The 2014 SIU Edwardsville Cougars softball team represented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during the 2014 NCAA Division I softball season. The Cougars, led by twenty-sixth year head coach Sandy Montgomery, played their home games at Cougar Field as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).

Preseason

With twelve returning players from the 35–13 2013 squad, the Cougars were picked by the coaches and sports information directors of the Ohio Valley Conference to finish first in the West Division.

Regular season
The season began with tournaments in Louisiana, Arizona, Mississippi, and Florida. Among the sixteen opponents in those tournaments were eight teams that would end their seasons in the NCAA Tournament, including defending national champion Oklahoma. Coach Sandy Montgomery's intent was to challenge her team early in preparation for the conference schedule. The Cougars started slowly, but showed improvement in each successive tournament; losing all four games at LSU, then winning one of five at Arizona State, two of five at Jackson State, and three of five at Central Florida.

After the tournaments, the Cougars had the full Ohio Valley Conference schedule, games versus three Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) schools, and home-and-home games with St. Louis; a scheduled game against SIU-Carbondale was cancelled due to thunderstorms. The Cougars lost to Missouri State and Northern Iowa, who both ended the season with winning records, but they defeated eventual MVC champion and NCAA tourney entry Bradley. SIUE and SLU split, each winning in the other's ballpark. In non-conference play, the Cougars earned an 8–16 record.

In the OVC, the Cougars were 10–2 against the East Division. They went 9–3 versus the West after hitting an unexpected bump in the road when losing both games at Murray State. The combined 19–5 conference record was good for first place in the West Division and the #2 seed in the OVC Tournament.

Highlights

Sophomore Haley Chambers pitched no-hit games against Tennessee Tech and Southeast Missouri State, the second and third of her SIUE career.

Coach Sandy Montgomery won her 900th game as the Cougars' head coach in the win over St. Louis.

Four Cougars were named to the All–Ohio Valley Conference teams:
Haley Chambers, Chelsea Yankolovich, Allison Smiley, and Whitney Lanphier were named to the All–OVC second team.
Allison Smiley and Whitney Lanphier were also named to the OVC All–Newcomer team.

Haley Chambers was named second team All-Mideast Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Postseason

The Cougars entered the double-elimination Ohio Valley Conference at Jacksonville State's University Field as the #2 seed.

After defeating Tennessee Tech and Eastern Illinois, the Cougars awaited an opponent for the finals. Continued thunderstorms eventually forced the conference to shorten the semifinals and finals to a single-elimination format. Murray State emerged from the loser's bracket, and the SIUE women dispatched them 12–1 in five innings, earning the OVC's entry in the NCAA national tournament.

Haley Chambers not only pitched all three games, striking out 27 in 20 innings, she also drove in the winning run in the Cougars' first game with a home run. She was named the tournament's MVP. Chambers, third baseman Alex McDavid, first baseman Kayla Riggs, and shortstop Chelsea Yankolovich also all selected to the All-Tournament team.

The Cougars were the first SIUE team to qualify for NCAA post-season play since the university made the transition to Division I.

Of the sixteen regional tournaments, only Tuscaloosa, Alabama had three of the top 25 ranked teams, and that was the Cougars' tournament destination, as the only unranked team.

SIUE was game versus host Alabama, 5th ranked and the #2 national seed, but fell to the eventual national runner-up Crimson Tide 13–4 in five innings.  In the losers' bracket, the Cougars faced 22nd ranked South Alabama in a game that was close until the Jaguars claimed the victory with a three-run seventh-inning home run.

Roster
Pink background indicates players returning from 2012–13.

Schedule

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References

SIU Edwardsville
SIU Edwardsville Cougars softball seasons
SIU Edwardsville Cougars softball
SIU Edwardsville


title: José Mario Wong

text:
José Mario Wong Pérez (25 November 1951 15 September 2015) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as a Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress (2003–2006) representing Chihuahua.

References

1951 births
2015 deaths
Politicians from Chihuahua (state)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Members of the Congress of Chihuahua
Municipal presidents in Chihuahua (state)
20th-century Mexican politicians
People from Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Chihuahua (state)


title: Albert Lindsey Zobrist

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Albert Lindsey Zobrist  (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the famous Zobrist Hashing, which was published in 1970. He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD Thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.

Education
Albert Zobrist received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Computer chess
While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched on computer chess, and was along with Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme co-author of the chess programs USC CP and Tyro, participating at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.

References

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1942 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
American computer scientists
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Nora Yú

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Nora Elena Yú Hernández (born 14 May 1954) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2014, she was a deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chihuahua.

References

1954 births
Living people
People from Ciudad Juárez
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Politicians from Chihuahua (state)
University of Texas at El Paso alumni
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Chihuahua (state)


title: Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is a 10.5-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the ultra high-end "S" line of the cross between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Samsung Galaxy S series, which also includes an 8.4-inch model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4. It was announced on 12 June 2014, and was released in July 2014. This is Samsung's first 10.5-inch tablet which is aimed to be a direct competitor against the iPad Air.

History
The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 was announced on 12 June 2014. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 at the Samsung Galaxy Premiere 2014 in New York.

Features
The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is released with Android 4.4.2 Kitkat. Samsung has customized the interface with its TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0 software. As well as the standard suite of Google Apps, it has Samsung apps such as ChatON, S Suggest, S Voice, S Translator, S Planner, WatchON, Smart Stay, Multi-Window, Group Play, All Share Play, Samsung Magazine, Professional pack, Multi-user mode, SideSync 3.0, and Gear/Gear Fit manager.

The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is available in WiFi-only and 4G/LTE & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion up to 128 GB. It has a 10.5-inch WQXGA Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels and a pixel density of 287 ppi. It also features a 2.1 MP front camera without flash and a rear-facing 8.0 MP AF camera with LED flash. It also has the ability to record HD videos.

The Galaxy Tab S was designed with a ‘Multi Window’ feature that lets users consume two kinds of entertainment on one screen (two screen technology), for example when running two apps simultaneously such as a video and social media application.

The WiFi model of the tablet is powered by the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5420 CPUs. The LTE model comes either with a Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset (version for Sprint and Verizon) or with the Exynos octa-core CPU. Models for South Korean domestic market have upgraded Exynos 7 Octa 5433 CPUs.

Updates
Galaxy Tab S 10.5 WiFi received Android 5.0.2 Lollipop in France and Canada on March 17, 2015.
As of April 6, 2015, only Canada and France have receive the OTA (Over the Air) Update, exclusive to the WiFi only model. Reasons for the two countries getting the update first, could include the high sales of the Tab S tablets in both countries, and the fact 5.0.2 adds additional French language support, a language predominantly spoken fluently by some 60 Million French and 10 Million Canadians.

Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 4G/LTE with an OTA  Android 5.0 Lollipop update would be released in some European countries during the last half of April. These countries included Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Switzerland.

From June 2015 the tablet received an update to Lollipop in Italy.

As of October 2015, Android 5.0.2 rolled out to the United States as well.

The Galaxy Tab S lineup got an upgrade to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow OTA. The update for the 10.5 variant began on August 26, 2016, for all versions, except any Canadians LTE models (SM-T805W), to which there will not likely be an update to Marshmallow.

Third-Party Updates

LineageOS 14.1 (based on Android 7.0 Nougat) is available for the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Wi-Fi.

Reception
The Verge praised the AMOLED display, liked that it is thinner than the iPad Air, and found the Multi-Window software feature useful.  However, The Verge did not like the plastic body, numerous confusing software features and the hard to use fingerprint sensor.

See also
 Comparison of tablet computers
 Samsung Galaxy Tab series
 Samsung Galaxy S series

References

External links

Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2014


title: Gustavo Zanatta

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Gustavo Zanatta Gasperín (born 28 January 1951) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca as replacement of Eviel Pérez Magaña.

References

1951 births
Living people
Politicians from Oaxaca
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Oaxaca


title: The Driftless Area

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The Driftless Area is a 2015 Canadian-American neo-noir dramedy film directed by Zachary Sluser and starring Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, and John Hawkes. Alia Shawkat, Aubrey Plaza, Frank Langella, and Ciarán Hinds also appear in supporting roles. The film is based on the 2006 novel of the same title by Tom Drury, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sluser.

Plot
A college graduate turned bartender, Pierre, returns to his hometown in the Driftless Area after his parents' death. Shane picks up Pierre, who was hitchhiking and carrying a rosebush, after Pierre's car breaks down. Shane charges Pierre $20 for the privilege and kicks him out of his vehicle further down the road, stealing his rosebush. Pierre takes a rock out of his pocket and hurls it at the car, which causes Shane to crash out on the next curve. Pierre inspects the scene and finds a $77,000 bag of money in Shane's truck. He plans to give his newfound money to a woman who had given him the rock, and who needs plastic surgery for a badly scarred face. He feels the money is destined for her, since she told him that she could only ever get the needed surgery "if she ever found a pile of money." Meanwhile, Shane wakes up from the crash and steals a car from a woman who stopped to help him.

While walking through a field, Pierre falls into a well and is rescued by Stella. Pierre feels indebted to her for saving his life, and goes on to fall in love with her. Stella is a ghost, inadvertently killed in an arson fire set by Shane on his brother's orders, believing the house empty. Tim Geer is helping Stella deal with her situation and get retribution for a life stolen.

Shane, his brother Ned, and Lyle arrive to get back their money. Eventually they catch up to Pierre, who leads the trio into a trap. Over a disagreement at their predicament, short-tempered Shane shoots Lyle through the heart. Shane and Pierre kill each other in a shootout. As Shane lies dying, Stella appears to him and questions her killing, then comforts Pierre through his last breath. Pierre seemingly knew he was going to die as he wrote a will giving his car to his friend, Carrie, his grey felt hat to Keith, and his binoculars to Stella.

Pierre wakes up on a beach and is greeted by Stella. She explains they are going to have a lot of time together, just as he had wished for before.

Cast
 Anton Yelchin as Pierre Hunter
 Zooey Deschanel as Stella
 John Hawkes as Shane
 Alia Shawkat as Carrie
 Aubrey Plaza as Jean
 Ciarán Hinds as Ned
 Frank Langella as Tim Geer
 Benjamin Rogers as Keith
 Erika Portnoy as Tragic Woman

Production
Production on the film began on May 14, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Filming wrapped on June 12, 2014.

Music
The film's original score was composed by Saunder Jurriaans and Daniel Bensi.

Release
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2015. The film screened as the Opening Night film for the Aruba International Film Festival on October 7, 2015.  Shortly afterwards, it was announced that Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions had acquired distribution rights to the film. The film was released on April 26, 2016, on video on demand and home media formats.

References

External links

2015 films
Films based on American novels
2015 comedy-drama films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian comedy-drama films
American comedy-drama films
American neo-noir films
Bron Studios films
Films about bartenders
Films shot in Vancouver
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
2010s American films
English-language comedy-drama films


title: Abdallah Kamal

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Abdallah Kamal (1965 – 13 June 2014) was an Egyptian journalist and politician.

Biography
Kamal graduated from Cairo University, having studied in the faculty of mass communications. He became editor-in-chief of Rose al-Youssef, a weekly magazine owned by the Egyptian government, in July 2005. He served in the post until 2011.

Kamal was known as an opponent of the Muslim Brotherhood. He became an MP for the National Democratic Party in the Shoura Council from 2007 to 2011. He founded his own news website, dotmasr.eg. He was also advisor to the Al Rai newspaper of Kuwait and a contributor to Al Arabiya.

He died of a heart attack aged 49 on 13 July 2014.

References

1965 births
2014 deaths
Cairo University alumni
Egyptian journalists
Members of the Shura Council
National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians


title: Rowland Alston

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Rowland Alston may refer to:

Sir Rowland Alston, 2nd Baronet (c. 1654–1697) of the Alston Baronets
Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Baronet (c. 1678–1769), MP for Bedfordshire 1722–1741
Sir Rowland Alston, 6th Baronet (died 1791), High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Rowland Alston (1782–1865), MP for Hertfordshire 1835–41

See also
Alston (name)


title: Stinks (album)

text:
Stinks is the thirteenth studio album by King Creosote, released in 2000.

Track listing
Tongue In Groove
Little Grown Ups
Punchbag
Sulphur Breeze
X-reg Bartender
For Pity's Sake
Handful Of 78's
Hellen
Short & Sweet
Ten Posts, Nine Gaps
A Prairie Tale
Happily Never After
Small Child Bumps Her Head And Cries
La Dc Di Dah
Silence No More
All Over Caroline
Heaven Colour Dyes
Marie  Celeste
Lost Again Billy

References

2000 albums
King Creosote albums


title: Burj Rafal

text:
Burj Rafal (Arabic: برج رافال) is a skyscraper hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It opened in January 2014, its 70 floors constructed on an exclusive 20,000 sqm plot.

About
The skyscraper has about 350 rooms and is the tallest residential building in Riyadh. It is also one of the tallest hotels in the world. The building had a total cost of about $320 million.

See also
List of tallest buildings in Saudi Arabia

References

External links
Official site

Hotel buildings completed in 2013
Skyscrapers in Riyadh
Residential skyscrapers in Saudi Arabia
Skyscraper office buildings in Saudi Arabia
Skyscraper hotels in Saudi Arabia


title: Dillenia retusa

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Dillenia retusa is a plant endemic to the island of Sri Lanka, there are records in the forests of Bolampatti and Anamalai hills. An ornamental, moderate sized tree, twigs and peduncles are glabrous. Leaves blunt at tip, cuneate at base, serrate, glabrous. Flowers 6–8 cm across, petals spathulate, narrow. Fruit enclosed by sepals.

Vernacular names
Sinhalese:Godapara
Tamil:Naiteku
Telugu:Chinna Kalinga

Ecology
Disturbed sites, scrub.

Uses
Wood - furniture, light construction; fruit - medicinal.

References

External links
 http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/223809
 https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0031-1273640
 http://www.instituteofayurveda.org/plants/plants_detail.php?i=409&s=Family_name

Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
retusa


title: Radge Weekend Starts Here

text:
Radge Weekend Starts Here is the fifteenth studio album by King Creosote, released in 2001.

Track listing
Laid When I'm Lucky
With Hindsight Blues
No Daddy
Handswashed
Creos'medleyote:Kir(kc)aldy / Fun(Kc)Rap / Fol(Kc)Ough
High Wire
Heaven Come Down Tonight
Life Of Lows
Far From Saving Grace
Mantra-Rap
Whats With The Frown?
Were I Not So Tired Xhösa

2001 albums
King Creosote albums


title: Dillenia triquetra

text:
Dillenia triquetra is a plant endemic to the island of Sri Lanka, where it is known as දියපර (diyapara) by local people.

Leaves
Broadly oblong oval, obtuse to blunt pointed apex, margins coarsely serrated; petiole channelled above in mature leaves; prominent fleshy horseshoe-shaped cushion on upper side of petiole of young leaves.

Trunk
Twigs smooth, brown, marked with large leaf scars.

Flowers
White, few, large, sepals fleshy and persistent; Inflorescence - small, racemes opposite leaves.

Fruits
Small, globular, enclosed by enlarged sepals.

Ecology
Secondary forest, scrub, disturbed areas.

Uses
Wood - furniture, light construction; fruit - medicinal.

References

External links
 http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Madagasc/dillen/00195708.html

Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
triquetra


title: Charles Griffith-Wynne

text:
Charles Wynn Griffith-Wynne (4 March 1780 – 22 March 1865), sometimes known more simply as Charles Griffith-Wynne, was a British Tory-leaning politician and, between 1830 and 1832, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvonshire in North Wales.

Early life
Wynne was born in 1780, the son of the MP Charles Finch.  and Jane Wynne who had married one another in 1778.   The Wynne family had been producing members of parliament for Caernarvonshire since at least as far back as the mid-seventeenth century.

He received his education at Westminster School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, which he left at the end of 1797 after only about six months, possibly in connection with his parents’ separation.   He was later a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 1800 and 1812.

He took the names Griffith and Wynne by royal licence on 26 June 1804, almost certainly in order to inherit from his mother's family the Wynne family estates surrounding Voelas House (subsequently demolished) in Denbighshire.

Career
He was politically active in the Caernarvonshire constituency from about 1825, and was elected unopposed as the constituency MP in 1830 when the king's death triggered a general election.   He was considered a partisan of the Tory government, but was absent from the House of Commons when the government fell a few months later, in November 1830, over the issue of parliamentary reform.

There is no record of his having made a speech in the House of Commons.   His voting record in the struggle that marked the run up to the Reform Act 1832 was opposed to the reform agenda of the Whig government of Lord Grey.   However, for much of the time he was absent due to illness, and he did not stand for election in the 1832 election, nor subsequently.

Personal
Wynne married Sarah Hildyard in 1812. Their children included Charles Griffiths Wynne-Finch (1815–1874) and  Charlotte Griffith-Wynne, better remembered in New Zealand as Charlotte Godley (1821–1907), the wife of John Robert Godley. His youngest daughter Frances Elizabeth Wynne was a keen amateur artist who toured Europe on several occasions. Another child included their son, John Wynne, who played first-class cricket. Griffith-Wynne became estranged from John in 1864, disinheriting him from his will.

Charles Wynn Griffith-Wynne died on 22 March 1865.

References

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1780 births
1865 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies
Members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
UK MPs 1830–1831
UK MPs 1831–1832


title: Rugabano

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Rugabano is a sector (umurenge) in Karongi District, in Western Province, Rwanda. Its office is near Gakuta center, on the foot of Gisunzu mount. Its capital is Rugabano market, in a center of shops and cattle market (isoko ry'inka).

The sector also contains Ngoma, where Baziruwiha Jean Claude was born.

References

Populated places in Rwanda


title: Gerry Keegan

text:
Gerry Keegan (born 12 March 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for the Kildare senior team.

Born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Keegan first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Kildare minor team, before later joining the under-21 side. Keegan made his senior debut in the 2012 Christy Ring Cup. Since then he has become a key member of the team and has won one Christy Ring Cup medal.

At club level Keegan is a two-time championship medallist with Celbridge.

Team

Celbridge
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship (3): 2011, 2013, 2018

Kildare
Christy Ring Cup (1): 2014
All-Ireland Under-21 B Hurling Championship: (1) 2014
Kehoe Cup (1): 2013

References

1994 births
Living people
Kildare inter-county hurlers
Celbridge hurlers


title: Ettefagh Synagogue

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Ettefagh Synagogue is a synagogue located in the neighborhood of Tehran, Iran.

History
After the World War II, with the installation of a new government in Iraq, the situation of the Jews in Iraq deteriorated. After prominent members of the Jewish community such as Laura Khozoee were arrested, and Shafiq Adas, a successful Jewish businessman, was hanged, many Iraqi Jews decided to emigrate. Some left for Israel while others decided to settle in Iran. They reached Iran with the help of Kurdish Jews and many arrived at Khorramshahr. With the help of Harun Abdolnabi, a prominent Jew in Khorramshahr, some were able to go to Tehran and obtain legal documents. From 1946 to 1951 many Iraqi Jews moved to Tehran, while others moved to Europe and the United States. At this time, with the help of Iranian Jews, the Iraqi Jews decided to create a cultural center.

In  1946 Meir Abdullah Batson bought a large piece of land with an area of over  near the University of Tehran, in Ghods Street. He separated a piece of land of over  and turned it into a synagogue, with the help of Saleh and Davood Mashi, Heskel Haim, and others. The community wanted to name the synagogue after Meir Abdullah, but the government did not accept it because he was a foreign citizen. In Persian, beh ettefagh means "together". Hence the name "Ettefagh" was chosen, and it became the main place of gathering for the Iraqi Jews of Tehran.

The synagogue architecture was designed in the style of Babylonian architecture, and it was fitted with the most advanced cooling system of the time. Most of the Torah scrolls in the synagogue were brought by the Jews who came from Iraq, and a Babylonian Talmud in Aramaic script was dedicated to the synagogue. Many Iraqi Jews emigrated from Iran during the Iranian revolution, and today only a few families (mainly Iranian Jews) still use the synagogue.

Ettefagh School
The synagogue also had a related private high school, the Ettefagh School. In the 1970s, the school was known for the strong English-language coursework. Students from religious minority families in Iran attended the school in the 1970s, including Christian, Baha'i, and Zoroastrian. After the Iranian Revolution the school is now run by the state and is an all-girls school.

References

Synagogues in Tehran


title: Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Baronet

text:
Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Baronet (1679 – 2 January 1759) of Odell, Bedfordshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1741.

Alston was baptized on 6 September 1679, the fourth son of Sir Rowland Alston, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Temperance Crew, daughter of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew MP, of Stene. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother Sir Thomas Alston, 3rd Baronet, MP, in December 1714. By 1719, he married Elizabeth Raynes, daughter of Captain Thomas Raynes.

Alston was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedfordshire at the contest at the 1722 British general election, and subsequently voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. He was re-elected in contests in  1727 and 1734. He did not stand at the 1741 British general election.

Alston died aged 80 at St Marylebone, Middlesex on 2 January 1759 and was buried at Odell. He left two sons and five daughters and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sons Thomas and then Rowland.

References

1679 births
1759 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
People from the Borough of Bedford
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
British MPs 1722–1727
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
Burials in England


title: El Médico

text:
The term "El Médico" means "The Doctor" in Spanish.  It may refer to:

 Reynier Casamayor Griñán, Cuban singer
 Médico Asesino, Mexican wrestler who also used the ring name El Médico
 El Médico – the Cubaton Story, a 2011 documentary about Reynier Casamayor Griñán directed by Daniel Fridell
 The 1780 painting El médico by Francisco de Goya

See also
Doctor (disambiguation)
El médico de su honra
El médico módico


title: Rhododendron fastigiatum

text:
Rhododendron fastigiatum is a dwarf lepidote rhododendron species with purple flowers native to Yunnan, China. Cultivars include 'Best Dark Purple'.

References

Bibliography

 The Plant List: Rhododendron fastigiatum
 Hirsutum: Rhododendron fastigiatum

fastigiatum


title: Moylussa

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Moylussa () is a mountain in the Slieve Bernagh range in western Ireland, and the highest point in County Clare at .

Geography
It is situated in Kilbane, between the villages of Broadford and Bridgetown, in the east of the county and to the west of Lough Derg and the River Shannon.

Hill walking
There are a number of routes to the summit; one of the most popular ascents starts from the forest car park at Ballycuggaran, Ogonnelloe. The route passes through one of the conifer plantations that have been created on the shoulder of the mountain and other nearby hills by Coillte, the state owned forestry company. The route then follows part of the long-distance path known as the East Clare Way which runs in a circular route from Killaloe and passes along the eastern flanks of Moylussa, but does not ascend to its highest point.

Beyond this the path climbs up into the open area of moorland. Originally this followed a bog road, but this has been improved by Coillte with a new shale track that extends all of the way to the summit, where a new marker stone has also been added.

There are good views from the summit of Lough Derg, Killaloe and the surrounding countryside.
It is sometimes listed as having a twin summit, but recent surveys have shown that the second peak at R6511 7557 is slightly lower. The area around the summit is known to be very boggy.

Slieve Bernagh Mountains
Moylussa is the highest point in the Slieve Bernagh mountain range; other nearby summits includes Cragnamurragh at , Glennagalliagh (, "Witch Valley Mountain") at , and Ballykildea at .

See also
Lists of mountains in Ireland
List of Irish counties by highest point
List of mountains of the British Isles by height
List of Marilyns in the British Isles

References

Marilyns of Ireland
Mountains and hills of County Clare
Highest points of Irish counties


title: William Morrison Wyllie

text:
William Morrison Wyllie (12 December 1820 – 13 March 1895) was a British painter, known for his coastal and maritime subjects. A number of his works are in the Southwark Art Collection. Other collections which hold examples include the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

Early life
Wyllie was born in Aix-les-Bains, Provence, France in 1820 to parents William Wyllie, a gentleman, and Martha Morrison. He was baptised 20 July 1822  in Forfar, Angus.

Career
Wyllie was known for his paintings of maritime and coastal scenes, in both watercolors and oils.  His maritime scenes capture coastal living of the French and British in the nineteenth century.  Wyllie depicted various types of trading sailboats, along with fishermen and women working along the shore-side, revealing the "labourous fishing industry" and highlighting the workers daily struggles.  Other paintings capture traders in past French marketplaces, and The Soldier's Farewell from 1871, captures a young man leaving home to go to war (likely the Franco-Prussian War).

His style is generally loose and Wyllie is known for his ability to capture "large sun-blushed skies and rolling, powerful seas" that "charge his paintings with dramatic moods."

He also painted two interiors of parliament; the first was in 1878 of the House of Commons, and the second was of the House of Lords in 1883. The paintings are said to have "successfully capturing the atmospheres of Britain's political chambers" and both are held in the collection of the Palace of Westminster.

Personal life
In 1851, Wyllie married Katherine Benham (1813–1872), a singer who was the companion of Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, the British Ambassador to Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Sweden, and Portugal, following the death of his first wife in 1826 until Strangford's death. From Katherine's earlier relationship with Strangford, William became stepfather to three children, including the artist Lionel Percy Smythe.  After their marriage, the couple lived in London and Wimereux, France. Together, they were the parents of two sons, who were both successful painters, as was his stepson:

 William Lionel Wyllie (1851–1931)
 Charles William Wyllie (1853–1923)

Wyllie died in Hoo, Kent in 1895.

Descendants
Through his eldest son, William Lionel, he was the grandfather of fellow painter and Lt. Col. Harold Wyllie.

References

External links

1820 births
1895 deaths
British male painters
People from Aix-les-Bains


title: Baqa'a Valley

text:
The Baqa'a Valley, sometimes called Beqa'a Valley, is a fertile agricultural Palestinian area in the West Bank, just east of Hebron. Located in the area are the Palestinian villages Al Bowereh, Al Baqa and Wadi al-Ghrous. The Israeli settlement Givat Harsina abuts on the northern outskirts; Kiryat Arba borders the south. The Valley is occupied by Israel since 1967. Apart from the Israeli settlers, the area is mainly populated by members of the Jaber clan.

Geography
The Palestinian villages Al Baqa and Wadi al-Ghrous are located in the heart of the Baqa'a Valley, between the Israeli settlements Givat Harsina and Kiryat Arba. On the northern outskirts lies the village Al Bowereh (al-Bweireh). To the north, the Valley is enclosed by  Highway 35; Route 60 cuts through the eastern part from Road 35 to the south, along the two settlements.

Israeli occupation

Land confiscation and settlement expansion
The existence of the Palestinian villages in the Baqa'a Valley is endangered by land confiscation by the Israeli military, and the continuing expansion of the settlements Givat Harsina and Kiryat Arba. Givat Harsina continues to expand on land immediately abutting the Baqa'a Valley and constructed an exit road to the main bypass road on the land of ‘Abd al-Jawad Jaber. Settlers continuously create new outposts around the settlements and also east from Route 60.  Palestinian access to the bypass roads 35 and 60 is limited or prohibited.

In January 2002, massive land confiscation accompanied by settlement and road construction in the Baqa'a valley, on both sides of bypass road 60 was documented by Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). In addition to land confiscated specifically for the building of Road 60, the Israeli authorities "have designated an additional "buffer zone" of 180 meters on either side of the road, upon which Palestinians have been forbidden to build on their own land." On 2 October 2003, a new bypass road was opened between Harsina and route 60, to connect Palestinian land confiscated almost a year earlier.

In September 2003, CPT reported the construction of two new bypass roads and a 2 meters high fence on confiscated land, separating about 100 acres of vineyards from Wadi al-Ghrous owners. The IDF confiscated 15.5 acre land for the creation of a road to connect a military basis near Wadi al-Ghrous with a military basis east of Kiryat Arba. The new security road runs at a distance of only 200 metres parallel to the existing road, is 14 meters wide and surrounded by a fence. On 11 December, vineyards were uprooted and Palestinian property destroyed. On 19 December 2003, CPT reported the dumping of rock and stone fill on Palestinian farmland in Wadi al-Ghrous and the leveling of paths with bulldozers for new graveled roads.

On 18 January 2004, settlers guarded by soldiers and armed settlement guards erected a new fence on seized Palestinian farmland between Givat Harsina and Kiryat Arba, about 400 meters from the existing fence line. Some 100 olive trees and 4 wells on his fifty-year-old farm were destroyed. Estimated 2000 dunams of land was in the process of being annexed by the settlement.

CPT warned that the probable purpose of this "creeping annexation" was to prepare the land for construction of new sections of Israel's southern "security fence". Once connected, large portions of about 600 dunams
of Palestinian farm land would be swallowed up. A Palestinian family who earlier lost an even bigger portion of their land, have been terrorized by settlers for years in an attempt to evict the family.

On 1 September 2010, armed settlers started the construction of an outpost east of Route 60, where 4 settlers were killed the previous night. The Israeli army did not stop them, but rather did partially raze the area on which the settlers had been building. Near the Harsina settlement, settlers have built the so-called outpost "Hill 18" or "Mitzpe Avihai". The Hill 18 outpost has already been built, evacuated and rebuilt a number of times.

Farming land and water wells
Palestinians are expelled from their lands; agricultural fields are destroyed, and water systems are destroyed or confiscated by settlers and army. On 2 March 2011, Israeli troops destroyed three Palestinian water wells, one in Al Baqa and two in Wadi al-Ghrous. According to Israel they were built without the requisite permits. On 22 October 2012, again a water well in Wadi al-Ghrous was destroyed.

Demolition of homes and buildings
According to "Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine", in February 2008, the Israeli Civil Administration issued demolition orders for a  health clinic under construction and additional 11 homes and 20 other buildings. The Israeli authorities had refused to grant a building permit.

References

External links
Hebron Governorate Access Restrictions. Al Baqa on OCHA map, near coordinates F 23/24. Map available here.

Hebron Governorate


title: 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Monument

text:
The 14th New Jersey monument is a memorial monument located on the Monocacy battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, United States. It stands to honor the men of the volunteer force that protected the Monocacy Junction during the crucial winter of 1863-1864.  Their halting of Confederate troops from advancing Northward played a significant role in the Union territory control.

Construction and dedication

"The monument is constructed of granite and measures about 24 feet high, topped by a sculpture of an infantry soldier. The front of the monument features a Greek cross along with two bronze tablets.  The 14th New Jersey Monument was the first of five monuments to be erected on the battlefield. The dedication ceremony, held on July 11, 1907, was attended by 180 survivors of the regiment."

The monument was restored and rededicated in 2007.

References

Monuments and memorials in Maryland
1907 sculptures
Granite sculptures in Maryland
1907 establishments in Maryland
Outdoor sculptures in Maryland


title: Peter Johnstone (rugby union)

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Peter Johnstone (9 August 1922 – 18 October 1997) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A backrow forward, Johnstone represented Ashburton County while serving in the army and later Otago at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1949 to 1951. He played 26 matches for the All Blacks—10 as captain—including nine internationals, touring South Africa in 1949 and playing all four tests against the touring 1950 British Lions.

Johnstone was a key member of the Otago Ranfurly Shield team from 1947 to 1950. He continued to support the Taieri club after his playing days and was coach of the first Taieri team to win the Dunedin premier banner, sharing it with University A in 1955.

Johnstone saw that the Taieri club needed a better ground and clubrooms, and he used his bridge-building business to help develop the new ground beside the Silverstream. It was named in his honour. The club has the best grounds in Otago and they are used when inner-city grounds were too wet to play on. The clubrooms are among the biggest in Dunedin.

Johnstone was an Otago selector from 1959 to 1961 and also served as president of the Otago Rugby Football Union.

References

1922 births
1997 deaths
People from Mosgiel
People educated at Taieri College
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Mid Canterbury rugby union players
Otago rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
New Zealand rugby union referees


title: Craig Henriquez

text:
Craig Shelby Henriquez (1958/1959 – August 24, 2023) was an American biomedical engineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at the Duke University, and was the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering. His research interests were in the areas of large-scale computer modeling of the cardiac bidomain and neuroengineering.

Biography
Craig Shelby Henriquez received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from Duke University in 1981. He continued his studies at Duke and received the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in biomedical engineering in 1988. His Ph.D. advisor was Robert Plonsey and his dissertation was titled "Structure and Volume Conductor Effects on Propagation in Cardiac Tissue".

In 1989, Henriquez was appointed Research Assistant Professor in 1989, Assistant Professor in 1991, and Associate Professor in 1998 in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. In 2001, he was named the first Medtronics Visiting Professor of Virtual Electrophysiology, in the Department of Cardiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2003, he and Miguel Nicolelis founded and co-directed the Center for Neuroengineering where they developed a Brain Machine Interface in which electrode arrays were implanted into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm.

Henriquez was elected to serve as the chair of the Duke University's Academic Council from 2009-2011. He was the James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and served as the chairman of the Department of Biomedical engineering from 2011 to 2014. He also served on several journal editorial boards.

Craig Henriquez died on August 24, 2023, at the age of 64.

Awards
 1992, Young Investigator's (FIRST) Award from the NIH 1997,
 2001, the Bass Professor from Duke University .
 2006, elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Selected publications
Articles, a selection

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 .

References

External links
 Duke University faculty profile

1950s births
Year of birth uncertain
2023 deaths
American biomedical engineers
Duke University faculty
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni


The Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010 is in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, in the U.S. state of Washington. Constructed by the United States Forest Service in 1933, the ranger station was inherited by the National Park Service when North Cascades National Park was dedicated in 1968. The ranger station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010 is a wood framed and sided structure, one-and-a-half story tall that is  wide at front and  deep. The front entrance has a small, "gable-roofed entrance
portico with arched stickwork in pediment, supported by wrought iron posts," while the north entrance also had a small gable supported by a king post truss. The gable ends to the east and west are sheathed in board and batten style siding. Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010 is less than  northwest of Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1009.

References

Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Buildings and structures completed in 1933
Buildings and structures in Skagit County, Washington
National Register of Historic Places in Skagit County, Washington
Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest


title: Patriarch Joseph

text:
Patriarch Joseph may refer to:

 Joseph (Genesis), one of the biblical patriarchs
 Joseph I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1266–1275 and 1282–1283
 Patriarch Joseph of Moscow and All Russia, ruled in 1642–1652
 Joseph I (Chaldean Patriarch) (reigned in 1681–1696)
 Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1416–1439
 Joseph II (Chaldean Patriarch), ruled in 1696–1713
 Joseph III (Chaldean Patriarch), ruled in 1713–1757
 Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians for the Syriac Catholic Church since 2009
 Joseph IV,  Maronite Patriarch, ruled in 1644–1648
 Joseph IV (Chaldean Patriarch), ruled in 1757–1780
 Joseph Dergham El Khazen, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in 1733–1742
 Joseph V Augustine Hindi, Patriarch of the Chaldeans for the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1780–1827
 Joseph Estephan, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in 1766–1793
 Joseph VI Audo, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1847–1878
 Joseph Tyan, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in 1796–1809
 Yousef VII Ghanima, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1947–1958
 Patriarch Joseph VIII, Maronite Patriarch in 1823–1845
 Patriarch Joseph IX, Maronite Patriarch in 1845–1854


title: Patriarch Joachim

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Patriarch Joachim may refer to:

 Patriarch Joachim I of Bulgaria (r. 1234–1246)
 Patriarch Joachim I of Constantinople (r. 1498–1502 and 1504)
 Patriarch Joachim of Alexandria (r. 1486–1567, traditional dates)
 Patriarch Joachim of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1674–1690)
 Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople (r. 1860–1863 and 1873–1878)
 Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (r. 1878–1884 and 1901–1912)
 Patriarch Joachim IV of Constantinople (r. 1884–1887)


title: Paraxiphodon

text:
Paraxiphodon is an extinct genus of artiodactyl (family Xiphodontidae) from the Late Eocene of France (Robiac-Nord and Fons). There are two included species, P. teulonensis and P. cournovensis. The genus demonstrated the continued existence of xiphodonts into at least the Lower Oligocene.

References

Tylopoda
Eocene even-toed ungulates
Priabonian life
Eocene mammals of Europe
Paleogene France
Fossils of France
Fossil taxa described in 1978
Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera


title: Penicillium araracuarense

text:
Penicillium araracuarense is a fungus species of the genus of Penicillium  which was isolated from soil from the Colombian Amazon forest

See also
List of Penicillium species

References

araracuarense
Fungi described in 2011


title: Al-Khisal

text:
Al-Khisal () or The Book of Characters by Ibn Babawayh is a book about morals and religious beliefs.

Contents
Al-Khisal contains narrations about ethics, religious beliefs, and other subjects. The book has 26 numbered parts and includes 1,225 hadith. In Al-Khisal, Shaykh Saduq has prepared a collection of traditions in an interesting way. The main themes of the traditions are ethics, manners and good characteristics. All the traditions are presented with a complete record of transmission. Furthermore, they are divided into different groups according to numbers e.g. all the traditions related to the number one are gathered in one part then traditions related to number two and so on. It starts with one and ends with one million. Al-Khisal seems to be the first on record to be compiled with this style. Moreover, Al-Khisal is a great encyclopedia on Islamic knowledge and many authoritative works on Shi'ite traditions such as Bihar Al-Anwar have cited it as a reference. Shaykh Saduq reports: Investigating in works of precedent man of religious sciences and Islamic sages, I find out that they wrote many books in different part of science but it was not written by them along with relations between numbers and good or bad characters alike. I write a book with this harmony for the sake of nearing to Allah.

Validity
While a short book, Al-Khisal is nonetheless counted as a great encyclopedia for Islamic knowledge and forbidden, permissible judgment. It refers also to historical, interpretative, philosophical points and political subjects in the preface, written by Sayyed Ahmad Fehri Zanjani. Also we found interesting book about the Hadith school of Qom.

Authenticity
Along with other books by Ibn Babawayh, Al-Khisal has been studied by jurists and theologians. Most of the book's narrations have been reported by other authentic Shiite books, such as The Four Books and Bihar al-Anwar.

See also
List of Shi'a books

References

External links
 Al-Khisal at the Encyclopedia of Islam

Shia literature
Shia theology books


title: Allied Forces Mediterranean

text:
Allied Forces Mediterranean was a NATO command covering all military operations in the Mediterranean Sea from 1952 to 1967. The command was based at Malta.

History
The British post of Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet was given a dual-hatted role as NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Mediterranean (CINCAFMED) in charge of all forces assigned to NATO in the Mediterranean Area. The British made strong representations within NATO in discussions regarding the development of the Mediterranean NATO command structure, wishing to retain their direction of NATO naval command in the Mediterranean to protect their sea lines of communication running through the Mediterranean to the Middle East and Far East.

Subordinate commands were under discussion in 1954 and 1956. Finally decided were:
 Gibraltar Mediterranean Command (GIBMED) with headquarters at Gibraltar (Rear-Admiral R.A. Foster-Brown, Flag Officer Gibraltar)
 Western Mediterranean Area (Méditerranée Occidentale) (MEDOC) with headquarters at Algiers (French) under French Admiral Philip M.J. Auboyneau (COMEDOC) (who took over from Vice-Admiral A.P. Sala 1 August 1955)
 Central Mediterranean Area (MEDCENT) with headquarters at Naples (Italian) first under Italian Vice-Admiral M.Girosi, and now under Vice-Admiral C. Lubranodi Negozio (COMEDCENT)(1 March 55)
 Eastern Mediterranean Area (MEDEAST) (Aegan and Eastern Ionian Seas) with headquarters at Athens. (Greek Vice-Admiral P.Lappas)
 Northeast Mediterranean Area (MEDNOREAST) with HQ at Ankara (Admiral S. Altincan)
 Southeast Med Area with HQ at Malta (MEDSOUEAST), with personnel drawn from HQ AFMED. (Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet, Vice Admiral Maxwell Richmond (18 August 1955))

It was estimated however, that the expense involved in discharging the international functions of any one of these "headquarters mil be small and that the cost of introducing and administering international financing would be relatively high and uneconomical. Furthermore, at these command levels, national and NATO planning are closely associated and intermixed.'
Therefore [t]he Standing Group, with the concurrence of the Military Representatives Committee, has therefore agreed that these Allied Area Headquarters subordinate to CINCAFMED should be supported by the nation which supports the larger national headquarters within which the international headquarters will be located. This financial arrangement should be without prejudice to decisions as to future financing if these Allied Area Headquarters are significantly expanded."

In 1967, the UK relinquished the NATO post of Commander in Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean, which was disbanded.

Commanders
Commanders included:
Admiral Sir John Edelsten (1952)
Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1952–1954)
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham (1954–1957)
Vice Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards (1957–1958)
Admiral Sir Charles Lambe (1958–1959)
Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley (1959–1961)
Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin (1961–1964)
Admiral Sir John Hamilton (1964–1967)

References

Sources
David Miller, The Cold War: A Military History (note that Miller says the three functional commands (SUBMED, SUBNOREASTMED, and USPATMED) were actually activated, while period documents make clear that at least initially they were approved in principle for wartime use, but not actually established)

Formations of the NATO Military Command Structure 1952–1994
Military units and formations established in 1952
Military units and formations disestablished in 1967
Military of Malta
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma


title: KDS (company)

text:
KDS is a SaaS technology provider for online business travel booking and expense management. It is also known as the Neo Technology Group (NTG) since its acquisition by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). Yves Weisselberger founded the company in 1994 and served as its CEO until 2011. Dean Forbes took the position of CEO after Weisselberger. The company is based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France with additional locations in Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

KDS develops Neo, a cloud-based tool which enables business users to search and book complete door-to-door itineraries, instead of the traditional way of booking individual components. Using Neo, employees also manage business expenses through a calendar-based view instead of the common spreadsheet or line-item report approach. They also develop Neo1, GBT Mobile and SMP (Supply MarketPlace).

History
Yves Weisselberger founded KDS in 1994. In 2011, Weisselberger stepped down as CEO and chose Dean Forbes as his replacement. Weisselberger chose Forbes to take his position because of Forbes's outside perspective.

KDS launched Neo, a self-booking tool in January 2013.  The tool was developed on the concept of booking an entire trip from door to door with a departure location, destination, and required time of arrival. The company also partnered with various payment partners to expand payment methods for transactions completed in the booking tool and a variety of travel inventory suppliers beyond air, rail and hotel to connect such as Groundscope, Snapcar, Addison Lee and Booking.com. In September 2013, KDS signed a five-year contract with Orange, a mobile network operator and internet provider in France, allowing Orange to use Neo for its business.

On January 29, 2014, the company's booking tool gained access to Renfe Operadora's content. KDS gained access after it partnered with SilverRail Technologies. The partnership also gave KDS access to North American rail content via Amtrak and Italy with Trenitalia.

On July 16, 2016, KDS released its latest version of Neo which for the first time combined the functionality of its legacy corporate booking tool, the door-to-door search and calendar-view introduced in Neo under a completely redesigned consumer-grade user interface.

Surveys and studies
KDS released the results of a survey the company took in 2013 asking business travelers about their company's travel safety. The survey found that 15% of travelers believed that their employers were unaware of their whereabouts and that an additional 23% regularly booked outside of the company defined booking processes.

Later that year, KDS and EPSA online surveyed 200 employees of companies of all sizes on expense fraud. Results found that 60% of employees thought cheating mileage expenses was justifiable because the system is poorly organized. 85% of participants stated that they had never cheated in their request for the reimbursement of business expenses. The survey also found that employee reimbursement time on average is 17 days and could take up to month.

In 2016, KDS launched a survey devised to investigate the attitudes, actions and behaviors of UK and U.S. business professionals when booking and managing their work-related travel and reporting travel expenses. The survey questioned over 1,000 participants and revealed that almost one quarter (22%) embellish their business travel expenses by regularly rounding up business mileage claims by 1 and 10 miles per journey.

Applications
KDS developed door-to-door reservations tool Neo to manage travel booking and business travellers. Describing the concept of open booking as "failure dressed up as innovation," Dean Forbes (previous KDS CEO) said KDS will emphasize Neo because he is confident it can sufficiently deter travelers from using alternative, unofficial booking channels. Open booking aims to collect data from bookings that take place on public websites.

Neo
KDS launched Neo, a door-to-door corporate booking tool, in January 2013. The tool provides consumers live street view and map overlays while displaying door-to-door itinerary time lines with steps including walking, driving, biking, rail, hotel, flights and dining. In November 2013, Neo had 11 active clients with over 300,000 profiles.

In 2014, KDS developed the Neo expense solution including an optical character recognition tool, that captures data and turns it into text. The tool aims to get rid of the collection of receipts by uploading them to a user's expense system as a line item. The expense system is calendar based to provide users with context on when and how they incurred an expense.

In 2015, the company rolled out the Neo Move mobile app for the iPhone and Apple Watch, branded as an ‘on-trip companion and guide’ by providing the traveler with real-time, location-based information and the ability to scan expense receipts on the go.

References

Travel management
Travel and holiday companies of France
Software companies of France
Travel technology
Expense
Hospitality companies established in 1994
Software companies established in 1994
French companies established in 1994
Companies based in Île-de-France


title: Marjory Swope

text:
Marjory Mason Swope (1940–2007) was a conservationist, environmentalist, and civic leader. Swope served as executive director of the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions (1981-2006) and chaired the Concord Conservation Commission.

Early life and education

Swope was born in Orange, New Jersey to Virgil and Edith Rae Mason Swope on June 5, 1940. She graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1958. Swope then completed her bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1962.

Civic work

Swope served in multiple civic roles for the city of Concord, New Hampshire. She served on the city council for 11 years (1996-2007) and on the school board for six years (1975-1981). Swope ran the League of Women Voters office in Concord. She also served on the board of directors of the Turkey River Basin Trust and on Groundwork Concord's committee for the improvement of green spaces in the city.

Environmental Honors and Swope Park

Swope earned notoriety as the "grandmother" of local conservation commissions. In 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded her their Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award, one of their highest honors. That year, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests awarded Swope their Sarah Thorne Conservation Award. Swope also had an honorary membership in the New Hampshire Association of Natural Resource Scientists. In 2012, Concord held a ceremony to name a 77-acre park near Long Pond after her. Swope's husband John and her family donated the land for the park to the city.

Family

Swope married John Swope in 1962. John Swope's grandfather, Gerard Swope, served as the third president of General Electric. His father served as the company's international counsel and headed Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.

References

American conservationists
American women environmentalists
Mount Holyoke College alumni
People from Concord, New Hampshire
1940 births
2007 deaths
Activists from New Hampshire
Morristown-Beard School alumni
20th-century American women
21st-century American women


title: Bionic/The Law

text:
"Bionic/The Law" is the debut single by British glam rock band King Adora. The double a-side single was given a limited release on 8 May 2000 on Superior Quality Recordings and reached number 128 on the UK Singles Chart. Both songs would be re-recorded for the band's 2001 debut album, Vibrate You.

Background

Writing and recording
Both songs were recorded at Great Linford Manor in Great Linford, Buckinghamshire in early 2000 and were produced and mixed by Chris Sheldon. The Law included drum machine samples, which were credited on the single's sleeve to "Roland".

Themes
The band explained that Bionic is "about the passionate and cathartic relationship between the band and our audience. The intense connection live. Where everything that hurts and pains everyday doesn't matter any more. Escaping!". The Law is "a tale of seduction and corruption. About getting your leg over with a copper and being caught with your pants down".

Reception
Melody Maker were overwhelmingly positive, giving the single 4.5/5 and commenting "totally unstoppable and deliriously frenzied".

Track listing

CD
 "Bionic"
 "The Law"

7"
 "Bionic"
 "The Law"

Personnel
 Matt Browne – vocals, rhythm guitar
 Martyn Nelson – lead guitar
 Robbie Grimmit – bass
 Dan Dabrowski – drums

Production
 Produced and mixed by Chris Sheldon

References

2000 debut singles
2000 songs
King Adora songs


title: Obrendo Huiswoud

text:
Obrendo Huiswoud (born 6 December 1990) is a Surinamese professional footballer who currently plays for Inter Moengotapoe. As the starting goalkeeper, Huiswoud has also been capped on multiple occasions for the Suriname national football team. Huiswoud also did a trial with W Connection for 2 weeks in 2013.

Honours

Club
Inter Moengotapoe
Hoofdklasse champion: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

Individual

Surinamese Footballer of the Year: 2014

References

1990 births
Living people
Surinamese men's footballers
Suriname men's international footballers
SVB Eerste Divisie players
Inter Moengotapoe players
Men's association football goalkeepers


title: Zargarian Synagogue

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Zargarian Synagogue is a synagogue located in the Amir Abad neighborhood of Tehran. The synagogue was created in an area of  with the help of Abdullah Eliahu Zargarian. With an increase in the number of Jews in Amirabad street, Abdullah Zargarian decided to create the synagogue in 1350 SH (1971–1972 AD). He found a suitable piece of property south of Keshavarz (Elizabeth) Boulevard and he approached the Tehran Jewish Committee with his proposal. He received help from Musa Barlaavi, Esmail Khodadadi, and Musa Sassooni. The Tehran Jewish Committee and the Jews of Tehran helped him in his endeavors and the head of Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) in Iran, Mr. Cohenka, pledged help if Abdullah Zargarian creates an Alliance school as well. The plan was fetched and it was sent to the AIU headquarters in France and after 45 days Manuchehr Kohan was selected as the chief architect. The plan started in 1350 AH and was finished in 1352 AH (1973–1974 AD).

The synagogue was constructed by Manuchehr Kohan and Hoshang Hassidim in four floors and can hold 500 people. Abdullah Daghighian was selected as the principal of the Alliance school by the Alliance headquarters in France.

References

Synagogues in Tehran


title: Langlifjellet

text:
Langlifjellet ("The long hillside mountain") is a mountain in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has peaks with heights of 1,011, 973 and 885 m.a.s.l. respectively. The mountain is surrounded by the mountains of Sven Nilssonfjellet, Bassøefjellet, and Steindolptoppen, and the glaciers of Løyndbreen, Lundbreen and Langlibreen. The valley of Langlidalen separates Langlifjellet and Sven Nilssonfjellet from the mountain of Rånekampen.

References

Mountains of Spitsbergen


title: Ramon Barba

text:
Ramon Cabanos Barba  (August 31, 1939 – October 10, 2021) was a Filipino inventor and horticulturist best known for inventing a way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate. Barba was proclaimed a National Scientist of the Philippines in June 2014.

Early life and education
The son of  Juan Madamba Barba and Lourdes Cabanos of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Barba was born on August 31, 1939, the youngest of four siblings. He finished his elementary schooling at Sta. Rosa Academy in 1951.  After high school, he went to the University of the Philippines, where orchid researcher Helen Layosa Valmayor became his biology laboratory instructor.

Barba then took up a Bachelor of Science course in agriculture at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, majoring in Agronomy and Fruit Production, eventually graduating in 1958. His grandfather, Juan Cabanos, was an official of the Bureau of Plants and Industry (BPI); his instructor, L.G. Gonzales, is considered the "father of Philippine horticulture."

Career in horticulture

Graduate studies
Barba received a scholarship from the University of Georgia where he began conducting experiments on inducing the flowering of plants using gibberellic acid and potassium nitrate as a fertilizer. He graduated with distinction with a Master of Science in Horticulture from the university in 1962.

Barba then took up a PhD course in plant physiology, specializing in Tropical Fruits and Tissue Culture from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, graduating in 1967.

Induction of flowering of the mango by chemical spray
There were initial objections to Barba's research proposals for inducing flowering in mango.  He conducted experiments with help from his friends Jose and Rita Quimson of Quimara Farms in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. Previously, mangoes were only available in the Philippines in May; owing to Barba's innovation as initially tested at Quimara Farms, mango trees can be induced to flower out of season using potassium nitrate and not only in May, which would lead to fruiting several times a year without harming the plants, drastically elevated the productivity of the mango farms. His study, titled Induction of Flowering of the Mango by Chemical Spray was named best paper by the Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) in 1974. Barba was recognized as one of the  Ten Outstanding Young Men in Agriculture that same year.

In an interview released by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2011, Barba recounts that he did not initially file a patent for his method, wanting farmers to be able to use the technique freely.  Eventually, though, somebody else tried to patent the process, so Barba preemptively filed a patent application, choosing simply not to charge royalties for the use of his method.

In 2001, Barba also cautioned fruit farmers that "too much flower inducer spraying (is) bad for mangoes".

Other studies
Barba advanced the research on various tropical crops besides mangoes. His many research breakthroughs include banana micropropagation and tissue culture of sugarcane and tissue culture of calamansi, all of which have lasting impacts on the respective agribusiness potentials of these commodities.

Death
Barba died on October 10, 2021, at the age of 82. A state funeral was accorded to Barba, who was laid to rest at the Heroes’ Cemetery in Taguig on October 16.

External links

Proclamation no. 783, s. 2014

References

1939 births
2021 deaths
Filipino inventors
Horticulturists
People from Ilocos Norte
University of the Philippines Los Baños alumni
University of Georgia alumni
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
National Scientists of the Philippines


title: Sharon Center

text:
Sharon Center may refer to the following places in the United States:

 Sharon Center, Iowa
 Sharon Center, Ohio


title: Becca Stevens (priest)

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The Rev. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, Episcopal priest, social entrepreneur, founder and president of Thistle Farms in Nashville, Tennessee. She is notable for founding Magdalene in 1997, now called Thistle Farms, to heal, empower, and employ female survivors of human trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. She was the 2000 Nashvillian of the Year and in 2013 was inducted into the Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame.

Biography
Becca Stevens was born on April 1, 1963, in Connecticut to Anne and the Rev. Gladston Hudson Stevens, Jr. When she was four years old, her family relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, and a year later, her father was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. After completing her secondary education at John Overton High School, Stevens enrolled in her father's alma mater, The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, studying math. When she graduated, she completed an internship at Bread for the World and led the Kanuga Conference Center's youth program near Hendersonville, North Carolina, before returning to Nashville in 1987. Stevens enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she met her future husband Marcus Hummon, whom she married in 1988. During her schooling, she volunteered in projects to help homeless women and those dealing with addiction.

Stevens was ordained in June 1991 and gave birth to her first child the following month. After her ordination, Stevens began working at the Church of the Resurrection in Franklin, Tennessee, continuing her work with those in need. When in 1995, the chaplain of St. Augustine’s Chapel at Vanderbilt retired, Stevens accepted the post. She founded Magdalene in 1997, a two-year residential program for former prostitutes overcoming addiction and wanting to restart their lives. In 2001, she started Thistle Farms, which employs the same group of women to make home and body products sold in stores like Whole Foods and on thistlefarms.org.  In 2013, Thistle Farms opened a café, employing survivors of prostitution, trafficking, and addiction as baristas.

She has written several books, including nine published by Abingdon Press. Her 2013 memoir, Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling, "details her own sexual abuse and healing and how her ministry has led to the founding of Thistle Farms," and was reported by The Tennessean as an area bestseller. She has received many local awards as well as being designated a White House Champion of Change in 2011. In 2016, Becca was named a CNN Top Hero of the Year for her work with Thistle Farms and Magdalene.

Books

 Co-written with the Women of Magdalene.

Love Heals. HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson. 2017. .

Awards
The Frist Foundation and the Academy of Women in Achievement
Nashvillian of the Year by the Nashville Scene, 2000
A Tennessean of the Year by The Tennessean, 2005
"NEXT Award" as an Entrepreneur of the Year by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, 2011
A White House "Champion of Change", 2011
Top 10 CNN Hero of the Year, 2016

Personal life
She is married to Grammy-winning country music artist Marcus Hummon, and has three children.

References

External links
Becca Stevens' official website
Thistle Farms website

Living people
American chaplains
University and college chaplains in America
American Episcopal priests
Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
Vanderbilt University staff
Religious leaders from Nashville, Tennessee
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: 1999 Havant Borough Council election

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The 1999 Havant Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Conservative 16
Liberal Democrats 11
Labour 8
Independent 3
Liberal 1
Others 3

Election result

References

1999 English local elections
Havant Borough Council elections
1990s in Hampshire


title: Pol-e-Choobi Synagogue

text:
Pol-e-Choobi Synagogue or Talmood Torah is a synagogue located near the Sepah Square in Tehran, Iran.

See also
 Talmud Torah

External links
 Official website
 Photos

References

Synagogues in Tehran


title: Smoulder (song)

text:
"Smoulder" is the third single by British glam rock band King Adora. The single was released on 23 October 2000 on Superior Quality Recordings and reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart. The song would later be included as the opening track on the band's 2001 debut album, Vibrate You.

Background

Writing and recording
Smoulder appeared in King Adora's live sets during 2000 and would go on to be played at every show for the rest of their career. The song was recorded at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall and produced and mixed by John Cornfield.

Themes
The band stated that Smoulder is "about never being able to have what you want. About hiding from yourself. About hiding your despair in sleaze and pointless sex". Matt Browne commented that the song is "about two people who are perfectly matched, emotionally, sexually, spiritually connecting, that perfect thing. But at the same time the more intense the passion, the more intense the paranoia and the destructive side. It's a negative form of love, but it started out trying to put it on a pedestal. You can't escape the destruction that it causes". The song is also based on Browne's personal experiences, saying "there's no point falling for someone unless it's passionately, no matter how fleeting. How many times has it happened? Maybe twenty".

B-sides
Two b-sides were released on the single, Massive Ego and Loved. Both songs were recorded at Woodbine Street Recording Studios in Royal Leamington Spa. John Rivers engineered and co-produced the recordings with the band. Neither song was performed live.

Video
The Smoulder release was accompanied by King Adora's second music video. The video features the band playing the song in a cramped cardboard box, which had been dropped from the sky onto a pavement. Towards the end of the song, the box is picked up by removals men and placed into a stack of boxes in the back of a truck, from which it falls.

Reaction
Melody Maker described the track as "a Supergrass-meet-the-Pixies affair with, crucially, the Daleks on backing vocals and thus the most deranged and brilliantly libidinous pop fancy since Gay Dad's good song".

Track listing

CD
 "Smoulder"
 "Massive Ego"
 "Loved"

7"
 "Smoulder"
 "Massive Ego"

Personnel
 Matt Browne – vocals, rhythm guitar
 Martyn Nelson – lead guitar
 Robbie Grimmit – bass
 Dan Dabrowski – drums

Production
 Smoulder – Produced and mixed by John Cornfield
 Massive Ego, Loved – Produced by King Adora and John Rivers, engineered by John Rivers

References

2000 singles
King Adora songs
2000 songs


title: Andrei Rădulescu

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Andrei Rădulescu (28 November 1880 – 30 September 1959) was a Romanian jurist. He served as President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice from 1938 to 1940, and as president of the Romanian Academy from 1946 to 1948.

Early life
He was born in Chiojdeanca, Prahova County. His parents belonged to the moșnean class of landowning peasants. He had one sister who survived into adulthood. He attended primary school in his village between 1887 and 1893, enrolling in the Peter and Paul High School in Ploiești in 1894. He graduated from the University of Bucharest's law faculty in 1905, completing courses at its literature and philosophy faculty the following year, and earning both degrees magna cum laude.

Career

Academic
He began teaching international public law at the School of State Sciences in September 1913, remaining on its faculty until his resignation in autumn 1940. He was a teaching assistant at the law faculty from 1916 to 1920, focusing on the history of Romanian private law. At the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies, where he taught from 1918 to 1947, when he was obliged to retire, he taught civil, international, commercial and constitutional law. Finally, he taught international public law at a school for soldiers (1920–1940) and one for officers (1931–1940).

He wrote over 200 publications in the social sciences, primarily in the legal field.

In June 1919, Rădulescu was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and included in its history section. A year later, upon the proposal of Vasile Pârvan, he was elevated to titular member, occupying the seat previously held by A. D. Xenopol. His opening speech, delivered in June 1922, was called "Romanian culture in the last century". Becoming secretary of the history section in 1923, he was elected vice president ten times between 1926 and 1945. He was president of the academy from May 1946 to 10 June 1948. He lost his leadership position when the new Communist regime revamped the academy, although he was allowed to remain a member. Starting in 1944, he helped lay the groundwork for the academy's legal research institute, which opened in 1954 and carries his name since 2006.

Jurist
During his academic career, Rădulescu rose in rank in the court system, beginning as a substitute judge at the Argeș County tribunal in April 1907. In 1908, he became a full judge and transferred to the Bucharest-headquartered Ilfov County court in 1910. Declared exempt from service in World War I, he remained as a judge in the capital that was occupied by the Central Powers, taking a hard line against abuses committed by the temporary authorities.

In 1920 he was promoted to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, rising to the High Court of Cassation and Justice in 1925. Initially presiding over one of its panels, he became president of the entire court in June 1938, under the National Renaissance Front regime. While in this position, in which he acquired a reputation for erudition, he contributed to the 1939 law establishing a fourth court panel and consequent increase in the number of judges, relaunched an updated court publication, obtained pay raises for judges and pushed for a new headquarters, considering the Palace of Justice to be insufficient. On 6 September 1940, the day King Carol II abdicated, a decree removed Rădulescu from the court presidency.

Selected bibliography
Din viața și activitatea lui Andronache Donici (1906)
Privire asupra organizării judecătorești din Dobrogea veche de la anexare până azi (1914)
Pravilistul Flechtenmacher (1916)
Studii de drept civil (1920)
Cultura juridică românească în ultimul secol (1923)
Viaţa juridică și administrativă a satelor (1927)
Izvoarele Codului Calimachi (1927)
Influența belgiană asupra dreptului românesc (1931)
Originalitatea dreptului românesc (1933)
Romanitatea dreptului nostru (1939)
Dreptul românesc în Basarabia (1943)

Personal life
In November 1918, Rădulescu married Constanța Grajdănescu (1896–1952), a member of an old boyar family whose father had been a Senator during the Romanian War of Independence. Their first son died just after being born; another son and three daughters followed.

Upon his death in 1959, he was buried alongside his wife at Bellu cemetery in his red judge's robe. By that time, he was the earliest member of the academy, and his colleagues held a memorial session in his honor.

He received the Order of the Crown, Knight (1913), the Order of the Star of Romania, Commander (1922) and the Order of Labor, First Class (1956).

References

Sources
 Academician Andrei Rădulescu (1880–1959) at the Academician Andrei Rădulescu Institute for Juridical Studies site
 Andrei Rădulescu at the Bucharest Court of Appeals site

1880 births
1959 deaths
People from Prahova County
Presidents of the Romanian Academy
20th-century Romanian judges
High Court of Cassation and Justice judges
University of Bucharest alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
Academic staff of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Scholars of constitutional law
International law scholars
Romanian people of World War I
Commanders of the Order of the Star of Romania
Knights of the Order of the Crown (Romania)


title: Suffocate (King Adora song)

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"Suffocate" is the fourth single by British glam rock band King Adora. The single was released on 19 February 2001 on Superior Quality Recordings and reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's first Top 40 single. The song would be included as the closing track on the band's debut album, Vibrate You and frequently closed their live shows.

Background

Writing and recording
Suffocate was written on a bunk bed in Sawmills Studios in Cornwall by Matt Browne and Martyn Nelson during recording sessions for their debut album Vibrate You in late 2000. Nelson revealed it was "a special moment" when Browne played the chords and Nelson came up with the song's opening riff. They quickly agreed that Suffocate would be "a good song". Suffocate was produced and mixed by John Cornfield. Like other songs recorded for Vibrate You, Suffocate contains programmed drum loops which made up a backing track for the recording and live performances.

Themes
Browne called Suffocate "an anti-love song, destruction of something beautiful". He was inspired to write the song's lyrics after returning from a tour to find his then-girlfriend had died. Browne never had the chance to say he was sorry before her passing and the song became a way of conveying his emotions. On the band's 2012 Who Do You Love? | The King Adora Story documentary he revealed that "things weren't well at all, most of it my fault, because I was too much caught up in the lifestyle of being on the road and ignoring what's real".

B-sides
Three b-sides were released on the single, Aceface, Into Space and Drink Don't Think. All three songs were recorded at Woodbine Street Recording Studios in Royal Leamington Spa and were produced by the band and Dan Sprigg, with Sprigg and Jamie Travers mixing. Into Space featured the only use of trumpets on a King Adora song. Aceface would occasionally appear in the band's live sets during 2001 and was included as a bonus track on the Enhanced CD version of Vibrate You.

Video
The Suffocate release was accompanied by King Adora's third music video, directed by Dan Crouch. Crouch commented that in the video "the band is taken over by an apparition that travels into the room through the chandelier".

Reception
In a poor review, NME said "it's only marginally sexier, in fact, than Darius off Popstars doing Britney". Drowned in Sound were positive, rating the single 8/10 and commenting "if they can produce more of this, they may not be as throwaway as they first appeared".

Track listing

Enhanced CD 1
 "Suffocate"
 "Aceface"
 "Smoulder" (video)

Enhanced CD 2
 "Suffocate"
 "Into Space"
 "Drink Don't Think"
 "Suffocate" (video)

7"
 "Smoulder"
 "Aceface"

Personnel
 Matt Browne – vocals, rhythm guitar
 Martyn Nelson – lead guitar
 Robbie Grimmit – bass
 Dan Dabrowski – drums

Production
 Suffocate – Produced and mixed by John Cornfield
 Aceface, Into Space, Drink Don't Think – Produced by King Adora and Dan Sprigg, mixed by Dan Sprigg and Jamie Travers

References

2001 singles
King Adora songs
2001 songs