title: Gustav Eberlein

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Gustav Heinrich Eberlein (14 July 1847, Spiekershausen (near Staufenberg) - 5 February 1926, Berlin) was a German sculptor, painter and writer.

Life
He was the son of a border guard. At the age of eight, his family moved to Hannoversch Münden, which would be his home for the remainder of his life, despite many years spent elsewhere. His parents lacked the money to provide him with formal artistic training, so he obtained instruction wherever possible, especially from the local goldsmith. In 1866, thanks to the patronage of a pastor who had recognized his talents, he was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. In 1869, he went to Berlin on a scholarship. Three years later, another scholarship enabled him to study in Rome.

Upon his return to Berlin, he received significant support from Martin Gropius. Despite growing success, the next decade was difficult. His three-year-old son died in 1882, then his mother in 1888. This was followed by a divorce in 1891. A year later, he married the Countess Maria von Hertzberg, an aspiring young artist, and was appointed a Professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts the year after that.

In 1900, he came out in strong opposition to the "Lex Heinze" (which, among other things, banned the display of "immoral" art works). That same year, all but a few of his figures were removed from display at the Great Berlin Exhibition, not only because of the law but also, probably, because of his support for French and Belgian sculptors (such as Rodin and Meunier). In fact, as tensions between Germany and its western neighbors grew, Eberlein's outspoken advocacy of peace and disarmament caused him to lose his public commissions.

Later career

He was able to find work elsewhere, notably in South America, but his finances never recovered and he was divorced for a second time in 1912. The following year, he auctioned off most of his possessions in anticipation of emigrating, but those plans were put off because of World War I. He received some orders during the war and created a small museum at his studios in Berlin but, after the war, criticism was renewed; especially for his creating a statue of Karl Marx at the same time he was doing one of the former Kaiser. He was especially well known for his small figures and portrait sculpture and produced over 900 works. The majority of his larger bronze monuments were melted down during World War II. Most of his 300 original plaster models were disposed of by the city of Münden after his death. In 1962,  work related to a construction project revealed approximately 80 figures and 11 paintings that were preserved and restored between 1983 and 1989. Many are now in the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

He was able to avert destitution only by adopting his housemaid as his daughter, ensuring that he would be cared for by her family. By the time of his death, he was nearly forgotten. He was buried at the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin.

Selected major works
 Altona, Germany - The Peace
 Berlin Tiergarten - Richard Wagner and Albert Lortzing monuments.
 Berlin Tiergarten - Figures for the Siegesallee (Victory Avenue) project of Wilhelm II. He did two groups:
Group 26; consisting of Frederick I of Prussia as the central figure, flanked by Andreas Schlüter and Eberhard von Danckelmann.
Group 30; with Frederick William III of Prussia as the central figure, flanked by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein.
 Buenos Aires - "Monument to General José de San Martín and the Armies of Independence"; side figures.
 Hannoversch Münden - Germania Statue; with many signed copies forming a part of various war memorials throughout Germany. (The exact number is unknown because some were lost or destroyed). This was the result of an aggressive advertising campaign by the foundry, which included the statue in its catalog.
 Montevideo - Figures in the Second Concourse of the "Monument to Artigas".
 Rome - Goethe monument.
 Santiago - "German Fountain", Plaza de Armas.
 Tilsit - Statue of Queen Louise
 Various statues of Wilhelm I in Arnsberg, Duisburg, Gera, Hamburg, Krefeld, Mannheim, Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal.

Notes

References

Further reading

  Alternate URL

External links

 Homepage of Gustav Eberlein Forschung e.V.

1847 births
1926 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg alumni
People from Hann. Münden
Academic staff of the Prussian Academy of Arts
20th-century German sculptors
20th-century German male artists
German male sculptors
19th-century German sculptors


title: John P. McVeane

text:
John P. McVeane (1842 – May 10, 1864) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. McVeane received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. McVeane's medal was won for capturing the flag from a Confederate Color bearer at Fredericksburg Heights. He was posthumously honored with the award on September 21, 1870.

McVeane was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He joined the 49th New York Volunteer Infantry from Buffalo, New York in August 1861. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in October 1863, and was mortally wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. McVeane was one of 30 Canadians to win the Medal of Honor.

Medal of Honor citation

See also
 List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P

References

1842 births
1896 deaths
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
Emigrants from pre-Confederation Ontario to the United States
Canadian-born Medal of Honor recipients
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Military personnel from Buffalo, New York
People from Old Toronto
Union Army soldiers
Union military personnel killed in the American Civil War
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients


title: Lie a Little Better

text:
"Lie a Little Better" is a song recorded by American country artist Lucy Hale. The song was written by Mike Daly, Chris DeStefano and Melissa Peirce and was produced by Daly. It was released on July 21, 2014 by Hollywood Records and DMG Nashville, as the second and final single from Hale's debut studio album Road Between (2014).

In March 2018, Hale revealed the song is about her love crush with actor Drew Van Acker.

Music video
The music video premiered on CMT and GAC on July 29 and was released on Vevo on July 30, 2014. It was filmed inside the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee on June 23, which came right after Hale's debut on the Grand Ole Opry radio show a day earlier, on June 22.

The video was directed by Philip Andelman.

Chart performance
"Lie a Little Better" debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week ending August 30, 2014.

Charts

References

2014 singles
2014 songs
Lucy Hale songs
Songs written by Chris DeStefano
Songs written by Mike Daly
Song recordings produced by Mike Daly
Music videos directed by Philip Andelman
Hollywood Records singles


title: List of Oricon number-one singles of 1971

text:
The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1971.

Oricon Weekly Singles Chart

References

1971 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1971


title: Rosa Valenzuela Rodelo

text:
Rosa Hilda Valenzuela Rodelo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 she served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sinaloa as replacement of Abraham Velázquez Iribe.

References

Date of birth unknown
Living people
People from Sinaloa
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Sinaloa


title: Wankaner Assembly constituency

text:
Wankaner is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Morbi district and a segment of Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments

 Wankaner Taluka
 Rajkot Taluka (Part) Villages – Jaliya, Ratanpar, Khorana, Sanosara, Rampara (Suliya), Vankvad, Hirasar, Satda, Jhiyana, Khijadiya, Nagalpar, Rajgadh, Gavaridad, Para Pipaliya, Hadmatiya (Bedi), Nakaravadi, Pipaliya, Ranpar, Kuchiyadad, Rampara Beti, Parevala, Saypar, Kuvadva, Dhamalpar, Sokhada, Ronki, Ghanteshvar, Vajdi Gadh, Vejagam, Maliyasan, Targhadiya, Gunda, Magharvada, Mesvada, Barvan, Chanchadiya, Jamgadh, Rafala, Kherdi, Amargadh, Thorala, Mahika, Thebachda, Gadhka, Bedla, Fadadang, Deroi, Manharpur, Bedi, Madhapar, Anandpar

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

1972
 Abdulmutallib K Pirzada (Congress) : 19,614 votes
 Keshubhai Patel (BJS) : 10,047

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Morbi district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Morbi district
Year of establishment missing


title: Kurt Einsiedel

text:
Kurt Einsiedel (12 February 1907 – 25 March 1960) was a German cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit and time trial events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1907 births
1960 deaths
German male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
People from Altenburg
Cyclists from Thuringia
20th-century German people


title: Anton Joksch

text:
Anton Joksch (13 April 1900 – 27 January 1962) was a German cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1900 births
1962 deaths
German male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Dortmund
20th-century German people
Sportspeople from the Province of Westphalia


title: Abraham Velázquez Iribe

text:
Abraham Velázquez Iribe (born 17 March 1953) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party.  he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sinaloa.

References

1953 births
Living people
People from Sinaloa
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Sinaloa


title: Josef Steger

text:
Josef Steger (19 March 1904 – 19 December 1964) was a German cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1904 births
1964 deaths
German male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Cologne
20th-century German people


title: A Stitch in Time (Continuum)

text:
"A Stitch in Time" is the premiere episode of the first season of the Canadian series Continuum, and the series' 1st episode overall. The episode originally aired on May 27, 2012, on Showcase. The episode was written by Simon Barry and directed by Jon Cassar.

Plot
The episode opens with Edouard Kagame (Tony Amendola) delivering a speech about how 20 years prior, the corporations of the world bailed out the failing Governments becoming the Corporate Congress, and that while at first it was seen as a saving grace, it is now seen as a dictatorship that removed all personal dignity and freedom. His speech is interrupted by City Protection Service (CPS) who arrest him for being the leader of the terrorist organisation Liber8.

He tells them that they are too late and Officer Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) and the other officers of CPS watch as Liber8 destroy two skyscrapers.

Six months later, in Kiera's house, it is the eve of the execution of the leading members of Liber8 where it is revealed that they destroyed the skyscrapers in order to kill 20 corporate heads at the expense of tens of thousands of innocents. During the execution, Liber8 members are each given one piece of a Time Travel device. Kiera notices this and yells that they have something causing her and her partner Elena (Caitlin Cromwell) to run forwards as the terrorists throw each part of the device into the central power beam in front of them.

The device produces a small sphere of energy that teleports them backwards in time 65 years to 2012. Kiera wakes up in modern-day Vancouver and discovers that she in communication with Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) whom she met in 2077 as the head (William B. Davis) of the biggest corporation. She gives chase to Lucas Ingram (Omari Newton) who she manages to get arrested for threatening police officers with a weapon. Meanwhile, the remaining terrorists break into a weapons shop and reveal that Kagame did not make it through the time jump.

The next day she goes to the site at which she and the terrorists had landed and meets Detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster). She manages to fake her way into the police department to interrogate Lucas by pretending to be from the Portland police department. Afterwards she is called in to see Inspector Dillon (Brian Markinson) who is annoyed that the Portland police department had set up an operation in his territory without telling him.

He almost blows Kiera's cover by phoning Portsmouth but is interrupted by the report that Liber8 has attacked a police patrol and taken all of the weapons as well as setting off multiple bank alarms across the city. Kiera quickly figures out that the bank they are robbing is the final alarm to be triggered.

After escaping the police ambush, Liber8 escapes into an abandoned building followed shortly by Kiera. After a brief firefight, Stefan Jaworski (Mike Dopud) is taken down by an electrical charge sent through some wire from Kiera's suit. Kiera is saved from a sneak attack from Stefan by Carlos while Matthew Kellog (Stephen Lobo) and Curtis Chen (Terry Chen) escape.

Kiera then asks Carlos how many were in the bank and he replies just the three that they had just fought. Kiera then suddenly realises that the remaining members of Liber8 are attacking the police building to rescue Lucas from holding. The two of them return to find many people either wounded or being taken out on stretchers.

Cast

Main

 Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron
 Victor Webster as Carlos Fonnegra
 Erik Knudsen as Alec Sadler
 Stephen Lobo as Matthew Kellog
 Roger Cross as Travis Verta
 Lexa Doig as Sonya Valentine
 Tony Amendola as Edouard Kagame
 Omari Newton as Lucas Ingram
 Luvia Petersen as Jasmine Garza
 Jennifer Spence as Betty Robertson
 Mike Dopud as Stefan Jaworski
 William B. Davis as Elder Alec Sadler
 Terry Chen as Curtis Chen
 Brian Markinson as Jack Dillon

Guest
 John Reardon as Greg Cameron
 Sean Michael Kyer as Sam Cameron
  Michael Rogers as Roland Randol
 Janet Kidder as Ann Sadler
 Richard Harmon as Julian Randol
 Caitlin Cromwell as Elena
 David Nykl as Sergei
 Zahf Paroo as Oscar

Reception

Ratings
A Stitch in Time was viewed by 0.9 million viewers.

Reviews
Rob Kemp of Den of Geek gave a good overall review stating that the acting was good and that "Nichols has the charisma to be a show carrier" but also noted that the supporting cast were bland but hoped for further development. He also noted that while the focus on the futuristic technology, although he also noted that "the climatic shoot-out does hint that the suit will become a deus ex machina in the writers' arsenal."

Randy Dankievitch of Processed Media gave a mainly negative review, stating that while she has some hopes for the show, she was disappointed at the fact Kiera faked her way into the police department "Through some really inexplicably lame plot convolution". She notes that Alec's character in central to all major plot points but states that Kiera's determination to return to her family is going to have to change to keep her personal story interesting. She also commented that the shootouts were unneeded and drawn out. Overall she gave the episode a B−.

Matt Fowler of IGN gave a mostly positive review stating that the question of Time Travel was dealt with but not dealt with by two different possibilities being stated with one possibility being leaned on more than the other. He did however explain that Kiera corporation with the VPD relied on them ditching "all sorts of usual cop protocol in order to just follow this freaky, pretty newcomer on faith."

Jayne Nelson of SFX gave a positive review of the episode, commenting on the likeness of Erik Knudsen and William B Davis who play the young and old Alec respectively. She also noted that Director Jon Casser had done a brilliant job with the episode, in particular a scene where Liber8 walk down an alley in Slow Motion.

References

2012 Canadian television episodes
Continuum (TV series) episodes


title: Great Mariners F.C.

text:
Great Mariners (previously known as Ghapoha or Ghapoha Readers) is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Tema. They are a currently competing in the Ghana Football Leagues. In 1997, the team won the Ghanaian FA Cup.

History
It was founded in the port city of Tema with the name GHAPOHA, which would later be changed to GHAPOHA Readers. The club's name was an abbreviation of Ghana Port and Harbor Authority (GHAPOHA).

Their first major achievement was winning the Ghanaian FA Cup in the 1996/97 season after beating Okwahu United 1–0 in the final with a goal from Isaac Boakye.  Internationally they won the WAFU Club Championship in 1997 and in the African Football Confederation tournaments they participated in the defunct African Cup Winners' Cup in 1998, in which they were eliminated in the second round by USM Alger of Algeria.

In 2007, the team rebranded and changed their name from Ghapoha to Great Mariners.

Honours

National Tournaments (1)
 FA Cup: 1

 1997

 Ghana Super Cup runner-up : 1
 1997

International Tournaments (1)
 West African Club Championship: 1

 1997

Performance in CAF competitions

 1998 African Cup Winners' Cup: second round

Former players

References

External links
Ghapoha Rebrand (archived 14 July 2014)
GHAPOHA Players Seek New Jobs
Ghana All-Time Table (archived 6 January 2014)

Football clubs in Ghana
Tema


title: Plagiopholis styani

text:
Plagiopholis styani, also known by the common name Chinese mountain snake, is a species of colubrid snake. Its type locality is Kuatun (Guadun in modern spelling: ) in Wuyishan, Fujian. It is found in southern and central China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam. It is an uncommon species, and very rare in Taiwan. It is named after Frederick William Styan, a Shanghai-based English tea merchant and ornithologist.

Description
Plagiopholis styani is a small non-venomous snake, reaching a total length (including tail) of up to . Its upper head, body and tail are red-brown, olive-brown, or green-brown, with flecks of pink or black pigment on each scale, especially for those on the flanks of body. The upper body and tail have a spotted pattern of black or light yellow. There is a dark and thick cross band on nape, reflected in its Chinese name, Fujian neck-blotched snake ().

Habitat and ecology
Plagiopholis styani occurs in areas of montane and bamboo forest, including caves. It is a nocturnal snake that eats mainly earthworms and arthropods. It uses its head to burrow. Females produce clutches of 5–11 eggs in summer.

References

Further reading
Boulenger GA (1899). "On a Collection of Reptiles and Batrachians made by Mr. J. D. La Touche in N.W. Fokien, China". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 159-172 + Plates XVI-XIX. (Trirhinopholis styani, new species, pp. 145–165 + Plate XVIII, figures 2, 2a).

Plagiopholis
Snakes of China
Snakes of Vietnam
Snakes of Asia
Reptiles of China
Reptiles of Taiwan
Reptiles of Vietnam
Reptiles described in 1899
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger


title: List of hospitals in Port Harcourt

text:
List of some hospitals and medical centers in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

 Acron Medical Consultants // 1 Acron Drive, Behind Plot 28 Stadium Rd, GRA Phase IV, Port Harcourt

|| Shield Specialists Hospital// The Pain Care Center.
{Specialists in Pain Management, Painless Labor and Delivery.
Intensive Care,
Surgical Interventions}
 Call 08033122337

Plot 4 Close D, Peace Valley Estate, Trans Woji Road, Port Harcourt. Nigeria.

Kariden Specialist Hospital
-7 Monago Close Off East West Road Rumuodara Port Harcourt
-196 Aba Road opposite Presidential hotel Beside Unity bank Rumuola Port Harcourt

Kariden Diabetes and Endocrine Centre
-196 Aba Road opposite Presidential hotel Beside Unity bank Rumuola Port Harcourt

References

Bethesda Mission Hospital

External links

Hospitals
Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt


title: Quintín Vázquez García

text:
Quintín Vázquez García (born 23 July 1955) is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.

References

1955 births
Living people
Politicians from Guadalajara, Jalisco
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
University of Guadalajara alumni
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Jalisco


title: Dr. Dre: The Biography

text:
Dr. Dre: The Biography is a biography written about American rapper, music producer, and entrepreneur Dr. Dre written by Ronin Ro released February 28, 2007.

Subject matter
Dr. Dre: The Biography covers the early days of Dr. Dre's career and his time with the World Class Wreckin' Cru, N.W.A, and Ruthless, the release of The Chronic and his time at Death Row, and the formation of his record label Aftermath, and the production work with artists such as Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, The Game, etc., to present.

Accolades and reviews
Mike Tribby, writing for Booklist, wrote a positive review for Dr. Dre: The Biography and also said it is "probably one of the 10 best books on rap". Writing for All Hip Hop, Sidik Fofana also wrote a positive review for Dr. Dre: The Biography and said "Dr. Dre: The Biography stands as a momentous document for one of the great careers in the Hip Hop spectrum".

References

Hip hop books
Biographies about musicians
2007 non-fiction books


title: Nicky Milner

text:
Nicola Jane Milner  (born 4 September 1973) is a British archaeologist and academic. She is head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.  Her research focuses on the Mesolithic period, and the transition between the Mesolithic and Neolithic. She has worked at the iconic site of Star Carr in the Vale of Pickering for over 15 years, and has directed excavations at the site since 2004.

Milner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2019 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 2009.

Early life and education
Milner was born on 4 September 1973 in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. She was educated at Hunmanby Hall School, an all-girls private boarding school in Hunmanby, East Riding of Yorkshire. She studied archaeology at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1995. She then moved to the University of Cambridge, where she undertook a Natural Environment Research Council funder Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Her research developed a method for analysing seasonality from the shell of the European oyster, and applied this method to Danish shell midden sites. She completed her doctorate in 1999 with a thesis tiled "Seasonality information from the incremental growth of the European oyster for Ertebølle sites in Denmark".

Academic career
Following her PhD she was awarded a Sir James Knott postdoctoral fellowship at Newcastle University in 1999, and was employed as a lecturer at the same institution in 2001. She moved to the University of York in 2004 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2009, and made Professor of Archaeology in 2012. She has been head of York's Department of Archaeology since 2019.

She is senior editor of Oxford Research Reviews in Archaeology, and has been the editor for Mesolithic Miscellany journal since 2006, and co-author of popular book Star Carr: Life in Britain After the Ice Age, linked to a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum. She is a member of the AHRC peer college, and a member of the assessment panel for the NERC radiocarbon facility.

Milner was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to archaeology. She is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.

Research
Milner is the principal investigator on the European Research Council funded POSTGLACIAL project, investigating the occupation of north-west Europe and how people adapted to climate change during the early post-glacial period. The major case study for this research is Star Carr and other sites surrounding palaeo-lake Flixton. Her excavations at Star Carr were featured on a special episode of the UK Time Team, and her work in 2013 on the "earliest house in Britain" was featured on several major news outlets worldwide, including the BBC in the UK, CBS in the USA and Sky News Australia.

In addition to her work at iconic Star Carr, she has also worked on shell midden sites in Ireland, Scotland, Spain and Portugal, and has co-directed excavations as Howick and Baylet.

In November 2019 Milner was Highly Commended in the category of 'Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year' at the Times Higher Education Awards.

Selected publications

 Conneller, C, Milner, N, Taylor, B & Taylor, M 2012, 'Substantial settlement in the European Early Mesolithic: new research at Star Carr' Antiquity, vol 86, no. 334, pp. 1004–1020
 Milner, N, Conneller, C, Taylor, B & Schadla-Hall, RT 2012, The Story of Star Carr. Council for British Archaeology.
 Milner, N, Conneller, C, Elliott, B, Koon, H, Panter, I, Penkman, K, Taylor, B & Taylor, M 2011, 'From Riches to Rags: Organic Deterioration at Star Carr.' Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 38, no. 10, 38, pp. 2818–2832
 Milner, N, Lane, PJ, Taylor, B, Conneller, C & Schadla-Hall, T 2011, 'Star Carr in a Postglacial Lakescape: 60 Years of Research' Journal of Wetland Archaeology, vol 11, no. 1, pp. 1–19
 Milner, N & Craig, OE 2009, 'Mysteries of the middens: change and continuity across the Mesolithic Neolithic transition'. in MJ Allen, N Sharples & T O'Connor (eds), Land and People. Papers in Honour of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Paper, no. 2, Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 169–180
 Milner, N, Mithen, S & Ralston, I 2009, 'Hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic'. in J Hunter (ed.), The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge, London, pp. 53–77
 Milner, N 2002, Incremental growth of the European Oyster, Ostrea edulis: seasonality information from Danish kitchenmiddens. British Archaeological Reports, Archaeopress, Oxford

References

Living people
British archaeologists
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of York
British women archaeologists
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Prehistorians
People from Bridlington
1973 births
Officers of the Order of the British Empire


title: Sergio Vázquez García

text:
Sergio Vázquez García (born 6 October 1967) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party. In 2003, he was elected as deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.

References

1967 births
Living people
People from Guadalajara, Jalisco
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Jalisco


title: Rajkot East Assembly constituency

text:
Rajkot East is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following wards of Rajkot Municipal Corporation:

Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Rajkot district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot district


title: The End of Men

text:
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women is a book by journalist and magazine editor Hanna Rosin, based on her cover story of the same name that appeared in The Atlantic in 2010. It was published by Riverhead Books in 2012. In the book, Rosin argues that patriarchy is coming to an end. She writes about the dominance of women in US schools and workplaces.

Overview
Rosin's text was published in 2012 by Riverhead Books. In the text, she theorizes that women have won the gender war, having "pulled decisively ahead [of men] by almost every measure." Rosin uses the shift in the American economy as one of her main sources. Here, jobs which traditionally held male-led jobs are now lost in the face of the recession and recovery of said economy. Rosin also cites rising college graduation rates, steady employment, and an increased presence in male-dominated fields such as politics and business.

Reception
Carol Tavris writes in the Wall Street Journal that "[Rosin] avoids the journalistic habit of doing 'spotlight interviews' with individuals selected to support the writer's hypothesis, a practice she knows is misleading. Instead, her argument is based on substance and scholarship".

Annalee Newitz of NPR describes the book as "a frustrating blend of genuine insight and breezy, unconvincing anecdotalism" but also that "the book manages to register a cultural shift in the process of happening, which is an exceedingly difficult task".

Writing in The New York Times, Jennifer Homans suggests that The End of Men minimizes important issues still facing women, and that Rosin perpetuates stereotypes about what it means to be a woman such as having a greater ability than men to "sit still and focus".

The Law Review at the Boston University School of Law published a symposium on the book titled, "Evaluating Claims about the 'End of Men'." It included an article titled, "The End of Men Is Not True," by sociologist Philip N. Cohen.

Writing in 2021, after a year in which more women than men lost jobs due to the COVID-19 recession, Rosin referred to her "tragic naïveté" in writing the book.

References

Further reading

External links

2012 non-fiction books
Books about men
Feminist books
Riverhead Books books


title: Ala al-Din Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd

text:
Ala al-Din Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd () was an Iranian statesman from the Fasanjas family who served as the vizier of the Buyid ruler al-Malik al-Rahim (r. 1048–1055) from 1048 to 1055.

Biography
Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd was the son of Dhu'l-Sa'adat, who had served as the vizier of the Buyid rulers Jalal al-Dawla and Abu Kalijar. During his early life, Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd participated in his father's expeditions in Batihah. At the ascension of Abu Kalijar's son al-Malik al-Rahim in 1048, Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd was appointed as his vizier, although nothing is known of him during this service.

In 1055, the Seljuq ruler Tughril captured Baghdad and deposed al-Malik al-Rahim. Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd was shortly appointed as the governor of Wasit by the latter's vizier Al-Kunduri, but was suspected of preparing a rebellion by strengthening the defenses of the city. This shortly resulted in a Seljuq expedition to Wasit; Abu'l-Ghana'im Sa'd then rebelled and allied himself with al-Basasiri, with whom he openly changed their adherence to the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. However, he was finally defeated in 1057 and was captured and executed. His death marked the end of the Fasanjas family.

Sources

Buyid viziers
1057 deaths
11th-century Iranian people
Fasanjas family
Year of birth unknown


title: SPAG

text:
SPAG or Spag may refer to:

 Submarine Parachute Assistance Group of Britain's Royal Navy, assists in submarine rescues
 Anthony "Spag" Borgatti (1916–1996), founder of Spag's discount store in Massachusetts
 St. Petersburg Immobilien und Beteiligungs AG (SPAG), a company suspected of links with the Cali Cartel organised crime group
  Spelling, punctuation and grammar
 Sperm-associated antigen, human proteins, including:
 SPAG1: Sperm-associated antigen 1
 SPAG5: Sperm-associated antigen 5
 SPAG6: Sperm-associated antigen 6
 SPAG7: Sperm-associated antigen 7
 SPAG8: Sperm-associated antigen 8
 SPAG9: Sperm-associated antigen 9
 SPAG11B: Sperm-associated antigen 11B

See also
 Spag bol, slang for spaghetti bolognese, a pasta dish


title: Brianna Lea Pruett

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Brianna Lea Pruett (January 18, 1983 – September 2, 2015) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet and filmmaker.

Early life and family
Brianna Lea Pruett was born in Sacramento, California. Her family lived at a Northern California Shingle Springs ranch they had built with extended family members in the 1970s. She attended public schools in Sacramento after the family moved to the city in 1989, and through many moves following her parents' divorce and remarriages. Pruett was a second generation Californian. Both maternal grandparents descended from European Mormon settlers and her paternal ancestry is Native American. Both sides of her father's family include Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw relatives, as well as European immigrants. Pruett's interest in her family lineage is well documented through her creative output and helped connect her with the Native American record label Canyon Records.

Music
Exposed to music, art, and film of all genres from a young age, Pruett was encouraged in artistic endeavors. Her parents' vinyl collection—encompassing everything from classical and choir music to folk and rock legends like Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix—served as Pruett's first music history education. Other noted influences included Tom Waits, Roberta Flack, and Doc Watson. When she was a teenager, she often sang in clubs, cafes, on street corners, and art galleries in Northern California, performing a cappella, with acoustic guitar, and occasionally with a band.

Pruett has self-released two albums, 2003's Natural Fact and 2004's Winter Apple, both of which were recorded in Portland, Oregon. She later re-released them through Tiger Friends Collective, the same company that released 2011's The Stars, The Moon, The Owl, The Cougar, and You and 2012's Keeping You in Mind.

Pruett's 2013 debut on Canyon Records, Gypsy Bells, gained generally favorable reviews and media attention. Her style is often associated with folk music falling in a singer-songwriter category. However, Pruett lists diverse musical influences like Emmylou Harris, Carole King, Iron & Wine, Pavement, Woody Guthrie, and Charles Mingus and has been compared to a mix of "Angel Olson + Damien Jurado" and Cat Power.

Discography
 Dreamland (unreleased)
 Natural Fact (2003 self-released, 2009 re-released Tiger Friends Collective)
 Winter Apple (2004 self-released, 2009 re-released Tiger Friends Collective)
 The Stars, The Moon, The Owl, The Cougar, and You (2011 Tiger Friends Collective)
 Keeping You in Mind (2012 Tiger Friends Collective)
 Gypsy Bells (2013 Canyon Records)

Painting
Pruett began painting as a career at age 16 while living with a professional artist. Until her death, she worked primarily in oil painting. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout New York and California and can be viewed on her website. Pruett was a member of the California Art Club.

Poetry
Pruett's poetry has appeared in publications including Rabbit and Rose and Turtle Island To Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women. Selections can also be read in the upcoming edition of Blue Moon Literary & Art Review.

Film
Pruett began filming with a handheld DV camera, creating short films that cost nothing to produce, in 2005. Our Love And Voices, a short from her film series Roses For Maya Deren premiered at the 2012 American Indian Film Festival. A DVD release of Roses For Maya Deren was recently funded on Indiegogo, which included 18 of the more than 30 short films she shot between 2005 and 2012. The final DVD was released in early 2015 and in May 2015, the 18 shorts were made available on Vimeo On Demand. Those titles include:

Pruett was a member of the Sundance Institute.

Death
Pruett died by suicide on September 2, 2015. The cause of death was not made public. She was 32, and had been depressed off and on for most of her adult life.

References

External links
 Official Site
 Brianna Lea Pruett on Canyon Records

1983 births
2015 deaths
Musicians from Sacramento, California
Singer-songwriters from California
Artists from California
Poets from California
American women singer-songwriters
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American women poets
American women painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American women artists
Suicides in California
21st-century American women singers
2015 suicides


title: Sean Reid-Foley

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Sean Ian Reid-Foley (born August 30, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was selected in the second round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft by the Toronto Blue Jays, and made his debut with them in 2018.

Early life
Reid-Foley was born in Guam while his father, Dave, was assigned there while serving in the United States Coast Guard.

Reid-Foley attended Sandalwood High School in Jacksonville, Florida. As a junior in 2013, he threw a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts in a game against Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Professional career

Toronto Blue Jays

Minor leagues
Considered by MLB.com to be the 18th overall prospect heading into the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, he was drafted by the Blue Jays in the second round, 49th overall. Having signed a commitment to Florida State University, he was passed over in the first round due to signability concerns. On June 10, 2014, he signed with the Blue Jays for a bonus of $1.128 million, and was expected to join extended spring training in Clearwater. Reid-Foley made his professional debut for the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Blue Jays on June 27, pitching  of an inning and yielding two earned runs. He finished the 2014 regular season with a 1–2 record in nine appearances (six starts), a 4.76 ERA, and 25 strikeouts in 22 innings. Reid-Foley was promoted to the Short Season-A Vancouver Canadians on September 3, 2014, but did not make an appearance during the Northwest League playoffs.

Reid-Foley began the 2015 season with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts, and made his debut for the team on April 14, 2015. He started the game, pitching three shutout innings and yielding only two hits and two walks while striking out six. He set career highs in innings pitched (5) and strikeouts (10) in a start on May 30 against the Dayton Dragons. His performance earned him a spot on MLB Pipeline's Prospect Team of the Week. In late June, Reid-Foley was promoted to the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays. He made his debut on July 5, pitching five shutout innings against the Lakeland Flying Tigers. Reid-Foley ended the 2015 season with a 4–10 win–loss record, 4.22 ERA, and 125 strikeouts in 96 innings pitched. He was assigned to the Lansing Lugnuts to open the 2016 minor league season. After pitching to a 2.95 ERA through 58 innings, Reid-Foley was promoted to the Dunedin Blue Jays on June 16 to start that night against the Clearwater Threshers. He struck out 12 batters, establishing a new career-high, in a 4–0 win. On July 27, Reid-Foley was ranked 93rd on MLB's Top 100 Prospects list. He finished the 2016 season with a combined 10–5 record, 2.81 ERA, and 130 strikeouts in 115 innings. Reid-Foley greatly improved his pitch control in 2016, lowering his walks per nine innings rate from 6.3 in 2015 to 3.0. Reid-Foley started the 2017 season playing with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

Reid-Foley was assigned to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the entire 2017 season. He made 27 starts and posted a 10–11 win–loss record, 5.09 ERA, and 122 strikeouts in a career-high 132 innings pitched. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Reid-Foley to spring training. He began 2018 with New Hampshire. After posting a 5–0 record with a 2.03 ERA in eight starts for the Fisher Cats, Reid-Foley was promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 24.

Major leagues
Reid-Foley was called up on August 13, 2018, and made his major league debut the same day against the Kansas City Royals. He took the loss in the game, yielding three runs on six hits and three walks, while striking out three. He and Danny Jansen became the first batterymates to debut in the same American League game since Billy Rohr and Russ Gibson did so in April 1967. Reid-Foley earned his first major league win on September 2, when he pitched seven innings of one-run baseball and struck out ten batters as the Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins 6–1. On September 15, Reid-Foley became the first pitcher in franchise history to record 31 strikeouts through his first five major league starts, and the second to record two double-digit-strikeout games as a rookie. Reid-Foley finished with 7 starts for the Blue Jays, recording 2 wins with 4 losses in  innings while striking out 42 but also walking 21. The following season, he was 2-4 in 9 games (6 starts) in  innings.

With the 2020 Toronto Blue Jays, Reid-Foley had five relief appearances, and compiled a 1-0 record with a 1.35 ERA and 6 strikeouts in 6.2 innings pitched.

New York Mets
On January 27, 2021, Reid-Foley was traded to the New York Mets alongside right handed pitchers Yennsy Díaz and Josh Winckowski in exchange for LHP Steven Matz. Reid-Foley made his first appearance for the Mets on April 22, 2021, in relief against the Chicago Cubs. He pitched three perfect innings and recorded four strikeouts. After the game, he was sent back down to the Mets' alternate site. He was recalled on May 11, after Jacob deGrom was placed on the injured list. After replacing starting pitcher Taijuan Walker in a game on May 17 against the Atlanta Braves, Reid-Foley struck out five batters in three perfect innings and earned his first win of the season. He also got on base for the first time in his career by drawing a walk in the fifth inning. On May 31, he was demoted to the Triple-A Syracuse Mets to create room on the active roster for Seth Lugo.

On May 1, 2022, Reid-Foley was placed on the injured list with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. On May 11, Reid-Foley underwent Tommy John surgery, ending his 2022 season. On November 18, Reid-Foley was non–tendered and became a free agent.

On December 6, 2022, he re-signed with the Mets on a minor league contract. In 22 combined appearances split between Triple–A Syracuse, the High–A Brooklyn Cyclones, and the Single–A St. Lucie Mets, he posted a cumulative 4.09 ERA with 33 strikeouts in 22.0 innings of work. On August 23, 2023, the Mets selected Reid-Foley's contract, adding him to the major league roster.

Personal life
His elder brother, David, was a catcher at Mercer University and signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as an undrafted free agent in 2013. The Dodgers organization converted him into a pitcher in 2014.

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
People from Agana Heights, Guam
Guamanian baseball players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Major League Baseball pitchers
Toronto Blue Jays players
New York Mets players
Gulf Coast Blue Jays players
Vancouver Canadians players
Lansing Lugnuts players
Dunedin Blue Jays players
New Hampshire Fisher Cats players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Syracuse Mets players
Sandalwood High School alumni
St. Lucie Mets players
Brooklyn Cyclones players


title: Rajkot West Assembly constituency

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Rajkot West is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation. Prior to that some areas under it were called 'Rajkot II' seat. Its current MLA was Gujarat's Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. It is a segment of Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments

 Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24.

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Election results

2022

2017

2014 Bypoll

2012

2007
 Vajubhai Vala	M	BJP	48215
 Nathwani Kashmira Bakulbhai	F	INC	38359

February 2002 by-poll

1998 Vidhan Sabha
 Vajubhai Roodabhai Vala (BJP) : 43,034 votes
 Kashmeeraben Bakulbhai Nathvanee	F	AIRJP : 	14316

1990 Vidhan Sabha
 Vajubhai Vala (BJP) : 31,864 votes
 Sudhir Joshi	M	INC :	16388

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Rajkot district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot
2008 establishments in Gujarat
Constituencies established in 2008


title: Poupou (architecture)

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A poupou is a wall panel located underneath the veranda of a Māori wharenui (meeting house). It is generally built to represent the spiritual connection between the tribe and their ancestors and thus each poupou is carved with emblems of the tohunga whakairo’s (carver's) particular lineage. The poupou may also be decorated with representations of the tribe's ancestral history, legends and migration stories to New Zealand. As such each wharenui, and by extension the poupou, are thus treated with the utmost respect, as if it were an ancestor.

Tohunga whakairo (carver)

For Māori the ability to carve wooden crafts is both a spiritual and intellectual endeavour.

The tohunga whakairo had to be well versed in his tribal lineage and history to carve something that was commemorative of his ancestors. At the same time particularly amongst the traditionalists, he had to be cognizant of the proper protocols. For example, in traditional times, the tohunga whakairo never blew the shavings of his work or the ancestors would curse the piece. In other instances, if he allowed women or food near his work the mana (spiritual power) would be destroyed.

In the contemporary period Māori carvers have struggled to maintain the same traditional protocol in a state that has become increasingly Westernised. As a result, today, many Māori have made an attempt to resurge traditional patterns and carvings within mainstream art through programs like the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. They have made it their mission to preserve traditional toi whakairo, and have opened various programs and classes to pass their traditions to younger generations.

Styles

According to Sidney Mead’s The Art of Carving, there are three classical styles typically used in Māori carvings:

Taranaki

 Vigorous serpentine figures
 Pointed heads
 Rigged bodies
 Small mouths

North Auckland

 Simplicity
 Clean lines
 Round heads
 Use of unaunahi (half moon)
 Claw like fingers

Hauraki

 Emphasis on human figure
 Rigged body
 Use of many figures of differing sizes-largest in the centre

The poupou at the Royal Ontario Museum

The poupou at the Royal Ontario Museum was made in the nineteenth century. It was built in the style of the Te Ati Awa people of the North Island of New Zealand. It has a dark brown complexion rather than the traditional black, white and red pigments.

It is currently being displayed in the Oceania exhibit on the third floor of the Royal Ontario Museum. It is housed amongst various other Polynesian, Micronesian, and Australian indigenous artifacts like tapa or siapo cloths and Polynesian weaponry.

Notes

References

Māori culture
Vernacular architecture
Architecture in New Zealand


title: IEEE Cloud Computing

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IEEE Cloud Computing is a global initiative launched by IEEE to promote cloud computing, big data and related technologies, and to provide expertise and resources to individuals and enterprises involved in cloud computing.

History
In 2010, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) sponsored two cloud computing–specific conferences: IEEE CLOUD and IEEE CloudCom. With the success of the two conferences, IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Computer Society past president Steve Diamond, began urging the organization to take an active role in the development of cloud computing standards.

In April 2011, with the support of the IEEE Future Directions Committee and funding from the IEEE New Initiatives Committee, IEEE Cloud Computing was launched. The initiative was designed to follow a multi-year plan and includes a focus across multiple tracks: conferences, education, publications, standards, Intercloud Testbed, web portal, marketing, and public relations.

As part of the initiative's launch, two new cloud computing standards development projects were approved: IEEE P2301, Draft Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profile, and IEEE P2302, Draft Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (SIIF). With a growing need for greater cloud computing interoperability and federation, IEEE Cloud Computing focused its development activities and resources behind IEEE P2302 standard.

Current work
IEEE Cloud Computing continues to pursue efforts to provide cloud computing standards, advancement of cloud computing technologies, and to educate users on the benefits of cloud computing. As part of this ongoing effort, it offers a variety of activities, products, and services, including the IEEE Cloud Computing portal, conferences and events, continuing education courses, publications, standards, and the IEEE Intercloud Testbed platform for testing cloud computing interoperability.

IEEE Cloud Computing web portal
The IEEE Cloud Computing portal serves as an online hub for cloud computing resources. The site includes news and information in the form of IEEE press releases, as well as articles taken from both IEEE and third-party publications. The portal provides dedicated sections for conferences and events, education and careers, publications, standards, the IEEE Intercloud Testbed, and other innovations.

Standards
As part of its mandate, IEEE Cloud Computing is in the process of developing global cloud computing standards. In April 2011, it began working on the first IEEE cloud computing standards, IEEE P2301 and IEEE P2302. Both IEEE P2301, Draft Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profile, and IEEE P2302, Draft Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation address cloud interoperability, portability, and fragmentation.

The IEEE P2301 Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles (CPIP) Working Group was formed on February 24, 2014, with a mandate to develop the Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles. When completed, the guide will advise cloud computing ecosystem participants such as cloud vendors, service providers, and end users about available standards-based choices in areas like application, portability, management, and interoperability interfaces; file formats; and operation conventions. The guide will group these choices into multiple logical profiles, organized to address different cloud personalities. John Messina, senior member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud computing program, is the Chair of the IEEE P2301 Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles Working Group.

On April 4, 2011, the IEEE P2302 Draft Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation Working Group was formed. When finalized and approved, IEEE P2302 will define topology, protocols, functionality, and governance for cloud-to-cloud interoperability and federated operations

IEEE Cloud Computing also formed its new IEEE Adaptive Management for Cloud Computing (AMCC) Study Group on December 16, 2013. The group's purpose is to investigate the management environments needed to support the dynamic nature of cloud computing environments, the services they provide, the customers that consume the services and the providers offering the services. It will also explore potential application for adaptive, policy-based management in cloud based environments, including adaptive management architectures and environments; adaptive security management; auto-generation of management policies from business specifications; auto-generation of data in support of management functionality; and co-generation of application and management functionality. Joel Fleck, senior standards architect at HP Labs is the study group's chair.

Conferences
IEEE Cloud Computing both sponsors and participates in cloud computing-focused conferences and events around the world. Designed to promote knowledge-sharing about cloud computing, events typically range from one day to a week or more and attract a global audience. Conference and event programs generally offer multiple educational tracks with keynote speeches, panel discussions, and roundtables led by industry notables, researchers, engineers, academics, policymakers, and other key stakeholders.

In early January 2012, IEEE Cloud Computing began partnering with established conference to develop a matrix of events targeted to specific geographic regions. IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, held in Atlanta, Georgia, was co-located with the North America Cloud Congress. The initiative is organizing additional Cloud Congresses in the European, Asia Pacific, and Latin America regions to encourage greater focus on cloud computing via existing, well-established conference such as IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom), and IEEE Global Communications Conference, Exhibition, and Industry Forum (GLOBECOM), or to create new cloud computing-related events in specific geographic regions.

IEEE Cloud Computing conferences and events
 IEEE CloudCom: Also sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE CloudCom was first held at Beijing Jiaotong University, China in 2009, CloudCom addresses technical and scientific issues related to cloud computing, including architecture, data, security and privacy, and services and applications.
 IEEE CLOUD: Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and launched in Los Angeles, California, the international IEEE CLOUD conference was originally co-located with the 2009 World Congress on Services. The event focuses on cloud computing technologies, advancements, and innovations.
 IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (IEEE CCEM): The first major conference organized by IEEE Cloud Computing, the inaugural IEEE CCEM conference was held in Bangalore, India in October 2012. IEEE CCEM focuses on challenges and opportunities of cloud computing in emerging markets. Notable speakers at the first conference included Dr. Fausto Bernardini, IBM; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems; Manish Israni, Vodafone India; Gautham Mago, Sequoia Capital India; Sam Pitroda, Chairman of India's National Innovation Council; and Dr. Anurag Srivastava of Wipro.
 IEEE CloudNet: A new conference launched in 2012 in Paris, France, IEEE CloudNet is specific to cloud networking and related technologies.
 IEEE Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (IEEE COMPSAC): First held in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois, IEEE COMPSAC is an annual international conference focusing on computers, software, and applications, including cloud computing. Conference programs address research results, advancements and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications through keynote addresses, panel discussions, workshops, and doctoral symposiums.
 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM): One of two IEEE Communications Society's (IEEE ComSoc) flagship conferences, IEEE GLOBECOM addresses an array of telecommunications technologies and disciplines, including broadband, wireless, satellite, social networking, and cloud computing. The conference attracts scientists, researchers and industry practitioners.

Education
IEEE Cloud Computing offers continuing education courses, e-learning modules, and videos of conference, section, and chapter talks.

Participating organizations
Participating societies and organizations active in the IEEE Cloud Computing include:
Biometrics Council
Communications Society
Computational Intelligence Society
Computer Society
Consumer Electronics Society
Control Systems Society
Educational Activities
IEEE.tv
IEEE Standards Association
Photonics Society
Power & Energy Society
Reliability Society
Signal Processing Society
Sensors Council
Systems Council
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Technical Activities
Vehicular Technology Society

References

External links

 2014 IEEE CLOUD Conference
 2014 IEEE CloudCom 2014
 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking
 IEEE GLOBECOM

Cloud computing
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms
American engineering organizations
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


title: H.R. 3786 (113th Congress)

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The bill  is legislation that would allow the federal government to sell nine acres of land and the building on it to the city of Anchorage, Alaska. The land is currently owned and used by the National Archives and Records Administration to store "ongoing federal records and Alaska records dating back to its purchase in 1867."

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background
The records available at the archives include "textual documents, architectural drawings, maps, photographs and microfilm" and had not been cataloged.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The bill would direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, to convey to the City of Anchorage, Alaska, property in such city consisting of approximately nine acres and improvements located at 400 East Fortieth Street for not less than fair market value. The bill would make the net proceeds from such conveyance available to the Archivist to fund repairs and restorations conducted by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 13, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 3786 would authorize the General Services Administration, on behalf of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to sell certain property in Anchorage, Alaska, for fair market value. Proceeds from the sale would be available to be spent by NARA, subject to future appropriation.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that enacting this legislation would have no significant effect on the federal budget because we expect that the conveyance of this property will occur under current law. Based on information from NARA, we expect that the property will be sold over the next ten years because the agency has recently announced plans to close its operating facilities in Alaska. Because this legislation would accelerate the process of selling the property, the collection of sale proceeds (which are offsetting receipts, an offset to direct spending) also would be accelerated. Therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, CBO estimates the effect on offsetting receipts over the 2014-2024 period would be negligible. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.

H.R. 3786 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
H.R. 3786 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on December 16, 2014 by Rep. Don Young (R, AK-0). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. It was reported (amended) by the Committee on Transportation on April 9, 2014 alongside House Report 113-407. The House was scheduled to vote on the bill under a suspension of the rules on June 17, 2014.

Debate and discussion
One opponent of the bill focused primarily on his opposition to the NARA closing its only facility in Alaska, arguing that "it is disrespectful of Alaska to attempt to balance the NARA budget by closing the Alaska National Archives facility and selling off the permanent site."

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 3786
beta.congress.gov H.R. 3786
GovTrack.us H.R. 3786
OpenCongress.org H.R. 3786
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 3786
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 3786
House Report 113-407 on H.R. 3786

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Wee Kirk o' the Heather

text:
Wee Kirk o' the Heather may refer to:

 Wee Kirk o' the Heather (Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale)
 Wee Kirk o' the Heather (Las Vegas)


title: Rajkot South Assembly constituency

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Rajkot South is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments

 Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Gujarat Legislative Assembly

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot district


title: Pepper (robot)

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Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics), designed with the ability to read emotions. It was introduced in a conference on 5 June 2014, and was showcased in SoftBank Mobile phone stores in Japan beginning the next day. Pepper's ability to recognize emotion is based on detection and analysis of facial expressions and voice tones. Production of Pepper was paused in June 2021, due to weak demand.

History
Pepper was introduced in Tokyo on June 5, 2014, by Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank.

Pepper was scheduled to be available in December 2015 at SoftBank Mobile Pepper went on sale in June 2015 with the first batch of 1,000 units selling out in just 60 seconds.

Pepper was launched in the UK in 2016.

By May 2018, 12,000 Pepper robots had been sold in Europe.

In June 2021, it was reported SoftBank would pause production of Pepper, citing weak demand. At the time, an estimated 27,000 units had been manufactured.

Use

Commercial
Pepper is currently being used as a receptionist at several offices in the UK and is able to identify visitors with the use of facial recognition, send alerts for meeting organisers and arrange for drinks to be made. Pepper is able to chat autonomously to prospective clients. The first functioning Pepper receptionist in the UK was supplied by a SoftBank

distributor and was installed in London at Brainlabs.

The robot has also been used at banks and medical facilities in Japan, using applications created by Seikatsu Kakumei. and it is also used in all branches of Hamazushi restaurants in Japan.

Pepper is being used in North American airports such as Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Canada. The robot is used to greet travelers, offer menus and recommendations.

In 2018, Pepper robot was introduced first time in the UAE.

In December 2019, a dozen of Pepper robots were installed at the  "Pepper Parlor Café" in Tokyo, Japan.

Sports
On 9 July 2020, a team of Pepper robots performed as cheerleaders at a baseball game between the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and the Rakuten Eagles, supported by a team of Boston Dynamics Spot quadrupedal robots.

Consumer
In 2017, Pepper was reported to have been used in thousands of homes in Japan.

Academic
Pepper is available as a research and educational robot for schools, colleges and universities to teach programming and conduct research into human-robot interactions.

In 2017, an international team began research into using Pepper as versatile robot to help look after older people in care homes or sheltered accommodation. The project CARESSES aimed at developing the world's first culturally-competent robot, received funding worth more than two million Euros, with donors including the European Union and the Japanese government. The project was expected to run for three years. Institutions involved in the research include University of Genoa (Project Coordinator), Örebro University, Middlesex University, the University of Bedfordshire, SoftBank Robotics, Advinia HealthCare, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japanese coordinator), Nagoya University, Chubu University. On Tuesday 16 October 2018, a Pepper robot mentioned the CARESSES project while giving evidence to the Education Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament.

Long-term research with Pepper could show that residents of care home are willing to interact with humanoid robots and benefit from cognitive and physical activation that is led by the robot Pepper. Another long-term study in a care home could show that people working in the care sector are willing to use robots in their daily work with the residents. But it also revealed that even though that the robots are ready to be used, they do need human assistants, they cannot replace the human work force but they can assist them and give them new possibilities.

Design

Purpose

Pepper is not a functional robot for domestic use.  Instead, Pepper is intended "to make people enjoy life", enhance people's lives, facilitate relationships, have fun with people and connect people with the outside world. Pepper's creators hope that independent developers will create new content and uses for Pepper.

Specifications
The robot's head has four microphones, two HD cameras (in the mouth and forehead), and a 3-D depth sensor (behind the eyes). There is a gyroscope in the torso and touch sensors in the head and hands. The mobile base has two sonars, six lasers, three bumper sensors, and a gyroscope.

It is able to run the existing content in the app store designed for SoftBank's Nao robot.

Incidents
In September 2015, a visitor frustrated with his customer experience in Tokyo lashed out against Pepper, damaging the unit.

In 2018, a supermarket in Edinburgh, Scotland removed the service robot within a week as it was unpopular with customers. This was said to be due to high levels of background noise making the robot unable to hear questions properly, and customers being unwilling to interact with a robot when human help was available.

See also
 Manav (robot)
 Musio
 Nao

References

External links

 [https://www.softbankrobotics.com/us/pepper Pepper - SoftBank Robotics]
 Robot - SoftBank Group
 Pepper special website
 Pepper developer website

Robots of France
SoftBank Group
Humanoid robots
Robots of Japan
2014 introductions
2014 establishments in France
2014 establishments in Japan


title: 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament

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The 1992 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the eighth edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

The winners, United States, qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics together with runners-up Mexico as CONCACAF representatives.

Qualification

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

1 Only final tournament.

Final round

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links
 RSSSF.com – Games of the XXVI. Olympiad | Football Qualifying Tournament

CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
1996
Oly
Football qualification for the 1992 Summer Olympics


title: Rikako Morita

text:
is a Japanese professional golfer.

Morita plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has won seven times. She won topped the tour's money list in 2013.

Professional wins

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (7)

Team appearances
Amateur
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Japan): 2006

References

External links

Japanese female golfers
LPGA of Japan Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Kyoto
1990 births
Living people
21st-century Japanese women


title: Aghasalim Childagh

text:
Aghasalim Childagh (Azerbaijani: Ağasəlim Çildağ) (February 1, 1930 – April 8, 2008) was a performer of Azerbaijani meykhana music. He was popular across Caucasus, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Early career
Born in Mashtaga village of Baku, Childagh was interested in performing from an early age. He was taught by Aliagha Vahid and meykhana master Aghahuseyn, which later made him a very successful musician.

Fame
Like many other meykhana artists based in Azerbaijan, Childag spent more time performing in rural areas than at city, due to curfews and musical restrictions in Azerbaijan at the time. Childag became one of the most prolific artists on the meykhana scene, recording around 100 cassettes during his career. In 2006, he received Shohrat Order for his contributions to music.

Later years
After suffering stroke, his health later gradually declined and led him to live impaired health.

References

1930 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Azerbaijani male singers
Meykhana musicians


title: Rajkot Rural Assembly constituency

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Rajkot Rural is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments :
 Kotda Sangani Taluka.
 Rajkot Taluka (Part) Villages – Aniyala, Badpar, Bhangda, Bhayasar, Bhupgadh, Chitravav, Dhandhiya, Dhandhni, Dungarpar, Golida, Hadmatiya (Golida), Halenda, Haripar, Hodthali, Kalipat, Kankot, Kasturbadham, Kathrota, Kharachiya, Khokhadadad, Kothariya, Lakhapar, Lampasari, Lodhida, Lothada, Makanpar, Mota Mava, Munjka, Navagam, Padasan, Ramnagar, Rampara, Sajadiali Lili, Sajadiali Suki, Samadhiyala, Sar, Sardhar,Satapar, Umrali, Vajdi (Virda), Vavdi, Vadali.
 Lodhika Taluka – Entire taluka ''except village – Und Khijadiya.
 Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 21.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Rajkot district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot district


title: John Giffard (judge)

text:
John Giffard, or Gyffard (died after 1396) was an English-born lawyer and cleric in Ireland in the late fourteenth century, who served briefly as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.

Little is known of his life before 1377, when he appeared in Ireland as a Crown official. He is known to have travelled through the country on official business, which took him to Ulster in 1383. He was presented to a living in the diocese of Cloyne in 1382 and to another living at Church Lawford, Warwickshire, in 1386. He was appointed Keeper of the Writs in the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), which was then based in Carlow, and held the position until 1391 when he was replaced by Thomas Gower. He also held the office of chirographer (the official who had responsibility for engrossing fines) in the same Court, which he also surrendered to Gower. Gower acquired the crucial office of Chief Remembrancer of the  Exchequer the following year. In 1383 Giffard spent more than two months in County Down administering the Court's business, and was awarded an extra payment of 40 shillings.

In 1385 he was appointed a justice in eyre (itinerant justice) for three counties. He was ordered to act with Edmund de Clay, the then Chief Justice. They were also appointed to a Commission of Oyer and  Terminer. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) in 1396 but Elrington Ball tells us that he was removed from office a few days later, for unknown reasons.

It is unclear whether he had any connection with the Irish branch of the ancient Giffard family of Devon, who acquired the title Earl of Halsbury. The Irish branch was based at Dromartin, Dundrum, Dublin. There was also a Gyffard family in County Louth in the early 1440s.

References
Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926
Patent Rolls Richard II
Smyth, Constantine Joseph Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland London Butterworths 1839

Footnotes

14th-century Irish judges
Chief Justices of the Irish Common Pleas


title: Jacob Rudolf

text:
Jacob Paul Rudolf (February 18, 1926 – September 27, 2016) was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Connecticut Senate from 1967 to 1973, and a Republican member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983, and from 1985 to 1987. He previously served four terms on the Norwalk Common Council.

Rudolf was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Norwalk in 1971, being defeated by Donald J. Irwin.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Connecticut in 1986.

Rudolf died in Durham, New York, on September 27, 2016, at the age of 90.

References

1926 births
2016 deaths
Connecticut Democrats
Connecticut Republicans
Connecticut city council members
Connecticut state senators
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut


title: Otho Lloyd

text:
Otho Lloyd (1885‒1979) was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. He was the elder brother of Arthur Cravan and a nephew of Constance Lloyd Wilde, the wife of the Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde.

Life and career

Otho was born in London to the wealthy lawyer Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair, a governess known as Nellie. The couple had married the previous year despite the reservations of Lloyd's family. Otho Holland Lloyd abandoned his wife soon after the birth of their second child, Fabien Avenarius, the future Arthur Cravan, in 1887. Nellie sued for divorce and won a substantial settlement before she married the Swiss doctor Henri Grandjean. Otho was educated in Switzerland and England and studied painting in the studios of André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse. Before World War I, he was active in Munich, where he lived off a substantial remittance from his mother. He met his future wife while living in Germany and the couple moved to Paris in about 1912.

Otho postponed a professional career until 1939, when he finally felt "fully prepared" to appear in public. At his first exhibition, a two-person show held at the Perls Galleries in New York City, he exhibited eight paintings dating from the years between 1930 and 1938, including Les Toits de Paris (1930), Pont des Arts à Paris (1930), Paysage d'Espagne (1932), Vue de Tossa (1932), Vue de Mougins (1933), Les Oliviers du Cannet (1937), Paysage des Environs de Paris (1938), and Pont-Neuf à Paris (1938).

References

1885 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters


title: Carlos Henry Bosdet

text:
Carlos Henry Bosdet Fixott was an electrical engineer, born in 1857. He was the first person to install and introduce the telephone in Mexico during President Porfirio Diaz's term in office.

Early life
Carlos Henry Bosdet Fixott, was born on September 2, 1857, in Arichat, Nova Scotia, his parents were English from the Isle of Jersey.
He graduated from McGill University with a degree in electrical engineering.

Career
Bosdet Fixott was hired by the Ericsson Telephone Company, and sent to Mexico. He was sent to Mexico to install the first telephone line connecting Chapultepec Castle with the National Palace of Mexico on February 16, 1878, during the President Porfirio Diaz  era. He stayed in Mexico, moving between different states to install telephone lines and by the end of the century there were five thousand units across Mexico. He is credited as bringing the first telephone lines to different states in Mexico, and prompted Ericsson Telephone Company, a Swedish company, to invest more in Mexico.

Personal life and death
Carlos married Susan Miller who he met in Puebla, she was the daughter of an Englishman from Manchester, England.  He had three sons- Ernesto (1883), Carlos (1887) and Enrique (1893). He died in 1893, at the age of 36, as the result of complications from a bullfighting wound.  His sons stayed in Mexico and some of his descendants continue to live in Mexico today.

References

External links

 Bosdet Family Story.

Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian emigrants to Mexico
1857 births
1893 deaths


title: Lyudmila Biktasheva

text:
Lyudmila Marsovna Biktasheva (Cyrillic: Людмила Марсовна Бикташева; born 25 July 1974 in Kamensk-Uralsky) is a Russian athlete competing in the long-distance events. She represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metres finishing 13th in the final. She won the bronze medal in the same event at the 2002 European Championships.

Competition record

Personal bests
Outdoor
5000 metres – 15:22.98 (Yokohama 2000)
10,000 metres – 31:04.00 (Munich 2002)
10 kilometres – 32:04 (Cape Elizabeth 2008)
15 kilometres – 49:42 (Bristol 2001)
Half marathon – 1:10:31 (Vilamoura 2003)
Half marathon – 1:10:31 (Bristol 2001)
Marathon – 2:29:57 (Baltimore 2011)
Indoor
3000 metres – 9:20.0 (Yekaterinburg 1998)

See also
List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women)

References

1974 births
Living people
People from Kamensk-Uralsky
Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast
Russian female long-distance runners
Russian female marathon runners
Olympic female long-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Russia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
Russian Athletics Championships winners
European Athletics Championships medalists


title: Jasdan Assembly constituency

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Jasdan is one of the 183 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments,
 Jasdan Taluka

 Gondal Taluka (Part) Villages – Dadva Hamirpara, Karmal Kotda.
Sayla Taluka (Part) of Surendranagar District Village – Ori.

Members of Legislative Assembly
2002 - Kunvarjibhai Bavaliya, Indian National Congress
2007 - Kunvarjibhai Bavaliya, Indian National Congress
2009 - Bharat Boghara Bhartiya Janta Party (By Poll)
2012 - Bholabhai Gohel, Indian National Congress

Election results

2022

2017

2012

See also
 List of constituencies of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Rajkot district

References

External links

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot district


title: Fedden car

text:
The Fedden car (or F-car) was a British automobile produced after the Second World War by Roy Fedden Ltd. It was never manufactured.

Designed by Roy Fedden, assisted by Alec Moulton, Ian Duncan, Peter Ware, and Gordon Wilkins, the styling resembled the contemporary Jowett Javelin, with a sloping rear, four doors, seating for six, and rear spats. The design drew inspiration from the Volkswagen Type 1, including the rear-mounted engine and rear swing axle suspension. The car was powered by a horizontally-mounted  sleeve valve three-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, which had the carburettor between the rear window and the passenger compartment. The engine sat over the torque converter and rear axle, which contributed to a high center of gravity and a tendency to skid.

Of monocoque construction, the F-car was assembled in three distinct sections, each joined with four bolts. Intended to simplify repairs, it left the car with "a somewhat industrial feel". There were also issues with vibration, overheating, and a tendency to skid, doubtless exacerbated by the swing axle, which was unfamiliar to British drivers; the same issue arose in connection with the Chevrolet Corvair. (In testing, the company's test driver Alec Caine suffered a serious wreck due to the engine's pendulum effect.)

Only a single prototype was built. The F-car never entered production, as the company, Roy Fedden Limited, went into liquidation in April 1947.

The prototype later disappeared, reportedly being stored in a shed at the Cranfield Aeronautical College in the 1960s.

Notes

Sources
 Christopher, John.  The Race for Hitler's X-Planes. The Mill, Gloucestershire:  History Press, 2013.

Automobiles powered by radial engines
Cars introduced in 1947
British brands
Cars of England
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles


title: Lick Run (Roaring Creek tributary)

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Lick Run is a small tributary of Roaring Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately  long. It is entirely in Locust Township. Its watershed has an area of 5.97 square miles. It is designated as a coldwater fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters. Brown trout inhabit it, as to 14 other fish species. Numerous species of macroinvertebrate also inhabit the stream.

Course

Lick Run starts in southern Locust Township north of a mountain. It flows northeast into central Locust Township and then turns north for a short distance. The stream then turns northeast, passing the community of Newlin, and then gradually turns north again. Shortly downstream, it enters Roaring Creek some distance southeast of Slabtown.

Lick Run joins Roaring Creek  upstream of its mouth.

Hydrology, geography, and geology
In a visual assessment on a scale of 0 to 28 (with a higher number indicating higher quality), Lick Run scored 16.5 at Poorhouse Road. At Mill Road, near its mouth, the stream scored 20.5.

Lick Run experiences siltation in its lower reaches.

 upstream of its mouth, the water temperature of Lick Run was observed to be  on July 31, 2003. At its mouth, the temperature was  on the same day.

Lick Run is  long and  wide. Its elevation decreases at a rate of  per kilometer. The stream has an elevation of  about sea level at its mouth.

Watershed
Lick Run is in the Catawissa, Mount Carmel, and Ashland United States Geological Survey quadrangles. The stream's watershed has an area of 5.97 square miles.

56 percent of Lick Run is within  of a road and 97 percent is within  of a road. All of the stream's length is within  of a road. None of the stream is public, but 70 percent of it is private and open. The remaining 30 percent is private and closed.

The population density of the watershed of Lick Run was 30 people per square kilometer in 2000.

Fish
Lick Run is designated as a coldwater fishery. The Roaring Creek Watershed Coldwater Conservation Plan has suggested that it be promoted to high-quality coldwater fishery status. It has also been a Class A Wild Trout Water for brown trout. The stream was stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission until 1982.

Fifteen species of fish, including brown trout, bass, sculpin, chub, suckers, and minnows, inhabit Lick Run. Ten are present in the stream's middle reaches and fourteen are present at its mouth. The population of brown trout in the stream is  per hectare. The biomass of these fish has remained mostly constant since 1976, except in 1982 when there were only  per hectare. There are 64 brown trout longer than  per kilometer of the stream and an estimated 451 between  and  long in the entire stream.

Macroinvertebrates
Near Poorhouse Road on Lick Run, the macroinvertebrates Isonychiidae and Hydropsychidae are common, with 10 to 25 individuals of each being observed during a biological survey here. The macroinvertebrates Cambaridae, Ephemerellidae, Peltoperlidae, Nigronia, Philoptamidae, and Rhyacophilidae are less common, with a biological survey observing 3 to 9 individuals of each. The taxa Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta, Turbellaria, Baetidae, Perlidae, and Ptilodactylidae are rare, with fewer than three individuals of each taxon being observed during a biological survey here.

See also
South Branch Roaring Creek
Mugser Run
List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

External links

Rivers of Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Susquehanna River


title: Gondal Assembly constituency

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Gondal is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district and is a segment of Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency.

List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segments,

 Gondal Taluka – Entire taluka except villages – Dadva Hamirpara, Karmal Kotda.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

2007

2002

1980
 Patel, Keshubhai Savdas (BJP) : 24,572 votes
 Bhalodi Nanjibhai Savjibhai (INC-I) : 16,995

See also
 List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
 Rajkot district

References

Assembly constituencies of Gujarat
Rajkot district


title: Ben Caraher

text:
John Bernard Caraher (1 January 1938 – 21 November 2018), known as Ben Caraher, was a politician in Northern Ireland.

Caraher grew up in Crossmaglen and attended Queen's University Belfast, where he became active in the Irish nationalist New Ireland Society, although he saw himself principally as a supporter of the British Labour Party.  He then became a founder member of the National Democratic Party (NDP).

Caraher became a teacher of English and politics, working in a Belfast grammar school. The NDP became part of the new Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Caraher immediately became one of its main political theorists.  He was part of the team which drafted the party's constitution, organised the Belfast section of the party, and was elected as its first vice-chairman.

Caraher stood unsuccessfully for the SDLP on numerous occasions: in South Belfast at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election; in Belfast Area A at the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections; in the South Belfast Parliament constituency at the February and October 1974 general elections; in the 1975 Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in the equivalent Assembly seat; in Belfast Area C at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections; and finally at the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It was in 1982 that he came closest to winning a seat, taking fourth place, but narrowly missing out on transfers.

At the 1985 Northern Ireland local elections, Caraher acted as election agent for Dorita Field, who stood unsuccessfully in the Balmoral area.

References

1938 births
2018 deaths
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
National Democratic Party (Northern Ireland) politicians
Social Democratic and Labour Party politicians
People from Crossmaglen


title: Jill Coit

text:
Jill Lonita Coit (née Billiot; born June 11, 1943, or 1944) is an American convicted murderer. A con artist and serial bigamist who has been married 11 times to nine different men since 1961, Coit was convicted of killing her eighth husband in 1993 and is also suspected of killing her third husband in 1972. Coit is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility.

Biography
Coit was born Jill Lonita Billiot in Lafitte, Louisiana; she grew up in New Orleans. She is of Native American descent. Her upbringing was apparently normal and without any major trauma or unusual features, and she was described as popular at her school. However, Coit did not fare well academically and dropped out of high school in 1961 to marry her first husband. Less than a year later she filed for divorce and liquidated their shared bank accounts.

She married for a second time, to Steven Moore, and gave birth to a son in 1964, filing for divorce soon afterwards.

William Clark Coit, Jr.
Coit married engineer William Clark Coit, Jr. in January 1966 in Louisiana, while still legally married to Moore. The couple had two children, William Andrew Coit (called Andrew) and William Coit III. William Coit, Jr. adopted Jill's son from her previous marriage.

William Coit, Jr. was killed on March 29, 1972, shot twice in the back by an apparent intruder shortly after he filed for divorce from Jill. She was suspected of the murder, but the police could never find sufficient evidence to charge her. Additionally, she checked herself into a mental hospital to avoid further questioning.

Shortly after Coit's death, Jill Coit moved to California, where she also persuaded an elderly gentleman to informally adopt her, and subsequently inherited "a large portion of his estate" after his death.

Additional marriages
Coit's fourth marriage was to Donald Charles Brodie, an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. The couple divorced in 1975 after two years of marriage.

Coit later twice married and twice divorced one of the lawyers who represented her during the investigation into William Coit's murder.

While separated from her fifth husband, Coit married Eldon Duane Metzger in Ohio. In 1983, she married husband number seven, a schoolteacher in Indiana.

Gerald Boggs
While renovating a bed and breakfast with her sons, Coit regularly visited Gerald Boggs' hardware store in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. They struck up a relationship and in 1991 Boggs, a 52-year-old bachelor, married her, becoming (unbeknown to him) her eighth husband. Boggs' brother Doug was concerned by Coit's excessive interest in her husband's finances. He hired a private investigator who exposed Coit as a complete fraud. She had been married nine times, had several aliases, had been involved in various financial and insurance scams, and was still legally married to her seventh husband. She had also faked a pregnancy, having had a hysterectomy. On the basis of this information, Boggs annulled the marriage after seven months.

After the annulment, Coit and Boggs were involved in an acrimonious lawsuit over the bed and breakfast business. Boggs had a substantial financial interest in the establishment that was complicated by her use of mortgage fraud, apparently to conceal her assets due to a financial judgment against her by yet another previous husband. The murder of Boggs happened shortly before the trial was scheduled to begin.

Coit briefly married for a ninth time before entering into a relationship with Michael Backus and convinced him to help her murder Boggs. In October 1993, they acted on their plot. Wearing a disguise which included a false mustache, Coit and Backus broke into Boggs's home. They shocked him with a stun gun, and ultimately murdered him using a .25 caliber pistol, later fleeing to Mexico.

Police quickly centered on Coit as a suspect. After she confided to her younger son about the murder and asked for his help in covering it up, he instead went to the police. She was arrested in December 1993, during a visit from Mexico. Subsequent investigation, as well as testimony at her 1995 trial, revealed that she began making plans to murder Boggs as early as the summer of 1993, going as far as to solicit several people to come to Colorado and kill him. She was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and sentenced to life without possibility of parole  plus an additional 47 years on the conspiracy charge. Michael Backus was also convicted and sentenced to life.

Coit, Colorado Department of Corrections #86530, is currently serving her sentence at Denver Womens Correctional Facility. All of her appeals have been exhausted. She has repeatedly attempted to find a new husband via the internet.

In media

Books
 The 1995 book Charmed to Death, by author Stephen Singular tells the story of Jill Coit's conviction for killing her husband, Gerry Boggs, and depicts her long history of bigamy and embezzlement.
 The 1995 book Poisoned Vows, by investigative journalist and true crime author Clifford L. Linedecker, is a biography of Coit and her criminal activities.

Television
Coit was portrayed by Bonnie Bedelia in the Fox made-for-television film Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (1995). Coit's story is told from the point of view of her son William Coit III (played by Neil Patrick Harris).  The movie is based on the Stephen Singular book Charmed to Death.

Coit's exploits have been recounted by several true-crime documentary television series:

Forensic Files, episode "Order Up" (season 8, episode 12), first aired in 2004.
 American Justice episode "Serial Wife" (season 13, episode 28), first aired in 2004 on the A&E Television Network. Host Bill Kurtis interviews prosecution and defense attorneys as well as reporters.
 The New Detectives episode "True Crime" (season 4, episode 14), aired in 1999.
 Deadly Women, episode "Fortune Hunters" (season 4, episode 3), first aired in 2010 on Investigation Discovery.
 Facing Evil with Candice DeLong, episode "The Black Widow Bride" (season 2, episode 5), first aired in 2011 on Investigation Discovery. Host Candice DeLong interviews Jill Coit in prison.

References

External links
Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search DOC number: 86530
PEOPLE v. COIT Appellant November 28, 1997
Gerald William "Gerry" Boggs Obituary

Living people
American female murderers
Place of birth missing (living people)
American people convicted of murder
Mariticides
1940s births
Violence against men in North America