title: Makoto Furukawa

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is a Japanese voice actor and singer previously affiliated with Space Craft Entertainment. He became a freelancer in September 2018. He joined the record label, Toy's Factory, in December 2018. He made his solo singer debut under Lantis in July 2018 with the song "miserable masquerade" produced by Satoru Kuwabara. He played Saitama in One-Punch Man, Miyuki Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Banri Tada in Golden Time, Taiju Oki in Dr. Stone, Rider of Red/Achilles in Fate/Apocrypha, and Shaddiq Zenelli in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury and Gepard Landau in Honkai: Star Rail. He also played two different versions of Sherlock Holmes in Moriarty the Patriot and The Tale of the Outcasts.

Voice roles

Anime television series
2012
Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb, Yoshio

2013
A Certain Scientific Railgun S, Kenji Madarame
Gaist Crusher, Shiren Quartzheart
Golden Time, Banri Tada
Log Horizon, Smoking Thunder
Sunday Without God, Menhim

2014
Aldnoah.Zero, Shigō Kakei
Haikyū!!, Yūtarō Kindaichi
Bladedance of Elementalers, Kamito Kazehaya

2015
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2, Shigō Kakei
Haikyū!! 2, Yūtarō Kindaichi
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Miach
High School DxD BorN, Diodora Astaroth
Mikagura School Suite, Sadamatsu Minatogawa
One-Punch Man, Saitama
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Kirus
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon, Reima Tenmyōji

2016
Please Tell Me! Galko-chan, Bomuo
PriPara, Ham
Orange, Hiroto Suwa
Taboo Tattoo, Justice "Seigi" Akatsuka
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Male Ghost
91 Days, Arturo Tronco
Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, Yūjin Ōzora
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru, Ookurikara
Duel Masters VSRF, Number 2

2017
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., Biscuit
One Piece, Zappa
Beyblade Burst God, Joshua Boon
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Rainer
Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu, Ookurikara
Fate/Apocrypha, Rider of Red/Achilles
Altair: A Record of Battles, Zaganos Zehir
TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION, Soshi Kagurazaka

2018
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru 2, Ookurikara
My Hero Academia 3, Seiji Shishikura
Hakyu Hoshin Engi, Nataku
Banana Fish, Shorter Wong
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Benimaru
Strike the Blood, Veres Aladar

2019
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Miyuki Shirogane
Fruits Basket, Hatsuharu Sōma
Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life, Michitaka Sakai
One-Punch Man 2, Saitama
Dr. Stone, Taiju Ōki
Vinland Saga, The Ear
Ahiru no Sora, Shingo Katori
Stars Align, Takuto Murakami
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Gotou
The King of Fighters for Girls, Yomi

2020
number24, Taisei Uchinashi
Drifting Dragons, Faye
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War?, Miyuki Shirogane
Natsunagu!, Masayoshi Maezono
Woodpecker Detective's Office, Bokusui Wakayama
Fire Force, Ogun Montgomery
No Guns Life, Colt
Mr Love: Queen's Choice, Shaw
Moriarty the Patriot, Sherlock Holmes
The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Laos Kanon Jilfor
By the Grace of the Gods, Tabuchi
Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens, Nanami Maguro

2021
Show by Rock!! Stars!!, Rikao
Skate-Leading Stars, Hayato Sasugai
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2, Benimaru
Dr. Stone: Stone Wars, Taiju Ōki
Burning Kabaddi, Kei Iura
Kuro-Gyaru ni Natta Kara Shinyū to Shite Mita, Rui Chihaya
Mars Red, Rufus Glenn
The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Benimaru
Odd Taxi,  Yamamoto
86, Shourei Nouzen
Re-Main, Takekazu Ejiri
TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION2, Soshi Kagurazaka
The Vampire Dies in No Time, Ronaldo
Visual Prison, Guiltia Brion

2022
Fantasia Sango - Realm of Legends, Teiken
Salaryman's Club, Naohiro Izumo
Love All Play, Kōki Matsuda
Aoashi, Eita Takasugi
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic, Miyuki Shirogane
Fuuto PI, Ryū Terui
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Shaddiq Zenelli
Play It Cool, Guys, Motoharu Igarashi

2023
The Tale of the Outcasts, Holmes
In/Spectre 2nd Season, Masayuki Muroi
Technoroid Overmind, Kite
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Shuuto Fujimiya
Blue Lock, Tabito Karasu
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, Yamada Asaemon Eizen
Opus Colors, Chiharu Sakaki
Magical Destroyers, Otaku Hero
Ao no Orchestra, Ichirō Yamada
Pokémon Horizons: The Series, Spinel
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Kenichiro Ryuzaki
Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Joseph Albright
I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness, Cecil
Tearmoon Empire, Dion Alaia

2024
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Masato Tsuge
Solo Leveling, Woo Jinchul
Bartender: Glass of God, Kelvin Chen

Original net animation
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- (2018), Yoshihiko Sagami
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (2022), Rikiel
Pokémon: Paldean Winds (2023), Arven
Onimusha (2023), Gensai

Film
The Anthem of the Heart (2015), Toshinori Iwaki
Orange: Future (2016), Hiroto Suwa
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017), King Animus
Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018)
Blue Thermal (2022), Ryōhei Nanba
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond (2022), Benimaru
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends (2022), Miyuki Shirogane

Tokusatsu
Kamen Rider Ghost (2015), Second Katana Gamma (ep. 13 (First Voiced by Takahiro Fujiwara (ep. 1))
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger the Movie: Ninja in Wonderland (2016), Dark Akaninger

Video games
THE iDOLM@STER: SideM (2015), Asselin BB II
Shin Sangoku Musou Eiketsuden (2016), Lei Bin
Touken Ranbu (2015), Ookurikara
Idolish7 (2016), Okazaki Rinto
Yumeiro Cast (2015), Kuroki Ryousuke
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk (2016), Lugus
TSUKINO PARADISE (2017), Soshi Kagurazaka
Akane-sasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau (2017), Mononobe no Moriya
Fate/Grand Order (2018), Achilles
Mega Man 11 (2018), Fuse Man
Steam Prison (2018), Adage
Warriors Orochi 4 (2018), Ares
SHOW BY ROCK!! (2018), Rikao
Ikemen Revolution (2016), Kyle Ash
Bungō to Alchemist (2019), Tokutomi Roka
Samurai Shodown (2019), Yoshitora Tokugawa
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019), Sylvain Jose Gautier
Hero's Park (2019), Nachi Touya
Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020), Shū (Shaw)
Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- (2021), Arihiko Inui
Alchemy Stars (2021), Charon
River City Girls 2 (2022), Kunio
Triangle Strategy (2022), Exharme Marcial
Honkai: Star Rail (2023), Gepard Landau
Path to Nowhere (2023), Levy

Commercials
Toyota Raize (2020), Raize

Drama CD
 Golden Sparkle (2019), Gaku Asada
 Given (2016), Natsuki Kizu
 Given 2 (2017), Natsuki Kizu
 Given 3 (2018), Natsuki Kizu
 Given 4 (2018), Natsuki Kizu
 Given 5 (2019), Natsuki Kizu
 Paradox Live (2019), Yuto Inukai

Discography (as a singer)

Singles

Albums

References

External links
Official agency profile
Lantis profile
 Makoto Furukawa's blog  at Ameblo

Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Living people
Male voice actors from Kumamoto Prefecture
Singers from Kumamoto Prefecture
1989 births
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers


title: Veer Lorik

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Veer Lorik is part of the Bhojpuri folklore of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. According to S.M. Pandey, it is considered to be the Ramayana by the Ahir. Veer Lorik is a divine character of the legend of the Ahir of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The Veer Lorik Stone on the banks of the Son River in the Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, contains a love story. He is sometimes known as the Lorikayan, after the folkloric tale of that name.

Story
During the 5th century, there was a state called Agori along the Son River (now located in Sonbhadra district). Molagat, the ruling king of the state, despite being a very good king, was jealous of a Yadav man named Mehra because of the power he wielded. One day King Molagat invited Mehra to a gambling match. It was proposed that the winner of the gambling game will rule over the state. Mehra accepted the king's proposal and they began gambling. The king lost everything and had to leave his kingdom. Seeing the plight of the king, Lord Brahma came as a disguised monk and gave him some coins, assuring him that once he plays a game with those coins, his rule would return. The king obeyed, and won. Mehra lost six times and gambled everything away, including his wife, who was pregnant. In the seventh time, he lost his wife's womb as well. But the king seemed to show generosity towards Mehra. He said that if the upcoming baby is a boy then he will work in the stables and if it is girl, she will be appointed in the service of the Queen.

Mehra's seventh child was born as a girl, and named Manjari. When the King discovered this, he sent soldiers to bring Manjari to him. But Manjari's mother refused to part with her  daughter. Instead, she sent a message to the king that he would have to kill Manjari's husband if he wanted to take her with him.

Hence, Manjari's parents were anxious to find a suitor for Manjari who could defeat the king after the wedding. Manjari asked her parents to go to the place of the people named Balia where they will find a youngster named Yadav Veer Lorik. He was her lover in a previous life, and also capable of defeating the king.

Manjari and Lorik's fathers met and the marriage gets fixed. Lorik comes over with half a million people for the wedding, to marry Manjari.
When they reached the bank of the river son, the king sent his troops to fight Lorik and capture Manjari.
Lorik seemed to be defeated in the war. Manjari, being an extraordinary girl, goes to Veer Lorik and tells him that there is a village named Gothani near the Agori Fort . She tells him that there is a temple of Lord Shiva in that village and if he goes there and prays to the god, victory will be his.

Lorik does what Manjari said and wins the war so the both married each other. Before leaving the threshold of the village, Manjari tells Lorik to do something great so that the people remember that they loved each other to such an extent.
Veer Lorik asked Manjari that what must he do so that it becomes a symbol of true love and no loving couple would ever return disappointed from here.
Manjari, pointing at a stone, asked Lorik to cut the stone with the same sword he used to kill the King. Lorik did the same, the stone got cut in two pieces. Manjari applied vermilion to her head from a fragmented rock and made the Veer Lorik Stone as Sign of true love, to stand there forever.

SM Pandey called it the national epic of the Ahirs.

Veer Lorik Stone

Veer Lorik Stone, also known in Hindi as Veer Lorik Patthar (English veer;brave, patthar;stone), is situated around 5 km from Robertsganj on Markundi Hill, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a symbol of love and bravery of Lorik and Manjari, the main characters of the local folklore ‘Loriki’. According to the folk tale, Yadav Veer Lorik cut this stone, using his sword, in a single stroke, as proof of his true love. Several folk songs, sung by native folksingers, are based on Loriki. Govardhan Puja, a Hindu festival, is celebrated here every year.

During Govardhan Puja, many couples come here to pray for everlasting love, like that of Veer Lorik and Manjari.

Near By
Son View Point
Salkhan Fossils Park

Legacy
 Veer Lorik Statue, Bandihuli, Baheri (Darbhanga)
 In 1970, a caste-based militia named "Lorik Sena" was also established in Lorik's name and operated in Bihar.
Veer Ahir, a 1924 Indian silent film directed by Homi Master.

See also
 Alha-Khand
 Agori Fort
 Sonbhadra

References

Further reading
 Grierson, George A. “The Birth of Lōrik (Magahi Text).” Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, vol. 5, no. 3, 1929, pp. 591–599. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/607355. Accessed 8 Jan. 2021.

Ahir history
Indian folklore
Sonbhadra district
Uttar Pradesh folklore
Indian legends
Indian legendary characters
Bhojpuri literature
Bihari Ahirs
Medieval Indian literature


title: Suzanne Bernert

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Suzanne Bernert (born 26 September), is a German actress based in India who works in Indian films in various languages. She has acted in Ramdhanu - The Rainbow, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. and television serials like 7 RCR and Kasautii Zindagii Kay. She speaks French, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali. She acted in Colors TV's historical serial Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat as Queen Helena and received nominations and praise for it. She also appeared in the Star Plus serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. She portrayed Sonia Gandhi on the television  series 7 RCR, and in the Hindi film The Accidental Prime Minister.

Early life and career

Bernert is from Detmold in Germany. Her mother Monika and father Michael, live in Lindau, Germany. When she was 19, she did a three-year acting course under Heidelotte Diehl in Berlin and is a trained ballet dancer. Bernert was main lead in the film Destined Hearts, with Indian filmmaker Anant Duseja in 2003, which was shot entirely in Dubai but never actually released.

She moved to Mumbai in 2005. She can speak Hindi, Marathi and Bengali. Suzanne has worked in an array of television series (including Bengali and Marathi). She is also working in Bengali and Marathi films and serials. Bernert has worked opposite Aamir Khan in a Titan Watches ad. She promoted Jaipur tourism by acting in a short film titled Padharo India. Bernert was the first non-Indian to partake in a Lavani Celebrity Dance Show up to Semi Finals – Dholkichya talavar Reality Show RDP/Logical Thinkers as herself.

Bernert portrayed the role of Sonia Gandhi in film The Accidental Prime Minister which was released on 11 January 2019. She was named the Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema and Television in Rajasthan International Film Festival 2018.
Cama Awards Of Gujarat held in Ahmedabad on 1 October 2018 awarded : The International Diva of Bollywood
 Bernert will be seen in the short film Majnu ki Juliet.

In 2020, Bernert acted in her first web series called State of Siege 26/11 for Zee5. She also opened the Mumbai Oktoberfest as celebrity guest of the German Consulate in Mumbai, India.
Suzanne published her first Short Story called The Diwali Gift End of 21.

Personal life
Bernert married actor Akhil Mishra in a civil court on 3 February 2009. They married again in a traditional way on 30 September 2011. She had worked with him in the film Kram and serial Mera Dil Dewaana (Doordarshan).

She also holds an Overseas Citizenship of India card following her marriage.

Mishra died on 21 September 2023 at the age of 67 after suffering a fall in the kitchen.

Humanitarian work
Along with Govinda Bernert became part of Narmada Seva Yatra, a campaign by the government of Madhya Pradesh.

Filmography

Films

Television

Web series

References

External links

Living people
People from Detmold
Actresses from Mumbai
German film actresses
German television actresses
German soap opera actresses
German emigrants to India
German expatriates in India
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Actresses in Marathi cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Actresses in Marathi television
Web series actresses
Female models from Mumbai
German female models
European actresses in India
Actresses of European descent in Indian films
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century German actresses
Actors from North Rhine-Westphalia


title: Ulf Norrman

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Ulf Johan Norrman (16 March 1935 – 20 January 2020) was a Swedish Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics together with John Albrechtson, where they finished 9th. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden.

References

Olympic sailors for Sweden
Swedish male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Star
1935 births
2020 deaths
Sailors (sport) from Gothenburg
20th-century Swedish people


title: Pietro Saja

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Pietro Saja (Sessano del Molise, 1779 - Naples, 1833) was an Italian painter, active in Naples and Caserta in a Neoclassical style.

Biography
He was a pupil of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, but was sent with a stipend to study in the Academy of St Luke in Rome. In 1803, Saja became member of the Roman Academy. He painted "La Vestale", about the legend of the Burial Alive of the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia. He also painted the Apotheosis of the Government of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies (La Gloria dei Borbone, 1816) for the Palace of Caserta.

Among other works, Saja painted a Death of Virginia (1802-1804), Death of Hector, Tancred discovers Clorinda, a Madonna for the King, St Francis Xavier for the Queen. He painted in the church of San Leucio near Caserta.

References

Rosanna Cioffi, Pietro Sana, pittore neoclassico napoletano, in "Napoli Nobilissima", 3, XIII, 1974,pp. 27 – 33;

See also
Civiltà dell'Ottocento : le arti figurative, Napoli : Electa, 1997.

1779 births
1833 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian painters
Painters from Naples
Italian neoclassical painters
Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli alumni
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists


title: Poblado station

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Poblado is a station on line A of the Medellín Metro from north to south. It is named after El Poblado, where it is located adjacent to the Monterrey shopping center. The station was opened on 30 November 1995 as the terminus of the inaugural section of Line A, from Niquía to Poblado. On 30 September 1996 the line was extended to Itagüí.

References

External links
 Official site of Medellín Metro

Medellín Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1995
1995 establishments in Colombia


title: Håkan Lindström

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Nils Håkan Lindström (born 21 March 1952 in Luleå, Sweden) is a Swedish former Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics together with Peter Sundelin, where they finished 4th.

References

Living people
1952 births
Olympic sailors for Sweden
Swedish male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Star
Sportspeople from Luleå


title: Thomas LeBoutillier

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Thomas LeBoutillier II, sometimes spelled Le Boutillier (January 18, 1879 – September 18, 1929) was an American sports shooter and polo player. He competed in the 50 yard free pistol event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Biography

LeBoutillier was born on January 18, 1879, in New York City to a prominent wealthy family. Among his relatives were George LeBoutillier, a cousin, who was a prominent railroad official, Phillip LeBoutillier, a brother, who was for a time the president of Best & Co., and John, his father, who was a partner in the firm Leboutillier Bros. He grew up in Long Island on North Shore.

LeBoutillier attended high school in Andover, Massachusetts, at Phillips Academy. He later attended Yale University, from which he graduated in 1899. After graduating from there, LeBoutillier worked in the dry goods business through 1908, after which he served one year as the manager of a real estate corporation. He became the manager and treasurer of the Wheatley Building and Contracting Company in February 1909. He later was the president of the DuBois Fence Company, an importer of fences from France.

LeBoutillier was a member of Squadron A, N. G. N. Y. as a private from 1904 to 1908, before being honorably discharged in 1909 as a corporal. He took up competitive shooting in the early 1900s, winning in 1905 the United States Revolver Association (USRA) military championship. By 1908, he had become the secretary of the USRA. LeBoutillier later won a revolver tournament in Europe and in 1908 was selected to the United States Olympic shooting team. He competed in the 50 yard free pistol event and placed 19th with a score of 436.

LeBoutillier was also prominent in polo. He was a player and also served as a referee at times. He competed with the Meadowbrook Polo Club and was ranked as the team's best player. On September 18, 1929, LeBoutillier died at the age of 50 while in the midst of a polo tournament, having suffered a heart attack in-game. The opposing team had just scored their third goal and the players were going to the middle of the field for the lineup, when he suffered the heart attack, slid off his horse and then onto the ground. His teammates hurried to his assistance, and the Meadow Brook manager called for Dr. Francis J. Marx and Dr. Thomas Cassidy, both a quarter mile away at International Field. He was still living when they arrived, but died shortly after, fifteen minutes after falling off his horse.

Afterwards, the game was stopped and the tournament was suspended in respect for LeBoutillier; the flag at the Meadow Brook clubhouse was lowered to half-mast. His death received widespread coverage, with newspapers across the nation and even in foreign countries reporting his death. He was survived by his wife and four children.

References

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1879 births
1929 deaths
American male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for the United States
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from New York City


title: William Newton (sport shooter)

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William Savage Newton (1878 – 6 January 1915) was a British sports shooter. He competed in the 50 yard free pistol event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, of parents who later settled in England at Surbiton, Surrey, he was an engineer in civilian life and also served as a Captain in the Honourable Artillery Company. He was a Freemason, initiated into FitzRoy Lodge No 569 E.C. in London in 1913.

He was killed in action in Belgium during World War I, recordedly aged 36. He was buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.

References

External links

1878 births
1915 deaths
British male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Montreal
British military personnel killed in World War I
British Army personnel of World War I
Honourable Artillery Company officers
British Freemasons


title: Henrik Eyermann

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Henrik Eyermann (born 12 June 1961 in Limhamn, Sweden) is a Swedish former Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics together with Kent Carlsson, where they finished 4th.

References

1961 births
Living people
Olympic sailors for Sweden
Swedish male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Star


title: Aristolochia stevensii

text:
Aristolochia stevensii is a plant species native to northwestern Nicaragua and southwestern Honduras. It grows in wet montane forests.

Aristolochia stevensii is a liana climbing over other vegetation. Stems are woody, up to 2 cm in diameter, the bark tomentose when young, corky when older. Leaves are ovate, up to 17 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes in the axils of the leaves, dull yellow with a purple center.

References

stevensii
Flora of Nicaragua
Flora of Honduras


Jaycees Matriculation Higher Secondary School is a secondary school in the Sivanmalai area of Kangayam in Tamil Nadu state, India.

The school was established in 1981, and it is a private, unaided school located in Tirppur district of Tamil Nadu. It is co-educational and non-residential. There are 791 students and 52 teachers, along with 8 of non-teaching staff. The language of instruction is English.

History
Jaycees school was started by Jaycees Educational Trust in the year 1981 with a strength of 32 students and 2 teachers. This grew as Jaycees Matriculation School was recognized by the Govt. of Tamil Nadu in the year 1986. Later in 1995 the school became Jaycees Matriculation Higher Secondary School.

The medium of instruction is English and Tamil and Hindi are taught from 1st standard. The school also provides extra curricular activities in fields like computer languages, music, games, dance, moral instruction, drawing, karate, Silambam, band music, keyboard etc.,

Laboratories of physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Computer science are equipped with all the necessary apparatus and appliances. The library has different types of books that cater for the needs of students and teachers.

High schools and secondary schools in Tamil Nadu
Tiruppur district
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Tamil Nadu


title: Richard Gates (sailor)

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Richard Redwine Gates (born February 3, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American former Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics together with Alan Holt, where they finished 10th.

References

Olympic sailors for the United States
American male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Star
1943 births
Living people


title: Jack Avon

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Jack Avon is an analyst and writer based in the United Kingdom. He is the author of The Handbook of Financial Modeling and The Basics of Financial Modeling, published in New York in 2013 and 2014 respectively, and of The Bid Proposal Handbook, published by in London in May 2017. He has also authored The Interim Contractor, published in London in 2017, The Financial Modellers VBA Compendium, published in London 2018 and Becoming a Photographer, Book one, published in London 2019. In December 2020 he completed the follow-up to the Handbook of Financial Modeling called  Handbook of Financial Modeling Second Edition. In May 2023 Avon completed the second photography book called “Becoming a Photographer Two” under the Seudo name Kijani Delamaine. Avon is a world expert in financial modelling and the founder of XLDB Solutions url=http://www.xldbsolutions.com.

Early life and education
Jack Avon was born in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, in March 1967, where he lived until he moved with his family to the United Kingdom in June 1976. In March 1977 he moved to Hong Kong with his family due to his father's work, spending a year in Hong Kong and attended Quarry Bay School and Peak School. In September 1978 he returned to the United Kingdom to attend Clayesmore Preparatory School in Iwerne Minster, Dorset and then Clayesmore School. He completed his higher education at Bournemouth University and Royal Holloway, University of London.

In sport, Avon played rugby, field hockey and cricket and competed in athletics at Clayesmore School. He has played senior rugby at various clubs, including Bournemouth RFC, Purley RFC, Saracen FC, HKFC, Dorset & Wilts, and HKRFU. In hockey Avon has played for Dorset and Wilts, West of England, Poole HC, Valley Hockey, Hong Kong, Surbiton HC and Wimbledon HC.

Current and Future Publications

References

Living people
1967 births
People from Lusaka
British non-fiction writers
British financial analysts
English male field hockey players
Wimbledon Hockey Club players
Surbiton Hockey Club players
Alumni of Bournemouth University
Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
People educated at Clayesmore School


title: Alan Holt

text:
Alan Christian Holt (born June 29, 1939) is a retired American Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics together with Richard Gates, where they finished 10th.

References

External links

1939 births
Living people
American male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for the United States
Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Star
Star class sailors
Sportspeople from Seattle


title: List of mayors of Zug

text:
This is a list of mayors of the city of Zug, Switzerland. The executive of Zug is the Stadtrat. It is chaired by the Stadtpräsident.

Zug

Zug
Lists of mayors (complete 1900-2013)


title: Burnout (Anarbor album)

text:
Burnout is the second studio album by alternative rock band Anarbor released by Hopeless Records. It was released on June 4, 2013. It peaked at #40 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. This was the last album to include guitarist Mike Kitlas and drummer Greg Garrity before their departure from the band in 2013.

Background
The band started work on their sophomore album in 2012, and worked with producer Matt Mahaffey for the first time. When asked about the experience vocalist Slade Echeverria said "We normally sit down and write 11 or 12 songs and that's the album. This time, we wrote forty or fifty songs. We picked some of the best ones that came out of that as well as co-writing with other people." This, according to Echeverria, was the first time the band brought in other writers to help create the album. Prior, the band had written all their songs by themselves.

Promotion and release
A rough cut of their first single, "Whiskey in Hell" was released in early 2012. The second single, "Damage I've Done" was released on iTunes on December 5, 2012, along with an accompanying music video. Lyric videos for the next two singles, "Every High Has A Come Down" and "Who Can Save Me Now", as well as "18" were released throughout May 2013. Each, with the exception of "18", was released as a single on iTunes as well.

Reception

The album received mostly positive reviews. Echeverria's vocals, the catchy choruses, and the instrumentals were considered the highlights of the album. Reviewer from AbsolutePunk said "Everything about Burnout is vastly better than their old stuff, and Anarbor has a pretty solid, albeit small, discography. Stronger lyrics, better instrumentals, and most importantly, better song themes. Old Anarbor was enjoyable stuff, but after hearing a dozen or so songs about drugs I was left wanting something deeper. Burnout provides that, and more." Fred Thomas of AllMusic wrote that "On second full-length Burnout (which follows several EPs), the bandmembers seem intent on showing how much they've matured, with lyrical themes tending toward debauchery, self-medication, and the type of destructive, drama-fueled relationships that seem to happen with people in their early twenties."

Track listing

(Deluxe Edition)

Personnel

Anarbor
Slade Echeverria - Lead vocals, bass guitar
Greg Garrity - drums
Mike Kitlas - Rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Additional personnel
Marshall Altman - Writer
Dave Bassett - Writer
Sean Douglas - Writer
Michael Fossenkemper - Mastering
Christopher Fudurich - Mixing
Ledbetter - Artwork, Layout
Bill Lefler - Writer
Matt Mahaffey - Writer, Fender Rhodes, percussion, piano, producer
Dave Melillo - Guitars
Ashley Osborn - Band photo
Drew Pearson - Writer
Morgan Reid - Writer
Megan Thompson - Band photo
Simon Wilcox - Writer

References

2013 albums
Hopeless Records albums
Anarbor albums


The Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica  is a multi-day bicycle racing stage race held annually in Costa Rica. The race is categorised as 2.2 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and has traditionally been run in October, although in 2009 it was held in May. The events are organised by the Federacion Costaricense de Ciclismo.

Previous winners

References

External links

Cycle races in Costa Rica
UCI America Tour races
Spring (season) events in Costa Rica


title: Gerald Brekke

text:
Gerald Wayne Brekke (September 1, 1922 – March 28, 2006) was a Minnesota politician and educator who ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1976, Minnesota Secretary of State in 1978, and United States House of Representatives in 2000.  He was Assistant Director of Special Projects in the Office of Overseas Dependent Education for the United States Department of Defense from 1974-1975, an appointment made by President Gerald Ford.

Brekke was a Professor of Education at Gustavus Adolphus College from 1962 to 1987, where he taught thousands of students and established the Minnesota Student Teachers' Association.  After retiring, he became a general contractor, building over forty homes for low-income families in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Brekke served in the 8th Army Air Corps during World War II, where he was a reporter for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Brekke earned his bachelor's degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, master's degree from the University of Southern California, and Ed.D. from the University of North Dakota.

References

1922 births
2006 deaths
United States Department of Defense officials
Ford administration personnel
Minnesota Republicans
People from St. Peter, Minnesota
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II


title: Samvidhaan

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Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India is a ten-part television mini-series based on the making of the Constitution of India, directed by Shyam Benegal. The show premiered on 2 March 2014 on Rajya Sabha TV, with an episode scheduled to air every Sunday morning. The series can be viewed on YouTube on Rajya Sabha TV's channel.

Making
Shama Zaidi and Atul Tiwari are writers of the series. Zaidi said that it took her six months to write the script. The material came from debates, committee meetings and biographies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. Many of the famous speeches of India's freedom fighters figure in the series. Swara Bhaskar has hosted and narrated the show. The series was shot in Film City, Mumbai and recreates the debates that took place before the drafting of the Constitution of India. Dayal Nihalani is the associate director of the mini-series. For the series, a replica of the Central Hall of Parliament during the time of the Constituent Assembly was set up.

The first look of Samvidhaan was unveiled on 24 September 2013. The first look was officially launched on 20 February 2014, the pen-ultimate day of 15th Lok Sabha by President Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament House, New Delhi. Music is composed by Shantanu Moitra.

Episodes

Cast
 Rakesh Pandey as Sachchidananda Sinha
 Sachin Khedekar as Dr. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar
 Dalip Tahil as Jawaharlal Nehru
 Utkarsh Majumdar as Vallabhbhai Patel
 Tom Alter as Abul Kalam Azad
 Neeraj Kabi as Mahatma Gandhi
 Kaizaad Kotwal as Frank Anthony
 Ivan Rodrigues as P. Subbarayan
 Shyam Kishore	as Lakshmi Narayan Sahu
 Devendra Sharma as Raibahadur Shyam Nandan Sahai
 Ila Arun as Hansa Mehta
 Amit Behl as C. Rajagopalachari
 K. K. Raina as K. M. Munshi
 Rajendra Gupta as Rajendra Prasad
 Aanjjan Srivastav as Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen
 Mohit Chauhan as Brajeshwar Prasad
 Suzanne Bernert as a journalist
 Narendra Jha as Muhammed Ali Jinnah
 Divya Dutta as Purnima Banerjee
 Rajeshwari Sachdev as Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
 Rajit Kapur as Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
 Harish Patel as M. A. Ayyangar
 Imran Hasnee as Nawab of Bhopal Hamidullah Khan
 Kenneth Desai as Syama Prasad Mookerjee
 Atul Tiwari as Govind Ballabh Pant
 Deepika Amin as Renuka Ray
 Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
 Rahul Singh as J. B. Kripalani
 Paresh Ganatra as K. T. Shah
 Kanupriya Shankar Pandit as Sucheta Kriplani
 Akash Khurana as Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri
 Ravi Jhankal as Seth Govind Das
 Salim Ghouse as V. I. Munuswamy Pillai
 Saurabh Dubey (actor) as Mahavir Tyagi
 Vijay Kashyap as B. Pocker Sahib Bahadur
 Amit Singh Thakur as Liaquat Ali
 Himani Shivpuri as Begum Aizaz Rasul
 Lalit Mohan Tiwari as Shibban Lal Saxena
 Natarajan Balkrishna as K. Hanumanthaiah
 Denzil Smith as the Auctioneer
Anil Rastogi as Calcutta MP N. Ahmed
 Narendra Sachar as Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Screening
The series was telecasted on Rajya Sabha TV from 2 March 2014 at 10 AM (with repeats at 1PM & 10PM) every Sunday.

See also
 Pradhanmantri
 7 RCR
 List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi

References

External links

YouTube Playlist of Samvidhaan
First look Samvidhaan
Making of Samvidhaan

Hindi-language television shows
Television series set in the 1940s
Indian historical television series
Constitution of India
Indian political television series
Political history of India
2010s Indian television miniseries
2014 Indian television series debuts
2014 Indian television series endings
Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru
Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
Cultural depictions of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Cultural depictions of Vallabhbhai Patel
Cultural depictions of B. R. Ambedkar
Memorials to Abul Kalam Azad
Memorials to C. Rajagopalachari
Ahluwalia
Nawabs of Bhopal
Liaquat Ali Khan
Bahram Khan family
Memorials to Rajendra Prasad


title: William Glenn Waterhouse

text:
William Glenn Waterhouse (April 18, 1893 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – December 9, 1973 in Berkeley, California) was an American Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics together with Woodbridge Metcalf, where they finished 5th.

References

1893 births
1973 deaths
Olympic sailors for the United States
American male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Star
Star class world champions
World champions in sailing for the United States


title: Marty Cooper (musician)

text:
Martin James "Marty" Cooper (born March 12, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style is described as soft rock country. Cooper has written songs such as "Peanut Butter" by The Marathons, "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock 'N Roll" which was first made famous by Donny and Marie, and "Hey, Harmonica Man" made famous by Stevie Wonder. Cooper's first album, A Minute Of Your Time,  was released in 1972. He released his second commercial album in 1979 with EMI and it was only released in Europe. In Germany it was entitled "If You Were A Singer" and "A Little Bit Country, A Bit Rock 'N Roll" in Scandinavia. In 2012, two albums were released independently, American Dreamers Collection and I Wrote A Song.

Early life

Cooper was born in Denver, Colorado, to Dr. Henry Lewis Cooper and Helen (née Ratner) Cooper. His father was enlisted in the Army Air Corps during the beginning of World War II and was commissioned a major. During that time the family moved to Pendleton, Oregon, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Santa Monica, California. By the time Cooper returned to Denver, he had attended five different primary schools. After Cooper's father died when Cooper was 12, he moved to California, where he became interested in songwriting.

Early commercial success
Cooper's first album in 1972, A Minute Of Your Time, was released on Andy Williams' Barnaby label. Cooper has said about the experience, "Ken Mansfield had done an album with Rick Cunha, my friend from the group Hearts & Flowers. Ken had just gotten his job at Barnaby. I showed him what I was doing and he gave me my opportunity to be a recording artist. He let me pick the songs and we produced the album together." Due to the commercial success and airplay from A Minute Of Your Time, Cooper was contacted by ad agencies to write, sing and produce music for TV and radio commercials. Clients during that time included Olympia Beer, Alhambra Water, and Crystal Water.

The Shacklefords & Jack Nitzsche
Cooper was close friends with Jack Nitzsche and partnered on several projects. Cooper co-wrote and produced Nitzsche's Lonely Surfer album of 1963.  That same year Cooper teamed up with Lee Hazlewood, Gracia Nitzche, and Daniel Stone to form the group The Shacklefords. A cover of The Shackleford's song The Biplane, Evermore by The Irish Rovers reached #50 in Canada.

Discography

Singles
 1958 - "Can't Walk ‘Em Off" b/w "You Bet Your Little Life" - CREST 1043

References

External links
 Entry for 'Marty Cooper' at discogs.com
 Entry for 'Martin Cooper' at discogs.com
 Entry for 'The Shacklefords' at discogs.com
 Entry for 'The Marty Cooper Clan' at discogs.com

1942 births
Living people
American country singer-songwriters
Singers from Denver
Singer-songwriters from Colorado


title: Aftertones

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Aftertones is the eighth album by American singer/songwriter Janis Ian, recorded 1975 in various New York studios and released 1976 by Columbia Records. "Love Is Blind" was a #1 single in Japan for six months.  It was the highest-selling album by a solo female artist in Japan and was also a top twenty and gold record in the United States, Ireland and Holland. "I Would Like to Dance" reached #86 in Canada.

Track listing

Charts

Personnel

Janis Ian – vocals, guitar, piano
Jeff Layton, Al Gorgoni, Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
Stu Woods, Richard Davis – bass guitar
Barry Lazarowitz – percussion
Arthur Jenkins – congas
Claire Bay, Brooks Arthur, Odetta, V. Martin Fink – vocals
Phoebe Snow – obligato vocals on "Hymn"
Larry Spencer, Pete Nater, Tom Malone, Ernie Royal, Joe Shepley – trumpet
Mickey Gravine, Lewis Kahn, Wayne Andre – trombone
Donald Corrado, Earl Chapin, Jim Buffington – French horn
Charles McCracken, Jesse Levy, Bruce Rogers, Kermit Moore, Max Hollander – cello
Ezra Kliger, Gene Orloff, Julius Schacter, Kathryn Kienke, Harry Cykman, Harry Lookofsky, Michael Comins, Paul Winter – violin
Emanuel Vardi, Eugenie Dengel, George Brown, David Sackson, Jennifer Ward Clarke – viola
Gonzalo Fernandez – wooden flute on "I Would Like to Dance"
George Young – tenor saxophone on "Belle of the Blues"
Artie Kaplan – baritone saxophone on "Belle of the Blues"; bass clarinet on "Don't Cry, Old Man"
Phil Bodner – oboe, alto flute, English horn on "Goodbye to Morning"
Romeo Penque – oboe, alto flute, piccolo flue, English horn on "Goodbye to Morning"; contrabass clarinet on "Don't Cry, Old Man"
Mike Gibson – arranger, conductor on "I Would Like to Dance"
Jerry Ragovoy – arranger, conductor on "Belle of the Blues"
Ron Frangipane – arranger, conductor on "Don't Cry, Old Man"

Production
Produced by Brooks Arthur
Album photography: Peter Cunningham
Album design: David L’Heureux

External links

References

Janis Ian albums
1976 albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Brooks Arthur


title: PragmaDev Studio

text:
PragmaDev Studio is a modeling and testing software tool introduced by PragmaDev in 2002 dedicated to the specification of communicating systems. It was initially called Real Time Developer Studio or RTDS. Its primary objective was to support SDL-RT modeling technology. Since V5.0 launched on October 7, 2015 RTDS is called PragmaDev Studio, and it is organized in four independent modules: Specifier, Developer, Tester and Tracer. V5.1 launched on November 29, 2016 introduces a freemium licensing model.

Features

Specification and Description Language

The Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a modeling language standardized by ITU-T to describe communicating systems. SDL is graphical but contains an action language with a semantic of execution making the SDL models executable. SDL is considered formal because it is complete and non-ambiguous. SDL-RT is a variant of SDL where the action language is replaced by C or C++ instructions. SDL-RT is considered semi-formal because it mixes SDL with code. ITU-T has standardized a UML profile based on SDL making by extension any SDL tool a sort of UML tool.

Simulation

PragmaDev Specifier embeds an SDL simulator that behaves like a model debugger. It is possible to set breakpoints graphically, to view variables, and pending timers. During execution a live trace is generated based on the Message Sequence Chart ITU-T standard.

Code generation (compiler)

PragmaDev Studio can generate C or C++ code out of an SDL model, and PragmaDev Developer can generate C or C++ code out of an SDL-RT model. The generated code can be adapted to any Real Time Operating System or scheduler. The tool offers a number of integrations with debuggers such as gdb so that the user feels he is still debugging the model, not the generated code.

Model checking

PragmaDev Studio can export the SDL model to different formats such as IF, FIACRE, or XLIA in order to verify the model in third party tools such as IFx from Verimag, TINA from LAAS, or Diversity from CEA LIST.

Functional testing

PragmaDev Tester supports the TTCN-3 international standard for testing. The tool can either simulate the test cases against the SDL model, or generate code to be compiled and run against a real SUT.

Model Based Testing

 PragmaDev Studio can generate TTCN-3 test cases out of Message Sequence Charts resulting from a simulation.

 Test cases can also be generated out of the SDL model through a third party technology such as IFx from Verimag or Diversity from CEA-LIST: Laboratory for Integration of Systems and Technology. For that purpose PragmaDev Studio exports the model to a pivot language that is understood by the third party tool.

Deployment simulation

PragmaDev Studio can simulate the deployment of many instances of an SDL model for verifying its behavior in a distributed computing environment. This feature is based on research from Humboldt University of Berlin.

Performance analysis

PragmaDev Studio introduces a Performance Analyzer to find the best architecture for time or energy in a set of scenario.

CPS simulation

PragmaDev Studio supports Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) simulation via the Functional Mock-up Interface.

Application domains

Telecommunications

 Alcatel has selected PragmaDev for the development and maintenance of their telephone switches.
 Sharif University has studied an optimization of the MAC layer for the IEEE 802.11wireless protocol.
 Modeling and simulation of IoT.
 Testing of network protocols.

Avionic and space

 Specification and development of the Air traffic control system for Airbus planes.
 System architecture optimization for a space mission.
 Integration in TASTE, the ESA framework dedicated to the development of real time and embedded systems.

Semi-conductors

 Hardware architecture optimization of micro-processors.

Security

 Development of a decentralized earthquake early warning system.
 Design and implementation of an automatic identification system.
 Safety requirements verification applied to European Train Control System.

PragmaDev Studio history

PragmaDev
The creator of PragmaDev Studio is the private company PragmaDev. PragmaDev was founded in 2001, and is located in Paris, France.

References

Further reading

 Doldi, Laurent (2003). "Validation of Communications Systems with SDL: The Art of SDL Simulation and Reachability Analysis". John Wiley and Sons Inc.
 Haddad, Serge; Kordon, Fabrice; Pautet, Laurent; Petrucci, Laure (2013). "Distributed Systems: Design and Algorithms". John Wiley and Sons Inc.
 Brumbulli, Mihal (2015). "Model-driven development and simulation of distributed communication systems".  Humboldt University of Berlin.
 Kuhn, T.; Gotzhein, R.; Webel, C. (2006). "Model-Driven Development with SDL – Process, Tools, and Experiences". Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 83–97.

External links
PragmaDev Home Page

Software for modeling software


title: Woodbridge Metcalf

text:
Woodbridge "Woody" Metcalf (June 23, 1888 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan – July 11, 1972 in Berkeley, California) was an American forester and Olympic sailor in the Star class. He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics together with William Glenn Waterhouse, where they finished 5th.

References

External links

1888 births
1972 deaths
Olympic sailors for the United States
American male sailors (sport)
Star class sailors
Sailors at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Star
Star class world champions
World champions in sailing for the United States


title: Mary Rogers Williams

text:
Mary Rogers Williams (September 30, 1857 – September 17, 1907) was an American tonalist and Impressionist artist known for pastel and oil portraits and landscapes. She was second in command of Smith College's art department from 1888 to 1906 under Dwight William Tryon and earned acclaim for paintings of her native New England and scenes from her wide travels in Europe, from Norway to the Paestum ruins south of Naples. She often depicted high horizons, whether in meadows or medieval hill towns, under ribbons of sky.

Biography
Mary Rogers Williams was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, the fifth of six children of Edward Williams (1822–1871), a prosperous baker, and Mary Ann French Williams (1824-1861). Mary and her surviving sisters Lucy, Abby and Laura were all star students at Hartford Public High School, and none ever married. Mary Rogers Williams's early mentor was James Wells Champney, and she studied at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase and at Hartford's Decorative Art Society before taking the Smith post. (A Hartford neighbor and family friend, Lindley Williams Hubbell, became a renowned poet.) Her classes at Smith included drawing, painting, sculpture, art history, "study of design with practical work" and "artistic anatomy", and she wrote a catalog of the college's plaster cast sculpture collection. She occasionally visited New York, stopping by the studio of her friend Albert Pinkham Ryder.

Almost every summer, she traveled in Europe, attracting crowds in villages when she sketched the scenery and locals. She sometimes walked between towns, partly because she could not afford car or carriage fees, and would set off to "catch a sketch" or "find a sketch," as she wrote to her sisters. Although she was Episcopalian, she attended Catholic church services in Europe (sometimes numerous times in a row on Sundays) and wrote lavish descriptions of the costumes and music to her sisters. She had a Hartford-made bicycle shipped overseas for traveling in the countryside. She lived in Paris in 1898–99 (she studied then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and with James Abbott McNeill Whistler) and 1906–07, in flats on rue Boissonade, with numerous other painters nearby.

Artistic achievements

A member of the New York Woman’s Art Club, she exhibited there (1899, 1902, 1903) and at venues including the American Water Color Society (1892), Art Association of Indianapolis (1895), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1895, 1896, 1902–04), Gill's Art Galleries, Springfield, Massachusetts (1898), American Girl's Club in Paris (1898, 1907), National Academy of Design (1903–04), New York Water Color Club (1892–96, 1899-1902), Society of American Artists (1896), Macbeth Gallery (1902, 1903—she also commissioned "aquarium"-like frames from Macbeth, with a glass layer an inch away from the delicate pastel surface) and Paris Salon (1899). Commemorative posthumous shows were held in 1908 and 1909 at the Philadelphia Water Color Club (at Pennsylvania Academy), New York Water Color Club and Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Art Society in Hartford. Publications that praised her include the New York Times, the Hartford Courant, the Springfield Republican and various art magazines. In 1894, in an article in the Quarterly Illustrator (vol. 2, no. 6, p. 111-124), the novelist Elizabeth Williams Champney described Mary Williams as "an artist with rare poetic instinct and feeling" and "a woman of conscience as well as feeling, and of a fine scorn for all shams." The Champney article added, "When asked what style she proposed to adopt, she replied: 'If I cannot have a style of my own, I trust I may be spared an adopted one.

Death

Williams died a few days after she was diagnosed with abdominal tumors in Florence and is buried in the Allori cemetery there (there is also a marker for her with her siblings' and parents' graves in Spring Grove Cemetery in Hartford). Family and friends kept her paintings inventory together, and most remain in a private New England collection. Institutions that have her work include the Smith College Museum of Art, Connecticut Landmarks and the Connecticut Historical Society—the latter both own Williams' portraits of her friend and patron, the New Haven antiquarian George Dudley Seymour.

Papers

Williams' diary, photos of her and thousands of pages of her correspondence are in a private New England collection. A few letters about and from her are in the Macbeth Gallery papers at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and the George Dudley Seymour papers at Yale and at the Connecticut Historical Society.

Note on references

Virtually all biographical information for Mary Rogers Williams (1857–1907) comes from her archive in a private New England collection, a promised gift to Smith College, which contains diary entries, sketches, letters and clippings and other ephemera including concert programs and confetti from Paris parades. She wrote home from her frequent trips in Europe almost every day, delving into topics including her works in progress, passing scenery, treatment of women travelers, and her criticisms of ancient building restorations and of art and recent art restorations in European museums and gallery shows. The handwritten material confirms, corrects and fleshes out information published about her in publications including Art Amateur, the Macbeth Gallery's Art Notes, Boston Journal, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Buffalo Evening News, The Critic, Hartford Courant, New York Evening Post, New York Herald, New York Press, New York Sun, New York Times, New York Tribune, Smith College alumnae publications, and the Springfield Republican. An exhibition of her work with biographical material published ran from Oct. 2014 to Jan. 2015 at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. A biography of her has been written by the journalist Eve M. Kahn for Wesleyan University Press.

References

Champney, Elizabeth Williams (1894). "Woman in Art," in Quarterly Illustrator, vol. 2, No. 6, April–June 1894, pp. 111–124.
Jordan, Mary Augusta. (1907). "Ars Longa," obituary for Mary Rogers Williams, in Smith College Monthly, Northampton, Mass., October 1907, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 40–42.
Kahn, Eve M. (2014). "Rediscovering Mary Rogers Williams," in Fine Art Connoisseur, New York, N.Y., October 2014, pp. 50–55.
Macbeth Gallery (1902). "Art Notes Published in the Interest of the Macbeth Gallery." New York, April 1902, no. 19, p. 300.
Merrill, Linda (1990). An Ideal Country: Paintings by Dwight William Tryon in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. .
White, Henry C. (1930). The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Williams, Mary R. (1898). Catalogue of Casts in Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.

1857 births
1907 deaths
American women painters
19th-century American painters
19th-century male artists
19th-century American women artists


title: Holy Child School, Jalpaiguri

text:
Holy Child School is the oldest known English-medium school in Jalpaiguri City, West Bengal, India. It has classes from Kindergarten, [Prep.], Class I up to Class XII and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi. It is located at Shiristala Avenue on the Jalpaiguri-Siliguri Road leading to National Highway 31(D) which connects the city of Jalpaiguri with the rest of the country by road(s).

Origin
Holy Child School in Jalpaiguri was opened in February 1973. It is a girls' school where the boys are accommodated according to the need and decision of the governing body.

Nature
The school is an unaided Christian minority school. It includes classes from KG to XII. The medium of instruction is English with Bengali and Hindi being offered as second and third languages respectively. The course that is followed is the I.C.S.E 10-year course and from 2004 ISC science and commerce is introduced.

Notable alumni
Holy Child School, Jalpaiguri has a large alumni base. Notable members include:

 Mimi Chakraborty - Actress, singer and Member of Parliament

See also
Education in India
List of schools in India
Education in West Bengal

References

External links
 Holy Child School Facebook site

Christian schools in West Bengal
Primary schools in West Bengal
High schools and secondary schools in West Bengal
Education in Jalpaiguri
Educational institutions established in 1973
1973 establishments in West Bengal
Schools in Jalpaiguri district


title: My-Tv

text:
My-Tv was Italy's first internet television service.  Owned by RCS MediaGroup, Mediobanca and Gruppo Ciancio, it streamed on-demand video content from Milan and Rome that included music and information about events, clubs and shopping.

History
My-Tv was founded in 2000 in Milan by Salvo Mizzi, and it's considered the first Italian web television. In Italy My-Tv programs "have been the only ones to be  by television channels thanks to their huge internet circulation and success". Art director was popular Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla.

See also
 Internet television
 Alternative media
 Citizen journalism

References

Further reading
 Giuseppe Mazzei, Verso il tigitale. Giornalismo tv. Manuale del cambiamento, RAI ERI, Roma 2002 (Italian)
 Luca De Biase, Giorgio Meletti, Bidone.com? Da dove riparte la net economy in Italia, Fazi Editore, Roma 2001 (Italian).
 Louisa Ha, Richard J. Ganahl, Webcasting worldwide: business models of an emerging global medium, LEA's Media Management and Economics Series, Routledge, New Jersey 2007.

External links
Official Website

Streaming television
Online companies of Italy
Internet properties established in 2000


title: Abdellatif Hammouchi

text:
Abdellatif Hammouchi (; born 1966 in Taza, Morocco) is the head of the Moroccan national police directorate, the General Directorate for National Security or DGST (French: Direction Générale de la Sureté Nationale) as well as head of secret services, the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance or DGST (Formerly known as the DST, ).

He is also an advisor to Mohammed VI on terrorism-related affairs.

Early life
He graduated from the University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah in Fes and joined the police as an officer in 1993. After Hamidou Laanigri left the DST a day after the Casablanca bombings of 16 May 2003 and was appointed as the Director of the General Directorate for National Security, he was replaced by his deputy Ahmed Harrari, who was replaced by Hammouchi in December 2005.

Controversies
On 20 February 2014, while Hammouchi was attending a meeting with French officials in Paris, he was summoned by a French judge to testify on torture cases after multiple complaints by torture victims, such as Zakaria Moumni, against him and his organisation. His name has been often cited in connection to secret detention centres in Morocco such as the Temara interrogation centre and the Ain Aouda secret prison.

In Morocco lawsuits against the DST and Hammouchi in connection to the death of detainees under torture have been rejected for lack of evidence.

In April 2011, Moroccan journalist Rachid Niny was imprisoned after he published sensitive details about Abdellatif Hammouchi.
In 2011, Hammouchi received an Alaouite Wissam decoration from Mohammed VI in recognition of his efforts for maintaining security.

Decorations
  Officer of the Order of the Throne (2011)
  Officer of the Legion of Honour of France (2016)
  Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard of Spain (2019)

See also
Fouad Ali El Himma
Yassine Mansouri
Abdelkader Belliraj

References

Moroccan police officers
1966 births
Living people
People from Fez, Morocco
Advisors of Mohammed VI of Morocco
Directors of intelligence agencies
Moroccan civil servants
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University alumni
Torture in Morocco
People of Moroccan intelligence agencies


title: Arcangela Paladini

text:
Arcangela Paladini (or Arcangiola Palladini) (Pisa 1599 – Florence 1622) was an Italian painter, singer and poet.

Early life and education

Arcangela Paladini was the daughter of Florentine painter Filippo Paladini (1544–1616), and a pupil of Alessandro Allori (1535-1607). Paladini was a contemporary of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656). She may have served as the model for an image of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, painted by Artemisia.  Paladini was already an accomplished artist by the time she turned 15.  After moving from Pisa to Florence in 1615, she began working under acclaimed Mannerist painter Jacopo Ligozzi.

Career
Arcangela Paladini was proficient in many artistic areas, such as singing, writing poetry, and painting, as well as other areas.  She was skilled in these areas by the age of 15. In addition to being a skilled painter, she also created embroidered works, such as portraits and images of flowers, foliage, and various types of wildlife.  Although only one of her works has been identified, there are descriptions of her portraits of the Grand Duke Cosimo II in the Medici inventories, as well as evidence of Maria Maddelena's spreading of her work throughout the continent .  The descriptions describe both pen-and-ink portraits and embroidered portraits of Cosimo II.  In 1621, she was commissioned to create her self portrait that was to eventually be displayed in the Vasari Corridor.

Relationship with the Medici Dynasty
She initially lived in the monastery of Saint Agatha, where she was supported by the Grand Duchess Maria Maddalena de' Medici, who later became her main benefactor. At age 17, at the suggestion of the Grand Duchess, Paladini married Antwerp-born tapestry-maker Jan Broomans. The Grand Duchess also invited Paladini to serve her at court, and introduced her to her husband Grand Duke Cosimo II.  In 1621, Paladini painted a self-portrait for Maria Maddalena, who displayed the painting in her own room. The portrait was later added to the collection displayed in the Vasari Corridor and was restored in 1967. It is the only painting currently identified by the artist, though there are inventories of other works recorded.

Death

Paladini died at the age of 23 (six years after her marriage) in Florence in 1622 and was buried in the church of Santa Felicità where the Grand Duchess commissioned a tomb memorial, a rare honor.  The tomb was sculpted by Agostino Bugiardini and Antonio Novelli.  The epitaph compares Paladini to the goddess Athena and the painter Apelles.

References

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1599 births
1622 deaths
Italian women painters
17th-century Italian painters
17th-century Italian women artists


title: 2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

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The Group III tournament was held April 10–14, in Tehran, Iran, on outdoor clay courts.

Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2003. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV in 2003.

Pool A

Results of Individual Ties

Pool B

Results of Individual Ties

Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

Iran and Tajikistan promoted to Group II for 2003.

Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group.  Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.

Results of Individual Ties

Singapore and Saudi Arabia demoted to Group IV for 2003.

References

2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone


title: 1941 FC Traktor Stalingrad season

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The 1941 Traktor Stalingrad season was the 6th season in USSR championships.

Squad

 (captain)

Transfers

In:

Out:

Competitions

Friendlies

USSR Championship. Group A

Note: The championship was not completed because of the Great Patriotic War.

Table

Statistics

Squad Statistics

Appearances and goals

|}

Top Scorers

General Statistics

Sources

FC Rotor Volgograd seasons
Traktor Stalingrad
1941 in Soviet football


title: VA-216 (U.S. Navy)

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VA-216, nicknamed the Black Diamonds, was an Attack Squadron of the US Navy. It was established on 30 March 1955, and disestablished 15 years later on 1 August 1970.

Significant events
Sep 1958: VA-216, embarked in , operated in the Formosa Straits during the Chinese Communist shelling of Quemoy and Matsu.
1 Jul 1959: A reorganization by the Commander Naval Air Force, Pacific directed VA-216 and VA-192 to swap aircraft and all personnel. Commander Baumgaertel, the commanding officer of VA-192, became the commanding officer of VA-216 and all other personnel assigned to VA-192 were reassigned to VA-216. The FJ-4Bs that had been assigned to VA-192 were transferred to VA-216. This exchange was similar to a redesignation, but for reasons that are not on record, it was officially directed as an "exchange" rather than as a "redesignation."
Mar 1961: VA-216, embarked in , was ordered to operate off the coast of Thailand as a result of the deteriorating position of Laotian government forces against the Pathet Lao. Units of Lexington'''s air group flew reconnaissance missions over Laos.
Apr 1962: VA-216, embarked in , operated off the coast of South Vietnam during the arrival of the first USMC advisor unit in the Republic of Vietnam.
May 1962: The squadron, along with other CVG-21 units embarked in Hancock, were prepared to support a United States Marine Corps (USMC) unit that landed at Bangkok, Thailand and moved by air to Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base. The Marine landing was at the request of the Thai government because of its concerns surrounding the success of Pathet Lao forces along the Thai-Laotian border.
Sep 1963: VA-216, embarked in , operated off the coast of Taiwan due to increased tensions between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China.
Nov 1963: Embarked in , the squadron operated off the coast of South Vietnam following the coup that overthrew President Diệm.
29 Dec 1964–May 1965: VA-216 participated in Yankee Team operations, armed reconnaissance flights over Laos, and Operation Barrel Roll, armed reconnaissance and strike missions in eastern Laos covering the infiltration routes used by the Communists.
7 Feb 1965: VA-216 participated in Operation Flaming Dart I, striking the military barracks at Đồng Hới. These reprisal attacks against targets in North Vietnam were in response to the shelling of an American advisors compound at Pleiku by the Viet Cong.
11 Feb 1965: The squadron participated in Operation Flaming Dart II, reprisal attacks against the barracks at Chanh Hoa, North Vietnam.
Mar–May 1965: VA-216's aircraft participated in the Operation Rolling Thunder campaign, strikes against designated military targets in North Vietnam.
Mar 1966: Squadron aircraft participated in Operation Jackstay, providing close air support for the amphibious operations that cleared the Rung Sat zone, the river channels, southeast of Saigon.
1 May 1966: Lieutenant C. O. Tolbert was awarded the Silver Star'' for his actions during a combat mission over North Vietnam involving the Xom Dom Dien supply area and the sighting of a SAM missile battery which was destroyed in a later mission.
7 Jul 1966: The squadron's commanding officer, Commander C. Birdwell, was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in a strike against the Haiphong POL storage area.
Jun 1970: VA-216, embarked in , operated in the Eastern Mediterranean after American hostages were taken by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Amman, Jordan. The squadron, along with other units of CVW-17, were available also for air support during the evacuation of Americans from Jordan.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
NAS Moffett Field – 30 Mar 1955
NAS Lemoore – Sep 1961
NAS Alameda – 01 Aug 1968

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 AD-4 Skyraider – Apr 1955
 AD-4NA Skyraider – Apr 1955
 AD-5 Skyraider – May 1955
 AD-4B Skyraider – Jul 1955
 AD-7 Skyraider – Oct 1956
 AD-6 Skyraider – Jul 1958
 A4D-2 Skyhawk – 16 Feb 1959
 FJ-4B Fury – 01 Jul 1959
 A4D-2N/A-4C Skyhawk – 04 Sep 1962
 A-4B Skyhawk – Aug 1966
 A-4C Skyhawk – 1968
 A-4E Skyhawk – 13 Jun 1969

See also
List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
Attack aircraft
List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
History of the United States Navy
List of aircraft carriers
List of United States Navy aircraft wings

References

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons


The 2014 Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica was a stage race held in Costa Rica, with a UCI rating of 2.2. It was the third stage race of the 2014 Women's Elite cycling calendar.

Stages

Stage 1
26 February 2014 – Guápiles to  San Miguel de Sarapiquí,

Stage 2
27 February 2014 – San Gerardo Ticabán to San Rafael La Colonia, , individual time trial (ITT)

Stage 3
28 February 2014 – Orotina to Parrita,

Stage 4
1 March 2014 – Heredia to Grecia,

Stage 5
2 March 2014 – San José to San José,

Jerseys
 denotes the leader of the General classification; the rider who has the lowest accumulated time.

Classification leadership table

References

Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
Women's road bicycle races
International sports competitions hosted by Costa Rica
Cycling in Costa Rica


title: Strépy-Bracquegnies

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Strépy-Bracquegnies () is a village in Wallonia, Belgium. It is a district of the municipality of La Louvière in the province of Hainaut. It is around 6 km west of the centre of La Louvière, and around 50 km south-west of Brussels.

See also
 Morlanwelz train collision and runaway
 Strépy-Thieu boat lift
 Thieu
 2022 Strépy-Bracquegnies car crash

Gallery

External links

Former municipalities of Hainaut (province)
La Louvière


title: Back in Front

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Back In Front (foaled 14 April 1997) is a retired, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing. The gelding showed early promise in National Hunt Flat races, winning twice and finishing third in an exceptionally strong renewal of the Champion Bumper. He was one of the leading novice hurdlers in the 2003–04 season, winning four races including the Supreme Novices' Hurdle in England and the Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle in Ireland. In the following season he won the Morgiana Hurdle and was regarded as a Champion Hurdle contender before being sidelined by injury. Back In Front won the Bula Hurdle in 2004 but ran poorly when joint-favourite for the Champion Hurdle in 2005. He had little success when switched to steeplechasing and was retired in 2007, having won eleven of his twenty-five races.

Background
Back In Front was a brown gelding with a small white star bred in County Limerick Ireland by Noreen Hayes. He was sired by Bob Back, a racehorse whose best performance came when he recorded an upset win over Pebbles and Commanche Run in the 1985 Prince of Wales's Stakes. As a breeding stallion, he sired the St Leger Stakes winner Bob's Return, but had more success as a National Hunt sire, with his progeny including Bobs Worth, Bacchanal (Stayers' Hurdle), Thisthatandtother (Festival Trophy) and Burton Port (Reynoldstown Novices' Chase). Back In Front's dam Storm Front showed some ability as a National Hunt racehorse, winning six minor races and being placed at Grade III level. She was a descendant of the broodmare Drift who produced the classic winners Tide-Way and Sun Stream.

In June 2000, the three-year-old gelding was sent by the Hayes' family's Knockainey stud to the Tattersalls Ireland sale, but was withdrawn. During his racing career, he was owned in partnership by Nelius Hayes and Dermot Cox and was trained by Edward O'Grady at Ballynonty, County Tipperary. Back In Front was a temperamental and headstrong horse who was sometimes difficult to manage. In 2005 O'Grady said of the gelding: "He's like Mr. T in The A-Team. They had to knock him out to get him on the plane. Well, if we want so much as to clip Back In Front, we have to knock him out. If we don't, he's the boss, he won't allow us. In previous years we've done that. This year, we just thought: OK, leave him hairy. When he first arrived with us he wasn't terribly keen to have anything done with his head. Like putting a bridle on it. We've learnt. If we want to do something that doesn't suit him, we say, That's fine. We'll come back later."

Racing career

2001/2002 National Hunt season: National Hunt Flat races
Back In Front began his racing career competing in National Hunt Flat races, also known as "bumpers". He started 7/2 favourite for his debut at Naas Racecourse in July 2001 and won by five lengths from twenty opponents, despite being eased down in the closing stages. In November he was sent to England for a bumper at Cheltenham Racecourse in which he was ridden by Norman Williamson. Starting the 100/30 second favourite in a fifteen-runner field he won by a short head from the mare Wild Dream, with the pair finishing eighteen lengths clear of the other runners. The gelding returned to Cheltenham in March and was moved up in class for the Grade I Champion Bumper in which he was ridden by Charlie Swan. He briefly took the lead inside the last quarter mile before finishing third to Pizarro and Rhinestone Cowboy with Thisthatandtother in fourth and Iris's Gift fifth of the twenty-three runners. O'Grady later said of the race; "It must have been one of the most competitive bumpers that's ever been run". On his final appearance of the season, he ran very poorly in the Champion INH Flat Race at Punchestown Racecourse in April, finishing tailed off in last place.

2002/2003 National Hunt season: Novice Hurdles
In the 2002/2003 National Hunt, Back In Front competed mainly in novice hurdle races. On his debut over obstacles he was ridden by Williamson in the Grade I Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse Racecourse on 1 December. Racing for the first time in over seven months, he took the lead two hurdles from the finish but was caught in the closing stages and beaten one and a half lengths by Hardy Eustace, a horse who went on to win two Champion Hurdles. The gelding was dropped in class for a maiden hurdle at Leopardstown Racecourse in January and won by three quarters of a length from the Willie Mullins-trained Arch Stanton, to whom he was conceding four pounds. On 19 February Back In Front started 4/11 favourite against nine opponents in a novice hurdle at Limerick Racecourse. Williamson tracked the leaders before moving to the front approaching the second last flight. Back In Front accelerated clear of the field in "impressive" style and won by fourteen lengths from the four-year-old Hidden Genius.

Back In Front made his second visit to the Cheltenham Festival in 2003 when he was one of nineteen runners for the Grade I Supreme Novices' Hurdle on 11 March. Ridden by Williamson, he started the 3/1 favourite, with his main rivals in the betting being Thisthatandtother (9/2) and Kicking King (13/2). He raced behind the leaders and jumped "with great fluency" before moving up to second place three hurdles from the finish and taking the lead after the next obstacle. In the straight he quickened away from his opponents to win impressively by ten lengths from Kicking King, who was in turn four lengths clear of Chauvinist in third. The win for the Irish-trained favourite in the opening race of the meeting was enthusiastically received by the huge crowd, and security staff were unable to prevent the horse being surrounded by celebrating supporters as he returned to the winner's enclosure. O'Grady, who had trained the ill-fated Golden Cygnet to win the race twenty-five years earlier commented "I'll be disappointed if he's not in Race Three next year". On 29 April at the Punchestown Festival Back In Front started 4/11 favourite for the Grade I Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle. He took the lead approaching the last hurdle and stayed on to win "comfortably" by two and a half lengths from the British-trained Limerick Boy. Three days later, over the same course and distance, the gelding was matched against more experienced rivals in the Punchestown Champion Hurdle and was made the 8/11 favourite. He took the lead at the final hurdle but was overtaken in the closing stages and beaten a length by the Jonjo O'Neill-trained Quazar.

2003/2004 National Hunt season
Back In Front's first run of the 2003/2004 season came in the Grade I John James McManus Memorial Hurdle over two miles at Tipperary Racecourse on 5 October. He was in second place throughout the race, proving no match for the British-trained Intersky Falcon who won by twelve lengths. Barry Geraghty took over from Williamson for the gelding's next race, the Grade II Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on 16 November. Starting the 4/5 favourite, he looked beaten early in the straight, but stayed on strongly to take the lead after the last hurdle and won by one and a half lengths from Sacundai and Solerina. After the race, O'Grady said "I thought he was beaten turning in but he showed plenty of resolution and fought well to win". In December, he started 5/2 second favourite for the December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown but finished fifth of the seven runners behind the 66/1 outsider Golden Cross. In February, after a poor performance in training, he was found to have an irregular heartbeat, and then sustained a leg injury which ruled him out for the rest of the season.

2004/2005 National Hunt season
After a break of almost ten months, Back In Front returned in a flat race at Navan in October 2004. Ridden by the leading flat jockey Jamie Spencer, he went clear off his rivals in the final furlong and won by three and a half lengths from the three-year-old filly Akilana. In the Morgiana Hurdle in November, he finished second to Harchibald, with the odds-on favourite Macs Joy in third. Back In Front was sent to England in the following month when he faced the leading British hurdlers Rooster Booster and Inglis Drever in the Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham. Ridden by Davy Russell, he was restrained at the back of the field before making progress approaching the second last flight. He overtook Rooster Booster before the last hurdle and won by four lengths from Inglis Drever. O'Grady commented "I didn't think he was going to win coming down the hill or that he would come home as well as he did – I'd forgotten how good he is". At the 2005 Cheltenham Festival Back In Front started 7/2 joint-favourite with Hardy Eustace for the Champion Hurdle, in a strong field which also included Macs Joy, Harchibald, Brave Inca, Intersky Falcon, Al Eile and Rooster Booster. Ruby Walsh was given the ride on the gelding, a decision which left Davy Russell "disgusted". Back In Front was among the early leaders, but weakened from the second last, finishing ninth of the fourteen runners.

Later career
Back In Front began the following season in hurdle races, finishing second to Solerina in the Lismullen Hurdle and a distant fourth behind the same mare in the Hatton's Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse in December. He was then switched to steeplechasing, making his debut over larger obstacles at Limerick on 26 December. He survived an early mistake to take the lead approaching the last fence, where his closest pursuer fell, and won by more than thirty lengths. At the 2006 Cheltenham Festival Back In Front, running for the second time over fences, started at odds of 11/1 for the Grade I Royal & SunAlliance Chase. He was in second place behind Star de Mohaison when he made a bad mistake at the penultimate fence and unseated his jockey, Patrick Flood. On his only other start of the season he finished fifth of the six runners when favourite for the Ellier Developments Novice Chase at Punchestown in April after making several jumping errors.

In November 2006, Back In Front started odds-on favourite for a chase at Clonmel Racecourse but fell five fences from the finish. Later that month he won a three-mile chase at Thurles, beating Romek by six lengths. On his final appearance, he started a 28/1 outsider for the Grade I Lexus Chase at Leopardstown in December. He was in touch with the leaders until the third fence from the finish, but then dropped back quickly and finished tailed off last of the six runners.

Pedigree

References

1997 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Ireland
Racehorses trained in Ireland
Cheltenham Festival winners
Thoroughbred family 8-g


title: Waiting for the Moon

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Waiting for the Moon may refer to:

 Waiting for the Moon (film), a 1987 film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
 Waiting for the Moon (album), an album by Tindersticks
 Waiting for the Moon (musical), a musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Jack Murphy
 "Waiting for the Morning" (song), a song by Jon Terje Rovedal, Thoreby, Lars Kildvold and Eivind Rölles
 "Waiting for the Moon", a song by Basshunter from The Old Shit album


title: Lake Fontaine (Mékinac)

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The Lac Fontaine (Fountain Lake) is a lake located in the municipality of Grandes-Piles, in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

The "Lake Fontaine" is located in forest and mountain areas. The north end of the lake is 0.3 km south-west of the boundary of Sainte-Thècle. The southern end is located 0.4 km from the mouth of the "Lac du Renard" (Fox Lake), located in the southeast, which is a tributary of Lake Fontaine. At about 500 m north of "Lac du renard", there are three lakes "Toupies" (Spinners Lakes), whose waters flow into each other to the west to reach the Lake Fontaine.

Fontaine lake is 2.2 km long and its maximum width is 0.5 km. The southern part of the lake is a strait 0.8 km long to the bottom of a bay which receives the discharge of Philippe Lake.

The waters of Lake Fontaine pour the northwest at the end of a long bay in a small discharge of 0.5 km to the lake Nicolas that crosses North Mékinac River, which runs in the Lejeune Township of Sainte-Thècle to the south-west. continues and in Grandes-Piles to reach the north end of Lake Roberge (Grandes-Piles)

The lake fontaine is made in length, in the north-south direction. The northern part of the lake Fontaine resembles to the shape of the head of a dog schnauzer looking towards the southeast. Two bays north then represent the dog's ears.

A forest road (north-south) serving the owners of the lake passes on the west side of the lake. The "Watchtower fire path" passes near the lake (south side), this path leads to the ancient tower fender at the top of a mountain in southern of Archange Lake (Mékinac). The "chemin of lake Fontaine" from the intersection of Route 159 at the north end of Lake Roberge (Grandes-Piles), and moves towards the northeast to cross the path "Joseph-St-Amant" that penetrates deep into the Lejeune Township of Sainte-Thècle.

Toponymy

The name "Lac Fontaine" (Grandes-Piles) was recorded on December 5, 1968, at the Bank of place names of Commission de toponymie du Québec

See also

 Grandes-Piles
 Sainte-Thècle
 Rivière des Envies
 Lordship of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
 Lordship of Batiscan
 Mékinac Regional County Municipality
 Batiscanie, Quebec

References

External links
 Municipality of Sainte-Thècle:
 Regional County Municipality (RCM) Mekinac:
 Municipality of Grandes-Piles:

Lakes of Mauricie
Mékinac Regional County Municipality


title: Richard Dawson (1762–1807)

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Richard Dawson (16 April 1762 – 3 September 1807) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Biography
He was the third son of Richard Dawson of Ardee by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet, and after his father's death in 1782 he became heir-presumptive to his uncle Thomas Dawson, 1st Baron Dartrey. On 22 May 1784 he married Catherine, daughter of Colonel Arthur Graham of Hockley, county Armagh; they had one son and four daughters. Dawson was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Monaghan in April 1797 through the influence of his uncle (now Viscount Cremorne), and was named as heir in the special remainder of the barony of Cremorne granted to his uncle in November of that year. He continued to represent Monaghan in the Irish Parliament until the Act of Union, and then sat for the same county in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until his death in a Dublin Hotel. His son Richard Thomas Dawson succeeded as second Baron Cremorne in 1813.

References

1762 births
1807 deaths
People educated at The Royal School, Armagh
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Richard
Members of Lincoln's Inn
High Sheriffs of Monaghan
Irish MPs 1790–1797
Irish MPs 1798–1800
UK MPs 1801–1802
UK MPs 1802–1806
UK MPs 1806–1807
UK MPs 1807–1812
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Monaghan constituencies (1801–1922)
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Monaghan constituencies


title: Fil Fraser

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Felix Blache-Fraser  (August 19, 1932 – December 3, 2017) was a Black Canadian broadcaster, non-fiction author, film producer, film festival founder, public servant, and educator in Alberta.

Broadcasting and journalism
Born in Montreal in 1932, Fraser began his career in broadcasting in 1951, when hired at the age of nineteen by Foster Hewitt for his radio station CKFH in Toronto. In 1952, he worked as a radio announcer in Timmins, Ontario, for six months before being hired as assistant news editor at CKBB radio in Barrie, where he would become the station's sports director and play-by-play announcer, calling games for the Barrie Flyers.

In 1955, Fraser moved back to Montreal, where he attended McGill University and hosted an all-night show at CKVL in Verdun. In 1956, he worked as a news editor at CFCF radio, eventually becoming chief writer.

Fraser moved to western Canada in 1958, and initially worked in public relations for Saskatchewan Government Insurance. However, he also remained involved in radio broadcasting, hosting between-period hot stove league discussions on junior hockey broadcasts and sometimes doing play-by-play announcing. In 1960, he founded a newspaper called the Regina Weekly Mirror.

He moved to Edmonton in 1965, where he became program manager and senior producer of the Metropolitan Edmonton Educational Television Association (MEETA), Canada's first educational television channel, which aired on CBXFT. Fraser subsequently became producer/host of Newsmakers, a weekly public affairs program on ITV Global Edmonton, and then served as president and CEO of VisionTV, Toronto.
In 1974, Fil moved over to the ‘opposition', to host a one-year run of his own eponymous talk show on Dr. Charles Allard's newly-launched CITV private television station, and also began what would become a five-year stint as host of a talk show on CJCA-AM radio Edmonton. In 1980 he took his talk-show host talents across town to CKXM-FM Edmonton, which had just changed its call-sign from CFRN, to avoid confusion with the AM station that used the same call letters. This series ran for three years; in 1983 he became host of Alberta Morning, the daily program that ran on CKUA-AM, then operated by Access Alberta. Later, in 1987, he became Director of Development for Access Alberta, in Edmonton.

Fraser served on the Alberta Task Force on Film and the Federal Task Force on Broadcasting Policy (Caplan/Savageau) and was the Governor of the Canadian Journalism Foundation as well as a member of the Canadian Association of Black Journalists.

Death
Fil Fraser died in Edmonton on December 3, 2017 of heart failure, aged 85. He was survived by his wife, Gladys Odegard; his four children, three siblings and extended family. He was predeceased by his parents, Felix and Marguerite Blache-Fraser, and three siblings.

Film
In the 1970s, Fraser formed a production company to produce educational television films. He then went on to produce four feature films, from 1977–82, including Why Shoot the Teacher? (executive producer), Marie-Anne, The Hounds of Notre Dame (producer), and Latitude 55° (executive producer). He was a founding member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

He organized the first Alberta Film Festival in 1974, which later became the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association, and founded the Banff International Television Festival in 1979.

Writing
Fraser's published non-fiction works include Alberta's Camelot: Culture and the Arts in the Lougheed Years (2003), which looked at how programs by the government of former premier Peter Lougheed helped the provincial arts sector to flourish from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

His 2006 book, Running Uphill: The Fast, Short Life of Canadian Champion Harry Jerome, looked at the pioneering Black Canadian track star Harry Jerome. In 2009, he completed the book How the Blacks Created Canada, part of a series of books from publisher Dragon Hill about how different cultural groups have contributed to the development of Canada.

Public service and academia
Fraser served as Chief Commissioner for the Alberta Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992 and served on the Spicer Commission.

A writer and educator in the field of alcoholism and addictions, he served as head of alcoholism prevention programs for both Alberta and Saskatchewan. He was an adjunct professor in State and Legal Studies at Athabasca University.

Honours
Fraser was a member of the Order of Canada and received the Alberta Achievement Award. In 2015, he was made a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence.

Bibliography

References

External links

1932 births
2017 deaths
Black Canadian broadcasters
Black Canadian filmmakers
Film producers from Quebec
Film festival founders
Canadian television executives
Writers from Montreal
20th-century Canadian civil servants
Academic staff of Athabasca University
Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence
Members of the Order of Canada
Black Canadian writers
Canadian non-fiction writers
McGill University alumni
Anglophone Quebec people
Black Canadian journalists


title: Super Motherload

text:
Super Motherload is a video game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC created by XGen Studios and released on November 15, 2013. Super Motherload is the sequel to Motherload, an Adobe Flash game also developed by XGen Studios, released in 2004. In the game, players work for a corporation to collect minerals and gems on Mars.

Gameplay
The basic gameplay is similar to that of Motherload, with some new additions. Players drill, collect minerals, and return to base when fuel runs out to refuel, repair, sell minerals, and upgrade their digging machine. New to Super Motherload are underground bases which serve as checkpoints, preventing the need for players to return to the surface each time they fill up their cargo bay. The game also introduces mineral smelting, which allows the creation of a number of alloys by collecting minerals in certain sequences. The introduction of a number of optional puzzles, solvable via the use of bombs, is also new to Super Motherload.

Plot

Super Motherload features a horror science-fiction storyline, in which players play as the pilots of digging machines sent to Mars to harvest precious resources. As players descend, they begin to learn about "the secrets of Mars and the strange occurrences happening throughout the various Solarus bases".

Reception

The initial flash version of the game was well received, prompting XGen Studios to release a downloadable enhanced edition titled Motherload: Goldium Edition. Penny Arcade included the game as the subject of a comic strip and blog post.

The PS4 version of Super Motherload has generally received mixed to positive reception. Metacritic aggregately rates it at a 65%, meaning 'mixed to average reception'. Destructoid gave the game an 8 out of 10. They thought the game was exciting with increasing complexity, although repetitive, citing the gameplay as instilling a "feeling of zen". However, IGN was less impressed, citing "simple and repetitious" gameplay. However, they did say the premise was "one that could prove to be addictive." The game received a PlayStation Blog Editors' choice award in 2013.

See also
Defend Your Castle
XGen Studios

References

External links

2013 video games
Alternate history video games
Cold War video games
Cooperative video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Network games
Science fiction video games
Windows games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set on Mars
Video games using procedural generation
Multiplayer and single-player video games