title: 2014 Rogers Cup – Men's singles

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Roger Federer in the final, 7–5, 7–6(7–3) to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2014 Canadian Open. Tsonga became the first man to defeat Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Federer in the same tournament since Rafael Nadal at the 2008 Hamburg Masters.

Rafael Nadal was the reigning champion, but withdrew due to a right-wrist injury.

Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.

 Novak Djokovic (third round)
 Roger Federer (final)
 Stan Wawrinka (third round)
 Tomáš Berdych (third round)
 David Ferrer (quarterfinals)
 Milos Raonic (quarterfinals)
 Grigor Dimitrov (semifinals)
 Andy Murray (quarterfinals)
  (withdrew because of a right foot injury)
 John Isner (first round)
 Ernests Gulbis (second round)
  Richard Gasquet (third round, withdrew because of an abdominal strain)
 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (champion)
 Roberto Bautista Agut (first round)
 Marin Čilić (third round)
 Fabio Fognini (second round)
 Tommy Robredo (third round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Qualifying

Seeds

 Marinko Matosevic (qualifying competition, retired, )
 Benjamin Becker (first round)
 Bernard Tomic (qualified)
 Tobias Kamke (qualified)
 Matthew Ebden (first round)
 Benoît Paire (qualified)
 Tim Smyczek (qualified)
 Malek Jaziri (qualifying competition,  lucky loser)
 Yūichi Sugita (qualifying competition)
 Michael Russell (qualified)
 James Duckworth (qualifying competition)
 Vincent Millot (qualifying competition)
 Michaël Llodra (qualifying competition)
 Thanasi Kokkinakis (qualified)

Qualifiers

Lucky losers

  Malek Jaziri

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

References
General

Specific

Rogers Cup
2014 Rogers Cup


title: Than Aung

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Than Aung (, ) is a former Minister for the Ministry of Health of Myanmar (Burma). He previously served as Deputy Minister for Ministry of Health, Member of Naypyidaw Council and director of Myanmar Army Medical Corps.

Criticism
He is a former military physician and close to former military general Than Shwe. His appointment of the military officers to the Ministry of Health in August 2015 was faced with a strong opposition from medical fellows, known as Black Ribbon Movement Myanmar.

References

Burmese military personnel
Politicians from Yangon
Burmese military doctors
Living people
Union Solidarity and Development Party politicians
Health ministers of Myanmar
Year of birth missing (living people)


Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) is a Forestry Research institute situated in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. It works under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of  the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding is a national institute formed in April, 1988 under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), an autonomous council under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. To identify and evolve varieties of species used in afforestation and social forestry that will contribute to the national goal of achieving a growth of 3 to 4 cubic meters of biomass per ha per year within the ecological considerations applicable to the area.

See also
 Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education

References

1988 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Government agencies established in 1988
Forest research institutes
Forestry agencies in India
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Sports venues in Coimbatore
Environmental organisations based in India


title: Serhii Priadun

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Serhii Anatoliyovych Priadun (; born October 11, 1974, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired amateur Ukrainian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. He won three medals (two silver and one bronze) at the European Championships, scored a fourth-place finish in the 120-kg division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in New York City, New York, United States, and also represented his nation Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Priadun trained full-time for Tavira Wrestling Club in Simferopol, under his personal coach Vitali Karassov.

Priadun qualified for the Ukrainian squad, as a 30-year-old, in the men's 120 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, he placed fourth and guaranteed a spot on Ukraine's wrestling team from the World Championships, losing to Iran's Alireza Rezaei for the bronze medal. Priadun lost two straight matches each to 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Alexis Rodríguez of Cuba (0–8) and Nestoras Batzelas of Greece (0–5) without obtaining a single point, leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing last out of 20 wrestlers in the final standings.

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
European Wrestling Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Kharkiv Oblast


title: Louis Herbert

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Louis Herbert (born 27 June 1994) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Herbert was recruited by  from the North Ballarat Rebels with the 4th pick in the 2014 rookie draft. He made his debut in round 18, 2014 against the Brisbane Lions. He was delisted by  at the conclusion of the 2015 AFL season.

Statistics

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! colspan=3| Career
! 3
! 0
! 0
! 7
! 4
! 11
! 1
! 7
! 0.0
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Personal life
Louis Herbert attended Emmanuel College Warrnambool.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Gold Coast Football Club players
Greater Western Victoria Rebels players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
North Ballarat Football Club players


title: Charlotte Parry

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Charlotte Jane Parry (born 16 August 1976)  is a British actress.

Personal life
Born in Birmingham, England. She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1999. She is also a painter and has trained as a midwife.

Career
After graduating from LAMDA, she moved to New York City to make her Broadway debut in 2000 as Debbie in the Tony Award winning revival of The Real Thing that starred Jennifer Ehle. In 2007, she returned to Broadway to appear in the play Coram Boy and in 2011 she played Cecily Cardew in the Tony winning revival of The Importance of Being Earnest that starred Brian Bedford.

In 2013, Parry played Catherine Winslow in The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan.

Off-Broadway, Parry appeared as Phoebe in Peter Hall's 2005 production of As You Like It at BAM that starred Hall's daughter, Rebecca Hall.

Parry played Nat in the 2007 Roundabout Theatre Company production of Howard Katz by Patrick Marber and in 2008 she played Hilda in The Master Builder at the Irish Repertory Theatre and Shazza in Rainbow Kiss at 59E59 Theaters.

In 2010, she played Judith in Equivocation at the Manhattan Theatre Club and in 2011 she played Angela in Bluebird by Simon Stephens at the Atlantic Theater Company. In 2012 Parry played Helena Charles in Look Back in Anger at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

In 2013, Parry played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Old Globe Theatre.

She was also a member of Sam Mendes's The Bridge Project in 2009 at BAM, which included her performing in The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard.

Parry also is known for lending her voice to audio books, having narrated over 40.

References

External links

Living people
English stage actresses
English voice actresses
1976 births


title: Charles Dignum

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Charles Dignum (c. 1765 – 29 March 1827) was a popular tenor singer, actor and composer of English birth and Irish parentage who was active in recital, concert and theatre stage, mainly in London, for about thirty years.

Origins and early training
Charles was the son of an Irish Roman Catholic tailor, whose home and business moved from Rotherhithe to Lincoln's Inn Fields during the boy's childhood. He became a chorister in the Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street, where he was taken on as a vocal pupil by Samuel Webbe, the organist. The boy had plans to enter the church, but was apprenticed by his father to a carver-gilder, with whom, however, he soon fell out, and after some months he articled himself to Thomas Linley the elder, the composer and singing master.

Career
Linley launched him on his public career in spring 1784, at first in the Handel memorial concerts at Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon, and then at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where he first appeared as Young Meadows in Love in a Village: 'His figure was rather unfavourable for the part, but his voice was so clear and full-toned, and his manner of singing so judicious, that he was received with great applause.' His next role was Cymon in Michael Arne's opera. In a busy first year he was well-received, appearing in various roles, and made his place alongside many well-established performers. 'On the removal of the elder Bannister to the Royalty Theatre, Dignum succeeded to a caste of parts more suited to his person and his voice, which was a fine tenor. Amongst other characters those of Hawthorn' (Love in a Village) 'and Giles' (The Maid of the Mill) (libretti by Isaac Bickerstaffe, 1762 and 1765 respectively) 'particularly suited him: indeed he was thought superior in them to any actor that had appeared since the days of John Beard, their original representative.' Dignum was the original performer of Crop the miller, in Stephen Storace's No song, no supper, and of Abdalla in Storace's Dido, Queen of Carthage. He was also well known as Tom Tug in Dibdin's The Waterman, in which role there is an illustration of him in the Garrick Club.

His career progressed, principally at Drury Lane, in musical theatre (mainly ballad opera) and pantomime, in lesser roles in Shakespearean theatre. He remained a popular choice in ballad recitals, singing much at Ranelagh Gardens and in taverns: in the summer seasons he continued singing at Vauxhall Gardens until at least 1810. He was specially associated with the songs of James Hook, but also composed and arranged many songs both for his own use and for others to perform.

Character and fortune
He and William Shield, Charles Incledon, Charles Bannister, 'Jack' Johnstone, Charles Ashley and William Parke (oboeist) in 1793 formed themselves into 'The Glee Club', a set which met on Sunday evenings during the season at the Garrick's Head Coffee House in Bow Street, once a fortnight, for singing among themselves and dining together. A project to erect a bust to Dr Thomas Arne, which this group proposed to fund by charitable performances, was vetoed by the management of Covent Garden.

His obituarist remarked, 'Dignum, with many ludicrous eccentricities, was an amiable, good-natured, jolly fellow.' He married Miss Rennett, the daughter of an attorney, whose fortune helped to sustain them. After her death he suffered a period of 'mental derangement' in misery at her loss, and also suffered from much unhappiness when his granddaughter was kidnapped for a period, for which the offender was prosecuted and transported. A contemporary of the great Michael Kelly, of Charles Incledon and (latterly) of John Braham, he had to work hard for public favour and to withstand attacks referring to his humble origins, his religion and his physical ungainliness (he became quite fat): but, having obtained respect for his skills and good character, he held his place in the affection of his admirers, made large sums at his benefits in later years, and was able to retire with some fortune. He died of inflammation of the lungs in Gloucester Street, London, aged 62 in 1827.

There are various portraits and illustrations of Charles Dignum.

References

External links

1765 births
1827 deaths
18th-century English male actors
English male stage actors
English opera singers
English tenors
People from Rotherhithe


title: Deadline Gallipoli

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Deadline Gallipoli is an Australian television drama mini-series, first screened on Foxtel's Showcase channel on 19 and 20 April 2015. The two-part series explores the Gallipoli Campaign from the point of view of war correspondents Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Charles Bean, Keith Murdoch, and Phillip Schuler. The show was produced by the Australian producer John Schwarz.

Cast
 Joel Jackson as Charles Bean
 Sam Worthington as Phillip Schuler
 Hugh Dancy as Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
 Ewen Leslie as Keith Murdoch
 Charles Dance as General Hamilton
 Rachel Griffiths as Lady Hamilton
 Anna Torv as Lady Gwendoline Churchill
 Jessica De Gouw as Vera Grant
 James Fraser as Bazley
 Laurence Boxhall as Jimmy Paradise
 Luke Ford as Charlie Hodson
 Bryan Brown as General Bridges
 Daniel Wyllie as Captain Frank Elliot
 John Bell as Lord Kitchener
 Huw Higginson as General Birdwood
 Robert Rabiah as Mehmet
 Nick Pelomis as Michaelis
 Justin Smith as Lester Lawrence

Accolades

References

External links

 Official Website
 Production website

2010s Australian drama television series
English-language television shows
World War I television drama series
ANZAC (Australia)
Television series by Matchbox Pictures
Films directed by Michael Rymer
Films about the Gallipoli campaign


title: Ziabar (Gaskar)

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Ziabar (formerly Gaskar), is a hamlet in Gilan Province, Iran at 37°25'48" N, 49°15'0" E.

Ziabar has a population of approximately 4,500. Two rivers flow through it, both of which empty into Anzali Lagoon. Ziabar's residents speak Gilaki but many Tat, Taylish, and Azeri immigrants also live there. The settlement is known for its high quality rice, kitchen gardens, and surrounding spruce tree forests.

According to historical documents, Ziabar was founded around 800 years ago. It is thought Ziabar was originally located at a different site, now a ruin. Most likely, the plague wiped out a significant number of early residents, causing the remaining Ziabari people to immigrate to the town's present place.

Populated places in Gilan Province


title: Pilluni (Apurímac-Cusco)

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Pilluni (Aymara pillu crown or cord which some indigenous peoples use to tighten their hair, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a crown" or "the one with a pillu", Hispanicized spelling Pillune) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, and in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Pilluni lies northeast of Hatunqullpa at the Hatun Qullpa valley (Jatun Collpa). The waters of its intermittent stream flow to the Qañawimayu.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Apurímac Region
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: The Sea of Trees

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The Sea of Trees is a 2015 American drama mystery film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Chris Sparling. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts, Katie Aselton and Jordan Gavaris.

The film is about an American man who attempts suicide in Aokigahara, an infamous suicide hotspot in Japan, where he meets a Japanese man who is there for the same reason. Principal photography began on July 28, 2014, in Foxborough, Massachusetts; the production moved to Japan in September of the same year. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

The film was released on August 26, 2016, by A24. It received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing mere $825,577 on a $25 million budget.

Plot
Arthur Brennan, an adjunct physics professor, travels to Aokigahara ("The Suicide Forest") with a sealed package. Once there, he attempts to end his life via drug overdose but encounters a Japanese man named Takumi Nakamura. Takumi entered the forest two days prior and slit his wrists because he was demoted at work, but soon realized he would miss his wife and daughter. Since then, he has tried to escape the dense sea of trees but cannot find the trail back. Arthur decides to help but the two end up disoriented and lost. To keep their minds occupied, they share details about their lives, including the names of Takumi's wife and daughter: "Kiiro" and "Fuyu."

Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Arthur lived in a crumbling marriage alongside his wife Joan, a real estate agent. Joan resented Arthur for his affair with Gabriella, his coworker, and always putting his own needs before their needs as a couple. Arthur despised Joan's alcoholism and constant need to demean him for earning less money than her. One night, Joan suffers a heavy nosebleed after a vicious argument. They go to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Joan and Arthur slowly rekindle their love for each other. After her surgery, they reminisce about trips to their lake house where Joan would spend hours walking amongst the orchids. He says he will take her there when she is fully recovered.

Joan is transported to a recovery hospital. Arthur follows behind the ambulance in his car while talking to her on the phone. He jokes about not knowing what her favorite color or season is. Before Joan can respond, a truck plows into the ambulance, killing her. At her funeral, Arthur tells the funeral director he did not really know her even after being married for years. The director replies he overheard one of Joan's sisters saying she mailed a copy of Joan's favorite book to Arthur's house.

Back in the present, Arthur and Takumi struggle to escape the forest. They survive falls, a flash flood, dehydration, and hypothermia over the course of a single night. Along the way, they encounter the bodies of others who succeeded in ending their lives. They take refuge in a tent with a corpse who brought emergency supplies with him. Sitting by a campfire, Arthur tells Takumi he is in the forest because of his guilt over how he and Joan treated each other.

The next morning, Arthur leaves an ill Takumi by the tent to try and find help. He promises Takumi he will come back for him. Arthur uses the walkie-talkie from the deceased camper and makes contact with the park rangers. He tries to help but is too weak to inform them that Takumi is still in the forest.

12 days later, Arthur is being evaluated by a hospital psychiatrist before his release. His plans are to return to the forest and find Takumi; the psychiatrist informs him that the rangers found the tent he spoke of but did not find anyone there. She also claims that there is no one by the name of Takumi Nakamura who has a wife and daughter with the names Takumi mentioned, and that the camera at the entrance to the park only shows Arthur entering the forest.

Arthur returns to the forest and finds the unopened package he left behind when he first found Takumi. Arthur locates the tent and coat he used to cover Takumi for warmth but finds a beautiful orchid in Takumi's place. He remembers Takumi describing the forest as a form of purgatory, where the spirits of your loved ones are closest during your darkest moments. He opens the package containing Joan's favorite book: a copy of Hansel and Gretel. Arthur realizes that Takumi was Joan's spirit and is helping him heal his guilt.

Arthur returns to the United States and brings the orchid with him. During office hours, Arthur's student Eric reveals that the names of Takumi's wife and daughter are not names but words that mean "yellow" and "winter." Arthur remembers the last conversation he had with his wife about her favorite color and season. He travels to the lake house and plants the orchid in Joan's garden.

Cast
Matthew McConaughey as Arthur Brennan, Joan’s husband
Ken Watanabe as Takumi Nakamura
Naomi Watts as Joan Brennan, Arthur’s wife
Katie Aselton as Gabriella Laforte, a woman who had an affair with Arthur.
Jordan Gavaris as Eric

Production

The project was first announced in December 2013.   Matthew McConaughey joined the cast in February 2014  with Naomi Watts joining in May of that year  The film's international distribution was sold to different companies at 2014 Cannes Film Festival, which includes Entertainment One to handle the rights for UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions to handle for Eastern Europe, Pan-Latin America and Scandinavia. On August 15, Katie Aselton joined the cast to play a woman who has an affair with McConaughey's character.

Filming
On May 15, 2014, McConaughey and director Van Sant talked about the upcoming film which was officially slated to start on July 15, Van Sant said, "My latest feelings is to try to shoot in Japan, if it's too difficult, we would probably go to the northwest in the States, where the land is very similar." The film's budget was set at $25 million with McConaughey receiving a $3.5 million salary.

The principal photography of the film began on July 28, 2014, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The crews were filming deep in the woods in the Purgatory Chasm, Sutton, Massachusetts, where they were also using the recreation hall and chapel at Cocasset River Recreation Area, which they scheduled to rent again on August 14. Publicist Gregg Brilliant said, "The film makers looked at about half a dozen places around the country. The story takes place in Japan and the Northeast United States, and we chose Massachusetts. It's a beautiful location."

Shooting began in Massachusetts through September, after which filming moved to Japan. The filming wrapped-up on September 30, 2014, in Massachusetts and Japan, with post-production beginning in Los Angeles.

Release
The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2015. Prior to, Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate acquired U.S distribution rights to the film. A24 later acquired distribution rights, after Roadside and Lionsgate dropped the film for unknown reasons. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on August 26, 2016.

Reception
The Sea of Trees was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 17%, based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The consensus states, "Dull, maudlin, and fundamentally empty, The Sea of Trees extinguishes the contributions of a talented cast and marks a depressing low point in director Gus Van Sant's career." On Metacritic the film has a score of 23 out of 100 score, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

At its May 2015 debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was met with harsh critical reception; it was loudly booed and laughed at by an audience of critics, with critic Scott Foundas calling it a film "for nobody." Some critics were more impressed by the film; Pete Hammond wrote "Their film deserves a better fate" and he praised its "pared sentimentality." While Hammond was also impressed with the "beautiful lush score", others found it "cloying" and "ever-present."

Critic Richard Mowe stated this audience reaction should "give the film’s creative team pause for reflection about exactly where they went so badly awry." Justin Chang, chief film critic for Variety, deemed the film "dramatically stillborn, commercially unpromising", though Chang did single out the film's aesthetic as noteworthy, stating "Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen works wonders with the forest’s softly diffused light by day, and makes exquisite use of a campfire to illuminate McConaughey’s and Watanabe’s faces at night." He also described co-star Naomi Watts as "solidly moving and sometimes awesomely passive-aggressive." Nonetheless, he concludes that the film is, "Almost impressive in the way it shifts from dreary two-hander to so-so survival thriller to terminal-illness weepie to M. Night Shyamalan/Nicholas Sparks-level spiritual hokum, this risibly long-winded drama is perhaps above all a profound cultural insult, milking the lush green scenery of Japan’s famous Aokigahara forest for all it’s worth, while giving co-lead Ken Watanabe little to do other than moan in agony, mutter cryptically, and generally try to act as though McConaughey’s every word isn’t boring him (pardon the expression) to death."

Further critical dissatisfaction with the film has been attributed to the fact that "the twists and turns of this narrative fail to ring true with too many implausibilities in the plotting to give any credibility" and with its "complete lack of narrative momentum, it all adds up to a film that's easily Van Sant's worst, and is a sad black mark on McConaughey's mostly excellent recent run. Ultimately, "Sea of Trees" feels like an entirely appropriate title: it makes you feel like you're drowning, and it's full of sap."

See also
 The Forest

References

External links

2015 films
2010s mystery drama films
A24 (company) films
American mystery drama films
Films about suicide
Films directed by Gus Van Sant
Films set in Aokigahara
Films set in forests
Films set in Japan
Films set on islands
Films shot in Japan
Films shot in Massachusetts
2015 drama films
Japan in non-Japanese culture
2010s American films


title: Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz

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Judge Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz was a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland () upon the conclusion of World War II. The Commission has been replaced, upon the collapse of the Soviet-imposed communism in Poland, with the government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) serving similar purpose at present. Łukaszkiewicz was the author of the first historical research into the Nazi German extermination camps including Majdanek and Treblinka, on the territory of occupied Poland during the genocidal Operation Reinhard of the Holocaust.

Holocaust research
Łukaszkiewicz conducted his research at the time when virtually nothing was known about the scale and the exact way in which these atrocities were committed. He published his first findings already in 1946 along with the results of legal and medical inquiries, sworn affidavits of land surveyor T. Trautsolt, Dr H. Wakulicz, the evidence collected by railway workers but most importantly, the testimonies of former prisoners of Treblinka extermination camp who managed to survive the revolt and took part in the Commission's forensic work. Łukaszkiewicz examined the selected graves exhumed at Treblinka I Arbeitslager. His estimate of the total number of the victims of gassing was based on the already proven record of 156 transports with an average of 5,000 prisoners each. Many published results of his enquiries are still considered paramount to the understanding of the Final Solution, even though some specifics have also been revised by modern science. Łukaszkiewicz is being quoted by the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, the Britannica Polish edition, and the Polish Nowa Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN among others. Also, many professional historians including Wolfgang Scheffler and Czesław Rajca used his publications as the source of pertinent data.

Challenges
Łukaszkiewicz was the first Polish researcher to study the 1943 massacre committed at the Majdanek concentration camp under the codename Operation Erntefest. The more substantial revisions to his early research (published in 1948) have been made only in the 1960s and 1970s, when the first testimonies of the Holocaust perpetrators appeared in German court documents during trials.

Although his research was further revised by Holocaust scholars, Łukaszkiewicz was the first Polish scientist to challenge the evidence for the prosecution submitted in 1946 by the Soviets at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg. The completely unrealistic estimate of 1.5 million people murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp was based on the theoretical capacity of Majdanek coke-fueled crematoria. This number claimed by the Soviet-led Special Commission was lowered by Łukaszkiewicz by over one million victims based on his own evidence, down to 360,000 which – at that particular time – constituted a challenge requiring a substantial amount of personal integrity.

Selected works
 "Obóz zagłady Treblinka" (The Extermination Camp Treblinka) by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz, a thirty-page article in: Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, I, 1946.
 Obóz straceń w Treblince by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), published by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1946 in Polish, 5 editions,
 Hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne (Nazi Concentration Camps) by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), published by Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, 1955 in Polish, 3 editions
 Regulamin czynności sądów wojewódzkich i powiatowych w sprawach cywilnych i karnych by Z. Łukaszkiewicz with Tadeusz Górski; Janusz Pietrzykowski [u.a.] (book), 1 edition published in 1956 in Polish
 Chuligaństwo by Z. Łukaszkiewicz with J. Sawicki, G. Auscaler, A. Pawełczyńska, T. Cyprian. Ed. by J. Sawicki (book), 1 edition published in 1956 in Polish
 Obóz koncentracyjny i zagłady Majdanek by Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz (book), Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich” 1948, vol. 4, in Polish,

See also
 Majdanek trials

Notes

References
 Ghetto Fighters' House,  Death camp forensic investigations (1), Poland (historic photograph), Internet Archive 2007.

20th-century Polish judges
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Date of birth unknown
Date of death unknown
Historians of the Holocaust in Poland


Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST) is a Research institute situated in Bangalore in Karnataka. It works under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.
It is recognized to be a Centre of Excellence for Sandalwood Research and Wood Science

Research and development
The Institute has the following facilities and expertise for rendering services to user industry and Government and non-government organisations:
Xylarium with authentically identified Indian and foreign wood samples, with expertise to identify different timber species.
Authentic identification of wood-decaying fungi, insects, marine wood borers and foulers.
Cultures of wood-decaying fungi for reference and laboratory bioassay purposes.
Accelerated laboratory bioassay of candidate wood preservative chemicals against wood-deteriorating fungi and insects.
Testing of timber and timber products (untreated and treated) under land and marine conditions to evaluate their performance against biodeterioration.
Testing of timber and timber products for determining the strength properties.
Soil and plant analysis (for both micro- and macro-nutrients).
Mist chamber and green house for vegetative propagation.
Tissue culture laboratory.
Seed Technology Laboratory.
Vegetative Propagation Facilities.
Xenotest weatherometer for accelerated weathering experiments.
Timber seasoning kiln and expertise for setting up solar seasoning kiln.
Pressure-treatment plant for preservative-treatment of timber.
T.L.C.
G.L.C.
H.P.L.C.
UV, IR and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
X-ray Fluorescence Analyzer
Flow Injection Analyzer
Nitrogen Analyzer
Bomb Calorimeter
FTIR
Biochamber for Entomological studies
Universal Testing Machine
Sophisticated Microscopes with Cameras and Video attachments and Image Analysis Systems and (m) SpectroFLUOROmeter
Workshop for processing wood samples for various experiments.
Chemical analysis of oils, gums, tannins and other non-wood forest products.
A seed orchard of sandal for supplying quality seeds.
Advice on nursery practices, silviculture and plant protection against fungal and insect attack.
Transfer of technology for improved agroforestry systems.
Advice on protection and management of mangrove ecosystems from biodeterioration point-of-view.
Advice on simple, inexpensive wood-preservation techniques (sap displacement method).
Advice on timber utilisation for catamaran, other fishing crafts and marine structures.
Model nursery at Nagaroor in collaboration with State Forest Department has been established.
A shore laboratory for studies on marine wood biodeterioration at Visakhapatnam has been established under World Bank aided Project. Additional land of 40 ha. has been acquired in Karnataka for establishment of germplasm bank, provenance, progeny trials, multiplication garden and seed orchards. A new ICFRE Research Centre with assistance from World Bank on a 100 acres land is being established at Hyderabad.

Research Divisions
Wood Properties and Processing
Plywood and Panel Product Technology
Forest Protection
Silviculture and Forest Management
Extension
Facilities and Services

See also
 Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
 Van Vigyan Kendra (VVK) Forest Science Centres

References

1938 establishments in India
Nature conservation in India
Forest research institutes
Forestry agencies in India
Forestry education in India
Forestry Research and Education
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Research institutes in Bangalore


title: Topsia

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Topsia is a neighbourhood of East Kolkata, in West Bengal, India. Topsia falls in Kolkata district situated in West Bengal state, with a population 94809. The male and female populations are 49388 and 45421 respectively. The size of the area is about 2.8 square kilometer.

History
The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these five lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Topsia was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch.

In the eastern fringes of Kolkata, the neighbourhoods such as Tangra, Tiljala, Topsia and Dhapa, were populated largely with people who migrated from poverty-stricken and caste-ridden villages, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They came with dreams of a better life but landed in the slums with open drains, pigsties, factory chimneys and pungent chemicals. They found work in the tanneries and factories, and also engaged in menial work. A big proportion of them were Chamars, but there also were Doms, Dosads, Mehtars and Kahars. They were all Harijans and they formed a majority. They escaped from the petty persecution they faced in their villages but were far removed from mainstream urban life and culture. They have been here, living in depressing conditions, for more than a century.

Geography

Police district
Topsia police station is one of the nine police stations in the South-east division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 106A, New Park Street, Kolkata-700017.

Karaya Women police station, has jurisdiction over all police districts under the jurisdiction of the South-east division, i.e. Topsia, Beniapukur, Ballygunge, Gariahat, Lake, Karaya, Rabindra Sarobar and Tiljala.

Economy
Atmosphere by the Forum group, is a luxury condominium at Mirania Gardens in Topsia, beside EM Bypass. It consists of twin towers, both rising to a height of 499 feet, across 39 floors. Suspended between the twin towers at the top is a floating sky sculpture, named Deya, meaning cloud. The 100 m tubular sculpture has four levels. Forum Atmosphere is offering 5 BHK apartments, ranging in size from 6,000 to 8,750 sq feet. Each apartment has a private terrace and a garden. As of 2018, the project is in an advanced stage.

Transport

Road
Topsia is located beside the junction of J.B.S. Haldane Avenue (Park Circus Connector) and E.M. Bypass. Gobinda Chandra Khatik Road/Ambedkar Sarani (towards Tangra) and Basanti Highway (part of SH 3) also start from here. Many buses ply along these roads.

Ambedkar Bridge is located on the eastern boundary of Topsia. The bridge connects Science City area with Panchannagram-VIP Bazar along E.M. Bypass, over a canal. The bridge was firstly inaugurated in 2002.

Train
Park Circus railway station on Sealdah South lines is the nearest railway station.

Education
Narayana School
Monu Memorial School(Bengali/Urdu),
Huda Public School,
The Children's Academy,
Tiljala Brajanath Vidyapith,
Aulad Hossain Islamic academy school.
HK Education,
Kings Park high school and The Crescent English School, a higher secondary school affiliated to the WBBSE, are located near KB Market on Topsia Road, Topsia.

References

External links

Neighbourhoods in Kolkata


title: Sorrow and Extinction

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Sorrow and Extinction is the debut full-length Pallbearer album. The CD was released by Profound Lore Records on February 21, 2012 with a double LP version released later in the year by 20 Buck Spin. The album was generally well received and was ranked #1 in Pitchfork's "Top 40 Metal Albums of 2012."

The cover artwork was done by artist Sean Reynolds Williams.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pallbearer

Personnel
Brett Campbell – vocals, guitar
Devin Holt – guitar
Joseph Rowland – bass
Zach Stine – drums

References

Pallbearer (band) albums
2012 debut albums
Profound Lore Records albums


title: Nestoras Batzelas

text:
Nestoras Batzelas (; born January 7, 1980, in Larissa, Thessalia) is a Greek MMA fighter and retired amateur freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. Batzelas has been selected to the nation's Olympic wrestling team when Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and also trained as a member of the wrestling team for E.A. Larissa, under his personal coach Konstantinos Avramis.

Batzelas qualified for the Greek squad in the men's super heavyweight class (120 kg), when Greece welcomed the world to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He filled up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, as Greece received an automatic berth for being the host nation. He lost his opening match to 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Alexis Rodríguez of Cuba on technical superiority, but bounced back to dismantle Ukraine's Serhii Priadun with a 5–0 decision in front of the home crowd inside Ano Liossia Olympic Hall. Placing second in the prelim pool and thirteenth overall, Batzelas' performance fell short to put him further into the quarterfinals.

Championships and accomplishments

MMA
No Limits
No Limits Heavyweight Champion (1 Time)

Professional mixed martial arts record

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| Loss
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|Ioannis Arzoumanidis
|Decision (Unanimous)
|MMA Challenge Pro 2
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|Thessaloniki, Greece
|For MMA Challenge Pro Heavyweight Championship.
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| Win
|align=center|6-1
|George Katsinopoulos
|TKO (Punches)
|No Limits 23
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|align=center|3
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|Athens, Greece
|Wins No Limits Heavyweight Championship.
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| Loss
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| Ricco Rodriguez
| TKO (punches)
|  Final Fight Championship 10
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| Skopje, Macedonia
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| Win
|align=center|5-0
|Julian Chilikov
|Submission (Guillotine Choke)
|GFC - Greek Fighting Championship 4
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|Larissa, Greece
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| Win
|align=center|4-0
|Emil Zahariev
|Submission (Heel Hook)
|No Limits 20
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|Athens, Greece
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| Win
|align=center|3-0
|Emil Zahariev
|TKO (RTD)
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|Thessaloniki, Greece
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| Win
|align=center|2-0
|Borislav Balabanov
|TKO (Punches)
|Throwdown MMA Championship
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|Greece
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| Win
|align=center|1-0
|Marian Rusu
|Submission (Punches)
|GFC - Greek Fighting Championship 2
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|Athens, Greece
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Amateur mixed martial arts record

| Loss
|align=center|0-1
|Allen Crowder
|TKO (Referee Stoppage)
|Battle In The South VI
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|Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
|Fight was for the Heavyweight Title.
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References

External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database

1980 births
Living people
Greek male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Greece
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Larissa
Greek male mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing freestyle wrestling


Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn is an album by Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1987 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic said "This very logical set is a real gem... Farmer brings the right combination of sensitivity, swing, respect for the melody, and creativity to these renditions and the results are quite memorable".

Track listing
All compositions by Billy Strayhorn except as indicated
 "Isfahan" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:25
 "Blood Count" - 6:08
 "Johnny Come Lately" - 5:39
 "Something to Live For" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 6:07
 "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" - 7:07
 "Rain Check" - 6:44
 "Day Dream" (Ellington, Strayhorn, John La Touche) - 5:12 Bonus track on CD

Personnel
Art Farmer - flugelhorn, trumpet
Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
James Williams - piano
Rufus Reid - bass
Marvin "Smitty" Smith - drums

References

Contemporary Records albums
Art Farmer albums
1987 albums


title: 2014 Chennai building collapse

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On 28 June 2014, an eleven-storey apartment block collapsed while under construction at Moulivakkam in the suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

The cause was determined to be a lightning strike to exposed metal at the top, which was conducted through the building and to ground via reinforcement bars embedded in the concrete, which led to failure of support columns and subsequent collapse of the structure.

The collapse killed 61 people, mostly construction workers who were trapped in the debris.

Builder and building details
Prime Trust Heights was a residential project developed by Prime Sristi Housing Pvt Ltd.

Trust heights consisted of two eleven-storied apartment blocks situated at No.52 Kundrathur Main Road near Porur junction.

Tower The Faith had four apartments of 2BHK-type (2-Bedroom with Hall and Kitchen) in each floor.  Tower The Belief had four 3BHK apartments in each floor
.   Units were priced at 5250 per sq/ft.

Collapse
After heavy rain on Saturday, June 28, lightning struck exposed iron reinforcements at the top of the building at 5.30pm. The electric charge flowed throughout the entire superstructure until it reached the concrete, load-bearing columns in the basement. The concrete crumbled as the charge dispersed, destroying the columns, which resulted in collapse, trapping many constructions workers under the debris.

Rescue operations
Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue force along with National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Arakkonam base managed the rescue operations. The final death toll was 61 people consisting constructions workers from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh and Gajapati district of Odisha.

Investigation
A single Judge investigation committee and a SIT team were formed by Tamil Nadu government to investigate the cause of the disaster. The major reason for this disaster was due to the carelessness of the builders in Chennai. The chief engineer handling the construction accepted his mistake and was fined by the police.

Aftermath
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) currently scrutinizing construction violations of all new multi-story buildings in and around Chennai. Justice R. Regupathy Commission that inquired into the circumstances led to the collapse of the multi-storeyed building at Moulivakkam in which 55 persons were killed and many injured, has made series of recommendations including a comprehensive legislation for making insurance package compulsory for builders. The incident took place on June 28, 2014.

The report of the commission that was tabled in Assembly on Tuesday suggested comprehensive legislation or vitalisation of the existing legislation so that essential features like insurance package creating triangular responsibilities among bank, builder and customer could be made.

Introducing penal provisions, insisting upon the construction firms taking up mega projects to deposit a sizable sum in fixed deposit for 10 years are the other measures recommended by the commission.

Justice Regupathy also recommended reconstitution of the CMDA at the foundation level by forming a committee consisting of a technical officer of the agency, a law officer, experts in soil investigation, foundation design, structural engineering to compulsorily monitor all mega projects.
"Apart from ensuring quality and compliance issues, the main task of the committee should be to inspect the site at all crucial stages, particularly during earth working for foundation, foundation concerting, laying the roof of basement floor and laying of the roof at each floor," Justice Regupathy stressed.

The commission has made a strong case for constituting a special squad to check primarily all mega projects taking place in and around the City limits so that recurrence of any bad incidents could me immediately stopped.

The commission has also recommended constitution of a committee so that the loss caused to the individuals who booked the flats and the injury and damage incurred by neighbouring residents. "Their buildings may be assessed and necessary recommendations may be made by such committee and compensation can be disbursed," the Judge said.

References

Sources

Building and structure collapses in 2014
2010s in Tamil Nadu
Disasters in Tamil Nadu
Construction accidents
2014 disasters in India
Building and structure collapses in India
2010s in Chennai
June 2014 events in India


title: Susinsa girok

text:
Susinsa girok, or sometimes simply Susinsa, is a collection of diaries and memoirs composed by members of the Korean goodwill delegations to Japan known as the Joseon Susinsa during the reign of King Gojong in the late 1870s and early 1880s, soon after Korea's opening to the outside world. The collection includes the Ildong kiyu (日東記游) and Susinsa ilgi (修信使日記) by Kim Gisu (金綺秀 1832-?), the Susinsa ilgi (修信使日記) by Kim Hong-jip (金弘集 1842-1896), and the Sahwa giryak (使和記略) by Bak Yeong-hyo (朴泳孝 1861-1939).

See also
Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (Joseon Wangjo Sillok)
Seungjeongwon ilgi
History of Korea
Joseon Tongsinsa

References

History of Korea
History books about Korea


title: Matt Doocey

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Matthew Maurice Doocey (born 1972) is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party. He was re-elected in 2017 with a majority increase of over 10,000 which was a significant increase from a majority of 2,500 in 2014. It was reported that this was the largest personal vote increase in the country.

Personal life
Doocey is a member of the well-known Carter family. Family patriarch Maurice Carter, a Christchurch City Councillor for over 30 years (1956–1989), was his grandfather, and the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, David Carter, is his uncle. Doocey grew up in Christchurch and attended St Bede's College for his secondary schooling. The Dooceys bought their current home in Rangiora, which currently falls into the Waimakariri electorate, in April 2014 after boundary changes put his former Redwood home out of the electorate.

Political career

Doocey stood in the 2013 Christchurch East by-election placing second behind Poto Williams. At the time, Doocey was a manager for the Canterbury District Health Board. The party's Canterbury Westland Regional Chair, Roger Bridge, noted that a sitting government has never won a by-election in an electorate that it did not already hold. Bridge later conceded that it would be "very, very hard for us to win". When Kate Wilkinson, National MP for the  electorate, announced in early November 2013 that she would retire at the end of the term of the 50th Parliament, rumours immediately surfaced that Doocey is going to replace her as the candidate in the Waimakariri electorate, and the Christchurch East by-election was for him to gain experience in contesting an election.

In government, 2014–2017
Doocey left his job in June 2014 to focus on the Waimakariri election campaign. He beat the Labour Party's candidate Clayton Cosgrove with an increased majority compared to the .

For the 51st New Zealand Parliament Doocey was appointed Deputy Chair of the Social Services Select Committee. In 2016 he brought a cross-party delegation of the Social Services Select Committee to Canterbury to hear from service providers about their response to communities’ psycho-social recovery needs in post-earthquake Canterbury. Also in his first term, Doocey was appointed the third Whip of the National Government.

During the 2017 general election, Doocey retained his seat in Waimakariri by a margin of 10,766 votes.

In opposition, 2017–present

For the 52nd New Zealand Parliament, Doocey served as National's Junior Whip, working closely with the Party's Senior Whip. He was also appointed Spokesperson for Mental Health and is National's Associate Spokesperson for Health, and  a member of the Health Select Committee.

As National's first Spokesperson for Mental Health, in 2018, Doocey wrote to every political party in Parliament to invite them to join a cross-party approach to mental health that would focus on developing solutions and policy over a longer period than the Parliamentary three-year term. Doocey believed that by initiating a bipartisan approach to mental health this would break down some of the barriers to progress to improve mental health outcomes in New Zealand. However, Labour and the Greens rejected National's offer for a cross-party approach to mental health.

On 28 August 2019, John Kirwan launched the Mental Health and Addictions Wellbeing cross-party group, with the executive consisting of Matt Doocey, Louisa Wall (Labour), Chlöe Swarbrick (Green Party), Jenny Marcroft (New Zealand First) and David Seymour (ACT), to work together to improve mental health and wellbeing in New Zealand.

During the 2020 general election, Doocey retained Waimakariri for the National Party by a final margin of 1,507 votes. Following the election, the National caucus elected him as its Senior Whip on 10 November. He served in this role until December 2021, when he joined the National Party front bench under the new leader Christopher Luxon.

Previous life
Born and bred in Canterbury, New Zealand, Doocey worked in mental health and healthcare management in both New Zealand and the UK. He studied Counselling Psychology at Weltech, has a BSc (Hons) in Social Policy, an MA in Healthcare Management from Kingston University in London and an MSc in Global Politics from Birkbeck, University of London.

References

Living people
New Zealand National Party MPs
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
People educated at St Bede's College, Christchurch
New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates
21st-century New Zealand politicians
Candidates in the 2014 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2017 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2023 New Zealand general election
1972 births


title: Chief of Naval Research

text:
The Chief of Naval Research is the senior military officer in charge of scientific research in the United States Navy.  The Chief of Naval Research has a rank of Rear Admiral, and is in charge of the Office of Naval Research.

The Chief of Naval Research has responsibility for basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development components of the Navy's research and development programs (the first three of the seven categories used in the Department of Defense research and development budget, often referred to as 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3, respectively), as well as the Navy's intellectual property policy.  The Chief of Naval Research also coordinates with other research and development agencies within the Department of the Navy, such as the Naval Warfare Centers of the Naval Systems Commands.

Other positions in the Office of Naval Research leadership include the Vice Chief of Naval Research (a one-star Marine Corps brigadier general), the Assistant Chief of Naval Research and Commanding Officer of ONR Global (both captains), and the Executive Director and Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Research (both civilians).  The Chief of Naval Research reports directly to the civilian Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition), and is thus not organizationally subordinate to the Chief of Naval Operations, the senior military officer in the entire Navy.

History
The predecessor to the Office of Naval Research was the Office of the Coordinator of Research and Development, an institution within the Navy during World War II meant to coordinate between the military-wide Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), Navy materiel bureaus, and civilian research organizations.  The organization was formed in 1941 and was nicknamed the "Bird Dogs" due to their skill at finding and solving interorganizational problems.  Jerome Clarke Hunsaker was interim chief, followed by Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer.  OSRD was disbanded after the war, and the Office of the Coordinator of Research and Development was incorporated into the new Navy Office of Research and Inventions, headed by Harold Bowen, which became the Office of Naval Research in 1946.

List of Chiefs of Naval Research

 1st: Harold G. Bowen Sr. (1946–1947)
 2nd: Paul F. Lee (1947–1949)
 3rd: Thorvald A. Solberg (1949–1951)
 4th: Calvin Matthews Bolster (1951–1953)
 5th: Frederick R. Furth (1953–1956)
 6th: Rawson Bennett II (1956–1961)
 7th: Leonidas Dixon Coates, Jr. (1961–1964)
 8th: John Leydon (1964–1968)
 9th: Thomas Barron Owen (1968–1970)
 10th: Carl O. Holmquist (1970–1973)
 11th: M. Dick Van Orden (1973–1975)
 12th: Robert Keith Geiger (1975–1978)
 13th: Albert Baciocco (1978–1981)
 14th: L. S. Kollmorgen (1981–1983)
 15th: Brad Mooney (1983–1987)
 16th: John R. Wilson, Jr. (1987–1990)
 17th: William C. Miller (1991–1993)
 18th: Marc Y. E. Pelaez (1993–1996)
 19th: Paul G. Gaffney II (1996–2000)
 20th: Jay M. Cohen (2000–2006)
 21st: William E. Landay III (2006–2008)
 22nd: Nevin P. Carr, Jr. (2008–2011)
 23rd: Matthew L. Klunder (2011–2014)
 24th: Mathias W. Winter (2014–2016)
 25th: David J. Hahn (2016–2020)
 26th: Lorin C. Selby (2020–2023)
 27th: Kurt J. Rothenhaus (2023–present)

References

Flag appointments of the United States Navy
Military science


title: K. P. Joseph Kalarickal

text:
K.P Joseph Kalarickal is an Indian writer  of books such as Gospel of Guru Sree Narayana, Notes on the era and other poems, Hormis: legend of a great banker with passion for development: biography of K.P. Hormis, founder of Federal Bank, Bishop Jonas Thaliath of Rajkot: a biography.

He was born in the temple town of Aluva on 5 March 1930 in an orthodox Christian family and many of his books are derived from his personal experiences. An MA graduate from the University of Kerala, he has worked as a Consultant FAO of the United Nations. He also worked for Cochin Shipyard and  retired as Chief Manager Finance and Management Services.

Bibliography

 Gospel of Guru Sree Narayana
 Hormis: legend of a great banker with passion for development : biography of K.P. Hormis, founder of Federal Bank
 Notes on the era and other poems

References

Indian male novelists
Malayalam novelists
Indian male poets
Writers from Kochi
People from Aluva
1930 births
20th-century Indian novelists
Living people
Novelists from Kerala
20th-century Indian male writers


title: Josef Komarek

text:
Josef Patrick Komarek (born 1992) is an American composer, conductor, instrumentalist, and educator.

Early life: 1992–2010

Komarek was born to Joel Komarek and Mary Hoenig in the Portland, Oregon, area. Though not coming from a notably musical family, his interest in music was evident during his formative years. As a child, Komarek was involved with a variety of ensembles in the Portland metro area, including the Portland Boychoir, Ovation!, Satori Men's Chorus, Aurora Women's Chorus, and was also a member of the Tallis Scholars Summer School (USA) as an adolescent.

Education and professional career: 2010–present

Following his secondary education at Woodrow Wilson High School, Komarek continued his studies in Oregon, receiving a B.A. in music composition at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. While there, Komarek studied under Richard Bourassa and Jon Newton; he also became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

Komarek’s works include orchestral, chamber, and choral works. He is known for incorporating elements of many different branches in the classical tradition, including minimalism, neoclassicism, and serialism. His music has been performed throughout Oregon at such places as the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium and various Linfield College ensembles.

Also engaged in other facets of Classical music, Komarek was the Artistic Director of the Linfield Camerata, a select vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of early music, between 2011 and 2012. During the year 2011, Komarek was the host and producer of "Masterworks Hour," a program focusing on introducing audiences to the standard works of the Classical cannon on Linfield’s radio station, KSLC 90.3 FM.

Personal life

As of April 2015, Komarek has not composed any new works, and has instead focused on continuing his education and becoming a teacher. He has not stated whether or not he has given up composing for good.

List of compositions

Instrumental works

Colors, for four instruments (2012)
Pedal Music, for piano & optional vibraphone (2012)
Portraits of Nature, for solo piano (2011–12)
Black Key Suite, for solo piano (2012)
Promenades for the Piano (2013)
Wrong Clef, for string quartet (2013)
A Cloudburst, for string quartet (2013)
Suspended, for three horns (2013)
Fanfare for an Uncertain Future, for trumpet trio & percussion (2013)
Short & Suite, for string trio (2014)
Air for a Newborn, for violin & piano (2014)

Choral and vocal works

Dreams of a Tree (2009)
Stillness (2010)
Anima Christi (2011)
The Bargain (2011)
Tenebrae (2011)
Verbum Caro (2012)
Stabat Mater (2012)
Two Christmas Songs (2012)
Illumina faciem tuam (2012)
Spem in alium (2012)
The Lord’s Prayer (2013)
Benedicta es (2013)
A Little While, for baritone & piano (2014)
Le Reveil (2014)
Invictus (2014)
Ad Virginem (2014)
Flower Among Flowers (2015)

References

Living people
1992 births
Linfield University alumni
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Musicians from Oregon
21st-century American male musicians


title: Gerald Innes

text:
Gerald Alfred Skerten Innes (16 November 1931 – 11 July 1982) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1950 to 1964 and toured Australia and New Zealand with the South African team in 1952–53.

Early career
After attending Diocesan College in Rondebosch, where he excelled at cricket and captained the South African Schools team,  he studied teaching at the University of Cape Town. He made his first-class debut for Western Province in the 1950–51 Currie Cup, and although he scored only 147 runs in five matches he was selected to play in a trial match that was held to help the national selectors choose the side to tour England in 1951. He made 49 and 23 but was not selected to tour.

He batted consistently in 1951–52, scoring 487 runs at an average of 54.11, including his first century, 139, in the match against Eastern Province in Cape Town. He made the top score of a rain-affected trial match at the end of the season, 68 not out, and was one of the 15 players selected to tour Australia and New Zealand.

Playing for South Africa

The youngest player on the touring team, Innes took a catch while fielding as substitute in the First Test, but struggled to find batting form. He hit 109 in the match against Victoria before the Fifth Test, but his team-mate Headley Keith hit two centuries in the same match and took the vacant batting spot in the Test side. In seven matches on the tour Innes scored 307 runs at 30.70.

His captain on the tour, Jack Cheetham, said Innes had "great promise as a cricketer" and predicted that he would take part in "many more cricket tours". But this tour was to be his only one.

Later career
Innes played regularly for Western Province in subsequent seasons without great success. He did not hit another century until the opening match of the 1958–59 season, when he scored 131 against Natal. He scored consistently throughout the season, leading the Western Province batting with 477 runs at 47.70. He captained Western Province from 1959–60 to 1962–63. He scored 219 runs at 54.75 in the 1962–63 Currie Cup and there were suggestions that he might be selected to tour Australia and New Zealand the following season, but he made himself unavailable for the tour.

He played for Transvaal in 1963–64 and 1964–65, then retired. He made his highest score, 140 not out, in the final match of the 1963–64 season against Natal.

He later served as a selector for Transvaal and Western Province.

References

External links

1931 births
1982 deaths
Cricketers from Cape Town
Alumni of Diocesan College, Cape Town
University of Cape Town alumni
Deaths from cancer in South Africa
South African cricketers
Western Province cricketers
Gauteng cricketers


title: Gomati River (Uttarakhand)

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Gomati (Kumaoni: गोमती) is a tributary of the Saryu River. The river originates in the higher reaches of Bhatkot northwest to the town of Baijnath in Uttarakhand, India. It joins Saryu at Bageshwar, which then proceeds towards Pancheshwar where it joins the Kali River.

The Gomati Valley, also known as Katyur Valley after the Katyuri Kings of Baijnath, constitutes a major Agricultural zone of Kumaon. Major towns situated in this valley include Garur and Baijnath.

References

Rivers of Uttarakhand


title: Maureen Pugh

text:
Maureen Helena Pugh  (born 1958) is a New Zealand politician who is a Member of Parliament for the National Party. On preliminary results from the 2023 general election she is expected to be the Member of Parliament representing the West Coast-Tasman electorate. She was the mayor of the Westland District from 2004 to 2013.

Political career

Westland District Council
Pugh was elected to the Westland District Council in 1998 and served two terms before being elected as the district's first woman mayor in 2004, succeeding John Drylie. In 2007 she was returned as mayor unopposed. She stood down at the 2013 elections and was succeeded as mayor by Michael Havill.

While serving as mayor of Westland District Council, Pugh was accused of failure to declare a financial conflict of interest.

Parliament

First term, 2016–2017
Pugh contested the West Coast-Tasman electorate unsuccessfully for the New Zealand National Party in the 2014 general election. Ranked number 52 on the National Party list, she just missed out on a list seat in the final results. She would have got a list seat on preliminary results, but National's proportion of the party vote reduced in the final results and the Green Party's Steffan Browning won the seat she would have taken. Pugh remained first in line should a vacancy arise in a list seat held by a National Party MP during the 51st New Zealand Parliament, and following Tim Groser's resignation in December 2015 she was sworn in as a member of parliament on 9 February 2016 after the summer recess.

Second term, 2018–2020
Pugh contested the West Coast-Tasman electorate unsuccessfully in the 2017 general election. She ranked higher, at 44, in the National Party list, and preliminary results again showed National had won enough seats (58) for her to gain one. However, the official count gave National two fewer seats than the preliminary count, and she did not return to parliament. Due to her history of appearing in and then out of parliament due to special votes, Pugh describes herself as the 'Yo-yo MP'. Pugh was again in line to enter parliament if there were resignations, and she and several other "next-in-line" list candidates attended National's parliamentary caucus retreat in February 2018 to help ease their transition into the caucus should they enter parliament. In March 2018, Bill English resigned from parliament and Pugh was declared elected as a list MP.

Simon Bridges, who was National Party leader from 2018 to 2020, described Pugh as "fucking useless" in a phone call with Jami-Lee Ross, which was recorded and posted on Facebook by Ross in October 2018. Bridges apologised to her after the recording became public. She voted with the majority against Bridges in the May 2020 leadership election.

Third term, 2020–2023
Pugh contested the West Coast-Tasman electorate unsuccessfully in the 2020 general election. This time, at 19 on the party list, both preliminary and final results gave her a list seat. She had been anticipating missing out again after the counting of special votes for the final results and had already started packing her Wellington apartment, which she would have to send back. The National caucus elected her as its Junior Whip on 10 November.

In February 2022 Pugh expressed support through Facebook for Convoy 2022, a protest group who travelled to Wellington to occupy the grounds of parliament, protesting vaccine mandates, with some opposing the vaccine itself. Pugh later amended the post, then deleted it, and said she did not realise many of the protesters were against COVID-19 vaccination. After the occupation of parliament grounds was over, Pugh said that "we [the National Party] had one or two members [party members, not members of parliament] in there talking with protestors on an almost daily basis... we wrote to the only email address we had and said we would enter dialogue as soon as they stopped the unlawful aspects to their protest." A National Party spokesperson said that "National did not send anyone—MPs, members or otherwise—to enter in discussions with protestors. However we are aware of party members who attended the protest of their own accord".

Fourth term, 2023–present
Preliminary results from the 2023 general election indicate that Pugh has won the electorate of West Coast-Tasman, beating the incumbent Damien O'Connor by 11,637 votes to 10,722.

Views and positions
Pugh revealed in 2016 that she does not believe in pharmaceutical drugs, saying that she never takes any kind of medication and has only ever given her children chiropractic treatments. She said that nature delivers whatever people need, and that "there's nothing wrong with getting a cold or getting a flu – if you have a healthy immune system you can deal with it." The following day she wrote "I do support the use of pharmaceuticals, such as Panadol and anaesthetic". Pugh was one of the last Members of Parliament to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.

On cannabis, Pugh said that she did not support its decriminalisation, having seen its negative effects on some people, but she was not opposed to people "smoking or digesting a natural plant", adding, "I'm just talking about giving the poor lady whose got lymphoma a plant to smoke, which she can grow in her backyard."

On climate change, Pugh stated in 2023 that, while she believed in it, she had yet to see evidence of anthropocentric causes of that change. Her party leader Christopher Luxon responded to Pugh's refusal to say she believes in man-made climate change by stating "If you're a climate denier... that's not an acceptable position". Pugh later reversed her position, saying that she accepted that human-induced climate change was real and that it was a factor in extreme weather such as Cyclone Gabrielle. Radio New Zealand journalist Guyon Espiner likened the retraction to a "hostage video". Regarding electricity generation, Pugh also said in 2023 that she wanted to explore more renewable energy projects in the region. She noted that the West Coast pays about 25 percent more for its electricity than other regions, and considered that local electricity generation could help to bring prices down and so attract more businesses.

Pugh said in 2023 that recent minimum pay increases had encouraged some employers to consider automation, and that the consequences of those rises hadn't been thought through. She also said she was unhappy about recent changes to the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme.

Personal life
Pugh was educated at St Mary's High School, Greymouth. Pugh and her husband John live on their farm in a mountain valley at Turiwhate, near Kumara. According to Pugh, her house's former copper piping acted as a conductor for electrical storms, and Pugh has been struck by lightning three times.

In the 2014 New Year Honours, Pugh was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to local government.

Footnotes

References

1958 births
Living people
New Zealand National Party MPs
Women mayors of places in New Zealand
Mayors of Westland, New Zealand
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2014 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2017 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election
Candidates in the 2023 New Zealand general election
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
People from the West Coast, New Zealand
21st-century New Zealand politicians
21st-century New Zealand women politicians
New Zealand list MPs
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
People educated at John Paul II High School, Greymouth


title: Aliakbar Aghaei Moghanjoei

text:
Aliakbar Aghaei Moghanjoei (; January 5, 1947 – April 8, 2015) was an Iranian politician.

Aghaei Moghanjoei was born in Salmas, West Azerbaijan. He was a member of the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Salmas and member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society. Aghaei Moghanjoei won with 42,026 (44.58%) votes. He served as:

 Legal Deputy of the Ministry of Roads
 Administrative and Financial Deputy of the Ministry of Roads
 Head of Presidential Institution
 Special Inspector to the Minister of Roads and Transportation
 Deputy Minister of Budget and Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Roads
 Deputy Minister of Legal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry of Roads
 Representative of the people of Salmas in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth parliaments

References

External links
 Aghaei Moghanjoei Website

People from Salmas
Deputies of Salmas
1947 births
2015 deaths
Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 8th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Followers of Wilayat fraction members
Moderation and Development Party politicians


title: Igma

text:
Igma (possibly from Quechua for widow) is a   mountain in the Huanzo mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, and in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Igma lies north of the mountain Chancohuana, northeast of Huayunca and southeast of Atuncollpa.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Apurímac Region
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: List of awards and nominations received by MLB Network

text:
This is the list of awards and nominations received by MLB Network.

Sports Emmy Award

References

MLB Network
MLB


title: 2015 elections in India

text:
The elections in India in 2015 include the two state legislative assembly elections. The tenure of the state legislative assembly of Bihar  are due to expire during the year and the Delhi Legislative Assembly Re-Election will also be held due to the inability to form the government.

Legislative Assembly election

Delhi

The assembly state elections in Delhi were held in a single phase on 7 February, followed by counting on 10 February.

Background
In the 2013 Delhi state elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (along with its pre-poll ally Shiromani Akali Dal) emerged as the single-largest party, winning 32 out of the 70 seats. However they fell short of an outright majority and therefore were unable to form the government. This led the then Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung to invite the Aam Aadmi Party, the second largest party after the BJP, to form the government. On 28 December 2013, AAP formed the state government after taking outside support from the Indian National Congress. AAP's leader Arvind Kejriwal, who defeated the incumbent chief minister Sheila Dikshit, became the 7th chief minister of Delhi. However, on 14 February 2014 (after 49 days of rule), Arvind Kejriwal resigned from his post citing the reason as his government's inability to table the Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi Assembly for discussion due to stiff opposition from other political parties in the house.

Delhi remained thereafter under President's Rule for about a year. On 4 November 2014, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung recommended the Union Cabinet the dissolution of Delhi assembly and conduct fresh elections. On 12 January 2015, the Election Commission of India announced that state assembly elections would be held on 7 February 2015 with results being announced on 10 February 2015.

Bihar

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar expired on 29 November 2015.

Parliamentary By-election

Assembly By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

Goa

Jharkhand

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur

Meghalaya

Mizoram

Tamil Nadu

Tripura

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

References

External links

Election Commission of India

Elections in India by year


title: Northern Bombing Group

text:
The Northern Bombing Group consisted of United States Navy and United States Marine Corps squadrons conducting strategic bombing of German U-boat bases along the Belgian coast during World War I. The first United States military unit sent to Continental Europe (France) was the First Aeronautic Detachment of seven naval officers and 122 enlisted men who arrived in France on 5 June 1917. These men became the nucleus of the United States naval aviation forces in Europe. They formulated a strategic bombing plan approved by the Secretary of the Navy on 30 April 1918, but chronic difficulties in obtaining aircraft prevented establishment of an effective bombing campaign before the war ended six months later.

Background
The Imperial German Navy established Flanders U-boat flotillas in March 1915. Type UB and UC submarines were based in Ostend and Zeebrugge with repair yards at Bruges. These coastal submarines operated in the English Channel, along the English coast of the North Sea and in the Western Approaches. U-boats were sinking over 150 ships per month by late 1916; and the resultant loss of both cargoes and import capacity threatened the ability of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to continue the war.

Concept
One of the Allied efforts to reduce shipping losses was a day and night bombing campaign against the bases from which the U-boats operated. United States naval aviators were to establish a Northern Bombing Group headquarters near Ardres for a sustained bombing effort against the U-boat bases. The group was to consist of a day wing and a night wing operating from six aerodromes with a separate repair and supply base, all in the area of Calais and Dunkirk. Each of the six Navy night wing squadrons was to have ten Caproni Ca.5 bombers operating in two flights of five; and each of the six Marine Corps day wing squadrons was to have eighteen Airco DH.4 bombers operating in three flights of six.

Implementation
Difficulty in obtaining aircraft caused reduction of planned strength to four-day squadrons and four night squadrons on 31 May 1918:  Night squadrons 1 and 2 were assigned to Saint-Inglevert Airfield (aerodrome A). Night squadrons 3 and 4 were assigned to aerodrome B in Campagne. Aerodrome C in Sangatte was to be built as a dummy but was cancelled after objections by local residents. Day squadrons 7 and 8 were assigned to aerodrome D at Oye-Plage. Day squadrons 9 and 10 were assigned to aerodrome E at Le Frene. Aerodrome F at Alembon served as a bomb dump and was available as a reserve field. By June, the military situation in France raised doubts about the safety of bases; so on 20 July a British site in Eastleigh was designated the repair and supply base where newly delivered aircraft would be assembled and tested.

Caproni had projected delivery of thirty bombers in June and July, and eighty more in August. Only eighteen had been delivered by the end of August, and their Fiat engines were unsatisfactory. Arrangements were made to equip future Caproni deliveries with Isotta Fraschini V.6 engines; but the improved aircraft were not available prior to the First Armistice at Compiègne. Substitution of Handley Page Type O bombers was similarly unsuccessful until after the armistice. The only Northern Bombing Group night raid was made on 15 August 1918 by a single Ca.5 bomber over Ostend; but seven United States Navy pilots and about 40 enlisted men participated in several raids flying two No. 214 Squadron RAF Handley Page bombers. Of an originally projected strength of sixty night bombers, the war ended with six Ca.5s at the night wing aerodromes; and only two of these were operational.

Headquarters company and squadrons A, B and C of the First Marine Aviation Force arrived in Brest, France aboard  on 30 July 1918. The squadrons were redesignated as 7, 8 and 9 upon arrival. Prior to the delivery of Northern Bombing Group aircraft, Marine Corps pilots began flying bombing missions in No. 218 Squadron RAF bombers on 9 August 1918, and in No. 217 Squadron RAF bombers on 21 August. The first DH.4-day bomber was delivered on 7 September 1918. As the American DH.4s and substituted Airco DH.9s became operational, they accompanied No. 217 and 218 squadron raids. The first daytime mission undertaken entirely by Northern Bombing Group aircraft was a 14 October raid by day wing squadron 9 dropping seventeen bombs with a total weight of  on the Tielt railway yard. Seven more raids were made by day wing squadrons 8 and 9 before operations were cancelled on 27 October. Two day wing bombers were lost in action; and the war ended with an operational strength of twelve DH.4s and seventeen DH.9s of the originally projected force of 108-day bombers.

Notable Members

William M. Corry Jr.
Alfred A. Cunningham
Karl S. Day
Roy Geiger
Fred S. Robillard
Ford O. Rogers

References

Air units and formations of the United States Navy
Military units and formations established in the 1910s


title: Vyacheslav Panfilov

text:
Vyacheslav Panfilov (; born 24 June 1993) is a Ukrainian football striker.

Career
Panfilov is a product of the FC Dynamo youth sportive school. His first trainers were Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi and Yevhen Yastrebynskyi.

He spent his career in the Ukrainian First League club FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv. And in July 2014 went on loan for FC Hoverla in the Ukrainian Premier League.

On 8 March 2017 Panfilov joined Lithuanian A Lyga club FK Utenis Utena. He was released by the club on 15 April 2017.

In the summer 2019, Panfilov joined German club FC Mecklenburg Schwerin. He left the club at the end of the year.

References

External links
Profile at Official FFU Site (Ukr)

1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Kyiv
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players
NK Veres Rivne players
FK Utenis Utena players
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players
SC Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka players
Ukrainian Premier League players
A Lyga players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Men's association football forwards
FC Dynamo Kyiv players


title: Krakel Spektakel

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Krakel Spektakel is a 2014 Swedish children's film musical directed by Elisabet Gustafsson, based on the character of the same name created by Lennart Hellsing.

The film was produced by Ulf Synnerholm for Filmlance International AB. The script was written by Torbjörn Jansson and cinematography was by Alex Lindén. The film uses live action with painted backdrops.

Plot
Annabell Olsson (Lea Stojanov) is a girl looking for the wizard who turned himself into a glass of lemonade and drank himself, 700 years ago (in the children's song "Trollkarlen från Indialand", with lyrics by Hellsing).

Cast
 Lea Stojanov – Annabell Olsson
 Vanja Blomkvist – Grandpa/Man in the moon
 Anton Lundqvist – Krakel Spektakel
 Lina Ljungqvist – Cousin Vitamin
 Martin Eliasson – Opsis Kalopsis
 Anki Larsson – Berit Blomkål
 Olof Wretling – Brother Gurka 1
 Sven Björklund – Brother Gurka 2
 Ika Nord – Coachman
 Ivan Mathias Petersson – Peter Palsternack
 Shima Niavarani – Selma Selleri
 Michael Jonsson – Gabriel Gräslök
 Henrik Dorsin – Emperor of China
 Carl Englén – Dinkelidunk, the monk
 Mikael Odhag – Man in the moon
 Vanna Rosenberg – Mama
 Andreas La Chenardière – Papa

Reception
One critic found the film a delightful new creation based on various works by Hellsing, and also referring to classics like The Wizard of Oz, The Lord of the Rings, and Alice in Wonderland, while another considered it a failed attempt to profit from Hellsing's beloved characters.

References

External links
 Krakel Spektakel at the Swedish Film Database

Films based on children's books
Swedish children's films
2014 films
2010s Swedish films


title: Vermiculated screech owl

text:
The vermiculated screech owl (Megascops guatemalae vermiculatus), is a subspecies, or possibly separate species, of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Taxonomy and systematics

The taxonomy of the vermiculated screech owl is unsettled. The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS/NACC)), the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy treat it as a subspecies of the Middle American screech owl (M. guatemalae).
 BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World treats it as a separate species.

What is now the foothill screech owl (M. roraimae) was once considered a subspecies of the vermiculated screech owl.

Description

The vermiculated screech owl is  long and weighs . It is dimorphic, with one morph brown and the other overall rufous. Unlike most other owls of the same genus, it has feathered feet. The brown morph has a light brown facial disc with a thin dark border, indistinct pale brows over yellow eyes, and short dark "ear" tufts. Its crown and upperparts range from grayish brown to buffy brown with fine uniform vermiculations.  The underparts are whitish with dense fine brown and black vermiculation. The beak is gray-green. The rufous morph is bright rufous on its head and upperparts.

Distribution and habitat

The vermiculated screech-owl is found from far southern Nicaragua through the Caribbean side of Costa Rica into western Panama. It inhabits humid forest from sea level to about .

Behavior

Feeding

Almost nothing is known about the vermiculated screech owl's hunting practices or diet. It is presumed to mostly eat large insects but also small vertebrates.

Breeding

The vermiculated screech owl's breeding phenology is also very poorly known. It nests in a natural tree cavity or abandoned woodpecker hole, apparently in March. The clutch size is thought to be three.

Vocalization

The vermiculated screech owl's primary song is a "very fast, long, toad-like trill". Its probable secondary song is "a very brief descending purr".

Status

The IUCN has assessed the vermiculated screech owl as being of Least Concern. However, because it needs unbroken forest, "[f]orest destruction a threat, at least in long term."

References

Further reading

 König, C., F. Weick & J.H. Becking (2008) Owls of the World. Christopher Helm, London,

vermiculated screech owl
Birds of Costa Rica
Birds of Panama
Birds of Nicaragua
vermiculated screech owl
Taxa named by Robert Ridgway


title: Movayyed Hoseini Sadr

text:
Movayyed Hoseini Sadr (; born 1970) is an Iranian politician.

Hoseini Sadr was born in Khoy, West Azerbaijan. He is a member of the 8th and 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Khoy and Chaypareh and chairman of Iran-Turkey Friendship society. Hoseini Sadr won with 78,149 (43.31%) votes.

References

External links
 Hoseini Sadr Website

Academic staff of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
People from Khoy
Iranian reformists
Deputies of Khoy and Chaypareh
Living people
1970 births
Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 8th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Urmia University alumni
Followers of Wilayat fraction members


title: SuperCROSS

text:
SuperCROSS is a desktop tabulation software tool used by statisticians for aggregating and cross-tabulating data from surveys. It does not require programming expertise, but offers a windows based environment and a drag-and-drop graphical interface.  It is a product of the SuperSTAR Suite licensed by Space Time Research, a software development firm located in Melbourne Australia who have worked with the Australian Bureau of Statistics since 1986.

Other statistical organisations using SuperCROSS as at August 2014 include:
 The Cancer Council Victoria Visit Website
 Tourism Research Australia Austrade
 National Centre for Vocational Educational Research
 Statistics New Zealand
 Fachstelle fur Statistik Kanton St. Gallen
 Kuwait Authority for Civil Information
 King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
 Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
 National Records of Scotland
 Swiss Federal Office for Building & Logistics
 Bureau of Economic Analysis Foundation
 Bundesanstalt Statistik Osterreich
 Amt fur Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg
 Statistics Finland
 Statistics South Africa
 Statistics Sweden
 US Census

Software Features

 Ad hoc Analysis
 Cross tabulation
 Hierarchical Classification Support
 Survey support – using replicate and standard weights
 Metadata
 Output formats include Excel, HTML, XML and CSV

References

http://www.statssa.gov.za/census01/html/CommProfilesTraining.pdf
http://devplan.kzntl.gov.za/General/Presentations/2004Jun1/SuperCROSS_Introduction.pdf

External links

 SuperCross home page at SpaceTime Research

Data analysis software


title: Elections in Himachal Pradesh

text:
Elections in Himachal Pradesh for the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Himachal Pradesh state, India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India.

Lok Sabha elections

Keys:

Legislative Assembly elections

1952 Legislative Assembly election

1967 Legislative Assembly election

1972 Legislative Assembly election

1977 Legislative Assembly election

1982 Legislative Assembly election

1985 Legislative Assembly election

1990 Legislative Assembly election

1993 Legislative Assembly election

1998 Legislative Assembly election

Keys:

2003 Legislative Assembly election

Keys:

2007 Legislative Assembly election

The 2007 Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly election were held in Himachal Pradesh in 2007.

Keys:

2012 Legislative Assembly election

Keys:

2017 Legislative Assembly election

BJP won 44 out of 68 seats to form the government, ousting Congress party from power. Indian National Congress won 21 seats. Jai Ram Thakur was appointed as Chief Minister after the elections.

Keys:

2022 Legislative Assembly election

Keys:

See also
 All India Tribes and Minorities Front

References

 Himachal Pradesh Election Results


title: Song Shi Jishi

text:
Song Shi Jishi (, "Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry") is a compilation of historical accounts about poets of the Song dynasty. It was edited by the prominent Qing dynasty poet Li E. According to the author's preface, the process of compilation started from 1725, and took about 20 years to finish. The book comprises 100 volumes, and discusses about 3812 Song Dynasty poets. Its style and structure imitated that of the 12th century book Recorded Occasions of Tang Poetry, there is one chapter for every poet, including a biography, several representative poems and comments.

Impact and imitators

The book preserved a lot of literature materials about Song poetry, and opened a pass for similar works such as Recorded Occasions of Liao Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Jin Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Yuan Poetry, Recorded Occasions of Ming Poetry and Recorded Occasions of Qing Poetry. Lu Xinyuan, a book collector of late Qing era, composed a book named Supplement to the Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry (宋詩紀事補遺, 100 volumes), dwhich covers another 3000 poets. Qian Zhongshu, a 20th-century Chinese scholar, wrote Emendations of Recorded Occasions of Song Poetry (宋詩紀事補正), corrected many mistakes and added more materials about Song poets to the original book.

References

1725 books
1746 non-fiction books
18th-century history books
Chinese literary works
Qing dynasty literature
Song poetry
Books about poets
Biographies about writers


title: New Domohani railway station

text:
New Domohani railway station (Station code:NQH) is a railway junction station which serves Domohani, and lies along the bank of River Teesta, the other station is Domohani railway station (station code DOI) which lies in New Mal–Changrabandha–New Cooch Behar line in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. New Domohani station lies in New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of  Barauni–Guwahati line of Northeast Frontier Railway in Alipurduar railway division.

History
The old Domohani railway station which is situated around 2 km northwest of the new station was the Jalpaiguri headquarters of the erstwhile Bengal Dooars Railway, which was functional from 1891 to 1941. This important station was the centre for the railway timber industry which was fed by the forests of Lataguri. Wooden railway sleepers laid all over the subcontinent was shipped from north Bengal originating from this railway head. Freight and passenger services connected this station with other regions in Bengal Duars and the rest of eastern Bengal, with the headquarters at Lalmonirhat, now in Bangladesh thus giving it access to the Calcutta main route. Located on the eastern bank of the Teesta, timber was loaded and assembled here from throughout Bengal Dooars and ferried across the Teesta to Jalpaiguri near present-day Paharpur More and from Jalpaiguri it was transported to the Calcutta mainline. Now dried of its economic potential in the Indian nation state, this once bustling railway station is now defunct.

Construction of the -long  broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, created broad-gauge railway links in North Bengal and Assam.

Accident
On 13 January 2022, Thursday, train number 15633 Bikaner–Guwahati Express, travelling from Bikaner Junction to Guwahati railway station got derailed between  and New Maynaguri railway station near Siliguri in West Bengal at around 4:30pm.

References

Alipurduar railway division
Railway stations in Jalpaiguri district
Transport in Jalpaiguri
Year of establishment missing


title: Ruhollah Beigi

text:
Ruhollah Beigi Eilanlu (; born 1973) is an Iranian shiite cleric and politician.

Beigi Sadr was born in Miandoab, West Azerbaijan.  He is a member of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Miandoab, Shahin Dezh and Takab with Mehdi Isazadeh. and member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society. Beighi won with 79,260 (35.42%) votes.

References

People from Miandoab
Deputies of Miandoab, Shahin Dezh and Takab
Living people
1973 births
Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Followers of Wilayat fraction members


title: Streynsham Master (Royal Navy officer)

text:
Streynsham Master (1682–1724) was an English captain in the Royal Navy.

Life
He was the only son of James Master of East Langdon in Kent, by Joyce, only daughter of Christopher Turnor, baron of the exchequer; James Master's grandfather, Sir Edward Master (died 1648), had married Audry, eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert Streynsham, by whom he had fifteen children. His uncle (younger brother of his father, James), an influential figure in the East India Company, was also named Streynsham Master.

Master entered the navy under Captain George Byng, who had married his sister, Margaret. He was serving with him as a midshipman of HMS Ranelagh in 1704, was promoted to be a lieutenant of the Ranelagh, and was severely wounded in the leg by the explosion at the capture of Gibraltar. On 5 July 1709 he was promoted by Byng, then commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, to command HMS Fame, and on 22 March 1710 he was posted by Sir John Norris to HMS Ludlow Castle.

In 1712 Master was captain of HMS Ormonde in the Mediterranean; in 1716 and 1717 of the same vessel, now called HMS Dragon, in the Baltic Sea, with Norris and Byng. In March 1718 he was appointed to HMS Superbe, one of the fleet which went out to the Mediterranean with Byng. In the Battle of Cape Passaro off the southern tip of Sicily, 31 July 1718, Master made himself prominent. The Superbe and HMS Kent together engaged the Real San Felipe, the Spanish flagship, till, having beaten her to a standstill, she was boarded and taken by a party from the Superbe, led by Thomas Arnold, her first lieutenant.

After his return to England Master had no further service, dying of a fever, 22 June 1724. He had married, only four months before, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Richard, son of Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet, but left no issue.

Notes

Attribution

1682 births
1724 deaths
Royal Navy officers
People from Dover District
British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance
Military personnel from Kent


title: From the Desk of Mr. Lady

text:
From the Desk Of... Mr. Lady is an EP by American feminist electroclash trio Le Tigre.

In popular culture
In 2016, "Mediocrity Rules" was featured in a commercial for Post Foods' Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles.

Track listing

References

EPs by American artists
2001 debut EPs


title: Ain't It Funny (disambiguation)

text:
"Ain't It Funny" is a 2001 single by Jennifer Lopez.

Ain't It Funny may also refer to:

"Ain't It Funny" (Murder Remix), a remix of the song by Jennifer Lopez
Ain't It Funny, a 1972 album by Anthony Newley
"Ain't It Funny", a 2003 song by Soledad Brothers from Voice of Treason
"Ain't It Funny", a 1998 song by Enuff Z'Nuff from Paraphernalia
"Ain't It Funny", a 2012 song by George Jackson from The Jeb Loy Nichols Special
"Ain't It Funny", a 1975 song by Peter Goalby
"Ain't It Funny", a 1996 song by Ken Munshaw from Human Condition
"Ain't It Funny", a 1994 song by Branford Marsalis from Buckshot LeFonque
"Ain't It Funny", a 1999 song by Brainstorm
"Ain't It Funny", a 1962 song by Gerri Granger

"Ain't It Funny", a 1978 song by Colin Blunstone

"Ain't It Funny", a 2016 song by Danny Brown from Atrocity Exhibition

See also
"Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make", a Broadway song
"Funny How Time Slips Away", song by Willie Nelson


title: Uturunku (Peru)

text:
Uturunku (Quechua for jaguar, Hispanicized spelling Otorunco) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range  in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Uturunku is surrounded by the mountains Chankuwaña, Wamanripa and Waytani in the northwest, east and southwest.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Cusco Region


title: Mehdi Isazadeh

text:
Mehdi Isazadeh (; born 1962) is an Iranian politician.

Beighi Sadr was born in Miandoab, West Azerbaijan.  He is a member of the 2008 and present Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Miandoab, Shahin Dezh and Takab With Rohollah Beighi. and member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society. Isazadeh won with 75,481 (33.73%) votes.

References

External links
  isazadeh Website

People from Miandoab
Deputies of Miandoab, Shahin Dezh and Takab
Imam Hossein University alumni
Living people
1962 births
Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Members of the 8th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps second brigadier generals


title: Pablo Etchegoin

text:
Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin (12 September 1964 – 29 April 2013 ) was an Argentine-New Zealand physicist.

Academic career
Born in 1964 in La Plata, Argentina, he obtained a BSc in electrical engineering from the National University of La Plata and then The Institute of Physics José A Balseiro where he obtained a BSc in Physics in 1989. He completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart with Manuel Cardona in 1994 and spent time at the University of Cambridge before moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 2003, where he built a Raman spectroscopy lab. In 2004, he was awarded the T. K. Sidey Medal, an award set up by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2013.

References

External links
 google scholar
 institutional homepage
 Memorial page by the MacDiarmid Institute
 Obituary by the Royal Society of New Zealand

Deaths from pancreatic cancer
1964 births
2013 deaths
People from La Plata
National University of La Plata alumni
University of Stuttgart alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand physicists
Argentine emigrants to New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand physicists
21st-century New Zealand physicists


title: Gerri Granger

text:
Geraldine “Gerri” Granger is an American actress and soul singer.

Gerri Granger was a musical guest on the Johnny Carson show from 1962, in the 1969 series, 1973, 1974 and 1977 series. She also guested on The David Frost Show (1969), and ABC-TV's What's It All About World?.

Granger released one album Add A Little Love and had a minor hit with a cover of the Frankie Valli standard "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" 1967. She also recorded an answer song to Return to Sender - "Don't Want Your Letters", arranged and conducted by Bert Keyes.

Her song "I Go To Pieces (Everytime)" became massive on the U.K.'s Northern Soul Scene, despite only being released as a promo in the U.S.A. on the Bell Records label in 1971.  Billboard listed it for release in February, however it was not officially released.

Discography
"Ain't it Funny" 1962

References

Living people
Date of birth unknown
Year of birth missing (living people)