Pitbull. They performed the songs "Girls Are Always Right", "Show Me What You Got", "Vacation", "Rewind", and "Ugly Heart".

Singles
"Ugly Heart" was released as the lead single on June 3, 2014. It was sent to mainstream radio on June 24, 2014. The music video was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero. It premiered on July 1, 2014.

Promotional singles
"Show Me What You Got" was released as the first promotional single on February 18, 2014. It is also part of the compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 49.

Track listing

References

2014 debut EPs
RCA Records EPs


title: Giulia Civita Franceschi

text:
Giulia Civita Franceschi (Naples, 1870 – 27 October 1957) was an Italian educator. She directed from 1913 to 1923 kindergarten ship Caracciolo where 750 scugnizzi (underclass Neapolitan street children) were rescued and educated with her own method, becoming "citizens".

Her experience, before being shut down by fascism, was studied worldwide, including a visit from a Japan state delegation in the twenties; she's also called "the Montessori of the sea".
An exhibition was opened on her story at the Sea Museum of Naples in 2009.

The Caracciolo was a corvette built in 1869 and donated by the Italian navy in 1913.

References

Child refugees
19th-century Neapolitan people
20th-century Italian educators
1870 births
1957 deaths


title: Ramón Marrero Aristy

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Ramón Marrero Aristy Beltré (14 June 1912 – 17 July 1959) was a Dominican author, journalist, politician and historian. He is renowned as a writer of realist novels, especially those set around sugar-cane, and highlighted the abuse to which sugar industry workers were subject. On July 17, 1959, he was assassinated on orders of generalissimo Rafael Trujillo.

Early life and education
Ramón Marrero Aristy Beltré was born in the town of San Rafael del Yuma, La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic to Juan Bautista Aristy Marrero and Olivia Beltré on 14 June 1912. His family was quite affluent and so he spent his early years living a comfortable life in the countryside; however, due to the American Occupation of the Dominican Republic from 1916-1924 he went into exile with his parents. His years in exile were spent in: Colombia, Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles. Finally in 1922 he returned along with his parents to the Dominican Republic.

Upon their return the Aristy family were unable to once again establish themselves in their lands in the east of the country; instead they settled in the south western part of the country. Up till the year 1929 the Aristy family was lived in their south western holdings and went through rough times attempting to rebuild their destroyed fortune. Nevertheless, Ramón Marrero Aristy was able to find time for his education.

In 1928, at age 16 Marrero Aristy was a correspondent for two Dominican newspapers: 'El Diario' (Santiago de los Caballeros and 'El Nuevo Diario' (Santo Domingo) in addition to working at a laundry.

The remaining part of his adolescence was spent in the Eastern town of La Romana where he continued his education and worked at the Central Romana Corporation's food warehouse. While working at the warehouse he was a first-hand witness to the abuses the predominantly Haitian sugar labourers were subjected to.

He left the Central Romana's warehouse and moved to the capital, Santo Domingo where he graduated from secondary school and entered the University of Santo Domingo (now Autonomous University of Santo Domingo) pursuing a degree in journalism. He left the university without graduating but became a frequent writer in nationwide newspapers such as: Listín Diario, El Caribe and La Nación.

Literary career
Three years after moving to Santo Domingo, in 1938 Marrero Aristy published his first book, Balsié. One year later, he published the novel Over in which he detailed what he had witnessed while working at the Central Romana warehouse, especially how the sugar labourers were forced to over-pay for their food products (hence the title.)

Political career

In his youth, he became interested in socialism. He wrote for many newspapers including Listín Diario, El Radical, El Novel, El Tiempo, La Actualidad, La Avispa, La Opinión, and La Nación, of which he was director as well as for the journal Babeque. Described as an underground marxist dissident, communist, and romantic marxist, he was involved in the few existing clandestine resistance groups left, up until the end of the 1930s, when he decided to serve in Trujillo’s regime in 1940, after Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle, another important dissident intellectual, accepted a position in the government. Marrero Aristy served in many important official positions thereafter.

In 1946 he won the trust of the dictator when he acted as mediator of the agreement signed between Trujillo and the Cuban and Dominican communists, which allowed certain civil liberties and the formation of the Popular Socialist Party. From this, Trujillo commissioned him in 1954 to write the official Dominican history.

He was a Deputy to the National Congress in the periods of 1948–1950 for Azua, from 1950 to 1952 for El Seibo and from 1954 to 1957 for Santo Domingo. He was Secretary of State for Labor from 1957 to 1959 and represented the Dominican Government in diplomatic missions. In 1957, as Secretary of Labor, he wrote a confidential report to Trujillo informing him of the exploitation of the coffee workers.

His last liberal performance, to which his murder is attributed, were the statements he offered to the journalist Tad Szulc, of the New York Times, denouncing the existing corruption in the government, provoking the wrath of the tyrant.

Death

He was assassinated on July 17, 1959, in the National Palace and transferred along with his assassinated driver, Luis Concepción, to the Cazabito hill, Constanza, to fake a car accident. Fue asesinado por Jhonny Abbes y no fue en el Palacio Nacional. Se le cruzo a Jhonny Abbes porque le desmanteló una oficina en Nueva York, dicha oficina de publicidad se dedicaba a pagar a periodistas que estaban a favor de la dictadura, Trujillo mando a Marrero para Nueva York para que investigará porque esa oficina le estaba costando tanto dinero al gobierno (Trujilo) en el informe que le llevo Marrero Trujillo, decía que esa oficina nunca había hecho contacto con los periodistas o periódicos es decir que Jhonny se estaba cogiendo el dinero. Mas luego Abbes se dio cuenta y lo persiguió hasta matarlo,  Marrero que iba para Constanza a ver periodistas Norte Americano querían ver la escena del bombardeo de la expedición del 14 de junio, camino a Constanza carretera de Cazabito donde Marrero fue asesinado. FUENTE del señor Luis Ruiz Trujillo íntimos amigo de Ramón Marrero Aristy.

Trujillo held him responsible for the content of an article published on July 12, 1959, in The New York Times, in which his government was accused of being corrupt. A week later, his body was found charred inside his car on a cliff on the Santo Domingo-Constanza highway. He died on July 17 at the age of 47.

References

1912 births
1959 deaths
20th-century Dominican Republic historians
Dominican Republic journalists
Male journalists
Dominican Republic male writers
Dominican Republic novelists
Dominican Republic politicians
Male novelists
20th-century male writers
20th-century journalists


title: Devi S.

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Devi S. is an Indian dubbing artist and actress who works in Malayalam films and television serials.

She became popular through the main character Kunjipengal she played in Oru Kudayum Kunju Pengalum, a serial on Doordarshan. She has dubbed for around 500 movies and acted in more than 25 movies. She received the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Narration / Voice Over in the Non Feature Film Category in 2014 for Nithya Kalyani – Oru Mohiniyattam Patham. Currently, she has dubbed for more than 100 television soap operas.

Personal life
She is married to Alwin, an engineer. The couple has a daughter, Aathmaja.

Awards

National Film Awards
 2014 - National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Narration / Voice Over  - Nithyakalyani oru Mohiniyatta padam
 Kerala State Film Awards
 2021-Best Dubbing Artist(Female)-Drishyam 2

Kerala State Television Awards
 2012 -Best Dubbing Artist(s)- Male/Female Voice  - Ramayanam, Swavinte Makal
 2009 -Best Dubbing Artist(s)- Male/Female Voice  - Aranazhikaneram
 1993 - Best Child Artist - Oru kudayum kunjupengalum

Kerala Film Critics Awards
 2010 - Best Dubbing Artist - Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram

Asianet Television Awards
 2013 - Best Dubbing Artist - Kumkumapoovu
 2014 - Best Dubbing Artist - Sthreedhanam
 2016 - Best Dubbing Artist - Sthreedhanam, Parasparam
 2017 - Best Dubbing Artist - Vanambadi, Parasparam, Bharya
2019-Best Dubbing Artist - Vanambadi, Kasthooriman
Youth Rathna Awards
 2011 - Best Dubbing - Traffic, Beautiful

Filmography

As actress

 Arayannangalude Veedu (2000)
 Kottaram Veettile Apputtan (1998)
 Aniyathi
 Saadaram (1996)
 Samooham (1993)
 Daivathinte Vikrithikal (1992)

As Dubbing artist

Television

As actress
 Annathe Naadakam
 Oru Kudayum Kunju Pengalum (DD)
 Velu Maalu Circus
 Mahathma Gandhi Colony

Other roles
 Flowers Oru Kodi - as Participant

As dubbing artist

References

Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Indian film actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian voice actresses
Actresses from Thiruvananthapuram
Indian television actresses
Actresses in Malayalam television
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Hindi television
Child actresses in Malayalam cinema


title: Plays Nat King Cole en Español

text:
Plays Nat King Cole en Español is an album by saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble with guest vocalist Daniel Melingo released on the Motéma label. The album was inspired by Nat King Cole's albums Cole Español (Capitol, 1958) and More Cole Español (Capitol, 1962).

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Plays Nat King Cole en Español is among the most imaginative and well-executed recordings in Murray's large catalog. He found something mercurial, graceful, and dignified in Cole's voice, and used it as inspiration to create a work that is respectful but utterly his own". The Guardian review by John Fordham awarded the album 3 stars noting "even by Murray's open standards, this is an unusual venture... It's a warm and very mellifluous album for Murray. These swaying songs glow with knowing life: the vivacious arrangements for strings and horns buoy up Murray's rich tenor sound, operating in a smoky Ben Websterish manner, without swamping it".

JazzTimes observed "His charts, which feel Latin but aren’t idiomatically so, strip the original iterations of syrup and cheese, balancing Murray’s ebullient ensemble dissonances with keen attention to melody". On All About Jazz, James Nadal said "Plays Nat King Cole en Español is wonderful music intended for dancing and romancing".

Track listing
 "El Bodeguero" (Richard Egües) – 9:20
 "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 6:07
 "Tres Palabras" (Farrés) – 8:28
 "Piel Canela" (Bobby Capó) – 7:11
 "No Me Platiques" (Vicente Garrido) – 8:04
 "Black Nat" (David Murray) – 6:43
 "Cachito" (Consuelo Velázquez) – 6:44
 "A Media Luz" (Carlos Cesar Lenzi, Edgardo Donato) – 6:23
 "Aqui Se Habla En Amor" (Jack Keller, Noel Sherman) – 7:49
 "El Choclo" (Ángel Villoldo) – 4:37
 "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" [Radio Edit] (Farrés) – 3:54

Personnel
David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, conductor, arranger
Daniel Melingo – vocals (tracks 2, 8, 10 & 11)
Juanjo Mosalini – bandoneón (track 11)
Roman Filiu Oreilly – alto saxophone
Ariel Briguez Ruiz – tenor saxophone
Mario Felix Hernandez Morrejon, Franck Mayea Pedroza – trumpet
Denis Cuni Rodriguez – trombone
Abraham Mansfarroll Rodriguez – congas
Jose "Pepe" Rivero, Reiner Elizarde Ruano – bass
Sinfonieta of Sines coordinated by Jose Avelino Castro Pinto
Rui Guimaraes, Joana Cipriano, Joao Andrade, Joana Dias, Maria Jose Laginha – violin
Joao Gaspar, Goncalo Ruivo – viola
Tiago Vila, Catarina Anacleto, Rita Ramos, Samual Santos – cello

References

2011 albums
Motéma Music albums
David Murray (saxophonist) albums


title: Institute of Food Security

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The Institute of Food Security, (acronym IFS), is a central civil service training institute formed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. The Institute acts as a hub of information, training and research activities related to food security in India. It is situated in the Food Corporation of India premises at Gurgaon, in Haryana state.

Profile
The Institute of Food Security was born in 1971 under the name, the Central Training Institute (CTI), as the controlling training centre of FCI for training category-I and II officers whereas the four zonal training institutes under the CTI, trained category-III employees. In 1997, CTI moved to its own building. In 2004, the mandate of the institute was expanded, the zonal institutes were abandoned and the institute was renamed as the Institute of Food Security, placing it as the in-house training centre of FCI for the entire spectrum of its employees.

The institute is engaged in imparting training, based on short term and long term courses, to the employees of FCI, to develop their skills on matters related to food security, management, computers and general operations of FCI. The training modules are designed as induction, probationary and in-service programs. As such, the institute performs as the human resource development wing of FCI. Is also takes care of training personnel of other institutions like Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), State Warehousing Corporation (SWCs), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), The Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd (HAFED) and The Haryana State Federation of Consumers’ Cooperative Wholesale Stores Ltd.(CONFED) as per requests from them and also organises seminars on food security.

Mandate
The institute is mandated to be responsible for the following:
 The Institute of Food Security as a centre of Human Resource Development of Food Corporation of India will provide a complete solution to the training needs for the Executives of the corporation.
 It will provide need based training to each executive up to the level of Dy. Manager at least once in every 3 years for enhancement of available knowledge and skill.
 The institute will strive for continuous improvement in its own function by making constant evaluation of its training standard parameters and taking timely corrective and preventive action.
 The institute will take up training / consultancy assignments on commercial basis for external clients with the target of increasing revenue generation by at least 15% each year and to be self-reliant in the long run future by out sourcing the infrastructure to other companies.

Facilities

Academic Area: The training activities of the institute is located at the Academic Area which houses two lecture halls and a modern conference hall. The halls are fitted with audio-visual systems, projectors and computer support.

Library: IFS Library is well stocked with over 5000 books as well as reports and publications of FCI and many other government departments. It also subscribes to 18 magazines and Journals.

Computer lab: The activity of the Computer Lab is twofold; imparting training on computers and related topics and maintenance and support of the information and communication requirements of the institute. IFS is networked on LAN and high speed internet connectivity is available to all users.

Quality Control lab: IFS maintains a quality control laboratory with modern equipment such as Ferinograph, Amylograph, IR-Protein Analyzer, Falling number apparatus and Alveograph which are used for high precision analysis of food grains. This laboratory is one of the most modern among FCI laboratories.

Hostel: IFS hostel is open to staff, trainees and guests and has boarding, lodging, hall, fitness and recreational facilities.

Courses
IFS has placed long term courses for managerial cadre of FCI on topics such as:
 Operations and General Management
 Finance and Account Management
 Quality Control
 Hindi Rajbasha and RTI Act
 Computer Orientation
 Workshop on Engineering Works

IFS also has regular short term courses for inductees, trainees and probationers.

Gallery

See also

 Agricultural economics
 Food price crisis
 Food rescue
 Food Security Bill, 2013 legislation in India
 Indian Famine Codes
 UN High-Level Conference on World Food Security (2008)
 List of think tanks in India

References

External links
 on Wikimapia
 Food Corporation of India web site

Food and drink in India
Think tanks based in India
Political and economic think tanks based in India
Food security
Education in Gurgaon
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare


title: Jane Scott

text:
Jane Scott may refer to:
Jane Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1929–2011), British peeress
Jane Scott (film producer), Australian film producer
Jane Scott, Baroness Scott of Bybrook (born 1947), British politician
Jane Scott (rock critic) (1919–2011), American rock critic
Jane Scott (theatre manager) (1779–1839), 19th century theater manager, actor, and playwright
Jane Scott, Countess of Dalkeith (1701–1729)
Jane Wooster Scott, American painter


title: Ledger, Montana

text:
Ledger is an unincorporated community in Pondera County, Montana, United States. Ledger is  northeast of Conrad. The community had a post office until December 17, 2005; it still has its own ZIP code, 59456.

The post office opened in 1916 under the name Esper. The name changed in 1917 to Ledgerwood in honor of local resident Dan Ledgerwood. Since North Dakota already had a Ledgerwood, some residents shortened the name to Ledger.

References

Unincorporated communities in Pondera County, Montana
Unincorporated communities in Montana


title: Marguerite Pindling

text:
Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling,  ( McKenzie; born 26 June 1932) served as the tenth governor-general of the Bahamas, from 8 July 2014 to 28 June 2019. She is the second female governor-general of the Bahamas after Dame Ivy Dumont.

She was married to Sir Lynden Pindling, the first Prime Minister of The Bahamas. The couple had four children.

Biography
Marguerite McKenzie was born to Reuben and Viola McKenzie in South Andros on 26 June 1932. She moved to Nassau in 1946 to live with her sister and attended the Western Senior School. She later became an assistant to photographer Stanley Toogood.

Soon after, she met Lynden Pindling, who would go on to become the first black Premier of the colony of the Bahama Islands (second Premier to Sir Roland Symonette) from 1967 to 1969, then the first and longest serving Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992. The couple married on 5 May 1956 and remained married until his death on 26 August 2000. The couple had four children: Obafemi Pindling, Leslie Pindling, Monique Johnson, and Michelle Sands.

She was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2014.

References

1932 births

21st-century Bahamian politicians
21st-century Bahamian women politicians
Dames Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Female governors-general
Governors-General of the Bahamas
Living people
People from Nassau, Bahamas
People from South Andros
Spouses of prime ministers of the Bahamas
Wives of knights


title: Edmund Manfred

text:
Edmund Cooper Manfred (5 June 1856 – 20 February 1941) often referred as E.C. Manfred was an English born Australian architect who was prominent for his works for designing well known and iconic buildings in Goulburn, New South Wales.

Early life
Manfred was born on 5 June 1856 in Kensington, London. He was the only child of Mr. Edward Manfred, who was an architect and surveyor. By 1870, Manfred and his widowed mother sailed to join their family in Sydney who had already settled in Manly. Manfred completed his education and undertook training as an architect.

Work
Manfred was a qualified architect who designed most iconic buildings and parks in Goulburn, including the town hall, the Goulburn Hospital, Belmore Park, and the St. John's Orphanage. As well as that, Manfred was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Historical Society of New South Wales.

Death
Manfred died on 20 February 1941 at the age of 84. He was survived by six sons, three who had  predeceased him. By the time of his death, he played a prominent role in the civic and business life of Goulburn for more than 60 years. A plaque was erected in the St Saviour's Cathedral to commemorate him, as he was associated with the building. The State Library of New South Wales opened a collection of Manfred's works in 2013, with the first exhibitions opened on 24 February.

Gallery
Below are some photographs of some notable works by Manfred:

References

1856 births
1941 deaths
People from Kensington
New South Wales architects
English emigrants to Australia


title: Itajahya hornseyi

text:
Itajahya hornseyi is a species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. Found in Australia, it was described as new to science in 1954 by British mycologist Clifford Gerald Hansford.

References

External links

Phallales
Fungi described in 1955
Fungi of Australia


title: Moon-sik

text:
Moon-sik, also spelled Moon-shik, Mun-sik, or Mun-shik, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 14 hanja with the reading "moon" and 16 hanja with the reading "sik" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:
Chae Mun-shik (채문식, 1925–2010), Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea (1983–1985)
Yoon Mun-sik (born 1945), South Korean actor
Lee Moon-sik (born 1967), South Korean actor
Choi Moon-sik (born 1971), South Korean footballer
Kim Moon-shik, represented South Korea in Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Individual eventing

Fictional characters with this name include:
Choi Moon-shik, from 2013 South Korean television series Who Are You?

See also
List of Korean given names

References

Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Império

text:
Império  (English: Empire) is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 21 July 2014, replacing Em Família and ended on 13 March 2015 replaced by Babilônia.

It was created by Aguinaldo Silva and starred Alexandre Nero, Lília Cabral, Leandra Leal, Caio Blat, Andreia Horta, Daniel Rocha, Nanda Costa, Ailton Graça, Zezé Polessa, Tato Gabus Mendes, Letícia Birkheuer, Maria Ribeiro, Klebber Toledo, Marina Ruy Barbosa, Rafael Cardoso, José Mayer, Marjorie Estiano and Drica Moraes.

Daily, the telenovela was watched by 30 million viewers per minute, number greater than NFL games on American television. Weekly, the accumulated number of viewers reached 100 million.

In November 2015, Império was awarded Best telenovela in the 43rd International Emmy Awards.

Synopsis

1st phase
The plot brings the male protagonist as rude heartthrob José Alfredo (Chay Suede), a boy who leaves Recife in 1989 to try life in Rio de Janeiro, and during stay in the house of his brother, Evaldo (Thiago Martins), if madly in love coined by itself, Eliane (Vanessa Giacomo), older than him. The lovers decide to flee the state capital to have a life together happily, without having more than live with the shadow of Evaldo. Each writes a letter telling what happened and combine to deliver the cuckolded husband, leaving it to him to read only when the two were already far away. Unfortunately the girl discovers to be pregnant, and Cora (Marjorie Estiano), sister Eliane poisons the girl against Jose Alfredo, who is also the brother of Josué (Alejandro Claveaux), leaving the boy to see ships in the road of this marvelous city.

Alone, José Alfredo part into the unknown and ends up being displayed in the middle of the journey, Sebastian (Reginaldo Faria), suggesting that the boy begins to work with the exploitation of precious stones. Sebastião José Alfredo then decides to take to Switzerland. On the plane, José Alfredo will meet Marta Maria (Adriana Birolli), one from traditional decadent young family, but he sees it as a chance to get your name known in high society and marries her. José Alfredo will also know the Portuguese businesswoman Maria Joaquina Braga (Regina Duarte), which will seep into the smuggling of precious stones market, means by which money appears easier and quicker than the slow and honest toil in their view . Because of the construction of its supposed empire, José Alfredo even be able to kill a man.

2nd phase

Years later, José Alfredo (Alexandre Nero) is separated from Maria Marta (Lilia Cabral), who devotes his life to demonize her ex-husband and the three children try to put to work in the Jewelry Empire project launched by José Alfredo, the millionaire left, in order that it may divert cash ex-husband, leave him bankrupt and feel vindicated. The three sons of the former couple are the cult jewelry designer Maria Clara (Andreia Horta), the ambitious José Pedro (Caio Blat), and the rebel João Lucas (Daniel Rocha). While all this happens, José Alfredo is dedicated to performing expeditions around the world and to meet with his mistress Maria Isis (Marina Ruy Barbosa), one of the interior northeast nymphets who dreams of being a model, but is designed by Mother Magnolia (Zezé Polessa) by father Severo (Tato Gabus Mendes) and brother Roberto (Romulo Neto) to take money from José Alfredo.

The fall of the empire of José Alfredo begins when a powerful pink diamond from South Africa, a symbol of status and power, disappeared on Mount Roraima. In his mystical vision, José Alfredo believes everything falls apart if he does not find your favorite gemstone and get rid of a shiny faux stayed in place. Compounding the ordeal of him, his sister's ex-lover, Cora (Drica Moraes), will reappear stating that Cristina (Leandra Leal) is his bastard daughter Eliane (Malu Galli). The scrappy girl camelódromo works in the center of Rio de Janeiro alone and creates little Victor (Adriano Alves), son of Tuane (Nanda Costa) and his brother Elivaldo (Rafael Losso). Tuane abandoned infant son with her ex-boyfriend and Cristina to go after a rich husband. An accident causes the death of two people and blamed for what happened, Elivaldo ends up being arrested. Meanwhile, Eliane gets sick and dies and debts in camelódromo only accumulate, to the despair of Cristina, who is pressured by Cora demanding their share in the inheritance of the biological father. José Alfredo, however, does not accept recognize her as a daughter, Cristina refuses to have any kind of relationship with the true family or fortune they have amassed. Marta Maria Cristina will do anything to keep away from her husband and her children, rivaling no less dangerous Cora.

Cristina is the girlfriend of simpleton lawyer Fernando (Erom Cordeiro), but their relationship is cold and loveless. Her heart stops beating stronger when she finds a love of childhood, honest Vicente (Rafael Cardoso), an excellent chef who starts working on the arrogant Enrico (Joaquim Lopes), fiancé of Maria Clara restaurant. Cristina Vicente never forgot, but the romance of the two will be setbacks obsessive jealousy of the young Fernando, which will haunt her after the breakup of the two, and also the strong interest that Maria Clara's sister Cristina, nourished by Vicente .

Enrico is the son of Claudius Bolgari (José Mayer), a renowned party organizer of Rio's high society, with quiet Beatriz (Suzy Rêgo). What nobody suspects is that Claudius is bisexual and keeps a secret romance with the passionate and naive Leonardo (Klebber Toledo), who suffers for failing to move up the career as an actor and not have their relationship recognized by Claudio. The two become infernizados by Teo Pereira (Paulo Betti), a journalist who had studied with Claudio affected in adolescence and is surprised to see him leading a heterosexual life, has always believed that his friend was gay. Teo owns a gossip blog about subcelebridades and will aim at exposing the inner life of Claudius for everyone, despite the strong homophobia Enrico shall demonstrate day after day, scaring his father.

Another prominent parallel plot involves Popular Juju (Cris Vianna), former Queen of battery of a samba school who abandoned his career to devote to family. But her husband, artist Orville (Paulo Rocha) is a dishonest forger who ends up having his schemes discovered early in the plot. With her husband in prison, Juju is forced to sell the house to pay their own attorney Carmen (Ana Carolina Dias), a temptress and evil character who cares about Orville and convinces him to abandon Juju to stick with it. When it gets out of jail, Orville goes to live in the former home of Juju side of Carmen, while the ex-queen battery is without a place to live with their young son. Already count|

Production

Zurich, Petrópolis and Carrancas (MG) served as locations for shooting scenes of the first phase of Império. The author of the telenovela, Aguinaldo Silva, had plans to acclimatise the telenovela in Serra Pelada. However, the station showed a series of the same name at the time, which made him change his mind. So Silva chose to use the Venezuelan part of Mount Roraima. However, since the film crews was denied, and filming ended occurring in the Brazilian part of the Mount.

Most critics specialized in television in Brazil considered "bold" the choice of the protagonist of the soap opera, Alexandre Nero. In an interview, Silva said the character was inspired by himself.

Cast

Reception

Ratings

Despite the positive impact, the first chapter of Império registered 32 points in São Paulo and 34 points in Rio de Janeiro, according to Ibope, the second worst debut of a 9PM telenovela in all time, besides Babilônia. However, TV Globo had 24,6 (4x) more points than SBT, the second most-watched station.

Despite the negative debut, the second chapter scored 35 points, with a peak of 37 and 56% share, registering a nine percent growth. Em Família, its predecessor, scored 29 points in his second chapter.

During the week of 27 October7 November 2014, an estimate predicted that the telenovela was watched by about 101.7 million people in this period, registering 30 million viewers per minute, number greater than is registered by the NFL games on American television, which tend to record about 18.1 million viewers per minute.

On 2 March 2015 registered 40 points in São Paulo for the first time. On Tuesday (3) registered 41.

The last chapter was attended by 9,108 million viewers in Greater São Paulo, acquiring an Ibope Rating of 46.0.

Controversy
Marjorie Estiano has returned to Cora's role in the 2nd phase because Drica Moraes got sick.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

2014 telenovelas
2014 Brazilian television series debuts
2015 Brazilian television series endings
TV Globo telenovelas
Brazilian LGBT-related television shows
Gay-related television shows
Portuguese-language telenovelas
Gemstones in fiction


title: Lothair, Montana

text:
Lothair is an unincorporated community in Liberty County, Montana, United States. Lothair is located on U.S. Route 2 and the Hi-Line,  west of Chester. The community had a post office until December 17, 2005; it still has its own ZIP code, 59461.

Originally a station on the Great Northern Railway, Lothair became a town in 1910.

References

Unincorporated communities in Liberty County, Montana
Unincorporated communities in Montana


title: Chila (Castilla)

text:
Chila is a mountain in the Chila mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is located in the Arequipa Region, Castilla Province, on the border of the districts of Chachas and Choco. Chila lies north of Chuqi Pirwa.

See also
 Q'asiri
 Sirani
 Yuraq Q'asa

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Arequipa Region


title: St. John Hospital (Hong Kong)

text:
St. John Hospital (SJH), is a community hospital at Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, provides primary, emergency and community health services to the community at Cheung Chau.

History
St. John’s Hospital was founded by the St. John Ambulance Association. The foundation stone of this Victorian-style construction was laid by the tycoon brothers Mr Aw Boon Haw and Mr Aw Boon Par in 1932. In November 1934, it was donated to the Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Association, and officially called St John Ambulance Association Haw Par Hospital after the names of the donors. In 1946, it was converted to a tuberculosis sanatorium. On 22 January 2010, it was confirmed as a Grade 3 historic building.

Facilities
As at March 2013, the hospital has 87 beds and 113 full-time equivalent staff.

The hospital provides services for about 12,000 residents of Cheung Chau. Those services include:
24-Hour Accident and Emergency Service
Specialties
Medicine
Chest
Maternal and Child Health
Family Planning
Others
Methadone Detoxification Clinic
Physiotherapy
X-ray
Occupational Therapy
Chaplaincy
Dietetic
Courtesy Transportation for Selected Patients

References

External links

 St. John Hospital - Hong Kong Hospital Authority

Hospitals in Hong Kong
Cheung Chau
Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong
1934 establishments in Hong Kong


title: Christian virtue

text:
Christian virtue may refer to:

 Seven virtues
 Theological virtues

See also

 Virtue
 Virtue ethics
 Cardinal virtues
 Christian ethics
 Christian values


title: 2015–16 Segunda División B

text:
The 2015–16 Segunda División B season was the 39th since its establishment. The first matches of the season were to be played in August 2015, and the season ended in June 2016 with the promotion play-off finals.

Overview before the season
80 teams will join the league, including four relegated from the 2014–15 Segunda División and 18 promoted from the 2014–15 Tercera División.

Relegated from Segunda División
Racing Santander
Recreativo
Sabadell
Barcelona B
Promoted from Tercera División

Algeciras
Arandina
Arenas Getxo
Atlético Levante
Ebro
Gernika
Izarra
Jumilla
Linares
Llosetense
Mensajero
Mérida
Pobla de Mafumet
Peña Sport
Pontevedra
Portugalete
Rayo Majadahonda
Talavera de la Reina

Groups

Group 1

Stadia and locations

League table

Results

Top goalscorers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Top goalkeepers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Group 2

Stadia and locations

League table

Results

Top goalscorers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Top goalkeepers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Group 3

Stadia and locations

League table

Results

Top goalscorers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Top goalkeepers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Group 4

Stadia and locations

League table

Results

Top goalscorers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Top goalkeepers
Last updated 15 May 2016

Attendance data
This is a list of attendance data of the teams that give an official number. It includes playoffs games:

Notes:
1: Team played last season in Segunda División.

See also
 2015–16 La Liga
 2015–16 Segunda División
 2015–16 Tercera División
 2015–16 Copa del Rey

References

External links
Royal Spanish Football Federation

2015-16
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Spa


title: 2015 Segunda División play-offs

text:
The 2015 Segunda División play-offs took place in June 2015 and has  determined the third team which will be promoted to the top division. Teams placed between 3rd and 6th position (excluding reserve teams) are taking part in the promotion play-offs.

The regulations are the same as the previous season: in the semifinals the fifth placed team faces the fourth, while the sixth placed team faces the third. In case of a draw, extra time  was played but there   was a penalty shoot-out; the winner will be the best positioned team. The first leg of the semi-finals was played on 10 and 11 June, and the second leg on 13 and 14 June at home of the best positioned team. The final will also be two-legged, with the first leg on 18 June and the second leg on 21 June, with the best positioned team also playing the second leg at home.

Road to the playoffs

League table

Girona
Girona qualified for the play-offs after failing to be automatically promoted in the final game of the season. The Catalans could not beat Lugo at Estadi Montilivi while Sporting Gijón beat Betis, to gain promotion. This will be the third time Girona has played this stage.

Las Palmas
Las Palmas assured the fourth position in the 41st game of the season. The Canarian team made a spectacular start finishing as leader in the first half of the season, but failed to gain automatic promotion after suffering several defeats. This will be its third consecutive promotion play-off.

Valladolid
As with Las Palmas, Real Valladolid assured its final position, fifth, in the 41st round. This is its first season in the Segunda División since its relegation in 2014.

Zaragoza
In its second season since its relegation from La Liga, Zaragoza clinched the sixth and last playoff spot in the last matchday. This will be its first performance at this stage.

Promotion play-offs

Semifinals

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First leg

Second leg

Final

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First leg

Second leg

References

External links
Segunda División at LFP website

2014-15
play-offs
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title: Hall, Montana

text:
Hall is an unincorporated community in Granite County, Montana, United States. Hall is located on Montana Highway 1,  west-southwest of Drummond. The community has a post office with ZIP code 59837.

Originally called Hall's Crossing, the Northern Pacific Railroad constructed a branch line across this land in 1877.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Granite County, Montana
Unincorporated communities in Montana


title: Chilcombe

text:
Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about  east of Bridport and  west of the county town, Dorchester. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10.

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Chilcombe was recorded as Ciltecome; it had 14 households, 3 ploughlands,  of meadow,  of pasture and one mill. It was in Uggescombe Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Brictwin the reeve.

The manor of Chilcombe together with the manor and rectory of Toller Fratrum formerly comprised an estate of the Knights Hospitaller, returned as the 'camera' of Chilcombe (camera meaning in this context an estate with no community and farmed out to a tenant) in 1338, when it was valued at £4 5s. 4d. and paid 30 marks into the Order's treasury at Clerkenwell Priory.

Parts of Chilcombe parish church — the south wall of the nave and probably also the chancel — date from the 12th century. The Tudor manor house was demolished in 1939.

References

External links

Hamlets in Dorset


title: Mitradev Mahanta

text:
Mitradev Mahanta (, 1894–1983) was a noted writer, dramatist, historical researcher, freedom fighter and actor from Assam. He won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He was the president of the Assam Sahitya Sabha in 1964 held at Digobi. He was born into Assamese at Letugram Xatra, Sarbaibandha at Jorhat, Assam on 13 June 1894.

Literary works
Published Assamese Books'''
 Laklou Lani (লেকলৌ লানি) - 1915
 Biya Biporjoy (বিয়া বিপৰ্যয়) - 1924
 Gyan Lohori (জ্ঞান লহৰী) - 1924
 Chandrahar (চন্দ্ৰহাৰ) - 1925
 Dhurba (ধ্ৰুৱ) - 1925
 Mou Mohabharat - 1925
 Mohan Bhog (মোহন ভোগ) - 1925 etc.
 Niboka Roja (নিবোকা ৰজা) - 1928

References

Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents
1894 births
Poets from Assam
People from Jorhat district
Assamese-language poets
1983 deaths
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
20th-century Indian poets
Dramatists and playwrights from Assam


title: José Alberto Recuero

text:
José Alberto Recuero García (born 3 May 1974 in Barcelona) is a retired amateur Spanish Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. He represented his nation Spain in two editions of the Olympic Games (1992 and 2004), and later capped his sporting career with a bronze medal in the 74-kg division at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería. Before his retirement from wrestling in 2006, Recuero trained full-time for Baron Viver Wrestling Club () in his native Barcelona under his coach Bernardo Martínez.

Recuero made his official debut, as an 18-year-old teen and a member of the host nation's wrestling team, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he competed in the men's welterweight category (74 kg). In the prelim pool, Recuero received a bye on the opening round, before losing out two straight matches each to Austria's Anton Marchl (3–1) and Yugoslavia's Željko Trajković (3–0).

Twelve years after his last Olympics, Recuero qualified for his second Spanish squad, as a 30-year-old veteran, in the men's 74 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he finished fourth at the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to guarantee his spot on the returning Spanish wrestling team after a 12-year hiatus. He lost his opening match 2–3 in overtime to Kazakhstan's Danil Khalimov, but bounced back to pin Georgian-born Israeli wrestler Yasha Manasherov within a three-minute span to close the prelim pool. Finishing second in the pool and ninth overall, Recuero's performance fell short to put him further into the quarterfinals.

When Spain hosted the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Sanchez ended his career medal drought by picking up a bronze medal in the 74-kg division, much to the delight of the home crowd inside Huércal de Almería Sports Hall.

Notes

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Spain
Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Spanish male sport wrestlers
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Barcelona
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
20th-century Spanish people
21st-century Spanish people


title: Nicolaes Grisz Grauwert

text:
Nicolaes Grisz Grauwert (1582 – 1658), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography
He was born in Haarlem as the son of Ariss Akersloot and Risje Laurensdr Grauwert, but he took on his mother's name. He was the brother of the silversmith and engraver Outgert Ariss Akersloot.
He married Ludwijntgen Ham on 20 January 1613. He was a magistrate of Haarlem who became a lieutenant in the local St. George militia and was portrayed along with the rest of the officers of his militia  in Frans Hals' painting The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639.

He died in Haarlem.

References

1582 births
1658 deaths
Frans Hals
People from Haarlem


title: Graphis caribica

text:
Graphis caribica is a species of lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Dominica, it was described as new to science in 2011. It has since been reported from the Philippines.

References

Lichens described in 2011
Lichen species
Lichens of Malesia
Lichens of the Caribbean
caribica
Taxa named by Robert Lücking


title: Strigocossus elephas

text:
Strigocossus elephas is a moth in the  family Cossidae. It is found in Malawi, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Eswatini and Uganda.

References

Zeuzerinae


title: Force (2014 film)

text:
Force is a Bengali action drama thriller film directed by Raja Chanda and produced under the banners of Essel Vision Productions and NIdeas Creations & Productions Pvt Ltd. The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee and Arpita Pal in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 2013 Tamil film Haridas.

Plot
Force is a new commercial Bengali movie, is based on the love and relationship of a father and a son. Arjun (Prosenjit Chatterjee) is an encounter specialist police officer whose goal is to eradicate both crime and criminals from the society. He lost his wife during the birth of his son, Abhimanyu. His son is an autistic patient and suffers from neurodevelopmental problems.

Cast
 Prosenjit Chatterjee—ACP Arjun/Encounter specialist
 Arpita Pal—Labanya, a school teacher
 Arya Dasgupta—Abhimanyu
 Joyjit Banerjee
 Debranjan Nag
 Sudipta Ballav, the main antagonist and leader of coal mafia gang, operated from Jharkhand
 Jayanta Hore
 Tathagata Mukherjee
 Ena Saha
 Kamaleshwar Mukherjee as Police Commissioner
 Sumit Ganguly as sports coach

Soundtrack

References

External links

2014 films
Bengali remakes of Tamil films
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
Films directed by Raja Chanda


title: Allographa cerradensis

text:
Allographa cerradensis is a species of lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Brazil, it was described as new to science in 2011 as Graphis cerradensis but in 2018 it was transferred to its current genus, Allographa.

References

Lichen species
Lichens described in 2011
Lichens of Brazil
Taxa named by Robert Lücking


title: Graphis itatiaiensis

text:
Graphis itatiaiensis is a species of lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Brazil, it was described as new to science in 2011.

References

Lichens described in 2011
Lichen species
Lichens of Brazil
itatiaiensis
Taxa named by Robert Lücking


title: Government Hnahthial College

text:
Government Hnahthial College is the only institute of higher education in Hnahthial, Hnahthial district of Mizoram, Northeast India. It was established in 1979 in Hnahthial. It became a government college under the Government of Mizoram in 1981.
Under governmental organisation of Mizoram, it operates as a branch of the Mizoram College Teachers' Association.

History
In the absence of higher education in Hnahthial, the college was started in 1979. Initially the college was established under the private management The College until 1981 was solely financed by the donations collected from the public. However, with the assistance of Government of Mizoram it was provincialized in 1981 as became fully fledged college under the Mizoram University. The College was given permission to open classes up to Pre-university level on 10 August 1981 by the Government of Mizoram and was upgraded to the Deficit-in-Aid status with effect from 1 July 1988. The North Eastern Hill University granted an affiliation for both Pre-University and degree courses respectively on 19 November 1982 and 6 March 1987. The College has been granted permanent affiliation in 2005 and has also been recognized by UGC on 17 November 2006 under 2(f) and 12 (B) of the UGC Act.

Location
Government Hnahthial College is located in the District Capital of Hnahthial District which is the southern region of Mizoram. The town is 157 km from Aizawl (via Sialsuk). Hnahthial town is connected by National highway no.54 and is seven hours drive from the capital. By taking state highway, it is only 5 hours drive from Aizawl via Sialsuk. The college is situated 1.3 km away from Hnahthial town where college bus is always available for faculty and students.

Departments
The college admitted around 130 students every year  The institution offered seven undergraduate Core Courses in arts stream:
Department of Economics
Department of Education
Department of English
Department of Geography
Department of History
Department of Mizo
Department of Political Science

References

External links

Universities and colleges in Mizoram
Colleges affiliated to Mizoram University


title: Acanthomyrmex basispinosus

text:
Acanthomyrmex basispinosus is a species of ant of the genus Acanthomyrmex. It was described by Moffett in 1986, and is found in Indonesia.

References

External links

basispinosus
Insects described in 1986
Insects of Indonesia


title: Islamic Homosexualities

text:
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature is a collection of essays edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe and published in 1997 by New York University Press.

The editors argued that students of the Middle East who originated from all countries have avoided giving attention to homosexual acts, so therefore they had the book made to give attention to the practices. The book's stated purposes were to state "the conceptions and organizations of homosexual desire and conduct in Islamic societies" and "to counter the pronounced Eurocentrism of recent research on homosexuality". The book's central argument is "treating the patterns of homosexuality we find in Islamic societies as categorically distinct from all aspects of modern homosexual identity and lifestyles reinforces the conceits of Eurocentrism". Both editors were not Middle Eastern specialists but were North American and Latin American specialists. Bruce Dunne of the Lambda Book Report wrote that the book argued that premodern LGBT groups in the Middle East are "progressive" and "modern" as much as the modern LGBT identities are.

Didi Khayatt of York University stated her belief that "the authors' need to find Islamic homosexualities either similar to or different from Western notions of corresponding sexual practices is in line with the very critique they want to avoid." Steven C. Caton of the New School for Social Research argued that "Eurocentrism" was not properly used, since the word should refer to a view that Europe is central to the world, and that it may be Eurocentric to look for LGBT sexualities of the European style in the Islamic world.

Dunne stated that this book was aimed at both academic and general audiences.

Contents
The editors co-wrote the introduction and conclusion. The book contains over 22 essays, which all discuss same sex desire in the Islamic world. Time periods discussed in the essays range from pre-Islamic period to present. The cultures in the works include Arab, Iranian, and Turkish cultures; and the countries include areas of South Asia; areas of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia; Egypt; Iran; Iraq; Spain under Islamic rule, Oman, and Turkey, including Ottoman Turkey. Murray wrote and/or co-wrote thirteen of the essays. Roscoe wrote one of the essays. In addition to Murray and Roscoe there are other contributors.  The contributors include academics with different subject fields, journalists, a businessperson, and a publisher. Some of the contributors originate from Islamic countries, and the authors included three Pakistanis. Most essays are original to the book while some are revised or non-revised versions of essays previously printed in other publications. The essays other than those by the Pakistanis are based on cultural information from literary studies, research in archives and documentaries, and research reports written by other people; these essays do not include fieldwork.

Dunne argued that the essays "are wide-ranging, prodigiously informative and bibliographically rich." Khayatt argued that the "stronger" essays contextualized same-sex practices in the Islamic world. Khayatt believes the book has "clearly established" the fact that sexual activities and practices involving people of the same gender "ideologically different from Western notions of "homosexual identity"" exist, but that the authors did not "demonstrate how Islamic societies conceptualize a "homosexual identity."" Michael R. Stevenson of Ball State University wrote that the depth, length, and quality of the chapters varies and "Some read like fragments of what should have been a larger, more integrated work."

Parts
The book has four parts.

"Part I: Introduction to Islamic Homosexualities." has background information and an introduction. The introduction, Chapter 1, was written by Roscoe and Murray. Murray wrote "The Will Not to Know: Islamic Accommodations of Male Homosexualities," Chapter 2. Roscoe wrote "Precursors of Islamic Male Homosexualities," Chapter 3. Jim Wafer wrote "Muhammad and Male Homosexuality," Chapter 4. Murray wrote "Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies," Chapter 5.

"Part II: Literary Studies" covers Islamic law and mystical literature in addition to tropes from Medieval-era Turkey and Iran. Wafer wrote Chapter 6: "Vision and Passion: The Symbolism of Male Love in Islamic Mystical Literature." Murray wrote Chapter 7: "Corporealizing Medieval Persian and Turkish Tropes." Louis Crompton wrote Chapter 8: "Male Love and Islamic Law in Arab Spain."

Historical analyses of Islamic cultures in the 19th century, on Turkey during the Ottoman Empire, Egypt in the Medieval era Mamluk Empire, and Albania are in "Part III: Historical Studies". Murray wrote Chapters 9 through 11 and 13-14: "Male Homosexuality, Inheritance Rules, and the Status of Women in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Mamlūks", "Homosexuality among Slave Elites in Ottoman Turkey", "Male Homosexuality in Ottoman Albania", "Some Nineteenth-Century Reports of Islamic Homosexualities", and "Gender-Defined Homosexual Roles in Sub-Saharan African Islamic Cultures", respectively. Chapter 12, "The Balkan Sworn Virgin: A Cross-Gendered Female Role," was written by Mildred Dickemann.

Part IV consists of seven anthropological studies discussing the perception of same sex activity by those who conduct same sex activity. Two essays written by Pakistanis discuss LGBT life in modern Pakistan. The final chapter is the conclusion of the book. The Chapters in Part IV are: Chapter 15: "Institutionalized Gender-Crossing in Southern Iraq" by Sigrid Westphal-Hellbusch with Bradley Rose as a translator, Chapter 16: "The Sohari Khanith by Murray, Chapter 17: "Male Actresses in Islamic Parts of Indonesia and the Southern Philippines" by Murray, Chapter 18: "Two Baluchi Buggas, a Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan," by Nauman Naqvi and Hasan Mutjaba, "The Chapter 19: "The Other Side of Midnight: Pakistani Male Prostitutes" by Mutjaba, Chapter 20: "Not-So-Gay Life in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s" by Badruddin Khan, Chapter 21: "Two Islamic AIDS Education Organizations" by Murray and Eric Allyn, and Chapter 22: Conclusion, by Murray and Roscoe.

Reception
Khaled El-Rouayheb, who wrote Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500–1800, believed that Islamic Homosexualities's depiction of same-sex behavior in the Arab and Islamic world was "homosexual" when such behavior was not homosexual, and El-Rouayheb argued that the depiction of the same-sex behavior in Islamic Homosexualities was Westernized, inaccurate, and romanticized.

Khayatt concluded that "Overall[...]the book is excellent in its breadth, and I, for one, am thankful for the work of these authors." She suggested that the analysis of lesbian practices should have indicated a possible difference in how Islamic cultures perceive of same-sex female practices instead of stating that the concepts are censored and hidden from society, and that the practice of "(heterosexual couples) changing the gender of the loved one in the heat of passion" in media should have been explored. She argued that "the authors in the book rely on Western texts to support their analysis rather than looking to the cultural contexts for speculations."

Edward Stein, JD, PhD, an associate professor of the Cardozo School of Law, argued that there should have been more theoretical discussion present. He argued that "Even without such theoretical discussion, anyone interested in the study of human sexual desire will find something of use in Islamic Homosexualities."

Dunne argued that the book's weaknesses were an over-reliance on travel accounts from Westerners and translated texts and some factual errors; he also argued that "few, if any" authors "appear" to have formal expertise with the Middle East, even though several had a strong interest in the Middle East. Dunne concluded that overall the book was "welcome" and "ambitious".

References

Citations

Sources

 Caton, Steven C. (New School for Social Research). "Book Reviews". SOLGAN, 1998, Vol.20(2), pp. 9–10 - DOI 10.1525/sol.1998.20.2.9
 Dunne, Bruce. "Re-Orienting Ourselves" (review of Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature)). Lambda Book Report, Sept, 1997, Vol.6(2), p. 20(2)
 Khayatt, Didi (York University). "Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature" (book reviews). American Anthropologist, 1997, Vol.99(4), pp. 860–861 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
 Stein, Edward (Associate Professor, Cardozo School of Law). "BOOK REVIEW: Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. By Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (with additional contributors). New York University Press, New York, 1997, 331 pp., Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2001, Vol.30(4), pp.445-447. - DOI 10.1023/A:1010221601655
 Stevenson, Michael R., PhD (Ball State University). "Islamic Homosexualities?" (Book Review). The Journal of Sex Research, 1998, Vol.35(3), pp. 311–314 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

1997 non-fiction books
English-language books
Islamic studies books
Non-fiction books about same-sex sexuality
Islamic LGBT literature
New York University Press books
1990s LGBT literature


title: Graphis marusae

text:
Graphis marusae is a species of lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Mexico, it was described as new to science in 2011.

References

Lichens described in 2011
Lichen species
Lichens of Mexico
marusae
Taxa named by Robert Lücking


title: Mae Ngat Somboon Chon Dam

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The Mae Ngat Somboon Chon Dam (, , ), is a multi-purpose hydroelectric dam in the Mae Taeng District of Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. It impounds the Mae Ngat River, a tributary of the Ping River. The dam is located at the western side of Si Lanna National Park.

Description
Mae Ngat Somboon Chon Dam is an earth fill dam. It is  long and  high. Its reservoir has a maximum storage capacity of  with a catchment area of .

Power plant
The dam's power plant has two hydroelectric generating units, each with an installed capacity of 4.5 MW. They became operational in 1985.

References

Dams in Thailand
Earth-filled dams
Hydroelectric power stations in Thailand
Energy infrastructure completed in 1986
1986 establishments in Thailand
Buildings and structures in Chiang Mai province
Dams completed in 1986


title: Sihamir Osmanov

text:
Sihamir Osmanov (; born May 25, 1975, in Makhachkala, Russian SFSR) is a retired amateur Macedonian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. He finished fifth in the 74-kg division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in New York City, New York, United States, and later represented the Republic of Macedonia at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Osmanov also trained full-time as a member of the wrestling squad for Varda Makedonia Sports Club in Skopje under his personal coach and 2000 Olympian Nasir Gadzhikhanov.

Osmanov qualified for his naturalized Macedonian squad in the men's 74 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth and rounding out the fifth spot from the World Championships. He lost his opening match 1–3 to neighboring Bulgaria's Nikolay Paslar, and could not attain a single point to overwhelm Poland's Krystian Brzozowski by a 4–0 deficit, leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing seventeenth in the final standings.

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Macedonian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for North Macedonia
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Macedonian people of Dagestani descent
Sportspeople from Makhachkala
Naturalized citizens of North Macedonia


title: Acanthomyrmex careoscrobis

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Acanthomyrmex careoscrobis is a species of ant that belongs to the genus Acanthomyrmex. It was described by Moffett in 1986, and is found in Indonesia.

References

careoscrobis
Insects described in 1986
Insects of Indonesia


title: Now Is Another Time

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Now Is Another Time is an album by saxophonist David Murray's Latin Big Band released on the Canadian Justin Time label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Glenn Astarita awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Murray is in top form, evidenced by his climactically driven soloing endeavors -- where he peaks within the upper registers -- via an unrelenting pace. It's all about perpetual motion topped off with a festive sentiment, marked by oscillating Afro-Cuban grooves and a few poignant interludes here and there. But the musicians also utilize space to their advantage, where they often allow any given soloist, ample breathing room to reconfigure previously explored themes. Folks, this is the real deal. An awe-inspiring effort, indeed!" JazzTimes observed "Murray, unlike most Latin saxophonists, is not what you would consider an in-clave type of player. He often plays on top of the rhythm rather than getting inside. Still, there is much excitement here". All About Jazz said "When this band is on-target, the results are inspiring. It's too bad they are not consistent in that regard, because the project has enormous potential. Listeners curious about Cuban music, especially its rhythmic element, are likely to find some tasty nuggets here regardless".

Track listing
All compositions by David Murray
 "Crystal" - 8:32
 "Aerol's Change" - 7:18
 "Blue Muse" - 9:11
 "Break Out" - 11:15
 "Mambo Dominica" - 9:31
 "Giovanni's Mission" - 6:34
 "Sad Kind of Love" - 20:04

Personnel
David Murray - tenor saxophone
 Cesar Lopez Martinez (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Ernesto Varona Rodriguez German (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), German Fermin (tracks 1 & 4), Roman Feliu O'Reilly (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Valazco Urdeliz (tracks 1 & 4), Velasco Urdeliz (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7) - alto saxophone
Irvin Luichel Acao Sierra, Orlando Sanchez Soto - tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7)
Hamiet Bluiett (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Moises Marquez Loyva (tracks 1 & 4) - baritone saxophone
Jose Luis Cortez, Kahil-Ikshr Smith - flute (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7)
Hugh Ragin (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Alexander Brown Cabrera, Bacilio Bernardo Marquez (tracks 1 & 4), Carmelo Andres (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Cristobal Ferrer (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Elpidio Chappotin Elgado(tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Rafael Gavilan (tracks 1 & 4) - trumpet
Craig Harris (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Amaury Perez Rodriguez (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Boris Sarmiento (tracks 1 & 4), Denis Cuni Rodriguez (tracks 1 & 4), Heikel Fabian Triminio (tracks 1 & 4), Leonardo Alarcon Henville (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Sergio Ricardo Luna Longchamp (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7) - trombone
Carcasses Colon (tracks 1 & 4), Emilio Morales(tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Luis Manuel Guerra Crespo (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Miguel Angel De Armas (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Roberto Julio (tracks 1 & 4), Tony Perez  (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7) - piano
Feliciano Arango Noa (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Narciso Jorge (tracks 1 & 4), Reyes Hernandez (tracks 1 & 4) - bass
Giraldo Piloto (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Olivier Valdes Rey (tracks 1 & 4) - drums
Jorge Luis Guerra - guiro (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7)
Adel Gonzales Gomez (tracks 1 & 4), Evelio Ramos Delfin (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7), Tomas Ramos Ortiz (tracks 2, 3 & 5-7) - congas
Jose Luis Quintana Fuerte "Changuito" - timbales (track 2)

Production credits

 Dany Gignoux – booklet, photography

References

2003 albums
Justin Time Records albums
David Murray (saxophonist) albums


title: Jaga Dia Untukku

text:
"Jaga Dia Untukku" (Take Care of Him for Me) is a second single by Malaysian artist, Siti Nurhaliza from her sixteenth solo album, Fragmen. Written by Rozisangdewi, the song is composed and recorded by Aubrey Suwito in January 2014.

First performed during her 2014 Dato' Siti Nurhaliza Live in Concert – Where the Heart is, the song revolves around her feelings when she learned that her husband was involved in a motorcycle accident in New Zealand in December 2012. The song was officially released on iTunes on 4 May 2014.

This song also used as the theme song for the Malaysian television drama series, Rindu Awak 200% aired on TV3.

Background and recording

The song was recorded in January 2014, in which it was inspired by her feelings when she learned her husband was involved in a motorcycle accident in December 2012. Much like other songs from Fragmen in which they describe the glimpses on her life, "Jaga Dia Untukku" is said by Siti to "translate all my feelings and those who were involved in it". Both composer (Aubrey Suwito) and the lyricist of "Jaga Dia Untukku", Rozisangdewi (Rozi Abdul Razak) were with her when the incident happened.

Composition and lyrics

At three minutes and twenty three seconds, "Jaga Dia Untukku" is a song with a moderately fast tempo. Written by Rozisangdewi, the song is composed by Aubrey Suwito. The lyric of the song is all inspired by her experiences in dealing with the news of the incident and her worries when taking care of him. According to Zaidi Mohamad of Berita Harian, its lyric, "portrays the sadness and the pain that appears to be close to Siti in reminiscing how she dealt with the trying moments when her husband was involved in a road accident around late December of 2012 in New Zealand".

Release and promotion
The song was first performed during her 2014 two-day fundraising concert, Dato' Siti Nurhaliza Live in Concert – Where the Heart is at Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center on 8 and 9 February. For radio releases, Hot FM was the first radio station in Malaysia to broadcast the exclusive premiere for Malaysian listeners on 2 May.

Live performances
Apart from the debut of the song during the two-day 2014 Dato' Siti Nurhaliza Live in Concert – Where the Heart is on 8 and 9 February, the song was also performed during her two-day Secretaries' Week show, "Lebih Indah Bersama Datuk Siti Nurhaliza" on 15 and 16 April.

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Fragmen booklet liner notes.

 Aubrey Suwito – record producer, composer, synth, production, arrangement, recording
 Dato' Siti Nurhaliza – vocals, background vocals
 Jay Franco (Sterling Sound) – mastering
 Juwita Suwito – background vocals
 Rozisangdewi (Rozi Abdul Razak) – lyricist
 Sunil Kumar – mixing

Chart performance

Awards

Format and track listing
 Digital download
 "Jaga Dia Untukku" – 3:23

Radio and release history

Footnotes
 Note 1:  Though it was reported that the song was released on iTunes on 4 April, the song was actually released on 4 May, two days after she promoted the song to radio stations.
 Note 2:  This single could be charted higher than stated here, since the data by the Music Weekly Asia start to be available much later after the release of the single on 4 May.

Explanatory notes

References

2014 songs
Siti Nurhaliza songs
Universal Music Group singles
Song recordings produced by Siti Nurhaliza
2014 singles


title: Tabriziha Mosque

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The Tabriziha Mosque () is a historical mosque in Kashan, Iran. The mosque is located in Malek bazarche and belongs to the Qajar era. It was built by Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi. Both sides of its big door have been decorated with haftrang tiles. Its vestibule has a stucco inscription. The ceiling of its shabestan has 18 arches, which have been decorated with bricks and tiles. The columns have been covered with tiles. The four sides of shabestan and around the columns there are inscriptions of the verses of Koran. The inscriptions have been written in white Naskh on a persian blue background. The triangle under the inscriptions have been decorated with designs and shapes. The mihrab of the mosque has been decorated with tiles and has a stucco inscription. On the inscription, some Koran verses have been written in white Thuluth script on the ultramarine background.

See also
List of the historical structures in the Isfahan province

References

Mosques in Isfahan Province
Buildings and structures in Kashan


title: Acanthomyrmex concavus

text:
Acanthomyrmex concavus is a species of ant that belongs to the genus Acanthomyrmex. It was described by Moffett in 1986, and is found in Indonesia.

References

concavus
Insects described in 1986
Insects of Indonesia


title: Parmelia asiatica

text:
Parmelia asiatica is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It occurs in China and the Russian Far East, where it grows on Rhododendron tree trunks in temperate regions. It was Described as new to science in 2011 by lichenologists Ana Crespo and Pradeep Divakar. The species is distinguished by its terminal soralia,  linear pseudocyphellae, and chemical composition, which includes the substances atranorin and salazinic acid. Parmelia asiatica is similar to Parmelia protosulcata but differs in the presence of salazinic acid and its distribution in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy
Parmelia asiatica was first described as a new species by lichenologists Ana Crespo and Pradeep Divakar in 2011. The specific epithet asiatica refers to its distribution in Asia. The type specimen was collected from Shibaoshan park (Jianchuan County, Yunnan, China), at an elevation of .

Description
The thallus of Parmelia asiatica is  and small, measuring up to  across. The  are somewhat linear, separate, and 1–2 mm wide. The upper surface is pale greenish to whitish-grey, with a brownish tinge towards the lobe tips. The surface is smooth, pseudocyphellate, and sorediate, without isidia.  pseudocyphellae appear as continuous white rims up to 2 mm long. Soralia develop on the lobe tips and are usually orbicular, with granular soredia. The medulla is white, while the lower surface is black and densely rhizinate, with densely  branched rhizines up to 1 mm long. No  or  have been observed.

There are differences between Russian samples of Parmelia asiatica and the original description provided by Lumbsch et al. (2011). The specimens from Siberia and Kamchatka have linear marginal soralia, in addition to the spherical or hemispherical terminal ones. Younger lobes have marginal and linear to sublinear pseudocyphellae, which later become  and sometimes slightly reticulate. Older samples exhibit fissures on the upper surface of lobes, and a few pycnidia were identified in two specimens. Tested specimens from Baikal Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula all contain consalazinic acid, in addition to salazinic acid and atranorin.

Similar species
Parmelia asiatica is similar to Parmelia protosulcata, a species found in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and the Falkland Islands. However, Parmelia asiatica contains salazinic acid and has a temperate Southeast Asian distribution. The species also shares some features with Parmelia sulcata and Parmelia hygrophiloides, such as the presence of salazinic acid, a sorediate upper surface, and   rhizines. Nonetheless, Parmelia asiatica is readily distinguished by its terminal soralia and marginal linear pseudocyphellae. These morphological characteristics also distinguish it from the chemically similar Notoparmelia cunninghamii, found in Australasia and southern South America.

Habitat and distribution
In its type locality in the temperate regions of China, Parmelia asiatica grows on Rhododendron tree trunks in humid montane Rhododendron forests. In 2013 it was reported from the Kamchatka Peninsula and Baikal Siberia, in 2015, from the Magadan Oblast, in 2017, from the Amur Oblast, and in 2021, from the island of Iturup. The ecological preferences of the Russian samples differ slightly from the original Chinese samples. The Siberian and Kamchatian specimens were collected in relatively humid spruce, fir, and birch forests in mountain river valleys at lower elevations,  above sea level, and on the bark of various trees (primarily spruce and birch) in boreal coniferous forests.

References

asiatica
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2011
Lichens of China
Taxa named by Ana Crespo
Taxa named by Pradeep Kumar Divakar


title: The Boat Race 1993

text:
The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.  Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by  lengths in a victory that was described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive".  The winning time of 17 minutes exactly was the fourth-fastest time in the event.  In winning the event, Cambridge prevented Oxford making it seventeen wins from the last eighteen races and levelling the overall score for the first time since the 1929 race.

Oxford's crew featured two Olympic gold medallists and saw changes in their rowers and cox in the lead-up to the event. The race was umpired by the former Oxford Blue Mark Evans who controversially instigated changes to the start procedure of the race.

In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis, while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.

Background
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  First held in 1829, the race takes place on the  Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London.  The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide.  Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1992 race by  lengths, with Cambridge leading overall with 69 victories to Oxford's 68 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).  Oxford had won 16 of the previous 17 races, a run interrupted by Cambridge's seven-length victory in the 1986 race.

The first Women's Boat Race took place in 1927, but the event did not become an annual fixture until the 1960s. Until 2014, the contest was conducted as part of the Henley Boat Races, but as of the 2015 race, it is held on the River Thames, on the same day as the men's main and reserve races.  The reserve race, contested between Oxford's Isis boat and Cambridge's Goldie boat has been held since 1965. It usually takes place on the Tideway, prior to the main Boat Race.

Cambridge selected cleaver blades for the first time in the history of the race, following the successful use of the oars in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.  The surface area of the cleaver was approximately 20% larger than the conventional macon blades.  Oxford practised with cleaver blades in some of their outings leading up to the race, and were prepared to use them should the weather conditions be suitable, but on the day itself they opted to remain with the macon blades.

The umpire for the race was the Canadian Olympic gold medallist and former Oxford Blue Mark Evans who had rowed in the 1983 and 1984 races.  He caused controversy by instigating a new starting method whereby he would hold the crews for up to ten seconds between the conventional "set" and "go" commands.  Evans had umpired the 1991 race in which he had also used his own starting method in preference to the traditional Amateur Rowing Association instructions. In response to any potential delay at the start during which time the boats will be dragged along with the tide, one of the stake-boat men, Bob Hastings, responsible for holding the boats until the "go" command is given stated: "If the boats start to drag I will let go, before I am dragged out of the stake-boat".  Both Alan Inns, former coach and advisor to Cambridge, and Steve Royle, Oxford's director of rowing, expressed concerns over Evans' methodology.

Crews

The Oxford crew weighed an average of nearly  more per rower than their opponents.  Oxford's Matthew Pinsent was the heaviest rower while Cambridge's Sinclair Gore was the youngest, aged 19. Cambridge's crew featured three returning Blues in Dirk Bangert, David Gillard and James Behrens, while Oxford saw five former Boat Race rowers return. Overall, half of the rowers were non-British (six nationalities representing Oxford, three representing Cambridge) and the same number were postgraduates.  The Cambridge boat club president Behrens claimed: "All our boat are at Cambridge on academic merit.  They came for a particular course ... and they also row."  In contrast, an editorial in The Times claimed: "The performers are no longer ingenuous native undergraduates but supercharged, international, professional rowing machines."  Oxford's Bruce Robertson (men's eight) and Pinsent (coxless pair) were both gold medallists at the Barcelona Olympics.

A late change in the Oxford cox saw Samantha Benham replace Gordon Buxton to steer the Dark Blues, becoming the eighth female cox in the history of the race.  Oxford's Royle noted that Buxton's form had declined in the run-in to the race, while Benham was "handling the pressure a lot better." Cambridge cox, Martin Haycock, suggested that female coxes were not as accomplished as their male counterparts: "We had one cox who was exceptionally good at giving massages but on the whole ... they're not aggressive or tough enough."  Oxford also saw a change to their crew in the week preceding the race.  Old Etonian undergraduate Ed Haddon (who had rowed for Isis in 1992) was dropped in favour of German Philipp Schuller.  Schuller had arrived at Oxford just two months earlier, but rejected suggestions that his late inclusion was symptomatic of the recent influx of "professionals" to the race.  Of his selection, he noted: "You can't have one of the most respected races in the world and then limit it to English people between the ages of 19 and 21 ... on the day we went for whoever would make the boat go fastest. It was done entirely on merit."  Schuller's compatriot and opponent Dirk Bangert had struggled with the move to cleavers, finding it difficult to adjust his timing: "I nearly didn't make it. I couldn't get this rhythm until about three weeks ago and was not sure of my place."

Oxford's finishing coach was Mike Spracklen who had assisted the Dark Blues in five victorious races, while Cambridge had New Zealander Harry Mahon in charge for the first time, assisted by John Wilson (who had helped coach Oxford to a win in the 1991 race), and Sean Bowden, who was subsequently credited with "being half of the team which first turned Cambridge round".  Oxford's head coach Patrick Sweeney noted: "If [Cambridge] get away, they will be hard to beat. If they don't, they're dead meat."

Race

Oxford were strong pre-race favourites, having won 16 of the last 17 races.  Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station.  Two minutes after the start, and in cold, overcast conditions, Cambridge's cox Martin Haycock was level with Oxford's Jo Michels who occupied the number two seat in the Dark Blue boat.  Responding to a call to push on, Cambridge were clear upon reaching the Mile Post in record time, and moved in front of Oxford.  Further record times were set as the Light Blues passed under Hammersmith Bridge and by Chiswick Steps before they passed the finishing post  lengths clear in 17 minutes.  It was Cambridge's first victory since the 1986 race and just their second victory in eighteen years.  The winning time was the fourth fastest in the history of the event, surpassed only by Oxford in the 1991, 1984 and 1976 races, and was Cambridge's fastest time ever.  Cambridge's victory prevented the overall score from being levelled for the first time since 1929.

In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie won by nine lengths over Isis, their sixth victory in seven years.  Cambridge won the 48th Women's Boat Race by  lengths in a time of 6 minutes and 10 seconds, their fourth victory in five years.

Reaction
The journalist David Miller, writing for  The Times, described Cambridge's victory as "crushingly conclusive".  Cambridge's Malcolm Baker said: "We knew we could do it after about 25 strokes."  Behrens explained "Our strength was that we were more uniform than Oxford.  We have proved that you do not have to be an Olympic champion to win the Boat Race." The Oxford Boat Club president Pinsent conceded: "They put right a lot of mistakes they have made in the past, and they rowed outstandingly well."  Spracklen agreed: "Cambridge got too far away.  They were a better boat in that race.  All credit to them."  Cambridge's number two, David Gillard, said "there was a lot of revenge out there".

Writing in The Independent, the journalist Chris Arnot noted that the Cambridge crew had used creatine supplements in order to attempt to enhance their performance.  Used extensively at the 1992 Olympics, by athletes including Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell, and given to horses and greyhounds, creatine was believed to provide legal energy-enhancing effects to the crew.

References

External links
 Official website

1993 in English sport
1993 in rowing
1993 sports events in London
The Boat Race
Boat Race


title: Acanthomyrmex crassispinus

text:
Acanthomyrmex crassispinus is a species of ant that belongs to the genus Acanthomyrmex. It was described by Wheeler in 1930, and is found in Taiwan.

References

crassispinus
Insects described in 1930
Insects of Taiwan


title: Virginia State Route 611

text:
State Route 611 (SR 611) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many counties. The list below describes the sections in each county that are designated SR 611.

List

References

External links

611


title: Virginia State Route 612

text:
State Route 612 (SR 612) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many counties. The list below describes the sections in each county that are designated SR 612.

List

References

External links

612


title: Meja Thermal Power Station

text:
Meja Thermal Power Station is an upcoming coal-based thermal power plant located in Meja Tehsil in Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh. The power plant is owned by the Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited (MUNPL) a joint venture between NTPC Limited and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.
The planned capacity of the power plant is 1320 MW (2x660MW). Meja Thermal Power Station is an upcoming coal-based thermal power plant located in Meja Tehsil in Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh.

Capacity
The planned capacity of the power plant is 1320 MW (2x660MW).

Future expansion
The state government decided in July 2014 to add two more units of 660 MW to the power plant as part second stage of the project. But work on the same is yet to start.

References
 http://mejantpc.com

Coal-fired power stations in Uttar Pradesh
Prayagraj district
2018 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Energy infrastructure completed in 2018


title: Acanthomyrmex dusun

text:
Acanthomyrmex dusun is a species of ant that belongs to the genus Acanthomyrmex. It was described by Wheeler in 1919, and is found in Indonesia.

References

dusun
Insects described in 1919
Insects of Indonesia